skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchains require systemic buy-in to reveal their instrinsic value. That means government implementation and enforcement, or at least some widespread system that recognizes a particular blockchain as law. It's coming, but slowly.

You talk about it as if there's a well-worn path that every viable technology must follow to succeed. Cue discussions about the first automobiles, the internet, the smart phone, etc. But history rhymes, it doesn't repeat. The internet's rise itself is a unique phenomenon. I'm more concerned with dealing with blockchains as a reality, not deciding whether or not they're actually happening. In my experience, almost every "nothing is happening, y'all are crazy" argument in the past 10 years has revealed itself to be toxic coping. Who does this denial actually help? So far, Western society is collapsing, finance is getting more centralized, global warming is coming along just fine, corporations are making decisions for us, and the internet is getting more and more totalitarian. All good?

Don't be surprised when the infrastructure magically appears and every asset you own is indexed and tracked on a blockchain. Oops! This is really not the time to be talking shit about cryptocurrencies as a concept, because they're going to be part of your life whether you like it or not. What you should be focusing on is helping shape them in your favor - because they're currently not.

So, let's assume it is, in fact, happening. The technology should also enable certain services which weren't possible before, but I'm not sure what those are. We see the corpos going into the "metaverse", and central banks going for CBDCs, which I suppose could work (for them), but if there was a pro-consumer service that can be deployed now it'd end discussions like this.
Can the publication of a document which is very obvious be considered a sort of light joke? Is this an April Fools? This seems like the ideal sort of April Fools to be put in an RFC:

* Harmless

* Technically correct

* Hypothetically I guess it might be useful to have a specific rule related to something obvious if you are arguing with a real super-pedant.
People digging up old stories on Macron's and his wife are anything but concerned about helping justice. They're only interested in proving Macron was abused by his wife so she can get convicted and then he (the victim!) gets hit as a side effect.

People doing that kind crap have no limit to how low they're willing to drop their common decency to promote their shitty political agenda: They spread their lies over social networks, alienate the debate with inane affairs and waste valuable resources from the judicial system.

I'm glad those idiots are getting sued.
Any niche market I can find. The low hanging fruit have been exhausted. Seems the real hard problems like space faring civilizations are only been scratched at the surface with Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, so we will let them take care of that. Unless you want to make a splinter startup focused on rocketry that can outpace those, but you're already losing in that case. Just tap into niche markets and build your 'thousand true fans' and you're golden.
This is all true, but one needs to be aware that these forums are also chock full of "forum folklore". You'll get all kinds of advice and lecturing which is driven by what has been posted before rather than what matches reality.

Mixing DOT-5 brake fluid with DOT-3/4 is always a fun one. Folklore is that it will poison children and kill puppies. Reality is that they are, by law, compatible and mixing won't do anything more than create a fluid with unknown boiling points, but this is true of mixing any two brake fluids (and it is true DOT-5 is not compatible with ABS brake systems, but that's a separate point).

Pretty much anything to do with turbos is another fun one, as many folks have no idea how turbos work but have lots of opinions on tuning them.

Anyway, the point is that the comradery is great on these forums, they're a lot of fun, and you can find good info, but don't take any info on them as gospel.
Leave us alone only works if you don't solicit investment. If you ask for people's money, then you should at least be open to criticism.
Which leads to the weird situation when a US-based company will fight to the bone their European unions just out of principle, no matter the topic discussed or its legal base. And with the EWCs (European Worker Councils), even worse.
What does “There’s no reason to think…” mean in this argument?

What burden of proof does this line of reasoning impose? We are supposed to provide the absence of an effect every time a modulation scheme changes, or otherwise must assume just the latest scheme is somehow a novel deadly cocktail?
> Comparatively, European unions are much "weaker" - or maybe more accurately their purview is much smaller. They control smaller geographic regions, and in general, all of the heavy lifting for healthcare and pensions and worker rights is handled by the government. So the unions' focus is entirely on the collective bargaining piece. Also, unions tend to be more regulated - they can't carry so much bloat. All in all, everyone, companies included, have less reason to combat unions.

I'm not sure I'd call unions legally-mandated to hold 33-50% (depending on company size) of the company's board seats "weaker". That's the situation in Germany.
Agree. Todo lists are ephemeral. They're not meant to be stored and archived. Just write the list already, execute the items in the list and move on. Focus on getting things done rather than creating new formats for these ephemeral lists.
What's wrong with computer modern?
Its an ML330 G6, dual x5650 6 core Xeons and 96gb of memory. Old ATI radeon 6570 graphics card.

Very cheap to put together, great for android studio and .NET development.
You can claim they're a drain on both all you want, but you're just stating an unsubstantiated opinion that flies in the face of reason. Why would anybody join (and stay in) a union if they're unequivocally bad for everyone?

