skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to hiring practices at larger companies, but if my experience working at smaller companies is any indication I think things might be shifting. At my last job, they were focused on hiring for diversity to create a more desireable workplace and improve retention. I think this mindset is starting to become more commonplace, so you may find that you're no longer in such a bad position once you graduate.
No, the main benefits of ORM are not to avoid to learn SQL, they are:

• syntactic sugar and language/tooling integration for very common operations;

• a centralized data access API to build upon, that you would have to create anyway with raw SQL;

• a single introspectable source of truth you can use to generate web API, models, data validation/migration and so on.

Eventually, even using an ORM, you will need to learn SQL if you go beyond the toy project.
Questions for anyone who maybe knows answers:
How likely is that there are nuclear weapons beyond listed in the article, something as Black projects? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_project)

Also I am curious, when new nuclear weapons are developed, as testing is banned, how do scientist know what will be the effects/yields/outcomes?

I mean theory is well known, but again in practice there are always some unexpected thing that can happen.
While this sounds like a trademark issue (see https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-cop... ), in general the more fundamental question is:

How much are you willing to pay a lawyer to sue someone if there's infringement?

If it's less than the cost of a car, you probably shouldn't worry about it.

Secondarily, how much are you willing to spend to monitor Amazon sales and get them to shut down infringing uses?

See also https://ocpatentlawyer.com/design-patent-cost/ .

When I read "Voyager LP" I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record , available as a three-disc LP vinyl record box set.
It's the difference between a hand-warmer and a coat. The hand-warmer adds extra heat to the system (like the heat from burning fossil fuels). A coat doesn't add any extra heat, it just traps some of the heat that would otherwise be lost (like greenhouse gasses).

Hand-warmers can keep part of the body warm for a few hours. Coats can keep the whole body warm for years.
So podman is funded ultimately by enterprises which is OK, but now docker wants to fund their products by enterprises that's a problem for some reason...

I could understand this if they were turning the thumbscrews on individuals but all this talk of switching sounds petty and silly and will probably be false economy
Huh, that's interesting!

I wonder, in a strictly thermodynamic way (ignoring CO2 etc), how big of an impact it would have to remove all internal combustion engines in land-based transportation and power generation (coal plants).

ICE's have like a 30-40% efficiency? Compared to electric engines 80-90%. But on the other hand, you probably consume quite a bit of energy producing the batteries...
This is a pretty excellent site. A few years ago, I worked on a series on nuclear weapons and recently released one of the articles. There's a backlog of articles you can read by clicking on the publication including on the physics.

https://medium.com/insane-before-the-sun/4-nuclear-blast-eff...

https://medium.com/insane-before-the-sun/2-the-physics-packa...
I don't think it'll be easy.

We would have the same (if not higher) energy consumption per capita on any other planet. And unless that planet is humongously large (which would also increase its surface-level gravity, thus rendering it uninhabitable), the relation between surface temperature and energy consumption will be similar[0]. Now there's only a finite number of planets in our solar system and leaving our solar system, say in the direction of Proxima Centauri (the star nearest to the Sun), amounts to traveling ~4.2 light-years. At a velocity of 0.1c (which is a lot – especially if you're trying to move an entire species[1]) that means a travel time of 42 years (as seen from our current frame of reference). Any velocity lower than that and we're getting into hundreds-of-years territory, so we'll be needing space ships across we can live for generations.

Also, a space ship is not that different from a planet, in that it also has to obey thermodynamics. So the surface temperature issue there is just the same. (In fact it's worse, since our space ship will likely be smaller and we also need to factor in additional waste energy of the space ship's propulsion engine or whatever we're using.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law

[1]: Or, say, half the species (or whatever amount necessary to make the total energy consumption on the planets we already inhabit drop to levels such that the planets' surfaces don't start to boil).
Not even close.

Global energy use is around 170,000 TWh/year (1). This includes electricity generation, as well as fuel for transport, burning wood for heat, etc.

