skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that you accept means you don’t value yourself. You know they pay $85 in the USA and the only reason they’re going to South Asia is they know you have no balls to stand up for yourself with. So not only do you screw over an American taking that pathetically low salary, you screw yourself by letting them keep an extra $50 for every hour you work, just because Asia... wtf?
Aggressive tone and a throw away account, this is the end of the thread for me.
HN itself is an independent site, as opposed to something like a Facebook group. The strict rules are ones we all agree to by joining. So HN by nature falls in the category of "running stuff yourself" since it's not part of a giant centralized conglomerate like Google or FB.
crime fueled by America's War on Drugs.
> Since Europe have really poor democratic control and power structure as of today, we are far from a federal Europe.

I don't agree, partly because I don't share your view that democratic control and structure is "poor". Mainly because trying to flip the tables and redefine the goal and aspirations of the EU is a bit far fetched, as it doesn't even include becoming a federal Europe.

> Even European policies like RGPD are always enforced locally at country level, there is no such thing as European government.

That is by design, not a mistake.
So if you are a self motivated CS type of person considering what kind of education is available to you and that "socializing" is not your panacea, is there any alternative to the traditional college?
Would Bill Gates still drop out of Harvard these days?
Talk to game developers - game code lives or dies with it's ability to persist on cache.
Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You’re Not Using
We Landed the Top% of 800 Startups in Free Electrons and Piloting in Japan
"This article has been sponsored by Elon Musk".

Its not even clear how we are supposed to produce the necessary amounts of electricity if a significant amount of cars are EVs.

This feels like it has been written for the upper class, ignoring the reality of 80% of the people :-)
Nobody knows for sure at this point but the prospects for long-term vaccine-derived immunity look really good so probably not.
I hate memes, they reduce any nuance of conversation into a pattern of call and response. That said, can someone explain why people are spending upwards of six-figures on what amounts to a signed MD5? Is it all fake bids that never clear? People stashing bitcoin? Money laundering? I would assume anyone who actually has that kind of money for any reason other than blind luck wouldn't waste it on something like this, so there has to be some part of this that I don't understand yet.
When is the pandemic over? By any objective measures it should be already.
> so the problems with this USA-specific phenomenon are being exported to billions of others who aren't part of that culture

This is the case on the vast majority of technology developments -- things to solve mainly US centric problems are pushed out with massive amount of money to try to "solve" problems that don't exist.

A byproduct of this push is often to create those problems in other cultures. It's like the British empire of the 17th century.
Jokes on them - I thought they would take over last decade. More seriously, in their graph it doesn't seem like US electric car sales is accelerating. What gives?
In Sweden the digitalisation of services is quite advanced, although there are still many things that you need to do via post. I cannot compare with Finland, but I can compare with Spain and the UK where I have lived and worked and probably Sweden is one or two steps ahead. The only gotcha is that you need to be inside the system and have an active BankId, otherwise you're a pariah.
haha downvote me germaphobes

covid was never credible threat to begin with
And that's a terrible abstraction that, for some reason, happens for any application, whether they have a background job or not. System tray + taskbar is miles better.
The whole point of signal is that it's secure and has reasonable UX. As soon as you can start choosing security parameters it becomes unnecessarily complicated for the average person with added scope to mess something up
Years ago, in a similar situation, I wrote a tool to capture parameters and results for the algorithm while QA ran their full application test suite. Ended up with a few thousand cases and expected results; results where QA had verified the software worked as expected.

Used that to create a test suite that we could then maintain normally.

Much better than random.
Yes but norway do fund their welfare state with oil, which is why they didn't have to make as many budget cuts in the 90s as Sweden did. And Sweden financed its welfare state by being neutral in WWII which meant they had intact industry while all the competitors were wiped out, so they could just export for 4 decades. Much like the US also did after WWII for example with the car industry which were profitable until the 80s when the japanese caught up.

I'm still sceptical if there even exists a successful welfare state that does not rely on natural resources, or the aftermath of some war.
The bizarrely named Sofabaton U1 is a good halfway house in my opinion. It lacks some polish, but is good enough in every respect and much better value than Logitech equivalents. It's a bit annoying to have to use an app to update it - there's probably some crap in it, but it's only needed for mapping buttons and can then be uninstalled.
Oil prices [0] are at breathtaking all time highs. As in "wow, these prices are really high". Fighting peak oil turns out to be really expensive.

I'd say electric cars are guaranteed to take over in the near term. But there is an open question about what % of people will still have cars.

