skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless EMPs also wipe out consumer electronics, there will likely be only islands of connectivity.

I'm thinking folks with WIFI gadgets and COTS networking gear could very well build local connectivity, but those islands would be unable to talk to each other. The WIFI gadgets would have to mesh up over distances which are likely to exceed their range.

Jamming and a generally dirty RF environment is likely in a war of such magnitude, so perhaps distributed laser links would work best, if one could create line of sight between the link nodes.
It was on an old 40Mb disk in a long-discontinued computer line. Actually I recently sent that computer to a guy who revives old hardware, and he got some stuff off of it! Maybe I'll ask him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrP8h0yUCLo

Asked, awaiting reply.
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I wonder what phenomenon is driving this. A spent battery weighs more?
I also tried running vanilla Go in Wasm (one of the targets I want to support) directly and was hitting GC pauses and frame drops every second. Garbage generated due to temporaries has also been an issue in an engine I worked on that had Lua scripting. This isn't just a theoretical thing, it's clear it's a problem. When you say "programs that are tight but" and "allocation discipline" it's like why add the cognitive overhead when you can not have the problem at all. I want to / want people that use this engine to be able to just write naive / straightforward code and get a high perf ceiling off the bat. GC is not actually helping in the game case since game logic is ultimately explicit about entity lifetimes.

So there isn't a reason to use it and then work around it. If anything I think it's because the ergonomic language work after C++ (C#, scripting languages) tended to include GC so using them meant having it. This is an exploration in having a language that doesn't do that and preserves ergonomics (and it's working / promising).

All that said, the GC thing isn't the main or only reason that motivated this approach, it's just one of the points among everything else. Portability (the resulting C++ compiles and runs in Wasm, native desktop, mobile is supported) and control (being able to decide language and resulting execution semantics, having direct integration with tools) are the main things, at a high-level.
>"you could shine low intensity IR at their exact position to keep them warm without wasting energy on heating the rest of the room."

brings new meaning to beam forming! I like it.
In most places in the US you have one or two choices of providers, and prices are often pretty high for good internet service - as much as double what it could be in a more competitive market, with speeds that don't match. Even in major cities, upload speeds with any major provider suck... I got the gigabit from Comcast just because I wanted the 35mbps up, whereas the next plan down (600mbps download) was going to only give 15mbps up. And despite being in San Francisco, our only real choices in our building are Comcast and At&t.
I maintain the same policy when going to the US. Burnerphone + laptop.
For anyone interested in a Dutch perspective on surveillance and how the Netherlands tries to place itself in the maelstrom of international digital warfare, this is a good read:

http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/book/1273/the-invisible-digit...
Thanks for the search term.
I am not a huge fan of the "advanced polymer" wank of that video but liquid piston seems very practical compared most of the "air powered car" nonsense compressed air systems that show up.
All of those create a copy of the array and do not modify the original, which may be important on cases like audio manipulation, where there are for instance 44,000 array entries per second. Furthermore, I wonder if D could automatically vectorize this operation when SSE/MMX style instructions are available?
It would be pretty funny if Facebook was pried off of everything. And was just receded into the obscurity of MySpace.
Pulling a 'Nuland' here: Fuck their laws!
It's not always what you take in; sometimes it's what you bring back.
the author of the "in the pipeline" blog: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline

Outside his industry, he's historically best known for his "things i will no longer work with" series profiling wildly horrible reagents: cf https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo....

He's also written on drug development, vaccine development, etc., extensively for the last two years. One of the saner voices to do so.
no, more like a meta universe. Running inside Brazil, but with their own set of rules and tradition. For some it is a Dystopian reality. For others, just another day in the office.
As someone whose grandfather was an actual slave, I agree with this 100%. If I pull a repo and find "main" I have to WTF and be reminded again that somebody somewhere has a guilty conscience. I would have preferred that they keep their guilty conscience to themselves and let us work without constant reminders of the chip on their shoulder.
Conglomerates tend to be valued less than the sum-of-the-parts, getting control of conglomerates to spin off their businesses is a common active investing tactic. Breaking FB up is likely to unlock value for shareholders rather than hinder it. At least, short term as far as stock valuations go, a "markets are irrational" stance works in favor of this theory as it (the market) gets to speculate on every sub-business individually. Long term there are advantages to being under a single banner, like subsidizing Oculus growth and R&D through profits from the social medias to capture long term market share (like Amazon can subsidies retail with AWS, Alphabet can subsidies its "Other bets" with Search, etc).
While Azure companies do tend to skew "larger enterprise", I don't think it's fair to say they are lower paying. If anything, more Azure-related jobs I have seen a higher-price point on than AWS jobs (in my local sphere). I think this is because Azure has higher demand than supply, and people are less likely to choose it as their primary cloud right out the gate.