Are strikers holding people hostage? Or are they just refusing to do their jobs?
i feel like I'm missing the causal link in your comment between controlling healthcare portfolios -> shrinking.
May the opposite be the case? If Amazon really wants to prevent unions appearing in their employment relations, doesn't Amazon need to close this down now?

I'm not saying that's good. But I'm saying Amazon might think it can't afford to let the employees unionise.
Every single time I put a notice in a large corporation, they tried to bargain with me to stop me from quitting, offering raises and improved working condition, eg. projects with more leadership roles. So no, they do care in some industries, especially when the cost of hiring a single worker is higher than Amazon warehouse workers entire yearly pay.
Do you not have to store the value to check the proof of work against?
"'It's just a bunny', they all say" -- Tim the Wizard
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/7/1/lsaa061/5918811
Makes me want to refuse to update!
> get that entropy from host to guest OS.

There are some ways, although that doesn't mean they're always used.

I read this week QEMU has provides a virtio RNG device to the guest, that reads from the host. That's good. What I'm less clear about is other hypervisors, or whether x86 hypervisors tend to provide RDRAND support.
I will fight tooth and nail to keep our industry from unionizing. One can simply look at the public school system and how well it performs with one of the strongest unions in the country. You don't have well paid teachers (except those who have been teaching for a long time, at the detriment to new teachers),you don't serve the children well and you now have to navigate both a career and politics of a union.

Unions benefit those who play the social game more so the job requirements, as it allows for an alternative power structure to be climbed.

Those are the exact people I love being able to avoid in the software field.
Right, so this is about supporting legacy hardware. Nobody today is designing a chip with IP that cannot support an AxADDR width that is equal to the architecture's bit width (64 or 32), right? Right? shakes fist in rage
Convincing staunch anti union folks that a union would help them is like trying to convince a Southern Baptist god doesn't exist. You don't bother, you organize folks who recognize the benefit and understand the tradeoffs, people who don't think of them as individual exceptionalists.

Wanting better pay and benefits for workers is an agenda, and if making that clear isn't enough (even after accounting for a cons of collective bargaining, union costs, etc), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Jefferson Lab | https://jlab.org | Newport News, VA | Full time, term-limited, VISA | Onsite | Junior | C++

My group at Jefferson Lab is hiring an entry-level software engineer. Jefferson Lab is a national lab in Newport News, Virginia, which specializes in experimental nuclear physics.

The main requirement is that you are familiar (and moderately productive!) with C++. You'd get to contribute to science and work with cutting edge physics simulations, neural nets, and GPUs. Note that this position is term-limited to one year, so it is ideal for a recent CS graduate or someone debating doing a PhD program.

We'd be particularly excited to talk to anyone who knows something about static or dynamic program analysis. Functional programming experience is also a plus.

[Job ID: 12412](https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_jeffersonla...)
Ask HN: Which companies train junior engineers with freelance exp and no degree
I was wondering which companies train freelance/self taught developers to get their first software engineering role who have not pursued a degree in computer science?

For example, say someone started learning computer science fundamentals, iOS development, and has published 10 apps to the App Store. Say they've been doing this for 3 years and can pretty much code anything you tell them to. But they don't know how to do unit tests and other things you learn on the job. Are there any companies willing to pay ~$20/hr-$25/hr training and possibly doing some real publishable work?
European Govs have more regulation in place to allow for unions. That is why there are more widespread than in the US.

Many of the union-busting activities American companies casually do would be flat out illegal in th EU.
I'm looking at a population schedule and I'm wondering what "W(C)" means under race?
That's a nice car. The range is a bit limited, but I could see myself buying it. Thanks for this info!
I have a 74. My wife used it to go camping and I guess I didn't explain the starting procedure well enough because it was second nature. She ended up having to get a jump after flooding it and killing the battery. Oops.
Wait, milk?
I'm saying the team should quit and spin out an open source company to work on pytorch (same for react). They'd get much more buy in from the other big tech companies (like amazon) by being a neutral party and not part of Facebook.

There's a ton of companies that would be happy to pay them to keep working on it.
No, the PRC is a model of a digitally-forward authoritarian regime and we should be shocked that a Western Democracy is behaving similarly.
Reading this out loud is incredibly difficult. Discovered it in my Sophomore year of College, and it took my two roommates and I about 45 minutes to read through the whole thing out loud because we were laughing so hard.
Let's just say I got rolled. :-)
Modulation is everything. High tension lines at constant frequency (or DC) produce very different effects than varying fields.
Yeah, from my perspective this article is deceptive clickbait. I was expecting something along the lines of 19th century US president James Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. I wouldn't have clicked if the title had accurately conveyed the article's contents to me.
Oh hey, i think there was a post about Fossil here on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30815693

It is most certainly a nice project and i'm all for alternatives to Git, but for many people having to give up their current tooling (e.g. IDE integrations, specific tools for graphical graphs, interactive staging of chunks, rebasing etc.) would probably be a non starter, since it's another source control system entirely, instead of a front-end/enhancement of what Git provides (e.g. ticketing, wikis, merge/pull request discussions, CI etc.).

