skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who cares what the EU Parliament voted for? They can't make laws.

It will start to be interesting when the EU Commission makes its point. And everybody knows the true rulers of the EU want to extend the surveillance and police state further no mater what the people's parliament thinks about that. This has by now a long tradition. All previous regulation went in that direction. They won't make just now a 180 turn. That's clear.

Some evidence:

https://www.justsecurity.org/36098/era-mass-surveillance-eme...

https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-...

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/sicherheitspolitik-...
"Then, this year, Tether Holdings started putting out a huge amount of digital coins. There are now 69 billion Tethers in circulation, 48 billion of them issued this year. That means the company supposedly holds a corresponding $69 billion in real money to back the coins—an amount that would make it one of the 50 largest banks in the U.S., if it were a U.S. bank and not an unregulated offshore company."

A Tether crash would take down a lot of stuff.
Perhaps not on the surface. GNU tar, for instance, to this day uses the pax header fields introduced by star for storing extended attributes.
> As of today ...

... the Taiwan independence movement claims only the island of Taiwan for the Taiwanese nation, and is a core aspect of the Pan Green Coalition, which has 56% of the legislative and the president.
How would a company reasonably enforce a rule against no tainted applicants? Ask Reddit for admin logs on the applicant's account(s)? Honor system?
> So when Xi invades Taiwan

'invades' is the wrong word, it's used by the propaganda machine from the UK/US

please don't be politically brainwashed and use the right word; China will reclaim Taiwan on the date everyone signed
Luckily, this doesn't matter if you create an entirely new community, because then you won't need the discord interop.
Hypersonic missiles should be raining down onto the Three Gorges Dam before that's allowed to happen.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ might be of interest.
This is a piece from TASS, written by two Russians. The golden rule of reading TASS bulletins applies now just as it did in the 20th century.

https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-tass-connect-idUSKBN2381...

The facts are: Russia cuts off transit via Ukraine in advance of the winter to force commissioning of Baltic Sea pipeline. It's everything that East Europeans were telling the outcome of NS2 deal is going to be, but what do these jaded people know, right.
Did you consider Prefect?
> and making the CEO feel bad enough to admit liability.
Or even more so, Racket.

There are purists who don't consider Racket or even Scheme to be Lisps, either. FWIW, I do not agree with them (I also consider Clojure a Lisp), but they exist.

There's a certain highly vocal contingent of Lisp fans who consider the Common Lisp spec to be some kind of sacred document, and that anything that's been invented in the past 37 (!) years is useless.

IMO, those people have done far more harm than good for Lisp and Lisp-like languages.

And yeah, there's a lot of the same religion-like purity around Rust nowadays.
Weirdly well timed today solar flare

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/geomagnetic-storm-warning-solar-fl...
It's like an initial beta of the software - it's not production ready. I can't imagine this adding value to a meeting _yet_. Seems promising though.
Indeed. I was among the first to quit in that specific example and while I didn't feel like anyone who quit after me did it specifically because I quit, it certainly sounded like some things steamrolled quickly after I left.

I selfishly hoped it would have meant the end of that company losing so much talent, but I lost that bet because of course ethically questionable remoras make big profits so long as there are big enough sharks in the water.

(ETA: I appreciate that job for a good salary and helping me get my down payment on my mortgage and some other things. Even if I sometimes still fight ulcers I believe to be from the stress of doing things I felt crossed some of my personal lines of ethics. Corporate life is a struggle.)
I've worked at two fairly large companies during the pandemic, and both have publicly stated that their productivity has increased as a result of WFH. I've heard a variety of measures being mentioned such as profitability, hours worked per week, and responsiveness of employees when they are needed outside of normal working hours for production issues - they found people to be much easier to reach when their home office is their office.

It is clear, however that this data was gathered and released by a different part of the company than the ones that make the call on whether or not people will be required to come back in. Ultimately it's as we would expect: executive leadership deciding to pull people back in has little to do with data and more to do with feelings. Despite publishing that data and overwhelming support for full-time WFH, both have begun the process of pulling people back in.
Because we're not barnacles?
I don't know if it makes sense to query hamming distance for hash. Closest hashes don't guarantee closest images at all. You can check for amount of parts matching by query like:
select video_id from video_hashes where hash in (...) group by video_id order by count(distinct hash) desc limit 10

