skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even clear where the company is physically located. It's a Hong Kong company but all of the addresses here are just virtual offices and shell companies.
Ask HN: Any startups solving for software engineering hiring?
I'm curious if anyone on the Ycombinator community is working or knows of any startups working to try to improve the software engineer hiring process.
I did not realize the etymological origin of "fiscal". Thank you!
Futurama already did it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Bs7EAzbzCNE
1 in 3 Americans know someone who died from Covid-19
GPUs are 100% efficient at turning low entropy energy into high entropy energy i.e. heat.

If you take into account transport loss and efficiency of creating the electric current, then it's probably below 50%.

Heat pumps typically have an efficiency of 300% (COP 3) because they pump heat from outside to the inside. (inverse of how a refrigerator works).
Assuming that the linker script(s) used by a program don’t change very often, it might be interesting to compile them, in effect building a custom linker specialized to the script(s). Most programs don’t specify a linker script so maybe the linker can be specialized just to the usual scripts, and odd cases can use post-link binary editing.
Completely passive buildings are a thing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Though generally one gets to a point of diminishing returns. It's probably better to get to a certain efficiency point, and then throw some solar/PV panels on the roof and become 'net zero', producing the electricity you need on-site:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_building

Residentially, you can built a 5000 square foot (500 sq. m) home that needs only 1500W (1.5 kW)—basically a hair dyer—to heat/cool:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vul4vMFdkA

Using an HRV/ERV with an air filter per ASHRAE 62.1 and 62.2 gives you very good air quality.
gov.uk advice is to set up a null dkim record if you don't send email, so you can't be spoofed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25210245
Refined seed oils are synthetic chemicals that just happen to use seeds as a feedstock in a relatively novel chemical reaction.

Yes one can quibble that cooking is a chemical reaction, but it’s one that is both simple and that we’re long since evolved to tolerate.

I stick to mechanically produced vegetable oils and animal fats. It’s not only healthier but it tastes better too.

However, a healthy diet depends a great deal on your race. A traditional Inuit diet is observably healthy for Inuit persons, but probably best avoided by people like me. However there are no humans that are evolved to eat seed oils.
No, it's an axiom. It defines a way to make collective/collaborative entities hopefully bigger than the sum of their parts. I think of these things (corporations, groups, movements) as aggregate people, and that's very much what Google is about.

Google deals almost entirely with aggregate people: statistics, algorithms, collective behaviors, machine learning, implementation that's never about individuals but is about larger population trends. Aggregates, not special unique snowflakes.

As such this is not an illusion but an axiom. Google and entities like it (themselves humongous aggregate 'people') MAKE individuals replaceable, the better to be dealing with other entities like themselves. This is only going to accelerate the more they get to bring AI and machine learning into the mix… which by now is long established, nowhere more than at Google.
I don't know much about this company but I love the name Qarnot which is suggestive of thermodynamically optimal computing. Carnot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_L%C3%A9onard_Sadi_Carn...) was the father of thermodynamic efficiency. He came up with thermodynamics to optimize steam engines, maybe making him the most steampunk of scientists. Thermodynamically optimizing bits is an echo of that for the age of computing.
This strikes me as so frustrating...

Its buying swampland in Florida or land on the moon. You’re paying for a certificate no one respects or cares about.

Owning a Mark Cuban tweet? What does that even mean? Without legally requiring Twitter to keep that tweet up, we all know Twitter really owns it. Can Mark Cuban delete it or shut down his account? If Mark Cuban gets banned from Twitter is he legally culpable for this persons losses?
Spotify announces major expansion, new ad network
Studies have proved over the years that plants do suffer and there is no difference.
Veganism just draws an arbitrary line, wasn't scientifically selected for ecological benefits or any scientific health basis.

Look at honey - obviously good for you, obviously sustainable, not allowed in the vegan diet.
It’s more important than that. Cryptocurrency proponents have been trying to downplay the Tether situation for years.

One of the common dismissals was the idea that if what Tether was doing was truly fraudulent, some government institution would step in to intervene. Proponents pointed to the lack of intervention as a signal that Tether was operating above board.

This also reveals new facts and numbers about the scale of what has been going on. We still don’t know the full story, but it’s clear that reality is even worse than we thought.
Your pesticide/herbicide primary concern is a defining feature of GMO staples: glyphosate tolerance.

