skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I don't get the point of this program. Did they want to ease the semiconductor supply chain problem? I got my master degree on the field of condensed matter. In the past, our group has strong link to the semiconductor industry. Right now, there are more and more classmates tend to change the field from hardware to software after they graduated.

WLB just sucks in semiconductor industry.
Of those, only Helion has any hope of a useful outcome. But it is a long shot, not least because of the 3He supply problem.
Is this a recent development where people take a reply to by-default be an argument rather than sometimes just adding to discussion? I've seen it a few times on HN in the last year.
The fact that Canva has a `Source Control team` with at least 5 people on it (going by the thanks at the bottom of the article), means they should probably try a different approach.

I think it's a cool company, with a good product, but they're WAY too small to be having a "source control team" on staff. That's at least 1.2MM a year salary / benefits cost.
Your and Jeff's statements are wholly compatible.
Also see:

PyScript: Run Python in your HTML (pyscript.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217337

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I totally understand. My .vimrc has shrunk from over a hundred lines to 4 lines in the last years. But I really think you are doing yourself a disservice. It is easier than ever (homebrew, nix, cargo, pip) to get nice software everywhere.
Did anyone use scalar from Microsoft?

https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
If they're generated you can just re-generate from source every time you need to track changes.

You're using git as a cache. You don't need to version a cache.
Fission is decreasingly relevant. The faster, the better for us all.
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
It made the news recently that Wickr (Amazon owned E2EE chat app) is full of illegal imagery.

I read about this on my LinkedIn feed then decided to search for "Wickr" there to see who else was talking about this. The search returned dozens of spam messages offering drugs in Asia and the US with information to contact on Wickr for price.

I reported these drug spam posts to LinkedIn - which is supposedly an anonymous report.

Next day I got a flood of reports on my own comments (nothing to do with that topic), so many I didn't bother to appeal as I had other things to do. Few hours later my account was down.

Seems that for retaliation the drug network decided to find me out and use their accounts to subvert LinkedIn's policy and ensure I can't stop their spam. They have new spam up now while my account is gone.

No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
How does this save me a google search? Either it can swim (someone's seen it swimming) or it can't (nobody has seen it swim). If it maybe can swim, I have to google it.
Building a Tool to Search Graduation Photos with Facial Recognition
> These .xlf files are generated and contain translated strings for each locale

... and they make up 70% of their repo

Why would you include generated file in a repo?

Do they take to long to remake?

[EDIT]: especially given the fact that they're using bazel which is supposed to be the bee's knees of build system?
What's the value of a monorepo if developers only ever check out a small subset of it? Wouldn't multiple repos allow greater scale without any practical reduction in utility?

For example, all the localisation files could live in a separate project (if we accept the need to commit them at all). Some tools would be needed to deal with the inevitable problem that developer working sets would not align with project boundaries, but that seems like an easier job than making git scale while maintaining response times.
Scar?

Frankly, what happens is people learn the value of prudence early in life which then saves them a ton of money, time and anguish.

I grew up in hard times, and spend to solve problems was rarely the right answer.

Each new skill mastered was worth an awful lot of money! I picked up many and have broad competence today. The savings are still compounding.

If you ask me, the current emphasis on consumption and so damn many things made to fail hard and or be replaced rather than serviced, refused or repurposed is morbid!

Gluttony on parade.

A lot of people need work and or to live on not a lot of money too.

Right to repair plus some way for people to learn, maybe learn together would put a dent in many businesses. I get that, but which is it?

Pay them more to actually consume, or maybe we all should not be surprised when large numbers of people begin to really walk that rugged individualist talk.
Hawking radiation. A black hole emits hawking radiation at a wavelength about equal to its diameter, and with power (ie energy/time) inversely proportional to its diameter. So the smaller the black hole, the higher the energy of the photons it emits and also the more energy it emits per second. A black hole with the mass of Mount Everest (~10^14 kg) would, according to a hawking radiation calculator[0], have a schwarzschild radius of 10^-23m, and a proportional wavelength on the order of extremely intense gamma rays or cosmic rays, with a temperature of a billion degrees kelvin. Low-mass black holes aren't black at all.

[0] Online hawking radiation counter: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
> that all Russian territorial objectives are likely to be met

Their objective was to overthrow Ukrainian goverment and take half a country. So no, their objectives definietly will not be met.
what does WLB stand for ? sorry not from the hardware field
Yeah, you're probably right. I guess my point is directed more at community developers: Don't work for free for the benefit of closed-source products. If you want to make a substantial contribution to something that's open-source under a pushover license, either make or find a copyleft fork and contribute your changes there instead.
We use pyright, great software with extremely quick support and fixes. I think they have a full time developer on this project. You seem pretty entitled.
Projects not being built indicate the massive success of falling costs. Projects that fail to reduce cost enough to compete get cancelled, and the capital goes to others instead.
The tank can carry a bigger gun, but that's about it. Most of it is armor that it has to haul for 100-300 miles at a time (before it runs out of fuel).

