skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a paying customer myself I think Notion also appeals a lot to an audience that likes to feel productive and self optimizing while just procrastinating the s*t out of their day (and I am sometimes guilty of that more often than I would like).

This audience has a tendency to jump towards productivity and optimization hscks/shortcuts. And a lot of these products/templates promise exactly that.

So Notion in regard to this specific target audience is a great signal for others to identify an audience ripe for milking. It makes for good marketing and audience self selection.
From what I heard:

- more chip shortage because of neon gas from ukraine and sanctions against russia

- yet another state loosing democracy and in the kremlins grip

- and war in this case is not binary. There already is war and the extend of a further invasion can vary.

- energy market trouble in germany
F-22s Scrambled to Investigate a Mysterious High-Altitude Balloon Off Hawaii
Is it a good summary that the only reason for deciding for C instead of Rust/Nim/Zig is that not enough programmers know Rust/Nim/Zig?
Having trouble figuring out if this is real. It sounds way too good to be true.
Yeah it doesn’t do that from stationary. I’ll only beep if I’m going full speed at a fence or something (like at a 90 degree corner).

No parking sensors either. It has a 360 degree overhead parking camera view for parking though.
Because we live in a society. Illegals sub contracting delivery vans, delivery drivers using their kids as free labor.

The whole industry is screwed. And I'm a hypocrite because I order stuff online as well.
Interview with inventor of electromagnetic coil gun
> By definition, loopholes are perfectly legal. They may be against the spirit of the law, but they are still legal

As long as you can bribe - oops sorry I meant donate to your local politician(s) to keep these 'perfectly legal' laws intact...
Ah, I see you are using a new and exciting definition of the word that I was previously unaware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_wife
That is indeed some A grade propaganda that manages to put a very strange spin on things in an attempt to paint these concerns as weird fringe things that only a tiny handful of people care about and only for misinformed and nefarious reasons.

In reality the techlash voices are growing at every level. Multiple governments around the world are updating legislation, imposing fines, developing new regulations.

The entire political spectrum hates Facebook for a whole host of reasons.

This isn’t just a “we need a better story” like that piece would have you believe.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/19/health/alcohol-brain-heal...
Absolutely.
Currently I'm using solutions like Blokada for that.
I mean, if anything I’ve spent more lonely nights with a bottle of Four Roses and some depressing existentialist book on a high rise tower balcony over not finding happiness in absurd pay than for any other reason.

Being overpaid even by the standards of what I outlined in the post tends to provoke a little guilt, in me at least.

Finding no joy in it whatsoever was legitimately depressing. Tyler Durden: “What now dad? I’ve got the degree/job/whatever, what comes next?”

Can’t buy that answer with RSUs. Or at least I never figured out how.

But yeah, the heavy duty hackers / mathematicians, who I am not one of! Are going to fuck everyone else up.
"No war" as in no further invasion at all?

(there already is war and what is yet to come can be on any scale)

Well I hope so, but don't think so.
Currently I still haven't found an alternative that covers my use cases. Esp. creating documents from templates within inline tables with easy linking to other documents.

I would love to have an alternative for that.
Do you remember the last time we had a near monoculture for browsers? People with attitudes like yours were all too happy to think of Internet Explorer as the only browser that mattered. Microsoft decided they had won and mothballed Internet Explorer development. We then had a dark ages for web developers with five years of no progress in browser functionality.

Positioning Chrome as the definition of the web is incredibly harmful for the long-term health of the web. A web independent of a single vendor is vital.
No idea about OpenBSD (BSDs are completely separate operating systems), but I remember recent case where certain bad FreeBSD result was tracked down to PTS failing to correctly measure test time.

I hate to say this, but I suspect PTS is not actually a benchmark - it’s a publicity generation tool pretending to be a benchmark.
Which is what I thought initially, but then you decided to call out that specific number.

Thus my previous point about getting loans is still entirely valid.
It is right there, completely unused, and not too hot to get close to.

Most likely you would use up Neptune first, and save Jupiter for later.
This is something I'm really curious about. How can users tolerate this? that is, when you share anything or ask a question, someone immediately leaves a silly comment, but the strange thing is that users are very happy with it. I guess I will never understand this.
I find it very hard to believe that the richest company in the world, didn’t have enough money to implement Animoji. And they had to eclipse the budget of security team. Could you provide a source for that?
Or not worry about Granada at all
Based on our understanding of science. But 200 years ago the idea of having a conversation with someone 1000 miles away seemed quite impossible. Is it so hard to imagine that out of the possibly hundreds of millions of civilizations in the Milky Way, someone has found a way to extract energy from the universe in a way which seems physically impossible to us?

