skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friend of mine said he worked with a system like that. Problem with it was it couldn't save code that didn't compile. That's a defect. Am reminded of someones comment that they would like a compiler that just stubs out code that doesn't compile. For a system to be workable you need to be able to handle that.

I feel that because no one uses AST aware editors no one understands what that would bring to the table. A counter example I've used CAD programs. And all of them store the design files as databases internally. Which means you can and people do preform database operations on them. Generate reports and perform update operations just like you would with an SQL type database.
Apply to jobs and interview. No need to quit before you have a new job lined up.
> The most likely government to be installed will be an islamic state,..

The suffix "-stan" is very suggestive, isn't it? After all, there are Pakistan and Afghanistan -- massively Islamic countries.

Similarly, Thailand ends in "-land", yet no one thinks Thailand is in Europe despite the fact that England, Switzerland and Poland are all European.

Islam in Kazakhstan is non-pure, non-literalist and heavily tinged/influenced by local shamanistic traditions and old Soviet ways unlike that in Middle East.

Pure Islam in Kazakhstan would look jarringly out of place.
It only depends on using a coherent definition of "double". It doesn't make sense to multiply and divide temperatures measured in °F or °C; those are interval scales, not ratio scales. In the US men's shoe size 3 is 9.25 inches long, and shoe size 12 is 12.25 inches long. Would you say that size-12 feet are four times as long as size-3 feet? Multiplying and dividing temperatures measured in °F or °C is the same error. (Multiplying and dividing ΔT measured in °F is fine, though.)

It's easy enough to melt 1000-series aluminum foil with a wood fire, and people commonly melt parts of beer cans in wood fires as well (ten times thicker but with a lower melting point). Aluminum ingots usually require at least a charcoal fire, and usually forced-air convection as well. But, as someone commented in another thread, babbitt is a much more likely candidate for the metal in question, because why would a logger be carrying around aluminum ingots in their truck? Especially in the 01930s. Ingots are for remelting, and that's a sensible thing to do in the field with babbitt in a non-emergency situation, much less so with aluminum.
Asus says this is world’s first quad-band Wi-Fi 6E gaming router
Ask HN: How to give product demos that don't suck?
I am a solo developer of a SaaS product. I do all engineering, sales, marketing, etc. I often find myself giving demos to people (or teams) and every time I feel like the demo sucked.

I have tried creating demo scripts, reading public speaking books, sales books, etc. My demos must not suck too much because I still get sales but I can't help but feel like I could do better and give a better "wow" factor when seeing the product in action.

Anyone ever feel this way and have advice?
> The only one I can think of is that my gaming PC was being hacked/remotely accessed and someone was speaking out loud or playing an audio file to prank me

Maybe "espeak"? It it is running Linux, that can be quite easily triggered over ssh to make any computer "speak".

We used to have a media station at home, wake-on-lan. One day, I desparately needed to speak to my wife, but she did not pick up her phone. So I ssh-ed into the media station, sudo-apt-get espeak and then piped "echo 'pick up the phone, berkes needs to talk to you'" into espeak. Freaked her out completely, but she did pick up the phone.
You have a separate dining room if you’re building a 6 room or larger MANSION. Calling a building with a separate dining room on top of a kitchen plus informal dining room as a Regular home seems to be a stretch.
Got WiFi 6E router but none of my devices support the modes - our phones are now getting replaced when they physically die or get lost - 5 years on a phone is not new in our household because of cost and them being good enough.
I always used Ubuntu on my hardware and about 90% Debian derived distros for customers vs a 10% of Red Hat derived ones, some CentOS and some Amazon Linux 2. I really don't like rpm. I do adapt to the different organization of the configuration files but I prefer the Debian one (maybe because of habit.) Most importantly I feel it's easier to google for solutions to Ubuntu problems. Of course I'm also more used to do that, I'm probably at 20 vs 1 Debian/Ubuntu vs RH machines now.
I don't run DNSSEC either, but as you know, the Slack issue was caused by haphazard implementation, followed by apparent panicked incorrect rollback. They would have had basically the same issue if they had added incorrect AAAA records with long expiry. There may well be reasons not to deploy IPv6, but I don't think this is a good one. Similarly, while I agree that DNSSEC offers few upsides, I don't think this particular example is a good one against DNSSEC itself.
I agree that formal methods probably isn’t as well known as it could/should be.

> Also redundancy and fail-safes in logic are used throughout the system for safety critical software. This again is easy to implement but tedious.

I wouldn’t call implementing redundancy and fail safety for a fairly complex system easy though. Tedious, yes. And tedious but easy probably could describe lots of other engineering work as well, not only software.

> Sometimes the engineer of the physical system itself just programs it himself. Alot of non-software engineers are like this because software engineering tends to be easy so they can just learn how to program.

