skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, my very first thought on seeing the question was, "Anything by Fabrice Bellard":)
Doubt it, but it should be.
Make stupid laws, get stupid answers.
> See UK public sector for evidence of this; salaries must be published, maximum is always significantly lower than equivalent job in private sector.

I'm not the only one who sees the obvious lurking variable here, no?
"Well, it seems it won’t be replacing software developers any time soon. Not only it’s formatted all wrong, but this is merely a Python function, not the entire program."

I wonder is that "any time soon" in exponential singularity time?
You can read the bill text and find its current status here: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5761&Initiativ...

Note that one of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Joe Nguyen, coincidentally my state Senator, is a Program Manager at Microsoft.
thank you for the kind words. i'm indeed getting close to 30.
I believe ImageMagick[0] fits the criteria.

There's even an XKCD[1] about it.

[0] https://imagemagick.org/
[1] https://m.xkcd.com/2347/
> Existing fusion reactors rely on the resulting alpha particles—and the energy released in the process of their creation—to further heat the plasma. The plasma will then drive more nuclear reactions with the end goal of providing a net power gain. But there are limits. Even in the hottest plasmas that reactors can create, alpha particles will mostly skip past additional deuterium nuclei without transferring much energy. For a fusion reactor to be successful, it needs to create as many direct hits between alpha particles and deuterium nuclei as possible.

This is one of the most clear explanations of fusion power I've read so far. Worth a read just for that alone.

> And as the technology matures, it could also find uses here on Earth, such as for small power plants for individual buildings

Distributed power generation is the ideal. Why bother with transporting energy when you can just generate it where you need it?

Really cool article/tech. I've not heard of LCF until now. Seems promising.
I suspect the original picture is from either the end of the assembly line or a shipping facility. Your first clue that it’s not in a pack is the lack of connections between the batteries. Nobody makes an all parallel pack. 3V at how many amps would be too hot. They wire a bunch in series to triple digit voltages and then comment those packs together in parallel.

You could probably ship them staggered, but I’m betting they are at a weight limit anyway so making them more dense doesn’t save you anything.
I think many people would rather be paid fairly but invisibly less than a higher-performing colleague than to be paid that exact same amount and know that a higher-performing employee was making 25% more than them. Even if “fair”, it’s likely to generate resentment.
> might need to add a new button for that category.

I see where this is headed :D
they might eventually evolve to be hyper specific, numbers calculated to formulae. This will be an evolutionary response to these bad faith bands!
I used judyrecords to check myself after it was posted here. I had a charge from over a decade ago listed as a felony that had been reduced to a misdemeanor. The state system shows as a misdemeanor. I paid good money to an attorney for a misdemeanor. I'm not sure why judyrecords shows it as a felony, and it has me wondering about the effectiveness of my legal defense.

edit: If you're wondering if I'm a hardened criminal with a wake of victims left behind, the answer is no. I was 22 and got caught in the midwest with an ounce and a half of cannabis. This website, as far as I'm concerned, is displaying inaccurate information about me that that could have serious negative consequences for myself.
I bought this App when was mentioned by Sean Carroll in one of his talks/podcast about quantum computing. And because of that, I really thought that they did something that was founded in quantum physics. Not that it was really important, but it was cool to say "see, now it's contacting LHC to shot another photon The only think that I'm sorry about is that with every change of iPhone I've lost the track of what Universe I am!
> You say "put your code in a container", but... wouldn't you basically have to put all your gigabytes of data into a container? The bottleneck to the types of analytic applications you're describing seems unlikely to be the custom backend code, and far more likely to be whatever database is powering the application, which means that each interactive instance really needs to spin up a complete copy of the dataset to gain any performance benefit for these on-demand analytic workloads.

You're right that it does depend a lot on the needs of a specific application. If a bunch of users are accessing the same dataset, and can constantly access the subset of data they need with low latency through a global index, and there isn't much need to do computation interactively at runtime, then a standard architecture is probably a better fit.

Where this approach is useful is if every user needs access to a different subset of the data (e.g. if the underlying dataset is petabytes, and each user needs to interactively explore a different gigabytes-big subset of it). Or if there is a lot of derived compute on top of it, for example, a graph visualization that needs to be updated when the user changes the subset of data in focus.

> I'm wondering if your competition isn't actually AWS WorkSpaces

The general approach of "run and render elsewhere and stream the pixels back" is definitely our competition in the sense that it's something companies currently do. What we provide is a way of moving the client/server boundary to wherever makes sense for your app: if it makes sense to render server-side and stream pixels, you can do that (although we don't yet support UDP, which would be useful in this case); if it makes sense to do data aggregation server-side but render through WebGL, that's also an option.
“The first Great Information War began in 2014”
If my contact is besieged in an enemy land where if intercept might suffer bad outcomes I hope for him/her he DROP and hammer-smash his/shes phone time ago. If talking is possible BUT certain topics are taboo then a FLOSS desktop, possibly a VERY OLD one (classic bios, no frill), and some stenography trick, something simple, like abusing zip/gif file format to add extra encrypted information inside, might be used. DEFINITIVELY NOT via a proprietary service.

