skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same impression because the results of said "educations" pours out into public places.

It is very easy to identify because proponents use certain vocabularies and put up certain arguments. I am not even a native speaker to be able to identify this, although there are similar negative developments in my country, it is not restricted to the anglosphere.

Kudos to her for staying strong to the principle of free and real education.
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That's some hating BS right there. ITER might fail to produce economically viable fusion energy, but it certainly won't fail to produce a massive amount of scientific and engineering innovation.

The sole fact that such a scientific undertaking can be done internationally, over decades, is a great thing considering the global problems we face.

Yes, ITER doesn't follow the USA economic ideology of "much", "cheap", and "now", but the world doesn't consist only of the USA and not everything works well with that ideology.

ITER is not a PV or battery factory. It is more like the ISS.
Maybe something like throwing an exception when updating a collection that is being enumerated over.

Or perhaps the constructor pattern requiring object construction to complete before a reference to the object is available.
If it is behind a NAT and only browsing trusted sites over trusted ISP, the risk of using even plain HTTP is pretty low.

Many enjoy and find comforting the older OSes they're used to.

Research even shows that reliving sensory experiences from a younger age can have a measurable positive effect on a person's physiology and health.

I think the general trend of sacrificing everything to so-called security, which in reality just means being owned by the root certificate holders, all several hundred of them, and all their employees and affiliates, even for low-risk and low value targets, like someone who wants to blog with IE3, is overrated and stupid and will be disposed off once we feel more sure of the security of our underlying network...
I'm not sure what that paper is trying to prove by killing E Coli with polarized 50Ghz, as we humans use all kinds of EM waves to our advantage already.

We use ultraviolet radiation (750 THz range) to kill germs:

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and...

Or lower RF (40Mhz) to transfer heat and kill germs in foods:

https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-ma...
Depends on how bad it is and how important snappiness is. Apps that aren't snappy cause all kinds of cognitive problems with attention.
Well, a digestive surface is necessarily external in that sense, since the only things you want to digest originate outside the body. The options are that you have a digestive surface that is open to the world, or that you have one which is protected within your interior, but nevertheless topologically external.

Or, I guess, that you have a topologically external surface which does nothing but create vacuoles around food, which then get transmitted to a topologically internal digestive surface. (Similar mechanisms do exist for other purposes; one thing that may happen to a splinter embedded in your finger is that the body applies a protective coating to the splinter and then expels it.)

Starfish seem like an interesting case here, in that they have an ordinary internal stomach which they extrude, when they're eating, for the purpose of external digestion.
If fusion drives electricity prices into the ground, transportation is going to rapidly go electric.
Music player, video player, password manager, messenger, IDEs, Nextcloud Sync, phrase replacer, search, file explorer, 7-zip, backups, REPL, budgeting, office suite, texteditor and terminal.

And those are just the non-electron, non-web-frontend apps I regularly use, and still excludes games.
From a economical/political point of view I find very interesting and promising that CFS is participated, amongst others, by one of the largest oil company in the world (ENI), which signal a real effort to move away, or at least strongly differentiate, from fossil fuels.
Those are vehicles! Karkovs helped a lot to explore not only cold regions.
This is a very cool exercise. I see on the roadmap in the README that the approach seems to be "horizontal" in writing the compiler's parts (complete parts are written starting from the parser and it will end with writing the native code generator). While this can work if you really know where you're going from the beginning, I would strongly recommend to use a more "vertical" approach where you stack language features over language features, each completely implemented from parsing to native code generation. So you may start (in the extreme case) with a language that can only understand integers (and that's it, not even basic arithmetic operations) but which at least is an actual language implementation, and can be tested for regression each time you add new features (which can be built on top of the already implemented, known-to-work, features).
For safety, yes. This prevents the car from lurching forward (or backward) if you start it thinking the transmission is in park/neutral, when it is actually in gear.

Most modern cars have a lockout, preventing you from starting the engine unless the brake (or clutch) is pressed. However, some older cars do not have this feature.
As a tangential counterpoint, my series-0 Apple Watch lived to a ripe age of 4 and survived many ocean swims, pools and showers (and was still usable when I retired it). My coworker's watch died a year earlier during his first swim with it; he had a case (yes some folks did that) while I didn't.

Some cases are more trouble than they're worth.
Is there a good non DIY air quality monitor that can be hooked up to Prometheus for monitoring over time?

I know this is a very “non HN” thing to ask. But, as much as I’d love to learn and tinker with Adruino, sensors and their soldered connections, supplying power correctly etc, I am afraid all my spare time would be gone to it, and I will never get to the air quality part of the project. It will be yet another wide scoped project that never ends. Hence the ask for a non DIY yet Prometheus compatible solution..
> And not suffering, not being in pain was maybe what allowed her to begin to heal.

