skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a certification that shows the technician is aware of the law, similar to no trespassing signs and lease agreements. If it's not enforced that a problem that needs to be fixed. If people aren't following the correct procedure because they know they most likely won't get caught and don't care then that's a problem with them.
I'm living in Lantau, it's a really great place :-)

I doubt you would recognize it though. Discovery Bay which would have been very new in 1989 is now a huge and wealthy place gathering mainly westerners.
Tung Chung is now a busy hub with the new airport and Macau bridge.

Mui Wo is booming.

There are even talks of expanding the island artificially for more housing.
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I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used Go (golang), Gython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

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> How would this be better?

Don't lie to your employees.

> There is no "right" answer in this situation

There are better and worse answers though. Lying and/or being incompetent are terrible answers.
Nice! I was in a very similar situation. Got the EPA cert and all the equipment and replaced our central AC. Glad to see I'm not the only one crazy enough to go through all that trouble :)
How much can a parent even affect their children? I remember studies of adopted children showing it was little.

Edit: this[0] is not the study but shows something similar

> Adopted children resemble their adoptive parents slightly in early childhood but not at all in middle childhood or adolescence In contrast, during childhood and adolescence, adopted children become more like their biological parents, and to the same degree as children and parents in control families

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.199...
It's not about fermentation but it is about dairy
Since it's reverse life insurance, I had this shower thought that the incentives should be the opposite. Like, for life insurance, you get discounts for factors that make you a low risk of dying. So for annuities, shouldn't you get bonuses for factors that make you a higher risk for dying?

"Yeah, I just want this annuity to ensure my financial future while I ride out my retirement as a skydiver..."
Homeschooling was detrimental to my own social development as a child, and that of my (many) siblings. Adjusting to college life made me nearly suicidal with hopelessness that I'd ever catch up either academically or socially, and none of my other siblings managed to successfully complete it. We're all doing much better now, but none of us would ever consider putting our own children through that kind of isolation long-term.

Now I'm part of an ex-homeschooler support group where most of us had a similar story. In my own case, the "homeschooling" was a political choice by parents who were deeply paranoid about the US government. They lacked the education to even understand what all we were missing and relied on a popular curriculum program to guide them without any supplemental counseling or outside tutoring.

Academically I'm sure some more educated parents could do better and understand they need to get information from a variety of sources, but socially it would be very difficult to replicate the opportunities that school provides most kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis
How often is something like this really put to the test? As someone else pointed out, large companies are a conglomeration of good and bad values and all deal with the government in unpleasant ways.

But, would I work for PETA? The DNC/RNC? Chic-Fil-A? A pantent troll? Monsanto? Cambridge Analytica? A Defense Contractor? Most of these aren't companies with large software engineering staff or just aren't knocking down my door, but I wonder how often the lines of the 44% are truly tested. Also, how different is this at different income levels?
Layoffs are normal and happen every year, and moreso during inflation.

Hiring is still hectic. Every company and recruiter I know is trying everything they can to find candidates. Our company is desperate to hire and we're nothing special.

One of the reasons there's so much hiring going on is a bunch of emerging markets have entered the field and are looking to build tech products. Another is that the developed world is still awash in record corporate profits and have plenty of runway to fund new development. But there has been no huge push to get more bodies into the labor market in the past 4 years so the numbers are still too low. Add to that the onward march of retirement of old staff and we're going to be in a hiring crunch for a few more years. Companies might actually have to learn to be efficient / use a few staff to get more done
It's 4-5 distinct animal gore videos but through different user accounts, so i don't think it's just people uploading stuff. Maybe there are accounts (compromised or just bots) racing against each other bringing content over from TikTok?

And who knows what happens when you click on links in the description or follow instructions in the overlays. I swipe away before the gore comes and haven't read any of the descriptions or overlays.
Probably because in most of the US recycling is fake and it all ends up in the landfill anyway, or the amount of energy spent recycling outweighs the savings.

Recycling is something the oil companies came up with to whitewash their image, and justify single use plastics, it doesn’t work, has never worked and it’s hard to see how it would work. This is the real “Inconvenient Truth.”

