skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User-base rot is something that I have expected to happen to Twitter but surprisingly it is still refreshing over time.
Yeah? Then why won't Boris Johnson allow the Scottish to vote for independence?

Surely, taking your argument as truth, Scotland is smaller than the UK and therefore stronger than the UK?
“What employees want” isn’t really relevant

I think John Deere said the same thing. When enough employees get together and demand what they want, they'll get it.
It's a loophole because they can put a cap on these low early reservation, fixed itinerary prices because of the assumption that only people travelling on a shoe-string budget will do more than six hours of travelling in a single sitting. This keeps the number of travellers who do Norddeich Mole – Zagreb Glavni kolodvor (eighteen hours of train travel) to a minimum — essentially just some students and people on the bottom rung of the economic ladder. A negligible number of people.

Once you start allowing extreme transfer times of 24 hours, you are basically inviting people to exploit that system, which will drive prices up eventually, because those people would otherwise have bought multiple tickets (one for each stage of the journey).
Why does this sound like an unlikely development?
I think we'll evolve 'better' sociopaths. Dozens of emergency text messages at 2am, conference calls with 30 people on them only 5 involved in the problem, weird demands for screen sharing, strangely scheduled video conferences for the sake of proving you can force people to attend video conferences...

Bad management will always find a way to be bad.
True. If you take a highway that people feel is reasonable and prudent to drive at 75-85 mph and post it as 55, people will drive 20-30 mph over. I think the problem is more likely the 55 signage in that case.
If you want to work on distributed systems, Web backend, services, command line tools, etc, give Go (golang.com) a look.
I take it the whole corona thing happened because you got the flu sometime at the end of 2019?
There were (at least) two such "stunts" in the past involving German ministers:

In 2008. "fingerprint of then interior minister and current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble" was sourced from a glass:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995935/posts

In 2014. "A speaker at the yearly conference of the Chaos Computer Club has shown how fingerprints can be faked using only a few photographs. To demonstrate, he copied the thumbprint of the German defense minister" Ursula von der Leyen

https://m.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-f...
Does it have something to do with this:
https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617
?
This isn't a post, it's a PR. If your names are listed in a public Git repository, then you need to have them removed if you resign. This means a PR and a review of that PR, which is exactly what happened here.
Remote work has added more than an hour to my usable, personal time each weekday because I'm no longer commuting. That's ten days over a year. Plus all the time saved in miscellaneous commute-related activities. That's a hard perk to give up. Tempus fugit. Memento mori.
This person being a prominent part of the Rust community definitely does not make me want to engage with it and does make me wary of the stability of the language as well: https://archive.fo/f10KK
I'm curious how you expect the random people on HN to affect change by "following" someone's proposals sans activism?

It seems like a "reasonable shortcut" around activism would involve... actually accomplishing things? Otherwise I can just say staying at home is a "reasonable shortcut" to getting to work. It's certainly much shorter, but it doesn't really accomplish the task at hand, no?
The answer is pretty simple. They won't renew the leases on the offices they're renting and they'll consolidate into the buildings they own. If it's still too much office space they'll sell or just let the workers that are coming in have more space. Years ago I heard stories of Amazon forcing employees to work from home because their offices didn't have enough bathrooms.

Amazon is, as far as I know, allowing people to work from home full time now. That's what their recruiters have been telling me and that's what my friends that work there are saying.
I can't help but feel that this type of workflow just took a huge step forward in https://copilot.github.com/ too. A solid recognition that thats how most people code distilled into a product that automates that lookup by cross referencing information on the worlds largest code platform.
The number of people showing up to offices that are optionally open are very very low by observation. My regional office houses ~200 cubes, and has an optional attendance of <3 every day. Downtown Seattle (around our 5 block area) is sparsely populated compared to 2 years ago.

The hq houses about 7000 has at attendance of about <3% in another state.

> almost nobody wants to go back to office, at least not on a daily basis

Where's the evidence people DO want to go back to the office?
Sounds like a great way to end up with your team consisting of only one person. Not very effective. Do you expect everyone else to just endure that behavior?
i see zig as a potentially good alternative, however as of now the learning curve might be steeper than rust - not because of the language itself, but because of the poor state of the documentation. you might need to e.g. read the code of the std lib to figure out how to do certain things.

it needs more time to bake, but i'm looking forward to it.
Not to prevent people like this from becoming the executive director, that's for sure: https://archive.fo/f10KK
I don't think so.

