skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought that conference talks should have the traffic light system that you get a Toastmasters.

IIRC it's green while you've still got plenty of time, orange when you're within x minutes of the scheduled end, and red once you're at the scheduled end.

I've found (from Toastmasters) that a nice bright light at the back of the hall is much easier to respond to than a clock or something counting down
Boehm GC's checking mode works fine in C and C++. The reason why nobody uses it has nothing to do with the fact that it's conservative and everything to do with the fact that Address Sanitizer is just plain better at solving programmers' needs. ASan is about as good as you can do as far as developer tools that find use-after-free problems in memory-unsafe languages like C/C++/Zig go. It would not be a better tool if it were precise at identifying pointers, because of the inevitable false positives that come with trying to scan the whole object graph for dangling pointers in memory-unsafe languages. ASan got so popular precisely because it tries very hard to avoid false positives.

Zig does seem to have some properties that make precise pointer identification possible. But the right conclusion to draw from this is that Zig should use a tracing garbage collector. It's well-known how to use the pointer provenance properties you're talking about to achieve UAF protection: just implement a GC! Trying to get by with things like quarantining memory forever is not going to work in production, and the reasons why Zig programs will supposedly not be vulnerable to UAF problems are unconvincing. It is going to want a GC eventually.
Somehow I doubt this will prevent US Government itself from being a customer. They always exempt themselves from restrictions they put on others. That said, I still welcome the move. NSO is scum, that much we've established years ago.
As someone working for a US company in the actual Transylvania, I find you not entitled to be offended. Come here, live the life, check again if you are offended and share the experience.
You are doing God's work. Thank you. I've used your extension almost everyday for many years now. Simple to use!
I'd like to work for Netflix. It's one of my favorite services, and after talking to a principal who was with them through the 2000's, the challenges they face are fascinating. I feel like I'd be doing a net positive for the world since so many people rely on it for peace of mind.
Personally I look for small or startup type companies. I’ve learned that VC backed companies are usually cut throat and not creative. You will get paid more, but there is a cost to that. It’s a numbers game with VC backed companies. Burn and churn. Large companies it’s hard to add value. I worked at Salesforce for about a year before I quit. One of the best companies I ever worked at as far as perks go.

I also don’t have a college degree but have the experience to back me up. I’ve noticed at organizations where they hire fresh out of college or bootcamps is just a bunch of people that would rather talk computer science than write code that can be read in the future.

The best companies are hard to find gems that look like shit from the outside. For example, one company I worked for would dispute every Glassdoor review that wasn’t a 5 star saying it was a disgruntled former employee. It was a highly toxic company with amazing reviews on Glassdoor. Compare that with the company I’m at today that has just over a 3 stars.

The best companies that aren’t complete shit will empower you and encourage you to be your best. They understand they hire for your expertise and get the fuck out of your way. They demand results and also realize that results can take time. Not many people are able to work in this type of environment. You’re essentially looking for a company who treats employees like a team. Just like any professional sports team, the worst players are cut. However, the company also understands balance and sees excessive working as a problem. You’re looking for a company where the one doing the hiring is looking for someone smarter than they are.

In my opinion, the best way would be to read the reviews, and I mean really read the reviews you find online. Why are people saying what they say? Are they new hire reviews? Research the executive team and anyone else you can find at the company on LinkedIn. Before you go to any interview do research on the company and come prepared with questions you want answered based on your findings. Ask the company why you should work for them without being direct. Try talking to others who work there and get a feel for their personalities. If you smoke, go find where the smokers are and start conversations with them. If you get an offer, negotiate a contact for 90 days. During those 90 days, you want to keep interviewing the company. How’s the onboarding? Are they setting you up for success? Is there politics? Are there any assholes? Look for any red flags. There might be warning flags but the point is, you both are testing each other out.

Every company will have its pros and cons. I’ve decided to work at smaller companies which pay a little less but I have more opportunities to learn and grow vs a larger company where I’m a one trick pony.
Thanks, will binge through this!
Gun control has never been a big thing in VA. Even Democrats are not pushing very hard for it.
I mean, alright, you do you, but the common misconception you're echoing here he very specifically refuted with data and cited sources. One point in particular, it costs a city around $30k/yr per homeless person in emergency medical care and jail facilities, but only ~$10k/yr to give them the proper support and a place to live.
Video is horrible for learning, because the combination of two sensory cues into a single passive medium puts said cues into a constant state of distraction with each other. The visual tends to distract the viewer from the aural, and the presence of the visual invites the producer of the video to put less effort into aural exposition.

Audio-only is not as bad as video, in my experience. Probably still less-than in comparison to reading, but certainly an acceptable compromise particularly for people who struggle to read due to some disability.
I hope it is brighter than the future for leaded avgas.
Replace "New York" with "Tel Aviv", and nothing else needs to change.
> And how stupid is it that these articles talk about studies but still don't actually link to them?

