skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most immigrants are economically very active since starting a new life from zero requires that.

Unless you can't physically fit people in the island, the solution would be to let the immigrants work legally. Number of houses are not fixed like the total number of bitcoins, people can build new ones.

Despite the political rhetoric and recent trends, immigration is a good thing and the problems it causes can be reduced when handled properly. That's why the government, despite being dominated by Brexiteers who won by preaching the horrors of immigrants and lack of border control, actually don't try stopping the immigrants.

Surely the topic is a good tool for populist politicians but once they got the results for their careers, they can't actually live with those fantasies because people will notice.

I know that this is not a popular opinion but that's that. UK had option to control the immigration when was in the EU and choose not to. Why do you think is that? Because people who work are a good thing.
I am not an astrophysicist or photographer for that matter... But wouldn't it be like a overexposed photo -- all red-and-white, because it will catch so much light from the distant galaxies and such?
See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2290361.Nerves
"First do no harm"
I can only imagine what Hippocrates would think...
If "2 eggs for breakfast and you won't think about food again until hours later" were true, it would be the world's easiest and most effective diet: eat 2 eggs (2x75 calories), the next time you feel hungry (afternoon), eat another 2 eggs, then have a MASSIVE 1200 calorie dinner. Total = 1500 calories for the day - substantial weight loss would be guaranteed. In practice, this doesn't work because eggs are not hugely satiating.
I'm running Plasma on a couple of repurposed Chromebooks: Celeron 2 core @ 1Ghz with 4GB of RAM and the DE is quite snappy. Inkscape, GIMP and the Godot IDE have run great. Light gaming: minecraft on somewhat reduced settings, older windows games on Wine, terraria, and stardew valley all fine.

Anything in a browser? Horrible.
In contrast, Michigan Public K-12 schools take attendance on specified Count Days to account for the number of students they serve to determine state funding. Fall count day is the 1st Wednesday in October and represents 90% of state funding. Spring count day is the 2nd Wednesday in February and represents 10% of state funding. As you might imagine, getting students in school on these days is a Big Deal.

Teachers take attendance on other days for internal use, but Count Day is special and you must not be absent!
I'm a mid career staff engineer & manager, and like many I filter out recruiter cold emails.

Plus I wouldn't let that dissuade me from attempting to figure out how to break in if it lead to x2 FANG compensation rates consistently at the same work load.
Ask HN: Team size thresholds for various web app architectures
I have been involved in early stage teams where on day one it's decided to have a seperate frontend app ( usually React ) with a seperate API / Backend ( usually Rails ).

When it comes to team size, if you're building a team and a SaaS app, what size team would you want a generic SaaS app as a Monolith vs team size for SPA + API backend? What impact would available team size have on architecture decisions? E.g. a team of 2-3 vs a team of 12 vs 30.

I think the Google/Facebook/AirBnB/etc way of doing things isn't suitable for a lot of small teams, however it is the latest hot tech that always seems to get implemented in early stage startups. How should available team size impact technology choices? Any rules of thumb here?
>because they are literally Nazis

Because they wanted to appease russia, which proven to be futile.
As does a Kindle, except you need .mobi files.
> The problem of infinite registers is pretty easily solvable. Heck x87 already has that basic concept down with the stack registers. The only missing piece is moving overflow values onto and off of the stack. It's a fairly easy to solve problem.

You still have a limited window of 8 registers. Need 9 simultaneous live values? Oops, too few registers! In order to encode infinite registers, you need to be able to support referring to an arbitrary number of registers at once, which means you need an arbitrary-length register number specifier... have fun handling that in hardware!
That’s awesome: the author of that tweet is a friend of mine and a journalist out of Toronto. Small world.
> Which of these would you rather have to sustain you for a day?

Definitely the 5 bacon cheeseburgers. That's one for breakfast, two for lunch, and two for dinner. I could definitely eat like that.

