skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"The EU is doing the right thing though. Lead is bad for us and cumulative. And RoHS was about a lot more than just solder."

If you're worried about lead used in electronics and electrical systems, the focus should be lead-acid batteries, which use >10x more lead than circuit assemblies ever did. Lead-acid batteries were, however exempted from RoHS, while circuit assemblies were not.
I believe the correct term is "financial masochist". Who are we to kink shame?
Wow, can you say what team/area you're in? Legitimately would love to transfer over if i have the right skills -- I'm a sys dev engineer at Amazon, but am working long hours, getting burned out, and paid way less.
I wonder if in predominantly black countries, darkening the skin tones of white applicants would be considered beautifying.
Hobby gourmet mushroom grower here. For gourmet mushrooms you use about 60 percent water. For this purpose it is probably lower. Many products require many times their weight in water; this is not that bad. Mushrooms care more about competing bacteria and fungi than impurities... I imagine pasteurized groundwater or rainwater would be good enough for this. Drying and killing the mycelium could be energy intensive depending on the local climate. Maybe they recapture most of the water during the bake... It would already be sterile.
«Reasonably priced» very probably just meant "a price closer to their individual potential buyers' attributed value". That «LCD/OLED» will be cheaper does not affect that.
> It's basically impossible to build them out of wood without lining them with something which may have negative health effects to humans or plants.

There are plenty of known-safe materials to line garden beds with. Even unlined treated timber has been shown to be safe with only tiny trace amount of treatment making it into the plant. You might be being too paranoid for your own good.
Doesn't this model fail to account for seasonal variations in the locus of the sun? The optimal angle will vary across the year, whatever the latitude.

Maybe I'm missing something, but i would use a simpler algorithm which doesn't need ML. On day 0, plug in the latitude and allow the system to traverse the range of angles, finding the optimal one at the time - ie: yielding maximum power. Let it run 3-5 times during the day, then fit those points to the theoretical path of the sun across the sky. Now your system is calibrated, without needing any other input. As the seasons change, the system will always know which angle to face for optimal power.
Still the thing you manage to cool down (via radiation in the end, of course) will stay cold as it won't pick up more heat from the environment so easily in vacuum.
> If you don't respect the GDPR, don't have a representative/establishment in EU/EEA... I haven't heard of anything like this happening before, but an EU judge could sanction your company. And Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, or any other payment service provider would abide to.

That's interesting: Sanctioning you by going after business partners. That could be messy, and could spark laws about that here were a European court to actually try it. How much power do we want foreign courts to have over our citizens?
There is absolutely zero need for USB-A. None. It does nothing whatsoever that USB-C can't do, and there are ton of things that USB-C can do better. There is no need for two USB "mid sized" plug standards - and obviously USB-C is now the dominant. Almost every single peripheral, device, component, that can run on USB-A runs on USB-C. And there is a huge contingent of devices that could never run on USB-A. As soon as everyone has agreed that USB-A is dead, completely dead, people will cease manufacturing USB-A peripherals, which further enhances the value of a port that almost everyone is now using for everything.

Honestly - the USB-A port should have been wiped out a couple years ago - the only reason it didn't is that everyone has this massive legacy of USB-A ports (Hotels, Airports, Airplanes, etc...) that people plug into, which kept them holding onto those legacy peripherals longer than they should have. Also - some weird hardware dongles that haven't been upgraded to USB-C.