Well, the middle-man doesn't want you going to the source. What's his job gonna be if you do?
I don't envy the people involuntarily enlisted to be "beta testers" by being in proximity of the cars.
For general role hires, this is true, although it's a subset of all teams - teams with high priority roles pitch to you, you choose a couple to try out tasks for a few days. They stack rank, you stack rank, matches are made.

Internal transfers after 1 year are pretty easy. I've seen people transfer earlier, if it's clear the fit between employee and team isn't there.
Xerox guys were always a class of their own.
I remember hearing stories of Apple taking care of their customers like that, too.
Low level code has to take extreme care of avoiding as many allocs as possible, wonder when the compiler will be smart enough to do these optimizations automatically...
Hydrogen Embrittlement[1] is not discussed in the link, an effect where hydrogen diffuses into metals and causes them to become brittle and crack. Many aerospace materials are especially vulnerable: high strength steels, nickel and titanium alloys, etc. Fueling a disposable balloon or rocket with hydrogen is one thing, but a vehicle that can safely be refilled with hydrogen over and over for decades is quite another. (Recall how the rust red Space Shuttle External Tank was not recycled like the white SRBs were and was the only large expendable component each launch.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
It can also be done using a few small books, mapping strings of 4 base 64 characters into 3 ASCII characters. With 100 printable characters (according to Python), and assuming you can get 96 per page (4 columns of 24; possible with clever layout), that would fill about 50 books.

Okay, maybe that's not very efficient.

Each pair of Base 64 characters contains a single ASCII character, plus some change. That would take three lookup tables of about 1000 entries each; given that the “change” letters could use character ranges, that would take 3 or 4 sheets of A4 (or A3, if you wanted large print).
link didn't work for some reason https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/chaos-studio/chaos-st...
Amazing. Don't answer the phone.
My guess is that he does a lot of manual editing of entries which is fast in a text editor and somewhat annoying to form SQL statements to do.
Second this. FB Corp treats its employees very well.
I do with all the tech I buy and sell. I was burned about ten years ago by two apparently-grey market Intel CPUs that I had purchased from a reputable distributor, and had to eat the warranty replacements when they both failed.

Once I started checking proactively I took delivery of a few hard drives that turned out to be "of questionable warranty period", again from various reputable distributors. I immediately had them replaced with no hassle.
Maybe it was just marginally better than previous places. The actual leadership is alright, they just had unreasonable expectations for me personally. But hey, I'm still unemployed almost two years later, so if anyone's looking, hit me up :)
What will the metaverse mean for current companies?
When the metaverse or something similar mean for current companies building on the web.

Anybody have thoughts on this. Like if you have a web/mobile application that is well established will your company be crushed by the metaverse.

Or will companies just pivot and make their software available in some VR/3D format...

Wonder what peoples thoughts are on this subject.
> Windows doesn't release a new version every year

Windows does nowadays (since Windows 10)... see the major (now yearly) updates.

The major Windows releases since the Win10 OG release: 1511, 1607 (available as LTSB for businesses, Server 2016), 1703, 1709 (first ARM64 release, for the desktop SKU), 1803, 1809 (available as LTSB for businesses, Server 2019), 1903, 2004, Iron (Server 2022, not shipped on desktop), 21H2 (Cobalt, corresponding to Windows 11 on desktop).

One aspect is that an older OS might have the headline vulnerabilities patched, but not architectural bugs or additional security hardening. Those aren't generally backported to older releases.
Buses take much longer to slow down than cars and the driver also likely can't see you if you cut them off with little room to spare. So besides not wanting to be a jerk there's self-preservation to think about.
For my skillset, there's tons of jobs in industries like entertainment, finance, insurance, tech B2B, advertising, private sector contracting, chemical manufacturing, gambling, etc. I'm really sick of my labor going towards turning people into consumer zombies, making the rich richer, or otherwise exploiting people or nature.

How do you find a tech job where you know your labor is actually having a positive impact on humanity? It feels like they're not hiring. Maybe the problem is just working in tech.
> “As with children 12-17 who may not have personal identification, we will follow the same approach with the younger kids such that they would not be penalized for not having an ID,” a spokesperson from the department wrote in an email.

So parents just need to say "Sorry, my child doesn't have any photo ID" and they won't have to prove they've been vaccinated?
Eastern Europe is not hit or miss: there are skilled people and the rest; companies hired the skilled people a long time ago, then started to hire people with no skills because "they had plans and targets to meet" and complain they are not so good? The IT market is vacuumed, people with basic skills are hired to fill roles of seniors, hiring managers have recruiting targets and quality is not one.
I think most of us would feel like impostors next to Anders Hejlsberg.
The Minecraft Generation (2016)
> Love his web page on dutch bikes in Amsterdam.

