skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless things changed from when I used to live there, even with Swiss salary, any sort of demi-tarif even with Swiss salaries, is requirement for using the trains regularly.

However I really do miss their pontuallity.
Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree
Ok, so what's the ideal hiring practice then? According to some here, it's just a little talk about previous experiences, not going into technical details at all. Sorry, but then you end up with people who are technically very weak. Been there done that.

Look, I have a lot of experience with the hiring process. It's very difficult. I will listen to someone with a lot of hiring experience. But just saying "it's broken" isn't going to cut it.

And remark that a big part of our hiring practice is to put the candidate at ease. I even say that they won't get everything right, and that's no problem. I help them out when they get stuck, etc.
Many samples are listed in the bottom section of the homepage in tabs.

You can also refer to samples based on use case (Support, Education...) in the website.
experienced engineers are of such an important resource that I believe the government of Taiwan has in some instances actually banned workers from applying to jobs on the Chinese mainland, something akin to a permanent non-compete
Soccer is obvious? Explain the details of the “offside” rule to us USAmericans again?

Which is not to say that the concept of baseball’s “forced base” isn’t incomprehensible to Europeans, never mind “tagging up”. And don’t even bother with the infield fly rule.
Oh I really hate this meme because even folks at HN repeat it like a broken record though nobody even cared to back it with a real BOM analysis.

Only source I've seen so far for this ridiculous claim is "an executive of Sony said so in an interview". Yeah, a really neutral source of information, indeed.

55" open cell panel costs less than $100 and this is by far the single most expensive component in a TV.

So a $300 Walmart special Roku TV might needed to be subsidized a little, but doing the same on a fancy LG, Samsung or Sony
would be purely out of greed.
Taskcluster: CI for Engineers
How do you hope to solve this problem in general? It applies to every product with an opaque supply chain, which is pretty much every product.

The only reviews that matter are the long-term ones, which are rare, and by the time a long time has passed, the original model is no longer made (or worse, a cheaper process is used to make something under the same name).

The only approach I can see is to trust in a brand. But companies making commodified products like household appliances seem happy to have burned all their brand good will in exchange for short term profits, meaning I no longer trust any of them.
I mean, who the hell has a Cat-5e drop behind their fridge, though?

I imagine a product manager took exactly 100ms to calculate that the answer to that question is "functionally no one" and so there went the $X ethernet connector from the build, for patently obvious reasons.

Hell, I'd love to know Sonos's ethernet adoption rate, since they certainly have that data. I'd bet it's fairly high since Sonos is a bit up-market and sometimes professionally installed, or installed by enthusiasts, but I'm willing to guess it's < 5%, and realistically, < 1%, even if we only obviously limit the sample size to "Sonos devices that are eth capable."
I recently moved to Fedora 36 and it was almost trivial to get Bitwig and Arturia Windows VSTs running - all I had to do tweaking-wise was set myself up in the real-time group: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/05/21/1145

I honestly don’t see much of a point in getting rid of the desktop, although I do have a Norns (which I built with a friend) and am toying around with baremetal stuff like MiniDexed: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/05/28/2320
Bike theft seems like a problem that could be solved, or at least beaten down a lot. Super easy to attach tracking devices and monitor remotely, then just go around and arrest the thieves. There could hardly be an easier enforcement activity. Why is this not done when it seems like bike theft is at an epidemic level?
> It took over a half-century (<=1801 to >=1858) to get France onto the metric system, Wikipedia estimates

Sure, these things never happen instantly. Some units remained in the daily language, like livre, pinte, sou (respectively pound, pint, and shilling). There was no internet at that time, and France went through 3 revolutions and quite a few regime changes. It never was a priority after Napoleon, as the restored monarchs tried to leave as much of the revolution behind them. The people saw the advantages of a consistent decimal system.

> The systems it replaced were forgotten, but what cannot be doubted is that those "vernacular" systems were hyper-adapted to how ordinary people used measurements in daily life.

