skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. However, as a NZer, I think it's a pretty good deal for NZ to admit someone like Hölzle even if he only stays here for a year. For sure he will contribute to the economy by spending significant amounts (we have a sales tax he can't evade), and we should be able to collect income tax too. It's also good for our tech industry to have people like him around.
Ask for a third-party audit of your cryopreservation
interestingly, Libre-SOC and NLnet's funding pre-dates the google-sponsored Skywater 130nm process. also, because it's funded by NLnet we're not dependent on google, don't have to pass "conditions", and in particular were not forced to use OpenLane and were not limited to 48 pins controlled by a "Management Engine".

Staf actually developed actual IOpad Cells (from scratch), actual Standard Cells and a 4k SRAM block: we did not use the NDA'd TSMC Cell Libraries, here.

if we had used Skywater 130nm we would have been forced to ditch LIP6.fr (i cannot express enough how hard Jean-Paul Chaput has worked on coriolis2 for the past 18 months), we would not have been able to test the IOpads that Staf developed... yeah.

bottom line is we used a complete independent VLSI toolchain - fully automated - that has nothing to do with the USA or DARPA Military funding - and was developed with European expertise.
The MCP has been accepted, which is a way to gain consensus in the Rust compiler team to do some implementation work. The PR will follow.
> There's nothing unfortunate or that needs to be done about women leaving the workplace to take care of their kids and deciding to continue.

But if those women stay home, they won't be liberated to find fulfillment by satisfying the needs of capital! Day care is an ideal solution for society, because it increases the market participation of all members of the family. /s
Is this satire? If it is, spot-on commentary.
Why do they spray for cicadas? they don't like the noise?
What fractals, Fibonacci, and the golden ratio have to do with cauliflower
As a senior executive the wall time really doesn't matter to his output or work. He is expected and very likely making decisions and working/replying to issues all hours he is awake. He isn't being measured on something like 'amount of code committed', he's being measured by how effective his entire organization is performing. People in his org are relying on him to be the arbiter and decision maker that unblock and move forward the organization.
The Story of Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
Might be a net benefit, but as a NZer it goes against the local culture for most of us, buying your way to the head of the queue seems like corruption to us, it's something that was forced on us by a previous right wing government and it's sad to see the current one continuing to allow it
Good. Freezing out useless middleman occupations is a net positive for humanity.

The difference is that cab drivers provide a real and valuable service, whereas real estate agents are a glorified key safe.
Weird, I've lived in plenty of countries and I've met plenty of people from all over the world with valid criticisms of the U.S. government and yet I've maybe met a handful of people who esposed the opinion you claim is essentially de facto.
You can always override the system somewhere, but nobody gets fired for doing the System.
Ask HN: Best way to store thousands of ~10mb files via browser upload interface?
We've got decent (albeit old school) full stack in-house dev experience, so re-inventing the wheel is optional given our tailored needs.

Some solutions we've come up with:

1. Store the files as MEDIUMBLOBs in our MySQL database - but we're not sure how responsive this database would be once we hit 100TB+ of files.

2. Store the files on a standard Linux file system, and limit the MySQL database to tracking values linked to each file (but not storing the actual files themselves). The data tracked in this database would thus be limited, and therefore scale better. In said data, we'd track things such as the date the was file created, a customer's name, and around 100 other variable text fields.

What are your thoughts on the above two options?

And are there other good/better options?

Please note: we're a bunch of old guys that still tinker in LAMP, so kindly take it easy on us if you're responding with modern framework solutions. But we're open to learning new things!

Cheers from South Africa.
Great article. The confusion about what team does what is priceless...yet so common!

To provide some sympathy for the folks already working there: you always replace systems well after you've overrun them.

When the ad hoc system works (consider that google spreadsheet at a time when there were three support people and perhaps a dozen customers) you're not going to decide to replace it with something more complicated. Then you're busy growing so you just keep the system going through sheer force of will. You only replace it when the effort is unbearable; at that point you say, frustratedly, "I wish we'd done this sooner."
I had a similar DMV experience. My login for the online site wasn't working so I went to reset the password, but after entering my information it said I had no account. Ok I thought, I'll create a new account. Of course when I tried that, using the same information I tried to reset the password with, it failed saying that I already had an account.

There was no direct way to contact anyone on the website and the person I spoke to at the physical office told me to contact the state headquarters. After multiple calls and emails I finally got ahold of someone involved in the website... who completely blew me off.

Every year when my registration came due I'd give it a few more tries, hoping to avoid a trip to the office. Finally after almost a decade I got someone to actually fix my account. Even then they didn't admit that anything was wrong on their end, they tried to gaslight me and pretend it was working this whole time.

This was enraging and the only cost was some inconvenience. I'm terrified of this happening with a critical service.
> so won’t say much

can you say something though?
> You seem to be under the impression that building their own infrastructure will be some sort of barrier for multi-billion dollar organizations.

