skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With the technological development, more and more processes, documents and contracts are being filled using online methods. Do you think this can replace traditional immigration lawyers?

No, not anytime in the near future.

It can perhaps reduce the need in some of the simpler cases where they are in demand, and increase the caseload each can manage effectively.
startpage.com (text results for now, I'll do image search later) support has been added to https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results ; enjoy!
>SNAP doesn't have time limits like that.

>I think you're thinking of TANF which does have time limits.

No, actually, I am talking about SNAP specifically, the only program I have personal experience with, as well as know people who have also experienced it.

If you are in any way "on the grid", SNAP will make you do a mountain of work collecting all your paperwork proof that you actually qualify for it.

If you have not given up yet, you MAY get the benefits. In order to claim them, you will have to carefully look for which stores support them (by far not all) and then carefully select the products you're buying, and then argue with the cashier or manager (or put the product back) if it has not been correctly entered into the POS system as eligible.

THEN, a year later, you will have to go through a detailed re-certification process, which requires scheduling an appointment for a phone call, making that phone call at a certain time, holding on the phone for an hour before being hung up on, re-scheduling that appointment, and so on, until eventually you MAY then be required to receive a mailing at an address that you have to respond to.

Then, and only then, you may receive your benefits for another year.

If you cannot list at least 5-10 ways a person must be hugely privileged in order to receive these very basic 200 dollars worth of food credits per month in the text below, please consider yourself extremely privileged to not realize this.

Because it requires the ability to be patient and polite to often rude and impatient handlers (a HUGE privilege), having a phone you can call from for an hour, having an address, being able to deal with all this paperwork, and being able to stick with a long and complicated process, one which is more involved and time-consuming than everything which was required of me to operate a single-person contractor business, something I also had experience with just a few years prior.

Think about that. You have to do more legwork and paperwork in order to receive "basic" benefits to feed yourself than to operate a business. In a country which is overflowing with food resources (double-digit percent of food thrown in the trash every day).
The point about gold is that traditionally it's been seen to be inversely correlated with equities, which means that you hold gold and equities in your portfolio to give you stability. If equities and BTC correlate then that hedge won't work.
Strategically reducing the attack surface.
Sure, but the missing piece is getting landlord to allow this. 99% of residential landlords will just say "nah", again probably because we have this mentality that renting is a temporary stepping stone on the path to home ownership.

Markets that aren't like this (NYC) have a huge, professional renter class of people who will likely never own a home there, and you can see how the regime is different. It'd be nice if that were more prevalent, IMO anyway.
The medical establishment approves of it.

Are we still trusting the experts?
Thanks, I'm finally able to reproduce this.

It would be great if instead of the histrionic message on CPAN (which amusingly accuses others of "mass hysteria"), the author would just say "YAML documents can't start with a tab while JSON documents can, making JSON not a strict subset of YAML".

The YAML spec should be updated to reflect this, but I wonder if a simple practical workaround in YAML parsers (like replacing each tab at the beginning of the document with two spaces before feeding it to the tokenizer) would be sufficient in the short term.
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis?

Well, I went into settings and switched my default search engine back to Google. Wonder what I'll have to "deal with" tomorrow. Oh right, nothing. Because it isn't a daily occurrence. Far from it. Some people routinely exaggerate small rare annoyances into a constant ongoing process, and I don't really understand it.
Must have infringed on Metallica.
> sheer number of COVID patients overwhelming the ability for a hospital to do anything other than treat COVID

Your statement makes it sound like hospitals are devoting 50%+ to Covid, that is just not even close to reality frankly anywhere in the world.
So, in your eyes, value is proportional to the rate of change of value?

I plugged it into Wolfram Alpha and it showed some solutions. Some go up to infinity and some go down to zero. So the first guy was right after all!
It's absolutely true

https://blog.mollywhite.net/abuse-and-harassment-on-the-bloc...

https://blockcast.cc/news/a-new-type-of-nft-scam-beware-of-s...
If I ride a bike from work to home, my fat ass will be terrible unhappy. If I ride a horse, the horse would be. I could drive, but driving in London is not fun. Luckily, there is a decent public transport system that fits my needs. The point is, there is a context for everything and it matters.

You might like installing and configuring software, I don't. I'm more than capable of doing so myself, but I'd rather build things on top of other things. I'd rather use a battle tested Secrets Manager and have db replication set up for me. I'm grateful to people that like doing these things I don't and I'm expressing my gratitude by contributing to their paychecks via my cloud bill.

To go back to my initial reply, if you change the context, eg the context is driving a car, you can't possible crash the car you are not driving. If the context is "get home after a few too many pints at the pub", then riding a horse is much better than driving a car (and crashing it). Context.
Too many people are invested in the speculative stock market, so I'm skeptical on whether the Fed has the courage to ruin American worker's 401k.

