skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please can we regulate the carbon use of cryptocurrencies. This is getting out of control and governments are too slow. Bitcoin mining consumes more energy than the entire country of Argentina uses now.
I do not want to hate on Bitcoin but climate change is getting out of control and there is little time left to reverse course. Last year with a global pandemic CO2 still rose by near record amounts. Bitcoin mining does have something to do with this. There is a connection. Please be open to the idea that we need to regulate the energy that Proof of Work mining cryptocurrencies use. I don't want to stop crypto. I just want us to use types that require less energy to mine.
The planet is running out of time and this is FACT offsetting lots of progress on reducing emissions. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html
Please don't downvote because you love crypto. I do too. I just want us to do better at preventing CO2 emissions from rising because of its mining.
The US' lost, ancient megacity
Calcium Channel
The Worst Epidemic (2020)
Probably needs a NSFW tag for some tame black and white photos with nipples.

I couldn't guess from the title whether it was female-free or free-diving. It's the latter, which is cool.
That's a bizarre statement.

Corruption is causing the devaluation of the currency in this case. The devaluation is already a method for hurting the ones responsible.

I'd think that the ones that are corrupt would be able to store their currency in crypto, while the rest of the citizens are not.

Crypto doesn't help anything. It could help some who know how to use it ( and will not forget their password)
Just wait till the newly-banned cigarette industry gets into the "marijuana" smoking market.
Two main reasons, IMO:

1. Because companies are often run by financial types who have a hard time imagining that one SWE could be a multiple more valuable than another (either inherently or because of company-specific domain experience). Why pay this current, good SWE 1.5x what they were making, when the salary study that I have in my inbox says...?

2. An employee seeking a raise at their current company is negotiating with one company. An employee seeking a raise at all possible companies has more flexibility.

They don't need all companies (or one specific company) to be willing to pay them more, just one out of all of them.
The concept of an always-new soundscape podcast is pretty cool.
You may want to write a proper user story for this and submit it to https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/04/14/async-vision-doc-shiny... (mentioned in the latest "This Week in Rust" development summary).
The issue with my code is that somebody can put in arbitrary SQL queries within the data field (I think - not sure if it is 100% possible because their data would be enclosed within the programs SQL query, which may break their attempts)

Best way around it is to put in checks to prevent the code from being anything nefarious. I’ll have a think and figure out what’s the best way of doing this, but I assume not constructing the sql strings from scratch but rather using postmodern’s API (postmodern is Common Lisp’s excellent interface to PostgreSQL) makes sense, or the alternate solution recommended in the other reply to your post.
That's the most ridiculous division known to man.

You don't use the right back end, therefore you aren't cool.

It's absolutely absurd. I mean, about on par for teenagers, but gah... I can picture the conversation about "Your "friends" are complete morons, and you shouldn't feel ashamed or ostracized at what is probably one of the most silliest social signaling practices on the planet."

It hurts being an engineer sometimes. These networks are marvels of human ingenuity, and people take them and use superficial differences in UI and completely miss the point.

God bless. I keep thinking UX/UI can't get any worse, but what humanity takes out of it never ceases to amaze.
What in that doc is "tracking", and what is being tracked? It's not tracking browsing behavior for ad profiles.
> Remote work actually is a drawback for the employee rather than the employer. Human contact is something that is quite important for relationships to form. Some people adapt well to it because they grew up on computers & grew up making friends on the internet, but for others in person communication is quite important.

I'm not so sure about it. Sure, if you compare work-related human contact to no human contact, the latter option is obviously worse.

But when you move to remote work, you get a lot of extra time and energy, which often creates more opportunity for socialisation. And this socialisation is, in my opinion, much healthier than with your colleagues. Want it or not, you're constantly "selling" yourself to your work peers: their opinion about you will greatly affect your career, and therefore income, and therefore a lot about your life. We all create a better, public version of ourselves, even if we do it semi-consciously. I don't even mean being dishonest (you should never do that), but just building a facade and toning down everything "negative".

Spending less time and energy doing that, and more time with people with whom you can be honest and open was one of the best things I've got out of switching to remote work.
I'll personally give it a few years until 'getting together in large groups indoors seated next to strangers' feels more natural, is less at risk of being cancelled because of corona, and won't be sold out the minute sales open due to over a year of missing such things.
Firefox slowness sent me there and Chromes account management is what keeps me there
Whoa there. You know you've worked from home too long when you see a naked body unexpectedly and immediately hit back. :D
Also depicted in "Tampopo" (1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/
I've just written an argument which can be verified. If you call me a "fanatic" because of writing a provable argument I can at least say I have a freedom of speech...
My notes (tl;dr) from the article below.

For anyone even vaguely familiar with audio engineering and recording, these tactics are not profound. Not a bad thing because in the end, less is more.