I.e. you're going to find a lot more Roundup in GMO end products than non-GMO.
Does this mean that Tether is not buyable by NYers in Coinbase and Gemini?
Google and other companies should regard rigorous research and discussion about AI ethics as long-term protection of their bottom lines. If they start launching products and selling services that are found to unfairly favor or disfavor certain groups of people, they will be vulnerable to lawsuits, government regulation, and damage to their reputations.
A /r/rust reddit thread is nothing compared to front page HN.
If the average carbon intensity of french grid is in the 40g, if you take into account when heating is used it is more in the 80gCO2/kWh, anyway a heat pump is always better.

http://www.carbone4.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Publicati...
I trialed setting up my own nextcloud instance a while back. It's still very complex to get working in docker. From memory, the card/caldav traefik rewrites are still not working. SSL was complex to setup with Collabora, and still required manual GUI steps to link into Nextcloud (my biggest pet peeve). I also remember getting the initial setup wrong a few times in the initial setup wizard, which required me to delete my whole local config.

Performance was a little slow, but that could be down to my own hardware. It was just consumer grade i5 cpu and a basic SSD, in docker.

The examples they provide are good, but you cant really provide for every different config. I wanted to use traefik, so I brought the complexity on my self.

Heres where I got too, eventually stopping my trial of Nextcloud. https://gist.github.com/francis-io/935be5679b3308f5fbc3fe1bb...

My wishlist for future effort by the devs would be:

- Fully configured via env vars (and in Collabora too).
- I would rather any config or state be kept in the db. It makes backup and restore easier. Env vars could be set in the db, and any restart, has the set env vars overwrite anything in the db. I want to have confidence that I can restore a db + files and have a working service come back up. At the moment, I don't trust Nextcloud to always come back up.
- Keep config separate from user files.
- Focus on improving speed (which it looks like they are adressing with this post).
- Focus on more app usability. I remember in portrait it being hard to use.

Overall, the software is great and I'm looking forward to the future, but to store my personal data I will need to have a little more confidence.

(I can't seem to make a bullet point list on HN)
Chinese spyware code was copied from America's NSA
That assertion doesn’t necessarily hold. There’s political advantage to be gained by taking and holding that advantage so that it can be tactically trashed when it needs to be. Your comment implies that China would increasingly lean further in to supporting cryptocurrencies, when we know that they’re not a fan of tolerating things that even look they might try to challenge their authority any longer than it is advantageous for them.
Is the parent article by a plastic producer? I'm tired of this priest comparison at every corner.
I think my instance is 3-4 years old at this point and I am impressed by how little work I had to put into it over the years. I set it up using Snap and it auto updates so the whole process is quite carefree.
"Bitfinex banned from New York."

Edit: I'm getting downvoted but I went soft on him. You know what, I'll say it. The choice of which words to retain (virtual currency trading platform??) and which to drop (in New York) is really bad and veering into suspicious, seems like it's trying to stir up panic.
The key here is that mining pays enough to offset electricity used for mining.

SETI@home doesn't pay.
To act in a stupid manner means to ignore obvious reality.

Society is the collective sum of its individuals.

Our collective sum of individuals is acting in a way which ignores the very obvious reality that it's quickly destroying the biome on which we are dependent.

Therefore, I would say that our society is being stupid.
It's tough to draw a straight line from "deep institution" (redundant?) to specific examples. It shows up more in background statistic than anecdotes. When we're focusing on N=1, I'd rather see concrete complaints (and no, internal forum posts do not count).
It's a SEO marketing article. I wouldn't expect insights.
Your addiction to breathing causes harm to the environment, so selfish.
Both are still printing machines. Dollars are backed by faith in the USA. Is there any difference ?

Powell - "We print money digitally. As a central bank, we have the ability to create money."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff6SDsaS7rI
As long as you set a limit on integer sizes (in most cases an arbitrary low limit should be fine) and don't expect any precision on float (each conversion between text and binary representation there is problematic) and don't use extensions (like comments or trailing commas) you should be quite fine with most JSON libraries. This won't cover all things, but a lot.
Nearly none I would guess... Which large company, investment firm or rich individual will wire Tether Inc millions of dollars in return for a promise from a bunch of people that look like arrest warrants will shortly be issued for them...
This makes me think: a locomotive's cruise power consumption is around 1MW, LiFePO4 batteries are currently $137/kWh, so for the price of a single machine($500k) one could have a rail car with 3MWh on board, which could be used in places where there's no overhead power supply.

I assume that just putting miles of cable along the track is more cost-effective, but it can't be used everywhere.
Read bitcoin.pdf
Considering the meteoric rise of BTC is tied so deeply to Tether issuances, it sounds an awful lot like you’re trying to convince us the emperor really has clothes.
Part of the problem with Flamanville is notoriously that France hasn't built a new nuclear reactor for 20 years, and a lot of the expertise has been lost; also, the ASN's safety regulations have become a lot stricter in that time.

