skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a previous company do that to a department that had 40 employees, and three years later it had 5 employees (a couple of layoffs, but mostly steady attrition with no hiring to replace them).

Saved them a ton of money in the short term. But the department also stopped being able to do anything but be in "keep the lights on" mode, almost entirely maintenance and very little new feature development, and they also lost two major clients in the process as well as they couldn't keep up with SLAs, and thus their revenue ended up dropping by several million dollars a year, so I'm not sure if they really saved money in the end.
People have moved on precisely because it's not that big of a deal. It's over thankfully. Time to move on.
Oklo's What's Next (Re NRC Denial)
Check out tpm2-totp. I stumbled across it while looking for a way to store totp secrets in my tpm, and was really impressed with the clever use of totp to verify a boot chain.

https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp
> Upgrading face masks to filtering face piece (FFP3) respirators for healthcare workers on covid-19 wards produced a dramatic reduction in hospital acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to research carried out at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

> Once FFP3 respirators were introduced [as opposed to simple surgical masks], the number of cases attributed to exposure on covid-19 wards dropped dramatically—in fact, our model suggests that FFP3 respirators may have cut ward based infection to zero.

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1663

FFP3 is a bit better than N95 (it's equivalent to N99).

N95 masks came from industry, but there were no RCT studies there. People just noted that they obviously worked, through arguably one can easily feel that a saw dust mask works as opposed to one against viruses.
Along with plaster-and-lathe there was also plaster on a wire mesh. Old houses with these kind of plaster walls get terrible cell phone reception.
> It’s marketing turned inwards.

I believe the word for this is propaganda:

prŏp″ə-găn′də
noun
1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
Re government websites: they're often terrible. I've occasionally contemplated a side project just to scrape and restructure some local/state websites into a usable forms with search and whatnot.
Thanks to the person who posted this comment on the article, https://staceyoniot.com/the-next-big-wi-fi-standard-is-for-s...

> Great article. To get out ahead of this, I’ll go ahead and pre-write this for the IEEE. They’re going to need it in a few months.

> “The IEEE has heard the concerns of consumers and takes privacy very seriously. We recognize that the potential value of the proposed standard is enormous, but that it must be paired with technologies that prevent it’s misuse in an ever more dangerous cyber world. As such, we are delaying the implementation of this technology in the .bf standard, and we will re-address it once we have come to a consensus across all stakeholders including privacy and consumer advocates.”
Would the DBA's on this thread consider committing code to the MySQL [1] and Postgres [2] tuner scripts that give new DBA's all your learned advise and battle hardening experience? This thread appears to be such an example.

[1] - https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl

[2] - https://github.com/jfcoz/postgresqltuner
> Look at examples like when Apple, google, and a few other companies entered into a cartel agreement to suppress engineer wages.

Wasn't that already illegal? Did unions help?
Someone on HN just bought and tested a ton of masks, including surgical masks. Surgical mask material does filter nearly as well as N95 mask material, and the difference is fit. Based on data reported by this guy with actual equipment to test masks, most of your assumptions are highly questionable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29878971
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888381
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892032
But it was to knee-cap Slack…
Ah yes, surely something that hasn't been built before can built the first time around for thousands of kilometers and have it be a vacuum chamber at the same time and cheaper than the current well used and proven technologies.
Homo sapiens bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 y older than once thought
I'm glad you found a workaround. Do you know which setting change fixed the issue?

If file a bug report in Bugzilla with a copy of your Firefox's about:support information, Firefox developers can work around the buggy GPU driver so other users don't experience the driver crash.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
I'm not saying it's a clear cut case. I'm just saying that we should view this in a different light than past antitrust cases.
I can't speak for Azure specifically, but I've been hearing variations on this theme since at least 2001 or so, when VB diehards thought the switch to .NET was going to be a failure.
Do you plan on retiring before or after 2050? I have been hearing MS tools and languages are dead and buried for two decades. They'll be here long after I retire.
While non-BMP Unicode has only become popular somewhat recently due to emoji, it's been part of the relevant official specs for a quarter century.

I know you were kinda joking by using scare quotes for "recently", but let me fill that in for people who might be less familiar with the history. Unicode broke out of the 16-bit limit as of version 2.0, released in July 1996, so yeah, a quarter century. The first RFC for UTF-8 (RFC 2044, Oct 1996) explicitly supports UCS-4. As far as I know, there has never been a time where UTF-8 restricted to the BMP (ie 3 bytes) has been in widespread use. In other words, I am questioning your assertion that 3-byte UTF-8 has ever been considered "long enough," except perhaps in sloppy implementations made without much care for following specs.
At the time the USSR didn't really have any long range electronic warfare aircraft that could be used to effectively jam the SAGE transmitters before the bombers arrived.
Another interesting “issue” is that Case sensitive character sets may lead to unexpected results with aggregations (eg https://blog.mallya.dev/2021/07/25/mysql-cases-sensitivity/)

