skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is sarcasm right?

> The quickest way to get hired is to create a technical blog, write a bunch of interesting articles, create a couple of interesting projects, and make them go viral.

Is obviously not quick. But tbh is a dream way to land a job.
I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so.

https://github.com/plausible/analytics
Yeah, it's worth pointing out that people are blaming electron for what's wrong with Slack. When, perhaps, it's just Slack itself that sucks?

I use Discord all the time, which is one hell of an oranges-to-oranges comparison (with Slack), and not only does it have none of the perf problems of Slack, it's also faster and snappier than any NATIVE chat app I've used.

There's a lot that can be done wrong in any framework; as recently as windows xp, there were a few atrocious algorithmic-complexity gaffes in basic file viewing (directories with more than a few hundred files would slow to a crawl in the GUI, taking multiple minutes to display). It wasn't the fault of the framework it was written in; it's just that someone at MS had written something that had to scan the directory in a hurry, and ended up accidentally writing an exponential-time algorithm. Slack likely has a few deep-seated goofs in their architecture that are just too big to extract and fix.
Makes a lot of sense. A study found that boredom could lead to early death (source: https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/bored-death-no...)

That means any kind of stimulation is preferred over no stimulation. If sadism is the only kind of stimulation one can get, they'll take it for the sake of survival.
Some fundamentals don't change. One one side there are processors (CPU, GPU, whatever) and on the other side we want to persistent some data for decades in some format that lets us exchange it with other people or multiple applications inside the same box. I don't expect ext4 and NTFS to go away soon. In between could totally change.
They do an in_place upgrade using pg_upgrade I believe. They do have to regenerate system tables - they also automate I think some updates to system statistics. But for very large databases this really is the way to go I think.

They do suggest a backup before you run this in case there are problems, most folks have periodic backups anyways, but the backup is not used.
Pandemic rapidly moving towards endemicity, says European Medicines Agency
Not to mention a LOT of items now come with non-removable (mostly rechargeable) Li-Ion or NIMH batteries. Even small toys which used to require external batteries now come with it.

So I still have a small stack of alkaline batteries from 2017 I haven't replaced or depleted. Hopefully that stack remains untouched for another few years as well.
FFP3 is a higher standard anyway, ~equivalent to the US's N99.
Ah, I totally misunderstood the current state of thing. But happy I asked -- thanks for all the info.
In deep with blockchain data: two new projects
Sure, but you are settling for sub 200k at an enterprise co vs 300-500k at a tech co.
I was briefly hopeful that this was a commercially viable memristor which I've been waiting for since I first heard of them decades ago.

"Memristors can potentially be fashioned into non-volatile solid-state memory, which could allow greater data density than hard drives with access times similar to DRAM, replacing both components."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Killing is legal in the favelas?
As a test I recently bought a pair of Li-ion AA batteries, that are recharged through a micro USB connector in the battery. They are rated 2880 mWh and are advertised to provide a flat 1.5v during the whole discharge cycle (they have internal circuitry to convert from the native 3.7v).

I wonder how those compare to my current rotating stock of Ni-MH ones that regularly stop working. Jury is still out, they were considerably more expensive though (something like €4.50 a piece).
And even with full access to my phone there is nothing really bad that can be done to me / my family.

Uploading CP to it doesn't classify as really bad?
Depends on “books” and “easy”, how you define these terms. 50 children comics books can be easily read I suppose. But 50 Ben Hur, Odyssey, Ulysses … is a different proposition.
You don’t need a stable ABI per se if you’re working with source-level interop. Also, while it doesn’t have one in theory, it does in practice on each platform if I recall correctly.
I won’t let you pay me for my open source
New Math Research Group Reflects a Schism in the Field
This is a problem. When I worked on it I didn’t treat it as RAM, but as something RAM would spill to. Essentially treating it as where memory mapped files are stored and then being clever about how those files are read/written. This reduces writes to once per modified byte address within a transaction (e.g., between msyncs).
I'm surprised something like triplebyte isn't more popular...

Do one long test/on-site equivalent then everyone can just share their trusted results. Its like the SATs for dev jobs.
IIRC alkaline batteries produce some kind of gas while being discharged. When the battery is dead it is probably inflated like an unopened soda can, assuming it hasn't leaked.
Sure but the real genius of Wordle is the simple things they did to promote virality..

1) Everyone in the world gets the same puzzle every day

2) The "share to Twitter" message just shows the green/yellow squares, so it shares your journey and teases the puzzle, without spoiling the answer.