It's also worth noting that a lot of consulting companies focus on Azure. This is because of perverse incentives, but still worth noting.
Commenting on crypto in bio is 2022 HN's version of 2014 HN's commenting on site's CSS: "Good article, but black font on white bg makes this literally unreadable for me."
Depending on country laws, refusing to reveal keys or even device-level encryption itself may be illegal/cause you to be detained.

The best thing you can do is bring a wiped device through, and assume that it and its data can be seized at any time. Also treat any device as disposable - once seized, it should not be trusted.
> while in private believing it quite likely

That's not what they said or believed. That's exactly why I have a problem with this whole exercise, it seems to me to be mostly a game of jump-to-conclusions.
also a good reason to avoid social media.
I'm not aware of any public documentation about the defense in depth strategies. Corey's done some tweets about things like the S3 read bug. Stuff like https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1473705669517791253

I'd also look at the re:invent channel, lots of time there is info in there that isn't necessarily publicly documented: https://www.youtube.com/c/amazonwebservices/search?query=sec...
The physical chemistry changes as a battery is spent. The internal chemicals are being converted from one molecule into another.

Its not surprising to me that the two different chemicals have different physical properties. (Elasticity, density, who knows? They're a fully different chemical once the electrons move around)
I was in Hamburg where I observed what I described.
I’m curious, was getting the EE degree as part of a midlife crisis worth it? Or would you have done things differently looking back?
There is so much variety in how people contribute and what they hope to get out of it in a perfect world!

My goal is to put the mechanisms in place. And give people another means of self expression.
And there's still people who don't believe in 10x programmers...
That's like saying Python is rarer than JavaScript. Even if it's true, it's not actually rare at all.

In the last 6 years, I've spent approximately 2 hours administering PostgreSQL, and I'd be the one who had to do it.
> one with severe medical condition... bought a rolling chair and likes to roll around his apartment [all hours during the night]... denies he rides the chair and then uses his medical condition as an excuse

I mean... is his medical condition related to his ability to walk and sleep well? E.g., does he:

1. have trouble walking

2. can't afford a wheelchair

3. has continence issues?

That would explain rolling around at all hours of the night. And sourcing him some cheap/free mats/carpets to cover the floor between his bed and bathroom could help you sleep better.

In any case... sorry you have to put up with that. Having noisy upstairs neighbors sucks.
Note, this is from 2016.
> Why is it a problem that python calls out to other languages as needed?

There is not problem if a) someone has written that code in the other language already and b) it works correctly.

But it's harder to build, modify and debug these things, generally. Glue code is useful, but it definitely has a cost.
I understand envy to be more about what others have in relation to you, rather then what they have in relation to their past selves.
> This means that there is no market for these crazy fast devices.

If this becomes a real product, I expect that market will be created. My guess is that it would show up in Apple hardware very early on, if not first. It probably would increase battery life (if I understand this tech correctly, you won’t have to power the RAM while the system is sleeping), and they’ve shown they’re willing to completely redesign their hardware.
It seems to me that people have started to clutch their pearls with the revelations of psychological manipulation that Facebook has/is doing. I don't know if that's the impetus or not, but it's a big difference.
Pretty much. I have always found that it is better to send out fewer customised job applications, rather than send out loads that are all the same.

I wish recruiters would do the same. If I engage with recruiters that use the scatter gun approach then it is inevtable that they will be wasting my time as they just aren't interested in detail and effort.
Such a waste on a great subject.

There's this huge social and economic change in Brazil over the last 10 or so years where dozens of millions of people are acceding to the digital world; broadband (usually 4G) access to the internet is becoming part of their daily lives. This has huge consequences and tons of opportunity. Nubank is a quick example I can think of that knew how to take advantage of this movement and is now a billion-dollar company expanding through all Latam.

But no, instead they decide to spotlight game streamers.
It does! However, when I scroll to the bottom of the page I only see the title of that section, not the explanation, nor the accompanying video.

I didn't realize the "Why balls fall at all" was a button.
> Almost none of AWU's projects have focused on Googlers' work conditions or pay.

I'd assume this is why they've been allowed to exist.

In fact, unfortunately, this sounds like it could be working well for Google. If this organization is calling itself a "union" without doing actual union work or representing employees, it can help create an apathetic environment towards unions at the company. It also sounds like this organization is doing product work, and with the right maneuvering this sort of momentum can be used to allow controversial changes you'd be willing to try, but would rather not take the blame for.
Isn’t this the definition of an editorial board?
Quite right. Since I’ve been keeping track, at about v1.5, there has been significant speedup with every release.
Make sure you tell everybody that sites Virology institutes to put them as far away from areas where the scientists would like to work as possible.
It sounds like you are describing something like a hosted Nextcloud [1] instance but I have no idea if that makes sense cost-wise. They have a comparison page [2] that also mentions some of the other related services. I have only used the self-hosted version of their applications and honestly have no idea how much their hosted solution costs.

