skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point clearly, and it's a good one. However, consider the following counterargument: the exact same thing could be said (and was said) extensively about low-level programming concepts such as registers, later pointers, memory allocation, etc. It was essential for every software engineer to master... until it wasn't. Same with lower-level OS fundamentals. Same thing earlier with pre-PC hardware.

We've come full circle with the present-day cloud providers like AWS. 15 years ago they started as simplification, but today they are boxes of 200+ specialised building blocks that are anything but trivial to put together. A human specialist has to be involved. But why? This complexity is completely artificial, its sole purpose is to keep their customers locked in. This must and will be solved with better tooling. That's what we are trying to make.
Arduino raises $32M Series B round
IIRC, the default is that works from 1927 are public domain in the US now. It would only still be protected if the author filed additional paperwork at the right time(s). However I don't know how easy it is to determine whether or not that's the case.
It's more that authoritarian elites in other city-states liked to write about how awesome Sparta was, than that Sparta had a good PR organization.

[EDIT] Now that I think about it, it's got some parallels with some American and British elites' infatuation with Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, at least until the wars started and/or the news of atrocities became irrefutable (and sometimes, even after that)
This will work for a while, but have a look at how this has played out in other situations: 1) college tuition cost of attendance calculators (shit goes up every year), 2) federal pay scales (completely immobile), 3) healthcare standard charges mandate. This will eventually become oppressive as the powerful learn to communicate with this new node in the network.

edit: not sure why the downvotes. Making information public increases market efficiencies, but market efficiencies don't always transfer to the workers. See: the last 30 years.
This is great, but the existing subscription lists leave a ton to desired, still. Porn for instance has huge amounts of SEO spam and yet there doesn't seem to be a list for that, which is surprising considering porn and its consumers are usually the first to adopt new tech.
One of my all-time favorite works of non-fiction. Essential reading for software engineers.
You can click 'vouch'.
I configured mine only on the days I switched jobs. Copy one entry to a new one, changed name, changed password/oauth keys and ran `git add .dotfiles/offlineimap.conf && git commit -m "new work email configs" && git push` and call it a day.
This is less time than I spend with ANY other program I use at a new job
When I found out that Jonathan Locke had even a minimal Java implementation of a regex engine, I jumped on it and messaged him to open source it to the Jakarta project. Crazy that that was 20 years ago...

https://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/changes.html
oops - thanks! will fix.
There's a Chrome addon that will dispense with it quickly with reject all being default. Can't remember the name.
Talk about clickbait

TL;DR:

Early exercised using a $100k loan, only vested 25% of that before termination. e.g. only 25% of the loan has been spent. This is not newsworthy.
This petition was created by one person (may or may not be a current employee) and posted to Blind. There were zero replies before they deleted it.

The creator of this petition then sent it to @Carnage4Life/@GergelyOrosz[1] on Twitter who perpetuated the idea that this had actually been signed by employees and was causing a rucks at Coinbase.

To me this is borderline misinformation because it is not representative of any reality.

[1] https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1534986892906639360
Did you skip the second half of my second paragraph? I discuss this and it seems you agree with me. Several users have responded this way now so I'm a bit confused. Should I have put in a break to clarify? Was it just too long to people skip?
I guess it depends on your emails. If you need graphics/formatting then yeah text-mode clients are a questionable pick. If you mostly deal with text, then they remain much nicer to use than "modern" alternatives.
The racial politics of the US have nothing to do with Brexit.
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A modern military has a lot of scarce / complex / expensive equipment that it could crash / set fire to / try to explode in enemy territory. In movies, that looks really cool. In the real world, that's why armed forces carry all those cheap (at least relatively) bullets / bombs / shells / etc. into enemy territory.
Bought it! I own the first one and it's just a fantastic book. I've shared it with family members to help them understand how computers work (more tech savvy ones at least). But yeah love this one.
The author claims that veggies aren't cruelty free because among other things: "In New South Wales, Australia, over a five-year period up to 2013, rice farmers killed nearly 200,000 native ducks to protect their rice crops from the birds."

Very brave, though the author forgets to compare to literally any other numbers. A quick check reveals that Australia slaughtered ~1.5M chickens PER DAY in 2013. Currently it's ~2M per day [0].

So the author argues not to avoid cruelty because it only reduces cruelty by 99.9932%. This is garbage.

[0] https://www.chicken.org.au/facts-and-figures/#Production
> You are vastly over-estimating the scale at which local government operates

You, and every other crypto bro vastly underestimates the scale at which local government operates. And the scale here means not "number of transactions per second", but "number of edge cases that need to be handled on a daily basis."