Also, lol at "Ukrainian tractors". Their biggest (only?) tractor plant was destroyed in Kharkiv. Most of their tractors are... John Deere. Probably why they got so good at modifying them that Americans are buying their software :D
Yes, TSMC are apparantly investing $12 billion [1] to build and maintain their new Arizona fab over ~10 years. So yeah, costs a bit more than the $200m EUV machine!

1. https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tsmc-confirms-5nm-fab-in-us/
Photographers took 5,000+ images from my graduation ceremony that were incredibly difficult to search. So, I created a tool to search them with facial recognition.

Video demo: https://nitter.net/jeromepaulos/status/1537228790119559168
> I'm not saying don't have the translations at all. I'm saying: 1) caching things in git in general is a bad idea (...)

You're missing the point. Storing translated files is caching things in git, and it is not a bad idea. It's a standard practice that saves your neck.

You either place faith on a build step working deterministically when it was not designed to work like that, or you track your generated files in your version control system.

If you decide to put faith on your ability to run deterministic builds with a potentially non-deterministic system, you waste minutes with each build regenerating files that you could very well have checked out and in the process risk sneaking in hard to track bugs. Then you need to have internationalization test steps for each localization running as part of your integration tests to verify if your build worked, which consume even more resources.

Or... you stash them in git?

You use git to track changes, regardless of where they came from. Just because you place faith in some build step to always work deterministically that does not mean you are following a good practice and everyone else around you is wrong.
If you like this, you may find the allantools library useful.

https://github.com/aewallin/allantools
There must have been _some_ intersections of time/technology and/or cost/efficiency where this didn't hold? Where a weapon system became _so_ vulnerable that, despite being the best at its job, it still wasn't good enough.

As an example, is there a point where hypersonic weapons become so effective that aircraft carriers are [temporarily?] retired? Surely the cost (time, money, human lives) that goes into the weapon system is part of the equation.
Then why bring them up here at all? I hope it's not to push some backwards anti-vaccine bs.
The ones quoted are just examples. The airlines will decide the actual routes.
I don't care about options. Let me see the money. Then I can buy shares in whatever company I want or invest in an index fund, managed fund or ETF.
CBDC’s don’t have to be crypto currency though.
> There’s no fundamental reason for any crypto to trade at any particular price.

That says it all.
Here are a few reasons that I've heard and experienced

1. Standardized tooling

2. Fewer issues related to dependencies

3. Hermetic tests

4. Reduced code duplication and easier code sharing
Batteries will be a negligible fraction of utility storage, and lithium will be a negligible fraction of that.

So, your concern trolling about battery materials is misplaced.
There is no reason to work anywhere for more than 4 years. Vest the options, which have a 7-10 year exercise window because you’d only take a job at a company that had them, then quit and get another job and take another shot.

Your lottery ticket remains whether you are working there or not. The only reason not to leave after 4 years is if you are a founder or the company is giving you extremely generous compensation.
Ah - that would explain why at my current job there was a node_modules directory in git with nearly 2 million lines of Javascript within.

It is gone now.
Excited to see this. The computer engineering curriculum at Purdue was very high quality, including one of the few courses in the nation where multi-core CPU design was taught. Purdue also has strong chemical engineering and electrical engineering programs so there ought to be plenty of facility talent and student interest to make this work.
Whether software based access control is sufficient depends on the workload and where in the stack the workload runs.
I agree though, hardware virtualisation based is more secure and less complex. It also requires access to bare metal, so a providers service or run it yourself, which is a trade off.
Dinosaurs won't hire me because I don't have a college degree. MAANGA won't hire me because I'm not good at leetcoding. That leaves startups.
There were 8 years of diplomacy. There was maybe 1 year of intense diplomacy before the invasion on the 24th of February? Don't listen to Russian disinformation, it'll make you stupider.
.docx files are archives of xml-files. No one wants to write that by hand.

Or, in more words: The format of the files is just the representation on disk - it’s not directly connected to how the files are generated or edited. XML files can be written by hand with suitable editor support.
> I don’t know, for me — and this is probably I’m too much of an engineer — it’s like, what is AI? It’s math. It’s basically elaborations on linear algebra. I have a hard time getting worked up about linear algebra. It’s math. We’ll be able to keep the math under control. I’m not as worried about that.

What a shockingly shallow and irresponsible dismissal of AI-safety concerns by a man who has the means to know better.
It's clear that this is an exciting topic for techies.