technically it can be fast since selection on hash could be very narrow. You need only index by hash, video_id.
It's really, really, really difficult for me to imagine a "society-bootstrapping" event where conveniently dimensioned steel, diesel/gasoline engines and fasteners are readily available but thousands of old, easily repairable tractors are not.
It really would solve a lot of problems, in a relatively straightforward and abundant manner …
I remember this whole thing. No one was ever reluctant! It happened pretty quickly.
‘ASIC has joined the group’: Pump and dumpers in a tizz after warning
Because they are watching Foundation?!
I'm a little bit confused why it has to be so expensive and so hard to produce chips... Is it because of the scale required to sell them at a low enough price to be competitive? If so, is there maybe a market for smaller fabs that only produce small scale batches of specialized chips?
I don't think it works too well with two-party systems. That is it is possible that head elected is only preferable to opposition, not actually to voters in general.
I don't know how productive it is to search for the true definition of "WFH". Regardless of what we call it, it seems reasonable to have an intermediate model like Amazon's proposing, where you can mostly work from wherever you'd like but you have to be available for in-person meetings because the company thinks they're valuable.
The credit card companies, like every heavily regulated industry works like the federal government without the rules holding them back. Banking is only the most powerful hammer for it's favorite nails, but has been reluctant to use it much until recently. Once they started removing the gun industry's credit card access, it has slowly creeped everywhere. I am happy because it will only be a matter of time before people move to alternatives like crypto.
Both Facebook and Amazon have contacted me recently, and in both cases it was a senior manager doing the recruiting. Maybe just a new strategy in general, or perhaps it's because both companies struggle with reputation.
Don't worry, they don't last that long.
The numbers are public record. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag...

There is no huge spike. And since the decision to shut down the nuclear plants, also coal has decreased massively, even more dramatically than nuclear.
Doesn’t thorium address some of these issues?
Reads like a precursor to “Escape from New York” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York)

Also, of course, a huge embarrassment for one of the richest countries in the world.

Reads like a precursor to “Escape from New York” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York)

Also, of course, a huge embarrassment for one of the richest countries in the world, even though, reading the long list of years-long structural problems in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island#Abuse_and_neglec... it doesn’t seem to feel that.

And most of those detained there even are in pre-trial, so they are presumed innocent.
Harmonix Music Systems uses a bespoke Lisp-ish language for their game scripting that we call DataArray (or DTA for short) in the Guitar Hero II modding community. It's very powerful to be able to put script in almost any place where a variable or constant is used.
Under which legal system? I thought that China was generally able to influence who owns domestic companies pretty much at a whim by nationalizing them, and that chip manufacturing seems like something that many countries might consider nationalizing based on how expensive they are and how critical they are.

Although it seems convoluted enough that if it's not truly critical things get left alone. But chip fabs are probably critical enough that they won't get left alone.
Open-source client for a closed-source commercial offering. Could we perhaps now have a open-source server in future as well? oh wait! There it is! Nicely done.
Intel has multiple fabs in Oregon. They have seismic requirements for buildings and tools.
Seed Funding for Remix
It makes sense. The big crackdown on online poker hit in 2011 but it was easy to see coming. Replacing money with crypto in gambling applications would have been a decent idea for driving early adoption.
I like this analogy, I often use the term plumbing in relation to Data Engineering, and this extends it perfectly!

> You maintain pipes that can route water, oil or gasoline. You don't want to test for water purity, because next day you are asked to route sewage or oil through your system. You can at best test volume, pressure or velocity in the pipeline because these actually have an impact on your system.
That's why the "with money" not "with little money"
Thank you for the feedback. You are right, the home page should probably be enriched with more information and maybe I can make the information you were looking for stand out better. As a side note: There is a link to GitHub in the footer. The language ("TypeScript API") is also mentioned in the body of the page. But I see that these two can quickly go unnoticed.
OK, you're a minority shareholder in a company and the founder screws you on the exit. This does happen. It can be perfectly legal. There's an illuminating and apropos anecdote about Steve Jobs and Pixar in Charles Ferguson's High Stakes, No Prisoners that I haven't seen printed elsewhere that might even be true.

Do you ever invest in one of his ventures again?

The idea that the investor is at fault if he gets hoodwinked is logic of the con man though: the mark is equally at fault!!!
Make things and ship them to the www
>> 'unquestionable human right' extends to all the service workers

The notion of service workers working remote is a silly one. I regret calling it a 'unquestionable human right'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18158207
Disagree,
My dad had a security clearance and spent most of his career working on navy projects ... Asking what he did at work during dinner would sometimes be interrupted by "I can't talk about that". It became normal for this phrase to cause a change of subject in our house.
As someone working for a company I like while living in a place that I'd rather not, there's no more annoying thing for me to dwell on than the fact that the only thing standing between me and moving is the fact that my employer expects me to be in the office 2 days/month.
> I have literally not found a single use case where I'm forced to use C++ or Rust

I use C++ to write realtime audio processing applications, especially DAW plug-ins. This is hardly C++'s primary market, but AFAIK there are no lisp-like langauges that can compete with C++ here. I'd be happy to learn something new if this isn't the case!
Specifically just GUI code. Seems the code was just copy-pasted from the wxWidgets GUI code for a Poker Lobby Dialog:

