skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a software engineer myself, I would say yes, but I'm biased. I know no code is released perfect.

Then for something high performance like an NVM.e SSD, you could potentially gain a lot of performance, or lose it, depending on the manufacturer's goals for stability vs speed.

After a couple of decades of updating firmware on things whenever possible (including my car which had me leave the engine running sitting in the car with the window down for 2 hours in the winter), I'm yet to have a real issue.

That said, I also have the tools and skills to dump flash chips and would suggest doing that to anyone before an update of certain devices, or, you know, just don't do it, as you suggest.
Fair question. I based this on my experiences in the Nordics. It could very well be less common down south. However I have worked on projects in France and Germany, and was asked to take IQ tests as well. My industry is software, if that makes a difference.
Browsers, which seem to replace certain parts of current operating systems, aren't very safe. Here's one more example:

"This article explores a phishing technique that simulates a browser window within the browser to spoof a legitimate domain."
Aha, the battery "swelling up"? Had already forgotten that; thought it was fixed all around a year or three ago.
And then deleted your gmail account?
Do you change your appliances when any of their medium sized yet replaceable components break?

If yes, what's the cost of recycling said unit and raw material recovery ratio when compared to changing the said part and continue using it?

Using items for a longer time by maintaining them is better for environment.
Again, this is a conclusion that only someone who is completely ignorant of history can come to. I'm just baffled that there's people like this on a website as good as HN.
> We should stop calling it "technical debt". That word suggests a clean account that can be paid off from time to time.

Not all debt comes with terms that allow it to be paid off "from time to time". Most personal debt does, but the debt that corporations deal with often has very strict, inflexible payment terms.
HN hug of death... those large videos certainly not helping.
Man clicking on the release blog post was a mistake. Tumblr straight up hijacks the return button and you can’t go back. On mobile that is.
It's not just Google being the default, Firefox has search suggestions on by default too. Privacy browser sends your keystrokes to Google. So nice.
What does "provide a well-defined structure to guide the developer" mean? It sounds like something said by a manager that's never written a line of code in their life.

The structure of your code is dictated by the existing conventions in your own code base. Those conventions could involve calling out to a 3rd party function, or they could not. Either way, it's not the 3rd party function that provides the convention.
It's not that I don't trust it but that the value of this extensions looks to be on a long period, you need it to be maintained for months/years to be useful.
It's pretty easy to spot mold in your pu'er whether it's shu or sheng. I wouldn't worry about it.
South Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia are on UTC+10:30 as well. We also do daylight savings per state. So, although NSW and QLD are both on the same UTC+11:00 timezone for the summer months NSW is 1 hour ahead because it has DST but QLD does not!
> that people don't care about truth

I care, it allows me to build on ideas. One of the cooler truths I've seen is the law of large numbers (and similar ideas, like positive and negative expected value) and how it has shaped my life in taking chances. That idea alone improved my quality of life by a lot.

Ideas that are true are like building blocks that can lead to a better life (or at least do damage control on the current one). And that makes me feel good and reinforces my belief system.

> they care about feeling good about what they believe.

Oh wait...

:-)
So external contributors can only provide patches without being able to test themselves I suppose.

Is the c3d dev license cheap enough for determined contributors to join? As in, cheaper than a f360 maker license?

I do not mean this in any pejorative sense. As a dev/maker I kept an eye on c3d for a long time, since that seems the only advanced-enough and commercially affordable brep kernel around to get off the ground quickly.

However, there's no discussion the closed nature pretty much bars any sort of in-depth contributor.

At least, contributing to a project like this would be extremely off-putting for me, to the point that besides having the ability to look a bit deeper than usual, I question whether keeping the source open does much.
Not existing, but they do buy the default spot for Safari for an allegedly lurid sum.
What's a third party component in this context?
Real orthodox Gene Kim DevOps requires a serious commitment from the engineering org and leadership, and a lot of expensive engineers. Platform and CI/CD as a service with well defined responsibility boundaries is the only really practical way to make things work for SMB’s and legacy orgs with a lot of tech debt in 2022’s labor market.
It's not really up to individual people in Norway, but policy.

Germany did also eventually allow refugees that came during the 2015 wave to work, but it took substantially longer. Quite a few of them are in tech now as well.
Bash history does suck, at least out of the box. My history use has become consistent and frequent after I started using fish.
That's not true. Java was notorious for AbstractFactoryProducerArtifactFactory and awful inheritance-based patterns long before that.