If the supply chain issues persist, there's also a chance that raising interest rates will fail to deflate commodity and product prices, in which case we might be overestimating Fed's ability to control inflation.

Let's hope China decides to stick with dollar as the reserve currency and doesn't decide to suddenly cut off the flow of goods, or things might turn very ugly.
As a FreeBSD user I am always very frustrated with how out of date the ubuntu packages seem to be (particularly on the lts versions). There's also a surprising number of packages I use that are in FreeBSD repos by default that I have to go find an alternative for (ppa, appimage, compile from source myself, etc). I almost never have to do that on FreeBSD.

That said, I hear you on the upgrades. I've never had an issue with FreeBSD pkg removing my DE (perhaps because I only use a basic window manager) but the video drivers have a habit of breaking across minor OS upgrades forcing me to compile myself from ports, and often not properly documented. Not too often but often enough to be an annoyance, and one of the reasons I'm considering a linux (certainly not ubuntu though, probably fedora or void).
> Smaller markets with lower liquidity moves more.

Above a certain level of liquidity the difference is marginal to nonexistent. Bitcoin certainly exceeded that level. This was not a small, illiquid market.
Hydraulic intensifiers can act as an analog of an electrical transformer. An intensifier is a hydraulic device where a large area piston is coupled to a small area piston. They are often used in water jet cutters to produce high pressures. A jet pump[0] is another device which acts sort of like a transformer and exchanges high pressure for high flow. 'Inertance' of the water in the pipe can act in a manner similar to inductors.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injector#/media/File:Ejector_o...
K9s – Kubernetes CLI to Manage Your Clusters in Style
"There's no cloud. There's only someone else's computer." said someone here on HN.
Cannot agree more. I want control. I want RAID, FDE, IPMI/KVM, etc. etc. That's why I use colocation service.
Surely, there are disadvantages: you are responsible for all the maintenance, upgrades, logistics, etc.
But my users enjoy fast latencies and no BloatFlare puzzles.
This is exactly what I did. After graduate school (focused on the wireless networking space) I was really burned out on software development.

Important context is that my undergraduate degree was in mechanical engineering, even though I ended up moving straight into CS afterwards.

I found a job as a machine design engineer at a company that designs computer controlled milling machines and I've loved it ever since. 90% of my day to day job is mechanical, but I have a plenty of domain specific knowledge to handle the CNC side of things. I've found it's the perfect balance for me.

One word of caution for you about physical engineering: If you are working at a company that sells a physical product (not just working on 100% research and development ala Bell Laboratories) you will spend a lot of your time working on supply chains, handling quality control, helping the purchasing department, answering customer support questions that are escalated to you, etc. I would say that actual textbook mechanical engineering is about 20% of the job.

Addendum: I see that you are interested in the machining side of things as well. If you are looking for mechanical design jobs, this is something you will want to ask about early in the interview process. Some companies never let mechanical designers into the R&D lab to make prototypes and instead have a dedicated staff that only does that. Other companies (like mine) specifically select for engineers with manufacturing skills and encourage you to be able to make your own prototypes.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/28/hsbc-faces-...

> Insiders who spoke to journalists as part of a joint investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, have suggested that HSBC may not have appropriately shared the information with the monitoring team installed by US regulators in 2012 after HSBC allowed drug cartels in Latin America to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through its accounts.

Maybe someday all these anti-crypto activists will rail against the banks and their fiat financial system too. We gotta stop the druggies! ;)
I was a mechanical engineer before this. Keep in mind that mech engineering that requires a 4-year degree is different from being on the fabrication side that does machining/building. The latter is the hands-on, blue collar work where you're on your feet all day. The engineering is a desk job 90% of the time. Sell your back vs. sell your brain.
According to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

"Apache License, Version 2.0 (#apache2)
This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL."
Hmm I used to work for a nootropics startup, and a couple of the guys were working on something like this. That was many years ago. But I wonder if you're them, or connected.

I have some n=1 feedback, IDK if it's any good or useful. In short, I tried to go through the steps but it was too much work and felt a little pointless. I only made it to the second step (rating the nootropics/things tried already).

Basically, I have tried so many different things that I have too many ratings to fill out on the second step.

Second, perhaps more importantly (because, I'm just lazy and other people will fill the stuff out), how can I rate my experience with stuff? As you know, a lot of the effects of this stuff can be subtle. I cannot rate my experiences with Alpha GPC, Inositol, or probiotics on a scale of 1-10. Sure, I can do that for piracetam, and a couple other things, but certainly not the softer supplements. Similar issue exists for rating "meditation", but here, I think the issue is more: even if I rated my experience with meditation a 7, what would that tell you? You don't know what kind of meditation I tried, how long I did it for each day, etc. And the "issue" list under it is the same as for substances, which doesn't make sense.

