skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone in the article comments pointed out that everything described could be accomplished by a $25,000 off the shelf drone from lockheed [1].

Now that's not something you find on every street corner, but well within the range of 'training some bored enlisted guys' or 'contractors on an evening test mission'. I'm not sure if they sell those to energy companies, but if so that fits as well.

I've heard many stories of crazier shenanigans from those types than "we were fooling around with the drone off flight-plan then got too close to the airport, and they called a freaking police helicopter so we took off lol."

I'll admit that it's a low risk-reward scenario, but especially given all the test infrastructure in the desert out there, it seems more Hanlon's razor appropriate to me than a foreign adversary testing high-end surveillance technology deep in enemy territory completely obliviously. They even left a running-light on!

[1] https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/r...
The best espresso I've ever had came out of a $30 single-shot moka-like device on a wood stove.
Single-Instruction C Compiler
This article is pretty light on what evidence this is actually happening, or how often.

To me, this sounds like something that seems plausible on the surface, but in practice would make no sense. Teams are almost always short staffed, so having to carry a team member for 6 months or a year who you know is subpar seems completely illogical even with the URA metric in place. After all, it's not like teams aren't also measured on things like delivering projects on time.

EDIT: I don't mean this to say it couldn't be happening, it would just be nice if somewhere in this article it could mention a source.
>Framer (where I work)

Your website runs terribly on firefox. Multiple hundred-of-millisecod periods where the viewport went blank.
If China dethrones US as hegemon by 2050, will you maintain this preference?
For what it's worth though... To my knowledge, they give damn good benefits. I don't think there's any other company in the U.S. where the lowest tier laborers get the same medical benefits as their best SWE's.

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't looked into it as much as I should have to make this statement. Just going off what a friend who worked there most recently told me.
> Also entirely possible they used some stock parts and just didn't realize the LED was there.

I only think an amateur would make that kind of mistake. If it was from a hostile power with any kind of competence, I think they would have extensively tested it in simulated operational conditions. If they didn't notice the light when they initially built it, they would have probably noticed it during testing.
List of playful resources to learn webdeb (Twitter thread)
Orginal is at https://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm but has an expired SSL certificate and possibly other issues.
I have to admit, I never tried Apple Pay. How do I install it on my Android phone?
Stories like this and the politics of rankings make me so glad I never even attempted to work at Amazon. It sounds like such a miserable dystopia.
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."—U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, c. 1929
So, when they say Amazon, what do they mean? Its not just a web development company any more, and these turnover rates should be wildly different in their call centers, distribution chain, last mile delivery, server farms, ops, management, marketing, legal, design, executive suite, retail, robotics R&D, main web developers, blah blah.

One commented said this is why they won't work at Amazon, but if the practice is limited to, say, call centers and elsewhere is mostly ignored ... I cant imagine the principle roboticist at Amazon is hiring anyone who wouldn't help their output.
No sane person (or nobody with more than three years in the industry) counts equity comp in with base compensation.
I don't think having an unregretted attrition rate 'target' is necessarily a bad thing, but *if* you are going to go down this sort of route, then the "hiring manager" and the "firing manager" should be working to competing objectives, and not colluding in this way. The hiring manager could, for example, be incentivised to meet a lower UAR rate than the firing manager, and the decision to fire should be made based on some sort of objective measure which is difficult to game without actually impacting productivity (Maybe a metric which is hard to predict by virtue of being complex, compound and nonobvious -- which sounds like a perfect fit for a neural network of some sort -- of course, this seems all perfectly horrendous and dystopian - neural networks trained to decide who to fire? ... creepy.)
> Prosus, one of Europe’s most valuable tech companies, is best known as the largest shareholder in Chinese internet and videogaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Listed in Amsterdam, Prosus signaled its appetite for deal making when it sold a small portion of its equity stake in Tencent in April for $14.6 billion. The Stack Overflow deal ranks among Prosus’ biggest acquisitions.
> He basically helicoptered an insane amount of money on the population for rampant consumerism.

I take no issue with this. Keynes is right you need to prop back up aggregate demand, and keep people fed.

> bailed out companies indiscriminately whereas built basically no transit, no green infrastructure whatsoever.

That's the bad part. The demand-side stimulus should be indiscriminate because the supply-side policy should be extremely targeted. People buy whatever the good deal is, like an electric field pulls hardest on the stuff with the most charge. Its essential to to puppeteer the supply side so the environmentally good things are the good deals.
I agree on every single point. I'd love to make GuixSD my permanent home.

But, Guix is not just Nix with better language. It comes with its own baggage elsewhere. Guix repository has way wayy fewer packages. Some of the most common ones like the plasma-desktop are absent. Proprietary applications are a no-go. Even if I set up nonguix, I'm warned that that cuts off my support in official channels. As an Optimus laptop owner (because my Master's required running Cuda and pytorch) I'm simply left hanging on Guix.

