skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An industrial revolution (or, more generally, other scientific developments) are not necessary to the story and not typical of the fantasy genre.

Paraphrasing from Wikipedia:
Unlike science fiction and horror, works in the fantasy genre are distinguished in that they typically don't include scientific or macabre themes. Fantasy typically features prominently settings the emulate earth but with a sense of otherness. Magic and supernatural elements are common as main plot elements, theme, or setting.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy)
Did you ever use a Psion Series 7? If so how did the typing experience compare?

I'd love for a new Psion-type device to come out. Something that can run for a month on a pair of AA batteries.
That's the thing though. A heater controlled by a thermostat will considerably reduce the correlation between outside and inside temperature but because it's imperfect it wont' eliminate it entirely.
And all these people look at the man living within his means and think he's "doing it wrong" because he's piling his family into an old Ford Taurus and wearing Walmart jeans instead of spending twice as much for a Camry and Levis.
First, the idea that the only way to spend 150k (post tax in CA) is expensive watches and cars is pretty ridiculous. A half decent accommodation will run you 30k if renting, or more like 60k for a mortgage at todays rates for a median cost SFH. Add in various insurance payments, car and home maintenance, the odd medical bill, etc. and you can spend the 90k remaining without any “luxury” purchases at all. Certainly you don’t have to but…

Second and more importantly, they are spending on whatever the fuck they want. You do realize you’re going to die, yes? There’s no way in which saving more than your neighbor is “good”, morally or otherwise. Maybe by saving more “now” you have a more comfortable “later”, maybe you don’t — the former may be more likely but isn’t guaranteed, and you should not judge someone for having a different risk profile than you.
We know the oldest person who ever lived wasn’t faking her age (2019)
Just imagine that the same manufacturers who are in F1, are in FE. And they haven't figured it out.
> What nonsense, so are we expected to ask how many friends you have IRL to gauge someone’s ability at synchronous communication?

Couldn't one draw parallels with the concept of networking here? As in, certain people might get a job because of being extroverted, seizing the opportunities that present themselves, as well as seeking those out on their own volition?

All qualities that might be preferred in certain roles, almost like a sort of self-selection.

Not saying that it's something that should always be selected for, but I suspect that it might be a bit like coding tests: vaguely useful despite the fact that they're not exactly the best method.

> It’s the same as “show me your GitHub profile” but maybe after 8 hours on a computer asynchronously communicating and coding. I don’t want to code or make friends on discord.

What if they want you to be the kind of person who does? I mean, you might want to avoid companies that expect you to live and breathe code (which might coincide with being available 24/7), but one can definitely imagine that such qualities would also be factors that companies would look for.
Those are amazingly great ideas, but they would take vision and leadership to implement. Bloated rent-seeking organizations like Wikimedia don't attract people with vision and leadership skills, so they won't have any.
Sanitizers not halting on assertions by default when running under gdb is a pet peeve of mine.
Yeah, this leads me to believe the other guy was right. The automated document checker probably flagged one of those domains leading to your documents getting removed.
Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years
Sociopaths often like to pathologize people not sharing their emotions with them.
Is taking the sledgehammer with you a good thing? I mean, it may have fingerprints, but it makes you a bit conspicuous.
I always generates an image of a moon for me.
I think there might be some session leakage. I typed “A pig with a bowler hat.” and the model returned a picture of a half moon.
Yeah, every EV has a 650km range.
I have no idea what you were saying by "Causation frequently removes correlations that would otherwise exist" then.
It's great you don't have to configure any public interface at all (and can basically have an internal only VPS). Reducing cost by removing or not configuring public IPv4 is also a good development - there are so many things that can work IPv6-only now even access from outside.
The results are amazingly poor. Try "biden plays chess against napoleon"
It has began.
I would say Middle Earth just lacks fertilizer.

That fertilizer would be needed to free a lot of people from menial field work and allow them and their children to dig for coal or toil in factories.

Imho coal is not all that necessary for an industrial revolution. To run factories, one could use water power for the textile industry for example.

And i would recommend to make charcoal out of Lóriens forests for the smelteries (which actually would be quite good due to the low sulfur content of charcoal).
My favourite NIMBY story is the Edinburgh inner ring road:

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/edi...
It depends on the FAANG. In my experience:

Amazon hires for a specific team lead.

Google hires for a specific manager (one level higher than lead).

Facebook hires for a specific office. Boot camp is for team placement.

I don’t know about Apple or Netflix.