You can't dumb down a language and expect the complexity of the problem space to go away (developers will have to cope with it one way or another), and you can't expect the programming language alone to be the sole judge of what's an acceptable level of abstraction (or architects would have been made redundant by now).
It would be more like telling everyone to drive only at lunch and tea time because some people drink and drive.
Look, I don’t get offended by people who wear masks or anything like that. But I got covid from a plane while wearing a mask, and I haven’t seen a peer reviewed paper that says the blue ones we use everywhere are worth anything. That in addition to the behaviors of 80% of the mask wearers on a plane… might as well remove the fake sense of security and let me have a pleasant 9h flight without my ears feeling like they are about to fall off.

I’m vaccinated, I’ll be tested by the time I get on the plane, so will everyone else (unless they fake a test, which is very easy), so I think my risk is the same risk I had of getting the flu before the pandemic.
And what if you flip it over turf, e.g. at a large stadium during a huge televised sporting event?

The implications on all of it are pretty big.
Did load for me eventually
Then I'm not even sure what you're talking about when you say "heap-allocate even a local variable" if you don't actually mean the value of that variable. If you draw that distinction, "variables" are never allocated; spaces for values are.

Regardless, whether something is a local or not in Java still varies depending on the JIT's decisions. (Or rather, the JIT does not see local/non-local variables, only lifetimes, and whether the lifetime may extend past the JIT's current view.)
That's why they stopped using the mode after, right? Fuck em.
> Two long-time developers of the Vuze BitTorrent client, formerly known as Azureus, have launched a new client. BiglyBT emerges at a time when Vuze development has stalled. The developers promise to take the project forward while removing all advertising and other annoyances.
Shame, I actually liked the idea of mandatory masks on public transportation. I always get sick on flights (pre-COVID; I haven't flown since COVID started) and it's really annoying to have a runny nose while on vacation. I'm sure I catch it in the airport or on the plane, because it always starts 1-2 after the flight.
What if you sleep with blindfolds on already? I’ve been messing with my body this whole time?
Sure, in that case – as I understand it is everyone's pre-tax salary is the same, so your take home pay obviously depends on where you're a resident.

Currently we are using a remote hiring platform with local legal entities, so you'll get paid in local currency and receive local benefits. I'm based in the UK, I don't have the overhead of medical insurance, but the platform itself has costs and I'm not sure how much the costs of a UK employee compare to other countries.

But, we don't have many international employees, so the setup might change in the future or depending on the individual. When I first started, I briefly worked part-time as an independent contractor.
Autosaving internet browsing history is largely a waste of time.

I adopted a save/print to pdf + full text pdf search in case I need something in the future.
Personalisation and Curation
If the end price is 25 dollars isn’t that quite an affordable price?
>I rail hard against non-technical management managing a technical role - it just doesn't work. So, typically, technical people get thrown into management roles and I think we often suck at it.

I think this is just an outcome of the reality that it's extremely rare for someone to be highly competent in people management, business, and tech. Such a person can work anywhere, and ask for any amount of money. Back in the real world, candidates will usually have certain strengths. Good companies attempt to train up said weaknesses, but oftentimes people are just not good at certain things.

I used to be on your side re non-tech managing tech, but I am now much more pragmatic. People management skills are very difficult, and I don't believe a people manager needs to be as technically skilled as their employees. Quite the opposite: the employees are there because of the skills they can bring to the team. The critical component here is ensuring the people manager is actually good. That means providing autonomy where appropriate, and structure where necessary.
No changing of compression settings affected the issue in any way.
I think the entire concept of using this kind of beta-test on public roads is an extremely dubious one, so I agree with your "fuck em". I just don't think the guy is a "goddamn psychopath" based on a nervous emotional release laugh.
Welcome to Process
Still not free tho, I tried to get an autocomplete for a paraphrase and I got this: "You've reached your usage limit."
While it's not nice, it's pretty obvious why European countries are happier to welcome the easily integrated white christian European Ukrainians than the significantly more difficult to integrate Middle Eastern refugees.
What you are describing is called an 'overlay'. Basically an overlay is some sort of computing architecture built with/on top of FPGA fabric. Soft processors are an example of overlay. You could imagine some kind of special linear algebra computing engine, etc. as other examples. RISC-V soft processors already exist. I'm pretty sure you could find some open source projects floating around. The trick is to make something that could actually out perform existing FPGA/CPU devices (SoC). Xilinx, now AMD, makes quite affordable Zynq Ultrascale devices that have FPGA+ARM-CPUs+GPU in a single device. The idea here is to use existing ARM architecture, but accelerate important functions. Developing a complex overlay would be quite a complicated project, so for many applications, it is only necessary to customize specific functions. But either way, best not delay, because who knows what AMD will do in the future, and like you mentioned, Intel(Altera) already abandoned everything except big data-center stuff..
This what I mean by mystery... some people drop insane numbers like £300k which is way above stuff that you see on levels.fyi - https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/London/ and those levels.fyi salaries are already skewed because they overrepresent the bigger tech companies. Then I go on the market and anything above £90k seems almost impossible.
Also today:

“Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696451
MSFT demonstrates formerly elusive physics needed to build scalable qubits
Publishing video available for the whole world to see, was free? When? While YouTube were bleeding money trying to find a business model?
Probably because Chicago was originally created by Susan Kare in just the 12pt bitmap form for the original Macintosh. The scalable TrueType version was created years later for System 7 by different people, and I'm afraid they really didn't capture the spirit very well.
Worth remembering post soviet russia has defaulted before in 1998
I use Recoll[1] to search through my local files. Haven't tried it myself, but they also have a extension for Firefox[2] that does what you are looking for.

Edit: I just tested it, and it's pretty neat! However they note in their Documentation[3] that this is a web cache and not intended to be an archive. It can simply be turned into an archive though by configuring a large cache size.

[1] https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recoll-we/

[3] https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWeb...
There is also driver delivery though Windows Update, but they dont seem to be using that properly either
Don’t these kind of things happen whenever a war or pandemic happens? Showing your papers was important during WWI and WWII and I am aware of plenty of quarantines and mask mandates associated with previous cholera/TB/flu pandemics.

Sure, I agree it sets a dangerous precedent, but we have been setting those kind of precedents for like 150 years. In that time we’ve had totalitarian states and liberal democracies.
> So would they rather have you quit? If not they should be willing to [...]

I know that many folks here work in elite organizations, so maybe it's hard to fathom, but THE NORM for big companies is to be dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to organizational stuff and technical operations.

Talented people who are intrinsically cross-functional, curious, and who always to do what it takes to "help the team" often get hammered flat from years of the daily grind-stone and then just quit, like the OP.

In most places no one is even thinking about "retaining talent" until it's far too late.
Hey. Any chance this can be used with another chrome based browser such as Brave?
Wow, great nostalgia looking at these photos.
Some interesting tidbits about this song, if you're interested, from its Wikipedia page [0]:

- The song was written by 2 people of Armenian heritage. One was the Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan; the other, Ross Bagdasarian, is better known for his creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The melody is based on an Armenian folk song and the song is based on the Armenian custom of generously plying guests with fruits, sweets, etc.

- The song became a hit when it was recorded by Rosemary Clooney (George Clooney's aunt). When the song was presented to her, she hated it and only sang it because band-leader Mitch Miller threatened to fire her if she didn't record it (this [1] was the result and, yes, that rollicking keyboard is, in fact, a harpsichord).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On-a_My_House

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw
I know one of those guys.

I don't even pretend to know exactly what thoughts are occurring in his head but form the outside he appears to hold several logically inconsistent ideas at the same time and is desperately trying to find a causal relationship between them.

As for forgetting, they never forget. More noise and ideas are added to the same pool of thought and consistency is never resolved. I suspect you either grow out of it in some way or go insane.
appendages
not worth saving
without daylight savings
only saving time
agree
+1
There were quite a few protests in the UK last year against the lockdowns, despite the fact there was no lockdown at the time or planned (nor did it happen) in the future. Quite a few cults seem to go past their doomsday date and simply choose another into the future. They just carry on as if the lack of the event never happened.
> After a couple of decades of updating firmware on things whenever possible, I'm yet to have a real issue.

I used to be in the same boat, up until a few weeks ago when I updated the BIOS on my new work laptop. It's been a shitshow ever since: it takes around one minute to POST, the webcam isn't detected anymore, it doesn't go to sleep.

And the best part? "Because this update contains security features, it cannot be rolled back".

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edit to name and shame: HP EliteBook 845 G8
The Deno WASI runtime doesn't run in a browser, it only runs in Demo. So this tiny mostly unimplemented API is still infinitely more useful to me than the Deno implementation.
Non-substantive comments aren’t really welcome here. If you disagree with someone, explain why. HN respects a well worded argument.
Thank you for that♥
> So external contributors can only provide patches without being able to test themselves I suppose.

My intention is that if you buy a license for plasticity, you can then build locally and test locally. You can contribute back or not depending on your interest.

Think of it like this. There will be a typescript/javascript wrapper around a limited version of the c3d kernel. this is the plasticity api. You will call plasticity.Enable(license_key) at the top of your program and you will be good to go. You buy a license key from me.