I'm still waiting for the Republican (formerly alt-right) alternatives to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to get anywhere near the formers' popularity. Also, a lot of tech folks won't work for these companies in the first place. It takes more than money to build a FAANG company.

> More laws aren't going to help when Democrats don't have the spine to enforce the laws we already have.

I didn't say anything about creating or enforcing any laws. All I said is that Big Tech is well within its right to kick off unscrupulous users, even if they happen to be the ruling party. The alternative -- passing laws that unconditionally force private entities to host the ruling party's content, including propaganda, calls for insurrection, and vaccine misinformation -- is far more objectionable and authoritarian. Especially so if you believe that building your own infrastructure and distribution networks isn't an unreasonable barrier to entry in the first place.

Of course, I'm all for prosecuting the criminals who instigated the insurrection and botched the COVID response to the fullest extent of the law (among other high crimes and misdemeanors). I agree with you that the Democratic party needs to grow a spine and take a stand on this.

But, why not both? Why not retain Big Tech's power to decide who can use their platform and who cannot? Last I checked, FAANG isn't infrastructure. Like, what would a reasonable regulatory alternative be, that doesn't just devolve into regulatory capture and erect lobbyist-designed artificial barriers to entry that nominally restrain FAANG's power, but practically impose too high a burden for anyone to challenge their market position?
Go's regexp package, Rust's regex crate and RE2 are examples of regex engines that are very much in practical use that use NFAs (among other things).
US census data says about 650k people left California between 2018 and 2019, out of a population of 39M, or 1.6%

In dramatic contrast, in Texas, 450k left out of 28M, or 1.6%

Nationwide, 7 million people changed states out of 324 M, or 2.1%

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...
I think this information is something more people should be exposed to.
Lex/Flex, wich I think we can agree is used by "actual code that's written using normal languages" use DFAs, both inside rules and between rules, and they do not try '|' cases left to right (They probably could have if they wanted since there is a REJECT action that already force them to store the list of all the rules/texts that were matched):

a|ab {cout << "matched ab" << std::endl; } b { cout << "matched b" << std::endl; }

if provided with "ab", will match the first rule with "ab", and not the first with "a" then the second with "b".
Instances like this is where CDK is superior to Terraform imho. There are many resources which are difficult (or impossible) to delete or modify once created with CDK, and for good reason. Secrets also fall into this category.
I am not convinced there is any solution to aging. When I was a child, I read headlines that claimed a solution was close at hand. We seem only marginally closer to eliminating aging.

Importantly, how many memories do you think can fit into a human brain? If a 1,000 year old man cannot remember all of his life, has aging been solved?
This seems to be a very unpopular comment. But why--is the common case of losing (err, "returning to the employee option pool") unvested options at separation controversial, or have I done something offensive by pointing it out, or do y'all actually not agree with the accuracy of this?
Aside from that the sheer number of cicadas is astonishing.
Well the fact there is more jobs than laborers can be explained by the government actions. If the government offers free money it rises the minimum wage that people are willing to accept. And if they do not produce more than before it means they are more expensive for the same quality/quantity and the prices will rise. The nominal numbers will get bigger eating away the savings that are kept in cash. Do not keep cash, invest or spend.
Because people can actually sue Uber and they can get a lot of money and publicity. You can't sue Joe's taxi. I mean you could try, but I don't think people aren't suing because they are follow all applicable laws and regulations to a tee
I've changed my mind after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain#Structure
There's a dead bird blog somewhere that follows the 'dead bird' hysteria/stories in multiple countries.

Here's one from 100 years ago - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44162565 They just thought it was cool.

Remember the 'Serial Killer Stalks N.Y. Pigeons', he was in the 90's then re-emerged in the 2000's. (Netflix special spoiler, he didn't exist)
I am a recent transplant to Southern California. In my experience, educated peers are moving to or searching for cities that provide good value based on their fiscal position. Some of them are moving to NYC or LA metros. Others are looking at Raleigh or Denver and a few Austin. What sticks out to me is how many people are relocating en masse at almost the same time.
I would expect that since the number of humans exist at many multiples of what they used to before. Plus technological advances allowing humans to exert more influence over the environment.
I, for one, am glad we don't have passenger pigeons regularly depleting large portions of our food supply.|

On the other hand, I did just go out and flip over the bird bath, so it won't accumulate rain any more, and spread this disease. (We've already removed bird feeders here in NW Indiana at the direction of the State)
Have you tried https://twinery.org/ ?
How about just take that same time value and give them the equivalent time off work? That will do a lot more for their mental health than “therapy.”
That’s the “who pays for it?” political decision I was alluding to in my original post. Besides, today our economy is optimized around the assumption that pollution is free—as we learn to optimize around a carbon constraint, we will find some efficiencies here and there which will reduce the “cost” of sustainability (“cost” is in quotes because pollution is just cooking the books and it’s weird to characterize “not fraud” as a “cost”). Moreover, even if you’re of the persuasion that wealth redistribution doesn’t really work and the costs will still trickle down to the middle class, that’s still better than runaway warming.
I used to have a lot of them where I lived and I never noticed a problem... They are very loud but I would not kill them for it... They were mostly living in oak trees
My view is that it 'depends'. Both Taiwan and the PRC consider themselves to be the 'True China'.