MySQL has many such issues which have turned me off from recommending it. It’s a shame because it’s a solid technology that mostly works and has a really long operational history.
I have diabetes, which makes it extremely dangerous to contract covid. I'm fully vaxxed and boosted, but Omicron breaks through vaccine protection. I also like my apartment and there's plenty to do here.
But you can do this satisfying requirements with different interpretations: here in HN we cry and whine when database queries are not efficient, when code is suboptimal, when sites are hacked and leak info and many more things. These things were all probably fine within the requirements. Just like this crap experience for the user with Electron. So where do I draw the line? And why?
This is a good case for redistribution of wealth.
Because there would no Internet search - no search engines, no Google Search, and essentially no Internet bigger than a hobbyist DARPA - without web scraping.
I don't think it's fair to expect this user to do that. (However, if somebody else knows of a bank like that…)
Compared to what? Haven't a lot of them already had covid?
Yes, HERE WeGo. Benefit is being able to download a whole state or country to the phone which allows it to work completely offline. No need to preselect some bounding box to download or anything.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...
GP didn't say anything like that. They were talking about

> avoid[ing] local laws

(i.e. legally) which is a whole different matter.
People make mistakes. Maybe if you were less you combative your comments would get more upvotes.
Tutorial on unit tests in C++ using Google Test (GTest) and Google Mock (GMock)
IMHO Visa and Mastercard duopoly are way more powerful than other companies like Facebook or Google. In the end, people still need to pay for services and they use credit cards to pay for it. If Mastercard or Visa don't want a service do exist, they can simply block it and then people won't be able to use the service. The recent OnlyFans and PornHub controversies prove my point. OnlyFans was in the verge of banning explicit porn in their plataform.

https://www.protocol.com/policy/onlyfans-visa-mastercard
I never realized it was that involved. Ie that there are specialty roles in ransomware where people simply provide the access for a fee, and sell that to someone else to actually do the ransoming.

The other question of course is - can this be considered Russian sponsored if they choose not to ever prosecute? How does this end? It becomes a major career in Russia?
Just don't use folders.
Wow, I can't believe this response isn't higher.

> Disasters don't end when you get bored with them.

True, and they don't end after arbitrarily chosen time frames ("Gosh, I can only live with this for 2 years max!") and they don't align with political milestones and dates. This could be the early years of a 20-year-long pandemic. It could disappear in a few months. I don't know. You don't know. Nobody knows at this point, and you can't give the disease an arbitrary deadline.

I read these threads and it's surreal--like people sitting outside of their burning house and saying "OK, my house has been burning for 2 hours. That's long enough for me, I'm moving back in! Time to get back to normal!"
I'm not a developer.

In UK house price inflation is about 12-15%. If you're saving for spending on housing then that's your benchmark for investments to beat. Reportedly, RPI [Retail Price Index] is ~4-5% IIRC. Government controlled pay was frozen for everyone except MPs, AFAICT. UK gov managed to hit the poorest with a NI increase too, but at least they reduced tax on champagne (yes, really).
Agree completely.

I've dealt with too many code bases that didn't follow this advice. It's extremely expensive to cut down capabilities from code because they are overly coupled.

DRY tends to create things like utility classes and deep dependency trees. For example, I saw a non-ui code base that pulled in JavaFX to use their pair class.
Unions can make sense for certain industries, namely factory work. Where it's hard to own the means of production, and workers are largely uniform in output, low pay and don't have much leverage.

Unions don't make sense in tech because everyone owns the means of production (a computer) and have widely different levels of output. 10x engineers are a thing. Plus tech workers have high leverage, high pay (top 5%? 1%?), can easily get a new job, or can start their own tech company by themselves with their laptop.

Trying to enforce a union structure in tech is counterproductive, extractive and entirely unnecessary.
>This is incredibly easy to turn on and off