They might believe that it’s easy to write some software that in some way solves the problem but in my experience they don’t always engineer good software, and don’t always realise that their small part of the program has to work together with a huge amount of other software. Not that all software engineers do this either..
A March 2022 Threadripper product would all but certainly just be a Zen 3 update. So compare the performance gains going from a 3950X to a 5950X or from Epyc 7002 to 7003. Just that but applied to Threadripper (so something like +15% performance)
I heard that their (miserly) first and second year RSU vests are made up for with a cash component during those two years, or am I mistaken about that?
Less than the amount of difficulty added to driving a car that can only be adjusted by poking at a TV mounted some place where you aren't looking at the road.

Sure, fixing that squeaky door is "easy," but have you ever heard the adage that every home project involves three trips to the hardware store? There may be technical aspects that few of us can implement from scratch and on the first try, but at the same time I also don't know how to build a good broom. These concerns are not insurmountable, especially with the network effects of people being in the same boat. How easy is it to find a good handyman without asking anybody? You don't have to.
Three Kinds of Polymorphism in Rust
2024 Chevy Silverado EV Unveiled
> Bezos believed that workers' desire to perform well decreased over time and that an entrenched workforce was a "march to mediocrity," Niekerk told The Times.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...
FYI: airlines usually allow a purse or small laptop bag for free, in addition to your carry-on bag.

Wheely bags just gross me out because you roll them through public bathrooms and city streets, then you have to access that underside to get at the zipper.
The guy is actually the cofounder of the studio that wrote the game (Travelers tales)
See my recent post history about low interest rates and price discovery. It seems like we're in a command economy that optimizes for employment more than meaningful work. This 'administrative expansion' is part of what I was talking about.

Caveat: I have only barely studied economics.
Pyra Handheld – Feature-rich ultra portable Mini Computer (running Debian)
I have lately started to call dns "a global distributed database", rather than decentralized. Decentralized implies some properties that the dns system most definitely does not have.
Ex-Amazon. Lasted 2 years. I'll just repeat the comment I posted the other day:

There are only two instances when you're happy at Amazon - when you start and when you quit. Doing the latter was the best decision I made, perhaps, in my entire career. I can honestly tell that those RSUs and bonuses weren't worth it.

Avoid at all costs. You've been warned.
the part of my web experience that Google is responsible is exceedingly inexpensive and I have a hard time understanding how competition could reduce the price I pay. Economies of scale don't work in favor of competition unfortunately.

The phone market isn't 50% Google unless you count Samsung as a subsidiary of it. Nor does the existence of Apple help me, the consumer, since they obviously don't compete on price.
At what point do we declare Chicago a failed city?

Hopefully the next Republican administration will stop feeding Illinois funds and just allow them to go bankrupt - and begin the process of rebuilding.
That makes sense - and congrats on getting any revenue out of a side project! It seems like a good experience even if it's hard to judge it on economic grounds alone.
I drove to Germany to see the machines. Spoke to the doc admistering it. It's a potentially painful almost full day procedure. We discussed the placebo thing. I'm not an expert on medical ethics but personally I would not want to be intubated (potentially wrong word) into that thing for hours and not get treatment.
In the end you need to ask an authoritative server anyway, but this let's you skip your ISP being the middleman for all your general queries. Unbound is nice because you can have it verify dnssec
>Basically every manager is forced to stack-rank their entire team, and the bottom N percent is put on a PIP. So even if your entire team is comprised of very top-notch engineers you will see forced attrition.

That sounds like a huge disincentive to mentoring and developing your team.
I haven't actually. I took a quick look at it and (could be wrong) it seems they keep the data on their servers?

Data freedom is a biggie for me. I like to have a folder of text files that I can move around, backup as I want and do fun stuff with[0].

[0] e.g. I've been having fun with making a Mastodon toot-queue org file. I just dump ideas on the org file and a cron job toots one every hour until the queue is empty.
Quite a few active channels on IRC (Libera.chat) as well!
> Why is this Covid situation any different?

Because the downsides of the things you listed are of a much smaller magnitude than the upsides.

A much better example would be, for example, someone telling you "don't eat red meat, because it increases your risk of colon cancer". If you really like steak, and the risk of colon cancer is small, you might choose that the tradeoff is worth it.

Health experts can only tell you whether a particular course of action increases or decreases the risk of health issues. They can't tell you whether that's worth the cost of that course of action, because that's subjective.

Regular in-person social interaction is extremely important for most people's happiness, and it's perfectly reasonable for them to think that going back to 2019 normal is worth the risk of a slightly increased chance of being killed or maimed by Covid.
I've put people on PIPs. I genuinely wanted them to do better. They did. Like you said, they are a tool for laser-focusing attention on specific, well-defined issues.

There is no actual ass-covering need to put someone on a PIP. If a company in the U.S. wants to fire you, they generally don't need a reason.

