skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course yes, similarly in China with hydro power and in Iceland with geothermals, but that's impossible to explain to these 'critics', they don't even accept the concept of waste electricity - in their world electricity can easily beam anywhere across the Earth without any costs and infrastructure and/or be stored for however long in whatever amount, for free. Even the fact that ordinary electricity costs 3 times the earnings from mining doesn't stop them.

Anecdotes about a brother of their friend's cousin mining using GPUs will be invoked to argue people are mining in their basements using grid electricity and thus the Bitcoin network uses fossil fuels, even though mining with GPUs is impossible for many years now.

The benefits of Bitcoin will be handwaved away even though they criticize the "high cost" of transactions - who the hell uses these costly transactions if Bitcoin is so useless and can be replaced by cheaper and better methods?
I've had a hard time believing that this isn't government standard practice for an SSaS since Hushmail spoke about it in 2007.
https://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/#:~:text=Hushm....
This is a big undertaking. Microsoft was able to do this for UWP and iOS[1], but they're a billion dollar company with the man power to accomplish something like that.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WinObjC
The idea is that over time as the ecosystem matures, you will need less and less need for platform channels because there will be more plugins available on pub.dev. Personally I think the Flutter team is taking too much on their plate porting it to Linux/Mac/Windows/Web at the same time. I would rather see them make the iOS and Android implementations rock solid and create great plugins for hardware & OS specific APIs.
It has nothing to do with contractors. The FBI buys a product from a company that does this stuff. They do not develop it, nor do they contract out the work to develop it. They buy an (essentially) off the shelf product that does this.
It seems that Microsoft learned that advertising (and crapware pre-installs) is so profitable, they just bake it right into the Start menu as of Windows 10. Oh and let's add telemetry as well.
Why did the author experience this then? This should have been 1 phone call max to establish the author didn't have this experience. But instead, they sent him through multiple rounds and made them give a lengthy presentation.

>They were looking for someone with a few years of experience working with a specific technology I had never used. But… they knew that from my resume.

Can you explain why they might have gone with the above excuse rather than "we found someone better" or "we won't be moving forward"?
First of all, macro systems for Python exist for decades (just as long as pattern matching, and indeed, many patmatching implementations are done as macros). One well-know example of both is https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pattern.html

Secondly, there's a PEP to embrace macros in CPython (instead of pretending they don't exist, and leaving that to external libraries): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/

But the point, you don't need to wait for official PEP to use macros in Python. If you wanted, you could do that yesterday (== decades ago). And I guess in absolute numbers, the same amount of people use macros in Python as in Scheme. It's just in relative figures, it's quite different, given that there're millions of Python users.
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"And remote work made it worse."

Care to provide insight?
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological battle. It's not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
no product succeeds because it depends on elites as an audience.
There are plenty of uses of bricks that do not need to support the weight of a multi-story buildings. Just because an item doesn't fit for a particular use does not mean it is not a viable solution for other things. Paving stones, mailboxes, retaining walls, etc are all examples.

I for one can appreciate that someone is taking effort to resuse/recycle plastic trash into something useful like this. Maybe rather than shitting all over something for a use it's not necessarily intended for, maybe try to think of other uses this kind of innovative processing can be improved would be much more productive.
And in usual American fashion we do not use it. US layout is the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) one.
Could be a legal issue. If they have a legal requirement to not serve ads in the UK it's good to have a clean separation where they can see if the redirect is broken.
This is delusion. Solar power is 1.7% of the world's electricity.

Increasing electricity consumption will increase all forms of electricity production.

I believe you don't even think about what you're saying. You start with the premise - "More energy consumed is naturally good" - and then invent an argument around it by throwing words together haphazardly.
I know contractors are common but I don’t know if they’re paid a lot or if they can ignore the government employee pay scale.
If you're running this is a virtual machine like it appears that the OS developer is, chances are that you'll be using a smaller resolution than what your screen can handle.
Haven’t really read Fowler’s stuff, but I have read Martin Kleppmann’s Designing Data-Intensive Applications and that was helpful. Haven’t seen it mentioned here (though I haven’t looked thoroughly through the comments). Just thought I’d mention it here.
very interesting side of history about how things worked under the rugs
Leveraging Azure to Build Low-Latency Microsoft Sports Experiences
or discord?
I will assume you are talking about on-line web text editors - I found NicEdit to be what I needed, compact and no external dependencies or licensing hassles - http://nicedit.com/ - wish it was still actively updated but what it has is good.
Once upon a time I hosted a very small phpBB with a couple hundred members and a few posts a day. We had domain specific questions for our captcha, and they cycled between 3-4 different questions. Within a month, the bots had been programmed to answer all the questions on our registration. Being obscure and domain specific did not help.
For a senior position, a short technical presentation seems pretty reasonable to me. Many in that situation probably already have something they can repurpose. As you say, most senior technical positions aren't just about churning out code in a vacuum.
would be awesome to chat!
That report places India behind the following countries in terms of political stability - Colombia, Bahrain, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Togo. A country which got democracy 7 years ago is ranked higher than one that got it almost 60 years ago. That data point alone makes me question the rest of the report.
IMO depending on the use case, just the TZ info won't save you. Say I arrange a meeting for 4pm local time (where summer daylight savings time will be active) for July 2022.. and then the city I want to meet in gets invaded by a foreign army and changes its timezone. And cancels summer time. What time is my meeting now?

