skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's quite torn. She doesn't actually like Germany all that much. She left about 8 years ago, and has never worked there. But, she's an only child, and she's very close to her parents. So, in addition to the support they could provide in raising our family, she feels guilty about leaving them in Germany.

If it weren't for her parents, she said she would push for the US. For all its problems, she likes how friendly and open people are. She often complains when interacting with other Germans about how unnecessarily unfriendly and closed off they can be.

We've discussed the possibility of bringing her parents to the US, assuming we moved there, but that would be a long process, and challenging. She would need to live there 5 years to qualify for citizenship, then she would need to revoke her German citizenship (which she would find very hard to do), and then the process of getting visas for the parents can take another few years. So we're looking at like a 7-8 year process.

Her feelings about Germany do give me a bit of pause about moving there. I've always enjoyed myself in Germany, but my German is rudimentarily (I'm taking classes now to fix that) and I've never actually lived there, so I don't think I can rely on my experience as a visiting foreigner to my experience as an immigrant.
> Another way to help, he said, is to planting trees and native grasses, and to allow log and leaf litter to accumulate.

> “They prefer longer grass and they like to be in the leaf litter from the leaves that have fallen from last year,” Edwards said, “That will make a much better firefly habitat.”

Unfortunately in Long Island this would also make the ideal tick habitat. It's not worth the trade-off for residential property!
> you'll reach lightspeed in about a year, at which point you can't go any faster

I don't think that's how relativity works?
Because it’s extremely consistent he’s arguing the system in question is fatally flawed and that he opposes it entirely. He doesn’t need to be advocating for some back door in crypto when “don’t use crypto” is a better simpler explanation of his position. I think his signing a letter that may argue for a ban of crypto is fairly consistent with this.
The best bet at this age is lego mindstorms. Way easier to hook stuff up, great visual programming language (text based one too).
There is no alternative. Without EUV machines (produced solely by ASML), anything below 10nm is infeasible until we find a different way that works at scale.
Power to them, but this doesn't look like an organization that has a significant balance sheet.
Isnt this a year old? https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11747
Yeah fireflies are very hard to take pictures of, the light always looks much duller.
>a memorable iCloud password

Serious question: Once you have this, why bother with a password manager? Why not just keep a password spreadsheet in iCloud?
> What was done for those who held vast stores of tulips and tulip bulbs at the end of the tulip craze? As far as I know, very little.

The difference is that the tulip craze died of its own accord. This question was posed to those who would like to regulate Bitcoin out of existence.
Markdown is a specific structured subset of plain text. Plain text is the larger set containing Markdown.

That means that Markdown is plain text but plain text may not be Markdown.
Deep Dive: Testing a Microservice Architecture with QA Environments
> What, are your parents going to be running a PDF storage service, classified by person?

I mean, it's a piece of paper. They could write the name of the person on the paper, keep them alphabetized, and store and search through hundreds of them easily (let's assume they're rabbits with hundreds of children). There may be all sorts of problems with this approach but I don't think burdening parents with paper storage is one of them.

Edit: of course, if they were rabbits I wouldn't trust them with paper storage. Rabbits are notorious chewers.
I wonder what percentage of meetings occur because someone in leadership is disorganized and / or unable to properly communicate with staff while they're performing their jobs on a daily basis.

Gonna say that, excluding standup, this has to be at least 50%.
I’m a long time linux user who recently got a Mac, and I found it much more customizable than I ever thought. At least compared to ios it is seriously just a very old “linux” kernel with a better integrated user space.
Netflix, ESPN, and NBCUniversal compete for U.S. Formula 1 rights, report says
You can trace it

https://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-1.pdf

https://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf

You cannot have trust without privacy, since uncoerced exchange of ideas is how true decisions are made.
Thank you, I know it looks stupid simple but code helps me put it into a perspective I can remember better vs only reading documentation about code. That is kind of an interesting way to sort of force someone to not just throw away a return value.