CPokerLobbyDialogBase::CPokerLobbyDialogBase(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id, const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos, const wxSize& size, long style) : wxFrame(parent, id, title, pos, size, style)

All the Poker references are in lines 1573 to 1731 (https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src...).
I interviewed for Amazon Brazil once, it felt like I was being questioned by the police as if in a movie:

- 4 straight hours inside a room

- every hour the interviewer changed

- got asked the same questions over and over again

I was quite upset that I didn't pass... couple weeks later I was not, what a shitty experience it was.
I've been using WSL for a few weeks now and I'm mostly happy with it. One thing to note is that you should limit resource usage since it loves to consume almost all ram:
https://superuser.com/a/1635609
I think an hybrid model incentivizes employees to work long hours at the office because 1) they have already made the commute and 2) it's visible to their peers and micro managers. I think those people will then slack off at home to balance their working hours. It will be like working compressed hours unofficially.
YenZek – Share what's happening, Meet new people
I wanted to share with you guys an app I published this year. It is called (YENZEK) and it is an audio-posting app that allows you to meet new people sharing things about themselves and what's happening in their lives. Can't wait to hear what you guys have to say.
Cheers!
It's likely that this is the Official Policy, but then people will just not mention to HR where they happen to be traveling to.

> Hey [team], I'll be in [foreign country] for the next 3 weeks!

and no one outside of that team ever knows anything except someone's zoom background has changed.

If it gets mentioned once in a press release, and HR forgets to work hard to implement this in an ongoing way, it becomes a non-rule.

Useful for lawyers and when talking to compliance people, but not a meaningful barrier for anyone actually going anywhere.
All: please let's not do programming language flamewar here. I realize this is just a quote, but such things are activating and we all need to just not take the bait.

This sort of hyper-rant did years' worth of damage to the CL community and I'd especially not like to see HN be a vehicle for its return. As for Clojure, Rich knows at least as much as the rest of us do about the design tradeoffs it took to get a viable Lisp on the JVM.
It works but both CI and CO are affected by what you eat, so it’s an uninteresting factoid. It’s usually used to tell people they need to eat less and move more to the exclusion of food choice which hasn’t been very successful in long term studies.
This is very much outdated and a relic of the times when anti-communist world powers believed they could maybe remove communism from mainland china. It is a believe held today only by a small minority. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951560
I (and it turns out a lot of other people) used to use "do they code in Python?" as a heuristic for "are they a smart self motivated programmer"

A similar metric you could apply to companies "are they engineering influenced enough to pick a "weird" language". In other words has the company chosen a language on the basis of "we can hire more Java programmers easily" - an awful mindset that suggests all other engineering decisions are a bust.

So yes I agree with your baseless speculation- it's probably less baseless than you are worried about
From an engineering or design point of view, wabi may be interpreted as the imperfect quality of any object, due to inevitable limitations in design and construction/manufacture especially with respect to unpredictable or changing usage conditions; in this instance, sabi could be interpreted as the aspect of imperfect reliability, or the limited mortality of any object, hence the phonological and etymological connection with the Japanese word sabi (錆, "to rust") (lit., "to rust").

Applied to software construction, wabi would mean bugs, and sabi would mean bit rot.

But I prefer to take a more positive view of it. I think any single purpose CLI tool could exemplify the sort of austere asthetic that wabi promotes. Graceful degradation of its functions over time or inputs would be the sabi side of it.
"Second, there's what to do with old fuel rods. Proponents argue this is a solved problem and it can be stored for the long term in geologically stable storage facilities." With space travel becoming cheaper and cheaper, cant we deposit that on the moon for example?
They weren't suspended for the tweet.
> using the API against user accounts (as opposed to bot accounts) is called self-botting and is prohibited

Gotta love how they reframe the conversation about user's rights. It's like how car companies of old redefined[0] walking as "jaywalking", reframing the conversations about street space in a way where the car became more important than the pedestrian.

What they call "self-botting" is arguably the whole point of having general-purpose computers available to general population. Bicycles for the mind and all.

--

[0] - Allegedly; it's a factoid I saw repeated on HN. But even if not true, this doesn't affect my point.
Demands for equality between the sexes are justified because people of both sexes want more equality in order to improve their own personal lives.

The justification never was "fitness of the species."

I believe that would be a terrible goal.

My belief happens to reflect the global consensus in the current era.

This was one of the (many) issues behind World War II.

Although I don't think even the Nazis truly believed in maximizing the fitness of the species. I think it was an excuse.
> It is a specific outcome that involves you and another person.

