skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya'll ain't seen nothing yet. For a time the leading UEFI vendor, Phoenix Technologies, had a web browser in their UEFI BIOS. Some photos from WinHEC 2005 can be seen here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1670/8

This was part of their "eBetween" UEFI BIOS that enabled them to show ads during boot-up (seriously) and also install software to Windows with what they called "Virtual Bundling Technology": https://indexarticles.com/business/business-wire/phoenix-tec... and https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/phoenix-jumps-on-web...

tl;dr version: UEFI can download software from the internet, copy it to the Windows partition, edit the registry, and even add desktop icons and IE bookmarks. Phoenix sought to productize this.

If you've ever seen a Windows PC where you just couldn't get rid of certain pieces of software or icons, it may have been eBetween at work. This is effectively the same thing as the persistent malware attacks described in numerous security blogs. Phoenix has since rebranded their UEFI codebase to (irony alert!) SecureCore.
"They taught me how to type" sounds a lot more like fond recollection than disinterest to me, but I guess we all read things differently. Your way seems needlessly uncharitable, though!
even as population grows

What population growth? The US college age population is flat, and the US grade school age population is dropping. US population growth is mostly old people living longer.[1]

New York City's population is declining. Not the whole metro area, just the city.

[1] https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-a...
> That's going to guarantee viral spread.

Even if we waved a wand and destroyed all traces of COVID once and forever, this statement would still be true.

We can't let our plans hinge on the presence of a virus. If offices need better air management to reduce the risks, then that's what we should focus on.
Perhaps because it's complete speculation with no evidence backing it.
But whatever setup they've had has been working for two years...
Can we stop with these ridiculous terms like server-less and no-code when neither is that?

I also have an issue with these over hyped new technologies that you must use but no ones knows how they work underneath. Just fancy magic, enter these commands and directly sudo inject it via bash into your system. That's until 2 years later and someone has to fix something or a system fails but the version you deployed is no longer supported, upgrade is impossible and everyone has moved on to the newest popular setup.
The whole point here is that the project does not target the Sdk.Web thing. Yours only works because the project is targeting Sdk.Web (instead of Sdk).

When I said console app, I literally meant using the project that you would create if you do `dotnet new console`.

To copy from my other comment:

That is exactly the thing. I do not want to have the Sdk=...Web/Worker. Imagine this scenario, you started a new project with the Sdk targeting Worker. Then you need that binary to also target web. What do you do?

- If you switch the project to Sdk=...Web, you won't have the dependencies to build the worker services.

- If you keep it as Sdk=...Worker, you won't have the dependencies to build asp.net
I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but I'm overly cautious about it. Which drastically reduces my chances of forming deep connections, given how hard it can be even for those that are eager for it.
Yeah, hybrid is worst of both worlds. You still have to live near the office (so little labor market advantage), and remote workers become second class.
I’m curious if this is due more to climate or species of grass in an area.
Unless their competitors who allow remote steal their best and brightest. Remote is a perk (like a cafeteria… or sleep pods I guess?) that can be used competitively.
good. that is all.
Seems like existence of an HOA should decrease property values.
If you're very lucky, a local planet will catch you in an orbit.

Or the local "Space Coast Guard" will board the vessel.
There's a bit of precedence for this with NASA missions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_probe
No-code will never be the future of programming, because the phrase doesn't actually make any sense.

"No-text-code" I guess is more what they were going for. This is still not the future of programming because the fastest most fluent way for human beings to communicate ideas precisely is through words. Text-based code is not, and will never be, an anachronism, pictorial or graphical representation will never replace language in computers for the same reason that it doesn't outside of computers.

Devops interfaces will get better, GitHub co-pilot will continue to evolve, but you can't replace, or even touch really, characters and regular expressions as the best way to give computers instructions that they haven't gotten before.
Javascript was created in 2 weeks. It then took two decades to become nearly tolerable to use. That it would cost 2 years to make a language is an absolutely arbitrary amount of time. Most great languages took significantly longer than that to become truly great.
Actually it is, but not dramatically; for 20 years at 0.1c an extra 5 weeks will have passed for the probe.
Glad to hear it works for you!

I travel frequently (well did not that long ago), and regularly work on a equipment that others use daily.

I’d get nothing but hassles if I had to change keyboard layouts, especially since there is so much variation in keyboards I interact with sometimes that touch typing gets high error rates at first.

And if I didn’t switch someone’s layout back before leaving, the anger would be non-trivial.