What we need to do is start seeing how quickly Hotels/Cars/Airplanes/Airports/... start switching over to USB-C. When that happens there will be this massive cascade effect - it will be exponential:

2022 - ~0% of legacy is USB C
2023 - 1% legacy USB-C
2024 - 2% legacy USB-C
2025 - 4% legacy USB-C
2026 - 8% legacy USB-C
2027 - 16% legacy USB-C
2028 - 32% legacy USB-C
2029 - 64% legacy USB-C
2030 - 90% legacy USB-C
2031 - 95% legacy USB-C

I'm guessing by 2032, nobody will be carrying legacy USB-A peripherals anymore. Only wildcard will be if there is a USB-next that will replace C. Please don't let that happen before USB-C takes over the world.
There is definitely (well, anecdotally) negative bias against "well put together" attractive engineers. Picture a software engineer, male or female, chances are your stereotype isn't a glamorous person in a flashy suit with an expensive haircut and grooming. And if you saw someone like that, you'd be suspicious of their technical ability. It's a sterotype, but it's not all that weird.

I don't think it's necessarily about being attractive with all else being equal, it's more about the level of effort in one's appearance. Once that is accounted for, it's probably likely there is some of the usual bias towards better looking people.
iPad is the best selling tablet in the world and steadily taking over more laptop functions.
Odyssey One series by Evan Currie (especially the later books).

The ‘Honorverse’ books by David Weber has some good battles as well.
It's entirely possible to chase both of those things. :)
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from that. I'm well aware a fiscal year doesn't need to match a calendar year, but I've never heard of a company starting prior to the calendar year, and usually it's at least month-aligned. (Almost sort of one of those "assumptions programmers make about time" article bullets…)

Like, given that the fiscal year doesn't have to match the calendar year, why not slip some leap days or not slip some leap days to at least align subsequent FYs to a month? (If not a quarter, since they seem pretty close but not quite.)
When I was in England for a short time I was tasked with screening candidates for employment (software engineers). As an American, I was taken aback by most of the resumes including photos. That's just not done here in the US. Some American HR departments might even send back your resume and ask you to resubmit it without a photo. It seems to be standard practice in Europe, perhaps to convince you that the person interviewing is the person associated with the resume.

Of course, attractiveness factors in highly once you get your foot in the door, even if people try to act like it doesn't. Even straight male engineers seem to think more highly of attractive male engineers, just because of the "coolness" factor they may bring. There's really just not a lot of information gleaned from an interview beyond whether the person has the basic minimum knowledge for the field they are in, and these soft things take an outsize portion of the score.

Things may be changing or may be different in big orgs, I don't know. I was only familiar with SME hiring.
German and Austrian energy firms seek to meet Putin’s terms for gas payments
I use my sd card slot for additional storage by buying this: https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Expansion-MacBook-...

I use it for noncritical data because the sd card is slow and it could fail. Mainly recent downloads or video files.
I couldn't prettify my mug with 1 million filters.

Hiyo!!!
This idea that people voted for what the West Coast became makes no sense. There were always many issues in flux and various camps involved. Ronald Reagan lay the foundation for what is there today. And many of the disgusting wash outs that accumulate in the gutters fled from conservative parts of the South and Midwest when the mills and small manufacturing got outsourced. Take some responsibility for your refugees mister careful with cultural changes integration master.
Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident
The marginal cost of writing and creative artwork is even lower than software, not being able to profit from Mickey Mouse doesn't create significant harm to society.
Did that actually work or did foreign buyers create local LLC’s to purchase property instead and now you just sell the LLC and avoid the property changing ownership
People can fo math. No one will take the pay cut it means to commute every day to an office if remote jobs are available. No one cares about the investors real estate depreciation.
The strongest argument for a built-in SD card slot is it can give you something like 1TB of cheap additional storage as well as serving as a backup when traveling. Probably not a super-common use case though.

(Yes, photographers use SD cards although they often connect cameras directly and USB SD readers are cheap.)
Look up “zip system 2.0 Matt Risinger” on YouTube.

Seems like the best available today.
Link to the actual repo: https://github.com/WolfireGames/overgrowth
> Nowadays, there's lots of folks that think "CRT" is a political hotbutton topic.

Well, who wants big government shoving their noses into how efficient our screens are, and whether they have leaded glass or not. :P
There's a time and place for all techniques. Obviously, the "most efficient" form of memory allocation is none-at-all. If you can statically allocate everything at the beginning, then that wins.

