skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do companies choose contractors over FTE? Sometimes it’s just because it’s temporarily addition to the work force. If they are vetted and trained like FTE, great. Sometimes the difference is just how you get paid and it doesn’t matter

Sometimes though companies can’t hire FTE so they bring in a of contractors (or outsource), vet and manage them poorly, or give them controversial projects and then they have to lean on the FTE. Also they are often not on call.
The law prescribes what constitutes an IP violation. Contracts and courts didnt invent the concept of copyright. You benefit from the privilidge granted to you by law.
There was literally no source code to release. YouTube Vance was a hex edited YouTube app binary.
>> I want you to think back to your last trip to the DMV.

I made an appointment and it was quick and easy, but I do agree some government services are painful and slow.

>> because some medicaid paperwork didn’t go through regarding his diagnosis

Medicaid budgets are almost always in flux, which creates service disruptions.

From 2020:

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/16/as-millions-lose-insurance-...
I'm curious, how do you see this as being adversarial to their community? It's not like they are taking down kotlin language servers, there are community language servers and extensions for kotlin in vscode and they're linked here as well, by jetbrains employees.

They need users to pay for IDEA to survive, so being open about not wanting to spend developer time to make it easier for people not to use IDEA that could be used to make IDEA better seems sensible from a business perspective. Seems like the community stepped up regardless.
While I understand how finding a particular unique resource cached may allow to glean some privacy-infringing info, I don't see how detecting a common library downloaded from a site that provides it for everyone (like python.org) would help reveal anything.

If users might define a list of sites trusted for cross-site caching (like fonts.google.com and other known library CDNs), this could help cache quite some common resources without downsides to user's privacy.
> But the Samaritan acted. Helped someone. Did a thing.

> Action is not signaling. Action is action.

I don't really understand why those would have to be exclusive. I think taking action to help people is important, and if suddenly everyone became aware every time someone helped someone else to the point where it became an expectation, I guess I don't really see why this would be a problem. At the end of the day, if more people are genuinely being helped due to being charitable becoming table stakes, I don't really care whether the help only happened due to ego or due to actual benevolence. I can see it becoming a problem if people weren't actually helping people and only signalling, but I don't really see how that would apply to companies giving people time and space to grieve and then also setting the example for the rest of industry.
Redefining the strategic goal as unifying Donbas is probably his best cynical path out. If the EU holds the line on gas, once the ammonium fertiliser stocks run down he has a scary secondary lever to pull (postwar agricultural dependence on ammonium fertiliser worldwide is huge and the primary feedstock is gas)

Grieving mothers might yet be his downfall, but I doubt it. The horse has been whipped too long to kick back.
You are not popping my buble, i have every version of raspberries and use them for projects.
On top of it, JS is significantly faster.
Even small teams have great use of unreals tools. Hard to grasp it all but extremely useful.
From what I've seen from Chinese tech companies, I've always noticed they tend to go one step even further in ignoring privacy. You think FB is bad, wait until you realize what Baidu, Tencent, etc do without even blinking. Probably because what the Chinese government demands of them, the only ones that stay standing are the ones willing to do that. And if your willing to do that, what is doing something similar when your not forced to?
It isn't small and simple, because keeping the underlying VM small and simple was never one of IBM's design goals. Instead, IBM made it feature-rich. Part of that was the influence of CISC design philosophy – if your hardware ISAs are rich, it is natural that your virtualised software ISA becomes rich as well, even richer (since richness is cheaper in software than hardware). Some would also suggest, IBM made it complicated to try to prevent anyone trying to clone it–if that was their plan, it was pretty successful, nobody has ever tried to clone the whole thing, although there have been partial emulations of certain limited subsets, such as the RPG compiler and facilities commonly used by RPG programs.

Have a look at the MI instruction set [0]: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.2?topic=interface-machine-in...

You will see instructions like MATUP (Materialize User Profile): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.2?topic=instructions-materia...

So stuff like user accounts is directly implemented in the VM.

You'd think in a capability-based operating system, you'd make the underlying VM agnostic as to stuff like user accounts – instead you'd have some kind of "security server" running as a process on top of the VM which generates "user ID capabilities" (it being the only process with the capability to generate those capabilities), and the VM itself doesn't treat those capabilities specially. But no, that is not how IBM designed AS/400 (or its System/38 predecessor.)

[0] Technically that's not the current MI, that's "old MI" (OMI). The "new MI" (NMI, aka W-code), introduced with "ILE" (Integrated Language Environment) in the mid-1990s is undocumented (although possibly IBM will share the documentation for it if you pay them $$$$ and sign an NDA). OMI is translated to NMI, and then NMI is in turn translated to POWER machine code; the current IBM compilers target NMI directly, whereas legacy IBM (or third-party) compilers output OMI. However, some of the NMI compilers, such as the ILE C compiler, support embedding OMI instructions; NMI supports most OMI instructions, although effectively it models them as built-in functions.
MatPlotLib support in Skulpt for BlockPy [1]. Not complete, but workable for a lot of common graphs that I use in my CS1 course.

