skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is used in InfiniTime, the PineTime smart watch firmware :-)

See https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/pull/438
this is sort of like saying the second tier of hell on earth is really quite nice in comparison to the ninth tier.
Maybe you're just not in a location where that sort of eating is common. Like the American south or midwest.
I was studying in Saudi Arabia (at KAUST) and my daughter got kidnapped for two weeks when I refused to comply with some work conditions they were trying to impose on me. Granted, the guys that did this were not arabs, they were two professors from Australia and the US, but still, it was weird how everybody turned their back on this as it seemed like the standard procedure to follow when one does not cooperate. WTF.

Never do business in/with the Middle East.
That’s now how the justice system works..
If it’s not obvious to anyone from the recently deceased kid brother thing that therapy is indicated, I’d be curious how.

I’ve been getting therapy since way before that happened, most people could probably benefit from a little mental health checkup now and again.

What did I do to get your knickers so twisted that you’re banging on a recently-bereaved guy with thus far zero productive suggestions?
Yours is probably the comment that most resonates with me. The whole thing with team documentation is that you're asking the employees to do something most of them don't want to do, which is make every development or devops task take longer. You have to retrain them to think "okay I just changed something. do I also have to update documentation?" and then, if the answer is "yes", they have to actually go and update the documentation. It's clearly not impossible but it's a big change for many devs and, in my experience, the result is exactly what you describe: stale docs which are therefore untrusted. Maybe one motivated leader will try to be the hero and maintain the docs, but that just makes everyone else even lazier (I don't think about the docs, Joe handles that) and eventually he/she will give up or leave.
I am vaccinated
Not vaccinated yet, but considering it
No and won't get vaccinated
I had a similar reaction to this post, this is not a new way of leveling, this is how leveling was done at most companies for a long time. State Universities and the Federal Government are still very much this way, with a very similar amount of counting years of direct/indirect experience.

Back when I worked in academia I also had a very similar experience to yours. I wasn't leading a team but, especially earlier in my career, it was incredibly frustrating to be making significantly less than people who were both less skilled and less hard working, but simply had more years of experience. The perpetual theme was "you just haven't earned it yet", but "earning it" was purely a function of putting time in, it didn't matter how great the work you did was.

I left to go to tech and even now that I'm on the older side of things I still prefer the pay structure being more closely aligned with the value of your skills + the amount you're willing to put into the job. I get paid plenty, and have no problem with someone much younger and less experienced then me getting paid more with unique skills and responsibilities I'm less interested in having.
I heard an interesting argument for Bitcoin recently. It represents a way to move energy around the world wirelessly. For instance, you can use geothermal power in a very isolated, cold climate that previously would be unusable for any purpose. As Bitcoin’s power needs are decentralized, all it needs is an internet connection. You could have a Bitcoin mine in outer space, if you wanted.

Not sure why I’m being downvoted - maybe someone smarter than me can explain it better. I’m too tired to figure out how to put this into words. But basically, the earth has a total energy amount that can be used. Bitcoin can use energy in places you couldn’t get to before, so in a sense, you’re able to do work with isolated energy in a given remote locaton and send the output of that work via the internet to somewhere else.
Most Greenhouses supplement CO2 to increase growth in plants since there's no natural O2 -> CO2 back-cycle in the greenhouse. So yes, Greenhouses use CO2.

Reference in Commercial Greenhouse Industry - https://www.greenhousemegastore.com/equip/co2-generators/
Yes but I could also just sticker my lookalike url over that
Adding printer drivers manually with the "Have Disk..." option still brings up a dialog box with an icon of a floppy disk that defaults to a path of A:\.
Absolutely yes. I still have a lot of good external devices that use USB-A.
Lol. Sad but true. It's hard to unify all the inconsistency, since the tech changes by day.
> lead of my team

A lead isn't a manager or boos.

That being said, a lead is frequently more valuable than the followers.
It all depends on how complex the password is.

For an 8 char password, it would take a few min.

For a 10 char alphanumeric password, several months on a single GPU

For a 12 char alphanumeric password, Half a century on a single GPU, less if you are willing to throw money at it.

The time would be significantly reduced if the password was vulnerable to a dictionary attack
> Sounds terrible to me, neck pain from constantly looking down at your laptop screen would not go well for me.

I have an external monitor and a stand for my laptop. It is pretty awesome.
Yes, but it's more niche and nuanced than mainstream stuff (I've dealt with it).

Have you reached out to anyone at In-Q-Tel (https://www.iqt.org/) yet? Looked at AFWORX and SOFWORX? SBIR grants and projects (https://www.sbir.gov/).

