skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The POWER/PowerPC ISA is still widely used in safety-critical avionics

and in the Mars Rover, which is a radiation-hardened 133mhz 32-bit Power ISA system.
You could tag everything you care about with lifecycle rules to not delete but it'd be nicer if they were the default for certain resources.
This kind of behavior should be unacceptable by companies whose services are essential, which definitely includes ISPs these days. If it's some company I can do without I'm really quick to drop them when I run into this sort of thing, even if it means going without something I want. I just hate giving money to sleezy companies.
This is more less how Google Web Light worked.
Google has all the data of all the users though. I'd wager that they won't just let AI companies scrape it.
I am not sure what more evidence of global warming the lawmakers need to treat it as global threat and take strong actions.
Yes, speaking with experience from a public K-12, timeclocks and timekeeping is an industry where $$ gets you something that claims to do everything but actually does nothing but fail or cause problems, $$$ gets you something that's stripped down total crap that can be made to work after modest concessions, and $$$$$$$$$ gets you something that does what you want reliably.

It's not hard, but everyone who can do it well has noticed what their competition is charging and followed suit.
Satire isn't making your case.

What exactly is this link demonstrating?
For the last 15 years I've been building (what I consider to be) accessible database solutions, for a bunch of different industries.

This sentence from the article resonated with me:

> You're starting to lay the most basic foundation of what is most critically needed: all the important data, in the same place, easily queryable.
Life as we know it.
The bigger issue is adaptability.. can you migrate schemas preserving older clients, typically that’s by providing a decent middleware…. SQL views are one way, APIs are another etc…

All of that while improving performance.
You can't fold every individual into some sort of "average" case when the individualism isn't favorable. The universe doesn't work that way.
Its not just wages, it is all the barriers to employment: screening/background checks, pre-employent tests, required credentials, long interviews, etc. Even doing all of these in no way guarantees a job.
Yep, its all about staying ahead of the curve
I have about 300,000 photos that haven't been scanned by AI (unless someone at Backblaze did it without permission). I'm sure there are lots of other photographers out there who miss Picassa, which Google killed off to push everyone's data to their service. (It did really well in matching faces, even across age, but the last version has a bug when there are multiple faces in a picture, sometimes it swaps the labels)

If there were offline image recognition we could train on our own data privately, could the results of those trainings be merged to come up with better recognition on average than any one person could do themselves with their own photos?

In other words, would it be possible for us to share the results of training, and build better models, without sharing the photos themselves?
The American Dream Model.
How does one knew at that time that is the issue … must be a great detective work!
I got it mixed up with Teller https://teller.io/ , which is an alternative to Plaid, and whose CEO was rooting for Miami and lambasting SF (I like both), along with posting other controversial opinions https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1346181103531552769

Hmm, this tweet lists some other Plaid alternatives - Yodlee, which I heard of but forgot about, and Quovo, which I don't remember hearing of https://twitter.com/knitesh/status/1292605236805169152
There is a second best though. Apple offers image AI which is worse than googles but wins because it works offline.
Requiring a private entity to spread your lies seems... rather un-American.
If you have near-infinite money this is a great place to live.
HDL source code:
https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=soc.git;a=summary

Coriolis2 source code:
http://coriolis.lip6.fr/

Chips4Makers FlexLib Cell Library based on FreePDK45:
https://gitlab.com/Chips4Makers/c4m-pdk-freepdk45/-/releases

Automated Layout scripts for generation of GDS-II Files:
https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=soclayout.git;a=summary

please do try to get your facts right and not mislead people by making false claims, eh?
Unless you own Apple hardware you can't really.

I switched to Mac as my daily driver precisely because of the Desktop Environment being a nice place to live, other than that I prefer the features I get in Linux (Vulkan API, Containers, GNU tools).