But keep in mind what this all is made for: Destroying and killing. We are talking about war machinery, and technical discussions about those tend to romanticize all that technology much too often.

If we'd only pour 10% of the investments that today goes into war machinery into peace research and conflict prevention, then this world would be a much safer place.

There would be less toys to play with and less "fascinating" discussions about tanks and guided missiles and strategy and artillery and infantry and fighter planes, which may sadden the technically inclined, but in the end these are not toys. These are devices to destroy and kill, and designing, building and maintaining them has enormous costs even in peacetime.
How much cheaper is it for a startup to give you options? Assuming the company is public is it like 20% more or much higher on average?
I understand why the advantages of this approach, but at the same time, we live in a world where people abuse antibiotics. As a result, microbes are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics, and antibiotics are not an infinitely renewable resource.

So I understand why the doctors are hesitant to hand out antibiotics on a whim. There's not candies. And we all want to avoid a situation where no amount of antibiotics will cure your Lyme, UTI, STD, or tuberculosis.
> “People get triggered by everything and can’t conform to basic rules of honest debate,” he wrote. “Back to dictatorship.”

But then

> Mr. Powell is part of a Slack group called trolling-999plus, according to messages viewed by The Times. The group is labeled “… and you thought 4chan was full of trolls,”

Sounds like they wanted to lay off some people, so HR let the toxic cryptobro CEO do his thing for a while.

I bet they called this "unleash the Kraken" on their internal emails...
We used to call that a Webmaster
One of the benefits of monorepo is refactoring. You can just apply a renaming command across all of the files in the solution and all the related names are properly updated.

Not that easy to get this to work on multiple repos.
Idk who this humpty-dumpty guy is, but the actual humanities are vastly more compelling of an intellectual pursuit than most machine-oriented stuff.
He also mentions Keynes shortly after that, I wouldn't call him a far-right follower just for being interested in that midcentury time-frame. He does make a very good point when he talks about Keynes being relatively easy to read when it comes to economics, I mean, compared to the economics of today which has been turned into basically maths.

Also, him being from Wisconsin and mentioning Burnham, is strange that he hasn't make at least a passing reference to George Kennan. I'm reading through Gaddis's biography of him and you can sort of see, if you look close enough, the "boy from Wisconsin who has made it to the outside world"-thingie all throughout his (Kennan's) career, even when he was residing in Moscow and when he was trying to understand how the Russians/Soviets basically think and act. It is my opinion that that outside view (meaning a view not centered on the US West Coast nor on the East Coast) is what made some of his dispatches so on point and, basically, so good and informative. I wonder if that also applies to people like MA, I mean, to people who get out of places like Wisconsin and who then reach the West Coast of today. Do they still have that "outside view"?
So you are saying that on LinkedIn if you report something the owner can see the name of who reported it?
Good idea, this can be out of box solution for many organisations with limited team size. Will defo look forward for the smartness of system for self start/stop on the demand over the CRON'd approach along with cost analysis reports how much the system saves with/without (this would help to convince the managers ;) ) along with suggestion on reserved/saving plans and many more...

All the very best on the project Sri and Brian. _Eyes on this_
A comically silly question. I bet 99% of HN has played a game with Class called or refered to as "tank." Its not a matter of do tanks have a future just what the format will be. Even in a made up fantasy games the concept of a military unit with heavy armoring is always going to have a place. Same as real life.
"Mature" means its cost is not falling, while the competition has already plummeted far below, without slowing. So, your opinion about nukes' necessity will have zero effect on outcome. The rest of the world will act on cost, to even your benefit.
Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.
I'm surprised 16 hours was enough. Don't want to knock your diet, whatever works works, but when I did keto and one meal a day I was measuring my being in ketosis with the urinalysis strips. It used to make me a good 2 - 3 weeks of near zero carbs to get into ketosis and if I had a full carb meal like pasta or pizza it would take me as long as 2-3 days to dip back into ketosis. That said, I wasn't working out as much as I could have been so that could make the difference. #broscience
Do you have more in formation about these native peer-to-peer libraries that chrome killed off?
Yeah... also once such a team exists, they are naturally going to resist ideas like not having a monorepo but just using git submodules, not keeping the history of every generated file forever etc.

Because then they won't need a 5-man team to handle the fallout any more.
But how do you determine if (not when) you should exercise? I am trying to make this decision for a company I recently left. I don't know when they'll IPO. I know they wanted to, but the market is getting slammed, and they just announced layoffs. I don't have much confidence in the company, so I am having a hard time understanding the risk. I don't really even understand what happens if they don't ever IPO and I have purchased options.
Is there any more recent technical review of ScyllaDB than this?

https://jepsen.io/analyses/scylla-4.2-rc3
Vogtle will be cancelled before completion. That many $billions for 2GW is nothing short of pathetic.

