skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at MSFT on windows kernel drivers - not the kernel directly though. I’d say go for it. Knowing how to program in kernel mode is a lucrative skill set. There aren’t enough people that know how to do it.

In my experience the kernel devs are the best of the best developers. But know that working on the windows kernel will be complicated and require a lot of domain knowledge. Expect to learn about it for _years_ to come.
The first part of the article about how Sri Lanka would get foreign currency
(swap, export or borrow) almost completely ignores the well documented devastation of the tourist industry, where people bring euros or dollars, due to covid19 and shutdowns of travel.

Yes I suppose it falls into the category of swap, because people bring euros and exchange them for local currency to buy local goods and services. But it was a big part of the "swap" that vanished for 2+ years.
For what purpose? If you wanted glorious and infinitely zoomable imagery without much concern for accuracy, couldn't you just design that? Marvel movies do that now. We already have artists' impressions in space articles and documentaries.
"Technical incidents" is a far broader category than "armed nukes dropped on mainland USofA".

I guess we can agree there were a multitude of fuckups that almost resulted in an unintended nuclear explosion, but far fewer events of the specific nature I mentioned.
Oof, I've got an L3 interview with Google in a little over a week. Hearing about hiring slowdowns like this is making me wish I'd been more aggressive with my interview timeline, but I'm not sure I've prepared enough as-is. If I'd gone any faster I /definitely/ wouldn't have had enough time to refresh on DS&A and grind out Leetcode.

I know the consensus on HN is that FAANG is nothing special (and not that hard to get into!), but for a recent grad with mediocre internships from the pandemic and minimal opportunities for development in the role I'm currently in, getting clout like that on my resume early in my career would be awesome. Here's hoping the slowdowns really don't end up hitting technical roles as hard.
Have you considered how your logic applies to non-police groups? I never thought I would see such blatant racism against black people on this message board.
Israel and Palestine.
Arbitrary Code Execution? In my vanilla doom? It’s more likely than you think.

That next map you deathmatch on could be your last!
An advantage of working at Microsoft that only other huge tech companies can match is that you'll get the chance to interact with many different people, some of whom will inspire outright hero worship among you and your direct coworkers. Those interactions could be in email discussions (having to send endless emails to random people or unarchived mailing lists to get things done or find things out is the curse of Microsoft life), or in API review meetings, or just water cooler talk.

Getting the chance to work with people like that was one of the highlights of my Microsoft career. Some of them are famous or semi-famous outside Microsoft, like David Cutler (mentioned repeatedly in this comment thread), while others are not known outside MSFT at all but arguably should be, while others are respected among a small geeky community (I'm thinking here of 2 Linux kernel subsystem maintainers who joined MSFT after making their names in Linux, and continue Linux work today). If making those connections is something you'd want to do as well, I'd definitely see that as a big plus of an MSFT job.
> My personal rule is just not to disrespect people and parts of their culture they find important

In the Simbari culture, it is considered important for young boys to be taken away from their families, be beaten and forced to fellate the older members of the tribe.

Does your personal rule of not disrespecting "people and parts of their culture" hold in their case?

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbari_people
This is a really uninformed opinion. I'm disappointed that it's currently the top comment.

You really think functional programmers don't build composite types?
why it would copy and not be passing immutable data by reference?
Truckers plan LA/Long Beach work stoppage Wednesday to protest AB5
I really like the way you've put this.

Thanks for sharing!
I'll give it a look, it's been years since I checked Vaadin out.
This would probably make a good blog post!
Joking, I assume? These make the news here because they are news. They wouldn't make the news in Indiana, the world capital of freeway shootings.
5% of the work is getting it working. 95% is to make it polished and work well on all platforms, in all countries, in all legal and social contexts, and in all failure contexts. Most developers have zero clue what it takes to turn working code into a globally successful product.
If someone had a bad experience with different black people multiple times in their country and abroad, would you feel it justified for them to be racist?
How long would we likely have to wait for another more distant star in our galaxy to pass behind it from our perspective?
You might like the Machineries of Empire series instead- fascinating world building with serious depth of character and personal stakes. First book is Ninefox Gambit.
Believe me, the organic transition had nothing to do with agricultural practices and all to do with economics, with the logic being that fertilizer was an expensive import, and by banning fertilizer they could hemorrhage foreign exchange reserves a little less. Of course, they also earned a lot less because the bone-headed transition lead to a marked reduction in yield, only worsening the forex problem the ban of agricultural chemicals was meant to solve.
I have heard of this. Never gone to a game, but it's now on my list.

At risk of derailing the conversation (feel free to downvote; I won't be offended): I saw a thread on Quora that made me think of vintage bike racing.