Worth mentioning that a good mic is arguably the 20% input that contributes to 80%+ of the output/audio quality, as supported by the article.

#6 is really the only non-obvious point. Apparently this is a major subject of debate.

1.) If you can afford it, use the Neumann U87 mic (~$3.5k)

2.) High pass filter (~250hz) on the vocal chain

3.) To avoid plosives, don't speak head-on into the mic. Speak off the side, on a diagonal. Use a pop filter.

4.) Design your studio to minimize reverberation. Make sure the recording space is isolated and there "aren't a lot of solid walls." Absorb sound with baffles, sound panels, etc. Counterintuitively, a larger room with more diffusion is better than the opposite.

5.) Minimize ambient sound. Your mic will pick up everything from fans to CPUs to electronic interference off computer screens. This noise will muddy up the recording.

6.) Minimize processing or compression of the signal before streaming, or in the case of radio, sending to the satellite.

Edit: for clarity
I wonder if a pediatrician who wrote that he would not prescribe puberty blockers to minors could lose his job and/or license, especially in blue states. What doctors blog may not be representative of what doctors as a whole think about controversial subjects.
One of the later links in the article points out that the starfield is visibly different than what we can see from earth (due to parallax), so yes, it would be.
I'm really curious about the energy savings that roof mounted solar provides (not including electricity that the panels produce).

In the summer, they shade the roof keeping it cooler.

In the winter, they provide an additional ventilation area that allows heat to escape without melting snow (thus mitigating risk of ice dams). Even a snow covered solar panel provides a benefit.
I wonder if it’s ‘fun to write’ because the boilerplate lets the author feel like they’re writing lots of code, even though it’s unnecessary in other languages. I’ve never met a developer in industry who prefers Java to Scala, and having used both in production myself, I’d agree too.
What’s an alternative to blink cameras? It seems the author considers blink as the only no contact option, is that true?
I don’t understand what you’re getting from this. Crash looping can still happen in OTP, the root supervisor can still die if the crash threshold is met in a small window. This would also be very heavy weight. IIUC the issue is not that errors occur, but that errors occur (and panic) and cannot be handled
We can't regulate competition in online retail over concerns about what might happen in the future based on an analogy to a completely different market.
I’m not sure, but I think we have to start with Congressional reform. I don’t generally subscribe to the notion that legislating should be a lucrative, lifelong profession.

I think term limits, pay reduction, and abolishment of the Congressional pension would be an excellent start. It would eliminate some of the career aspects of legislating while forcing lobbyists to regularly deal with new people, somewhat limiting their influence.

However, getting this would require Congress to vote on something that’s against their own interest.
oh yes, there was a sort of 3d memory lasered into scotch tape(german tesa) rolls. They just could not make it durable.
Personal Experience.
I clot very easy. (Aggressive Factor 5 Leiden) A few days without a blood thinner means a stoke or other issue.
Visual issues always come first so I get warning before major symptoms start.

After having Covid I basically can only miss one pill. Anything more and things go bad quickly.

I hate the side effects, and they make working a challenge, so I had been trying to walk a line of just enough to not cause problems. I have no margin now.

As for vaccine. Well it terrifies me. I can’t up the blood thinners any higher, can’t handle any additional clotting.
Of course a second round round of covid could be worse.
How do you passively avoid Google analytics,fonts, maps?

How is "not using Chrome" not passive?
Bitcoin has two types of nodes: pruned and full; pruned uses 5GB storage (2019)
The problem is not so much the uncomfortableness of it, but if you stop speaking for 30secs half your audience will be already fidgeting their magic infinte scroll glass slabs TM to try and entertain their minds / fill the void...

Smartphones are great conversation killers, lol
Pleased to see that you got the original phrase from Parkinson's Law. That book deserves a wider audience, and so does its sequel The Law and the Profits. Here's a PDF: http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf
Wrong, fool
LabVIEW ;)

More seriously, IDEs exist and work, so if people are productive with them, what does "but you'd be less productive if you didn't have your IDE!" gain us? C++ is a bit less verbose, but still the wide majority of devs uses an IDE with it because it does useful things. Programmers of Lisp etc use editors that have tools to edit Lisp files better. etc. I get not liking the existing options as a matter of personal taste, but that's different.
I'm still in favor of throwing the CEO, CFO, Board of Directors and highly invested members of the Board of Investors in jail for grossly unethical business practices & gross privacy invasions.
How did SiFive get anywhere near 5nm TSMC?
Map IPs – quickly and easily plot up to 500k IPs on a map
Well, that’s a needlessly outrageous headline. Before responding, I suggest people read what the proposed regulations actually contain.
Show HN: Xemaphore.com
You keep saying they need original content people can watch. I don't know how many times I can explain the notion of "original content" loses meaning without IP rights.