Question: Do you know if this would also be fine if the called function was in a return statement?
I've never run into this because I always write out my `.iter()`s and `.into_iter()`, but this is why I don't think loops should accept `IntoIterator` types, just actual `Iterator`s so you're forced to type it out
Kind of interesting to speculate what kind of traffic needs to transit and what doesn't. It would be a major efficiency failure if the services you mentioned needed to transit the atlantic for any reason. "Maybe all of their web properties are designed with multiple HA zones." I don't think it's physically possible that Google could do what it does without a comprehensive edge network.
Anyone who acts as the "head of their household" and manages the family's finances, pays the bills, and manages the day to day home ops, do your heirs a favor and write out a Death Book[1] today, that contains all your various accounts, passwords, copies of important documents, and so on. PRINT IT OUT and put it in a safe or other secure place. I recently had two acquaintances who died pretty suddenly and young-ish (in their 40s). One was prepared and had his shit together, and it helped his family more easily pick up the pieces while they grieved. The other one did NOT have his shit together at all, and the result was even more stress and phone calls piled on to his family during an already difficult time.

1: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/to-help-your-heirs-write-a...
Most people are mediocre (tech-wise). This is not to say that a few chosen ones possess the inimitable spark of genius, it's just for most people a job's a job.

Nobody pays to think about how to make the tech stack better outside of company time. And when you try to push your hare-brained schemes, the management reaction is of skepticism of the benefits and worry about the potential risks.

Driving these kinds of improvements is a risky, thankless job, that's not necessarily good for your career.

Most people either want to work as little for as much money as possible, so they phone it in, or want to get promoted, which usually involves playing office politics.
This. If you don’t look at price or market cap there’s so many interesting tech our there. Mina, Algorand, Mysten Labs, Aptos, Avalanche, Axelar, Celestia, etc.
What's an HA zone?
I don't think this is why fabs were centralized. I think this is because when you start to decrease node size, the fab costs go up astronomically so to keep the cost in check you need economies of scale and with the current manufacturing techniques you can achieve this by centralizing manufacturing.
That has been the prevailing thought since before WWI, but multiple World Wars and Russia's invasion of Ukraine this year have proven otherwise.

Do you know who was the biggest trading partner of Nazi Germany on the eve of Operation Barbarossa? You guessed it, the Soviet Union. It was responsible for the vast majority of imports of critical resources like various metals, oil, grain, etc. It didn't stop Hitler.

Do you know who were the main buyers of Russian gas, and via which country that gas arrives to them? You guessed it, EU, and the main pipelines pass through Ukraine.

On paper, yes, you're absolutely right. But you're assuming rationality where it's far from certain. Same as in the 1930s, we have a bunch of empty populists everywhere who are anything but rational, intent on blaming everything bad on "bad guys of today", be it the EU, migrants, Soros, the Jews, Nazis, have your pick. With those types of people, you can't assume rationality of actions. Brexit wasn't a rational decision, to give but one example. Poland infringing on press and human freedoms against the will of the EU, while receiving billions of aid from the EU, isn't rational.
Apple Will Be Forced to Use USB-C Charger in iPhones
Yogi Berra

I was thinking the same thing! Haha
AMD recently acquired Xilinx, who makes ARM SoCs
https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc.html
Everything old is new again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
I didn't read the whole thing (and my planetary physics is pretty basic), but how would one protect infrastructure from getting struck by small bodies (asteroids I guess?)? Or are they a much rarer occurrence than I thought (I'm basing this off the fact that the moon is famously full of craters, and we were taught that in school that the moon "protects" earth)!
Requires a magic-based energy source; the usual problem with this sort of thing.
It was recently reported that Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, wanted to rein in wage growth. Encouraging part-time work is surely the best way to achieve that. Many people will be happy to accept shorter hours in place of a raise, which will have the desired effect of slowing down inflation without harming the workers.
I'm not sure that Tesla's connector is a limiting element there. The Tesla system can also go to higher amperages than CCS, which is an advantage. For example, the F150 Lightning charging rate is hampered by its 400 volt CCS system. It can't do more than 200kw. That's creating a lot of the pressure to move to 800 volt.