Here's hoping that Fossil has a nice future ahead of it, there is certainly a number of projects that would benefit from it's relative simplicity when compared to Git!

Also their docs are pretty simple to understand: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/permutedindex.html

Though personally i really liked the more visual nature of SourceHut's page: https://sourcehut.org/
Hi! (Another one of the Spin authors here)

We have been talking about the efficiency/footprint thing a lot. So many things sit idle in the datacenter, consuming electricity without a good reason. WebAssembly is so fast to startup and shutdown that we think we can actually make a sizable dent into amount of compute required (and hence, amount of electricity consumed) if we can build this tooling right.

Spin took a first pass at this, but there is more we want to do to boost that efficiency even more! Hopefully in a few months I will be able to write a blog post with some progress on this.
4043 bytes of 8086 emu: https://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M115_bomb
Yes, there are April Fools RFCs every year, and they're usually pretty great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...

There are some other great ones like "TCP/IP over Carrier Pidgeon" and "Scenic IPv6 Routing"
It's definitely an April Fool's.
Hahaha, even on old muscle cars with good parts availability, and only 4 moving parts in the first place, something is virtually always broken. Keeping a german car of this era functioning is a sisyphean task.
A sibling to the XDR offering pro motion would be 10k without the stand.

I think tech reviews of anything monitor and graphics related on the Apple side of things have generally been bad takes for a while. (panning of Blackmagic eGPUs, XDR)

I think people got confused by the availability of retina displays on iPhone/iPad and laptops.
> mistake is thinking a large corporation gives a single flying fuck about you as an individual employee

You aren't negotiating against the corporation. You're negotiating against the people who determine your compensation. (This is a seemingly-minor, oft-overlooked and enormously-important distinction.)

Many on this forum have leverage over those people. (Some over the corporation.) For those people, unionization could be a net negative. Recognizing that doesn't mean the idea isn't worth pursuing.
And we have a judiciary who can —still, for the moment— make and break statue based on their rulings via appeals and the Supreme Court. The government does not have carte blanche any more than a government already does. The last 2 years has shown us they're pretty much a law unto themselves.

I hope this case is appealled, and the law thoroughly weighed against human rights.
> to require a security engineer to give additional signoff on top of a normal review

Like this?

> cc @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/76318#...

I do so desperately hope it doesn't come across as throwing shade, because hindsight-2020-etc, but I do also think there was some kind of weird process breakdown here because this change somehow slipped past a "4 eyes" and an appsec review phase
I suspect you already know this, but other readers might be interested to know that in Haskell you can also use the ST monad which can do local (actual) mutation which is guaranteed to not escape the function's scope.

(Of course you can only access the actual local state and not do I/O or anything like that.)
Regarding citizens united, is that really something that only came to light in oral arguments? Isn't this a criticism that the opposition would raise in their own briefing package?

Was the relevance simply the admission that the government didn't have an answer to the criticism?
Persistent data structures are very hard. It's basically impossible to cleanly combine them. E.g. if you have an immutable hashtable that contains immutable lists, and you want to modify a list - how do you know if the inner list changed or not (you don't want to be creating new hashtables if the elements don't change).

They work in the small, but don't truly scale.
I don't see it that way. As far as I'm aware there's no way to switch to one of your iTerm screens using the keyboard without raising all 50 up to the foreground.

In most cases I have several windows open but I want to cycle between 2 or 3. I find Windows-like window switching much better, but I guess your mileage may vary.
Good luck with that, comrade
It keeps the riff-raff away when a new gitlab 0day appears in some obscure public/guestuser visible API
Just wait until you find out about the "Hate Crime and Public Order Act" passed in Scotland.
From https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-20671184 ::

> I log shell commands with a script called usrlog.sh that creates [per-]$USER and per-virtualenv tab-delimited [$_USRLOG] logfiles with unique per-terminal-session identifiers [$_TERM_ID] and ISO8601 timestamps; so it's really easy to just grep for the apt/yum/dnf commands that I ran ad-hoc when I should've just taken a second to create an Ansible role with `ansible-galaxy init ansible-role-name ` and referenced that in a consolidated system playbook with a `when` clause. https://westurner.github.io/dotfiles/usrlog.html#usrlog

stid \#tutorial; echo "$_TERM_ID"

tail -n11 $_USRLOG
ut -n11

grep "$_TERM_ID" "$_USRLOG"
usrlog_grep "$_TERM_ID"
ug "$_TERM_ID"