If Taiwan declares independence, China will see that as a big affront and will invade. (Just like the US invaded the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and for exactly the same reasons.)

If Taiwan just continues the status-quo, China will let them continue indefinitely. Why would China destroy Taiwan without good reason? It'd be like the US invading and destroying California just because the Californians are voting Democrat this year.

Apart from that, it's just good business sense. Why destroy one of your own valuable assets?

Sooner or later, the Taiwanese Chinese and the Mainland Chinese will amalgamate, just like the West Germans and East Germans did.
I ctrl-f'd and didn't see anyone mention that you can look at your wifi settings, and visit the router aka default gateway IP to connect to the portal directly.

So like if your settings say your gateway is 192.168.0.1, go to https://192.168.0.1

This will work in situations where even a site like coffeeshopwifi.com doesn't
Easy: There's no capital gains tax. If a large portion of your wealth consists of stock options (which I'd assume Urs' is, given that he was employee #8 at Google), it means more money for you, while living in a beautiful place. Expensive doesn't matter, nor does construction materials used in (poor people's non-custom-built) housing, and definitely not the local job market.

NZ also has universal healthcare. For anybody tired of the US healthcare "system" (what we have doesn't deserve to be called a system), that's very attractive even if you're not wealthy. Especially not if you're wealthy.
These things are not unrelated.
Usually not, and certainly not as currently designed. Hence the notion of flipping to a mirrored side in case of excess electricity, or having some fancy coating stack that manages to reflect everything which is not absorbed by the cell.
The article says they've been seeing this illness spread since April. If it was caused by rising CO2 levels I'd expect its appearance to be much less sudden.
I don't know where in the world you are - but the American solution to this problem are a series of organizations that constantly ingest a massive amount of financial data around what transactions you're executing and then sell it to the lender without your knowledge. I'd be happy to be the person actually handing over so much of my financial data instead of it being harvested without my consent.
I don't really want significant competition inside a programming language.

Most features can be added on to an experimental version of the existing code base, or done as a prototype. Not much needs a full competing compiler.
What would be the name of the position/profile of someone in charge of building the data warehousing architecture/ETL pipelines?

I my view, they need make sure the warehouse model is a correct representation of the business and that it can be leveraged to answer basic or not-so-basic questions using SQL. They also need to promote it's usage internally by ensuring it is accessible and easy to use and guide other team to a more data oriented mindset.

I feel that this is a specialised position not exactly similar to a developer, but every time I look for "data scientist" I get guys that want to do machine learning prediction models, which is not exactly the same stuff either.
I'm an MBA type that studied math and computer science, and for a living programs distributed database solutions.

I chuckled too.
I have personally met one big-league tech executive who got a NZ company to declare him an "essential worker" and migrated his family to NZ this year using that. I'm sure there are others. I'm not sure if that would work if you're already working for that company overseas.

On one hand, it's a bit bogus. Many people wouldn't see his role as essential.

On the other hand, it is good for NZ to have this kind of person move here.
“Other findings in the UC San Diego survey of more than 3,000 respondents include”

I really hate polling and surveys.
Interesting as this is, I'll look forward to version two, to see how the vector processing works.
It looks like that page is just a setup guide. At least it's linked as a setup guide on the GitHub page.
Well… in my house the only use the Windows box gets is gaming and I wouldn’t call it “disused”. It’s a horrible kludge, but not “disused”.

By far the most fun computer in the house is the C64 Maxi Commodore recreation. Endless hours of fun.
Defense companies also spend millions in lobbying both directly and threw a whole network of think tanks and people. People with very strong association with those very defense companies both inside and outside of government were very strong driver in lying the US into war in Iraq in the first place and made ISIS possible in the first place.

They have a significant part in lobbying for war, for weapons export, for more spending on military spending and so on.

Defense companies also strongly coordinate with Israel and the Israel lobby to make sure continuous money flows to Israel and Israel can be a first class buyer of US weapons.

They have strong ties to government and make absurd amount of money on many of these projects despite routinely going over budget by absolutely insane amounts.