[1]: https://github.com/blockpy-edu/skulpt/blob/master/src/lib/ma...
A lot of thanks should go to Oracle. Back in the days Java was go-to language for everything. After Oracle acquired it in 2009, the only respectable languages with good numerical libraries were Python, Julia and R. Unfortunately, Julia’s marketing wasn’t strong enough and R was decisively an ugly thing to work with.
> they decide they want to do something for the desktop they just go with what they know instead of learning something different

Shouldn't the burden of proof be reversed? If the stack works, why relearn in a different stack? The HN crowd loves to shit on web developers for not being good enough even at their own domain, yet at the same time encourage them to learn new tech. Proficiency takes time.

As for the environment itself, web has the best inspect/debugging experience by far, an extremely capable and flexible layout engine and accessibility built in. It's also not controlled by a company, and has ubiquitous platform support.

Obviously there's a network effect, which to a large extent led to this situation. But it also makes sense to learn today. If I was advising a junior it'd be criminally myopic to suggest learning Qt instead of web.
Does Rust support it?
The brushes. They shed less? Traditional motors use carbon brushes.
That’s not people below 40 say. They describe it as an instant drug.
Javascript will be 30 years old in 3 years. It's been successful, sure, but it's also been controversial and a lot of language mistakes have had to be carried forward. The 5 minute "wat" talk still lingers in my head about those basic mistakes.

"Oh they fixed that in Typescript."

But they could have fixed it with practically any other language as well.
> Do you think MDMA just breaks down completely devoid of methamphetamine as a metabolite?

AFAICT, that is correct; why do you think it doesn't? Name-based intuition?

Every reference, paper, etc., I can find of MDMA metabolites does not identify N-methylamphetamine (“methamphetamine”) as a metabolite of MDMA, and every identified metabolite retains the two oxygens of the methylenedioxy unit (whether it retains the whole unit or not) that distinguishes MDMA from methamphetamine.
All of these functionalities that you have described can b e easily implemented in an immediate-mode UI framework, and in my opinion much easily than retained-mode UI frameworks. (I know this because I have used Dear IMGUI extensively, and have done almost all of the things you’ve said).

I think you’re arguing with some fundamental “philosophical” stance on what data should be owned by the user and what data should be owned by the GUI. But I feel that pragmatically immediate-mode GUIs are the most efficient at creating complex interfaces (like the ones you have described). The parts where IMGUi are lacking is in complex flexbox layouting, theming, and animations, which isn’t required in editor-like applications for professionals but might matter with end-user applications.
What made the NES great was what others have already mentioned: by 1985 chip technology was at a point where you could do hardware tiling and RAM was cheap enough that you could do nice color lookup tables. Also the NES came out during a video game crash, so competitors were holding back on making new consoles (their latest consoles were a few years earlier).

Also the ability to do simple stored audio wave patterns and not just sine waves and white noise probably mattered a lot.

Another little detail is the controller layout. Nintendo was the first to figure out that "shitty rubber joystick" wasn't a selling point, and a simple d-pad was infinitely preferable for real games.
Faster than what?

JS was considerably slow until Google decided to spend resources to make it faster.
I used it for a few days and I can't even really remember the soft porn. I got pretty quick into science, comedy and cute/stupid animal behaviors. I pretty much thought "I understand why people like this" and then quickly stopped using it. I think the fact you can't use it anonymously unlike youtube somewhat disturbed me and I stopped.
Absolutely not - I was using youtube for 10 years and every year my feed gets worse. Now the original content creators are dissapearing from my newsfeed and uts fetting invaded eith short clips of family guy. Its also will show me same clip again and again. It shows clips from creators i disliked. New uploads of creators i follow sometimes arent on my feed - its a shitshow. Half of comments are trolls and bots.
IR radiation is stopped very easily, eg by dead skin cells. Higher energy radiation, eg microwaves, can penetrate much deeper into your body and start causing damage to living tissues.
At $1.7m for 100t, it probably wouldn't even be worth sending a Starship to orbit to fetch it down.
YouTube recommendations used to be quite good for a brief amount of time when google brain originally took over it I think? Now it’s a mess but it’s clearly due to exec meddling. like their absolutely product destroying migration towards videos 8 minutes or longer; most original content is now fully shit because they are filling it up with garbage to pad the time and release in a cadence. All stupid rules imposed by YouTube, which just takes creativity out of people.

