skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seniority matters here - of course a junior is going to have weaknesses, and a poor fit could easily result in two abysmal quarters. But I believe seniority comes with a responsibility to proactively raise any higher level issues blocking performance, and move on if they can't be fixed.
The author has updated the article to name Parabola as the distribution preferred by the FSF.
I guess you cannot calculate only a produce of those bees. Trees and flowers pollinated are a significant "side effect" that we neef for our survival.
I don't think they did, but imagine they designed an asymmetric ball, only incompletely revealing it just long enough that all bootleg manufacturers set up their lines to build an extrapolation of the revealed side and then derail them with a surprise "far side of the ball looks completely different, gotcha!".

Come to think of it, for the print part of it (as opposed to the panel setup) I suspect that an unrevealed surprise design isn't even that unlikely, perhaps with two tiers of "official design" where the premium version is only revealed much closer to the event (with only the lower tier design made available even for training/qualification of official teams). Thinking a bit more of this, I suspect that this isn't me hypothesizing at all, but just murky memories of past cup seasons resurfacing?
Probably why I cant get any connections to my phone, from the windowsill!
In other words: how we don't even have weekends anymore.
IMHO, this seems to consist of two very separate pieces of software: Scanning, and complex management of an archive of files and documents.

Both are interesting challenges, but focusing on the second one - I don't see why it should be tied-in with scanning. It's actually something that I feel is missing in operating systems, or at least desktop environments: The ability to arrange your files in more than one way, rather than having to force them into a static hierarchy ... while also not having them lost behind some piece of software which prevents direct access.
Also it'd be great to have multiple (open) algorithms selectable, lets say:

- Friends of friends
- Keywords
- Popular toots...
the impact is really up to you and how thick is your skin, whether you are getting angry/scared when reading the news or not

news through friends work only if you have many local friends and not friends scattered across the world, so they won't have much useful news for your day to day life and these days I try to avoid small talk about news with local people, because almost everything is way too controversial unless you agree with MSM propaganda
I think the problem here is not on the technical side. The places where we find stuff to read (aggregators, homepages, social networks) just don't work well if you're only extracting the text and links.

There's also a huge long tail of parsing issues because web pages are not static documents. You'd want a fallback to the original HTML -- so why not use your main browser? There are extensions that activate reader mode automatically on pages where it's supported [0].

[0] I'm working on one of them: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter
I worked at APL for 3 years (2015 - 2018) and loved my time there. Although, the work got repetitive over time and was no longer challenging, the thing I loved the most was the social environment. Theres a lot to be said for having a good team/group of people around you. I still keep in touch with some of them.
For websites, do you have examples where it outperform Amazon's own solution? https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/
I think the concern with this is that it seems to treat the hive as a machine and not a variable natural system.

What does it do to bee evolution to take away their instincts and ability to self-regulate their hive ? What impact does that have on how the bees measure the inside and outside environment?

It would be interesting to know what the non-chemical mite treatments are. Most are mechanical, so I can only imagine it applies powdered sugar or removes drone brood or something?

I also hope it leaves a substantial mass of honey in the hive so the bees have sufficient sustenance over winter and into spring so sugar water is not needed.

There's already too much interference without understanding in the bee industry, automating things is only going to eventually reduce knowledge much further, but I can appreciate the goals and effort at least.
Can you explain how it is better than carefully scanning and arrangement the scanned files yourself? (Not being facetious, I'm really asking.)
Americans families pay taxes to universities. Then they pay tuition to universities. Then their children go to work to pay loans. Forever. Universities pay administrators to import labor for their government grants.

Why are there so many foreign PhD students? Are Americans lazy? No; we have to work. Education is high-class leisure in America. Decades ago, Americans went back to school after paying off loans and getting experience. Not so anymore; the pipeline is too full to get back into it.

This credentialism is being used to prove that Americans are unqualified to work in their own country. We should not be so impressed with PhDs. I assure you that a decade into this policy we won’t be.
tl;dr:

> The answer is that Putin’s blundering and brutal behavior has accidentally highlighted democracy’s greatest superpower: the trait that insures that, for all of democracy’s flaws, it will triumph over autocracies in the long run.

IMHO that's some serious copium.

Russia (briefly) had a modicum of democracy and now doesn't. It's suffering really because it's in decline [1]. Compare it with China, which by any objective measure is an autocracy, and it's doing just fine.