Some time ago I was in a conversation about how blockchain is going to solve everything around property registrations. Blockchain is just a slow distributed database that solves jack shit on its own, of course.

Here are some simple examples that land registries have to deal with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564

Good luck to you and your summer intern minting NFTs for that. And that's before we go into the whole definition of ownership https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27217681
Cool stuff, I wish you guys success!
I’ll look at it!
Er, Ian Malcolm, the character who was introduced so that he could arrogantly predict that the park would collapse, only to get his satisfying come-uppance when... he turns out to be completely correct?
I had a look at one of their examples https://rulex-rs.github.io/docs/examples/emails/

The only part that I can agree to is that it's useful to compose a larger regex from smaller easier-to-understand ones.

But I don't see why a new regex engine is required for that. On the other hand I'm probably overlooking some important features that they bring to the table. Maybe I'll come back with more comments if I invest more time looking at Rulex.
Thanks, I didn't realize you had to click through to the comment to see that.
Quick left-right movement in Vim
We already know that many genes have more than one function (especially when you consider that one gene can produce many protein products)
Light therapy and vitamin D supplements are essential in the PNW. They aren’t a replacement for the sun, but they can make it bearable to be without it.
This is awesome. I did see this dropped right alongside Tailwind V3, or there abouts.

One thing I wish Tailwind did with production builds is take all those CSS classes and run them through a css-modules transpiler. If they can detect the names in the files, can't they also use the same lexer to do replacements on the code too?

That would be the ultimate efficiency, in terms of bytes saved.
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The thing is, it's hard to tell apart a change in the zeitgeist and a change in your life.

How is eldavido supposed to tell the societal impact of 9/11 apart from the fact he graduated high school that year?
That depends. A legitimate use in my view is to prevent distribution of duplicates. This is pretty common with things like software licensing.
I don’t care about the initial trigger much, mostly that the CEO’s first response to a possible employee problem was that it was dumb and to threaten his employees over it. Not a great look regardless of whether it was one employee, zero, or several hundred. Leaders should have much more compassion than this.
One obvious thing you could do to conserve bandwidth is not do loading=auto but loading=lazy. You've got like 70 images in there which are going to download, but how many readers will scroll to the bottom and look at all 70? (Few.)
You can already stream your current steam library from your home computer. It works best on LAN, but not limited to it.
This may help you: https://github.com/parsec-cloud/Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Too...
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I think the straight win/loss ratio underestimates them a bit, but it's more to show they're nowhere near the 100% dominant force their reputation leads one to expect. The author's overall take is they were likely the best among Greece at the time, but not by a ton.
IMHO the clear implication is 'ignorant' - that's what connects the dots of 'uninterested' and 'don't know this fact'. Also, for intellectuals / geeks / whatever, being uninterested in history is not a compliment!

Not the worst insult ever, but why even go to the place of presuming things about other people? Still, I hope I expressed my objection proportionally to the comment; sorry if I didn't.
Network: co-worker left and invited me to join at the new place
Makes sense. I wasn't mad about it or anything, just noticed that it had that effect on me, and was like, "huh, weird". The three or four times I'd thought about going back, remembering that was there had stopped me, too ("eh, I don't want to get started and just end up abandoning it again, waste of time") until checking again after reading this thread.
Useful book that any starting professor should understand, even if they don't want to admit they are playing a game. science-by-press-release is a technique to master if you want to both maximize the impact of your work, and get tenure.

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Games-Scientists-Play-Sinderm...
Sounds about right, there's more variance for local and state elections. Definitely doesn't fit the narrative that a lot of folks like to run with about Texas.

Personally speaking, I'd go back to Texas if it stayed purple-ish and didn't adopt or drive national narratives of either party.
There are also quite a few typos. I think it's a fair criticism, but I also admire the work you've put in here.
The entire "impact" consisted of the significance that Apple is getting into that space: a company with a powerful brand backed by a history of delivering popular consumer tech. I'm sure that wasn't lost on Malda; but his remarks at the moment were about the specs (the what, not the who). There was no reason for a non-Apple-fanatic to get that iPod.
Ugh. You can’t say “strides towards consciousness” until you define consciousness AND have a metric that can provide objective measure of such things.
> How else are market participants supposed to ascertain the movements of supply and demand curves?

The problem is jobs aren't homogenous, so comparing salaries is meaningless, not only for applicants but also for the company itself. Imagine you find 10 people whose resumes look similar on paper, but after you interview all ten you realise there are some you'd hire in an instant, others you think are just okay, and some you think are awful. It's so obvious why their salaries would differ, and I find it very challenging to make any good argument otherwise.