We can very much doubt that they were optimal, otherwise they wouldn’t have ended with hundreds of small variations of common units. They evolved in isolation at times when consistency was not very relevant at best, or a tool for price gouging at worst. You cannot have that in a modern, integrated nation state such as what France was turning into after 1789.

> It was the demands of state taxation and international trade, not the needs of common people, that promoted the creation and adoption of the metric system by legislative fiat.

That is quite far from reality. It was created as a scientific and technological toy, and the logical conclusion of some Enlightenment ideas that were brewing before the revolution.

There were some propaganda aspects when they got a bunch of funding from the Convention to do some actual measurements, and Napoleon realised how useful it could be for administrative purposes. But the metric system did not just appear one day, ready to be used by bureaucrats. It was not designed by bureaucrats either, at least before the metre convention.

The bureaucrats would have been perfectly happy with a unified system based on the old units just like in the UK.
I created an inventory management for a state government organization.

The department was paying contracting companies to inventory assets.

At the end of the inventory, the contracting company would deliver the inventory on paper which would be filed in a managers office for a few years.

The inventory database was fairly simple just a few tables when the application was first developed.

Eventually a different manager decided the electronic data entry would be useful.

We added a few forms for data entry using a tablet.

With the data in a database, the person doing the inventory could pull up the inventory from the previous years and check off the equipment that was still at the location.

There was a form for entering new equipment and a form for transferring equipment between locations.

The manager who helped me got an award for reducing the time required for the inventory from months down to a few weeks.

I initially started the project just to maintain my development skills.

The inventory database remained in use for several years with very little maintenance except for writing a few reports and showing a few people how to use the reports.

Instead of a not very useful pile of paper, we had a database that contained the inventory.

When a manager wanted to know how many laptops or desktops needed to be refreshed each year, he could run a report listing the devices with specific attributes like how much memory or which CPU type and use the report to budget for the next years equipment refresh.

This was over ten years ago, and the sites were managed by different IT organizations, so at the time, it was just a simple task to save time for people on a different team.
So much hate when she just invests in high risk products. It's called a hedge fund for this reason.
Came here to day the same thing. Those voices are an absolute blight and an immediate turn off.
Indeed. The demand for most currencies comes from states requiring payment of taxes in said currencies.
Decentralized autonomous organizations are changing how biotechs are run
We're talking about this type of pipe cutter, right?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/irwin-record-handicutter-15-45mm-...

They're much cheaper than an angle grinder, and fit in your pocket. I've used one to cut through the barrel of a d-lock with ease. I don't buy d-locks with cylindrical barrels any more. I learned this trick when thieves stole my friends bike this way :-(
Current IH stoves aren't much more complicated nor need your wi-fi password, if that was your point.

The only significant addition I see in somewhat recent models is auto-turning off, and I'm pretty sure it will help save the house from burning down at some point, so I'm all for it.
I jailbroke my LG TV. So I have shell access but also have a decent smart TV, and
I removed all the ads. Also have ad free Youtube. I like it a lot more now.
ORNL’s Frontier breaks the exaflop ceiling
I don't update unless there's a security fix (haha), i have a problem, or a feature i need is released, at which point i simply disable the outbound firewall rule temporarily and "force" an update through whatever controlplane the device has (typically an app).

For security fixes, i usually find out through other channels (here or reddit) about some new 0-day, and i will check for updates after that.

Considering that the devices are not allowed on the internet, and on a very limited network, the risk of a random "drive by shooting" is rather low.
Seems like a mistake for Bubble - give away a free plan but make it slow so people need to update... but in the end you end up giving the impression that all Bubble applications are very slow.
Sure, you can build striped raidz and 3+ way mirrors and other more exotic variants but the two most typical corners of the configuration space are plain raidz2+ for all the drives vs striped mirrors. You lose usable space not putting all your drives into a single parity array and maximizing usable space is usually why you go with parity. Mixing multiple arrays only makes sense from this perspective if you have a mix of drive sizes.
Can you explain what you are suggesting with your comment?
There is a spectrum between everything going smoothly and complete government collapse. Most people worry about a Turkey or Argentina where the currency loses most of its value but the government still functions.