Almost no one had heard of Lingo/Wordle before this, now they have, so that counts for something.
I think the open-source nature is a major factor in the reason it's chosen so much. That's why I roll it.
Rumor is the Ikea batteries are rebranded Eneloop I have good luck with them.
> moral torpitude (sic)

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/turpitu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpitude

Turpitude: very immoral behaviour; from Latin turpitūdō (ugliness). Not a word I was familiar with - adding this comment for others.
Tom Lane is the best example of a 10x programmer that I have met. Really humble and nice too when you meet him in real life.
I love the Innovation Token blog post, but. it's been a while since I've seen the OG post. Do you have a link?
I've been a bit puzzled by the 1.5 V lithium AA batteries I see on Amazon. They say they are a constant 1.5 V all the way from 100% charged to 0% charged.

With the battery presenting a constant voltage, wouldn't that make battery level displays useless? They rely on the voltage declining as the battery discharges. With a constant 1.5 V battery your device is going to say the battery is full right up until it suddenly stops.

I'd expect that to get very annoying.

Edit: I mean the 1.5 V lithium rechargeable AA batteries, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Deleepow-Rechargeable-Lithium-Batteri...
The use of a code can neither be proven nor disproven.

If you write a letter, and there is no way to prove that it is in code, or not in code, then there is no way to make it either explicitly legal or explicitly illegal. You could only do so arbitrarily which is invalid.

I already acknowledged that this does not stop anyone from writing a law that says anything. But it's the same as writing a law that pi is 3 from now on.

The sweeping appearance is irrelevant.
The lithium ion batteries in my car store energy for weeks on end with losses around 1-2% per week (after an initial couple percent rapid drop).
For questions like this I always consult:

https://alternativeto.net/
Thanks for the insight.

I've handled several high stress situations on the job. E.g. servers are down, customers are pinging support. Everyone doesn't know what to do.

I've solved problems several times in that environment. I have the battle scars and I'm used to doing that.

I am much more comfortable in a giant legacy codebase that I've never used before, trying to fix a critical bug that is losing the company thousands of dollars per minute than I am during these live coding sessions.

I realize tons of it has to do with practice so I plan to do that.

It's just confusing to have an entire decade of high performance (with references to prove it) to be judged on how well I can dance with a funny hat on.

I'm not whining, I'll do the work. I just don't have time right at this moment, if that makes sense.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure DNS over HTTPS will become default in a couple of years.

I don’t believe the government should spend taxpayer’s money fighting a problem which will soon disappear automatically, regardless of their [in]actions.
A successful or otherwise interestingly profiled athlete in Olympics will have recurring contacts with sports (and lifestyle) beat journalists. They in turn will have contact with their peers working their respective beats.

So with just two degrees of separation from an athlete, you have a high chance to get direct access to political reporters and their contacts. Add device-to-device no-interaction exploits and you're well set at harvesting a whole lot of material.
Informational tool: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

"The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily...
I'm going to be critical and call out the name. There is absolutely no simulation going on here. This is an attempt at demonstrating qualitative behavior, at best. I put no blame on you for not approaching it from a physics standpoint, but it is misleading to call it a simulator in that case.
If you know what application you are writing, there is absolutely no reason to do WET. You should always know if some code repetition is real or accidental.

But we don't always know what application we are writing.
> I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure)

Most aren't. Some are. As with all software/ecosystem providers.
There's so much wrong with this answer. It completely confuses Unicode, with Unicode encodings, and with non-Unicode encodings.

> So this can represent the UTF-16 subset of Unicode

There is no UTF-16 subset of Unicode. UTF-16 has surrogate pairs, it can represent all of Unicode. You are talking about UCS-2, a format which has no surrogate pairs.

> That was set up when Microsoft and Java had standardized on UTF-16

Java standardized on UCS-2 initially (which is what you're talking about). In the mid 2000s they moved to actual UTF-16.

> The higher-numbered "astral planes" of UTF-8

"astral planes" are not a UTF-8 concept. They're a Unicode concept. A Unicode code point has 6 hex digits. The plane is just the first 2 of those 6 digits. So code points 0000– FFFF are in the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane), etc. People nickname planes above the 00 plane, BMP, astral planes.

> Plane 1 ... was seldom needed. Few people had fonts for those, anyway.

So "rarely", that the majority of humanity writes in languages that aren't in BMP. CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and sometimes Vietnamese) languages need characters outside of BMP.

> Emoji, though, were put in Unicode Plane 1. That's where mass demand for the astral planes came from. More four byte UTF-8 characters started showing up in data.

That's totally untrue. The demand always existed by the majority of humanity, you just never cared about this massive problem until it impacted you.
Catfiddle Alley 24 homes on 1 acre, magically integrated into Charleston
secret heroes
It's worrying how IT security is getting militarized because conventional conflicts are getting less (which is a good thing) and thus military staff might be getting bored/lacking opportunities.
If you think you can do it, you probably can. It's not really all that conceptually difficult until you want to do dynamic recompilation.