The future isn't set in stone. Maybe it'll be hydrogen, maybe it'll be electricity, maybe it'll be no car. But there isn't really a plausible path for internal combustion powered by fossil fuel.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/crude-oil-prices
Sturgeon itself does not need to get any compensation, it is not human, no human rights.

The construction of the dam can bring a lot of immediate benefits, which is insignificant compared with the ecological damage caused, because if the economic development is not good, the environmental pollution will only be more serious, and the phenomenon of survival through predation of wild animals will only be more common.
Disappointed there is no before and after of the sculpture itself
No More Eternal Septembers
you still needs adar II, some people were born in that month. it comes every 4 years I think
We will do it with "green energy" using "green technology" in the new "green economy" duh....

/s
> If you don't have significant assets or a confirmed job offer you'll be turned around and sent back to where you came from

How do you then explain the existence of sanctuary cities?
What I learned from going to university, after growing up as a working class child, was, don't play predefined games.

Those people with academic parents/relatives will all come prepared. They will drink more than you at parties and still ace their exams without any problems.

Your best chance of success are ways of life that aren't easily prepared for, because it levels the field.
Have they grown? I don’t recall that l1 has grown much, and the bigger ones likely have more latency. AMD has some big l3 lately but their l3 has a bit more latency for it

these big caches will help indirect code be a few % less bad but it will still be better by a lot to keep things in l1.

now maybe one day with some unforeseen developments, linked lists will be cool again.
Much of the author’s problem seems to arise in their practice of never cleaning up their to-do stack.

One must be ready to part with ideas that have not been acted on for a while. It’s not the computer desktop’s responsibility.

All the while I agree with the general idea that powerful search on the desktop still has potential for further development.
Good server CPUs should survive 7 years of use without problems.

Nevertheless, their expected lifetime is not much greater than that.

I normally replace CPUs because they become obsolete much earlier than they should show age problems.

Nevertheless, I had a pair of Opterons that were used continuously for about 10 years.

At the end, they developed a very high leakage current, leading to an idle power consumption several times higher than in the beginning.

Increased leakage current is one of the most frequent signs of aging in semiconductor integrated circuits.
Even selling mobile phones isn't the cash cow it was some short 3 years ago. The demand is plateauing and people hold on to their phones for longer time which makes perfect sense in a world where almost every mobile company is constantly inflating the prices.

Plus there's an upper limit to the computing power that people need from their phones as well, so the sleek ads for phones simply don't work on many people nowadays. They are content with what they have.
Full stack is not really a skill level qualifier - that's what junior, senior, principal, staff, etc. are for. It means you work in different areas and can't say "oh I don't do that work here" when someone gives you work in those areas. People call themselves front or back end engineers long before they've mastered it, and you don't have to wait for full stack either.

The front or backend bias you and your parent's comment talk about are team specific things so you don't give a hard front-end task to someone who is biased towards the backend. That still means they can take the less difficult tickets.

You can replace full stack for your example with "extremely good/talented/gifted engineer" and I'm almost sure it has nothing to do with the full stack label because it's the only example in a decade you've found.

But also the jobs that they get feed back into what they call themselves. So even if that's your example, it isn't how the business defines it, which IMO is ultimately why it's just a cost savings label to get people to work harder for similar amounts of pay as front or backend people.
just think in just 24 more years WW2 will have been over for a century.
The charging story is still far from ideal. Even if a large-scale supercharger network is developed and deployed it still takes far too long and needs to happen far too frequently to be convenient is many places in the USA.

I was idly watching a Hasan Piker Twitch stream this weekend when he was in Austin, TX and most of the time in a rented Tesla they were very concerned with finding charging stations and the range predictions were dropping far quicker than expected in the hot Texas sun. Also, due to it being a livestream, the supercharging stations were a liability because of the time needed to charge and how "fans" could locate and cause security problems. Gas stations even 100 years ago operated faster than superchargers promise to in the foreseeable future.
Does anyone have any interesting applications of the programmable IO? I want to use it for something but I'm struggling to come up with good ideas. Driving WS2012B LEDs could be fun but basically any microcontroller can already do that.
Thanks to a recent article that's been posted on HN, I've discovered OP's blog and /this/ gorgeous article reproducing handmade (are they?!) designs drawn and painted in the 50s in a far off town of India. I hope others will have a look at this gem. Thanks for posting!
Can anyone recommend a good online course on software testing (preferably using python)?
I sleep pretty well with a CPAP, but I feel like I'm very sensitive to pressure inside my mouth or teeth. I keep adjusting my CPAP nose mask so it puts no pressure on my teeth, and rests on my cheeks instead.