I think that is somewhat well known? I don't have good references about humans, but veterinarian James Alfred Wight (wrote books as James Herriot) has written about it, how lost cause lamb "miraculously" recovered after big dose pain killer (sorry, don't remember details, only his thoughs, how getting rest from pain helps).
less sensational gibberish too. Nice find.
I strongly agree. Another benefit with having whatever yaml based CI system simply run your basic shell scripts is that you can actually test your CI runs without a full build cycle.
I've also seen more of it being used for deployments of on-prem versions of SaaS services. I think the idea is that if you're already hosting your SaaS services on k8s distributing a machine image to your Enterprise customers running a scaled down deployment of your services on a single node kube cluster makes some of the packaging and updating challenges easier.
Mutant – Automated code reviews via mutation testing – semantic code coverage
>The HN consensus has been that there is no shortage of labour as long as you can just pay more and get the labour.

I guess I'm on that side, for the following reasons - the companies that want Cobol are companies that are pretty rich. Yet, Cobol salaries are on the low end for Software developers.

>I find it interesting that you can just pay more to buy or rent in SF, so by this definition there is no housing shortage in SF.

there's no housing shortage in SF for billionaires who are willing to pay whatever is asked. Did I mention my perception that the companies who want Cobol programmers are really rich.

Now, it may be that there is an actual Cobol shortage, I would even agree that it is likely because at the rate offered not very many people would be interested in learning a language generally derided and not much like other languages. But we cannot know that there is an actual Cobol shortage when the rates offered are less than those for Machine Learning experts.

If you offer top rates for Cobol programmers and can't get them, then you have a shortage.
My product manager does everything I don't want to do for me, so I sure would notice.
On a small mobile it’s worse because then I have to basically avoid tapping any ads and thats much harder than using a mouse on a computer.
> I wouldn't call it "trivia" but "fundamental knowledge".

Something that will never be needed in a career can hardly be called "fundamental knowledge".

I don't remember anything about how merge sort works. If someone wanted to interview me on that, they'd convince themselves I can't code, despite decades of delivering production code.

> If the person you're interviewing went through college it should be easy.

I did study CS in university. A very top CS school, even (CMU). Probably I must've studied merge sort at some point, but the last algorithms class I took at CMU was almost 30 years ago. Not once have I needed that info since then, so it's long long forgotten. Its relevance to a software engineering career is nil.
> Oh, and one more thing — Flipper uses 433 MHz to communicate with other Flippers out there, so you can make some cyber-dolphin friends :)

So what you're saying is, I can buy a flipper (or use the same frequencies) to detect other flippers as a defense?

This seems like a weird feature to build in to a covert ops tool.
Need to get open source License for open source projects.

For commercial projects, license costs per developer are $30 / month or $300 / year
Yes. Always. If your transmission is defective somehow you don't want the car to lurch when you start it.
You mean the metal knob on the mains side of the power brick? I don't see how the backward insertion of anything would be an issue there.

AFAIK the metal knob is the earth connection (which is not used on EU plug, which is very annoying).
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Are there other cool things we can do with this magnet tech?

For instance, can I build a railgun to shoot things into orbit?
Winning one Nobel prize is probably a sufficient life goal for a scientist.
I am basing my characterization on hundreds of associates, acquaintances and encounters, as well as second-hand anecdotes, from a time span of three decades.
Yes their scheduler is woeful.

I have a few suspicions that it's intentionally done this way for balancing demand spikes and that jobs scheduled for the top of hour are worst affected.
The theory isn't that the cost will be low, it's that the output will be high. If it costs the same amount as a fission reactor but produces ten times more power, that's lower cost per MW than anything on the market. Even if it costs more than fission, it could be competitive as long as the more it costs is less than the more it outputs.
It's my understanding that many of the Indian body shops like Tata and Infosys do COBOL work. When I was an intern at Adobe, one of the other interns was Indian and had spent the last summer writing COBOL at Infosys. He was glad not to be doing that anymore, and I suspect engineers in India are looking to learn better-compensated skills just as in the U.S.
Yes, and with 2.5% energy consumption growth, in only 2500 years, we'll consume entire power output Milky Way galaxy.

Extrapolating exponential growth over long timescales leads to silly results.
"Some very intelligent people claim"

Please be specific - which intelligent people? Who disagrees with them?