Tesla doesn't have a similar limitation and can do 250-300kw on the existing 400-450V cars.
However the suppliers this fab with its EU-subsidies aims to outcompete are not in China but in Taiwan, the US, and South Korea.
> How do you like XigmaNAS?

I probably lack the expertise to rate it from a professional point of view, but for my home use it does its job fine. I never experienced any crashes or data losses, and my last year resync of two RAID1 ZFS pools to new bigger disks went fine. Uptimes up to 1.5 years and always interrupted for maintenance or blackouts (no space for a UPS, but this will change soon).
I use the embedded version flashed on a USB dongle mounted directly on the motherboard, a Supermicro X7SPA-L employing a AtomD410 CPU which does the job without the need of a fan. I found the max supported RAM amount (4GB) enough for normal use despite ZFS; used RAM rarely goes beyond 50-60%. Disks are all WD Red Plus (not the infamous SMR ones) which ensures it stays cool and silent. If I have some criticism to move is the file manager supplied with the web interface that sometimes refuses to move files (all data, non system files) without any explanation. I would love having a text file manager such as mc available, but the embedded version doesn't allow to install more software, probably to save space and reduce flash memory wear.

About TrueNAS, i heard of it but never tried it. I might try it after I relocate a few months from now as i plan to build a 2nd NAS for redundancy.
We've been doing this (4day x 8hr) at Monograph (monograph.com) for much longer than I've been at the company. I like to think we're a bit of an outlier since we take Wednesdays off. While this seems strange, it means that I never work more than two days at a time, I have time in the middle of the week to recharge, and I don't totally lose context on problems I'm working on. We could argue that this means it's not a true "off" day which may be true but I'm completely happy with this setup.

Tuesdays are the new Fridays, y'all.
Pure math for its own purpose is for a select few. For most people, math is a set of tools that enables them to better understand certain aspects of reality (or of non-reality, perhaps, in some cases).

In some of those cases, you only require basic math. Some require intermediate math and some relatively advanced math.

But if you want to be a "genius" if either biology, chemistry or psychology, you most likely will need more math than most people learn in high school. Almost every kind of scientific experimentation requires a firm grasp of statistics (way too many papers are written and even published with sub-par stats in many fields). And in most STEM fields, before you can get "genius" level specialization, you will need a relatively broad mastery of the field, and both Biology and Chemisty, there are plenty of things to learn that require at least some entry level collage math.
The scientific evidence for insect population collapse is strong, but the consequences to the rest of the ecosystem can remain subtle for a long time, until they are not.

A death by a thousands cut is the closest analogy. Complex systems don't collapse in a linear fashion. Their seemingly sudden collapse is only suprising beause of our inability to notice and connect the subtle changes.
Good to see you moved to Georgia. We did about 20 years ago. Biggest difference I have seen lately in the tech scene is there are a lot more jobs outside of Atlanta. The salary/cost of living cannot be beaten (lived in MT, AZ, ID, SD prior to GA).
>“What example program would best exemplify Erlang”

This should be more of a thing. When I see example code, I often see "Hello World", or tutorials which go through the primitives and other syntax.

What I want is a short program that shows the language doing something that it does well. Kotlin doing the job of lots of Java, JQ transforming JSON easier than trying to regex it, k doing insane things in 20 characters.
A year ago, I had to go to a bank office and engage in some verification process that also required me to use the physical bank card with its preassigned PIN.

No matter what I tried, I hit the 3-try limit for the day, and opted to have the same preassigned PIN sent by mail to my home address.

When walking back home from the bank branch I realized the mistake I had made: I had entered the correct PIN, but had typed it in calculator/numeric keypad order, and not in phone/PIN pad order.