Gnome 40 is close but still, MacOS's (not perfect) DE gets more right. I would love to have my macOS Catalina DE in Linux
If anything it's easier for tech people to ignore the high costs of living.
NZer here. Everything is expensive, there are some good houses, and local opportunities don't matter if you have your own business or work remotely for a US company (I've done both). With the right remote job you get paid enough to not worry about the expense. And NZ rocks: sane politics, great environment. And if you live in Auckland: great weather, diverse, great food.
A new role has arisen in the last few years that captures much of this responsibility - Analytics Engineer.

This article by Claire Carroll describes the role and motivation for it https://www.getdbt.com/what-is-analytics-engineering/
Unix is wonderfully useful. I can run my applications on the Linux server in the shed and have the GUI on my laptop using X. I can do the same from a G3 iMac or an IBM RS/6000.
yeah i don't know why they switched everything from wikia to fandom i think it was a bad call.
Actually that's impossible to know. Terraform doesn't delete anything at all. It asks provider plugins to remove a logical concept/placeholder, and the provider issues API calls (based on various criteria, some of which is not known until apply time, even with a plan run) and those API servers then do various things in the background based on criteria Terraform doesn't know about.

Sometimes you need it to delete something, and it won't. And sometimes something else in the background gets removed by the provider or API service handling the first delete.

Terraform is "powerful" in the sense that a 6'11 230lbs 30 year old blind man with an IQ of 85 is "powerful". And it's definitely not well designed, or there wouldn't be multiple large projects dedicated to fixing its many problems and missing features (terragrunt, terraformer, etc)
I know several that have left for Texas. I know one that left for Michigan. One that left for San Diego. A few that left for Seattle. So it’s very real. Whether or not it moves the needle though is the bigger question. I myself would never move unless some sort of environmental catastrophe hit it, like forest fires or no more water which is actually a possibility.
Maybe it changed its mind or maybe it drip feeds the laws over time since it knows humans could misinterpret laws for things that do not exist yet. (disclaimer: completely agnostic)
What qualifies you to know the spirit and letter better than those that adhere to and study this belief system?
Thank you for writing this. I personally just walked into a very similar role and this rang really true. This article made me realize how much more effort I need to put into the data culture side of the role.
Because nobody wants to rent to a difficult tenant.
Thanks epc.

We're leaning towards cloud storage (the simplest turnkey kind), because of the administrative benefits it affords us at a price we're willing to pay.

> I’d compute a couple of checksums on the files and store those plus metadata in a database

Please enlighten us - what are these checksums? - and would they be similar in size to the file?

In other words, are we still storing the actual file data in the database (along with its metadata)?

Or did you perhaps mean "compute a couple of checksums on the files and store those [on the file system, and the metadata in a database]"?

We think you meant the former because you said "plus", but just wanted to check.

The fellas say hi.
Anecdotes are not statistical facts. Did you read the story? It clearly shows that statistically, no, it's not real.
I've played with a friends Samsung S21 Ultra 108 MP and it blows out of the water my iPhone 12 Pro Max, provided you can keep it stable - portraits were insanely realistic, yet I was unable to capture a single photo of my toddler!
You don’t have to sue Joe’s taxi, you complain to the regulators and they can lose their taxi license. Generally people aren’t suing because it’s expensive and a giant pain to do, which is why having a regulatory body that will handle this stuff is better for consumers than relying on court action.
So much this.... but I still can't stop doom scrolling...it's at the just grab popcorn phase...

There's no point anymore to conservation from a consumer perspective, really.

In utah - consumer water use is like 2% of ALL water use, they run multitudes of ads saying conserve water...but do they regulate the 98%'ers in big industry, mining, retail, etc? No. Not at all. It's exhausting to watch them do nothing and complain about our 'scraps' of water they give us...
More likely than not (from what I have researched online in the past 20 minutes or so) what was done for Urs was likely a form of corruption. It also appears like a form of corruption, on the surface.

You do not want these people in your country. Trust me. I am saying this as an American.

These are the kind of people who will eviscerate your government from the inside out, just in general. They will also ruin pension programs for the average person.

They have contempt for things like government and pensions and they will fight tooth and nail to ruin them. They have a libertarian mindset.