Original content is an incentive because only the producer can host it. That's enforced by RIGHTS.

Without rights, if YouTube produces it, it ends up on NotYouTube. If NotYouTube produces, it ends up on YouTube. No rights, no original content. There's no incentive. You keep saying the incentive is so people go to the site to watch a particular video. But nothing keeps that video on that one site. IP rights do that currently.

If what you say is right, how far has ThePirateBay gone to produce original content? Oh that's right, they just take Hollywood content and ads flow just fine. That's the future you're fighting for.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26816274
As a developer who used Java for 12 years, I don't really like the direction Java takes. It's not happening like you're trying to describe. Java have some weak points which could be addressed easily. For example properties are relatively easy to implement, but instead developers decided to implement records which are very different. Modules are weird thing that nobody asked for and they broke old code (what a blasphemy in Java world). And still I'm not aware of any useful modules use-cases. They throw out Java EE instead of improving it.

I'm sure that Java developers have a vision which they're moving to. They're trying to convert old language into a new one with immutable classes, pattern-matching, green threads, modular JVM, all that stuff. May be I'll like that new language, but so far I'm a little bit unsatisfied. And, as it seems, young people are not that impressed either.
Every single political party in Pakistan is an islamic-nationalist party. Yet the Western media never describes them so. Yet the BJP is always suffixed with "hindu-nationalist".

Israel has preferential citizenship for Jews. Yet, somehow India is not allowed to have CAA (per western media).

Double standards, I suppose.
I wouldn't say Google is really "moving" to Go. It's an option, but plenty of projects new and old continue to choose Java.
I'm very similar which is why I read easier to digest fiction, for me books provide a coherent linear train of thought that works to soothe my naturally chaotic headspace, which is an addicting sensation to someone with ADHD. I struggle with novels that employ complex writing tricks for this same reason, non-linearity just exacerbates my internal chaos rather than calming it.
I still use Docker images to deploy several of my Go systems. For one, it's nice to have it integrated into other ecosystems where a "Docker image" is just the base level of functionality. The additional security (even if not necessarily perfect) and isolation isn't all bad either.

It's perfectly fine to compile a Go binary and stick it into a Docker container on its own; it is not obligatory for a Docker container to contain a full Linux installation. I've got a couple of Docker files that are pretty much just

FROM scratch

ADD my_binary /

(Usually my bind mounts and the command executed are set up elsewhere for logging and such.)

It is also a convenient way of knowing exactly what your dependencies are... for instance I have several Go containers that also have to include a trusted cert store so they can access remote HTTPS resources correctly. Since you don't need a full Linux install to run a Go binary, it's very easy to use Docker as a complete, human-comprehensible manifest of exactly what is in that container.
Changing companies often comes with changing industry sectors.

I worked in a small SaaS company that had only a few million in revenue. The amount of value that I brought that company in terms of its revenue wasn't that great compared to other companies.

And while I didn't switch to tech (I joined the public sector instead), if I had gone back to a big tech company, the revenue per employee would have likely been an order of magnitude or more... and they could pay more too.

While working at a company, the additional value that is brought to the company after a year or two or ten isn't as much as bringing value to a company that is able to translate technical skills to even more value because it is in a different sector.

This contrasts with other careers where a given job won't change significantly from company to company.

The difference between software developer and those other careers is the flexibility and demand for the skills across a wide range of companies.
The MacroDroid SMSs get sent out as:
maps.google.com/maps?q=[coordinates]

There's probably some value in a lightweight standalone app that does this alone.
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords%3Ahomebridge-plugin%...
Intel’s Full Enterprise Portfolio: An Interview with VP of Xeon, Lisa Spelman
Employer should pass tax savings to employee. Maybe also pass savings from not running local branch.

I looked up 1099 calculator. For Arizona total self employed tax is about 20%. That seems quite fair.

In EU I prefer self-employment. I can put car, home office and even babysitting into expenses and save on taxes.
I think it's interesting that you're lumping Apple in there. Their iOS stuff has been fairly stable, but they've been fairly aggressive in chopping off support for legacy tech (32-bit apps was a big one, especially in the macOS world).
Just yesterday I saw a front page HN article with the title "EU will not ban deepfakes" or something to that effect?
> Python is older than Java, well supported

WELL SUPPORTED???? Have you ever coded a real thing in python?

I'm getting "Warning, no longer supported" console messages in all my basic well established tools and libraries written in python because a guy that lives in a world of academics and theory and not in a world of business and delivery dates decided that python3 was not going to have backwards compatibility with python2 because they made a massive irreparable disaster when they designed python2.