I would say I am generally in the ambit of users you're targeting, but I am not a "power user" or deeply interested in biohacking. As it stands, I take too many pills for shit, and I need to cut all that down and eliminate most of them, both for health and financial reasons. Personally, when it comes to looking for new stuff, I would rather start with my problem (e.g., falling asleep) and go from there. My current approach is to Google, e.g., "nootropics for sleep reddit" or "hangover cure nootropics reddit". Some source of info, maybe one that aggregates from multiple sources and curates the material, to replace that would be useful.
Incorrect. You should not put all of your money into a single investment, according to Kelly. BUY means "the amount of this you should have according to Kelly's criterion has increased", HODL means it is unchanged.
In what talks with whom is the EU engaging reagarding current buildup of Russian forces near Ukrainian borders (not only in Russia, but also in Belarus)?
Multiple web3 people have told me to "have fun staying poor" for being skeptical about what they're offering, which kinda gives away the whole game.
I haven't seen anyone here comment on this, but I loved "Hi David" in response to Daniel's reply.
Software Engineering is an appealing profession for people with several of the issues on this list (in particular: social anxiety, ADHD, spectrum disorders) so this is not surprising.

You are mixing up cause and effect; working as a developer is not causing ADHD, bi-polar disorder or spectrum disorders.
Do you have any numbers you can share publicly? What's the reason it's better (Linux has in-kernel TLS as well, correct?)?. It would make for a great topic for Netflix TechBlog.
> Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.

I think the article means "state" in the sense of "country," not US State.
yeah well. most firmware engineers I know still mostly do coding. in bigger firms, electrical engineers usually do hw and then throw that stuff over the wall
Must be google's new Easter egg...
Using NixOS to avoid the problems of dependency hell is like intentionally getting infected with sars-cov-2 to get immunity. You're intentionally exposing yourself the very thing you're trying to avoid.... to avoid it in the future?

Instead of only having to, say, statically compile a single program that doesn't quite work with your system version of glibc or whatever, now you have to do do it for every single program. For popular software this is okay, someone else has probably already done the work. But for the long tail (most software) a pre-existing config won't.
I guess based on the downvotes I’m wrong but they also don’t know?

Reason I want to know is when I tried running ubuntu off a spinning disk and wanted to move some games to the drive it would transfer about 1gb then lock up. Didn’t happen with an SSD.
What percent of Bitcoin owners has made a single commercial transaction in Bitcoin? Or really done anything other than buy/sell it in a commercial brokerage account?
Do you think it's okay to just make snide remarks about someone's browser choice on this website? Is that the kind of environment you want HN to be?
I grew up in the late 70s in the Pittsburgh area. As far back as I can remember, we had a Mr. Yuk on the wall phone and my mom had told us to call it if we or our friends ever ate anything bad like cleaning supplies or things from the garage.
I think I understand why it makes you uncomfortable.

I do think they're two separate problems, and must be solved independently. Left unsolved, what you're experiencing is mostly bad optics rather than a dependent nastiness. It's a bad look, and it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.

That being said, we both agree it's worth solving. However, I'm not an economist, by any measure, so I don't have any insight into what a solution looks like.
No, if you check the article, poster means sovereign states, or what in US is called “countries”. There is not a single example of a state in USA.
Gonna be real with you - the worker probably has nothing going for them outside of work and is fine with the 4 hours of commuting because it fills time that they would otherwise feel hopeless over.

I think they’re also just attention seeking and trying to talk to a paper for 30 minutes to get some free negotiating power. If they succeed, it only took 30 minutes to retain their 10%.
> As others have noted many times over we are very early, it is unlikely that we've yet seen what will be a broadly used solution but there is real product market fit here already illustrating massive demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

"It's still early stage, PoW/Ethereum/NFTs are just the first iteration, there are potential applications in the future" is the perennial crypto investors' motte.

"PoW/Ethereum/NFTs are revolutionary, they're here to stay, you would be so cool if you bought a hexagonal ape profile picture" is their bailey.
For western US trained geoscientists, the Bishop Tuff [1] (from the ~750,000 years ago eruption of the Long Valley Caldera, near Mammoth Mtn. in California) is a "modern" comparable ashfall deposit.

This was quite a bit larger (edited to add: I meant in areal extent, not necc. volume erupted).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Tuff
> Is it too much to ask from developers in 2022?

It's not too much to ask for non-production ready software. If nixos is supposed to be production ready, then yes.
Meh, i've been into crypto for a long time and it's always like this. Cryptos fall of value for a week or two, and haters do parties, state how cryptos are a failure and how dead they are.