Individual company cultures will, of course, vary. There are a lot of shitty managers out there.
God bless you for this. Seriously.
Lots of questions around GUI apps. As someone pointed out, GUI apps have been "almost" working for years. Darling looks great but it hasn't gotten near as much love as Wine has gotten.

I've been keeping an eye on it, and will continue to keep an eye it, and I've noticed the development is very slow. At the rate it's going, it'll be years before it'll be a viable solution like Wine is. I hope visibility for it will increase so that the current devs get some more help on this.

I'd still like to give thanks to the devs as this is a very ambitious project. I'm sure people used to say "it'll be years before it'll be a viable solution" when Wine was in its infancy.

Having Linux run iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows applications running would be nothing less than mind-boggling, and would finally get people to stop yelling that nothing runs on Linux.
Check the referring URL to see if it is amazom.com and redirect them elsewhere.
Wait until they see December...

There’s a lot of things going on, I think a large part of it is regulations. Another part has to do with politics and yet another has to do with inflation.

- switching jobs means more pay; it’s a workers market. Particularly with the governments current policies causing inflation.

- The jobs aren’t evenly distributed, there are job shortages in many states (particularly states implementing vaccine mandates)

- there are many factories and in person jobs moving to non-mandate states

- after years of being remote, people are switching to remote first companies and / or refusing to return to offices

- others are moving to states / regions where they can be in person

- I know a lot of nurses, firefighters, etc who were fired / quit hospitals and went into smaller practices or moved cities.
You’re definitely right. You should be able to do that. We call that an “informational” at Microsoft. You just chat with the hiring manager or someone else on the team with no guarantee of an interview (from either side). It’s still an evaluation from both sides, but a loose one.
Sadly no, I tried for a while until I finally threw in the towel at some point.

I think you're overestimating what I did though, the basic idea is this recreation.

https://codepen.io/wohlben/pen/gOGKejv

it was just a lot more elements in the navigation with subcategories etc, but basically the same methods

(remember to check the mobile view, as thats the one thats using most selectors. Though the desktop view is arguably better)

this recreation is probably very confusing though, as the only hint that there are more links hidden for the category are the missing corners - and there is nothing hinting you have to click the category names to show these hidden options.
and i skimped on proper accessibility for this mockup, so the hidden options can't be selected without touch/mouse

The JS just emulates what opening the page would have done. It was SSR
Lenovo Vendor Locking Ryzen-Based Systems with AMD PSB
BIND has a track record because it has existed for decades. At present, what's wrong with it?
> It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.

Very good point. I didn't really think about it much before. It is even difficult for candidates who are in IT field but not in FAANG type companies.
I'd carve it out of a cave somewhere.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/anglo-saxon-cave-house-sc...
Data science involves building many statistical models, visualizing complex data structures in many ways, and summarizing results into "pretty" figures.

In this way, the statistical packages and plotting software in Python is better than Perl. I would say R is even better than Python and Perl for certain statistical analyses and quickly plotting complex data in different ways.

Perl might beat other languages in wrangling certain types of data like comma separated values or other 2D arrays in terms of writing expressive one-liners. Perhaps that is what you mean by "naturally efficient"? How much one can do in one line of code?
I had the pleasure of finding that same behaviour in an application around 2015. When someone commented on a food order "Extra cheese please :folded hands: but no shrimp, I'm allergic."

But one thing I haven't found out is why some emojis did go through. The basic ones like a simple :smile: it seemed to me. Could it be that some only need 3 bytes and when more and more emojis got released, they went into 4 bytes?

Edit: HN stripped the emojis from my comment... I would put a rolling eyes emoji here if I could.
Right now the demand for authenticity is already high. In the future, it will be even higher. Today is not that easy to create a product that is unique. It looks the developers will be needed more for developing and improving that kind of products.
I have great fun on small discords, join the community for a software library you use, a game engine, an open source project, a topic, e.g emulator development. The smaller the better usually.
sure...im coming from the library producer perspective. it's not very easy for us to say, "just turn off the type checker when you use our library" :)
No worries, it will have absolutely zero impact on my life. I'm not in any way dependent on public opinion for my income or social life.

Even if I was dependent on public opinion, there is a wide divide between libel/slander and people voicing their opinion on any given subject.

Please don't try to protect people from themselves by limiting their speech. It is patronizing and authoritarian.
I was rounding in the ICU when COVID hit, we knew this 2 weeks in - so not new information at all. All my patients got a higher dose of Lovenox (anticoagulant) as soon as they hit the unit.

The trick is balancing risk vs. benefits. Anticoagulants and antiplatelet will kill a 30 yo healthy person who slips on ice and hit his head. Your mild concussions are now massive brain bleeds.
There is no possible way to run current versions of Office 365 on Linux at present.
Just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
A disassembly of the ROM is not the same as the source code because it's missing the human-readable labels for memory addresses. It's more like the source code after using an obfuscator to remove variable and function names.
Ask HN: Content about the Scientific Method?
Hi,

I recently started an internship in a private research company and I'm supposed to write an article for a conference in the next 6 months.