I understand and often appreciate Guix's stand on everything above. No. of packages is because of strong stance on bootstrapping, proprietary package unavailability is self a explanatory.

But, that doesn't solve my problems, and creates few new ones. Even Debian allows using proprietary firmware blobs with some fiddling and doesn't turn people away for asking. These barriers are so much that I bit the bullet and (mostly) learned the weird Nix DSL.

As much as I'd like to go for Guix, for my personal use case, it is a nonstarter.
It's awful. I've got a C920 as well, and it turns me into a washed-out green/yellow goblin. There's an exposure slider in the driver but it's buggy so if you set it to manual exposure, after a few minutes the whole image goes super exposed as if pointing straight at the sun and you can't see anything anymore until I unplug and plug it back again.

I bought it at a premium at the height of the COVID-related hardware shortage and I regret it every time I see it in my drawer.
from wikipedia’s 747 article:

> Boeing agreed to deliver the first 747 to Pan Am by the end of 1969. The delivery date left 28 months to design the aircraft, which was two-thirds of the normal time.

surely they can do a ground up design in under 5 years?
That's not even the only way it defeats the business goal: you're now intentionally paying people that you have no intention of getting a long-term return on, or that you know aren't worth what you're paying them.

To say nothing of the damage it artificially does to a person's self esteem and future career prospects with an obvious PIP-like tenure at Amazon on their resume.
I still remember the mnemonic my 9th grade Spanish teacher gave for this: DONT BE LOCO
DONT: Ser is for Description, Origin, Nationality, and Time.
BE: these verbs mean "to be"
LOCO: Estar is for Location and Condition.

Determining whether a sentence describes the subject or describes the subject's condition is the trickiest part.
> something seems off about hiring someone just so you can fire them later. It just seems wrong.

It's not just morally wrong, it's fraud. You promise someone a job and then take it away. They will have rejected other jobs, and so now they have an even longer time to get a new job. In the mean time they have a mortgage, kids, extended family, medical bills, etc to pay. And what if they moved for the job? You've just knowingly defrauded them out of a salary, and fucked with their career history, making it harder for them to get hired somewhere else. How are they going to explain it to a future employer? "They never wanted me to work there to begin with"? That sounds great...
If I asked you to predict an alien time to cover 100 meters would you assign equal probability to every millisecond between 0 (teleport) and infinity (plants can’t move)?

And if I then told you one example alien covered 100m in 9.58 seconds would you not change your estimate at all from learning that information? You wouldn’t assign less probability to nuclear powered teleporting aliens or crawling vine plant aliens or insect sized slug aliens because “you can’t say anything without knowing the distribution”?

No that would be silly; you would put a lot more weight on times around 9.58 seconds, because that tells you something.

Saying “it doesn’t tell you much” is right but it’s told you something, there is non-zero amounts of information there.
Thanks! I hope it works for you.

I have had a chronic health issue, and I was needing to "rank" my daily symptoms. Most solutions I found were overly complex for my needs and without much of a focus on privacy. So I have taken those two tracks.

I would like to build it out more, while maintaining the simplicity, but want to wait on some feedback. So please do let me know what you think.
Cellular Landscapes in Watercolor
Hi, would you be open to Canadian candidates for roles in Singapore? Interested in Data and Risk Analyst roles within. Thanks!
Yes, I've tested out the Gnome version of their transactional-update based Desktop. It was a generally good experience but I remember having issues with certain packages and ended up going back to regular Tumbleweed, but I'm hopeful for the future as it's very close to what I want out of the box - will definitely give it another try the future.

I'm using a transactional-update based leap server for a container host right now and it's been awesome - I just upgraded it to 15.3 and seems to be working just fine as well.
Have you bought a hp ink cartridge lately? Chances are it was inspected by one of my machine vision system running on an old XP PC using old PCI cards and analog cameras. We're slow to upgrade these systems once they are running, especially if they've been transferred to outsource suppliers somewhere in Asia.
What's the reasoning behind not allowing it?
> We could play that game for days, about most industries that feature prominently on HN.

Do you have a moment to discuss my new crypto coin? It is specifically good at taking dinosaurs and making them money launder for drug dealers, murderers, and slavers.
I'll admit, I'm being a hater. But how is this different from Sun Studio of yore, Adobe Flex Designer View or anything else?
The press has never been particularly good at talking about climate change.
Competition at least on shorter-haul routes has been on ticket price and time slots. I have little doubt Chinese planes would sell into the low-cost market. Maybe not into the thousands from the get-go, but airlines will have to keep prices down, and cheap planes is one way to do so.
Yes you can: https://wt5hp.csb.app/ (implemented in pure CSS, with some JS to demonstrate that it works)
I could be wrong but it seems to me that any cross-domain prefetch that uses the “document” option from the article is potentially privacy-violating and can reintroduce the same leaks that necessitated the original segregation.