Heat flow from mantle is 403,000 TWh/year (2)

Solar irradiance is ~1200W/m2, which adds up to massive 5B TWh/year.

Extra radiative forcing from greenhouse gases in IPCC scenarios is ~3W/m2, or around 12.5M TWh/year.

The radiative forcing is two orders of magnitude larger than our energy use.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

(2) https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo.2007.44
Exactly thanks to those features, I felt at home in UNIX without the niceties of Borland IDEs.

Now 25 years later, there is enough to choose from regarding IDEs and UNIX based systems.
Grew up in a religious house too. Acceptance of what is and refraining from dividing everything in good or bad, ie letting go of a learned (imposed?) judgemental/religious attitude, was key for me.

Turned vegan too, but not for ethical reasons. Saw the movie Game Changers and immediately switched. I want to live a long healthy life.

I was was happy to discover that evolutionary biologists have similar ideas. I think of myself and other humans as naked apes with a mind which is on the one hand extremely weak (If the elephant wants someting else, the rider is powerless) but on the other hand able to believe in ideas which are detrimental to its' own health. I think the meaning of life is the same for humans, bacteria and all other living beings: survive and procreate, nothing more. For many minds this does not seem to be enough, for me it is.
YouTube will do it's own set of nasty things to creators, as we can see on an almost weekly basis on the first page here. Also we'll never know what kind of stuff it will do in years to come. So "move from platform X to platform Y" may be a decent tactical advice, but in a long run it is better to suppose that they are all the same.
My issue with Docker Inc has been with the support. I started to give them money once but pulled back after it became clear the support experience was essentially “customer support thyself”. I don’t have to pay anyone to have my support ticket ignored, I can do that myself for free.

Anyway they are past the point of no return now. Their creations will undoubtedly outlive them - probably Queen Elizabeth also. Anything they pull back will be replaced by the community. Anything new will get aped by everyone else trying to make a name for themselves. Containers are more or less a generic commodity now.
How is this different from Azure's AKS on ARC which you can run on prem nodes but managed via Azure management plane?
For instance if someone attempt to build something as "quarksplosion" how would they know without testing?

https://www.newsweek.com/subatomic-event-more-powerful-hydro...
> I like to think of solar, batteries, fission, and wind as compelling ways to go mostly carbon free and lower energy costs about 2x over the next 20 years or so.

> Fusion is what reduces energy cost potentially another 10x, which really changes the game for lots of things. Exciting stuff. Kudos to this team.

Citation needed... If the fusion reactors end up needing tape of room temperature superconductors to keep their confinement going, and they degrade rapidly due to neutron radiation, I could easily see solar being cheaper in the long run. I'm not saying this is exactly what will happen, but I have never seen compelling proof that fusion will really be so cheap in terms of capex or opex per Watt.
I think this wasn't as big a thing a decade ago, and most people don't understand the implications of what it means. In the GTA (greater Toronto area), it is being done universally .. nearly every home goes over asking. From the buyers perspective, it means you need to have a great agent who is able to give you a fair assessment for the current market price of the home. This is really not easy when in a crazy market where prices rise all the time.

This has a simple fix btw. Just cap the listing realtors commission based on their listing price. The problem gets solved overnight.
The neutrons are what we will extract energy from, the alpha particles continue heating the plasma.
But AI can weigh connections too, if reqruiters use outdated AI systems doesn't mean AI cannot solve the current problem.
Most people suffer everyday. Poverty, illness, war.. etc are more common than decadent Western lifestyles.

The reason why religiosty is so common among poor countries is because, without religion, the logical conclusion would be to stop existing...