Of course, if you have very specific skills, you might get hired to a specific project, etc.
Human-specific gene increases primate neocortex in the fetal marmoset
This is interesting, but appart from maybe some CI/CD pipeline configurations I can't think of a particularly useful reason for it.. Anyone have some suggestions ?
Why is so much political commentary misleading?
Deported hacker used his tech skills to help get back to the US
'Much political commentary is highly misleading. Though media evaluation of policy agendas and the conduct of politicians tends to be better, analysis of policy effects and the role of parties is very poor, even in the "quality" press. When assessing policy records, commentators tend to mistake noise for the effects of policy interventions, research suggesting that performance metrics are mostly outside the control of politicians.

Why would this be? If societies are to function optimally, should they not use information which conforms tightly with reality? As cultural evolution theory emphasizes, the most efficient societies tend to outcompete alternatives, good information being crucial to this.

In the case of political commentary, better information is available, academic research being more reliable than media analysis. The reasons why this phenomenon occurs are fascinating, demonstrating the limits of rationality. Misleading commentary boosts confidence in liberal democracy; it may be better not to challenge it.'
Because he was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon and not a historian of the 18th/19th centuries.

There's no Industrial Revolution in Anglo-Saxon mythology. Including it would have jarred in a dyschronistic way.

More than that, fantasy is based on nostalgia for heroic simplicity and straightforwardness, with a dash of magic to instil some child-like wonder.

The Industrial Revolution operated on a completely different narrative and moral basis. It was more about colonisation at home, using mechanisation to organise forced labour.

It's hard to be a brave Romantic hero in that kind of setting.
Sorry you are going through this.

One thing that I do is get coffee regularly in the morning with a group of guys. (It took dedication to get to this point)

Community is showing up. We have been doing Mondays for almost 7 years now and not everyone is married with kids.

If you pick somewhere and go there every week at the same time you slowly get incorporated. E.g. library, bookstore, chapel, coffee shop, bar, etc.
It is, but arguably it's closer to the Google News model (in that more than just the titles are shared) which recently saw some pushback in the EU [1]

In general, if the data owner says you must take it down, you rarely have a leg to stand on unless you can claim some kind of protected use (e.g. reporting or criticism)

[1] https://www.mondaq.com/copyright/53690/google-news-service-i...
They occur primarily in certain types of performance intensive back-end programming.

What do you tell a React developer?

You're going to need Knuth-Morris-Pratt to center a div?

95% of software jobs involve using a library for algorithm problems.
No matter what I typed, it always generated the same image of a moon half-covered in shadow. I think something might be a bit buggy with this.
This title suggests that Hetzner's new policy is EITHER you take an IPv6 address OR none at all, and that IPv4 is completely off the table.

This is incorrect; everything remains the same but you now have the option to get a cheaper instance by not getting an IPv4 address:

> "The total price for cloud servers with public IP addresses is the same as before. The only change that comes with the new network options is the ability to reduce costs by removing the Primary IPv4."
Having an IPv4 is like having a 212 prefix.
Those cars hold their value because they're toys that never rack up substantial miles and wear let alone hard miles. See also: Miatas

If you're going to own a car as transportation it will not hold its value. You an screech all you want about your commuter Camry/Accord/whatever but it's still dropping value precipitously, just slower than an Impala, which is basically a reflection of how the owners tend to behave.
That’s a feature not a bug…
Because then you wouldn't be buying two (or even three devices).

You can, of course, opt for a Samsung Galaxy phone and have that today, right now.
Meta hires for a specific profile like ML specialist, ML generalist, SRE, backend engineer, mobile developer, ... Apple hires for specific teams with often a specialized role as well.
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> I do have first-hand knowledge of it being possible

What do you mean by possible?

The difference between possible and actual is actually what determines whether it's a contrived imagining.
There's an image at the start of the post (I want to say from the Snowden leaks) that's classified TS/SI/NF (top secret, sensitive information, not for release to foreign nationals).