I’m always very open to the idea that there could be a lot of physics we don’t understand yet. We could be at 0.1% of an understanding of the basic laws of the universe. I’m not saying I think that is likely or unlikely, but I do think it is possible.
Ask HN: What are some good HR resources for technical founders?
Does anyone have any recommendations for good resources on HR?

It’s a classic function that doesn’t really seem important until all of a sudden it is.

As a founder you often need to learn a new skill before you hire someone to do it.

Any advice or experiences from anyone who had to learn how to do HR, whilst not really being a people person would also be greatly appreciated!
I'm unaware of the details (haven't done that myself) but you can run your own build server and repository. The problem is more about archiving upstream sources, but if your own build server runs behind a caching proxy it should not be a problem once initial build of all your packages is done.
How do you know that?

For some people, a tiny amount of peanuts is deadly. The rest of us can gorge on them without any ill effects whatsoever.

Perhaps there many other such substances that cause a runaway reaction in a tiny minority of people. We do not know.
Thanks for these, sounds like good suggestions! :)

BTW I loved Moby Dick. Read one summer when I was 15 on the Gold Coast. Body boarding every morning and reading Moby Dick every afternoon. So much salt water, great days.
The industry is notoriously lopsided in terms of supply and demand for talent. You could have made Facebook money elsewhere, you chose Facebook.

I straight up do not trust anyone with Facebook on their CV post 2016.
Does this mean most Italians rent their homes for life and a small fraction purchase their homes in cash?
Where do you see a Pro plan? Their pricing[0] lists a 10 documents limit for the free Individual plan and unlimited for the paid plans Team and Enterprise.

[0]: https://www.getgrist.com/pricing/
Downsides:

- Incentivises Amazon to hasten roboticisation and automation

- Increases delivery costs, which are passed on to consumers

- Consequently consumers buy less, hurting sellers

- Disincentivises driver productivity (since they get the same either way)

- Removes price signal to underperforming drivers to try another profession, thus misconfiguring the labour market (not in a massive way, but still inefficient)
The programming languages developers use have surprises and inconsistencies like this when you compare between them. It seems awfully pessimistic to think Nix is too hard to use for things like that. (Although I never really understood people who detested Python's whitespace significance, either).

I think it's also a bit impractical. I'd be surprised if anyone refused to use Terraform because they didn't like HCL. (Well, these days there's Pulumi). -- I think Nix's boon to managing packages makes it worth the minor unfamiliarity of a very simple programming language.
If a Dyson sphere captures a large proportion of the radiation from a star, what is the destiny of that energy?

It gets converted into other kinds of energy, and eventually becomes waste energy, ending up as low-grade heat. Hence the search for infra-red sources. But the amount of energy that a Dyson sphere absorbs must be equal to the amount of low-grade heat it radiates; so I'd expect a Dyson sphere to be very bright in infra-red - much brighter than brown or red dwarfs.

Such an object should be quite easy to spot.
"Heuristics that work 95% of the time"
Dyson Spheres are fundamentally unphysical. The stability constraint on a complete sphere turns out to be less of a problem than it might seem, but there are still huge issues with stresses - Sphere Quakes.

And before you can build a full Sphere you have to build a partial Sphere. Which is where stability will really kill you.

Dyson Swarms might be more practical, but you still have a computability problem because you have an insanely huge number of objects in orbit and you somehow have to keep them from colliding with each other.

Not so much a three body problem as an n body problem. With a built-in light lag delay of (at least) minutes.

I'm not sure if anyone has modelled that, but it would be hilarious if the computing and station-keeping power requirements turned out to be a significant proportion of the available energy,
How exciting this would be to cycle through the tunnel once the tunnel is completed but not yet released to public (car) traffic? Near Hamburg people enjoy riding their bikes on a nearly completed section of a new motorway although it's strictly forbidden.
I get that the compile process is faster, but simpler?

In my experience, the compile process usually consists of "cargo build"

A advantage of Rust is that usually you spend way less time debugging, because the compiler prevents many mistakes from compiling in the first place.
You're blaming me for Mozilla's failures? How about you stop being complaisant of Firefox mediocrity?
Sounds like what IBM is doing with mainframes - you always get a standard CPU module full of cores, and then pay for license to selectively unlock them. It’s been like this for… two decades now?
I don't know why electric vehicles should be allowed either. Why not just ban those too? And force people to walk.
And x86, Arm, PIC, Xtensa,... and everything else.
Columbus stumbled over Hispaniola on what he thought was the way to someplace completely different. And then insisted he had got there, instead.
Meh, ye was too good to be true. Probably ill people cut back on alcohol skewing the stats or something.
Indeed. Nvi, which was recommended elsewhere in the thread, supports UTF-8 and is my preferred vi clone. (Actually, OpenBSD vi is an old version of nvi without UTF-8 support.)
As an American I’ve always seen it as “Kiev” in sources/media.
I'm not going to argue over any of the content of this article but I want to do so over something much more prosaic - that of inadequate sound volume in computer sound systems and insufficient gain (amplification) to compensate for inadequate or insufficient audio input levels.