While I've never used that PIN on a numeric keypad for a PC, somehow my brain associated the numbers with their order on a PC keypad, since I had used my PC keypad to unlock my PC with a PIN numerous times more than I had used any card terminal with a PIN.

So, the next day, I returned to the bank branch office to try the same operation again, and indeed - I had correctly entered the PIN and the online banking transfer limit ended up adjusted just fine.
“we have always admired Bitcoin’s ongoing contributions to the advancement of humanity”

Word salad.
The problem is western society doesn't really believe in science at this point to save us, it believes in technology.

All our problems are just the engineering problem of AGI. Why waste money on something like this when AI will be "smarter" than us by the time it is built?

We should just do nothing and wait for AI to build the instruments it wants.

Maybe there is the slightest hope in this "overpriced" and long delayed space telescope that is getting ready right now but even with that the narrative will end up being how "AI finds alien planet" or "AI sees first star in the universe".

To really build a new LHC it just needs to be marketed to the populace as a tool for AI research. Done. Everyone knows AI is the future and we are not so stupid to skimp on AI research funding.

Spend all that money on researching particle physics though? What a fucking waste of money.
There are tons of these.

Intel
FLIR
DeBeers
Westinghouse for nuclear stuff
Lots of specialty suppliers for aerospace where there is only one or two companies that do a particular thing.

Its actually super common.
I doubt this is the case, because I can bet that US customs require way more than that.
>they just have to agree and consolidate.

It's still not clear that having this be regulated is better.

We don't have a port problem. We used to have one, but it went away. It sure LOOKS like Apple will, eventually, transition away from Lightning on its own anyway.

So why have regulators weigh in here at all? What's the point? What value is added?
I don’t use it regularly, but it worked well enough when I was pushing it pretty hard a while back. Rats. So now we’re back to 0 modern, stable Pythons on iPad?
Ah yes - good point. I wonder if eBPF would be a good supplement? execing into the running container seems like a very "old world" way of doing things.
Wagner, more than any other composer of his generation, undermined tonality as it was conceived and understood by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Schoenberg's debt to Wagner is most explicit in the Verklaerte Nacht, but I think it's more important in that he conceived his innovations as a necessary and logical consequence of Wagner's chromaticism.

Brahms definitely wanted to give the impression that he was following in Beethoven's footsteps. Just to state two examples, the theme of the final movement of his first symphony was obviously modelled after Beethoven's Ode to Joy (hence the 'any ass can see that' remark), and his first piano sonata (in C) not only opens with a theme reminiscent of of Beethoven's Op 106 sonata in B-flat, but the counterstatement for the theme is in B-flat, just in case anyone missed the resemblance.
I approached it the other way around. Golden Sun was an exciting game as someone who used to rent Shining Force II every opportunity I got.
>we were talking about digital audio & the perception thereof by human listeners

Actually, this thread was on sampling theory and whether or not Nyquist perfectly recreated original signals. The only mention of anything about human perception in the chain you're replying to is me writing that good engineering can push errors outside human hearing, while pointing out that it is not the original signal. All the other posts in the thread you claim is about human perception are not about human perception. They're about signal reconstruction with one mention of how that applies to hearing.

>Do you argue like this in all your interactions with other people?

No, most of my friends don't make incorrect claims then double down on them when better information is pointed out. They also don't tend to claim an entire conversation is about a different topic than it was.

You: "Up to the Nyquist limit, a digital signal will completely recreate the original signal". No, as explained.

You: "Digitisation does not result in square wave output anywhere in the output chain" - again false, even for audio, as explained above. Thinking that output is a nice set of pure sine waves making the original band limited (which is also an approximation) leads people to flawed thinking. Realizing the how and why of what actually comes out is useful.