Even in failed states gold maintains value. For example in Somalia’s recent past, not only was gold still fully exchangeable but the existing Somali currency continued to work with counterfeit currency filling the vacuum.

What stops gold exchange is not non-existent government but any particularly strong and draconian government that decides that alternative forms of money are a risk to the regime (e.g. North Korea).
Listening to her podcasts she is indeed a visionary and knows a hell lot about tech. Exponential growth mindset for 100X is normal in this industry's visionaries, including the founders of the very medium we communicate now HN.
Marijuana ‘Strain’ Labels Mislead Consumers, Study of Nearly 90k Samples Shows
Interesting point. Let's say 1% of all mathematicians. That would be many.
I guess if the relationship we have with our devices is full-on adversarial and yet still need them, they should be put on a dedicated subnet with a default deny rule in place.

I guess, at this point, the other commenter's solution of "just stop using those things" may be the best.
Here are the seeds of the future of actual AI, maybe in 50-100
years. Useful AI (not machine learning, classifiers etc) begins in IA
(intelligence amplification) and builds outwards according to human
needs.
What kind of database (schema) did you use that supported so many attributes?
you can still damage the LTE antenna or put aluminium tape on it.
I've never created anything interesting within few days. At best limping prototype covering only the optimistic use case.
At the time of the last list, there were two systems in China that had recently broken this barrier, but their owners have chosen not to submit benchmarks to the Top500.
How was the BIKE_VALUE / LOCK_SECURITY ratio, compared to the surrounding bikes? I always try to achieve the lowest score at the corner where I lock my bike and haven't had a bike stolen for a while.
Show HN: Easy and fun browser testing from Python with pyqt6-webengine
There are a lot of samples but they are hard to find. Took me a bit as well. I would say just move them at least to right below the fold.

The "Use WowTo in" part with the tabs should be right below the "Easily create HowTo videos with WowTo" header IMO
Damn this is cool, may I ask which field you got your PhD on? Computer Science with specialization on physical simulations?
> The only thing that maintains the value of any asset (or currency) is the collective belief in that asset or currency

That simplifies too much. There's also the fact that all taxes on income, capital gains, and consumption must be paid in this currency.

It has a very real value, in that if you don't pay using this then people will come and lock you in a cell.

It's not just a collected belief.

I also believe that the government will by force not allow its own currency to be replaced within its borders.

That's a belief in a trusted third party, not a collective belief.
I would like to know the pris and cons myself
This is the best article ever posted on hacker news....
You could use nocode to build a prototype, use that as the platform to get initial users, then get funding and rewrite with code as the userbase grows if the nocode solution can't keep up.
You are hitting all the Russian propaganda points - Russia is winning, sanctions don't work, Kyiv was a feint, it is all NATO's fault, Russia will nuke everyone, people who want help Ukraine defend itself are "warmongers", etc etc.

On top of that, you're accusing people of being arrogant and dismissive and whatever else.
Just wait until device manufacturers start integrating always-on LTE modems with their own SIM cards and billing so they can pull device analytics, sell you new advertising, and sell your usage patterns to 3rd parties whether or not you ever connect the things to your home wifi.

At which point you'll have to disassemble the damned thing and physically rip out the LTE modem, possibly resulting in the device bricking itself when it can't phone home after a while.

I bet if you're a device manufacturer right now and go to t-mobile enterprise sales and tell them you want 200MB of data per month per IMEI and you're going to have 50,000 units, you'll get a very attractive monthly price per unit.