Ha! That's my half second of viral fame right there.

You have no idea how blindly I stumbled into making that webpage. I haven't ridden bicycles more than a handful of times since college, and something possessed me to start taking photo after photo of bicycles without much thought. I was just travelling home from Europe to the USA with a short layover in Amsterdam when I took them. When I got home I stared at this unorganized pile of photos of bicycles and almost deleted them. I honestly thought nobody would ever, in a million years, care about a webpage about bicycles. I blasted that web page out in one continuous stream of tongue in cheek caffeine fueled frenzy, threw it up live, and went to bed.

About 3 or 4 months later my website couldn't serve enough pages to keep up with the load. I called my ISP and they said, "looks legit", I said "not possible, my website is at the ass end of the internet, nobody ever goes there". I bought an analytics package from them just to prove them wrong. All the traffic was to one web page: "Amsterdam Bicycles". A page about bicycles. (sigh)

Totally by accident, without intending to or knowing what I was doing, I stumbled upon several groups of people that are just PASSIONATE about bicycles. First of all, unknown to me there are people that are really, really into bicycles. They have mailing lists, they have websites. Who would have known?

But the group that just floored me was the Dutch people themselves. They are beyond passionate about bicycles, and there is a rich and amazing history behind it. For example, in World War 2 the Germans confiscated all the Dutch bicycles, and there is literally still a saying (in Dutch) that loosely translates to "I want my bicycle back" as an inside joke about still being resentful about this affront. And overlay that with the Dutch actually seem to have a great sense of humor and sense of self, and don't mind it if somebody pokes a little fun at them and they laugh right along. I wasn't disrespectful and mostly just expressed confusion over the situation which was completely honest at the time. So the city of Amsterdam sent me a T-shirt, a bicycle bell, and a bicycle light, and clippings from local newspapers about my silly web page. They were just so over the top great about it.

And the best part was the people from the photos reached out to me, like the woman pedaling here: https://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/pp9b_amsterdam_b... contacted me. In the caption for that photo I asked "Why is the guy riding, and the woman pedaling?" The answer is this: the owner of the bicycle always pedals. OF COURSE I offered to take the photo down if she wanted and she said, "Are you kidding, I love it!"

Well, I'd rather be lucky than good.
I look forward to your next posts in the series!

I'd start by skipping the inverter and using a car USB-C charger instead, then fussing with power settings to drive down the quiescent power of the laptop. Everything after that starts to feel like actual work, like changing the serving software or actively aiming the solar panel.

You might be able to find some single board computer with a modern CPU and no graphics silicon whatsoever.
The answer of course is no, not yet:

> Tarek Soliman, a London-based climate change analyst at HSBC Global Research, says the launch in Reykjavik is not the sort of “quantum leap” that would prove the technology can reach the scale and cost required to have a real impact on climate change.

However, we have only a very short amount of time to operationalize a way to store gigatons of carbon per year, because after 2050 it is necessary to stop the worst effects of climate change.

This Climeworks project is helpful for learning costs of this particular technology. But we had better find something with a really fantastic learning curve, where scaling the industry makes it really cheap, otherwise we will fail at our goals in the future.

It's hard enough to imagine any country paying for their past emissions from 2050 out, in the form of using tech like this to scale. But we must do it. Perhaps there will be a war.
How expensive can it really be to put up a "NO TURN ON RED" sign?
Space clears out when traffic upstream starts to move. If the next traffic light upstream is synced to the current one, then space will consistently open up at the same point in the cycle, favoring whichever direction has the green at that point. If the lights are almost but not quite synced, then the "favored direction" will gradually cycle around the intersection over time.

> circle around

This is generally not possible, especially for the kind of intersections that have this problem. There generally is not a short path that would allow you to circle around, and even if there is, it's guaranteed to be completely congested by everyone else trying the same trick.
It is possible to work on efforts to prevent genocide and extremism. As a matter of fact, there are very few people who enable genocide! (Approaching 0.0000)

Doesn't refusal to help only exacerbate the situation?
What voice? Not everyone holds the same ideology as you.
This is totally backwards. They are not insurance. They don’t guarantee anything in a downturn. They don’t gain their profits from premiums or from ratio of customers paid out.

Just like other managed funds don’t make promises but market themselves along a certain strategy. They market themselves along a different strategy.

Universa is a fund. They returned 100%+ on every dollar invested. End of story. You can think of them ‘like insurance’ or ‘like a casino’ but it’s ridiculous to pretend they are.
> Given younger populations have very, very low risk from COVID, this is a subtle and complicated question to answer.

Shouldn't we apply the precautionary principle to that question then ? From my primitive understanding of medical ethics there is duty of care versus do no harm.