I guess it needs to be a 4-dimensional coordinate, where 1 axis can slide around...
Well Windows doesn't attempt to edit PDFs, so what do you expect? If for some reason I was using word it's 2 clicks, so I find that extremely pointless as a test.
Absolutely. These Google horror stories have me ready to pay for an email saas for the first time, and starting to consider that I may need to move all my personal content off Google just to be safe.
Where do you live that a building of modern construction is supported by bricks? In the US, multi-story residences are built on wood with a brick facade. Multi-story commercial buildings are built using wood up to 4 stories (depending on locale), and steel after that.
Text isn't executable in plan 9 but it plays a major role in the design of how you interact with the system.

The functionality you describe sounds like a mixture of Acme(1) text editor and the plumber(4) file server.

Acme editor allows you to exec highlighted text so long as the highlighted portion is a valid command string. For example: if you wanted the date printed in the Acme window from date(1) all you do is type <date, highlight it, middle click it, and date's stdout is redirected into the editor and the highlighted text is replaced with the output of date. Without the '<', the output would redirect to a new window. You can also put commands into the tag bar and right click them to execute. So when I'm writing plan 9 programs, I put mk into the tag bar of the programs directory and just click mk. Of course Acme works hand in hand with the plumber and you can send plumb messages from Acme too. Right clicking text in Acme plumbs it.

The plumber is a really neat program. All it does is listen for messages that are plain old text, tries to match the message to a rule, and that rule has an associated action. You load the rules by simply copying the rule file to the plumber rule file. So for example, you send a url to plumber, it's rule looks for http://, matches it to a rule that says open mothra or netsurf and use the url as an argument and the website open in the browser. If you're inside acme and right click a header file in acme, plumber then just tells acme to open that file (assuming acme is in your rules file for text)
First California Cases of South African Covid Variant Found in Bay Area
Indeed. There are a lot of countries, some with very large militaries, who will not hesitate to choose war over economic stagnation.

The most vocal about climate change seem to think this isn't their problem.
That makes sense; people want to hodl or trade, not spend.
Yes, YAML editor functionality is there, just disabled as it needs a little bit more work.
Now you can upload existing policies if you created them manually.
They may be mining Montero but they definitely are not mining bitcoin
You're making a mountain out of a hill. The threat level here is purrrrple at most
> The counter-counter-argument is that it's volatile because it's still in its infancy.

So you're saying that Bitcoin isn't a store of value, but you speculate that it will be in the future.
Personally, I'd prefer to give a 1 hour presentation of my work over a full day of technical interviews one after the other. I like this presentation idea - I've only ever seen it done when hiring people with PhDs just out of academia, but I'd like to see it as an option for non-PhD positions as well. This way you get all of the interested parties in the room at one time, they hear your presentation and there's some Q&A afterward and you'd be done in like 90 minutes to 2 hours.

If this became standard practice interviewees would create a presentation once and then adapt it for each company. So sure, you'd put in a dozen hours or so the first time but then for future presentations it would take much less time to tweak it for the intended audience.
Came up with "emoRade edaRome" ("must contain a capital... of a country").

Apparently someone came up with that before me? How? Who? I want names!
> If enough countries can get together to form a carbon-taxation bloc, they can begin to impose duties upon countries and companies that don't participate.

This is the only way humans will ever beat climate change.

It'll work because as soon as that bloc is operational, the bloc can charge ultra high tariffs for importing carbon-including goods. Supposedly those will cover the fact the amount of embedded carbon is hard to measure, but actually because it benefits all the countries in the bloc to overestimate the carbon of imports to the detriment of countries outside the bloc.

I predict that as soon as such a bloc is near to formation, politics will move super fast and within a few years dramatic economic changes will occur because no country wants to be last to get an invite to the bloc (and the more countries join, the more stringent joining requirements will become).
> I'm not sure "C didn't have it" is a good litmus test for determining the value of features

It can be a good test.