These are the kind of people who exploit others, in so many ways that it can be written into multiple books.

The short term payoff is not worth it. Trust me.
California grew 6% from 2010 to 2020 while the country grew 7%. Hardly a smoking gun.
I'd suggest playing with such camera before commenting. Maybe it doesn't matter for day to day point and shoot, but you can capture insane pics with 100MP sensor.
> Well I'll just assume it's based on number of degrees

Seems like a pretty fair assumption given that is the topic of discussion.

> since degree != education.

Quite true, but as everyone gains an education every minute of their lives, the most educated will be the oldest population. I'm not sure that's particularly useful information.
Blazer is my go-to for this kind of thing:

https://github.com/ankane/blazer

Pretty easy to set up and share queries, dashboards, whatever
Every single time 4chan or one of its offspring cause real-world damage, the first thing its users will say is always "there is no evidence". Every single time. Happened when KiwiFarms drove an innocent person to suicide a few weeks back as well.

It is cowardly and disgusting, and I do not want to hear it ever again.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/1256918...

Long story short: if you want a three bedroom house, a garage, a little bit of garden, perhaps a view? A million bucks. Roughly twelve times average wage.
We know for a fact that people are no longer moving to California in large numbers from other states. That's more than a little bit suggestive of the overall context, of what's happening. And it's a big change from what used to be normal for California in the past, as it used to pull large numbers of people to it from other states.

It's very obvious what's going on with California, why people no longer flock to it, and it's going to get a lot worse yet rather than better. If the flight from California isn't obvious enough yet, it will be. Given California's population growth has already stagnated, what comes next is going to be decline.
> who are in between jobs and thinking of moving to where they grew up

I hear the opposite, people cannot afford where they grew up. Most people from the Bay Area aren’t working high paying tech jobs.

> I guess in real life I just hear more people talk about the general cost of living argument than a than the specific anti-tech one.

Anti-tech sentiment peaked in the early 2010s. Tech buses stopped being vandalized and the “die techie scum” thing mostly went away after 2015.
Our IT market is absolutely starving for people. The problem is, local companies don't pay very much. They consider a 150K NZD a good salary.

You can make twice that if you get a job doing similar work remotely for a US company; I used to, and I meet a lot of people who do. Nobody knows how many people are doing this, but it's a lot and growing.

I think our local companies might not realize they're competing in a global labour market now and need to pay accordingly.
This is neat. However, one big problem with national cost of living projections I found is property tax data, as taxes are set on the municipal level.

State or county averages are pretty useless in high-tax states such as in the NE: in NJ or NY, the range is ~0% to over 3% of assessed values, depending on the municipality. There is no national source for municipal level mill and equalization rates and the figures on Zillow & co are only point in time snippets (and often wrong) and will change through your purchase or if you remodel. And for the most part, this data resides only in PDFs, if it’s available at all. With the SALT deduction currently at $10k and likely going to be subject to wild swings over the next decades, property taxes can dwarf most other expenses such as health insurance or sales tax. At current mortgage rates, they could even be higher than your actual mortgage payments.

Another problem is state long term capital gains taxes. If you have investable assets or plan on building those, it makes a big difference whether you live in a state that has them or does not have them and how soon you’ll have them. Federal LTCG taxes are easier to navigate if you can time your income - sell assets in years without (much) earned income, for example. But the state level is more rigid.

For example, TN and WA may come ahead based on capital gains taxes (they don’t have any), while GA has nearly 6%.

That being said, an analysis like that could be useful for comparing states that resemble each other in terms of their tax profile. Or you exclude high prop tax and non-zero LT cap gains tax states from the beginning but then your state sample shrinks, leaving less room for the many subjective characteristics that cannot be quantified easily…
DRVSPACE.BIN! Yes that was it!

You just helped crystallise one of my favourite sentimental memories.