usrlog_grep_parse "$_TERM_ID"
ugp "$_TERM_ID" # `type ugp`

usrlog.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/us...
Correct. I don't care that other people don't learn to bargain their own highly paid, highly in-demand jobs to be even better.
I am a Sway (i3 wayland) user and was forced into a MacBook for work. You're going to find Amethyst (and MacOS in general) deeply disappointing. It tries its best but MacOS is a very toxic place for enabling power users.
This comment betrays that you don't really understand how the legal process works. There's often hundreds and hundreds of pages of briefs that go along with every case, and the oral argument is usually not even that relevant; it's mostly a formality in many cases. It's what gets the headlines, but the "meat" of the case is hardly the oral argument.
read research papers, practice estimation
they post one every year, iirc

one classic: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149
Microwaves are not, in fact, known to be safe. About all we can have confidence about is that entirely unmodulated low-power microwaves seem to have little effect, and the modulation already used for the various generations of cell phones cause not very much trouble.

We have certainty that exposure to some E-M field modulations have profound effects.
Many countries, including many in Europe have some very serious, heavy racial issues that are both more ingrained than those of the U.S and in quite a few cases more violent or openly discriminatory. The U.S. however is generally at or close to the center of global media familiarity and attention, so naturally, the theme of its own racial issues is disproportionately magnified.

How many major countries are overtly ethnically homogeneous in the world, willfully closed or hostile to anything even resembling the mass immigration from all corners that the U.S has welcomed for many decades with only moderate tension?

How many people in European states will openly speak of certain groups, like gypsies, muslims and so forth with extremely derogatory words, but barely be called out on it by anybody? I've seen it many times, and go back to my point above, that in the U.S. the same things would and do simply get more intense media attention.

The U.S absolutely does have a number of very serious racial conflicts simmering at all times, but all things considered, I'd say the country does a remarkably good job of usually keeping them from getting worse, regardless of its high tolerance for free speech of even the most offensive kind.
This sounds a bit defeatist.

Yes, it won't be perfect at first, but there is always a chance of reducing the barrier to entry. The lower it is, the more % of users / developers / apps are going to use it.
I have a '88 Ford Falcon ute which is mercifully easy to fix and parts are plentiful. I absolutely recommend old cars to everyone, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread they build character. But I mostly recommend the ones with lots of parts. Not just factory but cars that had a strong aftermarket in their day.
I can empathize this, but I think that limited human mental and emotional bandwidth requires some kind of compartmentalization.

If I am trying to do my day job and can't avoid getting drawn into political debates, that's exhausting.

If I share an interesting article about new Javascript features, it doesn't mean I'm either endorsing or ready to debate the author's climate-change-denial posts from years back: that's also exhausting.

If I go to read fan theories of my favorite books, only to have the conversations focus on the author's controversial Tweets du jour, that's exhausting.

If I'm watching the Superbowl, and everyone keeps interrupting the game to tell me how awful a person one of the key players is, that's exhausting.

Granted, I do think you're totally right that there are places to discuss these things, and I don't know of a one-size-fits-all approach here. That said, the "don't-let-my-peas-touch-my-mashed-potatoes" (new phrase for me, and I love it) instinct is quite reasonable, since otherwise life becomes an infinite stew of pessimism and critique.
> What if your boss fired you over Zoom randomly without any recourse?

They can do that even with a union. The difference with a union is that they can collectively stop working if the employer violated a clause like "union members must be fired with reasoning pre-approved by the union", and then the employer either needs to find new employees for every person that was in the union or needs to re-negotiate terms with the union, likely including reparations ie. re-hiring the coworker.

A union makes sense for anyone that is working for a wage but that doesn't mean people have to want to be in one. Adding a union adds a bunch of extra politics and brainpower to the advent of getting your job done, and that's not for everyone.
Oberlin College Loses Its Appeal
Another good one that is totally harmless and entirely functional is 1149: IP over avian carriers.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149
>He explained the reason unions in the US were shrinking is that they are too powerful. They control huge pension and healthcare portfolios and can completely control the relationship with employers, especially in closed shop situations.

This is interesting. I'm a government employee with a union, a pension, health insurance, the whole deal. The union does not control the pension or healthcare in any way whatsoever.

The governmental entity that I'm employed by, my employer, controls both, subject to collective bargaining to some extent. That is, my contract says I can join the pension, that I pay X% into the pension, that I can also join a 401k-style program if I wish, I'd pay Y% in that case. But it doesn't say anything about the operation of the pension or offer any real control. Same with my healthcare - it needs to meet certain criteria (e.g., premiums will be so many dollars for single coverage, employer must pay X% of actuarial value, etc.)

So, who are these unions who actually have union-run pensions and healthcare plans?