A thing, that's NOT a personal attack nor something else but here is HN, so a place whose users typically are tech savvy humans: did you really imaging a smartphone as the best/the goto tool to communicate under a dictatorship/secret investigations etc? I'm curious because or you are secretly working for NSA and similar or... I can't imaging how you can be a (stereo)typical HN user.

Supposing I'm a whistleblower communicate with a journalist, well the first mean I choose is passing something physically via trustable third parties, plural in the sense that one should contact another not much linked/unlinked to me who do the same, to make unlikely some small surveillance notice something strange. They just should know they do something "a bit secret" for me without knowing the rest. If he/she have a public GNUPG key I can use it to cipher what I pass but, unfortunately, that's unlikely for most journalist, they simply do not know tech enough. After the first contact I'll try to find a common ground to let him/her understand that I'm not joking and similarly that he/she is interested in doing that. I'll then teach how to use FLOSS tools on a third party computer, with a live USB key, running from ram. I'll keep changing at random the means of communication etc.

If I live under a dictatorship and I'm involved in Resistant activities the last thing I want is hi tech gears around, at least they do my best to appear using and liking them, doing the opposite, trying to be double face. I'll do my best to organize coms via ephemeral/disposable tools, something low tech as possible and hard to massively track.

If I'm a journalist, trapped behind enemy lines, I try to document as much as possible with some kind of deniable encryption, something like not so innocent and badly hidden while the real things are well deeply covered and try to keep a profile as low as possible, including NEVER communicate directly with the other side of the front.

If you imaging going to war with a smartphone in your pocket I sincerely advise you to avoid that at all: you'll be a dead man in a far shorter period of time than normal...
How will this impact Russia's will to continue to supply gas and oil to Europe? Is Europe paying them in euros or some other currency? Where is it "stored"? If Russia's money is frozen, what use is it? Or even if it's not frozen, but they cannot use it to buy goods and services in exchange, then why would they bother selling the oil and gas?
That, BTW, is another clue: no private nuke power station has ever been built.
Instead of having 1 role with such a huge gap. Why not multiple roles.

If you find a candidate who you really think is worth 50% more than the average salary for Role X, then obviously that candidate is qualified for Role X + 1.
Most meaningful compensation comes from stock and discretionary bonuses.
Not sure about US media, but this is shifting overton window of discussion a lot, compared to what I hear/read in Europe.

I think people believe Ukraine can actually win. Is it a real possibility? Probably not. Is west willing to risk tension and fight Russia? Probably not.

I feel terribly bad for Ukrainians
At least that would keep Tim Cook from applying
What It’s Like to Stop Using Google Search
I dunno the specifics of this bill, but my former HR person said in most cases, this is easily bypassed by giving some absurd range.
No it won't, because companies are paying what they need to pay for talent.
In my head I convert percentages into simple multiplication.

So 14% of 50 becomes 1.4 * 5 == 7

Or to simplify even more…

1 * 5 = 5

4 * 5 = 20 -> remove the “0”

5 + 2 = 7
I'm struggling to understand how this works.

Does the salty water drop to the bottom? or concentrate at the top? How do you extract the clean water?
More than that depending on what you mean. Homo habilis migrated out at least once I believe.
Which of the following are you disputing?

1. GDPR is an EU law that claims to apply to every single website in the world, mandating certain things regarding PII.

2. A court has now determined that using Google Fonts on a site will make it noncompliant with GDPR.

3. Thus, any site that currently uses Google Fonts is currently in violation of that EU law called GDPR.

If you are objecting to #3, please explain why it doesn't follow from 1 & 2.

Regardless, when you say I'm intentionally and knowingly spreading "horseshit," it's completely untrue and uncalled for. An apology would be nice.
Yep; was just reading https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/28/as-russias-isola... this AM.
I worked at a company that kept all the employees as non-exempt. This meant for computer programmers, we had an hourly wage of not more than $27.63 ( https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co... ).

However, there was also profit sharing which was based on your W2 earnings (side bit, the profit sharing went into your W2 earnings for next year and became a sort of compound interest growth). Additionally, there were "goals" and "bonuses" which could, again, give a substantial boost to the total pay but wasn't part of the stated compensation.

So, yes, there are certainly ways to work around the posted salaries.
Oh come on. Let us not be so intellectually dishonest here. We are not reddit.

There are many Russians who just want to live a normal life. NATO coming close to the borders of Russia is causing their leadership to go crazy and we want the civilians to suffer because of this?