It cannot be cancelled soon enough.
We use scalar at Microsoft. Working with massive scale of some repos would be near impossible with "vanilla" Git.
The article uses the term generated, but a more precise term could be "produced by translators". The files can't be simply regenerated. We've recently published [1] a separate post that explains the localisation process in more detail.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28931601
Also, remember that Microsoft added code to Pylance to see if you were running an open-source build of VS Code and to refuse to work if you were.
For those in great need, there is this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ie-tab/hehijbfgiek...
Luxury collectable items typically suffer in a recession
How much more favorable are the tax implications. I recall paying more than 40% on vesting my RSUs.
Canva gives users without design tools expertise the ability to make fairly polished looking graphics with a super easy and intuitive interface. (As a designer, I can assure you that polished looking is not the same thing as designed.) It’s a very popular service, so they’re dealing with huge scale. Intuitive interfaces often come with complex mechanisms and lots of assets, and they have clients on every major mobile and desktop platform, and the web. They also do a ton of heavy graphics processing that is likely done in lower-level languages than the interface.

The likelihood of a 2000 employee software company simply not considering that they could streamline their build process is pretty slim.
Funny how this is a "culture war", but the big tech firms purging all who are not ideologically "pure" isn't.
Pretty cool. How is gitpod in Safari on iPadOS?

Also are you adding in tailscale so that you can then reach the container from your iPad as well?
> If we'd only pour 10% of the investments that today goes into war machinery into peace research and conflict prevention, then this world would be a much safer place.

If you get everyone to decide this, yes.

But if you do this and your aggressive neighbor doesn't, your decision to forgo military spending can make the world less safe. Some parts of Europe are remembering this now.
Yes for some reasons the audio world doesn't speak much about figures: cost of development, revenue etc.

There is a huge market of let's say $25-$50 plugins that serve the amateurs just as well the pros and the former have been pushed out of ProTools for a while now, so I'm not so sure AAXs beat VSTs nowadays, but hard to argue volume or revenue without the data.
What did you search?
I'm about to starting writing some, the mpe support is exciting. Before this Juce have owned most of the plugin sector.
>Like the first solution, normalized data is stored in a database – but in this implementation, it’s a NoSQL database instead of a relational database.

What means data normalization in a NoSQL context? I think most normal forms make sense in a context where we have tables, rows and Relational algebra.
A negligible fraction of utility-scale storage will be batteries, so battery capacity hardly matters.
> If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI.

In the United States, it isn't illegal to be a Nazi, so I don't know why you would contact the FBI or what you expect they would do about it.
There is a buffer cache in the compute instance. There is also cache at the page server. Postgres also uses a file system cache - that’s gone.
Yeah if there's not a lot of it, and if it's easy to regenerate, it can be fine.
Anyone know of any good use cases for a 3D models or simulations at the city scale apart from eye candy, e.g. public presentations of future urban development?

I worked in this space for a while and I never found much of a use case for serious applications of 3D over say an ordinary 2D GIS. Ended up building applications using PostGIS openstreetmap etc that were a lot more effective.
You can already build auxiliary drivers / codecs / etc and insert them into modules, then put together a device tree overlay to use the module. With things like dt overlay fs, straight forward to insert new device trees.

If you really wanted, could build a minimal kernel and move many devices to be inserted at runtime.

Anyway, wouldn’t mind if all that was made a lot smarter and made more accessible to people.
May be this works for American culture. In India over 95% are arranged marriages. The probability of finding a partner with common interests is pretty low. Not marrying is not an option. Because it affects siblings marriages. Women have even lesser freedom in this area. Given these conditions the best thing to do is not forget the relations ship b/w spouse will never be great and at the same time its not the spouse's fault. Minimal commitment to the happiness of the spouse is a must but never forget it will not be great.

Long live the culture of individual freedom the west values most.
Canva is absolutely crushing the established design market with their product right now so I'd say having all those features is pretty important for a good tool these days.
> Pro Tools doesn't get a mention in this thread, for the most part, but for better or worse it remains something of standard in audio post-production in the US. AAX isn't a bad re-imagining of what what RTAS/TDM-based plug-ins pre v10, and Avid aren't going to relinquish any control to third parties.

To everyone’s surprise (yours included, I’m sure) Avid is mentioned in the announcement as a company already involved with the project and working on using it for something. There’s a nonzero chance they could adopt it in Pro Tools and drop AAX.
> In fact, if your host lives for as long as possible without suffering any negative effects from your freeloading, is preferred by mates and most loved by peers, etc., that's when you spread the furthest.

Ah, you mean toxoplasma gondii. Heh.
Well, there's Scribus, which may or may not suit your desktop publishing needs: https://www.scribus.net/