If you really wanna “do your part to fight climate change,” you’re better off trying to live like someone out of 1890 before plastics was a thing, and people repaired/patched 100x before even considering replacements. You’ll have less time for arguing with idiots like me online but you’ll be much happier and actually be making a positive contribution.
> entire expectation of the car rental process is that you get your keys, jump in the car, and drive off.

Which is exactly what I did. Figuring out the A/C was basically "it's hot in here, oh, there's a fan icon, press that."

The other stuff I never bothered with because it simply wasn't worth learning for a car I only have for a few days.
I used to do it for my kids and wrote some articles on why and how on my blog here http://nibrahim.net.in/2011/09/06/homeschooling_in_india_par...

I moved towns and my main issues were
1. Lack of a like minded community who were willing to invest time and energy like I was. It's a demanding journey and not one that's easy (or even possible) to do alone.
2. Lack of insight into what the future holds esp. from the POV of higher studies. I can experiment with my own life but was scared of doing it with my kids'.
We home schooled our 4th grade daughter during the pandemic. Was very fun, she was easily able to memorize the periodic table through song, made lots of progress in understanding operators in mathematics, wrote weekly letters to family for class…

She is back in school now because it’s a great school, but if we didn’t have options we would definitely teach at home, there has never been more tools available to make it easy.

Truth is the U.S. economy is entirely built around the assumption that both parents are working full time now so there is less time to be at home to help kids learn, so we send them off to giant prison-looking buildings and hope for the best.
I'm so sad when I see the state of humble bundle now that became a shady marketing scam.

It was great a few years ago when the goal was to really pay what you want for value content with the content being DRM free and available for Linux when possible.
http://www.gamedesigngazette.com/2018/01/the-legend-of-zelda...

year platform title sales

2002 GC Wind Waker 4,430,000

2013 Wii U The Wind Waker HD 2,310,000

2006 Wii/GC Twilight Princess 8,850,000

2016 Wii U Twilight Princess HD 1,130,000

Twilight princess is still more popular if you look at sales.
They are relocating the capital instead of fixing the old one.
And I'm guessing none of Jakarta's poors get to live there.
I'll add to my earlier comment [1]

When the cost of capital increases it's bound to have ripple effect on an entire generation of startups which were founded when money was effectively free (0% interest rate). When it's ingrained in companies' DNA that they have to grow at all cost you can't then suddenly ask them to start focusing on profit. They built this huge structure by ignored fundamentals such as cash-flow, unit-economics, business-model (selling $2 for $1). Now that they have built this 100 story sky-scrapper they can't just go back and fix the foundation. It's going to be a painful process.

It's fascinating to trace the genesis of present crash to Fed's policies post 2008 crisis. The interest rates were kept artificially low to prevent another Great Depression. 2010s saw an unprecedented rally of tech/growth stocks, fuelled by cheap capital. Growth at all cost was the mantra, hoping companies will turn profitable at some point á la Amazon. Uber's CEO hit the nail on the head when he wrote "The average employee at Uber is barely over 30, which means you've spent your career in a long and unprecedented bull run".

There were signs of rate hike in 2019 but COVID forced Fed to create trillions of $$. Which only added fuel to the fire; equities, housing, crypto saw unbelievable growth.

However the signs of inflation were clear in early-mid 2021 they were hoping it to be transitory. But when the inflation data came in late 2021 it turned out to be multi-decade high leaving Fed with no choice but to raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade.

Which brings us back to growth companies. As Uber's CEO candidly stated "Channeling Jerry Maguire, we need to show them the money". 2020s will be all about cash flow and efficiency.

On the other hand expect to see cool innovations as it requires genuine scarcity to look for out of the box solutions. While Amazon's stock soared in 2010s their core tech was being built in 2000s while they were relentlessly driving for efficiency.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31369813
This. Just because we agree with something - doesn't mean it's apolitical. Even a purely romantic film such as Brokeback Mountain, when it was released was called political by Christian conservatives. I don't agree with their views at all, but in this case they were right.

Because anything that can be targeted by legislation, is political in it's definition.

Also, multiple war movies, such as Rambo for example are explicitly political. So, this recent pearl clutching about Hollywood political honestly makes no sense.
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> I feel even in gaming, the customer is always right at the end of the day.