Same equipment and rules as the Tour de France of 1910 or so. What do you think?
I read at some point that a piece of dust hit the telescope and potentially damaged it. I'm guessing that it turned out not to be a big deal or maybe they were able to work around it? Does anyone have any insight? The fact that they're releasing good pictures and not mentioning it seems like a good sign to me.

Searching for this stuff is kind of hard (information overload), so I'm wondering if anyone here has more up to date info.
There was the time that a raccoon tried to dig into the attic to get at a nest of baby squirrels over by the soffit. He never quite succeeded.
> Similarly with mindfulness, first you dip your toes with some guided stuff, organized twice a week by HR. Next thing you know YouTube is suggesting you check out this Osho guy and Thich Nhat Hanh, where you find out you've only been scratching the surface. Then one day you quit your job because it disagree with your conception of right action.

Yep. and five years later i'm working for non-profits making a quarter of what i used to while watching my old friends climb the tech career ladders and buy multiple properties in the bay area. and doing a far stretch better than I was when i got exposed to MBSR.
I've no interest in any Russian connected project including Kotlin, IntelliJ or nginx these days.
It’s not a 1:1 color mapping to correct for red shifting. Each color represents a wavelength, but the mapping is arbitrary and chosen to maximize contrast.
There was a golden period when the studios hadn't realized the impact of streaming that you could get clearance Blurays for $5-10, but that time is gone. Now any movie I'd want to watch (new or old) costs as much as a couple of months of a streaming service. I have a significant home library (between CD/DVD/Bluray, well over a thousand discs) but don't add to it as much anymore now that the supply has been reduced to return prices to the old high normal.

I do recommend Redbox, however - $2 is the cheapest HD rental around, and I've been on Redbox time delay for years, watching movies a few months after they pass through theaters. They also sell discs for $4-6 (even their 4K discs) which is the cheapest I usually find.
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is a fun read.
What's funny is the deepest red counties in the reddest states are also the largest recipients of US domestic agriculture subsidies and benefit programs.

Then you have other things like Walmart and similar McJobs where the government is indirectly subsidizing the companies, by various child food aid, healthcare and benefits to employees because the company doesn't pay enough for its employees to live without aid.
My guess is that he used rudder to initiate the "spin" rotation. It would take careful inspection of the video to prove that.
The squirrels leave divots. The rats, if they are around, will have burrows.
What do you think would happen to police if they didn't carry guns? How many police would be killed the first day in America that policy is implemented?
Reminds me of governments who try to switch people to public transport by making driving harder, rather than making public transport better.
Not that I think jumping on the top of someone's car is obviously justified, but I am honestly curious how the car got to this point. Wouldn't it have had to drive past hundreds of people into what was obviously a large gathering to get here?
16-bit arithmetic? Sheer luxury! Every morning we had to wake up at midnight, rewrite all our math routines from scratch, then our manager would kill us all with a machete and dance on our graves! And we liked that just fine.
What is a play tube because it makes me think of those structures that kids play in at McDonalds and something like that couldn’t possibly cost $150K.
Disney will continue producing low-quality content so long as fanboys continue paying to see the movies and buying the merchandise.
Pic of hairless chimp for reference

https://images.app.goo.gl/xCSGHmTFuKmp65sK7
The fact that the pile of tools required to get a web to do anything useful is such a terrible mess including Angular and React is why I'm in full dismay that they are used by otherwise intelligent developers at all.
I think this comes down to experience. My favorite programming language is Agda and I have a lot experience writing code in Haskell and Lisp variants. I personally also find it trickier to debug in functional languages. I believe this comes down to how you debug: I am comfortable using a debugger for debugging but I simply find it easier to debug using prints (for context switching reasons) but this is not always an option in a purely functional context without any IO. This does push me out of my comfort zone sometimes, and I would say it's accurate that I debug much faster in imperative languages. Even though I write better and safer code in functional languages (and even though I like them better).
France imports a lot of power to cover shortfalls their reactors can’t supply, they also export a lot of nuclear power they have no use for. It’s no more representative of 72% nuclear than the town that happens to be next to a reactor is of a 100% nuclear grid.
Yes. And untreated mental illness.
Yeah there are various sub camps and I'm not sure I fit into the two main ones.

This was about names of places. How I say the names of places in my own language (English) is not for the governments of Ukraine or Turkey to dictate to me.

People are different. If Bob wants to change their name to Steve (or Stephanie) happy to adjust. If someones wants to be referred to by a name I can't pronounce I'll give it my best shot. If they get upset by my best shot - well that's their issue. My name is "Lewis" and very few non-native speakers seem to be able to pronounce it properly. No one has ever apologised over it, or asked me how to say it, and I haven't lost sleep over this fact.
Devil's advocate: everyone preaching about increasing your luck stumbled into a bit of luck initially, which forever changed their path. If you don't get that initial lucky break you're wasting your time.

doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people.