[1] - https://nextcloud.com/

[2] - https://nextcloud.com/compare/
Anyfiddle Will Stop Operations
Re: constant current appliances, most any "digital" appliance that uses a linear regulator (as opposed to a DC-DC converter) will exhibit such a load profile.
True, but DoubleGlazing didn't answer the first time. That isn't someone who "needs a job more than they don't want to be inconvenienced". That's a recruiter that wants to find someone to fill a job more than they want to respect your desire to not be inconvenienced. And I don't have any sympathy.
Australian newsreaders discuss Novak Djokovic off-camera (2 minute video)
Maybe the useful content is something you don't know is there, so you settle for what's in the snippet. Because you imagine Google's AI surely extracted the right bits.

There's also a sort of diminishing returns effect here. If google trains people that the snippet is good enough, less traffic goes to the site. Eventually, enough to shutter the site, for some sites. Then nobody has the info.

The pattern has already affected Google referral traffic to Wikipedia. Pageviews for Wikipedia are roughly flat from 2012 to today, where they had marked growth prior. 2012 is when Google starting rolling out their knowledge graph that presented Wikipedia data directly.
That's all reasonable, but a bit utopian.

There are tons of serious pragmatic issues with your suggestions, as well as serious political questions about how to convince people to implement them.
I think they wanted to express that learning to predict the correct output ("error minimization") puts a limit on the achievable performance. While ranking (not just RL, really) allows to improve beyond the current best-known answer.
I doubt that difference it takes to parse green vs a 0x00ff00 is at all significant. It only should happen once per page load.
I got me current job thanks to LinkedIn. The recruiter found me, sent me a message and I got the job:)
i think it expresses itself when players talk to each other.
> How hard is it to read a "for" loop?

for (std::unordered_map<std::string, int>::const_iterator it = some_map.cbegin();it != some_map.end(); ++it)

is pretty damn unreadable (and for bonus points it doesn't compile) compared to

for (const auto& keypair : some_map)

Which doesn't have the possibility of the issue in the previous snippet (cbegin != end rather than cbegin != cend)

> For many applications, advanced C++ is solving problems they don't have.

No-one here is talking about advanced c++, we're talking modern c++.

> The above poster mentioned audio. ... They only need a few simple pointers...

And we all know that audio is immune from massive security vulnerabilities, right? [0]

"New" features like nullptr (instead of NULL), unique_ptr, move semantics as examples can just flat out avoid classes of bugs that come up in low level programming, and features like constexpr and static assert can make runtime checks compile time checks instead. All these features can be escape hatched if you really really need to just cast to a void pointer to fill a buffer at the end, but the surface area for nasty bugs is significantly reduced if you do so.

[0] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
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While a government system that makes electronic money transfer a utility should exist, the real benefit of credit cards for merchants is that credit card users are willing to pay a higher price and thus catering to credit card users results in more profit. This is evidenced by the fact that all major merchants do not offer discounts for using debit cards/cash, with the exception of Target. But even Target does not make it easy, you have to sign up for a Redcard and link your debit card to it.

Merchants that do not like credit card processing fees already stipulate card purchase amount minimums or discounts for cash/debit. The merchants that do not evidently are betting that more money can be made from selling goods at higher prices to credit card users.

Of course Visa/Mastercard offer debit, but even with FedNow, I suspect many merchants, especially the biggest, will continue to want buyers to use credit cards, and hence support Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover.
Pearl Harbor was the incident (shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania) that catalyzed America's inevitable entry into the war. There was a very strong isolationist mindset before this period, which mean America simply did not want to be involved much in world affairs at all, let alone take on a leadership role.

I agree that the attack, and the sinking of America's warships touched a nerve with the public. Americans loved their warships and were very proud of them, and an attack on them simply incensed people.
OP will have solicitor on their CV followed by a period of unemployment. Also if their name is Googled, it seems likely their conviction or disbarment would show up.

I would expect that they need to be honest about the conviction when asked. There are a lot of ways to present that as a positive. For example, saying that they will be very committed to a position because it is so difficult to get a job.
It’s a joke right? Seems like Meta may end up being the industry’s scapegoat so the gov can say they did something. Probably also explains all the FUD we see in social media about FB, but none of the other tech giants.
Why would the database "allocate space" unless it was truly necessary, in any case? While char(n) works that way, most applications don't actually use it, no matter the underlying DB system.
My girlfriend was 10 seconds into explaining Wordle to me before I asked "so it's the same as Mastermind but letters instead of colors". She had never heard of Mastermind before.
This was in the news just 2 days ago: "U.S. reports 1.35 million COVID-19 cases in a day, shattering global record". I'm not sure why you're focusing so much on Europe, it's happening in other places as well.
Keep in mind that that's a post from 2016. PG has made many improvements since then. Upgrading is a much easier job right now.