That is not a professional tool for multi-million dollar companies, that is a toy for spoiled nerds. Exactly the same that Visual Basic 5-6 were when I was starting. Extremely easy to use and extremely fast, at the price of been garbage for anything larger than a toy app.

And because all the kids learned that at uni and went to create the next thing in it like PyTorch and TensorFlow, now you have to do all the real code in C / C++ to handle what python can't in terms of speed an reliability, doubling you code base, your Dev teams, and the needed skill set.

I have been programing in java in large multinationals for 10 years and I used python every single day for the past 3 years for what its useful: small hacky scripts to increase productivity. The real sh*t that manages you cellphone towers, you home-banking, you online shopping, your logistic chain and your android cellphone apps, all things that I have worked on, gets done in Java.
I noticed that there are some reddit communities with a recurring daily post for users to chat in the comment section, so I made a website to create an endless reddit-style comment sections.
> Dead store elimination now uses MemorySSA, and can eliminate dead stores across basic blocks.

I thought it wasn't enabled by default in 12? I recall this being said at some point.

That said, I do appreciate this change making it into Rust, as it very visibly improves how it handles moving big structs around.
I fully support it
Are macs still shipping with severely outdated CLI tools? 10 years ago, Mac users just got the ability to resize a window by any edge or corner... How's that really good window management system working out for ya?

It's shocking that the Mac UX is so good that 75% of the developers out there would rather not use one... Meanwhile developers are the group that uses them more than the general population so both groups obviously disagree that Macs have a good UX at all lul.
Tinygo is severely limited, e.g. it doesn't support encoding/json. Want to deal with any JSON API, or anything that indirectly uses JSON serialization? Forget about it.

A current side project of mine uses golang's wasm. Not a big codebase, but the wasm is 2.7MB brotli'ed. Certainly huge to me (I'm sure it's almost in the lean and mean camp compared to the average website today, though).
The virtual machine is (was?) the whole point. You can run the same binaries on your dev box or your server, whatever flavour of server that happens to be.

Startup times are not an issue on servers as processes are typically long-lived anyway. It is a bit of an issue on serverless (lambda etc.) but that’s a relatively new thing. High memory usage is generally poor tuning - if you give the JVM 1gb it will use it and avoid GC until it needs to. Sometimes it’s poor coding too, I’ve seen web APIs accepting files as base64 encoded json strings which is horrific server side.
I don't think it matters. I think the main difference is an IPO is typically used to raise money to grow, where as a DPO is mainly used to shift risk from VC to the main street and allow VC to recoup money from a non profitable entity. A magic trick really. IPO's do that too, but with a DPO there isn't the expense and the risk dog and pony show. Similar but different.
"gradle init --type java-application"

Honestly I haven't had to deal with the issues you talk about in the last five years (which is as long as I've been writing java commercially, before that I was mostly a C developer).

Having had recent experience with Go and Javascript/Node, I can't say either struck me as especially easier or more intuitive to get started with.
In pretty much every romantic comedy ever, there are probably "charming," "quirky," etc. behaviors that in the real world would be often/usually seen as creepy and stalkerish.
This headline does not in any way relate to what is in the article, the first paragraph is this:

The regulations include:

A surveillance ban on AI systems that track people indiscriminately

A ban on social credit scores that track individual behaviors, impact hiring and judiciary decisions, and rate trustworthiness

Bias prevention measures like human oversight in testing datasets

AI notifications that would be sent to people when interacting with AI systems

That's pretty far from a ban.
> where

I think now "where" is less about geographical location and more about social network and other intangible things like this.
So, I'll admit to not reading TA, but I find this headline a bit silly. Isn't java one of the most widely adopted languages, maybe THE most used? Top tier at least. People aren't using it for no reason, same with C.
You seem bright. I'd guess that you're failing on the social sides of the interview process. If you submit cover letters like this, you may be highlighting too many things that aren't applicable to the job so companies will reject you because they don't know where to place you.

Which part of the job hunting process are you failing at the most? Is it the initial application? Phone screen? Onsite interview? What types of jobs are you targetting?

Feel free to email me (in profile) if you want to go into detail more.
That'd be a high pass filter, right?
Maybe humans were created by an ET life as mining/purifying beings whose sole purpose is to be dropped on planets and left alone for a few millennia to do their thing.

The ETs come back once all the minerals are refined and purified and neatly stacked.
I know they're separate lines and capacity is sold well in advance and all that, but this chip shortage still baffles me.

A startup can tape out a 5 nm chip, but STMicroelectronics can't make any of their 40-130 nm microcontrollers for the next year?

Also car companies are supposedly the culprit, even though their volume is only in the low tens of millions per year, and the dustup is apparently over only six months of capacity? What? I get that the auto industry is a nice reliable long-term source of revenue for chip companies, but fabs should barely be sneezing at that sort of volume.