skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article includes an interview with Stéphane Pigeon of mynoise.net, a website for creating dynamic noise machines. I use it all the time and think it would appeal to a lot of people on HN.
That's the default on VWs as well. You can have that changed so it flashes the lights instead. I wonder if Tesla's have that option?
Also, importantly, reflecting that they are in no more competition than Perl and Ruby are.
Aside: Nice to see you hear again, pg.
Chinese labour isn't particularly cheap by global standards, especially in Shenzhen and the wider PRD region. We outsource to China because they're damned good at manufacturing.

Apple products could be built anywhere, but only because Apple have absolutely vast economies of scale. Most consumer electronics products couldn't be built anywhere else at a viable price, not because of labour costs but because of infrastructure. China has the supply chains and the expertise to build anything from a handful of PCBs to a couple of million units. There's just nowhere else on earth where you can set up several assembly lines in a few weeks or get a prototype built and tested in a few hours.
Totally agree, worked in blockchain and left because of the amature hour I'm going to get rich making this, neolibritarian ideology that doesn't accept other ideas, and the rampant scamming and market manipulation.
What if we had something like a Public Utilities Commission regulate these companies in return for granting them monopoly access to public right-of-way? A PUC that had accountability to the public, and veto rights over the rates and capital planning of these monopoly private providers?

What an idea!
How does it add to the conversation where the topic was 'The myth of inevtitable technological progress' where i picked ONE thing out of many to choose, and stated that i think of it as overhyped, because lots of strings attached, unforeseen consequences, and in general not implemented in ways which should be trusted, and you latching onto it like i have hurt you in some personal way?

If this is your thing, then i can't do anything about it.
OTOH there were many threads on HN also discussing the pros and cons of it, of being always on, connected, reachable, where i can't remember anyone being so offended. I may have choosen harsh words, but what to do when you perceive something like a crass mistake? Sugarcoating it?

I know i'm not being alone with my opinion, there are many more outliers than you think. (I think!)
If you enjoy coding and are at least ok for your experience level, the problem isn't you, it's the interviewing process. I'm sorry you've had so many poor experiences, but stick with it, especially since you enjoy building things.

There's an enormous github repo <https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards> dedicated to highlighting companies that don't do "whiteboarding", which means "the kinds of CS trivia questions that are associated with bad interview practices."

I didn't read through this reddit post but it might also have some good resources: <https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/532yjp/w....

I don't have a CS degree, I did some self-teaching off-and-on for about 5 years, did a bootcamp 3 years ago, and have had a decent career since then. I say that to say this: you're probably better than me at this stuff, so to repeat, the problem isn't you, it's the interview process.
To someone versed in both languages, no. Otherwise, the name giving official credence to assumptions that no longer hold is damaging to both.
It’s not phobic or racist to point out genuine issues with products designed and manufactured in a particular country.
Absolutely right! While we did suggest that applicants try to solve one of these in whatever language they liked, the main purpose was to attract curious and smart people. And it worked! These puzzles brought us a ton of great candidates along with lots of smart people who weren’t looking for a job, but just wanted to know how their solution to a given problem stacked up. It wasn’t a proxy for 2019 whiteboard hazing; these were simpler times...

-- Dave, ITA cofounder and creator of some of the puzzles, including my personal favorite, “Rebus”.
There's a special place in hell reserved for the people responsible for all of the beeping and LEDs in the modern home. An eternity of never ending beeps and blinking lights.
raku.org is no longer available because it is controlled by the Raku project.
If you follow a multi node cluster tutorial all you should need to do is remove the master taint from the node and normal pods will spawn on it
> In 2017 the company killed thousands of customers

47, not "thousands", assuming all the 2017 wildfire deaths were attributable to PG&E.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_California_wildfires
These threads are always a strange and uncomfortable bridge between valid criticism (many products made in China are cheap and break easily, the Chinese government uncomfortably authoritarian) and actual racism ("the Chinese" only make cheap shit, Chinese don't care about freedom).
Your point is starkly true and very sad. There is a big difference in both societies. HK is a wealthy area and fairly tech advanced, so many people have cellphones. I think the yazidis live in under served areas from a tech/internet perspective. Somehow I'm hoping that makes a difference.
Python and Rust both have similar "duck"y features where you can Impl iteration or add the necessary __special__ methods to get iteration features.
An example of the implementation is all that's missing from the blog post.
So far they have all been "coffee table books", large books with photos and some text. The theme has always been indigenous issues throughout the world.

I assume that my mysterious benefactor is someone who used to read a blog I used to keep and then shut down. When I had the blog my address and name were obtainable from my site's whois records. There's also a possibility it's some old friend who is just being anonymous for some reason. I doubt it's something else but it could be I suppose.