One reason why C is so ubiquitous is the simple binary interface. This makes it easy to reuse code since the libraries can be imported by every other language out there. C code is relatively simple and the compiled objects follow simple binary interfaces.

Adding features to languages almost always increases the complexity of these binary interfaces. Eventually they become so complicated that nothing will ever interoperate with software written in these languages. The increased language complexity reduces the reusability of software produced in that language.

C++ had this problem and Rust is following in its footsteps. Rust libraries are really only reused within the Rust ecosystem. Those that are meant to be universally reusable will no doubt offer a simple ABI that lacks all the benefits of the Rust language.
Doesn't this bear the risk for the businesses to violate the GDPR because they actively transmit data to a third party?
Ask yourself which of those things would go away if BTC replaced Visa. Only then should it count towards the cost.

Somehow I doubt BTC would lower military spending.
Oof, that's rude!
The best thing about Windows now is that once you've registered your machine via their online tool, reregistering after a clean install is the click of a button.

They have a windows 10 builder tool that downloads the ISO and burns it to USB or DVD. So there's not much stopping a customer from registering and then doing a crapware-free clean install. The downside (besides needing the skill and time to do it) is you'll lose any baked in freeware but the line between freeware, trialware and crapware is so thin now I'm not sure that's a concern.

Finally you can rein in the data collection and remove much of the microsoft freeware by using https://old.reddit.com/r/tronscript.
I found all the answers to my questions unsatisfied. It seems everyone only see the transportation part of the work, but totally forgot human/machine processing at different stages. Mail doesn't just jump on a truck and then jump off the truck. The process is much more complicated and expensive than that.
Of course there are uses. I am even very happy people try to re-use what would normally be put to waste (unless it causes more plastic to disperse in environment).

Just don't claim it is "stronger" than regular brick if that is not true.
WHQL standards _should_ mean that for any PC purchase today (and many in the last decade or so) Windows Update will always have the most up-to-date "basic driver" on its servers.

There's some controversy (linked elsewhere in this thread) that those basic drivers are allowed by Microsoft to advertise their "full bloat" versions in notifications and launch time popups. The flipside to that controversy is that if you want the "full bloat" versions (such as the Geforce Experience if you are a game player), that makes it easy to acquire them as it is general a case of go through the notifications and popups on first launch, from what I've seen.
Indeed, that came from reading the article :-)
Honestly as a full time For/VPN user I see captchas constantly and ignore sites that impose them on me if at all possible.

Hcaptcha and recaptcha are an enemy of the free and anonymous internet.
In a college engineering class we produced (in teams) rockets emitting mach-diamond exhaust consisting of nothing more than HDPE rods bored in specific patterns, supplied with pure oxygen, and ignited.
I yearn for the heady days back when politicians used to attempt to justify wars, now the media just pretends we aren't in what seven? of them currently.
Done, and used daily :

https://github.com/smigniot/smigniot.github.io/blob/master/i...

For the google part I had to recurse through the AS list first, and perform cidr merging
> Maybe rather than shitting all over something for a use it's not necessarily intended for, maybe try to think of other uses this kind of innovative processing can be improved would be much more productive.

Not a very constructive response. Do you have any counterpoints to the other user's points, or do you just not allow people to point out potential issues with materials that may be used for human housing? Progress requires a balance between some people focusing on achievements and some pointing out the things that can still be improved. If I were going to rely on a new material, I'd definitely want its issues to be pointed out and addressed first, rather than just jump to using it.
I ran into something similar with maven builds today. Filtering resources with maven means replacing text in the resource with text from maven properties.
This is great to hear! So happy you liked it.
The more energy is "wasted" the more secure the network is

That's a bit like saying the more resources you spend on something, the better it is. Are there crypto currencies that have comparable levels of security with less resources spent on it? Is it theoretically possible to have a crypto currency where the resource requirements don't scale as dramatically as they do with bitcoin?

Even if we grant that more energy == greater security, there's still the question of whether or not the resources per unit of security (however you want to measure "security") might be more efficient using some other methodology.
people sometimes have too much fun with subtitles

If you watch WKRP In Cincinnati on MeTV, the subtitled lyrics for the closing theme are different every time.
We used DocSend to perfect our Series A pitch
The article says the factory has been running since 2017. That's going on 4 years of stuff from the factory being in the sun. I have seen plastic items last less than one Texas summer in the sun. Either they've done a brilliant PR campaign to keep the "sun kills this product" stories, or it is less of an issue than HN wants it to be.
I don’t believe you would, drivers come in via windows update in modern windows. You should at worst miss cutting edge versions made available on the manufacturers website prior to arriving on windows update.
Of course they can ignore the gov't employee pay scale. Contractors get paid variable amounts, depending on what they're working on and for whom.