Democracies historically have been few and far between and they've thus far not lasted that long comparatively. Some examples:

- Roman Republic may well be the longest lasting and I'm not sure you'd call it strictly a democracy but it's close and it lasted several hundred years before being swept away into empire;

- Weimar Republic -> Nazi Germany. Let's not forget in 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Nazis held the most seats through elections;

- Athenian democracy -> (briefly) a territory of an empire and then a Roman province

- Turkey is now effectively an autocracy

- In completely honesty and seriousness, the attempted insurrection of January 6 (yes, that's what it was) foreshadowed an end to American democracy. It's a race against time between evangelicals trying to institute a fascist theocracy through subversion of every institution meant to protect the republic vs demographics making them irrelevant [2].

Democracies just have different failure modes and nothing lasts forever.

[1]: https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-the-population-decline...

[2]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/5-facts-abo...
I would break off an interview in the middle if it became clear they forced pairing.
Maybe a bit contrarian but the best move might not be to move away for google unless the main driver is data privacy.

If you just don't want to risk being locked out its more important to keep access to your data these would be the steps:

- Get your own domain for email. If google locks you out you can just point it to somewhere else.

- Set google takeout to make monthly backups (automatically) of your email, photos and so on to google drive.

- Install desktop google drive on your computer. Set it to fully mirror all your files locally/offline. Then if google locks you out you will still have access to your files and photo/email backups. Bonus points for having a desktop mail app that keeps your email locally.

The lockout problem is not unique to google, can happen with most providers.
I think it’s one of the most important questions you can ask in an interview (as the applicant): does the organisation allow poor performers to stay in their roles? How is performance measured, and how is poor performance treated?

Then you can decide if you like the answers. For me personally, an answer like “performance is evaluated on (X objective criteria). Poor performers are given 3 months to demonstrate improvement on said criteria and then managed out” is good.

A refusal to answer, or waffling about how much we believe in our people, how our process ensures we don’t hire bad performers, how we develop people, etc. is bad.
Comrade is a new advertising platform designed to pay consumers by connecting advertisers with consumers directly through a value exchange model.

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when consumers are shopping online and instantly pays them a share of the advertiser's cost-per-click
after visiting the product recommendations.
Advertisers can reach users through a cost-per-click advertising platform that delivers product
recommendations based on the consumer's real-time search activity, making product
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Somebody should tell the folks designing high-level languages that their code is no easier to analyze than a binary, I guess.
Whereas on closed source you’d have to do all of that and probably a good deal of reverse engineering on top of that. That’s unfortunately not something which it necessarily makes any easier, but rather a lot harder.
Wasn't the Jabulani a pretty widely disliked? I remember people complaining that it was quite wild in the air
This is amazing. Just amazing.
I can work around one bad manager. It is when you get 2 or 3 stacked vertically over each other that you know things are not only never going to change, but that top level leader has tanked all other departments underneath them, and it is time to move somewhere else.

I used to not worry about higher level leadership in large companies because I thought I was too low level to really be impacted by them. I no longer think that way, and I look into as much of the leadership as I can before accepting a role.
I’ve worked under very trigger-happy leaders in startups here in the UK. I think in the first two years of employment it’s fairly easy. Given typical engineering tenures, this basically describes everyone.
But what happens to the wood you use? e.g. in buildings

(1) building burns (2) building is torn down and wood rots (3) building eventually collapses and wood rots

i.e. if you don't bury it, it eventually returns into the carbon cycle
Enso: Hybrid visual and textual functional programming
Woow it's super cool app! Now I can get out of forever day 1 and build habit of day +++
Interesting, I have it off but still have the folder. Did you do any "extra" steps to disable Siri?
You are amazing. Just amazing
> I want to eventually move away, especially gmail and drive.

Run it yourself!

Get yourself a solid hosting company with shared webhosting. For Germany, hetzner or all-inkl would be my choice.

A hetzner "Level 1" shared webhosting for 1,90 €/month will come with an included TLD of your choice. Use that to host your own mailboxes. 10 GB webspace should be good for that, too.

Then install a NextCloud instance on that webhost. Add a hetzner "Storage Box", 3,45 €/month will give you 1 TB of space which can be mounted into the NextCloud through a free plugin.

That way you have mail and your own cloud for 5,50 €/month for as long as you pay the bill...
I think SEO is a large reason why popular sites do bother with semantic tagging.
Sysvkit: Systemd Compatibility for SysV Systems
This set of tools allow Systemd services to run unmodified on SysV-style systems.
Although you could make this argument in this context I don’t think it is valid. I’m quite certain that someone who’s trying to figure out what some obscure service is doing on their machine would be able to use `apt-get` perfectly fine and wouldn’t ignore any all-caps warnings.
I well remember digging in to this at the time. A nice idea that didn’t work too great for me, so I dropped it after a while. But I have ever since always kept index cards handy for lists or temporary info.

