skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for mentioning my GSI ^^

With regards to Unihertz, I'll add on top of what you said, that they are hiding behind ""crowdfunding"" to give non-existent customer support, while devices have already passed Google certifications months ahead (so my guess is that the device is actually already produced when they start the crowdfunding). In my case, the smartphone I ordered never arrived, and I never got any compensation for it, even though

However, hardware-wise, they aren't too bad, so once you managed to receive it, and you flashed a GSI on it, it's a rather acceptable experience. I know someone daily-driving a GSI (I think it's ProtonAOSP?) on Unihertz Jelly 2, and they are happy with it.

In my opinion, Unihertz small phones are fun, but /too/ small. As the article says, target would be 5-5.5" borderless, 4.5" in Jelly2's format, and I couldn't find any model that match. Closest is Xiaomi Qin 2 Pro (I have it, the form factor is really awesome), but it is too thin and thus its battery is abysmal. (If anyone is interested in Xiaomi Qin 2 Pro, yes it can run GSI just fine, but it requires a bit of work - feel free to send me an email for help)
In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)
I thought this said "Hellinabox" and I was like, "yep"
Could be worse for the horses, I guess...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/iceland-...
Love this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha
What makes you think quality standards have gone down?

From what I have seen, there's two reasons people think this. One is that modern houses are extremely well insulated. Which means that if you drill into a wall or just tap it with your hand, it sounds hollow, because it is rammed with cavities full of insulation. People have a "perception" that somehow brick and mortar is magically of higher quality and solid sounds better - even though functionally it is worse, especially with the way heating bills are going.

The other is just timber framed construction. This is an objection particularly in England - in Scotland timber framed buildings have been common since the 60s, in England it is realtively recent practice. Add to that, modern builders understand exactly what size of wood to use to bear loads calculated for a once in 200 year storm event per regulations, and don't just whack in huge beams because they have no clue anymore - it means there's a perception again that older is higher quality (no matchstick wood in them!), especially in areas with a weird prejudice towards masonry or brick.

But having experience living in 18th, 19th and mid 20th century houses in the UK - I'd take a new build any day. At least it generally won't have damp, a leaky roof, tiles blowing off every time there's a storm, lead paint/pipes and a colleciton of horrific DIY mistakes inherited from previous owners. Or incredibly cold and draughty rooms - some houses I just shut the door on the cavernous living room from Seoptember till May, it was too cold and too expensive to heat.
Just as a value comparison - the Rigol DS1054Z is a real 4-channel oscilloscope and is $429 MSRP. The target markets are different, of course.
I think this is a smart move. Your examples are cases where fresh tomatoes outperform canned. Sauces, not so much
It's just a traditional learning curve. More similar to panel than cmos.

The reason we are getting steady cost reduction is steady volume increase in production.

For decades we have been massively under-served in PV production volume. Even now, we are still somewhere in the middle of that S-curve.

I haven't seen such data, but panel in the early C20th probably followed a similar learning curve to PV now.
The numerous spiders you swallow in your sleep will take care of that.
Happy birthday libera chat! I use matrix to connect there because im a heretic, but im glad i can do that.
I wasn't aware that ahrefs was supporting Ocaml projects.

Jane Street obviously comes first to mind. Good to see more companies develop the ecosystem. It used to be a very niche, esoteric language.

I discovered Ocaml whilst learning Isabelle and suddenly fusing OOP and functional programming seemed elegant, whereas Scala had made it seem scary.
I look forward to reading the completed post, I think there is a lot of good stuff in the draft.

What I noticed from the draft: There's nothing obvious about Google per se, in terms of the material. It could be company X you've been working at. Also, insights cumulatively cover junior dev, senior dev, and some manager experiences. So, audience for this particular piece was not clear to me.

I am surmising this piece complements your "Efficient Engineering" work-in-progress. I'll be curious to read that too.
Why not Java/Kotlin AOT via GraalVM ?
> the long term goal for Google, Apple and Microsoft is no extensions at all.

Apple added extensions to Safari iOS last year and added WebExtensions API to Safari Mac the previous year, so that's demonstrably untrue of Apple.
Every once in a while I must succumb my natural aversion towards marketers and give a tip of the hat. This is definitely one of them. Absolutely brilliant and creative thinking!
The obvious alternative is glass. Although it might take a vary long time to degrade its less of a problem if it doesn't.
Not OP, but doesn't availing any particular tiny slice of all knowledge on the web to you within ~1.5 seconds, by inferring your intent incredibly accurately from a few words, count as "building robust systems ... that push the envelopes of what humanity is capable of"?