Not a problem for civilians to view actually, but those with government clearance are prohibited from viewing that material unless they are in the allowed categories.
Interviewed 2007 at Google it was super fun. I believe there where 4 interviews back to back each was a super neat problem. The hardest one was a walking of the DOM without recursion - this was really hard to express on a whiteboard and even figure out. Interacting with the other engineers was amazing you could tell they were brilliant and it was just overall good energy. The lunch was really good and yeah. I probably would have accepted the offer if I didn’t get scared of the idea of relocating to CA… happy with my choice but still think it would have been pretty cool too… I don’t get why people knock this style interview… I think it’s pretty fun… if I recall at the time they just brought you a problem to work on that was related to what they are working on to see how it’d be like to work with you on the same problem… I hear googles changed a lot since then so maybe it’s not as good energy - but I think working problem solving style interviews are probably the best way to decide if you will be a good fit
The QOI format is relatively easy to understand, explained in a single page pdf file. I found it very interesting, knowing nothing of image encoding/compression.

https://qoiformat.org/
It's the quickest way to destroy their company so I'm sure that many people here would support it.
Here is what it was supposed to be:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?ts=4.7.4#code/C4TwDgpgBA...
Earnestly, these rules are in fact arbitrary and tough. When you’re a bum, genuinely all you have is your sense of your own personhood. Being assigned strict rules like a government mandated bedtime (aka a closing time for the shelter) is a huge pill to swallow because you’re giving up what little you have when you already have little. Additionally, shelters may not be safe for you! You may get robbed, raped, or otherwise violated by other people there, with no accountability or guarantee of safety.

On top of this, if you are addicted to drugs, you might be unable to safely detox. Cutting cold turkey in a shelter sounds like a nightmare and I wouldn’t be surprised if a bum would prefer remaining addicted on the street than vomiting/sweating/sick in a shelter full of strangers where you’re too vulnerable to fight back if anything goes wrong.

More realistically, I’ve known folks who refuse to go to shelters because the shelters demand them to give up their pets, aka their family and what’s getting them through the traumatizing experience of homelessness. Or they’re told to give up their possessions for being too bulky or much, even though there’s no guarantee they might not need all that gear back if they’re later kicked out or age out or housing falls through.
> If we assume the best system module is faster than say a Raspberry Pi 4 (which seems optimistic), it'd still get absolutely walked by an 11-year old i5 (e.g., Tx20 generation Thinkpad which are coreboot-able these days).

The GPDs come with actual intel Core based processors, not even Atoms. It would be interesting to see, but they probably are miles better than a 11 year old laptop CPU, they even advertise them for gaming.
Show HN: Smart Cards for Everyone
It's pretty nice, but there are some quirks. For instance commands depend on which Blender UI tab has mouse foucs (kind of natural for a GUI application).
There is a book by Norman Spinrad called « The iron dream » which can make everyone realizes how easy it can be to not spot extremist and fascist views. For those who don’t know it, it is basically a book within a book, as if in a parallel universe, Hitler had emigrated to the US and become a fantasy writer instead of what happened in our timeline. But of course, his ideas still are present in his novel you read and you read that from the perspective of the hero of the book as he slaughters and « defends » himself and the civilisation from what he feels are attacks from inferior species.
The kind of books that forces you to question yourself and how you receive entertainement, News, and how you filter and analyze that, or not, before being influenced by it.
My father has insisted on doing this for over 20 years, but he doesn't know how to do it himself. I expect a password-reset phone call from him every 2 or 3 days and have done since 1998. Just recently he had someone from his bank's IT department call him directly about resetting his password over 500 times.
Good news is they do exist, and manufacturers do make them even if they are prohibitively expensive. If you want it enough you can actually pay to get it made and shipped to you, which is better than not having that option at all.
In principle all operations can be translated between frameworks, even if some ops aren't implemented in one or the other. This, however, depends on whether the translation software supports graph rewriting for such nodes.

Lambdas and other custom code are also problematic, as their code isn't necessarily stored within the graph.
But that is not really the `|` operators fault. You get the exact same behaviour when you create a dictionary.

>>> {1: 1, 1.0: 1.0, True: True}
{1: True}

So `|` between dictionaries behaves just as you'd expect, if your expectations about creating a dictionary are correct. I think that's very reasonable.
Hot take: The majority of information consumed by people is compromised of low quality opinions, misrepresentations, and outright lies. It has always been this way, always will be this way, and every single person who clutches at their pearls over this fact also believes things would be improved by having the correct people control access to information.
This isn't even the same product, they posted a laptop, not the MNT pocket, hence their wildly different dimensions/specifications

https://shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-reform
Also, I didn't mention it but the FizzBuzz happens on hover of FizzBuzz. I realize that's not great behavior though
Link some currently manufactured and available consumer oriented SLC drives :)
Ah, you missed the author's footnote to your excerpt.