"Electromagnetic pollution one of the main source of its decline"

What are the other sources? How do they compare to electromagnetic pollution in terms of impact?
Which norms are you referring to here specifically? Students today are very unsure about what values they still need to fight for and the message of some activists seems unclear.
CodeT5: Code-Aware Encoder-Decoder Based Pre-Trained Programming Language Models
> get regular updates.

Most non-tech people I know detest auto-updates.
The gravity of the falsehood is key to understanding.

We have seen an incredible growth of authoritarianism, from the near daily 'Simon says' mandate changes, lockdowns, increased surveillance, destruction of small business, 12 trillion dollars printed, and coerced administration of a novel gene therapy. You have no choice but to be right with all of that on your shoulders, that's a lot to weigh down a conscience if one is wrong.
Salesforce Open-Sources ‘CodeT5’, a ML Model That Generates Code in Real Time
I assume you made the jump. What was the outcome? Did you find it just as easy to find offers elsewhere as you did when you were at a big company (if you were looking at all)?

I am partly -- perhaps irrationally -- concerned that going to a startup will somehow make me less attractive to companies for working at a smaller scale.
When writing and running SQL one-offs interactively, I will surround it with `if 1<>1 begin end` or comments, or add syntax errors at the top so that I won't accidentally run it without first selecting the part I want to run. I should get into the habit of writing `begin; rollback` instead for extra-safety.

And I always write the WHERE clause before the DELETE or UPDATE keywords.
> Since neutron bombardment also turns any material radioactive, not only do you need to tear down your fusion plant (or at least the expensive reactor part of it) every few years, but you have to do it with radiation-resistant robots, as human workers can't get close to the reactor after it's been operating for a while.

I bought a new screen cover yesterday for my phone. It came with a full mounting kit that I discarded after the ten minutes that took me to place the cover. The same kit could have been used to mount at least a hundred covers. The small slice of civilization I'm part of is extremely wasteful!

But, let's analyze that waste. First, energy went into collecting and transporting those materials, plus collateral environmental degradation. Now, energy will be spent collecting and processing my waste, and if it can't be recycled, it will end up also provoking collateral damage.

But, if we had infinite cheap energy, recycling all of it would be a no-brainier. Even recycling materials contaminated by radiation would be easy; after all, we already do that to refine fission fuel.

Economic incentives? Those are trivial to legislate, absent the environmental cost and with a promise of green-house gases neutrality. Heck, had we infinity cheap energy, we can pack, move out of planet an leave all of Earth as a bio-reserve.

In other words, nuclear fusion holds the promise of being such a civilization game-changer, that the question of "is it better than solar in the next ten to thirty years?" is moot. With that said, the next ten to thirty years will be vital to attenuate climate change, so nuclear fusion should not be used as a deterrent for other climate investments we can do today.
Gamma radiation in-vivo cells have been shown to produce "a reduction in cell division; alteration in the ratio of the different phases of mitosis, and the appearance of degenerate cells in the germinative zone." [1] Also Le Pogam et al. [2019] found that "EM radiation in the 5G range affect cell permeability and metabolic profiles". [2] To me, that's not something to be discarded so easily, more research is needed. But there's already good one coming up. [3]

[1]: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-14-158-...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45662-6

[3]: https://sci-hub.st/10.3390/ijerph16183406
I wonder if some of the derision is at least due in part to k8s effectively forcing you to think about certain application characteristics upfront instead of addressing them later when you outgrow the single instance performance or suffer an outage.
This looks better than typical ORMs, but still not giving me what I want.

I want query objects to be composable, and mutable. That lets you do things like this: http://btubbs.com/postgres-search-with-facets-and-location-a.... sqlc would force you to write a separate query for each possible permutation of search features that the user opts to use.

I like the "query builder" pattern you get from Goqu. https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu
Some quick googling shows that ₹10,00,000 is about $13,560 USD.

edit: I made the mistake of multiplying this by 12 originally since I didn't read carefully.
No, it's just optional feature to play with, not implemented yet. And you will need to manually activate it like a Bluetooth discovery.
Yes I understand what it means, but the word "radiation" has other much more well-known meanings, one of which directly connects to having more mutations than usual, so it's bound to be misunderstood.
> ...relative to the criticality of the systems being maintained,

Someone writing COBOL for one such critical systems told me that there are two testers in their company whom they have never met and that no real testing happens(just some basic code review) because their company charges the client every time a bug is found to fix them.

But they did say that their client do call their retired employees to clarify some doubts just like this often shared article states.
That's nice in theory. In practice I have reduced lung capacity and start suffocating after 15 mins of N95. What happens is that the whole air flow is harder to push around, and there is so long one can force breath. I presume that people with healthier lungs have an easier time dealing with it, but I find it very hard to believe the impact is zero.