Or is KDE now a Purism project? Or is Sailfish? Or sxmo? Or is p-boot? Or Linux kernel when no drivers overlap between the two SoCs? Or is crust? Or modem manager? Or all the work going into modem's kernel and firmware? Or is megapixels a purism project? Or debian/arch linux arm and all the packaging effort done there that many distros with pinephone support rely on?

Pinephone software support is so much more than re-using PureOS components.

Anyway your question was:

> Perhaps you know some other vendor developing and selling phones with a desktop OS and desktop apps?

And that doesn't require any PureOS components for full functionality. I run i3wm on my Pinephone for convergence. Easy to dual-boot into i3wm/arch linux or any other mobile distro for use on the go (mobile wayland based DEs have terrible performance with dual monitor use anyway, compared to plain old Xorg, and if anything is less needed is to fluidly swap between desktop and mobile UI, when reboot takes a few seconds anyway). Maybe some people really need that kind of convergence, but dual boot is enough for me.

I've made this project to showcase that functionality to people, and to also show that there's not just PureOS/phosh

https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GjXQFnMHGY
I don't know what changes when formal structures like a foundation start getting involved.
We need it yesterday. Get someone on this, stat.
The thought of buying and configuring more technology so that I can watch TV without interacting with some horrible UI, makes me want to just avoid TV instead. Going ok so far.
One of the FAANGs started as a bookstore. So yeah, pretty much anything can turn into a tech company.
The Rust Moderation Team is not the same as the r/rust "mods". Yes, this is confusing.
I agree that the page could benefit from some improvements. However see this nice comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29309861.

If all you care is longevity, then Apple is definitely a good choice. However, if you also value freedom, then your only other mainstream choice is Android, which is only supported for 3 years or less.
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FMRI uses indicators like pulse, heartrate, etc. to make a more or less estimate on the truthfulness. Torture can make these indicators useless.
Torture is a very flawed method to extract informations. You can't be sure that the victim isn't telling lies or admits to crimes just to make the torture stop.
I quite like the badly maintained Contexts application: https://contexts.co
> Adding lanes has been shown (as you agree) to not help the people who want to use the road, as is just induces more demand.

Only when you don't add enough lanes. It hurts some people who are already using the existing lanes, but it helps other people who previously found the trip so painful they didn't take make it at all, but now the level of pain is low enough that they make it. Focusing only on those who are already using the road isn't the answer, we need to focus on everyone.
Could you explain a little bit more how cosmic rays move through space and how they cause values stored in hardware to change?

There was an interesting glitch in SM64 where a player was teleported to a new location because of a specific bit being flipped by a cosmic ray. I'm curious to know how the ray flips specific bits (why certain ones and not others), and how the process works electrically.

EDIT: Ah interesting, seems like these particles are like protons coming from supernovae and black holes. They are moving basically at the speed of light, and are much smaller than the electron well where energy is stored in hardware, so that's why they are able to flip exactly one bit when they collide with that one transistor.
Even worse: They’re paid to not care.
There's a thing in Switzerland called "EasyRide" where you checkin at the start of your journey and check-out at the end, and it will calculate you the cheapest option for what it registered as movement - day cards included. And even if you check-in again later the same day it will just calculate the difference for the entire daytrip.
Not really preventative.

It's just that if you start collecting conversational data from everyone, you need AI to go through it. It's simply not possible to do it manually.

And once you get AI involved, scope creep is guaranteed because of the huge advancements being made in that area.

There's no way we can stop AI from being built but we can still stop some of our data from going into it.
From my guesses, this is mainly designed for data engineering, where you do run the same operation on a lot of entries. N is very very big, so it will negate the probabilistic nature of the checker.

Other than that, this is simply useless. Note that, if your function arguments are primitives (int, str, etc), you can design your function to fail early when the type is incorrect. Things can be trickier with objects, but still doable. So, no, this won't be useful for anything w/ deep logic.

Also, half serious half joke, but you should reconsider your language choice if you need stuffs like this, because Python isn't good at both performance and type safety.
Police charge Amazon India executives in drug smuggling case
Nvidia research's GauGAN AI art demo responds to words
Svelte Cubed
I suppose if you give a generous take on what "very high DPI" is this would be easily agreeable e.g. some phones pushing 600 DPI but for the devices in question they ship with ~160 DPI displays though and that's nowhere near needing a magnifying glass to distinguish more clarity.

It does suck some power though, same with high refresh. I used to have my laptop flip between 4k 200% DPI and 1080p 100% DPI based on whether I was plugged in. Usually ran games at 1080p. Important to use nearest neighbor scaling in that situation though or it'll get blurry.
Are you willing to relocate? Do you have a github? I don't know what things are like right now, but I have hired someone with no degree at a former startup (though he was fresh out of a coding bootcamp), and it seems like a pretty common thing to do. I frequently see a degree listed only as 'nice-to-have' now.

