skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point. I work for a medical device manufacturing company. Times have never been better for us. There was a dip in the beginning of Covid, but after a few months we just started sucking up clients from companies that went under.

Joining that industry was a conscious decision I made because I want to work for a company that makes tangible things, not "just" software. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with "just software" but I find it's more interesting when you're making widgets and the software needs to interface with the physical world.
A Design History of Childhood (2013)
Presumably, if this is stationary, wouldn't record highs decrease in frequency over time?
Good point. In that case we should observe animals that we eat and know to eat the bugs exhibiting this behavior and see if there's a noticeable change in their biochemistry. Would be curious to what degree the composition of the plastic is broken down by the bugs digestive system vs. what lingers indefinitely.
Tesla is a tech company that happens to make cars
It relates the audience and the author on an emotional level.
Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration
What are the real issues in OOP?

The concept of composition has long been the bread and butter of functional programming paradigm since antiquity. OOP just adopted it later in the wake of nightmare inheritance hierarchies.
Yes, forgot boring! We're kind of boring. Our customers are boring, our technology is boring (Java 8!), but the problems we solve are actually pretty exciting - we just solve them in a boring way :)
Window insulation and heating/cooling efficiency are often greatly improved as well.

Also air conditioning is ubiquitous.
No, literally. The price of lots of coins is specified in USDT on lots of exchanges so if USDT crashes then the price of coins relative to USD also crashes.

Now, would there be lots of manual intervention by exchanges to fix this as fast as possible, absolutely but that's the parents point.
> For the highest court in the land, the state of Arizona killing an innocent man is not a perversion of the criminal justice system, but rather emblematic of its smooth functioning.

What kind of 1984 bad dream is this? Is it time to go full-on revolt and DeFi SCOTUS?

This is egregious incompetence, SCOTUS is misrepresenting the will and best interests of their constituents, the American Tax Payers.

I don't want to live in a country where we accept

> Guilty until proven innocent. And even then..

Another informative article with additional details lacking in TFA:

https://www.vox.com/2022/5/23/23138100/supreme-court-barry-j...
> Now, what's the productivity measure in that? I have no idea.

Bordering on nothing, I think, other than that we have the opportunity to make street robbery much less lucrative if we stopped artificially inflating the price of phones, because people don't have to carry cash any more (if they're content with each purchase being recorded and data mined by 20 different companies and their government's intelligence agencies.)

Burglary rates have dropped precipitously with cheap big screen tvs and cheap audio players. My dad built his entire young life around putting together his very expensive stereo system, I have a single dirty old bluetooth speaker that sounds nearly as good. Being not worth stealing makes it even better.
Have you looked into fly.io? They have a very generous free tier for hobby level projects.

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
A question: do you have a tool that searches the history for previous links, or do you just have a really good memory?
People anticipate the drop to hit hardest in 6 months, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as everyone cancels hiring immediately to see how the market will end up.

I don't think companies are stopping because they're out of money. They're just slamming the brakes because something strange and unexpected happened.
I dunno, spending $4000/mo in Mountain View, you tend to have a few expectations. (in other words, it is more or less impossible to rent anything of actual quality)

The garbage materials of today didn't exist nearly as much in the 80s so they'd have to have used at least cheap solid wood instead of sawdust foam.
Not a photographer but I'm a fly fisherman and the idea of living on a boat and going up and done the coast to fish is a common daydream of mine. Starlink definitely makes that a more likely possibility.
Also I think there are a lot more eyes on Gitmo. At Abu Ghraib a lot was entrusted to people with little vetting.
They also can't draw pennies, the letter 'g' with the loop, and so on (https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/illusion-of-depth/inde...). Bicycles may be clever, but the shallowness of mental representation is real.
Presumably they intended to say that the (1) cplusplus thing can express something that Rust cannot, and (2) here’s an example of Thing. But then they didn’t properly delineate the two things so that it might come off as if (2) is an argument for (1), but really (1) just talks about Thing in isolation and not as a comparison to Rust... The example was just a standalone example, unrelated to Rust.
This looks really nice. This is a video of author creating a simple counter with two buttons using imba. It demonstrates how CSS styling, code, and HTML works together in this language:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8XS5q9xhaMc
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Look at: Google Maps, Figma, any advanced enough web mail, Office 360.

Think about implementing these using the LAMP stack + Javascript from 2000.
That's interesting, I didn't realize that IMEs would silently offer you choices in different sets/styles than the one preferred by the locale, and that OS fonts could actually hide the difference.

If you're saying that an innocent error is what happened, you'd expect to see these weird traditional-in-simplified-context characters to appear across all sections of the documents, and not clustered together in a single paragraph (since that would be evidence that a single paragraph has been written by a different author than the rest of the document)
Are there a lot more hammers now than in the 80s?
> write a paper just as well in Wordperfect 5 as the latest Google Doc or Office365 Word

Google docs and Overleaf have dramatically improved my collaborative writing workflow.