On a separate but topically related issue I also receive packages from amazon of fairly obscure things which are usually relevant to me. Imagine that I had dinner with a friend of a friend who turned out to be a former Chinese Circus Bear Trainer. A week later from amazon I receive a starter kit for Circus Bear Training. And I pass it on to my acquaintance who finds it interesting I got it. It's not that but a similar thing. I wonder if it's random shipments as part of some scam I can't imagine to comprehend. I think that it was a Bear kit after meeting with a Bear person is actually a coincidence and I'm reading too much into it since no interpretations other than weird scam make sense. I don't worry about any of these anymore and instead get excited when I receive a new bizarre shipment on an erratic irregular schedule, and show off the package to my friends and family who find the whole thing fairly hilarious. And some of them report to me that they too get random mis-shipments from amazon. While acknowledging that the Bear Kit takes the cake. So maybe Amazon's system is just messed up somehow.
The monoprice maker select mini 2 is an excellent printer, this is basically the Prusa version of that printer with upgrades.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33012

I own the model before this as well as Prusa Mk3. They are both wonderful. Now that Prusa Mini is out, it will probably be the printer of recommendation due to it being open source over the MP Mini.
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Exactly, so you arrived at the same conclusion - fixed distance so you can safely pick up stream at arbitrary position.
Bad urban planning makes wildfires worse
Secret Court: FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment
File::Slurper is just as immediately obvious, and happens to not be fundamentally misdesigned :) Path::Tiny is also great.
China switched to free markets.
<> is actually <ARGV>. And actually the least cryptic spelling IMO is "readline(*ARGV)" or just bare readline, which still compiles to the same opcodes. Sure, <> is more common, but it's easier to find what readline and ARGV mean.
> Granted, most munis don't have to deal with long-distance distribution

That really seems to be the only thing that matters here, given that the issue is about the liabilities fires due to lack of line maintenance in forested areas.
Be ready for non stop politics and a survivor like atmosphere. The first thing that happens after a merger is they look for people they can fire to save money.
It's hard to overstate the importance of Goethe to German culture and literature. He was a brilliant man with a lively mind. One nonfiction work of his I quite enjoyed is his Theory of Colours[1]. While many dismiss it as "wrong" because it isn't a correct physical theory of wavelengths and spectrum, that's not the point. It's really about the perception of color, which is psychology and not physics.

On a similar note, Elective Affinities[2] is a novel about human relationships that is inspired by chemistry. To this day even in English we refer to two persons as having "chemistry" together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities
It can be a good fit for quick throwaway projects, typically found in various research groups. Python itself is a giant antipattern for anything more ambitious I would say. Go provides far more rigor and stable foundations. Rust is also there for systems programming.
I haven't. Will give it a go.
I had all these same issues as well except I run Linux. Tried to switch to Firefox 2 months ago, used it for about a month before going back.

In addition to the issues above, I noticed terrible battery performance on my laptop and the fans would frequently spin up even with a single tab open.
There are a lot of limitations for web apps over native apps.

But I do think that companies should start thinking of cross-platform compatibility now.
You're being bit by the reality that you paid for a software license, so you don't actually own anything.

If you had the source, recompiling it would not be trivial, but it'd be doable.

The FSF has a point here.
>If there are areas that we can't afford to safely provide power to, we shouldn't provide power to those areas anymore.

Isn't that exactly what just happened and exactly what everyone's complaining about?
I’ve been using Typora for about three years. One of my favorite pieces of software for sure.
I'm legitimately regretting my Ender 3 purchase after seeing this printer. It should decimate the Ender 3 if there's a real future to FDM...

My Ender 3 Pro cost 230$ and came with a magnetic bed.

Added about 30$ for Automatic Bed Leveling.

Adding a 32-bit board would cost at least what? 50$? (
The stock Ender 3 board has so little memory I had to remove LCD support to get Unified Bed Leveling working)

Max quoted hotend temp is 280 °C so unless Prusa is condoning heating up PTFE to life threatening temperatures it has an all-metal hotend, so another 30$ for a middle of the road one?

Adding steppers... I think we've hit what the Prusa costs, except you hacked together this kit so now it's on you to support it, and also the prices I listed are not for high quality parts.

Then there's just the fact, Prusa will make a 3d printer that just works, and if it doesn't just work, they'll make it right. Good luck if that 50$ Aliexpress-sourced 32 bit board conks out, and have fun tearing it down and returning it to stock if Creality wants to help you out.

This printer represents careful design and good support, I'm going to try and get rid of my Ender 3 immediately and get one of these.