My example of 3999MBs of mallocs() followed by garbage collection is overly simplified. In the real world, if you knew such a common pattern existed, then you'd use a 3999MB vector/array instead. (or if a linked-list were really needed, perhaps Knuth's "Dancing Links" example is best).

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The issue is that the programmer nay not know the patterns of malloc/free for their code, and yet still wants O(1) performance for insertions / deletions to the middle of the chain. EX: the "Rope" data-structure for text editors is a glorified linked list. Each link has variable length, and represents a "cut" portion of the text that the user has entered. You can move the cursor and "insert" new text anywhere in the rope rather easily. For example, the sentence "This is a sample sentence" could be represented as: "Thi" -> "s is a sam" -> "ple sente" -> "nce".

If the user changes it to "This is a silly sample sentence", you'd split "s is a sam" into "s is a " -> "silly " -> "sam" ->...

"moving" the cursor left-or-right traverses the linked list. Since the "cursor" of the text-editor only exists in one location, its not very difficult to handle.

> when you could just free() the entire hunk of memory at once

In this rope example, you don't know which bits of the text will be free'able ahead of time. Only the human knows what parts they plan to delete.
The subtitle's better, this is specifically about hourly workers who struggle due to not being assigned enough hours:

"Employers often give people less than 40 weekly hours, leading to resignations and more trouble finding workers"
I remember stumbling across a "beauty rating" site that had an ML model trained to rate photos on beauty.

At the risk of sounding conceited, when it gave me (black male) a bad score, I knew something had to be wrong. I went and searched for photos of famous black males generally accepted as attractive and noticed it also gave them poor scores.

That gave me a hunch about what was going on, and lo and behold: taking the same exact photos, but processed to black and white and brightened, resulted in extremely high scores.

The model was essentially measuring how light your skin is.
Why Chinese Culture Has Not Conquered Us All
The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies
There's an important distinction that this article doesn't make: features that exist entirely within the car and that the manufacturer already paid for in full when they made it (e.g., heated seats and key fob remote start), vs. features that involve external entities and do have real ongoing costs (e.g., with OnStar, paying the salary of the advisers you have on call, and paying for the car's cellular data). Only the former is evil.
I agree they are selling MBPs like hotcakes. M1 Max MBPs are no where to find and have been in backlog for months now.
Its crazy that this didnt hit the front page of HN before the verdict.

> That prompted over 4,000 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community members to rally in defense of the GNOME Foundation, raising over $150,000 to defend against the bogus claim
You either patent it or the idea by itself isn't worth much.
> Devices stopped being shipped with USB-A a long time ago now.

Are you talking about Macs or devices in general? My 2021 laptop has an SD card slot, x2 USB A and x2 USB C (well, Thunderbolt 4). Despite how much I like USB C (all the devices I take with me have it), USB A is still here and will be for quite a while.

Oh, I forgot to mention that my laptop also has (full-sized!) HDMI and a headphone jack.
I have a hard time believing that people use SD cards more frequently than they do USB-A. Sure, photographers probably get good use out of it, but developers, students, content creators who aren't shooting with DSLR, animators, musicians, 3D artists, regular artists and video editors will probably never touch it.

There are plenty of fairly common USB-A peripherals still in use anyways. A lot of audio interfaces, mice, keyboards and webcams rely on low-bandwidth but ubiquitous ports like USB-A. Apple and their pride would never put one on a modern Mac, but we're really at an impasse: neither side will adopt either standard, so it's more likely that we'll simply see wireless peripherals gain popularity instead. Not exactly bad, but kinda an asinine take for a company that just released a professional desktop computer with USB-A, but refused to add it to their laptops.
Generally, European colonizers imported their anti-dark skin biases (colourism) to their African colonies and they persist to this day among the black populations.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/04/11/critical-reflections-on-eth...
Yes, though I've only ever seen people use the term "dual writing" to refer to something at a higher-than-DB-level.