I’m thankful to the HN citizen who alerted me to thetodaysystem.com - an excellent use of index cards to keep focus on the important tasks of the day.
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I assumed this would be a commercial application in the vast majority of cases, where I'm from we don't have a bee problem so it didn't occur to me that this could be setup from a charity just for the wellbeing of the bees.
> running a server connected to the internet is no small taks

Shared webhosting is still a thing and comes with the best of two worlds. Not expensive and professionals take care of the system under the hood.
Amazing how my generic Roomba does all those same behaviors (navigate a room with obstacles, find its own charger) shown in that first video, but it took another 60 years for such a thing to be a cheap consumer product.

Wonder how long it will take to find a Roomba that can be scheduled to run more than once every 24 hours? /J
> The main issue with "way longer than that" is that the impedance varies a whole lot with small changes in frequency

It could be, but I'm not sure. Beverages (receive-only), and travelling-wave antennas in general, I'm not sure if they suffer from that. And even if they do, you may compensate this disadvantage with tunning/matching devices. That's what we do with magnetic loops, a price to pay for their reduced sizes and noise immunity.
I hate to admit it but my first thought was Edward in Cowboy Bebop. Yours was much cooler.

Thanks for that Intelsat story, I had no idea.

https://spacenews.com/intelsat-vows-stop-piracy-sri-lanka-se...
Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out quantum orchestration platform
Hey I know you!

You're the first user who unlocked the Palm Tree ;)
the difference of distributed (networked) systems is that they are expected to keep working even in the presence of partial (maybe byzantine) failures.

The communication between actor itself is not the problem, unreliable comunication between unreliable actors is.

If any of my CPU, RAM, Motherboard has a significant failure my laptop is just dead, they all can assume that all the others mostly work and simply fail if they don't.
No one is selling 70% ethanol as an antiseptic, it's isopropyl alcohol. Those additives in ethanol not intended for consumption are 8 parts acetone and 1.5 parts methyl isobutyl ketone to 100 parts ethanol. There are some rare ethanol based rubbing alcohols sold but the vast majority is isopropyl because it's not just denatured with bitterants, they add toxic substances as well.

Here's the actual formula they have to use that's enshrined in the law.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/21.49
Are there any other, more modern tools for constructing or mapping plots?

I know some fans are doing that for specific pieces of popular fiction.

I wonder if any specific notation for plots emerged.
Either way, it’s easier if you’ve got the source code as well.
Corporate Memphis is why David Icke’s lizard man theory feels plausible.
It was revealed recently that Ronin chain, the blockchain backing the most famous GameFi Axie, was compromised, and 625 million US dollars worth of assets were stolen. It has become the biggest thievery in decentralized world by far (600 million US dollars was stolen in the second-largest crypto thievery on PolyNetwork, and the stolen funds have been recovered.)

The thievery actually took place on March 23rd. However, Ronin chain didn’t realize it happened until March 29, sparking criticism from the community. 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC were lost, announced Ronin officially (...)
apt deciding it should yeet essential packages is not a new thing and has happened many times to many people.
> Such are the moving parts prone to jams and stuff like that.

They are probably prone to honey rather than jams. /jk

Actually the question I most want answered is about materials and environments -- I know hives can start in all sorts of things, but I am wondering about bee health (physical/social) in the context of metal and plastic.

Also their material preferences; do bees still need to be persuaded/cajoled to settle in an inorganic space when there might be wooden or brick structures in the vicinity?

Are commercial hives already well past this point and using metal and plastics?
Imagination comes in more than 3 dimensions ;)

What about first capturing the images in words? Write down the details of the images. This will give you an archive of inspiration.

Personally I would start in 2D first. I am experienced in 3D modeling but I always start in 2D.
Hmm, they didn't list SerenityOS[0] under the C++-based operating systems for some reason... maybe it's still too under the radar?

[0]: https://serenityos.org/
Agreed, Mozilla has not exactly shown that they will put user interests first and it makes sense to have a third-party packager to double check their choices.
Yes but there may be some other Gadget vulnerabilities in all those fields too. Also, you might be able to make an app OOM by setting big string values somewhere in there.

It boggles my mind why this field is accessible at all and wasn't blocked in CVE-2010-1622.
Putting aside the visions you have. What are you more competent with: 2D drawing / painting or 3D modelling? In my limited experience, 3D modelling takes a great deal more work than 2D painting. Given a simple scene/image (e.g. from a photo), how are you able to render it more accurately? with less effort?

When I look at the works by preeminent sci-fi artists, I'm blown away by the level of detail of their work. I'm sure that it takes them considerable time and effort to create those works. So either way, I'd think you will need to accept that you need to practice a great deal with your preferred methods and techniques.
> stuff that I write, where the plot arises more from the characters and the language

I think that approach might be better than plot focused one which seems to be dominant in modern entertainment.