It’s also possible any recommendation system can only stay pure for a few years until everyone from both sides is gaming them so badly for money it just cannot work anymore.
What about the Sharp Nintendo Television? According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmhhDvncrFY, the NES has a direct RGB connection to the display.
Tricon CEO hoards 30000+ single family homes in US/Canada
The biggest thing was automatic null checking. That is such a pain in Java and has bitten me so hard many times. Having the language prevent you from writing code that can crash because of a null access violation is a big step forward.

There were other things that made Kotlin seem more modern to me, but I'm foggy now on what they were. But, when I wrote Android, I would always choose Kotlin for new projects.
> in New Zealand and Australia where both countries mostly have heat pumps in every house

I'm not sure that's right. I've lived in a lot of houses and units in Australia, in city and country, and none have had air conditioners, assuming that's what a "heat pump" is. The houses I've stayed in in NZ didn't have them either.

[After googling what a heat pump is] I didn't know a heat pump is a thing, like an air conditioner but can heat as well. I don't remember ever hearing about them! (I'm 50)
That's just super cool. I love what you did with the scoreboard!
Made, not designed. Mass production a century ago was a fundamentally manual process, and therefore would show much more variation per item than modern processes.

The only argument for it being designed for durability is that the designers assumed poor tolerances in the manufacturing process, and therefore designed with that in mind.
Just use jetbrains. VScode has properietary features which aren't available to other editors too.
> In case it wasn't clear, I'm hoping someone can explain how this notion of equivalence differs from what we've traditionally called equality since middle school, given that the latter doesn't appear to mean exactly the same either.

The point is that what's called "equality" in current foundations of mathematics is not equality in the middle-school math sense, but something far more restrictive. There are older, property-based notions of "equivalence relation" that broaden this a bit, but not nearly enough for many uses. OP describes a logical formalism that might enable us to make rigorous, watertight inferences about something really, really close to what a middle-schooler would call "equality". It gets rid of a pervasive abuse of mathematical language and notation, a worrying "gap" in previous attempts to make mathematical reasoning rigorous.
Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Big Sur, California (1984)
US poised to release 2.4bn genetically modified male mosquitoes
This sounds like a really interesting story.
It is scary how easy and willingly we just give up our privacy and data away.

Truly the future is Brave New World, not 1984
> What about Svelte?

Svelte apps aren't written in JS but in Svelte's own component syntax files. It's "HTML" but all the parts are extended (JS -> reactive, HTML -> directives, CSS -> scoping) and it needs its own compiler to transform the source to something everything else understands.
I think what most drives the issue for side-loading is that Apple has claimed that now allowing side-load helps for security, but Apple's claims on security are not as bullet proof as they allude to. I'd much rather them say, no side loading because we want out 30% cut and that actually be true than to say, no side loading because of security risks when nothing really proves their stance has improved security.
And you don't need AI for this. There are lots of media outlets with entertainment news that at best, lack nuance, but most often just spread misinformation in an echo chamber they built.
It's a fork.
If you run a low voltage 24V DC power cable for lighting next to a 220V AC line (I'm in Europe, no idea if 120V does the same) it's quite easy to get a situation where there is enough power for LED lights to be lit even when switched off. This is why low voltage wiring (lighting, ethernet, hdmi, etc) should not be ran parallel to AC power cables.
One of the stats is your website says "27m sq. ft. roads stabilized". What does 27m mean here? Is it 27 million? I first read it as 27 meters square feet, which is confusing.

Keep crushing it!
Yes, MDMA doesn't break down into methamphetamine. They are different drugs with different metabolites and metabolic pathways.

MDMA breaks down into MDA, HMMA, HMA, DHA, MDP2P, MDOH.

Not sure why you have to insult someone in this discussion?
This is likely a response to Alpine not supporting DNS protocol fully (RF9210 to be precise).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642632

The blog talks about "use of DNS for bulk data distribution, such as in DNSSEC, DKIM and other applications", but it's not just that -- even for a most basic use, "ask a hostname from user and connect to that host", musl will fail if the response contains too many IP addresses.
Hey so I was replying to this part:

> I'm not sure how far you could take math if you treat equality as meaning "exactly the same"; it seems even middle-school math requires understanding that that's not the case.

I honestly didn't mean that in a rude way, more like a "hey dude, be careful how you're coming across here, as there may be things you don't understand." I read the above phrase as describing a mathematician's work as something a middle schooler should already know. But I take back what I said. I'm all good, everyone's good, I think there was just a misunderstanding here.

In the same vein, I don't see how you could read my message as needlessly insulting, as I thought it was pretty softly worded. But I guess that's the nature of written communication. I think you should have given me the benefit of the doubt, just as I should have done for the original poster.
And ffmpeg. An open-source, cross platform set of video libraries made the proprietary and system-specific ones a lot less interesting.
This is glib and naive.

Google, Stripe, AirBnB - and every other company is made up mostly of 'Silos'.

Some communicate better than others.