The way I've done this involves logical replication also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31087197
Is this a serious question?
Snapchat has 300 Million Daily Active Users with a user base that skews affluent and young (globally). That's ~$1.50 per user which is relatively low monetization rate compared to rivals.
But it is very common to go search out someone's LinkedIn, which does have a profile picture.
Isn't one already happening, on land and in the oceans?

I don't think we need to wait 300 years and for a bunch more warming, the future is already here.
You might be right on corporate bullshit sites, there are a few that can burn CPU(Usually without any actual content worth viewing....). I guess they are meant to be shown at a meeting on a high end business laptop?

But I think the vast majority of people would be upset if sites didn't keep you logged in and there were no web apps.

It's even worse if you prefer FOSS and use web apps, since Chromium no longer has password sync, Brave and FF block advanced features, and if you use BitWarden it takes a few extra clicks.
So, I'm the original lead developer of this project.

This was meant to be a followup to the original version of Orbit which now lives on as orbit-legacy on GitHub.

Unfortunately other priorities have meant this project hasn't proceeded in the past couple of years. I wouldn't really recommend anyone use either of them.

However, the ideas and implementation both for Orbit Legacy and the early version of Orbit 2 contain some ideas and concepts that may be useful to folks.

I still think there is immense value in virtual actors (Orleans from Microsoft is one great alternative for .NET, and Dapr also looks interesting) but I can't say if we'll ever get back to it.
Foxconn?
As a founding investor it has been great to watch the quick progression of the team.

What do you think about the power balance between employee and employer of the average endpoint management tool today?
*SOME authors expressed struggles and this made the news.

There are many, many successful authors. Some of them, it just flows. One of the best selling non fiction authors in the world over the last 10 years is a friend of mine. He doesn’t describe it as a struggle.
Where are people moving?
Retail's not in great shape, either.
> Will a dude with cheeto dust on his star wars t-shirt give a fair shake to a good looking woman who is wearing business attire and makeup

The Cheeto-dust legible-t-shirt look is unfashionable in tech and probably not a great idea. Been true since the late '00s at least. I think the put-together woman wins in that match up.

> compared to another dude in a t-shirt?

Depends. Is the t-shirt $150 retail, made of merino wool, and sporting a small brand logo that the interviewer will recognize from the gear lists on that minimalism/travel blog they really like?
What does this have to do with my comment? Or are you saying it should be a gift to go “some people smoke but you shouldn’t smoke because it’s breaking the rules and yes they are breaking the rules and no I can’t make them stop” is really fun. A blast.
There was a "leak" of internal HR documents etc about a year ago saying just that. It's on HN somewhere, but how to search for it I do not know.
For a workload that is optimized on M1 for 10 more watts you get way faster and better functionality than a 2 yo M1 that uses 40 watts and cant even export h264 format video faster than a 5 year old computer.
I've definitely noticed how lead-free solder looks/feel much more brittle. So the EU is basically guilty of vastly increasing E-Waste for most of the electronics made in the last 20 years (which is probably is more than we've made in the time before).
Given how China repeatedly covered up COVID from early on...I think the starting point is assuming that the numbers coming out of there are not accurate.

> this level of spread would be trivial to infer from antibody tests of people traveling to China.

Who is doing that testing?
> ... what the legal consequences could/would be ...

I would expect a judge to determine that someone has exceeded their authorized access to a computer and, as such, their behavior is in violation of the CFAA.

(Granted, this is actually clearly in the spirit of that particular law. Not saying I agree or disagree with it but there you go.)

> ... especially when you go to resell the vehicle later.

That reminds me of the Tesla that wrongly had a feature enabled, which was then disabled after the car was resold as a used car.
apple doesn't sell unbundled chips. Adding a motherboard and RAM would still be less than $4K for most configs.
How safe are safety messages?
There might have been a major personal life event in there....
> Developing countries need not repeat the same mistakes as the developed world. We have better technology and far more options now.