So, how can market participants ascertain supply and demand (and hence, price)? The answer is they can't, but they're no worse than companies, academics, government or anyone else - without assessing the individual, I don't think it's possible for anyone to know.
You're describing "nice to have"s. The real invasion happens in the data center, away from what's measurable on the/any client.
About those libertarians, stop asking master [video]
I always read the 'F' as "Featured"
>The mobile microreactor would be coupled with a power conversion system that generates approximately 1 to 5 MWe using an open Brayton gas cycle

https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Final-EIS-Vol...

Sounds like an air compressor+turbine, but heated by a heat exchanger instead of burning fuel.
I have a hard enough time actually finishing games, I rarely if ever go back to repeat them. The only games I've ever played more than once (IIRC) are Dead Space I & II and Hollow Knight.
It's already got a primitive version of regenerative braking! The deep-line tubes—those that have the heating problem—are designed so that the stations are at peaks in the line. As the train is approaching the platform the uphill slope helps it decelerate, and the downhill helps it accellerate again.
Yeah, I've been using Gnus for more than 25 years, although I now use mbsync to download e-mail first. Before that, I used the original GNUS for Usenet and VM for e-mail.
There's too much personal stuff on there for me to be comfortable sharing it as is, and I'm afraid I don't have time to distil the list this weekend either.

I'd be happy to create you some ready-made filters for any specific sites or other types of results that you'd like to get rid of though, just let me know!
I think you'd be surprised. Though the problem isn't that it's hard to follow in the general case, but that things could potentially slip through the cracks.

Corporations are risk averse, they don't want to have to deal with potentially getting sued if a job opening starts out in one area and then moves to another one where suddenly the way the opening is described is illegal.

It's just easier to do it the same everywhere if the advantage they're giving up is small.
I use notmuch as well (with astroid as frontend), but I definitely think there are 2 big issues:

1. All clients except for the Emacs one are quite unfinished and development slowed down for quite a few of them.

2. Using it with multiple computers is not working well. I use two computers and am travelling often (so need offline access to my mail so can't just ssh into one machine). I have been using muchsync with an additional server (as the other computers are not always connected). The server syncs to the work exchange server using mbsync. That sort of works, but is brittle and sometimes things get out of sync (I had to search the the muchsync sqlite database recently to delete an entry) or break. I tried other solutions (e.g. sync the notmuch db using syncthing) but broke even more often.
It gets even worse if you also use your phone for email like I do (you essentially have no search on the phone).

I think it is quite obvious that notmuch was designed by developers who use a single computer and don't travel much and don't see much value in mail on multiple devices. I really wish jmap would have better adoption because a jmap server with some local cache for offline work (similar to how e.g. mutt handles IMAP) would be the best solution IMO.
The hype side: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...
Note IANANE (I am not a nuclear engineer) but most probably by using a closed Brayton cycle. The gas is heated which expands and drives the turbine, the hot gas is cooled via a heat exchanger, compressed then fed through the reactor again.

https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2-3.-HTGR-... has a diagram on page 2 that explains it better than I can
If that happens, it will be interesting to see which of the UK’s constituent nations thrives on its own. My money is on England. The Scots will quickly find they can’t fund their current level of public expenditure without English taxpayer’s money.
I've never liked calling it "History API" it's more focused on modifying what the back button will do.

It exists primarily to support SPAs that have hard links for different specific resource views but never actually navigate the user off the single page - the History API allows these sites to drop some breadcumbs so that users can return to different visual states they observed on their screen while never actually navigating....

That all said - I think there are much better ways to accomplish this using, I believe (it's been a bit) location.Url updates that cause micro-reloads... however if your webapp is a 300 pound gorilla this approach is significantly less appealing due to the obvious breaks in user flow.
His explanation in GEB of how genes, DNA, and RNA function was probably the clearest one I’ve ever read. It’s been a while and I forgot the details, but reading his analogies made everything click at the time. Maybe it’s time to re-read GEB.
>Second, if you have no confidence in the execs or CEO of a company then why are you working at that company? Quit and find a company to work at that you believe in!

This comment is really, really tone-deaf. People can believe strongly in the vision and mission of a company while also feeling strongly that upper leadership is steering it in the wrong direction and/or making decisions that negatively impact the company's mission.
I've been using Xbox Cloud for months on my Macbook, Android TV, and iPhone with an Xbox controller and it's been amazing. I never experience lag on my fiber connection.

I'm happy I didn't bother buying an Xbox. For everything else I have a remote Windows box on https://paperspace.com which even lets you stream VR games to my Oculus Quest via Parsec.

Stadia works fine but the Xbox is way more affordable, Stadia's 'pro' game selection is weak, while Xbox has had far more games with one single price and new ones come on multiple times a month.
> It can't be that hard to follow this law in specific places.