Not sure how I'd take to something like this, but nice to know there are more options for fellow sufferers.
I remember using a program in WindowsCE/PocketPC in an Axim that you could program the IR codes to control "any" thing, like the TV , Stereo , ... .
Of course used it to turn off TVs at bars.Temptation too big.
This reflects China's industrial strength, but it is not clear whether such small progress has practical value.In a word, it's better to work hard than not.
You can survive, but most online services depend on the availability of a fiscal number, which sometimes takes ages to come especially if you are not employed. Once you're in the system everything becomes smoother.
An EU-wide system would be absolutely great for those coming to live here from other EU countries.
Before WW2, people were living together more often. Apartment buildings were less common.

Today we are all atomized and individualized. Individual kitchen, bathrooms and living rooms are the source of the problem.

We feel rejected because our brain are naturally wired for a need of social interaction. It's a normal and legit emotion.

In earlier times, people lived closer together. We experienced prosperous large homes, but now unemployment and other jobs are making social life difficult.

In my view, neighborhoods should have a large living space for people to live together: read, talk, eat, etc. Since communism ended this concept of the commons died.

We are all depressed to go back home to rest in an empty apartment.
The reality of 80% of the people is that they don't have a car.
First month? Hell. Got used to it. Mine has a hex key adjustable chin distance setting, helps to avoid really tiresome jaw ache if you can get this set right.

Sure, have heard both that it does nothing for some snorers, and some people can't get used to it, which sucks at the price.
Yeah yeah. And I get downvoted for saying the glaringly obvious. Oh well, I can take that and laugh :-)
Pretty much the same as: https://www.get-console.com/shop/en/27-airconsole
This will be same for the European Union Green Certificate (DGC): https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/covid-19_en

The German app and implentation will be on GitHub too: https://github.com/Digitaler-Impfnachweis
I completely agree. And that's why I'm sending my children to a Waldorf school without grading.
Poland: Huawei ex-exec, expert accused of spying for China
So Germany was being spied on while developing a system to spy on others, preferring to introduce a US Trojan horse in the EU through it rather than develop it in the European structure because it is French-dominated...

Looks like everyone is dirty as hell in this one.
There are soo many things wrong with your interpretation of that graph...

First thing to ask is "WTF happened in 1971" which is where the price of oil really started to take off, hint is has NOTHING to do with "peak oil"

The price of oil, in many ways, is a reflection of the health of the economy, spiking oil prices are a sign of a bad economy not a sign of "peak oil"
While I'd love this to be the case, I suspect we'll hit limitations in our energy infrastructure that prevent this from happening quite as soon as the article suggests.

Energy use for cars is substantial, a significant percentage of the energy usage of homes. If that energy use shifts from fossil fuels to home electricity supplies we'll need to substantially increase the energy delivery possible to homes.

The total energy usage shouldn't be much of an issue as we'll move electricity use from refineries to charging batteries – I believe these are at least in the same ballpark. But "last mile" electricity delivery is not capable of supporting an electric car in every household (or even half of households) in many areas of the world.

It will be interesting to see what the solutions to this are. Smart grids where cars cooperate to ensure they don't all charge at the same time, and increased use of public fast charging infrastructure (at sites with better grid connectivity) are the most likely I suspect.
You will be in the worst spot if snowbounded on a freeway with any electric vehicle and definitely no heat.
1) The fact that we are far from a federal government doesn't mean we'll always be such.

2) I think you overestimate the involvement of the US federal government in law-enforcement across the country. A lot of (most?) laws are actually passed and enforced at state level, with the FBI only getting involved in the worst situations or where cross-state cooperation is necessary. California alone has tons of gdpr-like laws that it sets and enforces independently. There is an entire US political culture based around "state rights" that constantly pushes for having a looser federal structure that looks very much like what the EU is today.

3) it's not like they don't have universities in Minnesota or Nebraska, a lot of people sticks around where they were born. The difference is that the ones who don't, find it easy enough to relocate. This helps creating world-beating industrial districts like Hollywood, SF, Houston, New York, etc etc - because they can attract the best of the best among 400m people.

100 years ago people rarely moved from a village. 50 years ago they rarely moved from a city. Now they rarely move from a country. See where it's going?
(MA Cantab matriculated 1997)

> kids more passionate about drinking and clubbing and gossiping than studying ... not like the world of Turing or Feynman at all.

I think you may have underestimated how much Feynman was a prankster, womaniser and bongo-player who occasionally did some physics as well :)

> you see them in the lectures, then you go back to your college

There's kind of a hidden initiative test here; it doesn't have to be that way, you can organise alternatives, and there's a whole intercollegiate infrastructure of extracurricular activities. There was a somewhat long-running university computer society when I was an undergrad, through which I found all the hackers, and some of us ended up starting a hosting service in my third year: https://www.srcf.net/ - that taught me far more of practical use than half the computing course.