I wrote my first emulator a while ago, for the Gigatron. People recommend CHIP-8 a lot but I just thought it looked too trivial and uninteresting. The Gigatron is still incredibly simple, but it's also a really elegant little beast worth studying for its own sake.
When in doubt, https://data.energizer.com/

For Lithium chemistry: https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf

That's Energizer's Lithium of course, but you can expect that competitors probably perform "similarly".

------

You can see that Energizer Lithium is 1.7V, slightly more than the 1.5V found in typical Alkaline cells. Today's electronics are pretty flexible however, and this may not be an issue. (In practice, AA-devices are usually designed for 1.35V NiMH, 1.5V Alkaline, and 1.7V... but there are some devices that have made 1.5V assumptions and _ONLY_ work with Alkaline)
For some reason I trust minifier / compiler benchmarks way more than I trust DB benchmarks. I wonder why that is?

Maybe I expect DB workloads to be much more varied so benchmarks are less representative. Whereas with minifying you can run it against some large project and expect it'll reflect your real world experience
Amazon Basics low-self-discharge batteries are fine.

Eneloop if you want to avoid giving Amazon money and don't mind paying more for the brand.
I was talking about the unprotected URL-type certificates (like Djokovic's certs and my original vax cert), before you moved the goalpost to international travel and called me a liar.

> there is still the WHO vaccination passport

The WHO passport is not useful either, if it does not contain any proof of vaccination, because it is on another continent during vaccination and you are in lockdown. Also, have you seen someone using them for entering businesses during the last couple of weeks? People are clearly pushed towards an app for displaying a QR code that could as well have been a simple image. Let's not normalize installing state-made apps. I am not consenting.

Actually there is a fourth undocumented option, the one that I am using right now: scan the code, create a new qr code with the data and store it on my phone or print it. It is just an image. Works better than the one from the pharmacy, because my QR code is sharper. The app is as useless as the vaccine mandates.

However, let's also not act like officials all around the world did not dismiss data privacy without hesitating during the pandemic. Just like before, only more. Did you read about the police in Mainz accessing LucaApp data for investigations?

Since it looks like the (always thin) scientific basis for vaccine mandates and G2 is crumbling by the day, I suspect that their proponents will soon look pretty foolish anyway and the rest of us can finally move on to dealing with the pandemic in a sensible way.
What is up with those fundraising goals? Due to weird scaling, the number of 0s in the goal overflow onto each other, but it looks like you’re asking for hundreds of thousands or millions of euros to port things. Maybe that’s a reasonable sum for the work entailed, but I can’t recall ever seeing numbers that high for any kind of crowdfunded projects or open source support. Is asking for that kind of money realistic?
Well said. I will just add that there are cache write-through instructions and fence instructions. You can use these for just the pointer swap components the parent was talking about, but absolutely you’re correct, you can just take a naive data structure and have this work out of the box.

There is work to make this transparent to existing data structures, but it (of course) imposes its own overhead.
This is probably a bit pithy, and off-topic from the thread regarding conflicts-of-interest, but the phrase "no installation without representation" occurred to me a few moments ago.

I think that's a neat way to counteract an underlying frustration I have (and I don't think I'm alone) regarding proprietary software/hardware and technical ecosystems/governance that don't seem open to feedback and change.
Shark attacks related to lunar phases
I'd have thought it's pretty straightforwardly a case that effectiveness is capped at the percentage that comes through the material; so as long as some is, a better material will do a bit better. For sake of argument if you're getting 80% effectiveness from a perfect fit, that's 40% if 50% air comes around the sides, and better than an alternative that's 20% effective however well it fits. (All made-up round numbers.)
> Who wants to compromise them? How?

Think about it. World class competition. Young person talking to friends about something off color or just young and stupid. Leak it. Mental edge and concentration gone. And that is the least harmful thing I can think of.
I’d hire you - we all make mistakes.

Contact info in my profile if you fancy chatting more.
As stated by others already, there's Plausible (plausible.io) and Matomo (matomo.org).

I have used both and stuck at Plausible. A few reasons (subjective):

1. Plausible is GDPR compliant by default, it has an effective way to measure analytics throughout the day without cookies

2. It is simple and that's key. I don't need to know much, Plausible just gives me that

3. It's fairly lightweight. Matomo is quite heavy and as my VPS'es are pretty much scaled down, less is just more

4. The Plausible self-hosting doc is centered around Docker, which is the architecture I use myself and is set up in literally a few minutes
> from the actual advantage that comes from incorporation (i.e., solving the coordination game and thereby extracting more value from workers).

In my experience the value of incorporating has not been to hire people but the legal protections and ability to create certain tax structures for retirement planning that benefit the owners.

> A corporation doesn't require any employees.

In reality some employees are required in order to keep the corporate designation that allows the use of certain retirement plans.
I design some electronics in my spare time. As a user, I strongly prefer to have a choice of using a rechargeable battery. It somehow does not feel right to throw out a toxic battery when I could have another type potentially hundreds of times over many years.