The picture OP shows looks like a typical fast food joint burger. And if we look at McDonald's own self-reporting of calorie content, they list a bacon cheeseburger as 330 calories. So the math of "5 bacon cheeseburgers = ~1750 calories" checks out.

The problem is, I think McDonald's is lying. 1800 calories is about my break-even rate. I don't lose or gain weight at 1800. But--though I'm a little ashamed to admit--I have eaten 5 such cheeseburgers a day (and really just the cheeseburgers, no fries and soda, I actually find them gross), and I gained weight rapidly.

That suggests to me that each of those cheeseburgers is much more than 330 calories. I'd not be surprised if--without bacon--they were actually 500 calories. 2500 calories a day, minus 1800 basal metabolic rate equals 4900 extra calories a week. If we go with the received wisdom of 3600 calories per pound of weight, that's gaining 5 pounds every 3 weeks.

And that tracks with my experience. My slovenly experience of eating nothing but McDonald's cheeseburgers for two months straight.
I believe you can do pretty comprehensive CJK search with PGroonga extension for Postgres.
> If one is innocent until proven guilty, then using violence against them before their trial is by definition an extrajudicial punishment, even if they ultimately deserve it.

Only if the violence is used punitively.
> I realize that's a gross oversimplification

In part especially since KDE deliberately breaks up their core libraries into multiple sub-libraries(https://develop.kde.org/products/frameworks/), in order to make them available for reuse by other Qt projects. Which is not the case for XFCE. KDE also depends on Qt which is similarly broken up into smaller packages(e.g. https://packages.debian.org/buster/libqt5gui5 is depended on by https://packages.debian.org/buster/libkf5auth5). Even though the actual attack surface in terms of exposed functionality is similar.
A California family of two (no kids) making $400k, with no deductions, not even contributions to their retirement, will pay an effective 32% tax rate on all income.

At $600k, it's 37% effective tax rate (again, with zero deductions).

You have to make $817k, with zero deductions, before you'll pay 40% effective tax rate in California.

None of this includes sales tax, which is 10-11% depending on municipality in California. Europe's lowest VAT is 17% in Luxembourg.

It is not my impression that "a lot of people" in tech are making that much, even by the extreme standards of the Bay Area these days.
>but that's a relatively small part of the overall amount of code.

Yes and?

Systems programming isn't front end JS work where breaking things doesn't matter. It's no surprise that Rust came out of the browser space. Only people who don't take their work seriously could ever think the above is a justification and not a red flag for never using it.

I welcome Rust becoming ossified in GCC so I can build 30 year old code without modification like I can in C. Until then, it's a toy for people with more time than responsibility.
Imagine you’re swimming in a magical pool with some friends and the entire pool doubles in size over the course of a second.

Your friend right next to you who was one foot away is now two feet. The absolute distance just grew by 1 foot, a rate of 1 foot/second.

Your friend across the pool who was 10 feet is now 20 feet away. Absolute distance just grew by 10 feet, or a rate of 10 ft/sec.
If you're going through the effort to DIY a block, you have no need for a machine like this
I'm not sure why you would think the quantities of hydrogen that can be stored are a limit in practice. Certainly we can store at least as much hydrogen in the form of methane as we have ever extracted natural gas from natural gas wells, which is decades' worth of consumption, not a mere 40 hours' worth.
In case you haven't seen the first image yet, here's a gif comparison of the first JWST photo with a Hubble photo of the same region of the sky: https://i.redd.it/9uyhwijeo0b91.gif

EDIT: Better comparison: https://imgsli.com/MTE2Mjc3
I remember purchasing a Dolby pro logic processor and thinking I had unlocked some new home theater super dimension.

and now we have 4k and ATMOS
This so reminds me of a conversation with my dad.

When I told him about SQL databases. Relational stuff, normalization. Awesome.