When characters just implement some plot they look like cutouts instead of real humans and it's hard to keep their behavior consistent and believable.
True, you can always run vanilla Redis.

Having said this, it really gives me the sensation that Redis is trying to solve too many use cases, turning into some sort of Swiss knife.

The reality of Swiss knives is that they don't excel in anything of the things they do.
Pointers are special. They have implicit conversions, and a wide variety of pre-defined operations, typically only a few of which are correct for any particular use.

Managing any resource is trivial with destructors. If you need to manage a resource, a pointer is a poor way to do it.

In C, you have a poverty of choices, but people are anyway used to being careful around pointers.
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian PM's passport number (2020)
Why do you trust that? Apple has specifically admitted to having a nefarious plan to scan your local files without consent and further use your computer (also without consent) to report on you to law enforcement. This may well be that implementation.

The latest desktop and mobile OSes are quietly shipping code to enable this, despite the uproar that happened when Apple announced it. They let people believe they were stopping the project, but it nonetheless proceeds quietly.

Apple is not trustworthy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Monterey

(Edit for clarity: enable above is used in the "to support" sense. I do not know if such clientside scanning is enabled (in the activated sense) yet, only that Apple has explicitly stated at least twice that it will be. It appears imminent. Some or all of the code has already shipped and is on your machine(s).)
My first action after getting XP at work was to set all the UI-options to "performance". After that it just looked like an iteration on NT, i.e. it didn't give me eye cancer.
The main character is trying to do their job effectively, but can’t due to the low performance of a peer. They escalate to the appropriate manager to address the issue, but that manager transforms the performance issue into a relationship issue: it’s not that the peer isn’t performing, it’s just that the two of you don’t like each other.

It is quite hard to find the line between performance issue and relationship issue. I ran into this myself when I had a new manager who wanted to institute policies that to the tech leads seemed nonsense, and I chose to not do what they asked. They took it as a performance issue to the +1 but the +1 turned it into a relationship issue and this was the right call. The problem is that by that time we were both so set in our view that the other was obstructing the way forward that we couldn’t find a middle, and eventually it came down to a hard choice which I “won” by pushing them out of the company. In hindsight I could have made more of an effort to build a personal rapport and get on good enough terms to find a middle ground.
Oh naturally. I tried to stuff in as many puns as possible, so I when I looked up synonyms and learned a new word that looked like a perfect fit, I just had to experiment. :)
GPT3/Codex to chat with subject matter experts about your work – in Emacs
I sometimes wish text adventures would still have a bit more prominence today. It's nice to see games at super-high fidelity, but these old-fashioned text adventures are so "easy" to make, they're a fantastic way to get into programming as a hobby. As a kid, learning to code was reasonably easy because it was fun; I could make games for my family and friends, and at the time I started, not much was required other than access to a pirated disk of Turbo Pascal or Q-Basic.

I remember when Mode 13h took over and things got a lot more complicated (and also fun, for those who could work it all out). Once I had mastered Mode 13h, a whole new world opened but I wondered how someone could dive into programming if that was the first hill to climb.

And then the demo scene hit me, along with hacky but exciting 3D-2D projections, from plasmas and fractals to Voxel graphics (Commanche!), and that eventually required even more complicated maths that threw me out of the game-making. I remember at the time that I couldn't wait to "grow up" and reach a stage in school where they'd teach me the maths necessary to keep up with the requirements of game design at the time. I never returned to it, unfortunately.

Text adventures were a fantastic and light-weight way into all of it. Every time I try to convince a kid to try and make one, they struggle to get excited about it. They want to make Minecraft and Fortnite, and I don't even know where to begin to explain. So, yeah. Time to learn Unity.

For anyone curious to travel back in time over Christmas or so, here's a bit about Mode 13h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_13h

And here's a nice book on Game Design of that era, around the infamous Wolfenstein 3D:
https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d.pdf
I took an AI class back in college 16-17 years ago. In that class we had to solve a sudoku puzzle using multiple approaches to find the fastest approach (backtracking, backward propagation, forward propagation) for a few difficult puzzles.

I definitely don’t remember much of the content in any of my college courses. But I could reimplement those algorithms today without a problem. It’s amazing how “doing” really contributes to good memory retention. It was also one of the projects that sparked a fire in me. It really showed me the possibilities of computers and computer science.
Sort/search images using OpenAI's CLIP in the browser
> Karl Popper explained this all a long time ago.

Seems like a snarky statement that assumes everyone knows the same things you do. Maybe you could provide a link to that explanation instead?