I see a wide variety of things coming across AFWORX and SOFWORX indicating interesting in AI-style things, and also what I would consider more mainstream stuff like battlefield coms and situational awareness gear.

Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about anything in more detail.
Range given for concentration of CO2 on exhaled air is 4-5%

So it looks like it could be 25% difference at most.
> but nobody wants to tax carbon emissions and end industry subsidies

I rarely downvote, but downvoted this because it’s blatantly false.

Literally hours ago:

https://wsau.com/2022/02/18/singapores-carbon-tax-to-rise-fi...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/singapore...
Some of the papers have strange errors that suprise me that they passed peer review. For example, "Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure" by Thurber, others, and Pontzer has a figure labeled "Fig. 3 Maximal Energy Intake". First, it appears that one of the charts is labeled incorrectly. I assume it is the first one, and they swapped "Overfeeding" with "Endurance". Second, it seems that taking the disparate types of "event" and putting them together on the Energy Intake graph causes them to have a flat slope, whereas the slope would be somewhat positive for the subgroups.

This was like one of the first few things I looked at in this body of research, I wasn't combing through everything to find an error. But it's strange. Finding an error quickly is a red flag to me.

Overall the study I'm looking at is interesting. I'm not sure they adequately demonstrated the finding of a caloric intake limit of 2.5x BMR but there appears to be a definite negative correlation of duration of sustained activity and energy expenditure (or metabolic scope, a multiple of basal metabolic rate). The numbers are very tightly clustered around the trendline, which is kind of odd, given how widely the numbers vary in other graphs. So either this is a very close correlation or something is strange with the data.

Glancing through the papers in PubMed, I think that the implications in the article are way stronger than the papers support. One paper said that perhaps 25% of the calories expended in exercise are borrowed from a reduction in BMR. The article made it seem like they were completely offset. The article referenced above apparently used two very different groups (overfeeding and endurance competition), and used the first to study the limit of energy intake and the second to study the long-term limit of energy expenditure, but people are making claims about energy intake in endurance athletes. Maybe when you're working hard, the gut is able to adapt and pull in more calories. Perhaps there is a limit to how much the gut is willing to accept when there is a calorie surplus.

Maybe I'm way off base.
Interesting. I could heat my home with bitcoin like that. /s
Congrats, a great place to discuss interesting topics.

Wonder how HN moderators deal with spam? I have a phpBB3 (was phpBB2) forum for 17 years, still running, and had to be inventive with spam: for the last 5 years you have to solve a dot product and answer a logic question during registration. It may exclude some genuine visitors unfortunately. Also migrated the server to different VPS companies, it takes energy to keep a forum running, a popular site such as HN in particular.

So thank you HN admins!
I hope you see the funny side of the complaint there's nothing to do there, while also never having been there. :)

Really encourage you to go. It's beautiful, and if you like hiking/mountains you have a "playground in your backyard". After moving to the bay area I was so spoilt and couldnt believe people would drive 3-8 hours (traffic) to Lake Tahoe, when I was used to 1.5 hours and sleeping in my own bed that night.
> That said, is this really a big deal to people? Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

I don't on my mac, because I can't. I don't like having to buy and carry a dongle. I don't like using bluetooth peripherals because they are more expensive and require charging the batteries. I don't like being forced to buy adaptors so all the USB tech I already own can continue to work with the MacBooks that every job insists I must use.

> I use a docking station with a single USB-C

Fine, but I don't want to carry a docking station when I'm on the go.

> An external mouse would work with Bluetooth

I already have a $100 trackball mouse and a $100 mechanical keyboard. I don't want to rebuy these items with (more expensive) Bluetooth versions since the wired versions should work for years and years to come. Very wasteful. Besides, batteries expire, and many bluetooth items don't have replaceable batteries. These items will stop working long before their wired counterparts.

> I’ve never needed to use external devices while on the go.

Makes sense you wouldn't understand the issue then. I use USB devices every day.

> I don’t understand why people need a cocktail of barely used ports at all times

I use my USB devices every day, and not one of them plugs natively into my computer anymore. USB-A devices are less expensive and more reliable than their BT and USBC counterparts.
Repl.nvim: Bring REPL Support to Nvim
> mandatory iTunes activation

Did macOS ever have mandatory activation? Because I have used it for a long time and have never needed that. You need some way to get a new OS version, which was buying a new macOS version on a disk (back in the day), then on the app store, and then it was a free upgrade from the app store. But you never needed an account to run the actual OS.
Enums and iota weirdness made my love for Go start to crack.

I learned about abstract data types and discriminated unions, then wondered why Go didn't have those.

The prevalence and overuse of interface{} undermined type safety at jobs I had writing Go and errors from this apparently popular style of Go programming filled the logs.