Which is exactly the position the West was in pre-renaissance. Without religion society would never have succeeded through ages of negative utility.
AD: Thanks for your comment, if you get into the T&C's we have clauses for when a candidate applies and is let go for reasons outside of being not fit for the role, there are pro-rata returns for the endorsers in those instances.
Previous discussion with 60 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050168
No idea how you came to that conclusion. Do you really think they'll survive without a way of using docker on Macs ? This is an extra revenue stream
"Federal officials are preparing to argue that Ms. Manning’s past crimes render her too dangerous to be allowed entry into the country. The government’s position is that she should be blocked on grounds of serious criminality."

Whistleblowing war crimes and embarrassing the US on the world stage = "serious criminality"
Bog-Standard Multimedia:Why PC industry standardized on multimedia in the 90s
Understanding disconnects when PLCs are mounted into Machines
We have been into the Industry 4.0 implementation for sometime. An important mandate is having a more cross functional and cross communication enabled system for the best out come of the customer ( production manufacturing company). Today we have a lot of closed systems and un revealed information on the machineries which were never required some two years back.

PLC is the heart of all the modern CNC machines. A particular PLC data / communication is more generic. However when it goes into the machine it gets customized as per the need of the machine being produced. So the way in which the PLC is configured ( connected )with the other components like drives , HMI , etc., is more proprietary to the machine manufacturer. The disconnect happens here as the Machine vendor intentionally or without intention does not document the way the PLC works in their system and this info is not shared with the customer.

With the current trend to bring all the data under one umbrella, It is very important to bring more transparency on the need to know basis for the end customer.
You dodged a bullet. Companies that hire people like this are never fun to work at. Usually bigger companies suffer from this issue.

My Google interviews were similar. A guy had me write an algorithm for scoring bowling, then after everything asked me to "turn it into an API" without specifying anything beyond that.

I asked a few questions about the use cases and he refused to expand.

At that point I had no choice but to just start adding weird methods and turning the one-shot algorithm into an iterative scoring class (where you could calculate score as you added frames) and the guy started to nitpick literally everything I did.

"Why did you indent here?" Because a new block of code is there. "Why did you put the brace on the same line?" Because I like to follow 1tb style personally, but I can change it if you'd like. "Yes please do."

Then was rejected, without any feedback other than "perhaps consider brushing up on your coding abilities, or take a code camp and try again in 6 months". I've been writing code for 20 years, 11 professionally. It is, quite literally, almost all I ever do.

Ultimately realized how terrible of a company Google was, anyway, so I dodged a bullet in the end. But you just kind of have to learn to roll with these punches.
> into motion

Kinetic energy will end up getting converted to waste heat nonetheless.

> or bound carbon

This seems hard to imagine. We're dealing with waste energy here, so a very high-entropy type of energy. Bound carbon is low-entropy, so the conversion is impossible[0] unless we put that entropy elsewhere.

As an analogy, consider a fridge: It brings your food from a high-entropy (high-temperature) to a low-entropy (low-temperature) state but in order to do that it also has to produce waste heat (entropy) on the outside.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
> Notice how the arguments pro Electron always include speed of development, speed of deployment, etc. (dev-focused)

You kinda oversimplify the multi-platform reality of 2021 and its requirements from a user perspective.

Most apps used to be Windows-only. Nowadays, most apps need to be Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. This is a user-focused requirement.

"It's either a multi-platform Electron app or it is no macOS app, because we don't have the resources". See this post linked here a couple days ago: https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2021/why-electron-apps-ar...
Thanks, this is the calculation I was looking for.
The truth about global temperature data (2016)
Functionality typically decreases in value over time while money (in various forms) increase in value.

Properties are the exception, being both functional and an investment.
They never officially killed Silverlight so I doubt they'll kill Azure DevOps either. They most likely will at some point deemphasize Azure DevOps to favor GitHub Actions tho.

I wouldn't be surprised if Azure DevOps still pops up in random places for decades to come or if they decide to "unify" the two products without changing the underlying codebases (like OneDrive for business actually using Sharepoint under the hood).