He told me that was all fine and dandy but just too slow, this new fangled SQL database stuff. He used databases where you simply accessed rows by key. If you needed to access something by a different key you just made a different table where the same data was arranged by that key instead. Super performant.

Of course my dad also programmed in languages like 370 assembler.

Funny how the young folks today talk about NoSQL databases indeed.
But if we can image it, then there IS an effect.

The photons emitted by that galaxy effect us, here in ours because we can see them.

It's the ones we can't see that are disconnected.
This is a plot point of the season of The Wire set in the school system. In Baltimore, it is definitely tied to funding--schools get per-pupil funding, but students have to actually be in attendance a certain percentage of the first six weeks of school in order to count for the funding formula.
The US stigma is interesting, because Lidl stocks more high quality goods than many other stores. E.g. the jelly is from Germany, the chocolate is inexpensive yet fair trade.

I don’t know if I eat cheaper at Lidl but I eat better. The cheese and meat sections alone - I have probably twice as many charcuterie boards now that a Lidl moved in.
I've been doing consulting as a self-employed dev for 3 years. Saved my sanity.

In those 3 years -

* I've had 4 clients (mostly happy!) - which is a TON more experience than most get in ten years (and future clients want that knowledge!)

* Wrote a book on software development (yay, resume item!)

* Took months off to recharge and sharpen my skills

I truly enjoy the path and can't see myself going back fulltime anytime soon. It is work, however, but more rewarding if you ask me.

You have to sell yourself, need a good network, and you need the right paperwork.

Always happy to chat about it - email is in my bio. I'm very bubbly and don't bite!
The level of detail completely blows away other deep field images.
> you aren't even aware of the bottom percentile until the first exam is graded.

I've taught some college classes and guest lectured in many others. The bottom 10% is trivial to identify in a matter of minutes.
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This is a sensational story and I think it's going to be hard for this individual to keep their identity hidden, even though I take it Farah doesn't want to name them.
It might not be a good spot for people who pick their school based on sports leagues, but I mean... surely that's not everybody in Middle America.
Nah! This one's better. A mood uplift.
In California (and pretty sure this is standard across the USA), unemployment insurance is paid by the employer so doesn't come out of your compensation.

The calculator I used also included payments for social security and medicare contributions, which you would use if you eventually fell below security security income bracket (knock on wood) or if you need medical as a senior (I believe age 65+)

For other health coverage, that is paid for by the employer so also wouldn't come out of your compensation.
> One difference I perceive between a child an a neural network is that it appears a child does not start from a blank slate. The brain of a baby seems to come hard-wired with some basic instinctual functionality like grabbing and object tracking.

I think that's likely, but also babies have ~9 months of development, at least some of that time (3-6 months) they're moving around/ have a brain.
What’s happening today isn’t enough. Globally Hydropower is still suppling 50% more electricity than Nulcear.

~90% of new generation in the US is carbon free, that’s changing the landscape not simply having the same 3X% of electricity come from nuclear for 40+ years.

Quite simply nuclear stagnated in 2000 the world produced 2,590 TWh of nuclear, 31.3 of wind, 0.8 from Grid PV. By 2019 that jumped to 2,789 nuclear, 1,427 wind, and 681 Grid PV. In 2020, renuables where 29% of all commercial electricity generation while nuclear was 10%.

PS: Diablo Canyon produced ~12.6 TWh per year at the rate things are going with wind and solar that’s going to be replaced in about 40 days.
Ah yes, because the ongoing state sanctioned systematic murder and enslavement of native and black americans is completely different from the ongoing enslavement and state sanctioned murder of Uyghurs.
> You can visit the Elephants foot safely today. Nuclear fuel is no where as deadly as you make it out to be.

Visit. No one can live there. Parts of the earth are off limits because of nuclear errors. And there will be more as long as we continue to use nuclear power.

I am not overstating anything, you are buying into nuclear industry propaganda. Nuclear waste is deadly for millennia. People have ideas on how to recycle it, but none of them work today. Not one. Nor do we have any reasonable belief they will be soon. But the nuclear industry pushes these ideas to try to reduce resistance to nuclear power.