So I think overall GP's points apply.
And what about all the cash-for-difference swaps and futures? BitMEX's XBTUSD swap is basically a synthetic dollar that can only be redeemed for Bitcoin within the walled garden of BitMEX. Tether is like a dollar swap contract that can be moved on-chain and, in theory, can be redeemed for the nominal currency. Of course Tether represents itself as a fully reserved stablecoin, which is likely a total fiction, but in the grand scheme of things I don't think it actually matters much.
Yes, for example the CEO of Theranos was a billionaire but dropped to 0 overnight after exposure of fraud.
This particular lawsuit started in 2019 and was narrowly scoped. They don’t have infinite jurisdiction over Tether’s global operations.
Antigravity for finance. The ages long problem of how to integrate debt and money into society is solved.
Yeah, I don't really get the ICE is super complex thing. Simple ICE engines are...simple. Parts are easy to get and they are easy to work on. And, if you don't care about the environment, a 2-cycle engine is even simpler.
So we need a cryptocurrency based on useful calculations instead of useless hashing.
Better read first this one,
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
The minting of tether accelerated in 2020 and continues in to 2021 including one week alone where $2B was minted.

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-mints-record-2b-usdt-in-one-...
I wonder if the real progress will be in traffic management. A huge amount of waste comes from the legacy lights and stops. Whenever your alone on a long strip in sync with green lights, you can just coast and reach your destination in a few minutes at 35mph. With small ~smart or even SDV you may be able to rethink the principles. Higher density, higher liquidity..
We can’t even get a sample before signing up?
> Or just stop, or reduce as much as possible, the amount of crap we eat?

Finding out what crap is, is really really hard if you want to be scientific. It may be possible for some bigger categories.

Reducing is also really, really hard.

Nutrition hasn't been solved for millenia, humans just ate what they could eat, if they had enough.
Do you ever contemplate that perhaps there is a dog after all?
Have no idea why ycombinator is so salty towards anything crypto.

Yes, tether was wrong when they said USDT was backed by “US Dollars”. But, the conclusion is USDT is backed by something, the likes of which is probably a fractional reserve.

Case is resolved, with Tether admitting no fault.
That looks a bit like NDJSON, assuming that the space between the objects is actually a newline.

There are libraries[1] that support parsing it and it's not too hard to do yourself, either. Some fairly popular projects use it to represent multiple responses in a single response body[2].

[1] http://ndjson.org/libraries.html
[2] ElasticSearch uses it for msearch response bodys, for example.
"The Providers are independent of Wyndly Health and are merely using the Site as a way to communicate with you. Any information or advice received from a Provider comes from them alone, and not from Wyndly Health."

So...

Who makes the drops?

Who decides what goes in them?

Where are they made?

Under what conditions?

Are they approved by the FDA?

You post some publications about the benefits, but how am I supposed to be able to evaluate what you're offering and verify that it's not some pseudoscience like homeopathy?
I don't understand how Nyan Cat has this value as anyone could make an NFT out of it. How is this one more valuable than a copy and how can I be absolutely sure it was created by the original meme creator?

From what I understand the NFT doesn't actually contain the image itself. So the actual art could get lost.

EDIT: ok, so it looks like these NFTs point to IPFS URLS. However IPFS items can also disappear if no one replicates it.
> they may use more structure-aware library to do that

Sure. I’m particularly thinking about mvn upgrades or “npm update”, which modify pom.xml/package.json files to upgrade the libraries, after checking rules (non-breaking changes or not, vulnerabilities or latest, etc).

For mvn, libraries never succeeded to modify the pom in-place without wrecking the file format, so mvn upgrades never became a thing. It’s also a demonstration that a DOM with comments in memory doesn’t ensure we can output the file as-is ;)
So what? The vast majority of vehicle trips have only one driver, 2 seater or 1 seater vehicles need not cater to families. And you're already incorrect, there are already millions of 2 seater vehicles, be it pickups, trucks, sports cars, or extremely compact cars.
^^ This.
See how 100 startups are running – MRR and Stats
It's not a mindset, profit is defined in accounting law, and Bitcoin is considered an intangible asset, where price inceeases are not accounted as profit (but losses are written down).
I'd be very wary of any studies that ask people to identify "activity level."
> Consider the societal positive externalities that commercial news journalism has in society

Maybe I'm biased by the past ten years, but from where I'm sitting commercial news "journalism" has been mostly negative externalities, corrupting democracies in all sorts of ways while misinforming the public about many other things (the news stories I have personal knowledge of have all been grossly misleading).
Old people, young children, and the disabled can not just hop on a scooter.
Maybe, maybe not.

If there is some sequence that is used a lot and you've determined it to be a bottleneck, you can write a custom endpoint for it.
I would use this in a heartbeat if you make execute-only a first-class feature. That means segments with E only, no reading.

My experience with every linker so far is that to have XO I will need to specify the memory layout in a linker script manually. It's not as nice as simple linker argument, if that is possible.
But then why is there no serious competitor?
anyone remembers the term "slashdotted"?
I assume they did with less. No change of clothes. Cook meat on sticks rather than a pan. A blanket and no tent type deal. No medical kit, torch or GPS etc.
America lied to the world when it claimed each dollar was backed by gold.