Most folks I know at some point also need to use a computer at work, or did at school (but aren’t techies), so not knowing QWERTY isn’t going to go well for them. As would trying to switch keyboard layouts every time they go somewhere or do something. Most folks have zero time for that kind of thing.
Thanks for pointing this out.

I see that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri has a much better caption for the same image.
Yeah, weirdly, here in the Canadian “frozen tundra” West of Alberta, there’s about 2-3 months where my grass goes into overdrive and I have to mow it once a week.

Seriously considering landscaping to not need to do this. Wife and I have thought to turn the whole front and back yard into other greenery.
Camera that can identify cats and a sprinkler.
I had no idea there was a potential "real person" there any more than I thought Mario/Luigi were real. Maybe I'd never even seen an image or box to make that connection? I remember that the software was really useful early on -- and game modes even made it a bit competitive.

For a left-field alternative for super young kids (3? 4?) just being introduced to letters/keyboard try out Typatone (https://typatone.com/). Get a wireless keyboard and throw it up on a big screen. Something interesting happens when there's the added layer of reactive sound tied to what they've typed. It's a really good way of recognizing letters, and learning where to find them on a keyboard. And then common words take on a specific "song". There's probably something to this in an education space for someone to build on.
Normal? Accepting?

Did you forget about lockdowns, mask mandates, the unprecedented speed at which we developed and deployed the vaccine, that all news for the last two years were almost all about covid (only recently displaced by the Ukraine war).

You call that normal?! Though it is a completely different thing, it almost makes 9/11 looks like a detail. With 9/11, we had a few days of cancelled flights, and more security checks, with covid, we had months when we couldn't fly at all, and the time we could, we had masks and tests, sometimes even quarantines. Covid is the most world-changing event since WW2.

And all that because we didn't want people to die. We could have let people die, humanity never was is danger of extinction or anything like that. In fact, it could have been a way to "help society get rid of the burden of the elderly" (a common theme among conspiracy theorists). But no, we wanted people to stay alive, as if we weren't monsters.

In fact, many people think we overdid it, a debatable position, but in any way, we are totally not considering it "normal".
In my opinion the manufacturer and the bureaucrat are the same thing. The bureaucrat’s chief priority is to get re-elected, not to make the environment better or cars safer. The manufacturers priority is to make a profit. Sometimes their goals align with the interests of the public but a lot of the time they don’t.

Both have incentives to undermine or promote public safety and both have different avenues of accountability.
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Major tech companies (e.g. Netflix, Cloudflare, MongoDB, and nearly every other publicly listed high growth tech company) have seen their stock prices fall as much as 50% in the past few months.

When the value of the entire tech industry shrinks that dramatically this quickly, companies are bound to become a bit more conservative in their operations, which cloud slow the pace of hiring in tech (and for some, layoffs)

As for "when", the slow down has already started and will accelerate over the next few months (my prediction, no evidence).
Came here to say this, as a professional translator finding it harder and harder to make ends meet.
And one day you'll look back at all your Jpegs and wonder why you messed up all your memories with tasteless HDR effects.
This is some kind of marketing click. No real insights, junk reporting from some somewhooo CEO trying to sell something.
Interesting. I'm moving to the bay soon and I'm in my late 30s. Any recommendations on where to meet people and how to make new friends?
I like to work in the office, bc one of the reasons is that I get to chat with my boss, about general stuff or potential new projects. If you go remote, you are going to fully lose this kind of opportunities.

Does this create an unfair condition for remote workers? It could be.
Most people still take them seriously. The fact that there are entire states that do not speaks more to the leadership of those states than to either the WHO or the CDC.

Between the two options, I would certainly trust an epidemiologist over an elected politician on the topic of epidemiology, and I have a hard time understanding the cognitive dissonance that allows people to get to a state of "we have to trust our governor because governments lie." It's not like the governor isn't part of the government.
I can't comment on the safe ride fee as it predates my tenure at Uber (i.e. we're talking about stuff from 5+ years ago), but from what I'm gathering, it does appear to have been a BS fee.

I'll acknowledge that there was a wide perception of leadership not giving two fucks under Travis. I heard many people internally were unhappy about many things, hence him being ousted.

Anyways, just to give some context: When I talk about efforts to improve things for drivers, I'm talking about things I've heard about very recently (like within the last six months). Many aren't live yet.

Prior to it, I'd say other aspects received a lot more attention, for example the safety center on the rider app was a big big focus at one point.

The shift of focus to drivers only really became visible to me within the last year or so. My two cents is this focus is happening as part of the effort to attract drivers back after their exodus due to the pandemic.