'Give people trust and agency' has nothing to do with 'Silos' I can only imagine what kind of Twitter/Fast Company 'pop business management' one would have to be consuming to conflate these issues.

And FYI people get as much 'trust and agency' as their competency, skill, maturity, and the situational context implies, it's not an inherent quality of any social system.

Comments about 'egotistical sociopaths' is stupidly offensive.
It seems organizational cause I'm seeing 3 ways to do authentication in Azure. In AWS, everything uses IAM.
Are the pico's PWM channels true hardware PWM (truly on/off) or software-emulated PWM (flickering on "fast enough" to create an envelope)

Some cheap, learning platforms like the micro:bit do emulated PWM which yields jittery servo demos. Sure you could put a circuit to smooth the on/off cycle, but as an instructional tool, I like the external hardware to be as minimal as possible.
I remember when there were many different reasonable options for source control. I’ve really enjoyed recent years how there’s at least one thing in software development where basically everybody agrees what the right solution to a problem is. For source control, use git. Almost nobody disagrees. Is git perfect? Of course not. Is it hard to learn? Hell yeah. But everybody does, at least enough to get by.

I find the standardization that git has brought to the industry to be wonderfully simplifying for the lives of people developing software. If only we could all agree on things like a programming language, or a database - how much more productive would we be? How many life years do we spend trying out or learning new technologies that don’t go anywhere, or which only offer marginal benefits in exchange for real sacrifices? At least for now, source control doesn’t have that level of constant churn which is so commonplace in software.

To me, the benefits of standardization on git far outweighs any benefits that might be achieved by trying something new.
Curious how approachable you think homotopy type theory is to people who think they know better than researchers? Simple type systems would be understandable (Haskell has type systems similar to System F and rust has an affine your system) but if anything being a programmer may add obstacles to understand HoTT since programmers (generally) have never had the opportunity to learn topology or anything else that HoTT builds on. Also not everything in HoTT has a clear computational interpretation, notably the univalence axiom.

That said I encourage everyone who's interested to investigate this but I don't think it's realistic without having a solid foundation in mathematics.

(And I also agree with the sibling comment that HoTT isn't really used as a foundation of mathematics.)
Post was deleted but based on comments it seems they were (or are going to be) PIP'd for unregretted attrition rate
"Modelled" is exactly it. It's a mapping of meaning to changes in various states.

Not an expert and I know counterintuitive phenomena exist, but at bottom it makes way more sense that information is the effect of energy, not the cause of mass.

It's a property of energy transfer that incidentally requires you to take into account the existence of some entity to interpret/record/act on it. So how can such a thing as information have mass? Something must be backwards here.

What is information without its receiving entities, be they computers, signal relays, microphones or people? Or hard drives? Just changes in energy that sometimes change mass as well.

Any change in mass you care to measure is bound to change the information inherent in the object. That's the direction of the relationship: The change in mass/energy leads to the information, not the other way around.

For that matter, am I really making a sheet of paper heavier when I run it through a Braille printer? The example of the hard drive doesn't really provide clarity on this.
One thing that helps me is this: whenever I'm in a situation that makes me nervous, I think about even more stressful situations in the past that I went through unscathed. For example, if I get nervous before speaking to a group of 10 people, I would recall events where I managed to present to a larger group of people. I was nervous then, but I "survived" it, no reason to think I wouldn't survive this one either.
The Art of Abstraction, in Code
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The way to educate people is to say "less than 1/3 the distance to the sun (that is, less than 1/3 of an astronomical unit or AU)".

It would have been easy to structure the sentence in a way to make it clear that this is not a coincidence. This is exactly the missed opportunity that I was trying to point out. If you write "less than 1/3 X" and then later "or about 1/3 Y", surely you can agree that's not the very best way to point out that X and Y are definitionally equivalent, right?
I think Chinese cultural exports obviously lag behind those of Japan and Korea because the government censors confine their creatives, leaving them less free to create.

The CCP really, really likes video clips of happy people doing cheerful things, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying that content, but really great films and TV shows challenge us, give us fresh new perspectives, and make us see the world a little bit differently. China may be able to compete with some of the more guilty-pleasure sorts of TV content, but it's hard for me to imagine many high quality films that resonate with the human spirit coming out of China any time soon.

I'd love if they proved me wrong.
I'll add

> I like software engineering, business, product management, marketing, and technology industry generally

Liking the "technology industry generally" is closest to mainstream interests, but even then, people like that their new phone is thinner or their new Xbox has better graphics. Regular consumers aren't too worried about ARM vs Intel, MS dropping support for old PCs, or any use of blockchains beyond asset speculation.
What do you mean by that? Mullvad doesn't have a generally accessible socks proxy like PIA does, that works with or without having the VPN on. The proxy is a localhost one for the most part so you can prevent an app from going online without having your vpn client on first.