It helps that there is a proliferation of quite powerful, low voltage, low power chips.

Some of the devices I design have USB interface which gives another option of charging the battery while it is connected.

I am currently working on a fully programmable mechanical USB/Bluetooth keyboard. It will work off of two AA NiMh rechargeable batteries and I plan these to be recharged any time the keyboard is connected to the computer.
> there was a hedge fund takeover, which IME rarely results in improvements to long-standing quality products

But think of the shareholder value that was created!

https://web.archive.org/web/20121120072539/https://www.newyo...
> I should've been more clear: Most open source projects, or my projects for the customers I used to have, can't/couldn't rely on a DSP chip or card being installed. If Itanium had gone mainstream, I could've counted on it's VLIW instructions.

So to sum up: you can't convince customers to buy special hardware and neither could HP/Intel?
According to the conclusion in the white paper, they tested for endurance only to 10^7 with no degradation. Obviously that is not enough for a real system.
Their "security advice" consists of parroting back stuff they read on blog posts, LinkedIn, and places alike.

"Change your password every 3 months", "did you enable 2FA?", blah blah blah.

Add clueless managers (as other commenter said) and some nepotism to the mix and that's how they get some contracts with big names (Microsoft, Oracle, ...)

Afterwards it only gets better for them because they can advertise they were "part of the security auditing team at <big company>, reporting directly to the VP"; even though their only real useful task was to keep warm coffee at hand.

This happens continuously until one day someone in a meeting asks them about a hash function and they are absolutely clueless and the show falls down; or it could be much worse and go on until an entire community has to pay for it with life-long consequences (see Flint), or until billions of dollars become lost/stolen (see Madoff, Holmes, your choice of weekly crypto scam), or until planes start falling out from the sky because of a newly-developed "feature" (see Boeing 737 MAX), ... the list goes on forever.

We live in an era of mediocrity disguised as a (fake) meritocracy, with all the consequences it implies.
I don't know at what level this is used, but I have only ever seen it in my graduate level logic and mathematics courses. (I'm European.)

I like it. Part of a good proof is a rigorous derivation. There is plenty of thing sto be said about what intuition can lead us towards such a proof. But at the end of the day, a good proof is ideally almost machine-checkable. Most proofs (much like code) lives two lives: the one in which they are written, and the one in which they are read. It should be almost trivial for a student to go back, on their own, days or weeks later, and see that each step is valid. And I think prose interspersed between column-style proofs do a better job than what margin notes do. The reason two columns work well is that the step and it's justification are of both condensed and almost always of similar length. Justification (much like code comments) may or may not need a good chunk of space. And surely nothing is stopping anyone from inserting little margin notes here and there in a two-colum proof, right?
Look at the cxx crate. I don’t care that there’s a C FFI in the middle. Just that it needs to look like magic. In other words, most or all c++ types, including templates, without any real complexity on the part of the user. Conversely Rust types are accessible from c++ without complexity. I think the latter part is mostly true although some patterns need some TLC. The former is still extremely immature.
Interesting, well... you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but the overwhelming critical and general consensus is that Inside Out is wonderful:

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/inside-out-2015/critic-revi...

And quite apart from that, I was intrigued that when my 10yo daughter went to see a therapist, she was asked if she'd seen Inside Out. Not necessarily because it's an in any way accurate depiction of the mind, but as a jumping off point for a discussion about the experiences that form our identity ("core memories") and how those can evolve over time as we get older.
I am not blaming her or upset about it. I am not seriously sick and don't think it's likely that I'll get worse. I expect to recover and have stronger immunity.

On the other hand we are curious.

We know some other people who got COVID-19 at big holiday parties. My mental model for "how to get Omicron" is that 5% of people have it, you go to a party with 20 people, one of them has it, now you all have it.
ahaha thanks for your concern, but we've been dating for 3 years, met her the old fashion way at university. :)
It's worth pointing out that in many countries small companies under governance models as the ones listed make up a large portion (or even the majority) of the overall GDP. For example in Germany the "Mittelstand" employ 63.7% of all employ and contribute 54,4% of the total economic activity (sorry not sure how that is defined exactly) [1]. So saying they don't work at scale is not quite correct I'd argue, things are definitely more complicated.

[0] https://www.mittelstandsbund.de/themen/internationalisierung...
https://www.goatcounter.com
Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration
Why hasn't anyone suggested what I think is obvious ... if you have anxiety on such a level that prohibits you from doing a certain activity during the interview, then you should say so.

?
It’s “easy” until it silently shreds data and gets your org hacked through truncation attacks.

Don’t confuse lazy with easy.
Yes, you can. The layout is completely up to the author of the diagram. So you can specify group for power and then have sub-groups with the individual power rails.