Regardless of the motivation, I'm glad the company is at least trying to listen to drivers. Cynicism aside, I personally think drivers should be treated well, period.
I told a coworker that I was dismayed to learn that Mavis Beacon wasn't real. She had a good laugh at my expense.

her: "Really??? You thought she was a real person? JOHN. Come on."

me: "I thought she was a real person, like Orville Redenbacher. I didn't know she was made up like Betty Crocker."

her: "WAIT, BETTY CROCKER WASN'T REAL??"

oh, the laughs
>A LOT of the HOA president types are retired and stay at home a lot, and watch things like a hawk.

Well, I'm just passing by, and whoops I need to tie shoelances, and here I drop some super tiny seeds for the bugs, birds and wind to do the rest. Planting them is super easy.
> If you can't remember where your keys were four years ago, what makes you think our species will remember any event occurring within the last 50 years 2000 years from now?

I also don't remember what I had for breakfast, so by your logic our spieces can't remember an event that happened last week?

Nuclear waste repository is not an event, it's a building - have we ever lost the Pyramids or great wall of China? Has ancient rome dissapeared from the maps?

Nuclear waste is stored underground in solid rock, if civilisations collapses, hunter-gatherers of medieval peasants can't get to it. It is likely that anyone digging kilometers underground into worthless rock probably knows what radiation is.
No, it is entirely a device thing.
Wow that’s another real world use of the eponymous shibboleth
There is a binary component to this.

Proponents of remote work don’t generally oppose hybrid or in person for anyone else who prefers it, but those going to the office would find themselves effectively doing “remote from the office”, if enough people choose not to go.

This is the reason why I think hybrid is a bit dumb. Regardless of the social component, the hybrid model effectiveness relies on everyone who collaborates in the same field, to agree when and where to attend, most of the time. If not, it’s just an excuse to fill up cubicles.
The GB folks are charlatans who have been wrong at every stage of the pandemic and have been shown to be secretly paid for their ridiculous plans and “studies” (see JI and the JetBlue founder paying for the Santa Clara study in March 2020).

There are plenty of trustworthy orgs recommending opening procedures and personal safety mitigations without the baggage of weird US “libertarian” think tank funding and completely ascientific calls for action.

Pay-to-publish: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...

Think tank Funding: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/13/koch-funded-pr-agency-aid...
> The bill of lading listed “computer parts,” not lithium batteries, making responding to the fire more challenging.

> the shipper failed to properly placard, label, mark and package the lithium batteries, and identified the cause of fire to be residual charge/full circuit, which led to a thermal increase.
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From what I have heard from science communicators, the bee problem is mostly of commercial bee populations. My backyard definitely has enough.
I guess I should start treating the delivery estimate for my Mac Studio as "optimistic".
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Yet on the flip side my current phone is by the the largest phone I've ever had, the hardest to hold since the one which clipped on my belt and had a pull-up aerial, yet it's also one of the smallest phones on the market.
(for posterity, this appears to have been a typo for monotonic)
The point of the law is not to please those who would like to exchange batteries, but to have 90% of the batteries actually recycled, and reduce dependency on raw materials.

The government isn't picking winners or losers, it's regulating the waste of scarce raw materials (those present in the battery, and to a lesser degree, those present in the rest of the device).

The first company to come up with a battery that lasts 15–20 years will of course have to wait for regulations to adapt, like every other advance in technology in the history of mankind.

Your position seems to be that you'd like the government to keep turning a blind eye on companies' wasteful strategies, just in case someone in the future might do something less wasteful.
Perhaps, but it is plausible.

Of course, there are always toxic managers dumb enough to leave a clear and permanent paper trail.
Investors make money because of the money they already had, based on work that other people do. But investment is often (though not universally) considered good.
My fridge advice is KISS - nothing in the door - no water dispenser (this is called a faucet), no ice dispenser (this is called a scoop). I like my current fridge as it also allows you to bypass the built in water filter by simply inserting a plug.
Other do better at hosting butterfly caterpillars, bees, etc, which helps feed birds and other wildlife, so I think that’s a great idea that everyone should consider.
I feel like Drew doesn't need to try a reverse psychology approach. He could just post it.

Anyway, I definitely have plenty of thoughts about this language but I don't think anyone working on it would care, so I'll refrain.
If anyone is remote everyone has to behave like everyone is remote. I have done this once with a company where I was the only remote developer and it didn't work at all. They did nothing extra to make it work and it made it impossible to do the job.
"America is racist" is a narrative sold by racists to sow racial division.