It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any results unless you're well positioned, either by circumstance, happenstance or on purpose.
Population grew.

In Japan agriculture is heavily subsidized, in particular rice production. Stuff that is not heavily subsidized focuses on high margin premium. They can't compete on volume/price but can on quality. After eating expensive apples or grapes there nothing really compares anywhere else
> cutting supports like this will inevitably doom a sputtering economy, when the actual solution was almost certainly more government spending, not less.

In the US that might be a sensible policy decision but SL can't do that.

The concrete supports that are needed (fuel, fertilizer, food) are bought with dollars and yuan. The government ran out of those, because it was already spending unsustainably to prop up the economy.
Kotlin is not and never will be on my list of languages.
We've got very good pictures of our own planets thanks to probes that did flybys. Maybe I'm way off but I'm pretty sure JWST won't be able to beat those. I also wonder if it can even handle that much light, I know it can't look at the moon or it will burn out.
> Has Sri Lanka’s fish been pillaged

The fishermen can no longer afford or acquire fuel for their boats to go out and catch the fish. Due to the non fish related economic disaster outlined in the article.
Wire in your own switch, bypassing everything
Before globalized trade, nations sustained themselves in ways we today see as extreme poverty.
I can't say that I blame them. Quick, short, easy to digest videos that get to the point.

Youtube used to be that way until it got littered with ads, pre-rolls, etc and creators were essentially penalized for making short videos. YouTube videos have become way too drawn out.

TikTok is perfect for the shorter attention span audience.
They must have a lot of churn, that's a significant percentage of their entire workforce.
I mean to for sure, but the project isn't done yet, there's some NLP work we're doing with the results of the OCR and I really want to do a full series going over all we've done rather than one and then two months later another one.
I'm making a webapp to learn sight reading (only sight reading, not playing the keyboard or any other instrument for that matter): https://babeloop.com

It works well on mobile and so you can use it anywhere.

I'm just getting started. Interested in any feedback!
> It is a truly lovely country, with good tourism facilities.

Not to mention the people. Absolute wonderful human beings despite years of war and turmoil.
Good luck buddy, wish all the best for you.
Just to steel man the "Functions and Data" side of the equation in a lot of FP languages that'd be something like

newData = oldData |> f |> g |> h |> i |> j |> k
And it looks a lot better.
> The US is actually lucky to understand this at the deepest levels of policy and law making, with massive aid packages to prevent total collapse.

The current inflation crisis suggests that even the US economy can reach its limit with endless money printing and stimulus.

With the cost of borrowing going up, the executive and congress are going to start feeling pressure to cut spending or dramatically raise taxes.
I guess that makes sense, initially, on paper. I would guess some organic farming fanatic put put the numbers that fertilizers import can be reduced XX%, and the dollar signs in the eyes of the ruling family lit up (All those dollars not spent on imports can be embezzled)
I do Java as I've done for several decades. I tried C# years ago despite Microsoft. Java and the JVM are superior, technologically and morally to anything they can come up with.
I noticed this too -- I think it's a git LFS issue? The weights themselves are only 330GB, but the .git directory adds another 330GB:

$ du -csh pytorch_model*.bin | tail -n 1
329G total
$ du -sh .git
329G .git

Not sure if there's a way to get git-lfs not to do that...
The people wanting to make it practical certainly won't use something as crude and slow as Spectre or Meltdown or this. They just own your entire system.
Disruptive gatherings of rebellious youths is definitely a thing in East Asia. In my day, they'd have been on scooters or low CC motorcycles and making a LOT of noise. Not sure what the kids ride these days.
Products should do what the marketing says they should do.

...which is, that they were never designed to be side-channel-resistant. As early as the 80286 Intel was saying protected mode is not a real security boundary, only a mechanism to avoid accidental errors instead of deliberate maliciousness.
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The Rajapaksa family gave out jobs based on nepotism not expertise, and weren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. It is completely insane policy, as was flatly running out of currency before doing anything about it. It will be a long road to recovery. At least they have kicked out the family from the government, and have a pretty solid plan to reverse the authoritarian sections of the constitution put in place by the Rajapaksas a few years ago. And the movement to oust the Rajapaksas has brought the whole populace toghether in a way that Sri Lanka sorely needs, Sinhala, Tamil and Musliam all working together non-violently can only be good.
That’s my point about Japan.

Rice, unlike tea, is a defensive measure for times of crisis. Even as Japan imports food, the point is whether the country can quickly mobilize and ramp up to essential food crops. The point is having options and a hedge, which allows you leverage during economic negotiations for other things.

The percentage of imports you can have should be bounded by the runway and time horizon you have.