Unlike Google, Microsoft seems to commit to legacy software to a fault. As long as there are enterprises paying good money for support, it'll probably not go away completely.

EDIT: Microsoft only stopped licensing OEM Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in 2008 (15 years after the first release of WfW 3.11). Apparently it was still being used by some embedded device manufacturers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jcoyne/its-th...
I used to publish my blog articles but now I commit them
EU lists rare nerve disorder as possible side efect of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
German Covid super-spreader event driven by poor ventilation, study finds
That doesn't show from how they use Teams. It's literally integrated into Windows 11.
AD: It wouldn't be a startup without an amount of "look how good we are"!... It absolutely is the endorsement flow. People will only be willing to endorse their candidates if they are confident they can pass the companies probation... They can only really be confident if they have experience of their candidate in the workplace.
> There is a ton of work on top of Lucene.

1. All of which is useless without Lucene. In fact, it wouldn't have been possible without Lucene. Thus, by your own twisted argument, Elastic "stole" Lucene's work.

2. Not all of the code in ElasticSearch is written by Elastic. Co. It's not their sole codebase. They have no monopoly on it. Maybe if they never took in contributions from others, but they did.

> And Lucene is still OSS.

OpenSearch is still OSS. The ES base that OS forked from is also OSS.

> ... a monopoly like Amazon from taking over.

Now I know you're being dishonest. Amazon never had a monopoly on ES, it still has no monopoly on OS. It's Elastic (like CockroachDB, that you mention) that are trying to enforce an artificial monopoly. Of themselves.

If you want to find out whether ES is really the "little guy" or the "monopolist", try providing a hosted service of their latest release and see how they react. It doesn't matter if you've contributed code to ES before, it doesn't matter if you're the most prolific contributor to Lucene.

It doesn't matter if you can build a better version of ES or provide better service. Elastic Co. (and CockroachDB Inc.) will simply not allow you to compete.

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For once, try pointing the finger fairly, at everyone. Try judging everyone with the same set of laws/morals. Hold your heroes to the same standards, at least, as your villians.
The woodcut print was based on Indian one-horned rhino, comparison is here: https://sites.google.com/site/100objectsbritishmuseum/home/d...
Also a pretty big difference between the payout/claim for my phone - capped at the price of a new phone, vs health, chronic condition, pain etc - unlimited.

Or you do what I do and live with the cracked back screen on your phone, because it is under a case anyway.
Absolutely agree. Docs are either perfect (5%) or…completely obscure (95%). I can't tell the difference between Github Actions and API documentation in places, but I desire functional examples. No clue where I built it up, but I'm comfortable now…lots of trial and error.

For a lot of Github Actions, I actually follow the Github Roadmap through to implementation as the PRs actually have good examples in them… https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1
China, the most populous country on Earth, has no community transmission.

I don't know what went wrong in Mongolia, because I haven't been following that country, but China and New Zealand have demonstrated that with a good public health system, elimination is possible and sustainable.
> I am wondering why mobile apps too haven't entirely been replaced by Web apps

There are many Cordova/Capacitor-based web apps in a Webview shell with access to native APIs.
Thank you for sharing, guys. The next posts in the series have been in the works for a bit too long, this reminded me that I should keep writing =) Thanks!
I have just checked my NTP server, and it's funny that I also see a bad time.cloudflare.com, among a set of 4 random NTP servers from the FreeBSD pool.

Even if the time.cloudflare.com is much closer to me than the other servers, at 8 ms delay, it also has a large offset of around 3 ms from the true time.

While that is much worse than the other servers, it is still 2 orders of magnitude away from the hundreds of ms of your case.

Besides the 4 random servers from a pool, I also use 4 individually selected NTP servers. For example, because I live in Europe, one of them is the NTP server of the French astronomical observatory (Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE).

I have been using NTP for decades and I typically see on my own NTP server (from my home) an offset less than 0.2 ms with a jitter between 1 ms and 2 ms, while the delays to the reference servers vary between 8 ms and 250 ms, with most between 40 ms and 60 ms.