But you should look for smaller companies which need cheap coders, and be prepared to work at a massive discount from the market rate for a while.

It was actually hard for me to get that first job also (with a CS degree, but no internship and a bad GPA). Actually, the bigger obstacle was not having any relevant experience, I felt like the degree set me back because it taught me very little that was useful for most of the jobs I was applying for. In the end I sort of lucked my way into web development, but was pretty much self-taught or taught on-the-job.
As someone who is an avid Linux user for over a decade and MacBooks daily at work, this is 100% sour grapes.

There is absolutely a visible difference between HiDPI displays and standard ones.
Wow, I swear the r/node link worked when I posted it. Thanks for the archived version; I updated my comment.
Paperclicks.
What a stupid argument.

Call me crazy, but I believe that you don't have to actively champion and invite openly racist people to conferences to show that you tolerate difference of opinion.

If you're protecting personnel, even after a number of others in your community have shown disagreement with the person's actions (and protections afterwards), just admit you agree with those thoughts. If not, your entire organization is cowardly and hiding behind a scapegoat and mouthpiece.
No, that has been deconfirmed on Reddit: Edit 2 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/comment/hlne24...
And tbh, you beat your head against the wall until you managed to find the solution...somehow.
The data/research mentioned in the tweet: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/more-follow-up-hi....
No matter what they tell you, it’s a people problem.
Investors do not get burned, they are now are confident that the federal reserve will not allow asset (read: housing) prices to go down.

In the event that prices do go down, then they will be bailed out in some form or fashion.
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Lack of intelligence and/or education can't be solved by modifying our language.
"Just ignore people seeking to harm you specifically and severally" has historically been poor practice.

And it's almost always advocated by people who have the upper hand in their own exchanges. Which is fascinating, isn't it?
Dreaming is fine, but Musk has a track record of not delivering on his over-optimistic promises. And a dream is not enough to overpower gravity and the laws of thermodynamics. There are very hard physical limits on how efficient a rocket can be, even in the most optimistic scenarios.
You could make that same argument in favour of the e2e backdoor: "The risk of child groomers, terrorists etc running rampant is far greater than the risk of a few chats getting leaked."

At the very least, this would need some quantification of risk: Probability and impact of keys getting leaked vs probability and impact of not installing a backdoor.
I know we're not supposed to post reddit-style "slowclap" comments here, but a mere upvote just could not express my appreciation for this comment. Please carry on the good work.
GDPR was actually by "accident".

Jan Philipp Albrecht was appointed as rapporteur of the European Parliament for the process of the GDPR law making. His job was to take care of the process to find compromises between many opinions and fill them into law. Since he actually cares about privacy, he was in a position to make sure that the compromises keep a certain level of privacy protection. He's from the german "green/environmental" party.
There is an interesting documentary about his role and the process: "Democracy: Im Rausch der Daten". I don't know if there is an english version. There is a german version on youtube.
The "mistake" was to appoint him as rapporteur.

The "mistake" was not repeated, when Axel Voss from the german conservative party was appointed as rapporteur for the "Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (2019)".

(Note: The law making process in the EU is long and complicated and I do not know where this draft is currently in the process.)
> Adding a bus lane and a car lane clearly will add more capacity than doing just one of them, but adding a bus lane will likely reduce traffic so much in the other lanes that you don't even have to add another car lane.

The first is true, but the second doesn't follow. For a bus lane to make a difference you need more than a lane, you also need good bus service using that lane. Bus service in many cities horrible and so nobody sane will ride it. A lane of empty buses running around helps nothing. If you propose a bus lane you need to do it with all the service that will happen so we can evaluate it.
Paywall averted, thanks! Mods, is there any way of getting this link into the top level post? I assume the paywall is the reason it's been flagged.
Unless the entirety of the built binary is free of the LGPL, then I can tell you without hesitation that the answer is _definitely_.
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"Centralized cryptocurrency" already has its own word. Banking.

Banking would be better if it worked like eCash, but it would still not be a problem to not have a single word that encompasses both this and Bitcoin, since they are actually two different things.
Perhaps the only thing that's actually my own input is the judgement about what things are important, which sources are reliable, and which people are authorities.

This is more or less what I got out of the 2nd half of my higher education. Plus I got a ton of reps in, so to speak, to really refine my judgement and ability to research. It's the old adage about learning how to learn, teaching one to fish, etc. I'm sure this all applies to many fields, but especially one like ours that changes rapidly. Thanks to this education, I feel like I can switch careers pretty easily.