There are customers who are most definitely not right. The kind that cheat in online games, lie about it, dox you when you catch them. The kind of customer that tries to break into your systems or DDOS you. The kind that try to steal from you and your partners, or that harass other players, or that post pornography to your forums. The kind that make bots or thousands of fake accounts. The kind that build phishing sites and steal other customers' credentials, empty out their wallets and sell all of their assets.

It's a small proportion of customers that do this, but that's still a large enough number that it's a big deal. (Kindly don't respond, "Well, all you have to do is put technical measures in place to prevent all of this." You need to have been in the trenches dealing with them before you can have a valid opinion on mitigations).

The customer is not always right.
I went through both, as well, and I'd say this is maybe similar to the early stages of the 2000/2001 contraction in that it's in particular affecting tech and happening rather slowly. Certainly not 2008, which was abrupt and severe, but didn't affect the tech sector as strongly as other sectors.

I wouldn't rule out that in 6 months the parallels with 2001 are more pronounced. However I agree it's not really close, especially with Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon, etc. are still printing money at an incredible rate and that money continues to sprinkle into other parts of our sector.

During the .com crash there was a severe pullback in general on investment in the online startup space in general and it wasn't until the Google IPO that I felt we were truly out of that phase.
Because it's null (unsafe{0} will be replaced with unsafe {nil})

It needs to be inited recursively with

app := App {
gg: &gg.Context {
... app
}
}

And that doesn't work yet. It used to work in the initial V, but not right now.

It'll be fixed in 0.4.
In Russia, it actually did that in the 90s, but it lasted for less that a decade.

A big part of it is that the "democrats" (which was a catch-all term for all Western-minded liberals) favored a quick reset of the vestigial planned economy into a free market-based one; words like "shock therapy" were thrown around. The idea was that any inconveniences would be temporary, and more than made up for when the transition is complete.

The immediate result, however, was a significant drop in quality of life for the majority of the population, with a corresponding rise in crime. And because the "democrats" were the ones spearheading the efforts, they carried the reputational hit. This gave people like Putin the opportunity to ride to power on "strong hand" policies that were supposed to fix all that.

I grew up in Russia during that era, and remember the rhetoric then. One thing I'd say the West did very wrong was to let organizations like the IMF run wild, pushing for their (austerity-centric) ideological view of the economy through loans. Then again, from what I've read later, it wouldn't be the first or the last time they messed up a country they were supposed to help.
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So England is part of the “global south” because it was colonized by the Romans? Is India part of the “global south” because it was colonized by Muslims, or only because it was colonized by the British? Is Thailand part of the “global south?”
Very good advice.

The advice I give to people is "think about logging like a feature with customers, just like any other feature." If you think about logging this way, you ideally put yourself in the position of your logs' "customer"- a bleary-eyed teammate who just got paged out of bed at 2am, or a security guy who isn't intimately familiar with your code. Providing extra context for those users is really kind, as they don't have a "secret decoder ring".

Since the article discusses it, I also highly recommend AWS CloudWatch logs. It's super easy to log to CloudWatch from Lambda with the Python logger class. It's a little harder from EC2, but not really that difficult. The advantage is that you don't need to SSH somewhere and navigate to a file and then locate the interesting stuff in that file - You just keep the CloudWatch console open (or keep a link to it handy) and the latest stuff is on top with easy filtering.
It can mitigate the chance of being laid off. Keeping your head down and working hard isn't enough anymore.
Scientists solve 700-year-old Mystery – Where and when Black-Death began
If you just want to test the idea without any major complexity, like "I just want to add an instruction for int8 dot products" or whatever, you can write your own emulator for RV32IMC, in M-mode, in a few hundred lines of most modern programming languages. There are a bunch of test suites to check the base ISA works, and you can use a C compiler to target bare metal, and use GCC's .insn directive to embed custom opcodes inline. Run a bunch of tests this way. It's actually very easy to control the whole stack in cases like this.

Once you get into actually needing to boot a system like Linux, you're going to need more support from the emulator, and at that level you'd either want to look into extending the Spike emulator, or QEMU itself. Like, features that interact with different privilege levels or whatever are just complex, there isn't any way around just working on the source directly. I realize that's not a very good answer.

There are simpler kernels and whatnot you could also probably use. I mean, I would hope so. Honestly, a lot of it depends on the specifics of what you're looking at trying to implement. Simple instructions that work in M/U mode are the best place to start.