If you are not raising your voice, you're the problem is the worst argument ever and reeks of privilege.
What does that have to do with the existence of God and Him being the source of morality?

Also, Dawkins is a suspect figure to say the least, he's all over the place and clearly has an agenda.
Ego. It's a hell of a drug.
so this is obviously an ad for this repography thing, which looks pretty cool.

so.. does it do anything interesting with stuff like git blame -CCC which shows the genealogy of copypasta across time within a repo?
The story is that their founder made billions of a crypto trade a couple years ago so I think they might have the funding to do stuff like this.
Where do they store all these? How much storage space does it take? Is it sustainable forever? Is there a simple napkin math online to lookup for? I am always puzzled how they handle storage with billions of videos
> Lower number cannot be less than 90% of upper number. Thus 72k-80k or 27k-30k.

This doesn't seem to be in the bill today. [1]

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5761&Initiativ...
Functionally in tech that already exists with levels.fyi (At least for larger companies.)

Generally I find that younger people I meet with are very open to talking about salary, assuming you're working in the same industry.

Definitely a sharp contrast to HR policy on the subject.

Just try asking what salary bands are at companies and you'll get shifty bullshit.
>The writing for shows is team based.

Your typical TV show has more plot holes than cheesecloth, though. That doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
Co-founder of author here.

The post describes how we developed a search syntax to solve the problem of finding resources running in a multi-account infrastructure. While the post is about AWS, the search works also for GCP.

The (not so) secret sauce behind the search syntax is an open source project that we developed out of necessity of taming a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP). We quickly realized that it's not just about understand WHAT resources are running, but also HOW these resources dependent on each other.

Behind the scenes, Resoto collects your cloud resources and puts their metadata and dependencies into a large indexed graph that can be searched. The search syntax is how.

In a way, parts of our product are an open source alternative to e.g. AWS Config and GCP Config Connector.

Would love to hear any reactions from the community how they're currently solving the problem of keeping inventory of what's running in their cloud accounts.
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Gah! Disaster! Was he a professional, or just a very good hobbyist?

My baseline is somewhat in the middle. Mum was a good cook, she did everything _well_. There's always room for excellence and new(?) flavours, but I know what isn't good.
I had no ideas state senators could hold an additional job. Good work!
I hope there is still some way to negotiate a peace. It could be the case that Putin is a madman but I also believe that he was forced into this because of what he _PERCEIVED_ is NATO aggression (like putting missiles in Cuba). We've been poking the bear for sometime with no disregard for consequences. If there is way to get him to quit gracefully that would be great. I mean it's not right to accede to Putin's every whim but at the same time to be dismissive of him all the time because of our arrogance is bad too. I could be completely wrong too but there is so much we don't know. Let's not be gung ho again about piling up on him and make him a cornered animal. No one is winning right now.
It always amuses/scares me how much of a separation there is between people who think and people who just parrot others. The people in that video just copied what they saw people commenting on twitter. It’s ok though, they have nice looks and voices and it’s impolite to call them idiots.

It’s how we end up with eggcorns. People just say things without understanding what it is they’re saying.

When your words don’t have to adhere to reality, you can end up saying some ridiculous things, and the other parrots in the room will nod and agree with you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Good catch. I wasn't even aware there was an X1C! Then again, my daily driver is a 1 or 2 core Cortex-M. On special occasions (once a month or so) something more exotic lands on my desk.
Yeah; that would be my assumption too. I worked one time on a significant project that benefit from fork() without exec() and it was a monstrous pain - only if you own every single line of code in your project, have centralized resource management, and have no significant library dependencies should you ever consider doing this.
I often pass the time while e.g. running or sitting on a train by approximating square roots of and squaring random numbers or calculating the day of the week for random days. I don't think I've ever used these skills for a practical purpose.
>2 years of experience vs PhD and 12 years of experience for a similar position

Why would you hire those 2 people for the same position? If the PhD with 12 years of experience is worth 50% more, then why not give them a better title?
Playing devils advocate here, what severity exactly? Putin is still going well into Ukraine, will probably annex many sections of it. I am not saying Russia will be unscathed but Gas and all that means....
If it isn't important whether the numbers are real or fake, why show them? To intimidate people with a baseless appearance of mathematical rigor? If so, I'd say the people who point out that they're fake are doing a service to the decisionmakers in the meeting, though it's unsurprising that the presenters don't appreciate it.
I thought this might be something different. Have seen this happen multiple times over the years - even once just last week.

Colleague files an issue with a PR. Project owners close it, say 'no, not a bug', then... commits the same thing themselves as "fixed!". Saw this years before in cvs/svn, and... at least in the GH world there's some evidence of the original PR author having done the work in the first place (vs being invisibly cut out).
Another one bites the dust. Long live Intel !