Mark my words, it'll be commonplace in another 8-10 years.

https://me.me/i/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-w...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
> Why would you want to go out of your way to send bogus data to the manufacturer?

Because getting a ton of garbage will positively stimulate them to stop trusting this data. That helps everyone.
the market is smart (or dumb, depending on point of view). it won't price in externalities unless forced to. that's why we need regulations and enforcement in a free market environment - to make sure (raise probability) the price is fair to everyone, not just to manufacturers or just to consumers. it isn't possible to have a free market without regulation (anarcho-capitalists believe otherwise until the first time they get shafted.)
It's worth checking the manual - my IKEA dishwasher's fast program uses less energy and water, and 1/5 of the time (but is only good for lighter loads).
Sorry for the İ/i I/ı bug. Even modern software in other languages fall to that trap time to time, so probably it's not handled well in other languages either.
Astrobiologist Tries Cooking in Antarctica at -70ºC
Even in C# you can do it without interfaces and constructor injection. You just pass a Func<X, Y>.
They cant force you to arbitration while claiming you are not their client.
After articles [1] where expensive Samsung TV show ads I personally avoid anything Samsung. No reason to incentivize their anti-consumer behavior.

[1] - https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-s...
Most of these single use things are a product of Teleshopping and other terrible marketing schemes.
Only in the US, elsewhere it's a "4x2"
In my view the level of home network security should be based on actual risk level, eg focusing on automated attacks rather than targeted attacks, and based on an evaluation of what data you may actually lose and could you back it up offline. Aiming for some kind of perceived 100% security will just make you give up a lot of convenience to mitigate risks that probably never realize or that don't actually matter that much.
That argument only holds if you stop driving your diesel altogether, as otherwise it's environmental cost will keep growing with no bounds while an acquired battery-electric would be busy amortizing it's one-time(-ish) cost.

What OP said was about repairing stuff to avoid smart appliances. From an environmental perspective using old stuff is often much worse than getting new (fridge, car, ...).
Having read the article, there's no mentioning of reviving a particular visual / graphic style. On the contrary, the author explicitly states:

> It's important not to confuse the web revival with artistic styles such as Vaporwave;

Instead, the author tried to capture a set of first principles that seem to drive a more broad revival of early online culture. The first of those principles they list is:

> Creativity comes first - They value creative expression and the ability to customise and decorate their digital spaces.

Which agrees with what you're saying.

Arguably, the author's chosen design might inadvertently detract from that message. Then again, it's their personal website. They're calling the shots. This is how this individual chooses to express themselves. And that's just every bit as valid as what anyone else does, which would be a core tenet in support of online freedom.
I joined well after Pixar was acquired. I was there 2014-2019. Started when WDAS was making Big Hero 6 and Pixar was making Inside Out.
Should be technically possible these days, if we wanted to.

I still think we are conflating the objectives of

1. Teaching students skills and knowledge they need and want, and

2. Rationing access to jobs, status, etc.
Wouldn't that allow a thief to just unscrew the pipe? (Yes a tool is necessary, but no need to cut)
Ask HN: How should time be spent in a startup pre-product/ market fit?
A day is 24 hours and we should also spend some time sleeping. How should the valuable time be spent?

We are still pre-product/market fit and launched our MVP.

How much time should be attributed to:
1. Building product/ Talking to users
2. Marketing (website, cold emails, ads, fairs)
3. Fundraising, networking

Michael Seibel said something like 90% should be spent on building the product. Do you agree? What if no-one knows about the product?
Thinking works mostly by hashing. Prediction is an optimization on top of that.
I worked with NaCl/PNaCl in parallel to asm.js and then WASM (via Emscripten). There were pros and cons (all IMHO):

- Working with the NaCl toolchain was pretty painful compared to Emscripten. While Emscripten always tried hard to integrate as easily as possible into existing build infrastructures, NaCl was more like the Android NDK (the NIH seemed to have been pretty strong in the NaCl team).

