skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How far we have come from the hand oiling of early motorcycles is indicated by the fact that some of the current Mercedes models do not even have a dipstick. This serves nicely as an index of the shift in our relationship to machines. If the oil level should get low, there is a very general exhortation that appears on a screen: “Service Required.” Lubrication has been recast, for the user, in the frictionless terms of the electronic device. In those terms, lubrication has no rationale, and ceases to be an object of active concern for anyone but the service technician. In a sense, this increases the freedom of the Mercedes user. He has gained a kind of independence by not having to futz around with dipsticks and dirty rags.

> But in another sense, it makes him more dependent. The burden of paying attention to his oil level he has outsourced to another, and the price he pays for this disburdenment is that he is entangled in a more minute, all-embracing, one might almost say maternal relationship with . . . what? Not with the service technician at the dealership, at least not directly, as there are layers of bureaucracy that intervene. Between driver and service tech lie corporate entities to which we attribute personhood only in the legal sense, as an abstraction: the dealership that employs the technician; Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany, who hold the service plan and warranty on their balance sheet; and finally Mercedes shareholders, unknown to one another, who collectively dissipate the financial risk of your engine running low on oil. There are now layers of collectivized, absentee interest in your motor’s oil level, and no single person is responsible for it. If we understand this under the rubric of “globalization,” we see that the tentacles of that wondrous animal reach down into things that were once unambiguously our own: the amount of oil in a man’s crankcase.

> It used to be that, in addition to a dipstick, you had also a very crude interface, simpler but no different conceptually from the sophisticated interface of the new Mercedes. It was called an “idiot light.” One can be sure that the current system is not referred to in the Mercedes owner’s manual as the “idiot system,” as the harsh “judgment carried by that term no longer makes any sense to us. By some inscrutable cultural logic, idiocy gets recast as something desirable.

> It is important to understand that there has been no “high-tech” development such that it is no longer important to stay on top of oil consumption and leakage. With enough miles, oil is still consumed and will still leak; running low on oil will still trash the motor. There is nothing magical about the Mercedes, though such a superstition is encouraged by the absence of a dipstick. The facts of physics have not changed; what has changed is the place of those facts in our consciousness, and therewith the basic character of material culture.

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
No, not that.

Another kid, got access to every single private github repo.

It was on hackernews, he declared it, made a write up about it and got given a pretty small bounty from github. Google it, otherwise I guess the net was scrubbed of it. I follow him on twitter but yeah just google more and you should find out all about it.

I was always surprised it wasn't a much bigger deal.
Basically since then I think any company ( most that I work for ) are clinically insane to upload their proprietary code to the site.

On a related note - was it not just a couple of weeks ago people were concerned the codespaces system is using other peoples proprietary code? ( I havent kept up to that on that one so not sure if its still an issue)
> Without personalized advertising, businesses would be harder to start and grow, new products and services would be harder to discover and would cost more, and people would see less relevant, less timely and less interesting ads.

What about having control over our own minds? What about spending our moments in the present? When did life become about discovering "new products" and not just living in the world?

Here's a city that banned advertising: https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2016/04/london-be...

Are we seriously going to claim that the citizens are deprived now that those ads like barnacles are not covering these historical buildings? Think of the products they could be discovering! It's time to realize that ads are a net negative for society.
That pricing is a ~70% markup over standard Azure rates.

Companies typically buy laptops with an assumed 3 year lifespan; so, let's assume a high-end $3000 laptop, that would be ~$83/month. Of course, you need a computer to access Github Codespaces, so this isn't saving all of that money. Maybe companies can cut some costs by buying cheaper laptops?

Or if you want a more apples-to-apples; a Lenovo ThinkStation P620 runs ~$2800 for 32 threads and 64gb memory. DIY would also land somewhere around that $3K mark; a Threadripper 2950x (32 thread) is $1100; 64gb of memory is around $250.

This, of course, is the most expensive option they have; the more standard option would be 4/8; for which you would pay ~$85/mo (all the time, normal work hours), for the privilege of a machine that's far less powerful than any laptop any of our developers have. For god's sake, my M1 MacBook Air is an 8/16, with four of those cores far more powerful than any three year old Xeon Azure has running. And it was like $1400.

I understand maintaining dev machines isn't the easiest thing in the world. I have never once worked anywhere where it was such a problem that the company would justify tens of thousands of dollars in spend. Because it kind of is one-or-the-other; time invested in making Github Codespaces work for your company is time not invested in maintaining local dev environments. And Github's ideal end-state is companies totally rely on Codespaces, so the local dev environments languish.

Its not worth it.
Looks good! Keycastr is a similar project for macOS, I use it while streaming coding work. https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr
But it's not uncommon to have devices boot from sdcards-- even industrial boards. Are you talking about "all" sdcards? Or just consumer stuff whose actual partnumber could change from order to order?
An internet connection is also required for fairly important things like pushing your code, giving and receiving code reviews, etc.
TABITHA
You've got to sign the land mine treaty, Toby.