I have configured NTP on a large number of computers and I have never seen offsets above 10 ms, but it is true that most of them had reasonably good Internet access, over Ethernet, TV cable, optical fiber or high quality wireless links.

I can imagine that a very bad Internet access, with highly variable delays to the reference servers might confuse NTP, but I have no longer seen such cases since around 2001/2002, i.e. since the last time when I have used dial-up access over a phone modem.
Absolutely fascinating :-)

I am assured that the human brain is so incredibly complex that it is almost impossible to understand it ... but experiments like this make me worry that Evolution just knocked most of it up in Perl over a weekend...

An inability to abort an action when facts change ? What if there was a test for that. Would we stop people standing for office? Be set free from some crimes?

I demand to see the source code for human brains ! It needs a proper security audit.

(relevant XKCD reference to be looked up later)
This is a great thought. Some of my most memorable times have been wrestling with my old project car in the shed with some music playing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t do an expert job, but what matters is the effort and learning.
Bio tech is fascinating those days. The anti-aging community, the athletes and the nutrition crowd are so enthusiastic it created a wave of funding and activity. Of course, quantity doesn't mean quality, but you can find some real gems. And now with covid, it's exploding in popularity.
Thank you so much for your sincere feedback. I appreciate it. Thank you
Nope, I have a repo consuming 10+ workflows, 3 shared actions, and a handful of private workflows (the way private workflows sucks now though, don't recommend–basically just a git clone into your Github Action).

This is all non-Enterprise, private repos, no clue in GHEC/S.
Many programmers will tell you that you can live with no type system at all, and they would be correct.

Personally, as an Ocaml coder, I make extensive use of Ocaml's fancier type-system features and would be sad to lose them.
Pain -> stress -> cortisone -> body shifts to survival mode and shuts down longer term processes?
I find you way too harsh.

Yes, you are right, cartels have existed, and still exist. But do you think France, China, Russia would just agree to everything a supposed US health cartel say?

And the researchers in public labs, do you think they would agree to this cartel? I mean, they are the one who sounded the alerts on: tobacco, neonicotinoids, sugar?

Maybe everyone in the world is on it. I find it unlikely myself, but its OK to believe it.

And you are not a fascist for refusing the vaccine :/
But Switzerland to stick to the Swiss Franc, strangely ;-)
I've already contracted covid-19 so I'm not at all confused about my personal risk. But I appreciate the dialogue and I wish you well.
> "Probable cause of a crime" means what?

The usual full expression is something like “probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a particular crime”.

> "Probable cause" can be used to justify a search.

“Probable cause” is a constitutional requirement for search warrants, arrest warrants, warrantless arrests, and warrantless searches; for searches, the probable cause is that the search conducted will uncover evidence of a crime, which is different than the probable cause for arrest.

> You would need to actually be suspected of a crime.

Well, no, there needs to be probable cause to believe you've committed a crime. Actual suspicion is a much lower standard.

> If the cops don't find drugs, what crime are you guilty of?

There are...like thousands of other crimes, and millions of possible configurations of things that are not drugs that could support probable cause to believe you've committed one of them. Spray paint cans consistent with a recent spate of vandalism (graffiti) in the area is one I’ve personally seen used, beyond things that are inherently actual or apparent contraband, and the “actual or apparent contraband” category extends to more than just drugs.
Something, something, desk worker ...
All my test code runs against sqlite. I'll only need a postgres instance for one or two geospatial queries that use postgis and for now that's manual, so this speeds up my builds. SQL functions tie you in
"Sensory Substitution Devices"
by Tom Wright was an interesting talk at CodeKen 2011[1] touching on the subject of TMS. It was the first time I had heard about this and it fascinated me deeply. I remember that the talk got a lot of votes in the feedback round, so I was certainly not alone with this experience.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81cN6XFIPSg