If only if it worked as advertised. I can turn it off as to messages directed only to me. But if a group text was on iMessage and I'm the only one who bounces off to Android, new messages to that thread will exclude me, EVEN IF I'VE DEREGISTERED MY NUMBER. I've tried this repeatedly. The only way to begin receiving messages from that group is if EVERYONE on the thread deletes the old thread and begins a new one in green bubbles. It ENRAGES me, and it's been the biggest barrier to me transitioning to a Galaxy phone. When I'm the only one on Android, I just stop receiving the messages to the legacy group threads. And there's no way I make 30 iPhone users all delete those threads. Apple could ask its own servers "have any of these iMessage accounts deregistered their number? If yes, force thread back to SMS/MMS." Apple does not do that, and thereby severely handicaps any effort to move away. I hate it and would happily support a class action to change that practice.
I was a member of a union where i.t. was involved in that union and I was a software developer. We shared an emergency iPhone that we swapped every 2 weeks. When it rang and DevOps called, we were paid time and a half and recorded each hour worked 'on call'. Double time on holidays. No one was significantly lazier than my experience working in non union shops. People sometimes complain others "only do the status quo". I guess those people never saw someone work on a refactor project before that goes on 2 years and is eventually thrown away (negative contributors). Just an acecdote for you all to say I think unions _can_ work in i.t. and I had a positive experience.
This is a semiconductor physics paper, not a computer architecture paper, and it doesn't make any kind of claims that would support the statement of "DRAM-like speed". They can erase their enormous single-bit device in 5ms, which is forever. The features are 1000s of times larger than current silicon DRAM. It also has endurance of only 10^7 erase cycles, which a computer could exhaust in a split second, if the device were fast enough.

The interesting thing here is the non-volatility for this type of structure on Si instead of GaAs.
Look up CCI in Colorado. They pay almost nothing for prisoners to work in industries like manufacturing. They then sell these products to businesses so they can claim it was made in the USA (so awesome!). It’s all slave labor essentially. Then, with the skills these people learn, when they’re released they can’t get hired because they have a record. Whole thing is a disgusting joke. Taking advantage of people that ended up in their situation because they never had direction or opportunities to begin with.

(Should mention they just got a new director and she is really awesome. Came from the women’s bean project. Hope she can make some positive change but she’ll have to fight a lot of bureaucracy.)
> PG has weird behaviour sometimes too.

Perhaps, but I'd argue that the "weird" behavior of postgres just tends to be clearly thought out design decisions that they made for a valid reason that may cause you some pain with how you use it (e.g. their process-per-connection model).

MySQL's "weird" behavior, on the other hand, just tends to be completely invalid footguns like this. Despite what some people are arguing in this thread, a 3-byte version of UTF-8 was never in any spec anywhere and was an invalid shortcut from day 1.
The wide range of answers to this has been really helpful. What I'm getting out of it is this: If you're a linked-in refuser (like I've been so far) then it limits you somewhat, filtering out some potential employers, but possibly in a good way.

But you don't HAVE to use it. Good to know!
Metaverse Hype Is Like Communist Propaganda: Soviet-Born Tech Founder
Cool theory with outsized cultural influence, but one would be remiss to not mention that the results of that study are on shaky ground and were not replicated.
The Fed's Big Lie: Debt Makes It Impossible to Raise Rates
>. Obviously, we can only accept peer-reviewed replicated studies

That's your bar to prove that some engineers are better than others? Seriously? What are you claiming here? That some engineers aren't better than others?
Here are some tips:

Bypass the screening interviews when possible (not everyone has to do all the live coding exercises) thanks to internal referral, etc.

Realize that even if you pass a leetcode screen, you might get bounced for some completely arbitrary reason at some other point in the interview process.

So, see the live coding as one aspect of an of an arbitrary and weird way people make decisions these days. (Remember your value and understand even if you ace that part it doesn’t mean you’re gonna get a job).

Know what makes you really amazing and unique. Whatever you’re great at, if the fit is good for the role they will be selling it to you the entire time.

If you’re fighting uphill for a job whether it’s at the live code stage or elsewhere, take note. Use that live coding session as practice for the one you really want.
Sure, but the issue here is that the default mysql "utf8" encoding is not actually utf8. You can write as many validation layers as you want, but if they are assuming that utf8 actually means utf8, they won't help, and mysql will potentially screw it up when it gets stored.
To claim that labor movements are somehow divorced from unions is ahistorical.

> what we call unions today are not that.

Unions don't involve organizing, protesting, or fixing problems? How do you think unions ever get a contract?

Your comment makes frustratingly little sense to me.
No, but look at it this way. From a UX perspective, we're familiar with reducing friction to get people to sign up for our product, whatever it is. Even with some irelevent friction, you'll get some sign-ups, but you'll get more with a more optimized flow. Same for linked in. Is it possible? Yes, you'll get many answers saying they didn't. So you don't have to, but why make it hard for employees to hire you. Especially if you're at the start of your career.
Thanks for the rec! How's the experience compared to the big names in terms of efficiency/UX/etc in your opinion?
Definitely not. MS shops will be around a long time after you and I are out of this game.
Because they don't actually care about helping anyone besides themselves. Both sides of the aisle, its all just posturing to maintain power
> Are there any guides on best practices for bridging from notebooks to applications?

The main point of friction is that the "default" format for storing notebooks is not valid, human readable python code, but an unreadable json mess. The situation would be much better if a notebook was stored as a python file, with code cells verbatim, and markdown cells inside python comments with appropriate line breaking. That way, you could run and edit notebooks from outside the browser, and let git track them easily. Ah, what a nice world would that be.