For fun, I just googled 'N95 reduced oxygen flow' and found this pearl from Stanford as the top result: https://digitalmedic.stanford.edu/myth/myth-face-masks-can-r...

> Myth: Face masks can reduce oxygen getting to the lungs and bloodstream

> ... Some masks mean you have to put more effort into breathing if you wear them for a long time.

> ... If worn for many hours without a break, an N95 mask might potentially affect oxygen levels but likely not to a dangerous extent, especially in people who are healthy.

'put more effort into breathing' aka 'suffocating at normal breath patterns'. Oh, and it actually does reduce the oxygen levels, but rest assured citizen, it is nothing to worry about. It's just a myth. There is a word I'm looking for here, miss, misty, aha, misinformation.
I studied mathematics and made my career in IT. I never regretted my choice. Certain skills, such as databases, are better covered in IT degrees. Others, such as the mathematical background for cryptography and AI, are gone into in much more depth in maths degrees.

Others have mentioned it, I echo their thoughts. I did an online MBA and if you have difficulty with MOOCs, it's not going to be easier with an online degree. MOOCs are cheaper, especially if you are not looking for an official qualification, in which case you can simply audit the courses.

You don't say where you are from in Eastern Europe, but mathematics is universal and mathematics has historically been a very strong subject in the east. Banach and Tarski were Polish; Shor was born in Kiev; and many others. So, if online isn't for you, I would not hesitate to study mathematics in your own country. You will find the access to like-minded students valuable and your own online skills will let you research topics that interest you.
You are not so sure that the world is not black and white? I assure you it's in color. Perhaps we do live in The Giver and only a few people realize this after all.
A cross-validated one.
Interesting historical snippets. Did I miss something in there that mentioned a conspiracy to murder or maim pot smokers?
That’s probably why it’s still marked experimental! Works well for me on an M1 Mac running Debian/Ubuntu Arm containers.
I never said it altered DNA, that was the straw man the poster who replied to me built.
I good friend of mine gifted me this book some years ago. I ended up reading it during a jury duty stint, incidentally. Seems appropriate in hindsight.
> Fusion is in theory something that could give us true energy abundance.

The biggest problem is the 'in theory' part. With current plausible designs, the vast majority of the fusion reaction's energy is carried away by high-powered neutrons, which are entirely waste products.
I got the vaccine so I personally don't believe that we're trying to kill and/or subjugate all of humanity right now. But this strikes me as odd:

>The difference is we actually know what is in the vaccines and how they are produced.

If you had designed the vaccine, produced all the inputs of the manufacturing process and the machines yourself, and then produced the vaccines which you then checked with machines to analyze the result and then analyzed it yourself, and then took that vial and injected it yourself with your own syringe and your own disinfectant, then you would "know" what you were injected with.

My point is not to distrust the vaccines, or that any one person can realistically do this.

"Trusting the science" and "trusting the vaccines" is in essence still trusting all other humans in that chain of events that led to the vaccine in your arm to have done their job properly, at least to the best of their abilities.

Some people are now ready to trust the government on this more than others.

I think there was a study once in mould or some other simple organism, I sadly can't find it. They found that even these simple lifeforms have the tendency to have outliers in behavior. When a high number, say 95%, of it goes towards a food source 5% will avoid it.

This survival mechanism might kill the 5% more often than not, but if the opposite happens, the food is bad and kills the 95%, there is a reservoir of living cells that can spread.

On a long enough timeline, as the article shows, trust will be broken. From an evolutionary perspective then it's good to have some outliers. The reasoning they use doesn't matter, survival is what matters.
NodeJS, PHP, Python, Perl?

Write the WebUI in a separate HTML page, then start a server and listen for requests.
> If you hate leetcode refuse to apply for jobs that require it.

Very much this. I've never actually done a single leetcode problem and never will. Recruiters will tell you what the interview process is like (if not, just ask). If it is based on whiteboard puzzles like this, just refuse. Be sure to tell them why you're not interested!

We can improve the maturity of hiring in this industry but only if we collectively refuse to participate in these bad practices.
My uncle was a smalltalk developer for a while - growing up I never realized how unusual that was. What kinds of things is it used for these days?
>Friends want too go places, do things, activities.

No, mostly they are too busy working.
I don't think the website communicates whatever service they're offering effectively. Unless the visitor knows exactly what they're looking for.

IE. What is ATS? why do I want to see demo immediately?
And you are completely against that... So these are the inevitable rules of mankind so he has to go too?

Well, look at that, questioning mass surveillance and releasing inside information so the public can judge it for themselves would actually be something worth fighting for...