TOBY
Whoa... What happened to the nuance of diplomacy?

TABITHA
Oh, sorry, the shoes are shined.

TOBY
No we-we're there now, you-you can't go back.

TABITHA
Sorry.

TOBY
Right.

TABITHA
142 countries have signed it, 84 have ratified, 12 destroyed there entire
stock.

TOBY
Yes.

TABITHA
You know who hasn't signed it? Us and Cuba.

TOBY
You know who initiated it? Us. And the nations of the world rallied around
it in yet
another impressive display of American leadership.

TABITHA
And then?

TOBY
We bolted.

TABITHA
Right.

TOBY
And the reason we did is because we love anti-personnel land mines. We love
'em. And we
think the government should be in the business of selling them, like the
Post Office.
In fact, the Post Office is the sales venue we've been considering.

TABITHA
Toby. I-I got a...

TOBY
It's Korea. Tabitha. There are 900,000 North Korean soldiers in the DMZ,
and the only
thing stopping them from walking into South Korea are 37,000 US troops,
and about a
million land mines along the border. We have said over and over that we
would be thrilled
to sign this treaty if we could have an exemption for South Korea and we
have been rebuffed.
Rebuffed... I say.

From The West Wing, Season 3 – Episode 16 – “The U.S. Poet Laureate”.
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Is it disinformation to say "the rythmn method is not an effective form of birth control"?

Or is it disinformation to say, "the rythmn method is an effective form of birth control"?
No. You can achieve the same benefits of local reproducibility with Nix/Guix. Guix is more composable IMO because you can program multi-service development environments entirely in scheme.
> There are some decentralized stablecoins

Most people clamoring for regs around stablecoins haven't gotten a chance to wrap their minds around this yet… nor have most of them considered the $ demom "cash and cash equivalents" that are on banks balance sheets not domiciled in the US, who have even smaller cash flows than some centralized stablecoin issuers folks love to pick on…
Other examples where "Just integrate, problem solved." is extremely offensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

Not to mention that "just integrate" might mean abandoning your faith, language, customs, way of life etc.

Especially for Jews in Europe that would have meant abandoning their faith at a minimum.
I believe codespaces does directly rely on docker containers that you can customize…
I am not concerned with Microsoft posting an Our Incredible Journey (TM) blog post within my lifetime, but duly noted.
Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition
It is not clear from your comment if you really believe the village idiot should vote; that is 15% of the population or even more, in some cases. Having the right to vote ... still in doubt, but expecting their participation to decision making - hell no. It is just about realism and competence, when you go to a doctor's office for a consultation you ask for the competent doctor to respond or you ask everyone in the building to vote your diagnostic? A significant part of the population is not competent enough to vote.
True - that's why you run scrapers using Playwright or Selenium - both of which can easily be scripted from either JavaScript or Python, while executing website code in a sandboxed browser instance.
This seems like a cool project. I didn't see a price estimate for this PCIe card.

However, isn't it smarter to try to build an infrastructure/architecture that can deal with somewhat less precise time information (milliseconds instead of nanoseconds)?
These tend to be early stage startups who went with BaaS to get around resource constraints and couldn't survive the rapid need to exfiltrate their data and build a backend with a gun to their head. Larger companies generally have the survival sense not to sharecrop business critical functionality to such a degree.

Which is to say, you wouldn't have heard of them, because they never got big enough to be known to anyone beyond a handful of clients and employees. I've personally been hired to try to rescue such a company, and was not successful.
It's interesting that people think crypto markets have little-to-no fraud or misbehavior when they AREN'T regulated, but banks (and all things financial) are regulated exactly to prevent this.

It's almost like these people must think that regulating banks is what causes the misbehavior, not the other way around.
Can we talk about the fact that the US committed a war crime and no one has been held accountable?

They are throwing the book at Assange because some US personnel may have been put at risk for having their names revealed. What about the dead unarmed journalists shot from the air like fish in a barrel?
I remembered that I saw news of another company patiented transformable lense on hackernews.
Probably that combine to this can reproduce human eye completely (high focal range and compact at same time)?
> And things like the Rails monolith that GitHub's main service is, have a tendency of being rude to a dev's laptop

FUD. Everything is neatly handled by rvm (or rbenv) and bundler. You can even use gemsets if you want to be really anal about it. It all goes in version-controlled user directories. I keep my main Mac machine, my work Windows machine, and the production Linux boxes all running the same versioned stack just fine.
Quotee here. I agree! I use tmux and vim via ssh for github.com development in Codespaces.
Gosling: "And the more reliability you need out of the software, the more statically-typed language helps."