A.test prefetches b.test/visited_a.js, b.test/unique_id.js, and log(n) URLs that bisect unique_id.js so that you can search the cache for the unique id.

Have to be careful to balance performance and “this is useful to me” with abuse prevention at scale. It’s also important to realize we have to tread carefully with browser features that seem useful as the graveyard of deprecated features that didn’t survive privacy attacks is quite large.
One way is to use this project: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

It's just a small wrapper but it shows you most of the targets available.
> So if I understand correctly, I could declaratively specify my workstation, say I want vim, podman, codium, kubectl, curl, tmux, firefox, zettlr. I could put this in a configuration and have my workstation anywhere I can grab that from?

Kind of. It works very well if you own multiple computers that you want to be configured similarly (like a dotfiles repo on steroids).

It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration.

However, Nix does also supply the "nix run" command, which allows you to use software without installing it permanently (but without NixOS' configuration support).

> Is there some way I can boot-to-git-configuration? So I could do this in RAM on someone else's hardware, like a network boot?

Yes. You could either build an image with a service that git clones your configuration and switches to it, or you could build an image containing a prebuilt snapshot of your configuration.

Either approach should be possible for basically any medium (USB drive, DVD, netboot, whatever). That said, for the build-and-switch setup I'd recommend something that can give at least /nix/store a writable partition (to avoid having to rebuild/redownload the whole world on every reboot).
I like this pragmatism and I teach it as well (https://deploymentfromscratch.com/). Just want to say that you can employ systemd socket activation for systemd services, and you can have zero-downtime deployment without load balancers.
The new hire could outdo someone else but management favoritism for that someone else means the new hire is sacrificed.
How is managing python packages or ruby gems on NixOS? I remember the experience was not polished a few years ago.
It seems that huge corporations look very much like a socialist centrally-planned state from the inside, gee, I wonder why is that so. Oh, right: because for some reason huge corporations don't seem to have actual competitive markets inside them to co-ordinate the conducted economical activity, gee, I wonder why is that so.
Anthropic raises $124m to build more reliable, general AI systems
Interested in hearing more about your story if you're willing to share.
Today I learned about the word Cheugy, and wish I hadn't.

The wikipedia page for it reads like satire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheugy

> While it has been compared to "being basic",[3] some sources have suggested that it is "not quite 'basic'."

What do you mean?! What are you trying to say to me!? Use real words damnit! We have so many!
Repique Release v1.2.5
> Idk if it’s Bezo’s roots in finance

Bezos graduated from Princeton in the mid-80s, and while he did do a stint at some networking company (but for Finance), he ended up in finance directly. He was at D.E. Shaw when the web exploded, and he left to start Amazon.
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but if a service provider wants to support only specific clients which have a rigorously-managed supply chain of their hardware/software, then that's up to them.
Ask HN: Best two-story home wireless routers?
That's unexpected. Then again, 1.8B is a lot of money for what I'm guessing is a small number of major shareholders.

After seeing how Tencent purchased gaming companies have fared (that is, typically with few changes), this probably won't have much of a negative impact on the site.
True, if it's true we cannot deny it. I agree with you, that he used the wrong and generalised the jews but most of what he said is still correct in essence apart generalising. You cannot label all his talk antisemetic.
He generalised them with saying if I were a x.
But apart of that everything else he said sounds right to me, the violence, the history, the apartheid , it's just people who focus on one thing. And then change it into a click bait title, then reports it in a way that makes all xxx sound bad. He asked for compassion if I'm not wrong?
You had a good run Stack Overflow - sad to see it die this way (because we know it all will)
>On the other hand this is why the hi-fi hobby is dying.

The actual hobby (active music listening) is dying because it has a lot of competition in the entertainment space. That's why these days good speakers often part of home theater or computer setups, with a screen in between instead of standalone systems just for music listening.