Thank you stranger.
Most common would be a DevOps or SRE on an observability team.
> Unfortunately, I've never been able to get much mileage from the Terraform prevent_destroy lifecycle option because it can't be set from a variable

There is a trick around this. Code 2 mostly identical resources, one with prevent_destroy true and the other with prevent_destroy false. Give both resources a count. You can make the count dependent on interpolation. And the count can be zero. So depending on the interpolation result you have resource(s) with prevent_destroy or without. For the "wrong" ones you just create 0 of them.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53727357/terraform-how-t...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53744441/how-to-refer-to...
I'm surprised there's no onboard storage option yet. I just got the Rasp Zero for a small build with a sensor and I've been super happy with the tiniest computer but I can't imagine they couldn't put storage on the board with a faster connection than the SD-card.
But Urs is a US tax resident for life now, US doesn’t let you become non-resident. So he will continue to owe capital gains in the US and if he becomes NZ resident that doesn’t change. But he will then owe NZs higher tax rates on his regular income and other things too (like foreign financial arrangements which can get messy).

Edit: IANAtaxL but NZ does have a pretty sweet deal where new residents get to not pay tax on overseas income for four years. So Urs could come in for four years. Then if he maintains a permanent home in the US that is always available to him (not rented) a tax expert might argue he is dual resident and under the dual tax agreement would tie break to the US so doesn’t owe tax in NZ on his US income, which would be all of his income. So this is probably what he would do. It’s a pretty sweet deal, I don’t think it’s fair you basically don’t pay tax to NZ under that arrangement if your income is overseas and you can afford to leave a house unrented.
He may not need a visa, if he is getting citizenship through investment [1].

[1] https://www.newzealand-migration.co.nz/dual-citizenship-serv...
That's at a 16:9 video ratio though. There are no phone camera sensors out there with a 16:9 ratio. That would be useless for taking still photographs.

Most DSLR/mirrorless cameras have a 3:2 ratio, whereas smartphone cameras tend to have a 4:3 ratio.

If you want to make a smartphone camera sensor that can do 3840 pixels across that can shoot 4k, the 4:3 sensor would need to be 2880 pixels tall. So 3840*2880 = 11.1MP would be the bare minimum size for a smartphone camera that can shoot 4K.

In practice you'd want something larger than that, so you can do DCI 4K (which is a bit higher resolution) and do things like gyroscopically assisted electronic image stabilization (which benefits from a few extra pixels around the border). The iPhone can probably implement video stabilization that rivals GoPro's HyperSmooth stabilization.
This is a wonderful article, thank you for sharing. I really like the narrative of bringing people with you on the journey, and celebrating the small wins that lead to a good long term outcome.
“Cat Person” and Me
Assuming that Copilot's use of GPL'd code to provide snippets to a developer is fair use, what rights does the developer have to using that snippet?
Jmix 1.0 is released (ex-Cuba platform)
I've always wondered this about senior execs. As an IC I could easily unplug at 5p every day. Now, as a manager of managers I have to force myself to unplug for a couple hours each night to maintain some sanity but I'm always thinking and noodling about work in some capacity when I'm awake. I can no longer tell whether this is due to how the pandemic has changed work culture or whether it was always like this. But I imagine senior execs who run orgs spanning thousands of engineers are always plugged in, even if they're great at delegating.
> Lookbehinds and lookaheads aren't rocket science.

Lookbehinds and lookaheads (especially negative lookbehinds) are rocket science.

What is "rocket science?" "Rocket science" is the feeling you get in math class where the instructor explains a proof to you in the clearest possible terms and you just don't get it. You have to listen to the explanation multiple times, preferably in a few different ways, and then you have to sleep on it, and then you get it, maybe.

But "rocket science" isn't just hard to understand. It's a hard problem where the consequences for failure are catastrophic. When you fail at rocket science, a multi-million dollar rocket explodes.

Anyone who's ever tried to teach lookbehinds to a newbie has seen it: you explain how lookbehinds work, and then ask the newbie to create a regex with negative lookbehind, to demonstrate mastery. I've done it a few times, and they never get it right, ever.