Directly from the article:
"Pay experts have long predicted companies would not want to mess with different practices in different states. Doing so not only complicates hiring practices for human resources departments, ..."

There is probably a lot more nuance and qualifications of when it's necessary to disclose and from a company that employs more than 150k employees (according to a quick google) there's probably even more complexity and chaos.
This book (1st edition, at least) is astonishing. Perhaps the best book for coders that I’ve ever read. I recommend it to all the HN crowd.

Reading it, I felt like I actually understood how computers worked, right down to the “electricity going through wires” level and lower, and how that builds up to if-then statements, etc, in a high-level language.
The new trains on the deep lines should also bring a big improvement, from 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tube_for_London
Sorry, I meant chaining vulns, once they do appear
> So the pay bands go up.

They can't, though; if you do that, now there are people in the bottom half, and they're upset that they're 'below average'.

You basically need a vanity range for pay.
I think the Montreal metro faces a lot of these same issues.
It works out in the winter where you don't need to actively heat the space.
In the summer, it can be unbearable.
I'm not sure if the type of rolling stock (rubber tires + tunnel track) has a major difference from other typical subway cars.
I tried Stadia and really wanted to like it but I cannot get over the input lag. I play a lot of FPS so it really matters. Even in this demo I feel my aim is way off because of the input lag. I also get motion sickness with this input lag.
Actively marketing yourself and your ideas is one of the most important things you can do. Without, most people simply won’t know about it or will dismiss it. Just because you market it, doesn’t mean it’ll be successful - things still have to prove their worth regardless and will otherwise fizzle out.

How many important security vulnerabilities have just had technical white papers and no marketing have gotten wider coverage? Very, very few. It’s also very useful for humans to talk about something when given a short, memorable name.
> Why, he asks, do humpbacks sing? And what do their songs mean? Payne says he can’t say: “I would desperately love to know.”

"Any good looking females around? I am robust and can protect a family!"

"DAE hate the noisy floaters that eat all the fish?"

"Oh salty water, you are more salty than usual this day, oh salty water"

"I'm tired of barnacles, mom says it's nothing, but they're nasty and they're ruining my life!"

"Stop singing nonsense Waldorf, others want to sing too! If I was a few hundred miles closer I would slap you! Shut up shut up shut up!"

Joking aside, the songs probably aren't very intellectual. If they were smarter, whalers and fisheries wouldn't be so successful.
Money ruins everything.
NASA’s second mobile launcher is too heavy, years late, and pushing $1B
How does that follow? They will just lower the bottom of the pay bands, and now people who in the bottom third are at the midpoint without another dollar being spent.
An elementary school teacher doesn’t need to rely on appeal to authority to teach math. The student can quickly verify the method works themselves — they don’t have to take the teacher’s word for it alone.

In general, appeal to authority as a fallacy applies to subjects that are opinion-based or contentious.
One of the best computing books I've ever read. Looking forward to checking out the new edition.
This is categorically not true.

In fact, the level of effort required to estimate electricity uses for multiple franchises on one physical section of railway has resulted in nearly all British rolling stock having built-in electricity metering.
So an attacker who needs to bypass PAC can already sometimes find a nonspeculative PAC bypass, though it’s hard. Assuming they can’t, maybe they can use this, if they can find and weaponize an appropriate gadget in the kernel. Sounds plausible but hard; maybe harder than finding a nonspeculative PAC bypass. Any speculative PAC bypass will also suffer from nondeterminism, so it’s not as practical for an attacker as a nonspeculative bypass.

It’s not a given that the speculative PAC gadgets in any kernel are exploitable as effectively as the synthetic kext gadget in the paper.

Even if you find a weaponizable PAC gadget in the kernel, and it actually gives you what you want, it’s not clear how reliable it’ll be in practice.

So, this is kinda scary but it’s also a bit of theatre. The tech press will have something to write about though.
This topic keeps popping up every few months or so and my response is the same;
1. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Csikszentmihalyi. I bought this book only last fall but have read it thrice already within the last 6 months. Why? I was grappling with severe mid-life crisis(existential) and found this book at that time. It saved myself and my career. It helped me really assess what was important in my life and how to attain that what is important. Very short read but very heavy at times.
2. Psychocybernetics-Maxwell Maltz. I bought this book after listening to the Audible audio book. which I listened to at least half a dozen times on my long walks. Found this also super useful along with Flow to navigate my mid-life crisis. Recommend actually reading the book which I have since then twice.
hope this helps.
Any reason they aren't using formal verification for this kind of thing? It would seem like a very worthy investment.