Many defense contractors (can't speak to the intel side of things) get paid 25-100% more than their GS counterparts, if they have an actual counterpart. Though that's not universal. Their pay is also not capped, like civilian pay is in the US federal government.

EDIT: For further context, a technical GS employee (engineer, computer scientist) will be in a minimum of a GS-12 position after a few years of experience (usually 3-5). Most technical positions cap at GS-14. GS-15 is the highest of the GS grades, but mostly reserved for management and a select smaller group of senior technical people. A GS employee programmer will usually be a GS-12 or GS-13 until they reach a more senior position (usually with a higher degree than just a BS and often 10-20 years of experience, tending towards the higher end of that).

Here is a link to the base pay, everyone gets more than this but it depends on where they work: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

Federal employees also get a 5% match on their 401k equivalent (TSP), 13-26 days of leave a year (rolls over, cap at 30), 13 days of sick leave a year (rolls over, no max), 10 federal holidays, a pension (1% of pay for each year of service, 20 years = 20%), and pretty decent insurance. If the goal isn't "get rich quick", it's not a bad gig.
TWiV #715 @3m14s [1] discusses the paper Hydroxychloroquine-mediated inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 entry is attenuated by TMPRSS2 [2], including the wonderful Figure 1.

TL;DR: Hydroxychloroquine worked in the lab with cells that have ACE2 but lacked TMPRSS2. Human trials failed because SARS-CoV-2 can enter the cell via a 2nd pathway assisted by TMPRSS2. Hydroxychloroquine probably works in combination with Camostat.

[1] https://youtu.be/l-YyM-0CHZU?t=3m14s

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
Finally - this is great news - I hope they put a lot of design staff here too, not just fab workers.
They have to tell you everything they know about you, by law... but that doesn’t mean this webpage contains every information they collected. And getting everything is rather complicated: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
They already have a fab in Austin.
There's a joke about how quickly Austin's weather can change. It's not unheard of to see 30 degree swings over the course of a few hours. Austin has no protection from polar winds coming down from the north, nor is it near water, which has a moderating effect on climate. So it does have erratic weather. It's possible to see an inch of snow every other year, and yet, in the summers, it's likely to see 100+ degree (F) weather for two months straight.

It's more likely how Austin is still attractive to high-tech personnel - a good public university nearby, a reputation for being a lively city, somewhat reasonable real estate prices (relative to the Bay, but still 2X what they were 10 years ago), and excellent schools if you're in the right area, a decent number of tech options to jump to if you want to switch, a spritely startup scene, enough outdoorsy things to do, etc etc.
There is nothing practical about writing a pointer value to a file. This was a quick hack that made the feature appear to work rather than actually work. It's really bad engineering.
I'm kind of sad that they didn't allow you to use inuktitut characters as a joke about this classic comment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
Plastic fires are nasty. Aside from toxic fumes, plastic melts, So gravity will help it spread, if there's a way for it to do so.

You're not going to cause a runaway with a lighter and a pop bottle without working at it. But, say, an electrical short in a closet with hanging synthetics can take off pretty quickly.
Garfield phone mystery solved in Brittany – 35 years later
8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
I find the requests are often vague. "Check each square with a traffic light" -- does that mean just the light itself, or does it also mean the supporting structure? Also sometimes the images are lacking context. "Click each square with a train" and one of the images is a close up of some metal carriage with a window. Could be a bus, could be a train.
Just like women in tech — or any male dominated industries — have proportionately more unfortunate encounters with men because each woman has more men around her to begin with?
I live in a building where bricks are very much load-bearing.

I have also lived in buildings that had steel or wood beams in walls for the purpose of keeping the wall rigid (so that it doesn't buckle), but the bricks were still holding most of the load.
He was there live, not a cat, but died inside.
This brings a whole new level of awareness to package files where a simple typo can mean your machine can be rooted. From now on I'll always be terrified whenever changing any of my package.json, Gemfile or requirements.txt files.
Keeping my eye out for natural gas processing ships going for a song.
>You are basically suggesting that we all should buy Teslas, right?

Here's how arguments work. You read a claim and disprove it by offering a counterexample. The weaker the counterexample, the weaker the disproven claim.

In the case of Bitcoin a weak counter example is to show that even a grossly inefficient method of money transfer has superior efficiency. A stronger counterexample based on Visa's less than 2Wh per transaction numbers absolutely destroys the claim that Bitcoin's efficiency is reasonable.

It's laughable that anyone would even defend Bitcoin instead of recognizing the inefficiency. It's laughable in the exact same way the Tesla suggestion is laughable, except Bitcoin is even worse.