> No it cannot. 100% Battery storage would cost trillions

So would replacing all fossil fuel power with nuclear.

> and be beset by toxic waste that is toxic forwver and since it's consumable and need to be replaced every decade.

Lithium Ion batteries can be recycled today. Not some hope that a promising idea will become viable in the future. Today. When we are talking about grid load backup they do not need to be replaced every decade. They have a much longer useful life than that. My Nissan Leaf is 8 years old and still using the original battery pack which still has 100% capacity. Yes that is not a typo. I also still have a 2012 Retina MacBook Pro which still has its original battery. That does not have 100% capacity but it still functions and I have no need to replace it. When we are talking grid storage batteries they can degrade extremely significantly and still be useful. They will not degrade 100% in 10 years. When they do reach the end of their useful life they can be recycled.

Lastly, that you try to claim that battery production waste is worse than nuclear waste is beyond absurd. You have bought in way too much to nuclear industry propaganda.
explorer.exe is 347 mb memory usage in comparison. We really are in the year of the Linux desktop, those DEs are bloated like Windows used to be
You're misrepresenting the maintainer. He is using 2FA.
Ask HN: What things do product managers say/do that piss you off as an engineer?
The common one is when they meddle with technical implementation. Any others?
This kind of thing is much more likely to happen in the discussion section of a large lecture class than in a small seminar, because the discussion section is likely taught by a graduate student with little prior teaching experience.
What’s your definition of “cleaned up” and “contained” for coal emissions?

Ignoring the rest of your grossly misinformed statement, this absurdity alone should give you pause.
Wow I love how things that were dots or haze with Hubble are brilliant spirals and galaxies in the JWST image. Absolutely amazing!
Your dad probably knew all about Pick and MUMPS though
Yes. I’ve stumbled upon some organizations in small towns in the US that want all postal mail going to their PO Box, nothing going to their physical address.

The small-town post office will sometimes _delete_ the physical address in the mail system so the actualy physical address is completely in-valid (or worse gets autocorrected to an address a mile away).

Turns out FedEx and UPS base their address validation off USPS and also don’t ship to PO Boxes.
I never understood why people think unhealthy food has all the flavor. Most unhealthy food is just sugar, salt, fat, and a tiny pinch of flavor. Just get the flavor without the other crap and it's much more intense.

Most vegetables, fruit, beans, legumes, and grains have lots of great flavor and are low in calories. Fermented foods have tons of flavor and extra health benefits. There's a gigantic range of herbs, spices, extracts. It would take a million years before you exhaust all the possible combinations.

Imagine any non-animal flavor and it's probably not unhealthy. If all you can think of is meat or oil, you just need to expose yourself to new cuisines.
I agree it's not true for most people -- though for someone who has trained themselves to eat a small breakfast, it surely can be. Plenty of people eat nothing for breakfast, and are satiated til lunchtime, but aren't losing weight from it.

More interesting to me is why someone would phrase it as a guarantee even if it were true. It suggests that the reader likely hasn't tried it, and would be surprised to discover the result.
You're right that journalists use anthropomorphization much more. But AI researchers also have a long history of choosing terms that are anthropomorphizing or animating. Here the name PLATO -- which evokes an image of an ancient philosopher, a human, who is by cultural tradition considered smart -- is used in the original journal article.

Terms like "neural network" and "artificial intelligence" are frequently used by AI engineers and researchers despite the obvious image they evoke. Sometimes they even call their creations "brains". Also note the name DeepMind.

It's definitely not just the journalists.
Data normalisation was huge in the past because of storage concerns. But it makes less sense now. There's still concerns of inconsistent data and duplication but often it's more performant to not do it to the extreme extent we learned to in the 90s with all the normal forms. It's still a good concept but no longer a strict rule.