May balls: yes, these are a bit odd and above my personal poshness threshold. I think they really do date from the era of Turing but not his subculture within that era, the big black tie social event belongs more to capital-S Society of debutantes and aristocrats.

> What I found shocking is that so many students were doing poorly academically.

The difficulty gap is real. Unlike all the education system people will have encountered previously, you can't coast unless you are very smart, and there will be extremely challenging material. It's .. deliberate is the wrong word, but there are certainly tutors who will up the difficulty level if their students are not struggling.

The mental health and motivational/pedagogical thinking is also stuck in the 19th century. Some of this does need to adapt to today's students.

> The more ambitious kids were more busy padding their CV to land a good job than doing what interests them.

This is far more what Oxford is "for" in British society because that's how you get ahead, unfortunately.
I see the similarities for Klingons and Borg, but I don't see much similarity between Vulcans and elves beyond the pointy ears. Vulcans are more like androids: logical and outwardly emotionless, but not necessarily wise. The human captain (e.g. Kirk) tends to figure out a winning solution despite the resident Vulcan often complaining it isn't logical.

That doesn't detract from your point.
From the G7 agenda reporting:

“ Last Friday morning, during an interview on Good Morning America, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration was taking “a very close look” at the possibility of vaccine passports for travel into and out of the United States.

However by Friday afternoon the Department of Homeland Security was clarifying Mayorkas’ statement. The DHS says there won’t be any federal vaccination database nor any mandate that requires people to get a single vaccination credential. It also said there are no plans for anything like a U.S. passport.”

The U.S. is suspicious of many types of documentation. E.g. none needed for voting in many areas, etc. The culture tends towards erring on less bureaucracy.

If more states ban covid-passports, I wonder if the EU would rather not have tourists than allow visitations.

Once there is a vaccine surplus, the vast amount of risk is on those who decide out of their own volition to not get vaccinated, at which point society can’t hold their hands anymore.
I doubt the infrastructure is in place to easily charge your car if you are not in a city. Someone else can verify if the mileage per charge is feasible in places where you need to drive to do anything.

We should expect China to have the most EVs since the CCP is basically mandating it.

Americans barely wore face masks. The government will literally have to print trillions again and give tax credits to get a mandate out to the public (our weirdo American capitalist version of CCP mandates at this point).
RAM for microcontrollers is another name for cache on our modern processors, and even today we only measure that in megabytes since it takes up a ton of silicon area.
Google's mission statement is to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Its vision statement is to “provide an important service to the world-instantly delivering relevant information on virtually any topic.”
Email? Gmail's constantly increasing (at the time) mailbox size was a game changer back when it first came out.

I at least still recall who sent me an invite to get access to the service, back when one was required.
> Seriously? Poor people spend a grand on iPhones.

Where? Poor people get second-hand iPhones, or subscribe to plans that bill you in small installments over a few years. And even those who manage to save up and buy a new one - in a modern civilization, a smartphone is a basic necessity, right there after food and shelter.
"This photo is made up of 62 individual images which were stitched together once they were sent back to Earth."

I do not know how the operations work at NASA but I would like to think that some lucky individual stitched these together manually using whatever software they use at NASA.
I get your point and thank you very much for taking the time to write a detailed answer for me.

Put like this it makes a whole lot of sense now, I was maybe just distracted by the examples the author brought in which confused me. It really shows that there's a spectrum of possible ways on how to deal with rejection that I am not aware of.

I never took rejection personally but in contrary saw it as a challenge. Maybe that helps to frame why I wrote my initial question. I agree that it's tirening to have to work twice or 3 times as hard as others for the same result and having more roadblocks on the way (metaphor for rejection) but one thing that is sure to me, I never really gave any importance to emotional rejection because that one is very subjective and I don't understand why people think how they think. I might lack the emotional intelligence?

The one that might have challenged me the most was rejection at work or rejection for just having a foreign name or foreign face because the latter is a checklist with all the marks ticked but still, something didn't quite fit completely.
More than 10 years after quitting smoking, I was standing on a balcony in NYC with a few friends from Italy. They lit up as we drank and talked, and while I didn’t have a true desire to smoke one with them, the thought crossed my mind. What would it be like? Just one cigarette to remind me of when I was young? I think buried deep in our minds once we’ve started smoking and no matter how long after we quit is this question of what it might be like to try it one more time.