>The happy reality is that excellent audio reproduction can be achieved without spending much money;

Indeed. But people often buy for social reasons, to boast in forum threads or to belong to a circle of elitist in those communities, it's also a status game.
Agreed that they're not banning students from talking about it and that it's BS, but as far as I know state governments don't have laws that forbid teaching creationism in public universities.
The comms protocol itself is sending to 25-pin serial at 9600bps, so it’s pretty simple to rig up another way. The stuff sent is just monochrome vector art. I was thinking of either finding or making an open source (maybe Python) lib to talk to the protocol and then yeah, probably running it on a Pi as a service I could send right to from my computer. The plotter is about waist-high, so it’s pretty large. I figured I could velcro a Pi to the underside pretty easily and serve via wifi.
I come here to NOT read articles like this.
> they lower everyone else’s output because they mess things up and other people have to invest time fixing the mess

https://wiki.c2.com/?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer
Maybe you can make a deal with the hiring manager. If he'll admit that you're the sacrificial lamb, you'll alleviate his guilt by lining an alternative job up for the date he has to fire someone. Win, win, lose. (Amazon loses.)
Germany managed to get from 6% renewables in the energy mix in 2000 to 46% in 2020.

It is not impossible to get even faster buildout in the next ten years, all we need is politicians deciding to do so instead of giving billion dollar handouts to fossil fuel companies and actively impeding buildout!
It's not a deadline, you can opt-out after it launches. The date is just when it becomes active. I'm not sure when it was first announced, but it wasn't today. I opt-ed out a few days ago when I saw it in the news. I think it's just making the news rounds because it's so close to the launch.
What is retention?
You seem to be garnering a lot of downvotes without replies so I'll bite: it sounds from your comment like you've never looked into the subdependency tree of those frameworks and meaningful libraries that you list (which seems like it would be hard to miss tbh for anyone that's ever opened up the node_modules directory).

Those tiny little libs providing tiny little functions are likely not direct dependencies of your application, rather dependencies of a subdependency of a subdependency of a subdependency of your preferred "meaningful" library.
Book pricing can be weird at times but Kindle is usually cheaper than new print. But, yes, more than used. Though I'll often buy Kindle for fiction anyway because I don't really want physical books. (And, to be honest, I read a lot fewer books than I used to in any case. I'm definitely time/attention limited rather than money. Ebooks could be free and I wouldn't read a lot more.)
Have you tried https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/
Lots of good resources there.
For a pre-ipo company, sure. For a company like Amazon or Facebook, you are way over generalizing.
It is a target from the start (which is what makes it crazy to me). That's the purpose of stack ranking in the Vitality Curve, for instance, and it seems to be the same here.
But the energy usage increased dramatically. So it is possible that the usage of wind power and water power never declined much (it would be interesting to see data for this). A clearer case might be something like using animal power (for plowing and transportation) but I think this idea only applies to resources that have a ready and easy to expand supply.
Who has actually seen a success story with this sort of thing?

We arrived at "low-code", but by way of actually solving our problem domain through many hellish iterations and figuring out what all of the various points of configuration should be. As far as I am aware, this is not something that Microsoft or any other vendor can determine for your business ahead of time.

I am sure that there are a lot of types of smaller needs that can be addressed with these sorts of tools, but the big tasks of integrating multiple unique/legacy business systems together into a single logical process with its own internal state is not ever feasible with these tools. You can always get close, but its like a siren song in my experience.
> But I decided for now to go fully manual with arch to get a better understanding of most components involved in Linux before using the automatic that is nix.

I think one can do this separately, e.g. run NixOS for the host OS and then do LFS or Gentoo or Arch in a VM where you can easily blow things up and revert to a prior snapshot.

Also, flakes takes care of the channels shenanigans by pinning input package versions.

The hardest thing about Nix is that there is very little in the way of "beginner to intermediate" documentation. There is a huge gap between tutorials about just tweaking configuration.nix and a bit a people who have insanely abstract / modularized configs.

The key insight for me was that although they sell the "it's a lazily-evaluated language" thing really hard, at the end of the day there are a few things forcing side effects:

- There are certain key attributes that nix will call forceAttrs on (in the interpreter). You can think of these as the "roots" that will act as a starting point for evaluating all other attributes as needed. This is the stuff you usually see like nixosConfigurations, shell, etc. The sad part is that you really have to read the C++ source to understand this it seems.
- At the "bottom", there are a bunch of things built in to write to files in the sandboxed result/ directory, but there are also these monstrous bash scripts to do a lot of the heavy lifting, e.g. the mkDerivation one. It's important to read over these scripts to understand what's being written.

I've found this youtube series [0] to be a good way to figure out how to go from beginner to intermediate.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac7...
Tencent isn't the buyer. Prosus, a Tencent investor, is.
ramda and date-fns are full of little such functions... The fact that util packs like these and lodash exist is a sign that Javascript's stdlib lacks mechanisms to deal with various common patterns.

FWIW, I consider `at` to be similar to some of the things you consider "new capabilities". `fetch` vs `XMLHttpRequest` is fairly analogous to `at` vs `arr[i]`, and similar arguments can be made about ES6 classes over prototypal classes, etc.
If you think an article is off-topic for HN, flag it. It's better than cluttering the comments with discussions about what is and is not on-topic.