Erlang: "Hold my beer"
Yes, I've done that before for flash IC's. It works out nicely for "large enough" order quantities. I would expect that doing that for sdcards would require even larger quantities to be economically viable.
Samsung foldables lineup is official: $1,799 for the Fold 3, $999 for Flip 3
That's my take too - I wouldn't for a second believe the 4 to 6 years unless they're prepared to actually guarantee it.
What are they embracing, how are they extending it, and how do they plan to extinguish it?

My understanding of EEE is that it involves taking some competitive product/standard, making a cool MS version of it, and then killing off the standard version - e.g. implementing a barely sufficient POSIX layer on Windows, getting customers who have "POSIX" as a purchasing requirement to switch, and then getting them onto the NT API.

Most of the examples on that wiki page have been unsuccessful (IE trying to EEE HTML, Outlook trying to EEE SMTP, etc.), because they weren't able to get enough people to rely on the extended version and stop using the standard thing.

What is the analogy here? Microsoft wants to embrace and extend... compiling software? and will kill off... existing ways of compiling software? How will this work?
To my mind that's more of an indictment of VS Code than a recommendation for Codespaces.
Sure. Until you get your account banned because you went againts of obscure TOS clause, or because a powerful entity put pressure or paid their way into it.

Can't wait for the equivalent of abusive dmca to be able to put down your entire dev team.

It's really a way out of madness.
Your suggestion makes "common sense" but probably would cause legal issues.

Suppose you are Canadian. Netflix has permission to sell Americans "Media Package A" and Canadians "Media Package B". They don't have permission to sell Canadians "Media Package A". You are saying "just let me buy both" but Netflix does not have permission from media companies to sell you both.
> Even the pores in an N95 mask are not small enough to prevent viral transmission, so the actual science says your magic mask talisman is voodoo bullshit

There are at least five mechanisms by which a filter can stop particles from getting through. Only one of them depends on the gaps being smaller than the particles.

Briefly,

1. Big particles don't fit between the fibers of the filter. Think fish in a fish net. This is called sieving.

2. Particles too small for sieving but heavier than the surrounding flow don't make the turns as well as the surrounding flow when the flow goes around the fibers. The particles can get embedded in the fibers. This mechanism is called inertial impaction.

3. The smallest might be too small to actually be affected much by the flow of the surrounding fluid through the filter. The move by diffusion, and many will randomly hit the fibers and get stuck.

4. Particles too big for diffusion but too light for inertial impaction still can run into fibers and get stuck. This is called interception.

5. Some filters have an electrostatic charge which can help trap particles.

The effectiveness of sieving, inertial impaction, and interception all follow S shaped curves that start out low for small particles, then at some point start rising, and then level out. The sieving curve's rise is almost vertical. The rise for inertial impaction is steep but not nearly as steep as it is for sieving. The curve for interception's rise is much more relaxed.

The effectiveness for diffusion goes the other way. Much more effective for very small particles, then above some size drops down and is low from then one.

When you put all these together, you get a curve that is effective at the small end, and at some point as size goes up effectiveness drops, reaching a minimum, and then rises again to reach high effectiveness for particles above some certain size.

More detail here [1].

[1] http://donaldsonaerospace-defense.com/library/files/document...
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Ok, maybe "immediately" is too ambitious, the camera doesn't need to be powered on all the time. I just want a hardware button that gets you to camera-is-ready ASAP.
Thank you for posting the correct incantation for one to speak at the oracle.
This may not be what you are referring too BUT I can say as a .Net developer it's amazing how little .Net devs know about how the low level dev related stuff works because visual studio holds there hand.

I have blown people's minds by showing them how to just call msbuild or git from the command line etc... I think it's changing since dotnet core took over in that space but had a good 10 year run where generally no one at various work places had any understanding of what visual studio was really doing and it did bite us in the ass at times.
I suspect you could hack it together with something like distcc, with VSCode none the wiser.
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Oh cool, an open source Symmetricom card.

These timing cards are low volume products so they have a bad habit of going out of support after a few years and then the kernel level drivers don't get updated and there is hardly any community. Having open hardware that multiple vendors can support makes them easier to get added to the mainline kernel.
uhm I am not sure about Sweden being the 'Silicon Valley of Europe'

As european, if had to look for a tech job in Europe, I would consider:

- London

- Amsterdam

- Berlin
“Breakthrough infections” is a bad name
Yeah, I do not work for a big tech company, nor are there any big tech companies in my region. So nobody gets free food or other big tech company perks. That is surely coloring the reasons why nobody I know wants to work in the office.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud, appreciated
> Commercial paper is exceedingly liquid.

If Tether actually owned any commercial paper, they'd be the biggest player in the commercial paper space. Nobody's ever heard of them, and they don't own 30 billion dollars of it.