- Likewise the integration between the Javascript side and the NaCl side: much better solved in Emscripten (especially with the ability to embed Javascript snippets into C/C++ source code, IFIR NaCl used message passing instead of being able to call directly into the JS side)

- NaCl used its own set of "system APIs" which was both good and bad, good because those APIs usually didn't have the limitations of browser APIs, bad because it was quite painful and slow to talk to browser APIs for areas that were not covered by the "builtin APIs" (and that was everything except 3D rendering, audio and networking).

- WASM still hasn't caught up with PNaCl with the "it simply works" multithreading, I'm not sure how Spectre/Meltdown would have affected NaCl though.

- The actual 'wire format differences' were always overrated, apart from a few edge cases the performance differences between asm.js, WASM, NaCl and PNaCl were quite small (the difference between NaCl and PNaCl was that NaCl was a "safe subset" of native CPU instruction sets (so you'd need different NaCl modules for running on x86 vs ARM), while PNaCl was a portable LLVM-IR derived byte code format - also once NaCl switched to PNaCl, the startup time was actually a lot slower than WASM).

All in all, my lasting impression of PNaCl is "at least it wasn't as bad as the Android NDK" ;)
>A class also acts as a namespace.

Namespaces are stateless, they don't contain variables, they contain just functions.
It seems like an example to what I call "Object-Oriented Brain Damage."

https://emresahin.net/post/object-oriented-brain-damage/
If you look carefully at the generated assembly shown in the article, the vectorized loop actually executes less instructions in total as while an iteration is longer it more than make it up by iterating less times.

Edit: btw, while the fast version has bo loop carried dependencies and it uses 4x SIMD, it us only twice as fast

I wonder if a manually unrolled (with 4 accumulators) and vectorized version of the strength reduced one could be faster still.

The compiler won't do it without fast math.
> As of OpenSSH 8.2 (Feburary 14, 2020) you are able to store an SSH private key on a yubikey! Here's how to do it.

Many systems still don't have OpenSSH 8.2 (Windows 11, older debian stable, etc). For those, another solution is to use the PGP applet of the YubiKey, which exposes a regular RSA key.

This guide has worked well for me: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

You can jump to the SSH sections if that's all you're after.

There's a missing piece for Windows, since the agent coming with WinGPG won't be reachable by SSH. Some guy on GitHub put out a workaround, but I can't find it right now.

--

edit: The workaround for Windows is this one: https://github.com/rupor-github/win-gpg-agent
Not if you can explain it. Listen to some podcasts where she talks about AI, Gdp growth and futuristic Societies and you will see she is not a monkey throwing darts. The thing is, the absolute favorite game of humans is hating and laughing on the failure of others.
Before Linux and GNU got internationalization, I worked on a French product cleverly named Ligne-X (Line X) to translate all of the display text (error messages, etc). Ironically, I don't speak French. But I didn't need to, since another team did that part.

That was an exasperating workload. So kudos to you on this. It looks like you put a lot into it.

Some people are going on about English being mandatory for programming. It isn't necessary for non-English speaking people learning programming to learn both English and Programming at the same time, so I disagree with that. Professionally, sure. But this is a learning language, and it looks nice and clean.

And there are a lot of people who code for fun, just for themselves, too. They don't need to learn English just to accomplish that.

I wonder how many people realize some Lisp implementations are localized to similar effect. Set the language, and then the keywords change to something more appropriate for those languages.
I got it, I am sure it cannot be compared with human professional artist. However AI is improving and definitely it keeps getting better. And with WowTo you have many advantages:
1. If you do not like the tone of a speaker, there are several voices to choose from and also dialects
2. And you can instantly connect with a global audience with its multi-lingual capability.
3. Reduce your voice-over costs significantly for using with videos that does not focus on voice modulation but rather conveying the information.
I just discovered this game on steam that looks vaguely similar https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511140/Laser_Attraction/