As such, considering the slim percentages at play, there is IMHO no duty to administer preventive treatments children which are not infected, while harm may be caused.
> Not honoring warranty for products bought from unauthorized retailers is pretty standard in the industry.

USA is a free market. Everyone is authorized all the time to sell every safe product. The term "authorized reseller" is a linguistic manipulation which benefits manufacturers at the expense of everyone else in society.

Warranty goes with the product until it is used. Companies cannot refuse to honor a warranty because they dislike the person who sold it to you.

Because eVGA did not sell the stolen cards, business laws do not apply to eVGA's dealings with holders of the cards. Therefore eVGA does not have to honor any warranty that would have applied to the cards if eVGA had sold them (to anyone).

I wrote a bit more about this in [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426635
I listen to podcasts that joke about the military / law enforcement / intelligence agency biases of places like the BBC, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal.

That's what's great about the medium, something for everyone! :D
> You could just as well say you are giving yourself up to the whims of the union leadership, which is just a parallel management structure. Sure they are supposed to represent your interests, but they're also supposed to balance that against the interests of the company and what is practically possible. So is there really much of a difference?

There's a difference: they are elected by the workers.
I think the parent commenter might be referring to systems like Hive or HBase built on top of Hadoop and do have a lot of overlap with a large scale database system.
BonziBuddy with modern AI would be interesting.
I said modern, and you replied back with legacy. Not sure if I'm being trolled, you're super sacrastic above my understanding, or what.
They are not the same feature. Enums allows you to create new values, while union types only allow you to combine values. For example, in Rust, enum Toto { Titi, Tata } would create a new type, Toto, that contains two values, Toto::Titi and Toto::Tata. There's no way to express that with union types.

On the other hand, Rust's enum have to be defined before use: I can't suddently decide to have a function that returns "Toto" | "Tata" without creating a type or returning string.

OCaml has something called "polymorphic variants" that seem to be a middle-ground between the two: https://ocaml.org/manual/polyvariant.html.
It makes sense to steal hundreds of GPUs in parallel rather than individually.
Soft Real-Time on Windows IoT Enterprise
This scam is rampant in Discord where in many top cryptoasset communities a bot will PM someone about winning a 'contest' or receiving a promotion for one of these scam exchanges, and it follows the same narrative from there of asking for transfer fees to claim "up to 1.2 BTC" etc.
certs or bust faggots.
I used to have a drive home where one of the roads had a single lane that everyone local treated by convention like it was actually two lanes, one lane to go straight through and one to turn right, which worked fine until someone from out of town was driving in it and got in the wrong "lane" or just stayed in the middle
four year vest doesn't mean you get all the RSUs at the end of four years. or if it does, that's not how it actually works at google, facebook, microsoft, etc. typically you get an offer with a certain amount of RSUs, and then you get 25% of that each year. amazon is an exception; you get most of the RSUs in the third and fourth year. but you also get a large signing bonus paid over the first two years that mostly makes up for that.

tl;dr: your yearly TC doesn't change much at these companies unless you get an actual raise. I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the four year schedule, but AIUI, it does not strongly incentivize sticking around for the full four years unless you assume significant stock appreciation.
FWIW the author of the post apparently uses Go for this: https://github.com/danslimmon/donothing
Another user had emailed to complain of something similar. Where there are two there are probably many, so I think we can leave it this way—it's no big deal. One question though: do 'hide' links on stories work, e.g. on the front page or /newest? I suspect they probably won't, because I didn't revert that part of the change.
What is in the zip file when you click the download button??
I, for one, am completely skeptical. But maybe I'm just old.

Once there is an audience, it may work out. But I have a feeling this will be a big swing and a miss. Hard for Facebook to be the one to build this if it's possible, it's far more likely to come from a scrappy startup like Instagram or WhatsApp did.
Is this about the blog post which was mentioned in this Ask HN post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063779
serves you liberals right.
Another way to put it: any CI properly integrated to Github will be #1 CI by sheer market size.

Gitlab has a similar YAML system from more than a decade, it's low friction, pretty polished and highly reliable. But it will always be a more niche product by the effect of Gitlab being way smaller that Github.
Anyone who has ever tried out HoloLens (which I have) would know just how insane a waste of taxpayer money this is. I got mine for free, and I still couldn't find any good uses for it. And I'm a techie.

This is the prime example of why taxpayers in the United States do not trust the government to spend their taxes wisely _at all_.
LGR did a Tech Tales on Bonzi Buddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L958sMz1kWs
There must be a HUGE pay discrepancy. I mean millions of dollars over the course of a decade. Too much opportunity cost, and for what? What is the value of the loyalty shown by the owner?
If that's true, it's only because they altered their spending behavior. That is, you reduced their quality of life.