I wanted a Prusa originally but didn't feel like sinking the money into a proper printer when I didn't know I was going to use it. Instead I ended up with something I'm not using because it never works correctly and has actively damned my enthusiasm for FDM...
PlayStation 5 will come with haptic controllers [video]
Let me see if I follow... a publicly regulated private monopoly can work well, as can a public monopoly, if there isn't rampant corruption in government? Is that about right?
It’s Time to Delete Live Video
It's a perfectly reasonable thing to be mad about, since wanting to use an older version of software is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. 6 years isn't even that long of a time either.
Is there some evidence that Google has been a significant force lobbying in favor of the laws that make lobbying legal?
For some history, it was talked about changing this, but we couldn’t, due to back compatibility and it wasn’t clear it was actually a good idea. This was called “wary drop”.
I may be reading through the lines, but given how pressed private industry is for devs you're probably doing poorly on the non-technical part of the interview and they're leveraging the tech screen as an easy out for a decision that they already wanted to make.

How much time do you spend preparing for non-technical phone screens & behavioral interviews?
It was incredibly odd. They paid a good about for our company, then just scuttled it. Didn’t use the source code, sold the hardware, neglected the remaining employees until we left one by one.

They absorbed a few employees who are still there and are just as confused as none of the tech they spent so much money on ever got used.

Maybe it was somehow a giant tax write off, or just buying out the competition?
I am someone who dabbles in audio and video production. I was set on buying Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro for my use.

But in the current environment we are in, I am seriously considering using cross-platform software like Ableton Live and DaVinci Resolve. This is due to the fear of being locked-in hardware wise.
You learned an important lesson about the importance of naming things.
Rancher 2.3: The Best Gets Better
No everyone needs a 3d printer for sure. A big part of what stopped the idea that 3d printing would be this magical revolution is that designing plastic parts is actually fairly hard.

I don't use my 3d printer to 'fix' things around the house that often because it's frequently cheaper to work around it or buy a replacement. The times a high-value item breaks in a way I can fix with a printed part are rare enough it certainly doesn't justify owning one.

That said, if you really like designing mechanical things or working on electronics projects or similar, a 3d printer is a total blast. I'm currently using mine to make molds for real ceramic parts.
You're woken up easily. Makes me wonder if my Subaru with loud pipes wakes people up.
Or you can treat both as part of the same engine of unrestrained, destructive capitalism that destroys people's livelihoods when they no longer align with business interests.

Apple can spend some of that massive cash reserve it has actually acting like a grown-up platform holder with responsibilities to its users.
So I guess Apple should also have maintained support for 68K Macs indefinitely? Microsoft should have maintained support for 16 bit apps on 64 bit Windows? Should MS have also maintained support for running real mode 286 apps forever?
When an OS vendor breaks something that works perfect for me before, I think I have a right to be at least 70% angry at them.

I can still run programs from the XP era on my Windows PC.
There are a ton of online services that allow you to order 3d printed parts from your own designs. The quality will likely be much higher than what you can print at home as well.
It all depends on the acquiring party. Whatever you decide to do, do not put too much stock into promises by management (either of the company being acquired or the one doing the acquiring) about the situation post acquisition. History has shown over and over again that those promises are worth absolutely nothing.
In my anecdotal experience, the type of programmers that evangelize and talk shit about programming languages tend to be on the less informed side of the knowledge spectrum.
Wow, that's crazy! Was actually going to take a look at Safari, you've saved me some time!
Eventually a wildfire is going to occur. Whether caused by man negligently, man accidentally, or nature. And the longer it takes to occur the more there is to burn.

With this in mind does it really make sense to pause society and hope one never happens again? Doesn't it make more sense to mitigate the risk directly, more controlled burns, more brush clearing. Surely the cost of these things is less than the cost of e.g. turning off power for days and would carry less risk overall.
Not all too much - I think I’m pretty personable but what kinds of things should I maybe watch for or try to prepare for?
Popularity ≠ Quality.
I've literally never firmware updated my Prusa and it works totally fine. This is a bit of a bizarre nitpick. Hell, you can build your own firmware if you really care that much.
Looking for Co-Founders
I am building a marketplace for the wellness industry, digital, physical products and services. It doesn't have any available SAAS that meets my demands. Therefore, the startup has to built it on its own. I am interested in finding COO and Technical Co-founders to execute the idea.
At the moment, I am spending efforts on building the reputation for the startup. Promoting the MVP.
I prefer co-founders located in the USA as it is the starting market.
Leave me your comment and I will get back to you.
I agree with you and the GP.