Yes, companies that build weapons to some extend need to exist but the defense contractors are not ethical in the least and I would not work for them. Maybe in the civilian part of the company, possibly but even that would require a lot of thinking.
Any cross platform and Free software alternative to this?
It is completely embarrassing how many engineers we have and still apply manually from laptops. Changes are slow and error-prone, we don't even have them hooked up to CI/CD. I think it still works because we have so many damn engineers and we don't actually need to change infrastructure multiple times a day.

That said, Terraform breaks so often that if we did it all automated, we'd have a million more Git commits from trying to fix broken apply's.
Is anyone having trouble reading the page? It renders as dark gray on slightly darker green and is illegible.
I wonder how many of those MIQ bookings are citizens returning home from non-essential overseas trips.

I think we should probably be making those trips a lot harder/more expensive and using those MIQ slots for more compassionate or business grounds.
What about "data engineer"? There seem to be a lot of jobs for that title nowadays.
My university had this, and you're right.

When I tap the ID card, it would just blurt out my uni ID number in whichever field had the focus.
Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access to Your Contacts and Location
Or it's terribly expensive. We just ripped ours out when the cost got to $600 USD per month. We were just clocking in and out factory workers.

We now use a pen and paper. I've looked at open source options, the landscape is not great.
> Software is giving bureaucrats the perfect escape hatch. "I'm sorry, but The System won't let me".

In the parent story, its in everyone's interest that the person was able to sign the agreement. Saying "the system won't let me" to screw him over makes no sense. There will always be overrides or discretion involved.

If anything an automated system would help people from getting screwed over. If you check all the system's boxes and someone still doesn't want to rent to you, maybe he's being biased based on a protected class. Without automation, someone can just make something up or just keep you in limbo or sit on your application
What was the most popular name they rejected?
I use http://perdu.com/

It says:

Perdu sur l'Internet ?
Pas de panique, on va vous aider

* <----- vous êtes ici

Translation:

Lost on the Internet?
Don't panic, we are going to help you

* <----- you are here

It is funny, it's been up and without change for decades (amazingly; first snapshot on archive.org in 1998, Wikipedia reports it's been there since 1996!), never had a https version, never noticed a downtime and I've yet to see a page that combine such a short / easy to type URL with such a short size (only 163 bytes, which is useful on spotty / weak connections).

Hard to beat.

CoffeeShopWifi.com is certainly a good idea, could be added to the favorites of non-technical English speakers. Coffee shops are not the only places with captive portal though, here in France they are common on Wifi access points provided by ISPs to their customers when they are roaming, and by the train company (SNCF) in trains and train stations.

Captive Portal is probably too technical so naming this is hard.
Wow @ how badly this site is broke with ad blocker and even more wow when you disable it.
I’d compute a couple of checksums on the files and store those plus metadata in a database, storing the files either on multiple RAIDs under your control, or one or more geographically dispersed cloud storage systems.

Whether local storage or cloud storage is best is a function of how often the files are going to be downloaded or otherwise manipulated by your service.
It would seem quite obvious that mass destruction of habitat may cause neurological impairment, mass deaths, etc.
A legitimately useful blockchain application - who knew!?
yes, Chips4Makers http://chips4makers.io will help anyone who wants to do a 360nm ASIC, the costs are ridiculously cheap. like... EUR 1750 for 20 MPW samples, something mad, who would have ever thought it.

Staf will also "protect" you from the Foundry NDAs. you develop with a "symbolic" version of the Cell Library, he runs the "Real" one and sends it to IMEC on your behalf. here's Staf's "symbolic" Cell Library, it's based on FreePDK45 https://gitlab.com/Chips4Makers/c4m-pdk-freepdk45/-/releases

Coriolis2 - http://coriolis.lip6.fr/ - is entirely Libre-Licensed. it's fully automated, you don't have to do any "hand-editing", it has unit tests (so you have demos you can look at and also check you installed everything right). we have some automated setup scripts for it if you're interested: https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=cori...

LIP6 have a Silicon-proven ENTIRELY Libre Cell Library called nsxlib, if you really want to go that route. it's Silicon-proven in 360nm and 180nm.

Also, LIP6 have a relationship with a small town in Japan, they have 2 micron fab which is used for "training" of employees of the town. submission for that is entirely free. i know this exists but have not used it, and don't know more details, but i can probably put you in touch with Sorbonne University if you're serious.

and if you really really want to do "at home" stuff, Libre-Silicon is developing a 2in wafer fab, using Ultra-Violet DLPs and high-accuracy stepper motors, that you'll be able to buy and operate from your garage or lab. think "3D printing", i think they're aiming for 2000 nm or something (20 micron)? really big, but proves the concept.
The day-ahead thing is fine. I work half-day on Saturday and Monday is nice and quiet.
That's a wonderful cultural aspiration and it makes me want to move there even more!
It’s even worse than that because we not only need to replace existing electrical energy production but we need to electrify sectors that aren’t electrified at all i.e. heavy industry and transportation.