At best, they flub the syntax, but even once they get over that, they usually write the worst possible regex: a regex that works correctly on desired inputs but does the wrong thing on the input the regex is designed to reject.

This is a notorious problem with writing regexes, but it's way worse for negative lookbehind, because it's asserting that something isn't there, rather than querying for something that is there.

When I see a regex with negative lookbehind during code review, I ask for unit tests, not just comments. Reliably, regexes get even more complex when unit tests are added, because it's just so damn hard to write a correct regex with negative lookbeind.

I've never used the "trick" from TFA before, but it already sounds way easier to use than negative lookbehinds, and I'm curious to try it.
John Carmack: “WebUSB sure sounds like scope-creep”
I read that, which is why I asked the question. None of those concerns make the original Audacity not "FLOSS".

Telemetry (which was opt-in and not merged), crash reporting, etc. do not make software non-free. CLAs do not violate the GPL -- the FSF uses a CLA for GNU projects. So neither of these make Audacity non-FLOSS.

The privacy policy language is not binding and does not override the GPL. I think including it was a mistake and that it should be removed, solving the problem. Plenty of proprietary software (Windows, etc.) has crash reporting and telemetry and doesn't have a blanket "no kids allowed" policy, and Microsoft has better lawyers than Muse Group.

It would certainly be a good idea for Audacity to, by policy, enforce that any kind of crash reporting, auto-updating, analytics, etc. is opt-in. Perhaps the existence of a fork will push them to do this.
A tiny bit of shell golf - I have similar aliased to wdiff (or even wd if you're especially parsimonious).
It is pretty concerning that copyright exists
It is a form of blindly following it, in the same way that at some point for any legal system that people follow there's some level of blind following.
There is a crucial difference though, the search engine links back to the content. If Google would just display the content on their verbatim, it would definetly not be considered fair use. Even like this several countries have restricted what Google can do when displaying e.g. News.
Platinum-cobalt magnets were used in performance-critical TWTs before the advent of rare earth magnets. Might be interesting to drill out a tiny sample of the TWT magnets for analysis.
I have my rent set up with automatic payment, and the date the payment actually goes through varies +/- five business days. My bank even warned be to set it to go through a week early.
> There's no capital gains tax

Wouldn't you still pay US tax as a green card holder or citizen? After decades in the US would be surprising if he wasnt.

(And even if not, does the US have an exit tax when giving back green card or passport?)
we used an entirely Libre-licensed VLSI "compiler", which takes HDL as input and spits out fully-completed GDS-II Files.

the problem with this particular irate individual is that he's assumed that because TSMC's DRC rules are only accessible under NDA that automatically absof*** everything was also "fake open source".

idiot.

sigh.

clearly didn't read the article.

whilst both Staf Verhaegen and LIP6.fr signed the TSMC Foundry NDA, we in the Libre-SOC team did not. we therefore worked entirely in the Libre world, honoured our committment to full transparency, whilst Staf and Jean-Paul and the rest of the team from LIP6 worked extremely hard "in parallel".

the ASIC can therefore be compiled with three different Cell Libraries:

* LIP6.fr's 180nm "nsxlib" - this is a silicon-proven 180nm Cell Library
* Staf's FreePDK45 "symbolic" cell library using FlexLib (as the name says, it uses the Academic FreePDK45 DRC)
* the NDA'd TSMC 180nm "real" variant of Staf's FlexLib

i was therefore able to "prepare" work for Jean-Paul, via the parallel track, commit it to the PUBLIC REPOSITORY (the one that's open, that our resident idiot didn't bother to check existed or even ask where it is), which saved Jean-Paul time whilst he focussed on fixing issues in coriolis2.

it was a LOT of work.
//Because I am an EU citizen, I can work in 30+ countries remotely, outside of the United States,

How does this work, given that European countries speak different languages?
Honestly if restaurants went into detail about what is entailed in the job they probably get even less applicants lol. It's tough work. Often no healthcare or benefits.