Or, how about a video distribution network that serves more than 600,000 hours of video every minute, and manages to do that such that, every time service deteriorates on my 4G connection in a poor country, it's the last website (even considering text only websites) to stop working?
Although the article's content is way more fun, when I initially saw the title I thought the article was going to be about a phishing email somebody had received with bad spelling/grammar.
Can anyone summarize the events and the (non?)explanation from Google? That thread was quite long.
Health of Pug dogs in the UK: disorder predispositions and protections
I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard.

2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response.

3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.
It's obfuscated by splitting the components into multiple cryptocurrencies with multiple actors, but that's what's going on. People were staking UST for 19.5% returns, and if you cut through the fluff, those returns came from later people putting their money in hoping to get those returns themselves. (and because UST was a stablecoin those returns were (ostensibly) in dollars, not just inflation of the coin value)
Google has an anti-privacy agenda. We need to force Google to give up it's monopoly on Android.
”... the Pug has diverged substantially from mainstream dog breeds and can no longer be considered as a typical dog ...”

Oof.
Five-digit year notation seems more like a gimmick instead of something useful given that four-digit notation (2022) will suffice for at least 5000 more years.

Future generations will probably come-up with something more clever than a Five-digit year notation.
You can just ban it after a phase out period where it is made progressively more expensive. If the choice is to spend $0.20 more on glass or try to pass $8 on to the consumer then the merchant will choose not to commit suicide.
Low barrier to entry is great for adoption. Has nothing to do with the quality of the resulting product and often it is inverse.
Google doesn't give a f. That's what is happening.

This is what happens when you are a monopoly and there are no competitiors in your space. To simply stop caring about being good.
Apple said to be testing coloured e-ink displays for a future foldable iPhone
From what I can tell they weren't promising a guaranteed return. Although their landing page used to not say "up to 15%" they had a section in their knowledgebase saying 15% APY is just an upper bound.
> Do you think there's a chance that Chrome will delay their timetable?

Possibly. Google has delayed their timetable in the past for a number of Chrome changes.

> What's really frustrating is that users don't realize how much work goes into just keeping your head above water in the Chrome Webstore.

Agreed. Also, removing Chrome Web Store payments was a huge blow to extensions.
It's because you're special. They're in deep and they need The One Who Can Save Us. You are The Chosen One.
Is the audio beyond fucked or is it just my machine?
This is textbook anti-competitive behaviour.
Aging kinda sucks too, but alas it is biological reality.

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao

The infrastructure required to support these schemes - networks, energy, hardware - are all firmly under the control of those who have a firmer grasp on political realities on planet Earth than 'crypto' enthusiasts.

Seriously hate to break these facts to you, but past/present/future reality is about systems of "authority", and not systems of "trust". An 'authority' gives you a digital ID, a social security card, a driver's license, etc. And this authority has political power and as to how it maintains its power, what Mao said.

[p.s. Let's grant that Unicorns are 'prettier' than generic horses. Fine. That does not alter the fact that unicorns are fictional. And no, sticking a paper mache horn colored in hashes on a horse does not make it a unicorn. (see 'scam', 'fraud', 'snake oil' for related matters.)]
Here's a good article with various data points on plastic pollution from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
Wow, they also make sure to throw in “digital twin” even if that makes no sense in this context.
Only by generating certificate authorities on the fly. You'd also find fingerprinting attempts in the certificate transparancy log pretty quickly.

I think browser vendors would take action against that stuff. I suppose it's possible for one website to pay a whole bunch of CAs for certificates, but I don't think they'd be able to get enough to actually track anyone.
Many posting responses here are missing that this topic is constrained to _technical interviews_. Not "does communication matter in general" nor even "does communication matter for a developer to be effective".
https://www.jefftk.com/p/ethernet-is-worth-it-for-video-call...
2022 Top Patent List – Based on the quantity of issued U.S. patents each year
Wyoming, followed by Delaware, but save Delaware for the C-Corp when you need formalities from outside capital.

Both offer levels of privacy, Wyoming’s aren't codified they just dont care (and will help you), there all you have to do is just have anyone else sign the organization documents. Your registered agent or your lawyer can.
I guess I'm spoiled from growing up in America, but my pet peeve about old buildings in Europe is that so many of them seem to have super tiny toilets, where there's barely enough room to close the door after you sit down. They make the worst toilets in America seem like luxury mansions in comparison.
Ah you're right, I've never seen anyone wear a mask ever in the past 3 years.
How to interview: Some pointers towards better hiring
Except they don't complain about the same thing.

User "dal" offers a cheaper alternative (indirectly complaining that the Korg one is too expensive), while "blub" talks about that cheaper alternative is cutting corners.