The execution, the thing, the multibillion dollar industry, are excellent, and the world would be worse for their nonexistence.

The naming, on the other hand, is indeed a disaster. I too can't take it seriously, although I can't quite put my finger on why as well as the GP can. To me it just sounds like the "lite" version of something, but to the extreme where it might as well be the toy version.

Yet another case of buzzword intolerance, it would seem.
1967 and 1971.
As a Perl programmer, this is basically a post I might have written (aside from knowing it's not dominant anymore :) One more really cool aspect is the first class Unicode support, which Perl can do but you have to work at it.
It is crippled admittedly by the authors themselves. The error checking pattern, no generics etc. are all to keep it "simple" yet are things most other programming languages have. Have you used Rust ? The borrow checker makes a lot of sense.
Check out the ambience apps. It's doing this, but very customizable!
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I have the feeling that poor regulation and mismanagement are bigger contributors than affordability (or whether "safe" lines can be built).
Ethereum archival node
What are sum/product types?
This column is by Derek Lowe, best known for the incomparably hilarious "Things I Won't Work With": https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
What blackout are you talking about in Atlanta? I'm from Atlanta and the only one that comes to mind is in 2017 the airport lost power due to an underground fire. But that was specifically the wiring of the airport and not due to utility negligence
What about all the artists who aren’t a business? What about all the hobbyists? And finally... what about all the people that aren’t rich enough to spend $$$ a YEAR on photoshop?

Do they not deserve to keep using software they have already paid for, at great expense to them? Are they not worth “appeasing” because they’re not ~fortunate~ lucky enough in life, as you were?

Adobe has taken away this option. All power to them, but if you paid for a license, you have a right to keep using that software. Apple is the one here breaking software people have paid for.
I've used McMaster but they don't carry the Peltor. However, Grainger does carry 3M Peltor and carries the X5B behind the ear model. It's $47.45 at Grainger and the X5A is $30.97 from Amazon delivered. Strange that it's not more available and less expensive.

An alternative is the Peltor Optime 105 Behind-the-Head Earmuff which is 28 dB (vs 31 dB) and readily available at $23.99 from Amazon delivered. It also weighs slightly less, 11.4 oz vs 12.6 oz.

zoro.com has the X5B for $40.83.
DeepFake Detector AIs Are Good Too
Sadly it’s been 5 years. I’ve reported it many times with lots of logs.
> Now this might seem like a hack, but it really is not. Most languages would either ask the programmers to explicitly call free() or implicitly call a magic runtime.deallocate() within a complex garbage collector.

The compiler actually implicitly adds drop glue to all dropped variables!
That's a very controversial statement without a lot more context. You can even google "is china a free market?" and see people arguing about it today (multiple articles from 2019). Many sources disagree with you, including Wikipedia. I realize this ignores almost all of the nuance and it is not binary, but I still would not consider the Chinese economy a free market.

I appreciate the discussion, but I think we just disagree.
As a trained sound engineer, I don't find this explanation wholly plausible. Human hearing is increasingly less sensitive at low frequencies; the threshold of hearing is typically around 60dB at 20Hz and 72dB at 10Hz. Anyone who has configured a large public address system knows that vast amounts of power are needed to deliver useful response at these frequencies; many systems simply fake the presence of low bass by tuning in a big peak at 40 or 50Hz, which requires two or three orders of magnitude less power.

Structure-borne noise is a real problem in many buildings, but I'm aware of very few instances of neighbourhood-wide noise problems at very low frequencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
Sounds exactly like Weird Al's song "Mission Statement".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
And also understand that it's not because they're scheming bastards, but things change and the wave can't be stopped.
I often wonder in cases like that if those who followed suit were not so much emboldened as already nipping at the heels of the one who did it first.

To mix metaphor with reality, there was perhaps a pack speeding toward the finish line, and one crossed it first.
I hear you. I'm really hoping that Swift improves over the next few years. It seems to be in a great sweet spot with many of the modern language features of Rust (optional / result types, parametric enums, try, generics, static compilation, etc). But it also has the ergonomics of a language like Go thats explicitly designed for writing practical code and just getting work done.

Swift is still missing decent async / await support, generators and promises. Some of this stuff can be written by library authors, but doing so fragments the ecosystem. Its also still harder than it should be to write & run swift code on non-mac platforms. And its also not as fast as it could be. I've heard some reports of swift programs spending 60% of their time incrementing and decrementing reference counts. Apparently optimizations are coming. I can't wait - its my favorite of the current crop of new languages. I think it strikes a nice balance between being fancy and being easy of use. But it really needs some more love before its quite ready for me to use it as a daily workhorse for http servers and games.