Although I do hope people will contribute the plasticity's development, my main goal with it being open source is that people will write plugins that they can then give away or sell themselves.

I have used commercial software that I pay for -- like Fusion 360 and MoI3d -- where I ran into bugs that I could have fixed for myself if only I had the code. I'm still happy to pay for them. Instead I literally waited 2 years for Fusion to fix a bug I cared about.
None of the screens show the obligatory colored bar graph and pie charts, an image often used to convey “this computer is also serious!” to the on-the-fence parents that were contemplating their wide-eyed kids’ pleas.
That is a take that I do not understand. How is not allowing closed source plug-ins in Blender defending anyone?

It simply means a percentage of those developers who would have been happy to create third party tools simply now don't.

See for example the thriving plug-in ecosystem SketchUp has.

A third party should be able to create plug-ins without risking their IP - closed source, and any license they like.

This model has been the cornerstone of CAD innovation for the past decades.

True freedom means that you let dowstream users do as they please, not that you lock them in in specific delivery module.
>>Mediums and palm readers have always known what western politicians only recently grasped - that people don't care about truth, they care about feeling good about what they believe.

Maybe in the west-- Indian astrologers delight in horror stories-- certain death and or complete financial ruin, unless you can pay for expensive prayers and/or jewels.

Although it does help strengthen peoples belief, as they can blame their misery on that evil Saturn, rather than the corrupt system or their own poor choices.

I've also seen-- people stuck in extreme situations, doing anything, even if they know it is stupid, helps them a little , as it gives a feeling on control in an otherwise helpless situation
Archive.org link; images load, but not videos:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220316104023/https://blog.sean...
Better build a car from scrap parts.

Like how people who don't want a SmartTV buy a computer-monitor and tuner instead.
There are many benchmarks showing Java faster than Go. The trick is picking one that people agree is representative.

It shouldn't be surprising though. "Peak performance" doesn't include start-up time, and ignores memory. If you discount both those, there's no reason that JITted native code wouldn't be faster than a runtime that includes goroutine scheduling.
> Ps: every single person boarding a plane for non urgent reasons is an idiot. Period.

12 months ago I'd have agreed. But we're past the 2 year mark now. We have the jabs, we have better treatments, we have ubiquitous testing, and omicron seems milder.

At some point life needs to go on. Choose your own risks based upon your individual situation.
I always really enjoy his articles, I wish he had a newsletter so I could know when a new one is out.
I agree that this is possible and that the Gemini project might be futile because of this.
Should be easy to add a form with drop-downs. Was that what you were thinking?
I find a big part of the problem can be "product debt." It consists of legacy product whose owners may not even be around any more, and no current product manager is willing to risk their neck to let engineering retire it. This ends up blocking a lot of proper "technical debt" cleanup.
'they share the same culture and values?'

How does one determine thus?

For example, do Trump supporters and BLM activists share the same values? Are they closer to each-other that a random kid from syria?

I am glad that Ukrainian refugees are being treated with conpassion, but I don't think we are treating others fairly.

At the very least we should have internstional law where countries that drop the most bombs must take the most refugees
Probably can’t resist the temptation to package their firmware in an always active 500mb .NET bloatware balloon that continuously phones home with ‘analytics’ and ‘telemetry’.
I think the timing is right for this. Or at least it is getting close to the right time. Case Fatality Rate in heavily vaxxed populations is getting below seasonal influenza so the burden on society just isn’t as high as it was. The threat model has completely changed.
(I got a paper route at age 14 … saved enough over 4 months to finally buy a TS-1000, then eventually my C64.)
N95 masks do if fitted properly. You can buy one for ~£3, well worth it for a flight in my opinion.
Very few companies and projects die to a singular departure

While I've never seen a company die due to a single departure, I've seen plenty of projects die due to a single departure.
I imagine if the same reasoning was applied to planes, which is weighing against each-other the effects of the transport vehicle stopping and the results of updating the schedule, in this case the latter option would be considered more optimal.
If it's anything like my discovery with supermarkets, most of it might not be airborne. I started gelling my hands after using a trolley a few years back. Rarely if ever get sick now. I suspect people sneezing all over the handle and then me rubbing my face was why I was always sick.
What is it about people who claim to love something like succulents, or reptiles, or parrots, yet then knowingly pay for illegally sourced wild specimens, paying a premium if they're endangered or rare, just so that they can say they have a rare one?

Obviously, they don't love them at all, they're just weirdly obsessed. My country has issues with people capturing and smuggling endangered species, just so some collector in Asia or Europe can have a bird/lizard that other people don't have.

It's messed up.