That means a half of it is beyond my control. I can try to be a great partner. And I can find someone who seems like they would be a reliable partner. But no one can perfectly predict other people; sometimes people change. And if my partner happens to meet someone more attractive and decides to upgrade... there is not much I can do about it. I have seen people who seemed like happy couples, then one of them met someone else and decided they no longer felt happy in the existing relationship.

> You pay child support if you are married too, it just is called "parenthood" rather than child support. [...] And again, you pay alimony if you are married too. It is just called "supporting my stay-at-home spouse".

You are right that a married man contributes financially to his family. But he is also involved in the decisions. At the very least, after the children grow up, he can encourage his wife to take a part-time job again, and maybe a full-time job later. If instead, depending on the specific laws at given state, he is legally required to pay his ex-wife indefinitely, she has no reason to change the situation.

Also, it is cheaper to live together, and more expensive to live apart. Two houses are usually more expensive than one, even if they are small ones. You can save a lot of money by cooking together, sharing household appliances, maybe sharing a car, etc. So the divorce naturally increases the total costs of living of the people involved. Paying half of the increased costs is more expensive than paying half of the original costs.

Then there is also the fact that in marriage the man gets something in return. Like, he brings home the salary, but his wife cooks for them both. After divorce, he keeps paying, but now he is getting nothing in return.

tl;dr - divorce is more expensive than marriage, and it is partially out of your control whether it happens
> It looks like the author of the article just googled some libraries for each language and didn't research the topic

Yep, this seemed like an aggregate Google results page.

I was initially intrigued by the article and then realized it was a list of libraries the author found via Google. There were significantly notable omissions from this list and a bunch of weird stuff that feels unnecessary. I don't think the author has actually scraped a page before.
(caveat: I've read a bit about Ada but don't have any deep familiarity with it)

Ada is safe compared to the other languages of its day, but I'm not sure it compares favorably with Rust. IIRC it does have more of a focus on safe arithmetic rather than memory safety.
YubiKey and SSO.
I get that, but to go from "oh this won't be very common" to willingly "let's just leave this out" is something else. At least in my mind :) Or was it an oversight?
Interviewing.io might be worth a shot.
Hasn’t Bill Gates done a lot with nuclear reactor design?
Google at ICCV 2021
I don't think rust is particularly weird. If you want, you can pretty much write in an imperative style, with objects, etc. It's just got some practical thinking thrown on ontop of that: i.e. make everything immutable by default, use tooling to ensure people aren't holding on to dangling pointers, etc.

Some of these things have tradeoffs, but I think once you get to grips with what the borrow checker is asking of you (doesn't take long), it's a pretty easy language - certainly simpler than C[0], far simpler than C++.

[0]: Non-buggy C, that is. I wrote a pretty basic program in C the other day (I'm not a C programmer) and I literally spent 80% of the time looking at output from -fsanitize=address to catch stupid off-by-one errors.
Google pulls ‘stalkerware’ ads that promoted phone spying apps
That depends on how math proficiency is measured. For actual proficiency, I agree with you. They still may be able to show a rising line on a graph, though, by measuring "proficiency" in some way that is completely unrelated to actual proficiency...
I live in Germany, I have seen a lot…
Seriously indeed. I can't read it, the whole page is just intimidating by being so many individual sentences without organization, and hurts my brain to look at.
Well, at least the right to life is a human right. It turned out that having to work in a crowded space with many others can be a real threat for your life.
The Warrior Gene
Well done, great to see some Next.js competition.
> “We’re intentionally not prescribing how many days or which days — this is for Directors to determine with their senior leaders and teams.”

This reminds me of what George said to Jerry in The Deal on Seinfeld:

> Jerry: Spending the night. Optional.

> George: No, you see? You got greedy.

Making the policy discretionary will ultimately make it like an "unlimited vacation" policy where it actually doesn't happen but the company gets to say that it's their policy.
In which Paul Graham served to popularize the idea in August of 2004: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
The ROC definitely considers itself a country.

And I'd like to point out that the ROC and the PRC don't even have the same land claims. The PRC claims the mainland and Taiwan. The ROC claims the mainland, Taiwan, and Mongolia. Mongolia claims Mongolia. There are three separate countries making these claims.

The fact that (some of) their claims overlap doesn't magically mean that the ROC and PRC aren't two separate countries. It just means that they are two countries that claim more land than they control.
We'll see in future campaigns. I hope the Democrats don't follow the Republicans further into the toilet, but I'm afraid it's likely because it works.
It's not an exact science, but based on our team's velocity which is tracked in Jira, we appear to complete more units of work while remote...but of course there are likely numerous factors to consider.
Is public opinion weight a matter of GDP? Should it?
How stagnant is this project? The videos I find on YouTube are 8 years old.
I'll bite! Drop me a note. Let's find out if I have a clue.