What they do own are paper promises from other companies that are controlled by them. Which are worthless. I own a paper promise from my dad to pay me a trillion dollars, that doesn't make me the richest man in the world. [1]

[1] Until I leverage it into minting a 'commercial-paper-backed', unredeemable, unaudited 'stable'coin.
Is it really that nasty? Is there no idea that is horrible enough to warrant it?

By the way, how did I break the guidelines exactly? I understand that you guys simply are protecting your investments but come on.
Your overall point may be valid, but I don't like your Boiler Room quote. If you call me to sell me some stock, and I don't want to buy it, no, I don't have to sell you a reason why I won't buy it. I'm not buying; I don't need to tell you why; and I'm done talking to you now. Click.
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No, I don't see the "rhyme" about how USDC and GUSD lack actual cash to back them 100%, because they do in fact have such cash.

Bottom line, you're painting with too broad a brush to say all stablecoins work like a MMF. At most, you're describing particular ones like Tether and Dai.
The customers are going to pay. The company will notionally take out the bonds, but the dollars will have to come from the customers...
I'm not sure what exactly is not right. Type-based theorem provers exist (Coq, Idris, Agda, etc.). They can be used to write Turing complete programs (eg. CompCert). If you encode the properties that need to be satisfied and the compiler successfully compiles your program, then those properties are satisfied.

I suspect you've simply misunderstood the claims that were made. In particular, the above does not entail that you can write any program. Some programs simply have no valid type.
Wow that's just so bizarre and cringe but so predictable. I've heard Campinas, Brazil is pretty serious though and has quite a lot of local support measures.
It does clone: https://stdrs.dev/nightly/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/src/alloc/ve...

it might be optimized to a memset, but it's the clone codepath, as opposed to the u8 specialization codepath as discussed in the article

But the original commenter is talking about how the benchmark isn't useful because it doesn't touch memory, but you get similar results even if you do touch memory.
I recently did one that had a time limit of 8 hours (continuous) and was an off-the-shelf thing they used from HackerRank, and exclusively React for a position that suggested generalized modern js development. I spent a while on it, it was not super complicated, but I just didn't have any more consecutive hours to spent ironing out the remaining 2/5 test cases on one of them. I'll probably get passed over. I had not reasonable choice not to, because I've been out of work for over a year, in part because it's just such a burnout inducing climb to get any job in programming, because they're all doing this.
While BeautifulSoup is great, lxml + xpath really is the way to go. XPath is a W3C standard and works cross language and even in the browser.

If you need a an quick way to scrape javascript generated content, you can just open your browser console and use `document.evaluate` with an XPath query.
In an era that should have equal opportunity a non-issue, we're move straight into the opposite direction. Aubrey de Gray may be canceled. But the the most salient lesson here? Don't mentor young women, especially if they're remotely attractive. It's far from being worth the risk.

You think I'm exaggerating? What could kill a successful career these days? If you'll excuse me a flippant comparison, even a double digit chance of having caused Covid isn't doing it. But an accusation of misconduct years ago can. Just ponder the odds a bit.

So what would motivate somebody to risk this? "Just don't be a creep"? Shit, if you think you can interact a couple of years with a pretty woman and are 100% certain you'll never flirt, you're... I was about to say "a better man than I", but on second thought, that's inhuman. Not the "not flirt" part, plenty of men succeed. But the being sure you won't, not with multiple women, over many years. I'm giving myself much better lifetime odds of not crashing my motorcycle.

So again... what's to gain for a successful professional in academia or business, to work with and mentor young women, when it's literally the only major risk on one's career? There are enough bright young men that are much safer.
I'm a US expat living in Dublin so I have some "on the ground" views. There are some rather significant software dev operations here, but most are offices of large multinationals (Google, Microsoft, Hubspot, Activision, TikTok is building a massive office currently, etc). There is a massive drop off in salary and interesting work when you look for more "local" (Irish or even European headquartered companies). I get linkedin messages from Irish companies talking about paying 70k euro for senior software positions when the going rate is more realistically at like 120k.

My view is that if Ireland hadn't done their tax shenanigans then none of these companies would be here and it would be an absolute backwater (software dev-wise). Ireland has some really great education and talent but the culture, infrastructure, and personal taxes don't lend themselves to a bootstrap/startup friendly environment imo. So even today a ton of Irish people move to the UK, Canada, or Australia for better jobs.
True. Not that big.

But let's not forget that it's not about merely pumping the water around. All this water must be processed. And I figure the process is a little more involved than simple reverse osmosis for seawater desalination.

In the desalination business 1 m diameter pipes with water traveling at 1 m/s and the resulting volumetric flow rate isn't a big thing .. but I'd guess for more complex processes it indicates huge/expensive apparatuses.
Seems like we're coming out of Embrace and entering Extend.
The pushback is confusing. If this approach continues to catch adoption a self deployable OS clone is inevitable.