So on talks about the Korg being too expensive, while the other talks about the aliexpress model being too cheap.
Your solution sounds good, but at which point do I integrate it with my FTP account? I have it mounted locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
Excepts unicorns in general are boring.
The time of disruption is long past, the best one can get is to go the academic route in specific domains such as medecine and NLU
>it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.

And you apparently need to train every horse to actually write emails, so it also requires humans to train the horses. How many horses can an Icelandic horse trainer train in a month?

And do we know if all horses can even learn to write emails? What if it requires very smart horses? How many horses are there in Iceland and how many of them are email-grade horses?
Made me chuckle.

For those who don’t understand the reference this is satire coming from the comment on the Dropbox Launch post on HN in 2007 [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I can't tell if you're kidding, maybe trying to emulate the "dropbox comment".

I choose to think you are.
They drank the kool-aid and actually thought that the risk of a depeg was very low, or that they would be able to pull out the money in time?

Hanlon's razor.
You just described banks. Banks take deposits & lend the money out at a higher rate. This is what anchor protocol was all about. Pay high interest, and lend at even higher interest.
We don’t burn oil though. We burn natural gas, in highly-efficient turbines. Burning oil and coal is obsolete technology that we are trying to phase out.
Crypto Exchange FTX Expands into Stock Trading
That should be easy for me. My horses are terrible at email.
> I know this is probably driven by Apple's opposition to anything that looks like dynamic code execution in extensions

No, that's not it. It's mainly just one API, blocking webRequest: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
"Lead" is perfectly legitimate, arguably more so than "lede" which had almost vanished from use before it got revived as an affectation.
People like throwing the word scam around a lot, too. I don't think this was a scam. It was simply a shit financial product based on deluded fundamentals.
It's probably just your machine. Mine seems fine.
.NET still has some catch up to do with JVM eco-system (there is more than OpenJDK out there) in tiered compilation, JIT caches, automatic vectorization (Intel contributed AVX support), devirtualization.

It already happened, that is what JIT caches with PGO feedback are all about, available out of the box in Android (yeah I know it isn't really Java), OpenJDK since version 9, OpenJ9 since ages, and on commercial JDKs like PTC, Jamaica, J/Rockit, since begining of the century.

.NET introduced PGO feedback around .NET Framework 4.6, but until now it has been quite hard to make use of, and there are some improvements coming up on .NET 7 to make it more automatic without the need to explicitly call some runtime APIs.
Should do this for Huckleberrys, they are even better tasting than Blueberries..
Time for relationships and for taking care of your body are essential. I would recommend looking into starting a family if you want to try that mini-game in this life (and plan for divorces and unexpected health issues).

My ideal situation would be to have paid off house, enough money for the kids private school - then spend my time building stuff I want to build irrespective of whether it's useful or not.

Some of these are small, some of these are big. It's easier to make money off the small stuff - they require less resources (time, money) and they either fail or start bringing in money early on.

I got to the point where some projects were able to make more money than I could make working and I used it to try to make a startup around some big ideas (raising money). That failed - and then I lost the revenue from the small stuff as well.

I spent the next years starting small projects bringing little revenue (enough to live on, but not developer salary level) and I coasted through BS jobs that pay well and don't require too much energy. I also relocated to a LCOL, low tax, good quality of life location.

I'm using the money from working to buy / build my dream house and I'm expecting I'll need 2-3 more years of developer salary income to get to the point where I have a paid-off house and enough money in the bank to be safe.

At that point, I think I won't bother anymore with the high paid BS jobs and just try to grow my revenue by building small stuff I care about.
Once I have enough passive revenues to be comfortable, I'll start looking into the big hard ideas.

Something I've been doing for the last 10 years is to note every business / tech idea I have and prioritise them according to various parameters. In that way, whenever I have time for another side project I can pick a small idea and start working on it.
It worked pretty well and it's fun to see old ideas coming back to life (or see someone else in the market bringing them to life) and notice patterns in your ideas.

If you're required to work in order to live, you're missing out on a certain degree of freedom. Building your own project allow you to minimise or delegate that always-on responsibility and give you more choices with what you're going to do with your life.

Your cushy job may be golden handcuffs but it's still handcuffs.
I still have to disagree, it's not because both slow and fast JS engines exist (recent ones vs those from before around 2008), or both slow and fast python engines exist (CPython vs PyPy), that it's not ok to point out that the vanilla official python interpreter is much slower than possible.

Why does one have to be ok with a totally expected speed difference? This is the official interpreter of a language, they give a slow tool by default, the official tool deserves scrutiny.
How many web apps do you want to jump into right from google searches as opposed to the search leading to a landing page explaining WTF the app does.