Long-distance collaboration is also drastically cheaper and easier than it used to be.
I thought that was what covid was for
Then the question to ask is why Logitech STILL doesn't have USB-C dongles?

The ability to combine keyboard and mouse into one connection is a huge selling point, and Bluetooth sucks. But Logitech is merely coasting on its fading brand, not even bothering to update its connectors.
you mean 2060, right?

Looks like I misremembered the projected peak population.

And yes, long to medium run it's going to be fine if we can carefully manage river water carefully. And if we don't exhaust soils in key agriculture heartlands, and if we don't cause too much icecap collapse, and if we don't trigger desertification of vulnerable areas (southwest USA, various parts of sub-Saharan Africa etc) and...
I think all the issues mentioned are besides the point. Anyone can just make a duplicate app that has the same visual features. Or remove any validation that they add to the app, etc etc.

The brute-force attack isn’t really an issue in that context.
I still say, “Do you want to unmask me” at random times.
Hmm, in the US anyway they started to get inexpensive by 1980 or so, same as VCRs.
The viral coefficient must be higher for sketches that can be imitated in a few lines. SNL really specialized in this. KITH had a few such (like the Crusher) but as you say, most defied summarization.
That is related to supply and demand of land/housing units. I do not see what it has to do with progress or lack thereof in building materials.
https://supabase.com/pricing

2 free 500MB PostgreSQL db's, paused after a week of inactivity
More longform uses of DALL-E 2, many more impressive than OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uw43ow/dalle_2_long...
Apple would be subject to a multi billion dollar fine, or would have to leave the entire EU market if it refused to follow EU laws.

Somehow I doubt apple wants to lose the entire EU as a market.
You may be underestimating the number of job descriptions which demand a masters degree to even be considered. This is especially the case for data science roles for tech/fin/blue chip. From experience OMSCS is perfect for this.
If the application isn't pinning certificates, you should be able to add your own root certificate to your machine and intercept all encrypted traffic. Same method used by corporations to monitor their own networks. I successfully used this method on a mobile game years ago.

Applications with pinned certificates don't use the system certificates at all which fixes the MITM vulnerability I described. You'd need to reverse engineer them in order to change the certificate to one under your control, difficulty can vary depending on how obfuscated the code is.
I assume someone would be writing that book in the hope they'd make money back and that's hard to do with a super niche subject few will be interested in and even fewer would be willing to pay for.
Still probably tech but something unprofitable but enjoyable, like making games or directory apps.
It still won't catch if/elif/else mismatches.
Really like the recent handful of smaller companies announcing more sorta serverless style building blocks.

It’s one of the major pluses of the big clouds yet their pricing isn’t always awesome. Smaller player can help push that down.

See also the DO announcement today. Probably won’t use that but glad about it anyway
As a counter example: I've seen that plenty of times. PhDs too.
Not sure if that is a troll response, but that is very much of an apple/orange comparison.

1. My application needs postgres as it uses a few specific queries that sqlite does not support the same way. Hello `interval`.

2. Backups are automatic and transparent.

3. Upgrades, instance sizing and disk expansion are just a few clicks away.

4. I don't have to deal with hosting, power, internet, security.

5. Charts, logs, metrics all built in.

6. On the same network as the rest of the frontend... gcp functions.

Just one of those alone is worth the $300/yr imho.
How much of AWS is paid for by those crappy startups? Not much. AWS doesn't give a fuck about any company paying less than a few million in a year in cloud expenses.
Iron/Titan did not have any such high apy and still collapsed. In case of terra, I concur that the driving force was the Anchor ponzi, but it was the mechanism that failed.
> What companies or roles will be more resilient?

Defense or any project fulfilling federal contracts.
How do you measure viral waste in the valves of the heart?
> For anyone reading your resume in the future, it's impossible to know

Just write why on your resume? The dates will check out or not.
If you make an error in the number of closing parens, and hit return, your cursor will end up in an unexpected place. That's the sign you should take a second look at what you just did.
Interesting new site here that lets you explore historic temperatures and trends: http://realclimatetools.com/apps/graphing/index.html
How does one get to the point where they get so much inquiries?
That seems like a clickbait/misleading title from them.

Excel - the worlds favorite declarative / pure functional / programming language wasn't even mentioned. I'd be willing to bet there are far, far more Excel sheets in use than the sum total of all the systems highlighted in the article.
This is why we at vulert.com never access the customer's codebase or any installation, who doesn't know vulert, it's a service that notifies you for security issues in your software dependencies.
Yeah, you'd need to find some sort of auto-balancing to detect this kind of bitrot from over-aggressive engineering managers & their ilk and rebalance the data across other sources. I think the multiple-shuffle-shard approach has been done before, maybe we could steal some algo from a RAID driver, or DynamoDB.
It's funny to see all the replies missing the point. I agree there have been few "step changes" in the way we do things. The biggest real one I can think of is the capabilities of small motors, that enable things like drones and battery power tools. But not a step change, just an incremental improvement.