I make no mistake about it. I don't feel like I know what I know without the help of the Internet; I feel like I'm just some bloke who is good at sussing out what's important and how to apply it to my job. I think this is a skill that is missing from a number of my colleagues though.
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> They're having a hard time with the funds now, so they probably have to delay refunds in order not to go bankrupt.

That right there is a red flag. Sometimes companies don't make it. I've never heard of a story where a company put themselves above their duty to their customers in a way such as that which didn't lead to massive problems down the road.

I sincerely hope your interpretation is incorrect.
I'm super impressed by the production level of his 5 books I loved reading video.
It makes for a much slower experience more like, assuming the other hardware isn't up to spec. Which it definitely isn't, it being a laptop.
I'm sure this varies by location, but lots of companies are willing to hire older adults. And 40 is nothing. No one will care at that age. I mean, a startup that is trying to convince you to live there 24x7, maybe. But most real companies I've talked to have No problem with someone who is 40. Probably much older, too.

Don't let fears of discrimination stop you.

Note that the market is really good now. Discrimination will probably increase if things get worse.

I would agree with "check their about page". If no one looks like you, your chances are probably lower.

Source: am older than you and still programming.
Even wilder: the other day I ran across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich which apparently held that growing marijuana, for personal use under state law, is also interstate commerce. Is there anything at all that isn't interstate commerce?
Ada. Old, but stable, with most of the same safety and speed.
The Fixation of Belief (1877) [pdf]
If it becomes real it's also asking to be trolled. Enough clever traps and the entire thing becomes worthless to the state.
I would hazard a guess that almost every citizen has committed a crime of some sort at some point, no matter how minor or inadvertent. There are simply too many laws to avoid it.
> Exactly, this throws a giant spanner in the works and casts a shadow over whatever comes next.

Sometimes, throwing a spanner in the works is the good way forward. That's core to stop-the-line manufacturing, for instance. Without more information, it's hard to assess whether that team exhausted other escalation means, so I would wait for more details before judging their decision.
SPI isn't addressable.
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Yeah, I have worked with Go before and like it. But,i wanted to delve into even more lower language (without GC)
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For what it's worth, Andrew Gallant ("BurntSushi", the author of that post) is probably the voice I most trust on the Internet today. For a long time now, he has demonstrated that he is extremely judicious, level-headed, and well-thought-out on any position I've ever seen him take. People are not always polite / nice to him, and he unfailingly responds kindly and honestly with a level of effort that is truly amazing. He consistently demonstrates that he truly cares on a personal level, even when the situation is "unfair" or that level of care isn't being reciprocated.

All that to say: this message came from Andrew, and I believe it without question.
Have you ever seen the posts? Some relatives comment on them so they show up on my feed, but the post will be something like "do you like dogs or cats better?" And my aunt and 10 million other people will make a post just saying "cat" or "dog"
I for one can’t wait to have to climb that cliff. Unfortunately, our industry has a relatively shallow onramp, followed by a ton of difficulty using our building blocks to make stuff that does what we want in reliable, maintainable, performant ways. If we can have more difficult to learn, but easier to use tools to get us where we’re trying to go, I’m all for it.

I guess, instead of seeing it as an increase in complexity, I see it as a tradeoff of increased learning curve for decreased complexity.

You’re spot on about the labor market side though. More learning curve for the best tools has tons of labor market implications.

I’d bet the end game is more computing being in the general education tracks to deal with the overhead, as well as a wider (hopefully continuous) spectrum of computing tools for people ranging from those using computing as a small part of their work to those using computing for all of it. Like gradual typing. You don’t need to add types to python, but you can add mypy. Gradual depth, maybe.
As first I thought this is about "Rust programming concepts that can benefit you in JS as well", but this way it is good too. And maybe just my bad english anyway.
Well what do you want me to do? Apologize? Parts of the US are shitty and not as good the countries you listed. The police show up and beat the people who called them

https://youtu.be/jgjEbKc6jXk

You can judge us if you want. It really doesn't matter what some far away people who have no understanding of the way of life here think. It's good a thing we have a system where we are judged by a jury of our own peers here.
The production chains for aerospace are very long. It takes time to absorb extra capacity even if no other step in the chain were not constrained. We'd need more exoric alloys (or just use steel, weight be damned, as SpaceX is doing) and reinvent a lot of industries to be able to match that capacity to put stuff in orbit.

We'd also need to invent new uses for sattelites, things we don't do now because launching is too expensive. Their suborbital passenger transportation is one such new demand generators, but only if they can solve launching and landing near population centers.
Crystal? It recently reached 1.0

https://crystal-lang.org/