> Yes, strictly speaking dinosaurs aren’t needed for coal as coal mostly is made of plant biomass, you fun ruining hack of a pedant.

https://featherlessbipeds.substack.com/p/why-didnt-gandalf-o...

Commenters beware, the article is filled with such gotchas for the careless reader.
Something in new now long gone, sorry I think you're correct errors like that are why I wish we could delete posts here.
The error about excessive/infinite type instantiation depth is still there.

I mean, yes, it does "work" and FizzBuzz gets defined as expected. But... the error...
And here is a new link with the error fixed:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?ts=4.7.4#code/C4TwDgpgBA...
To add to this, there are many situations where the thing asked is less important than the fact that any question was posed. E.g. the customs agent who want to see if you are nervous, or the emergency services that want to see how conscious you are. In interviews, it creates a path forward and pacing.

Focusing on CS topics is something that should work for junior as well as senior developers. You can't ask someone junior how they solved some previous team issue, but you can ask a senior to reverse a linked list, because it's something basic that doesn't require experience. It's not the only thing you ask a senior developer, though.

The actual answer is less interesting than how you interact with me. That said, interviewers should be flexible, good listeners and not have a bad day.
> Sort of what happened to the civilizations in the Amazonas basin in the 16th century.

Got any good sources on that? Sounds very interesting
That's hilarious that they're so out of touch that the JSON-LD and SHACL people are the realists. JSON-LD is ridiculous and a desperate attempt to attach semantic web technology to something that is actually used. It was announced with the misleading post titled "JSON-LD and Why I hate the Semantic Web". Only it's completely about the semantic web and is just a serialization format for RDF expressed in JSON. So you take JSON a format that can be described in a single page and layer this monstrosity over it. For what? The best thing that can be said for it is you can ignore it (maybe) and just treat it as JSON. There was zero need for JSON-LD. They had a perfectly good serialization format in TURTLE. It was similarly easy to describe and understand as JSON, but nooooo. They're always riding the coat tails of some other popular technology trying to get a free ride. It's like that obnoxious kid who shows up to the party and tells you how much smarter they are than you and then complains that no one will talk to them.

SHACL is almost dumber that JSON-LD, if you can believe that. At least JSON-LD is just a serialization format. If you can manage to get it to parse you can just reserialize it to a sane format like TURTLE and get rid of the stupid. With SHACL you're stuck with it. So you go and create the worlds slowest database by basically normalizing the hell out of it because if a little normalization is good a lot of normalization is better. Screw knowing anything about the world. Let's throw that all out the window and allow people to express anything.

So now you've got a database that can express anything and people say, "hey, I actually know some things about the world that seem to hold and my database is becoming a ridiculous mess. Can we make it so that people can't express something like I already can with my relational database?" Well the semantic web people went off in deep thought for a decade and finally came back with SHACL. It's a constraints language, expressed in RDF, of course, and if you express it in JSON-LD that means you've got SHACL expressed in RDF expressed in JSON, joy. I guess you could implement is in a number of different ways but it ends up firing off a series of queries saying, "Is this ok? What about that? How about this?" and if they're all successful then it will allow you to run the query you actually wanted to run. So now after all that you've got the world's slowest database that is now orders of magnitude even slower so that it operates a bit like MySQL.

Semantic web databases allow you to express just about any query you'd like but it allows you to express queries that you're never going to, and is extremely slow for the ones you are.
Is the fee for just a single card, or do we get a batch?
What is a 212 prefix? I don't understand the reference.
Author blames the decline on Covid vaccine.

If this were the case, then comparable declines should be seen everywhere in the world wherever vaccines were widely deployed. The author offhandedly mentions Germany, without following this line of investigation further other than to provide a link to the author's previous article.

Interesting hypothesis, but a handful of countries is not nearly enough to draw conclusions at this point.
I am now serving in Ukrainian army and have to say something like this might be tempting in theory: no requirements being top performance, no need for camera etc

The sad reality is that windows and x86 are a requirement due to a few specific software solutions, but I can see how this can become a go to for at least few kinds of users
>For an example of the difference, compare the quality and capability of Photoshop versus GIMP (or any open source photo editor) to see the difference.

Photo editing has changed, a lot of basic things like crop and export are able to be done in OS specific tools like preview, you used to need full on photoshop.

Conversely GIMP on MacOS is an absolute disaster that doesn't even use the same UI as the rest of the OS.

These more utilitarian tools are ridding with usability bugs and probably security vulns as well.