Simply, on source material whose audio input levels are too low there is almost inevitably insufficient audio gain within the audio subsystem to amplify the sound to a comfortable level.

Why is this so?

Well, the seemingly obvious answer is that designers of digital equipment assume the correct audio level is always available from the audio source and that its maximum level represents the highest level bits in digital form. Thus, setting the optimal output volume is really a matter of sliding along that scale (usually from zero to the desired level).

The trouble is that not all source material comes with the 'correct' gain to fill the full dynamic range of the equipment and thus one is left with insufficient overall gain that one cannot compensate for.

Many a time I've had to resort to switching on the system's equalizer and turning up all frequencies to boost the gain another 6dB or so, and frankly having to do this is absolutely infuriating, especially so on laptops who've inevitability pissy little audio systems that are inadequate at the best of times.

The real problem of course is that designers of digital equipment have no concept of how audio gear is designed in the analog world - if they had then we would never have had this problem.

For those who don't understand this it's realky very simple: traditional analog equipment gain/volume controls are configured so that at about midway on the rotary control (about 12 o'clock) they provide sufficient gain to drive the device to its maximum output. For example, a 10 Watt amplifier would provide its maximum of 10 Watts output when the volume control was set to 12 o'clock AND that the input source was providing the correct level to drive the amplifier to its maximum 10 Watts output. (If one volt RMS input was the designed input voltage for said amplifier then at 12 o'clock volume control setting it provides 10 Watts output.)

In the above condition where the amplifier was providing its maximum output, if the gain control was advanced any further then the amplifier would be driven into clipping (with no more dynamic range available, its output would become distorted).

Whilst, little joy can be obtained by increasing the volume past the amplifier's maximum output, the potential of increasing the gain when the source input levels were low is extremely useful - a fact seemingly never learned by designers of digital equipment. In the analog world I've encountered very few instances where I've had insufficient amplifier gain to compensate for low audio levels.

Can anyone explain to me how going to digital audio has resulted in an enginering step backwards?
At this point we are like cockroaches. We ain't going anyhwere anytime soon. Parts of our economy might and overall we might regress somewhat, but humans won't die off.
All for the low low price of exploiting the lowest paid members of the working class and increased inequality.

What a terrible trade…
And your website, with 10 visits per day, needs several TB of data?
*illicit
I can hope.
In autonomous vehicle development 'edge cases' are the things that engineers would never conjure up via thought experiment. They need to be discovered through real world testing.

Once an edge case has been discovered, they can then artificially generate myriad subtle variations on the edge case, which they use to train their systems.
Well, is that really a surprise? TOS of free services nowadays are designed to be bulletproof and whoever dares to challenge it is in for a financially draining lawsuit...
Well, if you just wanted no garbage collector, you could use C.
> I have no idea why everyone isn't using NixOS.

Well, in my case it is because Nvidia Jetson's line of products is forcing me to run Ubuntu.
Record-Breaking Rogue Wave Detected Off Vancouver Island
> is considered more stable

Was not stated.

> Why shouldn’t they use stable technology they are proficient with?

This perspective is one of the major indicators of an engineer with more experience managing real projects. Making a technology choice or transition is a milestone/roadmap affecting decision. To do so for preference over deliverability has killed many a project.
If all electricity is generated by renewables and/or dirty electricity is expensive due to a carbon tax, why do you want to ban bitcoin mining too?
I think this is a very interesting comment. Would the youth of EU or NATO countries really accept a draft? After all, they did not grow up during the cold war or with clear memories of ww2.
With webmail I can right-click on links and send them to the appropriate Firefox container. The last time I tried a dedicated mail client this was a sorely missed feature.
> Nothing is private if you send it somewhere.

You've reduced your own argument to a non-answer.

Surely you understand that there are different types of "privacy":

- things that only you know (that aren't sent anywhere and maybe even are encrypted at rest)
- things that only a set of trusted parties are supposed to know

The latter is what HTTPS allows you to achieve, alongside making it so that there's no possibility of a "man in the middle", which could not only read the contents of your request, but also alter it (or do the same for the server side response). OTP, TOTP and JWT are lovely for authentication, but they do not address the above concerns, as pointed out by the poster that you're replying to, before discarding your own argument.

Suppose that you have no encryption but have the best authentication system in the world. What's to prevent some hacker from setting themselves up in the middle between you and the e-commerce site that you're on and messing with requests however they please, showing both you and the site what they want you to see? You tried to buy an HDD for 50$? They just bought themselves a laptop for 500$.