They tend to shut up when they grow in value again, to values they never reached before.
Sure, but the implied message of your comment that you were saying you could replace all of your instances and containers with just 9 machines, since StackOverflow "serves a lot more traffic than you do" (i.e. "has more actual compute need"). I think most reasonable engineers would say that "thousands" of containers would be a massive mistake to use for that size of task, even if few of them would go to the extent that Stack Overflow did of using only 9 machines.
Deflationary currencies cannot be deflationary forever. Think for 5 seconds: if that was true, then the person who sold the pizza for bitcoin will eventually have enough value to buy everything on the planet. So will the person whose CPU was mining to keep the pizza warm. Can there be two planets of value on the planet?
> The point is that if they give refunds to all the good actors they won't make any money.

That assumes the only way they make money is on peoples understandable mistakes or lack of care. Doesn't seem to be the case for these services (unlike, say, many gym subscriptions).

It seems far more likely that if they refunded all the well documented issues like this one, their bottom line wouldn't be impacted.
There's a large difference between "applying the concepts" and "doing useful things in electronics". The vast majority of people barely find utility in repairing what they already own, to say nothing of tinkering or creating something new.

The water analogy, is, in my opinion, the sweet spot for people who will never own a multimeter or fire up a SPICE program. It's the level that ought to be the expectation for citizens of a technic civilization.
> Why are you assuming that just because something doesn't involve money, people wouldn't be interested in it?

Because random hashes are not inherently interesting to most people and the core concept is built around an opinionated finance model. The only value to the blockchain network is in the ability to make transactions, and that's why all of the push around it is very heavy-handed FOMO “buy now or you'll have to pay more later” which is a sharp contrast to previous new technologies which focused on what new things you could do.
I must not be understanding the problem here because this seems pretty simple. If someone told me to add two lists of numbers (the square roots) and then take the difference of the two sums and the sums were potentially too big for the computer to handle, I'd start differencing before I finished the sums. (For example find the total of sum1 - sum2. While processing values, if the running sum is positive take a number from list 2. It it is negative take a number from list 1.)

That should be linear in the total number of elements in the list.
The thing is, are we sure?

Probably many C++ aficionados will run to godbolt.org to prove this in a simple testcase, and they will probably be right. But then maybe it’s because you’ve only tested this for primitive or POD types. Maybe this might not be guaranteed for non-POD types with custom constructors? Or maybe this might be okay because of RVO or something? Hmm, let us read the specs again…

The problem is, C++ is a language that is very unintuitive about how your code is going to get mapped to actual hardware (assembly code). For many systems developers, it isn’t enough that the compiler might optimize this smartly; we instead want predictable compiler behavior. So if you want to make sure, and you’re not confident about the gnarly details of the C++ specification, it will be better for you just use out parameters instead of std::optional, if you are in the situation where you really need to squeeze out performance (which happens a lot for low-level systems programming).
Just view the price of gas/diesel in Europe versus Europe - a direct result of the ~~ 100 year petro-lobby, coupled with less space in Europe on roads and the lack of lobbying. Prices in Euros/liter 1 US Gallon = 3.79 Liters.
https://autotraveler.ru/spravka/benzine-in-europe-previous.h...

That says it all. In the USA gas/diesel cars are favored greatly over electric. I even expect the petro lobby to get battery car taxes legislated soon..
You can do 99.999% of practical applications of electricity with the liquid analogy, up to and including most industrial electrical stuff (remember, check valves, accumulators and whatnot are a thing).

What you can't do is design a bottom dollar power supply that uses some trick circuitry to not emit enough RF noise to matter.
Well I live next to Ukraine so the situation is closer to home so to say. Not everyone has such interest in the situation.
That said, current numbers are already much much higher than last spring.
I’m not claiming management structure is the only factor in whether or not a business is competitive. It’s just a factor, and business usually try to optimize the factors under their control to be the most competitive. Of course, there are many factors outside of the businesses control as well.
I haven't done it, if you have a degree in computer science and find yourself having to go into undergrad, check with the schools whether they might give you credit for basic things you have already taken (algebra, other basic math) so you can get a head start.
Just to make things extra clear, the post we are commenting on has

- 99.4% in 6 guesses or less

- 3.64 guesses average

- no attempt of any formal optimality result,

while the one you posted has:

- not just 100% in 6 guesses or less (so 100% wins not 99.4%), but actually 100% in 5 guesses or less!!!

- 3.42 guesses average

- a fairly convincing optimality proof (as far as average is concerned) which was apparently the only hard part computationally.

- it also had 3 upvotes until i cross-references it here, and barely more now.

- the author seems to have plenty of twitter followers, none of which seemed to care much.

And yet if you look at the "new" page, the flow of heuristics keeps coming. Conclude what you will :-).