The inconsistency can be covered with stored procedures and prepared statements which are also a great way to improve security (SQL injection)

So IMO excessive normalisation is no longer the be all and end all in this day and age. Just the way an RDBMS is always the way to go. Sometimes object storage is better.

But anyway I'm surprised you saw less normalisation in old code. Personally I saw much more then than now.
It’s literally prejudice against cops.

Some members of <group X> did <bad thing Y>. Therefore all members of <group X> are bad.

We don’t tolerate when it group X is a racial group or when it’s a religious group, but otherwise intelligent and reasonable people seem to give zero care when group X is cops. It’s weird to me.
The basic principle is that space itself is expanding—the empty stuff between all those stars, planets, and galaxies. Not only that, but the expansion of space itself? It’s accelerating. And the further away something is, the faster it’s accelerating. Allow this play out over time and with acceleration unbounded, space itself starts to expand faster than the speed of light. And since the speed of light is our universal speed limit… that means the far reaches of universe will forever be out of reach. Eventually our own night sky will go dark (minus the stuff closest to us like the sun, Milky Way, and Andromeda) as more and more objects continue their acceleration away from us.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
The calculator I used also includes a little bit of pension (called Social Security) beginning at age 62+, but it's not very much compared to what you put in. It is quite a bit different from a typical pension plan. The maximum you can get from social security today is $3345/mth.

As for health and unemployment insurance, both of those are paid for by the employer in the US.
When I went to the Irish potato famine museum in Ireland they said the average person needed a basketful of potatoes per day.

That doesn’t seem like it’s high in the satiety index.
I have an interest in researching CS programs within a specific geographical area in the states but am having trouble finding good data on student outcomes and associated metrics. If this ranking data is bs or gamed, then what’s the best available resource for helping to determine what programs are good, bad or otherwise?
A lot goes to fund a military that gets almost as much as the worlds other militaries combined. And the 2023 budget is being held up because some thinkthe annual increase is too small.
IP over Avian Carriers
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549
The UK not. But if anything can be done against Google, Meta, Apple all ideas are welcome for the EU. Those don't pay enough taxes in the EU in relationship to the megaprofits they make and have no respect for the legal framework the EU stands for.
It was all deep fried. It wasn’t just potatoes but a lot of fat.
I like to say that the difference between Republicans and Democrats in the US is that Republicans break the law and Democrats subvert it.

It's no wonder that the largely liberal audience of HN supports the subversion route the US takes compared to the more brutal but vastly more honest way the Chinese do it.
A tip: sous vide is guaranteed not to get hot enough to kill eg Botulinum nor many kinds of spores, because the heat conductor is liquid water.

Pressure cooker (modern teks use Instant Pot) will achieve the necessary thermal properties because they produce superheated steam.
Lol colleges are more expensive country club than place of higher education. We really shouldn't be surprised with the corruption anymore after we found out how easy it was to get on the rowing team of most of these places.
I couldn't find an exact exposure time for the Hubble image, the press release by the ESA has this quote though:
"This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks." [1] There is also another comment further down this thread stating Hubble was 140 hours. [2]

[1] https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/07/Webb_s_fir...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32063214
As someone who has split time across rural/urban life, going rural to get away from drinking oriented socializing is probably not going to work as well as you think it will.
> Er, like the Immoral Journalist?

"You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." — Hearst, apocryphally
https://archive.ph/8E07u
used to have an effect. They may no longer.
Fossil fuels are horrible too, but the disasters they cause we can clean up. We don't just have to stuff it in a mountain and pretend it doesn't exist. We should be moving with full force to 100% renewables.

Lithium is extremely plentiful on the earth. Today's mining methods -- like all of today's mining -- have more negative environmental impacts than anyone would like, but this is not a reason to go nuclear, it's a reason to regulate the industry and require better practices.
When you hear the word “Tech”, what comes to mind? the fastest scheme to make money legally probably popped up.