Then I saw someone say "Go's error handling on values is good, but it's better in a language with Either".

I looked up examples, and indeed it seemed nicer and retained the value proposition of errors as values.

I wish Go had either.

Then bugs started happening in code that was copy pasted... but why was it copy pasted?

Lack of generics were the final straw and I started playing with Haskell in the evenings.

It gave me the type safety I wanted and more. It's not perfect, but it's based on a philosophy I believe is more correct than the worse is better values of Go that seek micro-level simplicity at the cost of macro-level complexity.
Yup. I started web development when I was 5. There's a lot of very good, important things that you won't learn working as a kid (conflict resolution, dealing with bad business requests/requirements, etc), but at the same time, it's not like that experience is completely inapplicable either. If nothing else, 29 years of perspective on how web development has evolved and developer discussions means I have a radically different perspective than an 18 year old who decided to start learning to code last year.
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I don't know, actually. I'll check it out later today. I do know my heart rate is around 150-160 throughout.

I did a lot of cycling in my 20s and while I'm at least a decade out of shape I'm sure I'm relying a lot on past training.
Carbon taxes are very popular, both in the US and globally. I would guess they are more popular than bitcoin bans in the US.
By this reason any doctor that doesn't have the disease they help curing should be disqualified as well. Maybe think a bit longer and realize that expertise can be gained in more ways than experience alone.

I've posted a pretty good link below from a respected source if you don't believe what I wrote and whether or not I have diabetes type 1 is not relevant.
Tech companies are imposing raise caps on workers who move away
They list 8 separate empirical criteria for sentience, and evaluate them each in detail for the different species involved.
I agree that value is added merely by aggregation. Nevertheless, my diagnostic health test results are more sensitive to me than my DNA is. I imagine this is so for the vast majority.
"but they are filtered by an extensive blocklist ... That account had 16000 and no such filters."

Does he mean his account has 1800 followers and 16000 users/comments on blocklist? I do not use Twitter but this absurd ratio makes me doubt if my understanding is correct
So what's the problem when people are not forced anymore to adhere to stupid social games, faking interest in other people, wasting a lot of time on something that in the end is just a couple of minutes of satifsfying a body function? Seems like a huge plus. Nobody is forced to live that way, and probably everybody else is better off with the two worlds separated.
> configurability deprivation

Macs are rare machine where I live, so I have 0 experience with them.

A few weeks ago someone came at work with a Mac for a presentation and nothing was showing on the projector.

I had to search on the web to learn that in the screen config menu if you press a certain shortcut a hidden menu will appear and let you manage dual screen options. I'm still baffled...

I still never managed to make the thing work, I had to lend a Windows laptop to the guy (which just plugged and played like you would expect from the Mac!).
> Apple would rather die than ship GPL later than v2.

So would I, so I'm not about to blame them for that.
How was the interview process?

Would be great to learn about the questions they ask.
Renewables have been cheaper (in monetary and carbon) than running existing coal plants for a while. Even more so if you reuse the sites grid connection. So it still doesn't add up to me.

Clearly the couldn't sell energy before if they were about to shutdown, so there must be something different about the miners compared with their usual market, can't just be cheaper.

In the article they seem to be suggesting they couldn't buy renewable power in 2020 which seems odd, but no follow up detail on it, apparently they're phasing coal out in a year so it may just have been a short term thing.
Any advice on finding the right advisor firm for a sale in the high $xx million range? We're a team of builders and have no experience in M&A, and little experience in finance/negotiation.

I’m worried that a broker will be incentivized to close a deal at an undervalued price, similar to brokers in real estate.
All valid feedback - and things I'll address. Thanks!
Anyone who says "We certainly have a right to raise [...] (issues with) racism, human rights abuse, etc." and immediately follows with "That being said however", is automatically not entitled to an opinion. You're clearly biased and enfatuated with the richness of the country and easy access to slavery and are more than content of looking the other way.
> Wouldn’t debt going down generally mean people were unable to leverage more debt?

People were clearly able to leverage more debt based on the auto- and mortgage debt figures. Credit Card debt would not go down if people were strapped for cash. If you're worried about making rent next month, why would you be paying more than the minimum on your credit card? You wouldn't. Hence, if credit card debt is going down, it's because people had cash on hand and weren't immediately concerned about their ability to pay the bills--hence my point; falling cc debt indicates that people were not in a precarious position.

> In that instance of home equity debt going down - wouldn’t it mean that the mortgages were being paid off faster than they were being made? (In absolute dollar sense) To me - that sounds like people stopped getting mortgages… Which is an affordability crisis.