The fact that there's a very secure bit of information somewhere in the request does not protect you from the rest of JSON being changed to say whatever they want it to (unless you are signing the contents of every request, but at that point you're reinventing HTTPS in some capacity). Or even the fact that they could set themselves up in the middle, presenting themselves as you to the site and presenting themselves as the site to you, albeit with more effort.

Of course, an e-commerce site is a silly example, but what about you receiving a bill that tells you to send money to a different account than you should? What would your banking site look like without encryption? Is your suggestiong for no one to do online banking because "nothing is private", even though we already have HTTPS which addresses this very issue ALONGSIDE various authentication methods?
It's been a long time, but I don't understand your point.
#KyivNotKiev[0] slowly adapted by news media in last years.[1,2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev

[1] https://twitter.com/CorrectUA

[2] https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=from%3AMFA_Ukraine+inclu...
I read lots of complaints about how hard it is to discover what types of arguments are needed and what types result for any particular function. If they were declared, there would be no need to dig and guess.
Outcome * probability = expectancy, which is the quantity usually maximised or minimized in AI.

The problem in this case was defined as reproducing the human scores. Mainly, it's a demonstration of the information content in the data and the scores. To me, it demonstrates how simplistic the human scores are.

With information about historic outcomes, we could have compared the effectiveness of the "credit score method" with some other AI algorithm that was optimizing total value.
Using a distro like nixos highers the bar for attackers since more eyes might be looking at upstream updates for malicious codes (not an obligation though).

Moreover, i don't know about nix but in the guix ecosystem there's the guix challenge command which enables to query different build servers for the same build hash so you don't have to build it yourself but can split trust among several trustworthy actors. So one build server getting compromised would quasi-instantly raise alarms.
I appreciate you taking the time to answer this question. Often projects seem to skip over such difficult/awkward questions, but seeing an honest reasonable answer to it makes me want to check out the project and its ecosystem more.
The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
Bol.com is the Dutch Amazon. They copied Amazon and started twenty years ago.

They are even more efficient than Amazon and introduced third party sellers a few years ago. And so far they are quite successful in fighting off Amazon. Just goes to show Amazon is not unbeatable.
> You're blaming me for Mozilla's failures?

Where did I say that?
> It is very common for an application to interact with local files. For example, a general workflow is opening a file, making some changes, and saving the file. For web apps, this might be hard to implement. It is possible to simulate the file operations using IndexedDB API, an HTML input element with the file type, an HTML anchor element with the download attribute, etc, but that would require a good understanding of these standards and careful design for a good user experience. Also, the performance may not be satisfactory for frequent operations and large files.

> Based on the implementation of different browsers, one entry in the origin private file system does not necessarily map to an entry in the user’s local filesystem — it can be an object stored in some database. That means a file or directory created via the File System Access API may not be easily retrieved from outside of the browser.

Honestly, this makes no sense to me. The motivating example is exactly about being unable to interact with the host file system, but then they present a solution that does something completely different.

If this is supposed to be yet another storage API, then so be it, but this won't be able to solve the UX problems that the first quote was talking about.

Edit: Aha, the spec clears this up a bit: The standard defines different implementations of the file system API. Two of them are the "local" [1] and the "origin private" [2] file systems. The former is indeed a view of the host file system, with picker and all, while the latter is completely independent of the host.

Looks like this feature announcement was exclusively about the latter.

(The motivating example still make no sense to me as that is a clear use-case for the "local" filesystem implementation, but that seems to be more an issue with the announcement, not with the feature itself)

Edit2: Another important distinction is that the local file system requires user interaction to use (with good reason) : You have to show a file picker before you can use it, and subsequently can only access the files and directories the user selected in the picker. So you cannot use this as a behind-the-scenes storage mechanism.

In contrast, the origin-private file system requires no permissions and no user interaction.

[1] https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#local-filesystem

[2] https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#sandboxed-filesys...
Above skirt height is hopefully more than just a good idea for a camera with a upward view.
The Vulkan 1.3 roadmap could change the silicon it runs on
Australian unemployment is incredibly low at the moment (I could be wrong, but I don't think it's been this low since the 1970's!). See here: https://i.imgur.com/nR8sJTd.png

This means employees can pick and choose who they work for.

When some professions pay more than others, that's an important signal to the labour force to consider swapping. It shouldn't be assumed to be meaningless or flippantly legislated away.
AFAIK, they are exploiting vulnerabilities in image and video decoders
LOL, there are open specifications online to everything SMTP-related. Start with the IETF RFCs.
That's just a mitigation for tens of millions of lines of code written in C / C++.