But this is exactly the world we already live in, thanks to jupytext!

https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
If you ignore efficiency then you stop making a profit pretty quickly. You can solely focus all you want on cost; sooner or later efficiency will make you pay.

Goldman wouldn't be making that kind of an investment if they didn't have a handle on both parts of the equation. Indeed efficiency (dealing with losses from seepage) have been the nut that hasn't been cracked with compressed air storage; these guys seem to have an economical (efficient) way to deal with that problem. If true, then they really are worthy of Goldman's investment.
Israeli scientists have trained goldfish to drive, in a scene out of Dr. Seuss
> but you could be sitting in the air current of someone shedding virus particles for hours on end, even if the particles are eventually being filtered by A/C.

Airplane air turnover is _extremely_ high, apparently even higher than many specialized hospital environments. If there's any danger, I would imagine that it would come from the immediate airflow within the cabin, and not from gradual saturation of the cabin's air.

I don't actually have a good model of airplane risks. But I recognize that many of my intuitive assumptions about what's going on would need to be checked against real data.
Slack does have video chat support - but fair enough.
> Businesses create value

Workers labor mixed with capital creates value. Businesses are just a way of organizing that interaction that, if it succeeds, makes the interaction more efficient.

The businesses through the ownership of capital are the ones doing the redistributing of value, they are the ones writing the checks. Unions just negotiate that the redistribution allocates more of the pie to labor rather than the owners
They did not experiment with anything remotely resembling Java's new GCs, but rather aspects of very old ones (they just tried a relatively simple generational GC). Go's poor performance relative to Java's on memory intensive applications is largely due to its primitive GC, which does not work perfectly fine for any challenging workload.
I'd be happy if we'd just get over this vindictive need to deprive prisoners of basic pleasures.

I've seen outrage over the idea that prisoners have access to TVs, or gaming consoles, or similar, stories of wardens confiscating books and pen and paper and such. I understand there are some other concerns that may warrant keeping usage of some of those under surveillance or similar (keep a pencil from being used as a shiv say), but other countries don't try and make prisons as miserable an experience as possible, and they have far, far lower rates of recidivism and violence and such.
I'm not a recruiter, but I am a (design) manager frequently on interview panels.

LinkedIn is useful for me behind looking at the design portfolio (most important), and the resume. I'll scan the connections to see if we have a mutual friend, college, previous job, etc as a topic to talk about in the interview, and it frequently brings up a great discussion that might not have happened otherwise. Definitely not required, though.
This is why the Roman generals in Britain built Hadrian's Wall. They knew it wasn't defensively useful for crap, but it kept a lot of trained soldiers far away from home stuck in a cold unpleasant land with people they did not view as civilized from becoming a dangerous idle mass of people.
Only a few of these https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
Yes, except with several orders of magnitude more energy and rotating mass.

Wind turbine blades are engineered for minimum mass and inertia, are manufactured primarily from fiberglass and/or carbon fiber, are hollow, and the largest mass is in the center.

In contrast, flywheels are engineered for the highest practical inertia, are manufactured from the highest density material that works, and concentrate that mass as far out as possible.

When a wind blade fails catastrophically, it makes a mess of splinters right around the tower, as shown in [0] and [1].

In contrast, just a small automotive flywheel explosion, contained in a legally mandated scattershield, is almost as spectacular [2], [3]. Now, magnify that from a flywheel just designed to smooth the power from a 375kW (500HP) engine to the scale of a flywheel to STORE the energy of a megawatt-scale wind turbine.

So, no, the danger of a megawatt-scale energy storage flywheel is NOT like the danger of a "giant rotating wind turbine".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-o-4yYb59g
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCs7ZQDKoM&t=40s
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPat3akDiek
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4oxoBKRZgA
This is a fundamental problem for me too. No source control, no tests, hard to extract into libraries. I'm surprised there isn't a better tool already.
The fact that in the US, treating minorities (BIPOC or otherwise) fairly is polarizing is sad.
All that Russian natural gas has clearly resulted in brain damage to the German left.

In order to institute fascism, Hitler needed a crumbling economy, not an encrypted messenger!!!
Rumors are that CDC might start recommending them. Which means states will follow suit. Anything to make it seem like they're doing something.
Japanese just naturally look underage to western eyes. Opposite is also true btw. I think I’ve seen some women mention having to wear “Chinese eyed Pocahontas” makeup to be treated as a human in Western countries or else everyone looks away.

“500yo loli girl” argument might be pure BS but there is no way that age guesstimation on anime girls by someone who aren’t super familiar with local culture works either.

I mean take a look at a prehistoric clay figure, and try guessing age. I can’t.
Your comment assumes a baseline belief of "obviously corporations are reprehensibly undemocratic" that I don't believe most people who hold unions to high standards would agree.