You imply pushing things below a noise floor makes them indistinguishable from noise - this isn't true in general, and is not even true in audio. There are even audio products that use signaling below the noise floor. Repeated misunderstanding of what a noise floor is (and isn't) is extremely useful, even in audio. The other examples were to make it clear there is useful knowledge here.

Understanding these nuances is useful for even audio to understand that reconstruction is always a design tradeoff on where you want to put the errors - and that you never are reconstructing the original signal.
Ah, I missed “of” in 30% of profits. In which case, I thought Apple’s take was 30% of gross on the app store, not profit?
Going a bit far there
If you don't have "enough" "good" biometric data, your passport is invalid to go to the US... so...
Since everyone is just writing their own explanation of monads, here is mine:

Monads are a pattern for function chaining. It can be compared with fluent interfaces in OOP, which is also a pattern for chaining operations. A fluent interface does not imply any particular semantics - the semantics of a fluent chain will depend on the specific object it is used on. Same with monads, where each type which support the monad pattern provide its own unique semantic for how the operations are performed.

The name "monad" is misleading since it is a noun. Perhaps "Chainable" would be a better name?

The pattern can be used in any language which support higher-order functions, but without any syntax sugar support it tend to be rather verbose compared to say fluent interfaces. But with built-in syntax sugar support like in Haskell, monads becomes viable for many purposes.

Since JavaScript is the lingua franca of today, here is an example of a method chain in JavaScript:

[1,2,3].map(a => a + 1).filter(b => b != 3)

The same result using the monad pattern:

[1,2,3].flatMap(a => [a + 1]).flatMap(b => b != 3 ? [b] : [])

The strength of the monad pattern is that it is more composable. For example the same result can be achieved by nesting rather then chaining:

[1,2,3].flatMap(a => [a + 1].flatMap(b => b != 3 ? [b] : []))

Although in both cases it is clearly more verbose than the first non-monad method chain. But with some syntactic sugar with hide the repeated flatMap boilerplate, it can be made pretty concise.
Also hardly anomalous. Trumpism didn't vanish just because Trump lost the election, rather it's become mainstream within the political establishment. Every four years now the world has to wonder whether the coin is going to land again on sane or crazy.
Wow, I see what you mean. No, I haven’t used it much recently. I don’t know what I’d recommend today after reading those reviews.
DigitalOcean Serverless Functions Challenge
Why would they need to list things that _aren't_ included? Where would that list stop?
I don't think this is about using a gap buffer specifically, but rather about making buffers first-class objects. With respect to the line you quote, what matters is not the specific implementation of a buffer which is chosen, but the fact that code works in terms of buffers rather than strings.
Would you mind explaining why you think this is the case?
I'm converting my company's balance sheet into telsa stock, pay with tesla stock and get a 50% discount.
From Bruce via Don (see below), he did not intend to imply that recoverable credentials are a critical component of "safe" systems and he has other reasons for not supporting cryptocurrencies as evidenced by the writings you and Don linked.

Other than that, I just want to point out that I didn't say he was advocating for backdoors; I said he was indirectly doing that by way of the argument he had offered in the tweet supporting his post. Perhaps a better way of raising this concern would have been to ask the question, "Does Bruce believe that unrecoverable credentials prohibit the creation of 'safe' systems?"
I'm really not away of a lot of Apple people complaining about Lightning. I mean, I am one, and lightning doesn't bother me at all and never has.

I don't see a consumer win here, basically. I see overreach.
The CCS2 standard used in Europe and most of the world locks the cable similarly to Tesla.

The CCS1 standard locks the cable using a little flap that folds down on top of the CCS1 latch to hold it in place. Its every bit as clumsy as it sounds, but it does mean there is a locked cable.

Example CCS1 inlet: http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=84&tx_ttnews%5Btt...
> most pro office folks are seeking to substitute gaps in their personal lives with onsite work

> you're saying is also that those wanting to be at the office are friendless, need this as a substitute for a normal life etc

What did he characterize wrong?