This is a process that confuses me. How do people look at some data and then come up with some ideas that they find worth publishing?

My work involves applying complex science measurements on some environmental data. There are around 40 measurements of complexity that I found so far, with 4 types of entropies. How is one supposed to believe that they have a proper understanding of all of them, have a proper understanding of the existing research and also come up with some novel insights?

Some content about the scientific process in general or about personal experiences would be highly appreciated.
Super not helpful. Also, some of your points could be debated (fluvoxamine recently, statins in trials, vitamin C, etc). But overall the tone makes it hard to have a civil discussion.
That wasn't really a dig, but I should have said jr. devs instead of second-raters.
I'd say that fear of infection, and your family members falling ill or dying, is separate from the measures put in place, and is a very real concern for folks of all ages.
True, but it always seems to happen when people discuss politics.
If you want some actual info on Procedural Generation, then watch the talks from Roguelike Celebration. It's a convention focusing on roguelikes, which seem to attract those more interested in the programmatic side of game development. Its got a ton of great technical talks. I haven't watched the remote sessions, but the older in persons are great.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv_QzXft4mD6TXmQBZtzIA/fea...
I see that the author is affiliated with https://jumpstartrails.com in some way (not sure whether they are a contractor or user or w/e). Does anyone have any direct successes with jumpstartrails or any other similar all in one frameworks?

I started a company a couple of years ago and sunk weeks/months into the boilerplate, eventually to abandon the project, package the core product as an CLI and open source it. Hoping to avoid that again in the future :p
> and plugs in random flash drives

Is this still a problem? I thought OSs don't execute stuff from flash drives automatically any more.
Dude, just stop. Your attempt to refute Kranar citing you contradicting yourself is laughable, and (speaking as one who has no horses in this race) Krasnol pretty convincingly demonstrated that you were wrong. That you claim to have watched The Matrix more than 100 times makes you look worse in this context, not better.
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. A `build.rs` is supposed to be for compiling non-Rust code and stuff like that, not mucking about with the package manager – and by and large, people don't use it for mucking about with the package manager.
A lot of folks are also reflexively drawn by the negativity of the headline (myself included)... "how is society going to handle no one working?!" was my initial thought, before my conscious brain caught up with my instinctive thoughts.
Can you please link to discussion (positive or negative) by knowledgeable commentators? Genuinely interested.
I worked at a large, brand name, older company and there are parallels. I think past some size of an organization, it turns into a bureaucracy to get anything done.

- Internal tooling was poor and most teams DIY. Any centrally managed thing was horrible and either home-grown and poorly documented or some VP picked it and poorly documented

- The companies needs superseded your career goals to the point that very specific trainings were basically forced even if it had nothing to do with what you do (six sigma)

- To get anything done required 3-5 other teams to do anything and took forever. Turn around time to get a server spun up was ~6-8 weeks.

One thing that was different was attrition. This was before remote working and when the nobody in town was hiring you really were stuck.

I like working in smaller organizations where you can have an impact. I only think one of the FAANG would be worthy of me putting up with working in a large bureaucracy again - the other A - and only because I haven't heard horror stories - if you have them, share them.
An Educational Sandbox for Web3
I'd use it, but only if it excluded fads too. I don't want to be near Web 3, cryptocurrencies, or generally any new tech stack released within the last five years.

If you don't like this idea, get of my lawn. ;)
This is downvoted, but afaik both actually happened.
Definitely. Simply displaying the firearm is a crime (usually "brandishing"). If he actually pointed the gun at another person, well, IANAL but that sounds like assault with a deadly weapon to me.
Soul searching is easy. The only people who put up with that shit are people who don't feel good enough, so they are begging their master like a dog to please, please like them!!

The cure? Don't allow corporations to set your value, specially not mad and crazy corporations like amazon and space penis.
Made me want to play ADOM again... Just not this GUI nonsense, the real ADOM.
100% base pay + 116% year end bonus + ??% performance bonus. So total of 226% of base pay plus whatever performance bonus on top.

Edit: it’s customary in Taiwan to measure the tear end bonus in 1 month pay equivalents (8.3% of base pay).
Again I don't really know what you think you mean by 'blurred'? How do you think this is working?

If I tried all the possible scalings for my external monitor, the grey line around each window, to give a specific example of, is always a crisp physical one-pixel wide.

macOS creates a buffer to render to that is the same size as the physical output you're choosing to use, and is able to render with pixel precision in that buffer.
Finding the right Slacks and Discords will definitely help form more intimate relationships, but I've also been gaining a huge amount of value during the pandemic from the software engineering community on Twitter.