Shirkey's principle. Any institution (or career race-baiter) tasked with solving a problem will instead preserve the problem so they can continue to solve it.
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under "USB Issues" at the end is a good example of "Constant Device Enumeration" aka "make the device keep the same name, dammit." That issue bites other uses too and is a good thing to know about.
It's a threat to "real" engineers mental health because they are the ones that will have to fix the cluster f*ck once it stops working.
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In my neighborhood, there are quite a few wooded lots, where they just let the trees grow with varying levels of deliberate gardening under the trees. It's quite pleasant.

My neighbors have something like that in their back yard, and prairie grass in the front. My house has a big vegetable garden, some flower gardens, some bushes, and trees. We also have some lawn, but it's un-maintained and only needs to be mowed a couple times during the spring before it goes dormant. It's also about 1/2 weeds. Every year we convert more of it to garden.

Only about 1/5 of the houses have actual managed green lawns.

Contrast with my parents' neighborhood in another state. Every lawn in the entire 'hood is bushy bright green, and the people are out there mowing all the time. Many of their neighbors mow twice a week. One neighbor had a large mature tree cut down because it was shading their grass. Of course you can't see the lawns because all of the streets are lined on both sides with giant cars.

In addition to the visual appearance, there's the noise. A relative of mine went on vacation recently, to a place that was more or less off the grid. His comment was that there were no string trimmers or leaf blowers. A lot of suburban neighborhoods are just a constant racket of equipment.

I get it, it's a culture thing. But it's interesting to see that there are actually lots of possibilities for what to do with the grounds around a detached house.
I think your first comment still wholly dismisses the reasons that the two women (Elisa and Rebecca) and the author find their respective friendships so difficult.

Yes, the two women are incredibly toxic toward each other. So… why were they friends at all? Why did they spend years writing letters to each other? That is the interesting part of the article, exploring how two people who ended so toxically could begin as deep friends.

By the same token, to simply call the author “unlikeable” and someone who just “doesn’t like friendships” is to defeat the entire purpose. Yeah — she sounds like she’s been kind of a bad friend from time to time, and particularly bad at keeping up with people. She’s telling you that! It’s everything else that’s interesting, and to say “keeping friendships is easy to do, actually” seems very dismissive.
Doesn't seem to add up. Seems like more of a global North vs global south divide.

37 Montenegro 21,390
36 Belarus 21,470
35 Bulgaria 25,850
34 Russia 30,430
33 Croatia 31,110
32 Greece 31,820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
Apparently even Russian speaking Ukrainians can usually pronounce it as it's a bread commonly eaten at some Ukrainian holiday (source is some random Reddit comment so take with a grain of salt)
I'm not a professional programmer, or even a good one I suppose, but I would never use this approach.

Ignoring the fact this is clearly an advertisement for a company product; this type of thing would need to be opensource and not tied to one company for it to succeed otherwise you're just stuck on a single platform at the mercy of the company managing it. Vendor lock in doesn't quite do it justice.

I think my main issue though is the abstraction involved in this. Because whilst moving from machine language to assembly, to C, to Python (or whatever higher level language route you want) these abstractions makes sense (at least to me though I'm always curious about what's going on under the hood) I'm not convinced about this abstraction. It doesn't seem helpful. I could program in scratch if I want...
how many of those by medical malfeasance?

how many by economic destruction (this group affects mainly the bottom 1/3 to 1/2 of socioeconomic spectrum, depending on country (in some 3rd world countries this fraction is higher than that normal range) from the post 1 month (after spring '20) measures?
You're young. The problem is this never happens.

People are too complex for things to work out like this. Maintaining a long term friendship is more about mutual acceptance of the flaws, imperfections and transgressions of the people in your life. Inevitably there will be some heartbreak eventually. The key is to not let this heartbreak define the friendship.
I've made use of Google's S2 library across a couple different jobs for various use cases. The C++ bindings are well-documented and very fast, in fact I found writing my own Python bindings allowed a few faster operations than using the Python library directly, for example generating a spanning set of cell IDs.

I find it liberating to not rely on a backend implementation of geospatial indexing, or rather being agnostic to backend, simply indexing very efficiently the 64-bit integers.

The hierarchical nature of the Hilbert curves means that the child cells contain the ID of the parent, and also fit perfectly into the parent. This is in contrast with H3 where you necessarily cannot fit the 7 child hexagons into the parent without some overlap (see for example the logo on the H3 website https://eng.uber.com/h3/)