I suggest trying to write your own emulator first. It'd surprise you at how easy the base RISC-V IMC ISA is, and you can add as many custom instructions as you like, and you'll have a C compiler (and Rust too, actually) to start with.
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Just wanted to say I agree that your credits are of much better quality than the average of what you usually find on the market. Carbon credits right now are like the new (but also old?) shitcoins.

I have a startup in this space but we mostly do MRV, always looking for solutions like yours to link to our clients and contribute to this new economy. Send me an email (check profile) to get in touch!
> In Europe it is common for multiple months of high pitch negotiations between "wanting to lay off" and layoffs. Usually without any riots or panic.

I'm kind of tired of seeing this "well actually, in Europe..." -- there's a reason there's zero major tech innovation happening in Europe. There's a reason Google/FB/Netflix/etc. and 99% of other major software unicorns (save Spotify and handful of others) are from the US. To be successful as a company, you need to be nimble, not burn your runway with bureaucracy.

Working for a startup is a risk and money, for the time being, is very tight.
Yes most people don't believe that people who hold different values are evil
I am SO lucky to have a friendly neighbor who's an HVAC technician. A relay went out on my A/C last week, and he came over and fixed it the next morning.

Pro tip: there are certain advantages to living in a place where not everyone is an engineer in high tech.
I was a camp counselor for many years in my teens and into my twenties.

We could always--always--tell which kids were the homeschooled kids.
I’m also gonna pick a nit here and say “like a hot glue gun” is what you say about a MIG weld that is done entirely improperly. If the filler material is just acting like glue, you might be sticking metal together but you’re not welding. So this tongue-in-cheek description also misleads newbs into creating bad welds.
There is one other refrigerant which very nearly checks all the boxes, but with a surprising structure: trifluoromethyl iodide. While non-combustible, it has an extremely short atmospheric lifetime of less than one month, giving it a GWP about half that of CO2 (and used in much smaller quantities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifluoroiodomethane

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=93007...
It decreases the diversity of thought. If your school system is failing, the government shouldn’t imprison parents who want to do their best to try something else.
ENG is "Electronic News Gathering" it's designed to only pickup sounds very close to the mic, as for news reporters who need to sound good in very noisy environments. It's probably overkill if you have a quiet interior room in your house, but if you don't, an omnidirectional ENG is a great option and you can get decent ones for under $200.
I mean, hopefully some of those tech jobs are making those oil refineries, factories, meat packing plants more efficient.
>It'd take 10 minutes to submit github issues, instead they spent a month on this.

If the author put in the work, I don't see the problem with it being a blog post. Also, given the history of github comments / issues being removed from the vlang github project, I don't blame them for wanting to keep their post for posterity.
I never understood why it is exactly that The Netherlands were kind of against the drug tourism.

It's a subset of the problem of overtourism in general.

I mean, I'm sure your average pot head tourist is not that much trouble and leaves quite a bit of money, no?

Actually they don't, and that's precisely the problem. They come over on EasyJet, check into a shitty hostel, score some weed, buy a shawarma (and maybe some fries), oggle the working professionals in the red light district for a bit, and then leave a few days later.

This is a stereotype of course and not 100 percent true -- but it also probably intersects about 60 percent with the spending profile of the average weed tourist. On average not usually the type to visit anything other than the most obvious tourist destinations, or patronize any of the better restaurants, or avail themselves to any of the amazingly cool stuff that city has to offer.
I've seen people making that comparison, and it feels off to me. The defining element of that "corporate" art style is that it's really flat -- abstract figures with minimal details and bold colors.

By contrast, Return seems to have a lot of detail -- it's just expressed through a blocky, almost papercraft aesthetic. The level of specificity and caricature it's showing is honestly pretty opposed to the general goals of the "corporate" style.

(None of this is to say there's anything wrong with not liking Return's art style, of course. Taste is subjective, etc etc. I just feel it's a poor comparison.)
Afaik Craig said (probably in The Talkshow) that bitcode is not useful to do a 64bit transition as it is still specific to an architecture. It only allows for micro-optimisations.
> If you guys do archiving

It's not my website. Also, people who run it (almost certainly) owe us nothing.

> So which one is it...?

Try fetching a URL on both Internet Archive [1] and archive.today, and you'll know what I mean.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/