So now , Sparc is gone, HP-PA is gone, MIPS is gone, Alpha is gone. All that is left is x86, ARM , Power and ,theoretically, RISC-V.
Unsounded is a phenomenally nuanced and gorgeous webcomic created by a solo writer/artist. It's the only active webcomic I follow. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/
I just hope the West didn't miscalculate Russian response to their economy's violent contraction.

Some say that if the US had never imposed sanctions on Japan in the 1930s, Japan wouldn't've attacked Pearl Harbor.

In that case, the sanctions made it hard for Japan to import petroleum with the result that the Japanese chose to secure their supply by conquest of countries with petroleum reserves (mainly Indonesia IIRC).
I missed a flight in Oslo two years ago and the counter agent looked at me like I was insane to suggest that they airline would rebook me. In Norway it was clear that the $800 ticket was completely wasted if I got delayed on the way to the airport.
what happened to twitter?
Seems pretty standard to me. Every platform has problems just like this, nothing new there afaik.
>> Jones Act itself is a problem, and a blessing. It ensures a US maritime industry but has due to lack of competition left it so far behind the world standard that the minute it is removed the entire sector will go bankrupt from international competition.

> I wonder why we don't have more laws that gradually change things. Like instead of having jones act or no jones act as the only two options what if we could slowly remove the jones act at a rate of 3% per year or whatever? It could begin to improve things for people but also give the domestic industry some time to adapt.

Because maybe that would just draw out the failure, while still failing to achieve some of the main goals of the Jones Act?

Economic "efficiency" is not the only goal that should be pursued, which the events of the last few years should have made clear.
I've posted my fears in a past thread: I'm concerned it will push down salaries to lowest common denominator.

Very few of us wake up and think "I'm not a top performer; I should be paid less than some of my colleagues".

So once a bell curve of salary is published, everybody will demand to be paid the same, and it'll very unlikely be the top performer's salary.

Or maybe we'll have massive reshuffle until all teams are equally performing - so we have a team of slackers in company A, team of solid performers at company B, and team of fantastic rock stars at company C.

Maybe I'm cynical and pessimistic in my old age; maybe we can employ coaching techniques and use the transparency to say "Fatima is getting $15k more than you because of this, that and the other thing. If you do those you'll be awarded the same". Maybe the person will accept that and be motivated. Maybe we'll even be accurate and honest about the reasons. Maybe those reasons won't include "because that person is 20 years younger with no family, responsibilities and life and works 90hr weeks on average" etc. Maybe it won't all backfire horribly.
It was simple specifically for the people writing it at the time. We know this, because they've helpfully told us so :-) It might or might not have been harder than a different approach for some other programmers writing some other OS running on different hardware, but the accidents of history mean we got the APIs designed by Thompson, Ritchie, et al, and so we get what they personally found easy for their PDP7/PDP11 OS...
I see mac apps available for download here: https://httpie.io/download .
Web app is in private beta.
Didn’t someone prove about 15 years ago that there’s an oval shape that packs tighter still? Given the hollow core that could probably be done, but cylinders are probably easier for the assembly line to handle. So then it comes down to whether that space is being utilized (for cooling, or weight per cubic inch of the support structure).
For larger businesses, relying on whistleblowers or auditing might be one way. For smaller ones using tools like the one discussed here. Or maybe a browser plugin that automatically notifies visitors.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
"... is an overview of fines and penalties which data protection authorities within the EU have imposed under the EU [GDPR]"
Knowing the salary of a job posting is not the same as knowing the salary that is eventually offered to whoever fills it.
More bureaucracy probably
> "Since 2014 it has been possible to find out who has been doing searches on your information," explains Hans Christian Holte, the head of Norway's tax authority.

> "We saw a significant drop to about a 10th of the volume that was before. I think it has taken out the Peeping Tom mentality."

This is just genius. And yet I'm imagining some simple ways around this that would inevitably pop up were this a thing in my country.
> Microsoft and Amazon might move out of Washington.

I highly doubt Microsoft would up and leave over this one piece of legislation. See multi-year spending on new campus which isn't open yet:
https://news.microsoft.com/modern-campus/
At some point, we need to start treating Windows like Internet Explorer or Safari. Things break on it all the time, completely unpredictably, and it doesn't support many useful features you'd expect to be used.

We should really just tell Windows users to upgrade to a real operating system, rather than go out of our way to support it.
> See UK public sector for evidence of this

I don't know about the UK situation specifically, but in other areas I'm more familiar with public sector salaries lag private sector for lots of reasons (job stability, pensions, old tech, etc.) which have little or nothing to do with the posting of ranges.
There’s incredible amounts of capital going into the crypto industry and FTX is one of the biggest players. There may be some froth but they seem like one of the least shady players in the space to me.
Yeah it’s hard to know where / when you draw the line, but a war of choice by a despot to topple a democracy…. It’s hard not to draw the line there.

Hopefully this all ends soon, for everyone’s sake.