Also, it's strange to conflate PG with Debian issues.
You're totally right. Different teams and situations require different tradeoffs.

While TypeScript is great for the tradeoffs I deal with, there are certainly others where it's not.

Good call out.
Actually never in fintech! Cloud, broadcasting, consultancy, engineering services, pharma and the like.
I have a blog, to write things as a note for myself. It has helped me keep pushing and satisfying my curiosity. I write random things. I don't even have trackers or cookies enabled because I do not care if blog gets any view!

So if you are afraid that people will find it boring, then write for yourself. Writing for oneself means you want to be able to write in a way such that you will go back to your note to remind you of things you learned.

As you as said, pointing to the original is enough. If that is it, then just log those links and when you have time, go through them again! Once you will understand it is quite time consuming to review it, you may start writing!

Good thing about writing in public is that you will want to set a bar for yourself. Something like commitment! Setting this bar will slowly improve your thought process and it brings other positive effects!
I suspect `nigh` (as in nearly or almost). https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nigh

Nigh on impossible is a stock phrase meaning "virtually impossible".
If these people don't apply for these jobs, they might as well not exist.

Amazon warehouses are staffed with immigrants in Europe. And they would simply not be able to do anything IT related.

It might seem easy for us, but it's not. We're talking about people who can't reinstall Windows. They won't be doing manual unit testing anytime soon, or ever, nevermind anything more complicated.

German companies love keeping it local. Things like manual app testing are advertised as Minijobs, but very few are applying. And of course, they complain about a lack of workers. So outsourcing can make sense beyond saving every penny.
For many compute intensive tasks Julia beats the competition hands down. I got to use for loops again and it feels wonderful (in python you either write it as some numpy operation out meddle with numba to run with some speed)

But many of the "main" ml packages are written in actual fast languages and are well optimized so python's inefficiencies can be mostly ignored (pytorch/tensorflow/catboost are really fast. Sklearn is decent and statsmodels is dead slow)

But again if need some specific image processing algorithm you either have to hope for it to be implemented in c++ with python bindings (like opencv) or you are in for a world of pain.

With Julia you can just count on it to be fast and implement it yourself natively
I am sure all of this is true, but it's not the discussion in this thread. Instead, the first post (now flagged) initiated the discussion about pedophiles (so there's really no room for any interpretation about how old someone looks) and Ygg essentially argues that that's just a question of point of view. I fundamentally disagree with that.
> I'm not sure why there isn't more momentum towards using .NET.

I can't quite pinpoint it either. It used to really bother me that there wasnt some daily HN thread about how amazingly-coherent the .NET stack is.

Over time, I have grown to accept this low-key path is a major competitive advantage that I have over my peers. Being able to tolerate boring, slow-moving technology platforms also allows for more time to think about solving real problems. If the ground isn't constantly shifting out from underneath you, there is a lot more time to ponder about the actual business that you are going to build on top of it.

If I had to make a wild guess, I would say that the developer community has a bi-modal distribution, and the "shiny" mode dominates social media. The "serious business" mode is too busy to fuck off on the internet most days, so you don't hear about their wins as often.
That’s why I mentioned DNS queries, as those are/were not protected by TLS. This behavior is one of the major reasons browsers pushed so hard for DNS over HTTPS.
Parcel is becoming my go-to choice most of the time now. I’ve migrated some apps out of CRA, pure Webpack and Snowpack to it and I need to say it was incredible.

Some minor issues with HMR on one of those projects I still can’t figure out. Anyway having something that works, with JSX, with TS, really fast, in just 2/3 really simple steps is amazing! You don’t even need to turn your brain on.

My two cents.
This is positively surprising.

But I think this also speak to how CSS have become 'feature bloated'.
maybe things aren't that simple?

the corporate greed angle is justifiable because some part of the inflation can absolutely be attributed to the maxing out of the global supply chain.

our supply chain is optimized to perfection, it means companies consciously made the decision to ship US grown cotton overseas to Asia for processing and manufacturing into clothing to reduce cost. This back-and-forth takes time and eats up supply-chain resources.
> This is almost the same structure as traditional flash

Thus that mean it also is almost as easy to manufacture?
How Long Can a Tesla Keep You Warm in a Frozen Traffic Jam?
Is Krebs trying to claim the $5 million bounty on information leading to darkside affiliates arrest that he mentions in the post?