People had high hopes for mRNA, (no doubt people will take this the wrong way) but so far it seems to have been way overhyped. That kind of thing - the ability to arbitrarily protect against viruses - would potentially qualify.

Overall I think the world is in decline progress wise, even as we make incremental gains in previously discovered tech, we lose e.g. Concorde or moon landings or even open borders. And soon the availability of internal combustion engines to the masses if elites have their way.

Other than the neotlithic and industrial revolution, humanity has mostly languished. We could easily be in for more of that.
I think they're going to let the capital drain long enough to meaningfully lower inflation and open the monetary policy spigot again.

I'm not sure if there will be any lessons learned here by policy chiefs. It seems they waited so long to increase rates, while denying inflation, for political reasons and not rational ones.
> I'd look at huge building projects and millions of resulting apartments that were built but now had no buyers and were sat empty on some zombie bank's balance sheet. And I would not know whether they were worth sticker price (and China was very productive) or nothing (and China was very unproductive) or anywhere in between.

That's just being confused by propaganda. If you look back at all of the Chinese ghost city stories and note the names, virtually all of those cities are full and productive now. I always thought the stories were a line to make excuses for US lack of investment in infrastructure.
Same! But really just for headset/mouse. The keyboard layout for MacOS and Win suck to use on the same keyboard.
Covid didn’t hurt most of tech companies. Instead they got hot money and multiplied capitalization.
What a joke, I'm literally reading this while my robot vacuum is cleaning the house.
Apple trees _are_ good candidates for starting from seeds. Especially because the kind you eat often have poor adaptability to a fresh, harsh, environment.

So you start with strong, healthy, local seeds, let them grow a bit, and graft the kind you want to eat after 3 years. Same thing for cherries, pears, peaches, and others.

This is also used for growing grapes in France and about everywhere in the world : roots and trunks are east american because of their resilience to a particularly nasty pest, but the right variety of grape is grafted on it. So we still use the original variety to make wine ! That’s also why almost every vineyard is at most 200 years old, despite the fact that wine was already there under the earliest roman empire.
Quality seems to go through ups and downs, probably in line with economic cycles and periods of scarcity. Here, houses built in the 20s and earlier were made with high quality lumber that is scarcely available these days. I notice that rebuilders and renovations of these old houses are careful to maintain the base wood layers even when they completely strip the facing and almost everything else.
Encrypted DNS (including ad-blocking) resolvers on cellular data, for iOS
https://server.pro smallest VPS plan costs $5 and has one click installer for MySQL.
They could easily pull it out against real USD though. So if some of it is ahem fake that person knows for sure it isn’t backed by real assets and should be running for the exits first.

On that basis I’m inclined to believe the majority of the 70B is real. And really do t get what that gang is thinking to stay in
This is just so basic a screwup though. The W3C spec for XML has had a formal syntactic description of valid tag names for decades:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-common-sy...

Plenty of libraries get this right because it’s so easy. You’d almost have to try—probably by being “clever”—to get it wrong.
Yes, 2000/2001 was much worse generally in tech. I was pretty lucky. Was laid off but got another job through a good connection with a company still doing OK. Then not so OK but aside from a salary cut made it through.

But there was a lot of "Would you like fries with that?" in the tech sector generally.
Freelancing in a Recession: Why It's a Good Thing (2020)
No mention of the fact Digital Ocean has an entire app platform that Linode doesn’t.
Netflix ISP Speed Index: measure of Netflix speed on particular ISPs worldwide
Yes! There were many such systems, LGR made a video for one of them, also showing the interface (as in: hardware and GUI) for the backup: https://youtu.be/TUS0Zv2APjU
If private keys are proof of ownership then what's the difference between keys generated before vs keys generated after. If both keys are valid then both have then both are proof.
Plenty of good documentaries and science on this. Lost of habitat, over fishing, poor management. Farming isn't the fix. Neither is hatcheries.
I assume part of this is because the manuscript hasn't been properly typeset for publishing yet.
Myths and Misconceptions About Coffee
Wow C# is much older than I thought.
How does this compare to AWS Lambda's docker support
> There are absolutely places that I have chosen not to stay because I couldn't get reliable service to make work calls. I have also stayed places with really dodgy cell service and had to do work calls over the phone rather than via slack.

That's not what we are talking about.