Or do you mean sites like reddit, facebook, etc. by "apps"? In that case, downrank them seems fine - they can always provide lighter version.
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Figures.
Apparently it's a myth https://www.sleep.org/sleep-questions/debunking-sleep-myths-...
No one can talk to a horse, of course, unless...

https://youtu.be/91LRPk8x14s
The advantage of it being built into the compressor is that you have a standard format that works with the standard tools. If you wrap compressed blocks in a container format everyone using the result needs tools that understand the container layout.

For instance gzip with the --rsyncable option: it helps the rsync process and similar but anything that doesn't care can still unpack the compressed file with any old gzip decompression routine. There is a cost in that the dictionary resets result in a small reduction in compression rates for most content, but you've not introduced a new format.

The bioinformatics people noted above don't use this despite using gzip (instead using a container format for gzip packed blocks) because the result isn't directly seekable even though in theory you could start decompression at any point that the dictionary was reset. You could add an external index file that lists “output byte X is the start of a new cycle, at input byte Y” which would solve that without changing the gzip format itself, which might be how I'd have done things, but there are then issues of keeping the content and index file together, and verifying you have the right index, as data is passed around various places.

The zip format resets compression at file boundaries (each input file is compressed separately) and it keeps an index of where each file starts in the compressed output, hence you can see at the file level and unpack individual files, but doesn't index within each file so you can't use this to seek around the compressed version of a single large file. Resetting compression at file boundaries is why zip is particularly inefficient when compressing many small files, one of the reasons .tar.gz is preferred for source code archives even with the --rsyncable option.

So if it were possible (and practical) with the zstd output format, an indexed version of what gzip --rsyncable does could be a good compromise for a standard format that is seekable where it needs to be but with minimal reduction in compression. Assuming of course that zstd becomes as ubiquitous as gzip, available by default in most places, otherwise not needing different tools to read the compressed files is a moot point and the reduced compression becomes just a cost not a compromise.
Jeez, I loved working in the tourism industry. One day I'll get back into it :).

It's incredible how visiteiceland/norway/etc have refined and eliminated a lot of cruft in their website while still keeping up the appearance of professionalism and non-corp design. There are a lot subtleties in this website s design.
I think it may have been a player bug. I heard everything echoed, but after closing the tab and reopening the link, it plays just fine.
Google is filing for bankruptcy in Russia
This is what I do at the moment. I do have it on github pages. I've created account at dev.to some time ago but mainly to comment and follow other developers.

It seems to me that blogging platforms could bring more audience to me. Am I wrong?
So does learning a language enough to claim to know it.

True, but many languages let you do a lot of useful things while you are still learning, without requiring you to truly understanding what you are doing. Some people manage to spend their entire career writing useful little python scripts without really "knowing" most of python.

Languages like Rust and Haskell make you learn a lot more of the language up front before you can become useful.

This should not be taken as a critique of the language however.
Well, I'm looking forward to updating my tests of .NET 6 (with the previous AOT functionality, things were already pretty promising, even for GUI apps): https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/11/14/1600
Unrelated to this topic, but I think you should apply this one line of CSS to your stylesheet - it improves your text aesthetics and readability :)

html { -webkit-font-smoothing: "antialiased" }
https://web.archive.org/web/20220519070552/https://libera.ch...
Annoying but necessary if you dig into it. If don’t we’ll you avoid paying random invoices emailed to your invoice processor!
> Doesn't mean their decisions or products aren't getting worse for users.

Or at all, relatively. It can take only one heavy impact issue and the public will not care how large any of the numbers are and well things generally go (or, conversely, how poorly, i.e. coal power). Of course with a company at Google scale, there is gonna be a lot more than just one heavy impact issue in no time, and any human only has to really conflict with one of them to be thrown for a loop.

People are just really bad with big numbers and very empathetic with individual cases. The later is actually a really cool feature in humans, but it is an issue when it conflicts with the former.

That is all not to say that Google is doing right, here or in any other set of cases. You decide. I just noticed that the way people arrive at their judgement often suffers from the aforementioned dynamics.
Nobody paid that in borrowing, that APR was generated by minting new tokens that could be sold to someone else.
Yeah, I guess before Google you did have to wait 5 whole seconds to get the same information, because of all the ads AltaVista spewed at you along with their search results. Progress.

As for YouTube, it was bought, not created by Google, wasn't it?
By ESL do you mean "english as a second language"?
A lot of years ago I used to have an account there... I don't remember why I ditched it. Probably because I switched to WP at that time.
A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?