When the world figured it out and there was a bank run, the gold standard was "temporarily" put off by Nixon in 1970.

Bitfinex just seems to be playing the same game America has always been playing.
Misleading standard deviation
Price of purchase, price of ownership, price of use, is all a lot lower versus a car.

Protection from rain as well as some traffic protection versus scooters/mopeds/bicycles, as well as speed versus a bike or slow moped, especially at certain times of the day and certain areas.

Also easier to go with two people and to move more luggage or groceries, than on a bike or scooter or moped.

More comfortable, too, e.g. having music on, heating, navigation.

Conveniently, no helmet or motorwear requirements. You can lock things away in your car.

And finally, because they're smaller, electric and have a higher occupancy percentage, congestion, sound, pollution and parking are all improved if more people would use them versus a car. Most 4-6 seater cars have an average occupancy per trip of <2, which means a ton of extra space and weight being moved around, which means more pollution, costs, sound, as well as more congestion and parking issues.

Tiny cars in combination with decent cycling / moped infrastructure, decent public transportation, and a high-tax on personal 4-6 seater cars and SUVs (which still makes economic sense if you actually seat 3-6 people, but don't if you're just sitting alone in your SUV tank) would make the streets safer, less congested, less polluting, less noisy, cheaper and better for the environment.

This model where the norm is to sit in traffic in a giant and heavy ICE car seating 4-6 by yourself, makes no sense. These cars have a place, but only for the niche 15% of trips that actually seat that many. Tiny personal cars, and public larger ridesharing cars, makes more sense.
I find that remarkable, because I barely know anybody who even got it, and nobody who was hospitalized. Presumably that says more about my social circle: people followed the rules. Which isn't perfect protection, either, but apparently better than nothing.

[EDIT: I am drawing "social circle" very broadly, to include a very, very large set of online-only friends.]

I had said at the beginning that there was a large crowd who would not take it seriously until they personally knew somebody who had died. They were also the ones most likely to not follow those rules. So I wonder to what degree their minds have changed.
This news is so funny. Tether detractors see this as confirmation that they were right all along, while crypto currency fans say that this is confirmation that it was FUD all along. No bridges were built in this endeavour.
The unoptimised software and the missing developer tools says otherwise.
The Pretty JSON Revolution
I really struggle with a lot of these “car magazine” sites lately for a few reasons:
1- little in the way of technical content
2- high snark to signal ratio
3- listicles
4- lazy writing (they had to run the engine at a specific RPM and I don’t know why...)
"I have been vegetarian for 30 years and all it took was one pastrami sandwich to cure all my health problems"

Yeah sure.
no its not. that is bad data from no name exchanges lying about their volume
>I personally would not be proud of myself though if i had his 'career'.

It's interesting how we are primed to assume a psychological burden for anyone who is financially successful. Perhaps to help ourselves cope? I'm not singling your comment out specifically, as I often have the same reaction.

For all we know, Ferriss is probably highly satisfied, completely at ease with himself, and enjoying a great and varied existence.
> Investing in virtually any asset other than cash will, almost by definition, shield you from inflation.

... which is why virtually every nation on Earth adopted some kind of inflationary fiat currency. It pushes money to be invested, not held. Wealth is a verb, not a noun.
If all your documentation and processes are around CentOS, then staying with it may be easier. If you already take snapshots of the public repos and manage OS update change management that way, then nothing should really change for you. The same Dev/QA testing processes would work with CentOS stream and you should hopefully catch and surprises prior to production using your existing change management processes. That is just my opinion based on change control and patch management experience and based on conversations with other organizations. C7 will be EOL in 2024 so you have time to figure out your path.
How about if we do the courageous thing and give them war till they stop?

We are morally no different than Europe prior to Hitler's invasion; knowingly allowing the genocide of others as long as it didn't affect us.
I think I trust ag.ny.gov much more than theblockcrypto.com...

It suggests the latter is 100% made up news, possibly with the aim of market manipulation by sentiment bots who will be fooled for a few minutes until humans intervene.
In any language I eventually need to validate. Whether I do it early, using a validator, or during processing the data at later is a choice depending on the problem.

Existence of a schema definition file and checking responses against is signalling that I can trust an API vendor to be at least aware of the requirements for clients. (Whether they randomly change the schema definition or ignore it is a second question, but at least somebody once thought about formalising and it's not an complete adhoc dump of today's internal data representation)
All these years i ve been wondering why they don't market miners as space heaters. How much would it cost to make one in the 400-800W range?
In pure deductive logic, sure. But nobody operates like that. Bayesian reasoning allows us to decide to listen to one group of people and ignore another based on our priors even if it isn’t purely valid deductive logic.
This is interesting, as I am currently reading Sigmund Freud's Dream Analysis.