We are talking about running Starlink 24/7 vs just during working hours. I'm saying that you can get away with just running it during work hours. You don't need 24/7 cell access when you're boondocking. That's the discussion here. Not whether you can always get cell service at all times when you need it. You can just plan around when you will be working. Sometimes you camp in a place with cell service, great. Other times you don't, no big deal, use other solutions (Starlink, satellite phones, etc).

Yes, if you're living out of your car in remote places and need to be reachable 24/7 you are a unique case and should plan accordingly. But for the vast majority of people working on the road, that's just not the case.
Digression, but this is my current complaint at my job at a Big Tech Company: we're now so big that we have product managers for everything that dictate what we can and can't work on and they hold a monopoly on customer data that's used to justify new product decisions. Engineers who have been around for years and started the product from the ground up, worked with customers to understand their needs, and have a good idea of what features may be valuable to them going forward are being ignored because now everything needs a business analyst to approve the idea.

Some of the best products in the world came out of experimenting and just building something cool - I could never imagine many products that now support business analysts and product managers salaries getting the green light from them if they were pitched from scratch.
I’m sure you’ll get some interests folks if you post where you work here on HN!
The vast majority of German natural gas use, is for the energy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293065/natural-gas-cons...

Only a tiny sliver is for non-energy, and that part could easily be purchased from other countries.

In Norway, a large percentage of heating used to come from oil, but in 2020 any fossil fuel for residential heating was banned. As long as the power is cheap, electric heating is affordable. And if the electricity is slightly less cheap, heating is still affordable if one installs a heat pump (even a cheap air-to-air pump helps a lot).

And even if you were correct in your claim that a large part of the natural gas could not be replaced by nuclear (which is just lack of imagination), your argument would be flawed.

From the link I sent, only 2% of the consumption is non-energy use, but even if that were 50%, reducing dependency by 50% is still a big deal.
Does Fly implement live migration under the hood?
Not to mention - and this has been true for a long, long time - every time Elon Musk makes a controversial statement he becomes, in the eyes of everyone paying attention, a little more stupid and a little less like Tony Stark (which seems to be what he wanted to convey)

He has beem chasing controversy, up to and including naming a child with a publicity stunt name. This is not what people usually want to bet/invest on.

Edit: and picking a fight with Bernie Sanders on twitter. Then fighting on twitter about twitter to buy twitter
No deep expertise, just looking at the last few decades and eyeballing the odds
This is the key point of the whole article I think, and why anything changed at all:

> DuPont’s patent on CFC technologies had expired.

It is good to celebrate success, but it would be nicer if large industries had a track record of integrity and empathy on decisions that affect humanity negatively.
> I'm often left wondering why we aren't working less

isn't that in direct conflict with expectations of compounded annual growth?

what does our economic (and political) models say about that?

because less work == less growth to many people...
Exxon is using AI to find potential new pockets of oil, is it a tech company too?

What a load of bollocks, it's just the age old tale of a guy who believes his own BS enough to stream it into the world . When there are many of them eventually one will succeed in selling his unsubstantiated narrative.

In a sense people are right when they say Tesla isn't a car company, it's a cult company. Cults are popping everywhere in the stock market and the so called business world. If it's indeed true that for every ant you see in the kitchen there are 100 that you don't see...well it's looking bad.
I read that selling off commercial paper can impact just about everything because it is used extensively between banks. I don't quite understand it, but apparently this is how crypto came to impact the stability of other markets; through buying and selling huge amounts of commercial paper and impacting its price. I'd like to understand that better, if anyone feels like writing an ELI5.
The whole article here is an argument for the proposition that, in many cases, this is not just the best compromise taking expediency into account, but the best thing to do, period (there are some caveats in the section titled "Complications.") You are entitled to a contrary view, but you have not said anything to counter the arguments presented here.

The last two sections do include the value of postmortems (or forensic analysis, as the author puts it) though from the perspective that this is more feasible and effective on a system that promptly crashes when things go wrong.
both are still much more expensive than KVM vps with more cores/ram/bandwidth and storage.
Supabase developer here. Just to clarify, inactivity means "no api calls, no dashboard usage", so your project only gets paused if it's truly inactive for a full week. If you have an application with any sort of usage at all you should not get paused.
Same hypocrisy with supporting stem cell research after Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimers, but opposing first. Or the Cheneys' attitudes towards same sex marriage after one of their daughters came out as lesbian.
It's not about being talented, that's for sure :)
Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
No, that’s the problem. Record highs in single locations are being set quite often.
Probably because of 'Romance of the Condor Heroes', the series defined the Wuxia genre & the sinkhole is a major plot point. In the west similarly a lot tropes of get lifted from LOTR
I interviewed at Amazon a few months into Covid and they were interviewing but not hiring to put people in their “recycled” status. Which means we’ll hire you but not in this exact role or this exact time.