They can only do so if we help them. Providing the technology FOR FREE.

Human race is slowly outgrowing the concept of money. Current system does not fit into the future we have ahead of us. And quite a bit of high profile ppl see that and are afraid of losing power.
Climate change could spark animal-to-human pandemics
The owner of https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2rwhc6/rothschild-patent-i... seems to run a whole slew of patent trolling shell companies (40 in total or so). They'll probably just make another shell company and keep going.
I don't, but it's probably because I've spent most of my career being the guy who did that part.

I'm old (52), so while I did code initially in my career, I was tempted away ($$) into roles where the fact that I'm also good at written and spoken communication was part of the remit. Being able to communicate with users AND understand how software is actually written turns out to be a remunerative skill.

Like coding, though, it's not something just everyone can do well. Also like coding, you have to WANT to do it. If you're pushed into a role like this and you don't like it or don't want to do it, everyone will suffer -- you, the users, and the rest of the dev team. It's a recipe for sadness.
I checked the demo videos, it looks like it has the same problems I have with most NewRelic competitors: Too much focus on traces.

In a high-throughput distributed system, traces start being mostly noise due to random latency spikes which are usually not very interesting.

NewRelic is a lot more focused on the average but it breaks it down nicely so that you know where to start optimizing code. I rarely look at the p95 traces to do that.
Life's much more complicated than the binary lens of chasing money vs chasing projects.

People change over time, someone might have a family, they might encounter a medical situation, they may have student loan debt. There are millions of scenarios which could cause a person to choose working for a pay bump.

My point is none of these reasons will sour the culture as much as management putting employees through a zero sum, hunger games like scenario.

At the end of the day all of this stems Bezos's belief that employees are all inherently lazy, this trickles down to all the executives.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...
Negative points and no discussion of why? The quote was in the first of the linked articles.
The Death of Agile (Allen Holub) (2015)
So, the thing specifically about ? in a language with Result is that you can read some code that uses it and not worry about what happens for Error cases if that's not currently your focus - the question marks aren't a "Look at me!" focus the way something like try-catch is.

But if you are wondering about Error cases, they are there to see when you're looking for them because that ? while unobtrusive is something you can look for.

I'm sure in most IDEs you could have it highlight ? in a "Looking for error handling" mode if that's what you want.

Note that Rust does not consider control flow to be something the core language owns exclusively, you can return core::ops::ControlFlow to say actually I also have an opinion about whether you should keep going, this can make sense for a closure or function intended to be called inside an iterator or other loop context. Some of the ergonomics for this aren't finished, but what is there is already useful where a Result would work but is ugly because your early exit scenario isn't in fact an error at all.
It's an explanation for why our anecdotal intuition concludes what it does here.

I think you're misreading the point of my comment.
>I hope they are ready somehow.

It seems unlikely. It's more likely they'll find a way to use the noise as a revenue source of some sort.
My hometown is as conservative as it gets, yet there are agressive panhandlers and homeless everywhere.
Cities are not ruined by politics, or politicians, but by the people who live there. There is no 'greater force', or 'them' to blame.
expand to the next planet?
why would a banana have something called 3-methylbutanal in it? Oh wait, everything is made of up chemicals...

https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredie...
Germany Drops Opposition to Embargo on Russian Oil
One of my colleagues has developed a sophisticated Data generator addressing the needs of workloads/algorithms which work based on the characteristics of the data.

https://github.com/jssprasanna/redgene

ReDGene - Relational Data Generator is a tool aimed at taking control over the data generation with being able to generate column vectors in a table with required type, interval, length, cardinality, skewness and constraints like Primary Key, Foreign Key, Foreign Key(unique 1:1 mapping), Composite Primary Key and Composite Foreign Key.

And this is DB agnostic, it generates data in the form of flat files which can be imported into any database which supports importing data from flat files.