It seems Sri Lanka went all in on one crop without a hedge, and it would infeasibly take years to convert.
Interesting that Forge is referenced in the API but still many months from launch
That’s too bad. I don’t condone destructiveness, but love living somewhere that kids will regularly get together and say, hey, let’s try something wildly risky and flashy just for the thrill of it. I’d rather deal with hill bombers than sideshows any time.
Very much this. I'm still in the process of trying to adopt and becoming a foster family for the licensing, and one of the things we had to do is prepare a budget. I'm nowhere close to being squeezed and still have a ton left over every month, but it really stood out that we were spending in the area of four grand a month on food. I'm not even really trying to save money now so much as cook my own meals so I can track calories as part of an effort to be more intentional with my diet since I started TRT and lifting actually makes a difference now, but just not eating out and not drinking any alcohol has cut that to more like one grand a month. Next to that, what difference does it make if I spend $12 a month or $80 a month on streaming services? I'd rather have the variety available, if anything.
https://archive.ph/V6hgm
Being black is something people are born into where policing is something people join. Judging black gang members because their gang members isn’t racist any more than judging black police officers because their police officers.
HN has plenty of people who say that, but I don’t think I would call it a consensus.
Agreed on JSF productivity, also found the parent comment quite astounding in this regard.
Not all Bluetooth, it seems there are pervasive stacks that have problems because everything made by Plantronics I have ever used reconnects instantly and has no problems.

My Alpine car sound system, for instance, takes some time to connect and every now and then ends up in a not paired and a not "not paired" mode that can't be escaped other than to wait some long minutes.

I liken it to PDF - could be good but implementation seems to regularly fail because of complexity.
More like "make a thing that's a bit like elasticsearch, but exposing sqlite query language to a sharded event store" -- not "make elasticsearch but use lucene" because elasticsearch is lucene, and reimplementing it via sqlite wouldn't give elasticsearch.

I'd call it elasticite and then (correctly!) be sued by both elastic and the sqlite orgs...
The difference is that the access controls were built in to LJ and they're an afterthought on Twitter. The ability to finely control VIEWERSHIP (multiple different friends groups, for example) dampened a lot of things being shared without context.

Then again, screenshot culture wasn't really a big thing, yet. I don't think we could replicate some of what made LJ work anymore. It's sad.
I think part of the problem is no implementation has an exciting story about writing the "shell" part in a different language. I love love love writing purely functional code. Probably my favorite thing to do. But what a lot people who also like functional programming are missing is writing imperative code in functional languages almost invariably sucks. At the end of the day we all have to write the "shell" part of our Haskell programs, and my programs always end up in a horrific mess of IO, State and other monads.
what lol

how about Bōsōzoku the youth subculture in Japan that loves fast motorcycles and illegal street races in the 80s/90s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%8Ds%C5%8Dzoku#:~:text=B%C....
I am well aware that Japan imports food.

The point is not about whether a country imports at all, but whether it can mobilize domestic production of essential food crops in times of crisis.

Even China import and has rice reserves. There is a reason these government have and subsidized rice reserves rather tea reserves.
Owning stuff is a bit challenging though. Say Tesla has access to a bunch of Bitcoin; how much is Tesla worth as a result?
Yep - it just accelerates what would have happened down the road.

In addition to institutionalization (yeah “asking Bob” is not a scalable solution) the other thing is risk skew changes. When you’re a startup in a garage with nothing to lose, who cares about compliance and adhering to laws and regulations (there is very little downside, and you’re a small target). When you’re worth a $1b now you’re a bigger target, and have value to protect…
I was contemplating something like this as I’ve been thinking about a modern business card. I don’t need to run Linux, but I do like some degree of interactivity and uniqueness associated with something I could hand out.
Probably noone will look at it. HN is imo not the best for sharing your own content as the rules and moderation are fairly heavily skewed against it. Having said that, if it gets traction on HN and ends up on the front page it will do very well.

Also, don't worry too much about perfection. It's actually better to launch something before it is perfect, since the hard part is not actually doing the project, but getting anyone to care. Better to get That step out of the way as fast as possible.
I worked at McDonalds some time ago. New managers were sent to "hamburger university" in illinois and come back talking like robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University
The only languages worth their weight are Java and C.
>global elites purposefully crashed the economy in Sri Lanka to get people to eat bugs

>they are incompetent

These possibilities are not mutually exclusive. I believe they're failing upwards, like a cabal of back-seat pilots who think they can get away with flying straight up, but in actuality are stalling their private jet.
So, I have a few questions.

1. Can the telescope be pointed in any direction? (of course, orthogonal to the suns rays, I understand the need to cool it down).

2. If it can be pointed, I am assuming some boosters would be used to pivot it. How long do these last?

3. Is there any info on the orbit? Can the orbit degrade?

4. All the fluid / gas required to correct / point, can it be refilled?