You're confusing Home Equity debt with Mortgage debt. HE debt is when someone borrows against their home equity so that they can 'spend' the equity they have in their home. It's low-interest, collateral-backed consumer debt. This type of debt went DOWN, indicating (again) that people had cash on hand and didn't have an immediate need for it.

Auto- and Mortgage debt went UP, indicating that people were buying cars and houses.

This is evidence of something, but it's not evidence that the American people were struggling to make ends meet during the crash. The fact that Americans were paying down debt and buying cars and houses during an economic crisis clearly belies the idea that most American households are on the verge of financial ruin. They said the same thing before the crisis, and folks clearly did just fine.
Ah yes, cultural relativism! Justifying barbaric behaviour since, well, the Barbarians.
Unfortunately, the data reflects this. I'll reevaluate phone-based login!
> Every time I read an article like this on HN, I can't help but wonder, is anyone actually using a Linux/FreeBSD machine at their workplace?

I have been using Linux exclusively at my workplaces for over a decade now, and honestly it is a non-negotiable part of interviewing for a job for me. There is no way I would tolerate being stuck with Windows or macOS.

There are solutions for device management for Linux, if a company really wants to do it, but my most recent several employers haven't cared one way or the other.

edit: I say 'non-negotiable,' but obviously I think that for several tens of thousands of dollars I would be willing to use macOS or Windows. But it would have to be a big several, not a small one, and I doubt anyone would put together that compensation package.
That's to be expected though, self experimentation goes a lot quicker than a regulated track. Even so they are doing great work, and I'm sure the industry is watching this development like a hawk to see what they can pick up.
>now ADO.NET

Now ?!!! ADO.NET is 20 years old already, it appeared in .NET Framework 1.0
Even visiting the place as a tourist left a bad taste - everything is made up, the service industry is mostly unfriendly (our sightseeing bus left us stranded somewhere and then later on the desert trip, the car broke down middle of nowhere and the driver had no other help so we had to help him fix it), no public transport to speak of, fanciest cars on one side and hapless labourers trudging in the heat alongside. Apart from the choice/variety of food, I cannot think of any redeeming feature about Dubai.
Related (and a fun watch!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiubC6LdTA
Please elaborate. I do not understand what you mean about the photos and I do not see how legislation would be easy where there is free speech combined with free markets.
He admits he committed fraud (using DIB funds for the Plantation on a project in Pakistan), so how is this corruption? I'm not fond of the continually extended jail time, but he is a criminal. The story title should really be "The Dubai Financial Fraud Trap".
Wow, been lurking for 12! Feels like a few lifetimes... Getting old... Thanks for everything.
Wired had a great article about naval salvage

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/
So by "move energy" you mean "move energy demand".
I am talking about they have one documentation but if you look deeper there are 2 products, thay say here are 2 options long and short API ,
but look closer and see one uses names like "Name", "Voice" the other "name", "voice" , the list of voices of this 2 options are not the same , and you randomly get weird errors with shit message that will solve themselves in the next few days. If my memory is correct you authenticate in2 different ways.

So I would prefer MS do this;

1 this is our 2 completly different and incompatible APIs , they might look similar but are not the same, outpiut can differ even if you send same params to each one

2 give me good error messages, like if is your fault a request fails make it clear , if is my input the problem make it clear it is me and what is wrong
> Solaris (now proprietary again and the forks of it aren't active I thought)

The Solaris forks (based on Illumos[1]) such as SmartOS[2] are pretty active!

> Are there other significant CDDL licensed codebases?

A lot of the Java stuff was also CDDL licensed. Though some of that (larger projects such as OpenJDK) were already dual licensed with "GPLv2 + classpath exception".

I also doubt it was used much outside of Sun. But even it's just the Sun stuff I still think no corporation would ever dare to make such a license update.

[1] https://www.illumos.org/
[2] https://wiki.smartos.org/
I plan to build email bindings, too. But, I plan to start on web.
I don’t think we have to agree on a single metric to see that running a coal-fired power plant for the sole purpose of cracking hashes has marginal, if any value to society. And that’s before we even factor in the ridiculously negative externalities manifest in digging coal out of the earth and burning it.
> When there are only 2 companies

There are at least a dozen companies selling Android phones, each of which is free to customize it to their heart's content. For that matter, Android users are free to customize their phones to their heart's content, download apps from sketchy app stores, sideload them....
Strongly agree. In some countries (for example, most of Eastern Europe), formal CS education is compatible with a full-time developer job during masters and even the last years of bachelor's studies.
Therefore, some highly motivated guys can get 2-4 years of production experience upon graduation. Paying them a minimum wage is a great idea to distract talents!
Ford, Volvo, and Redwood Materials start recycling EV batteries