skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then Engineers have to stay with the associated Professional Society (so many hours of training a year; paying dues; etc).

Speaking for the US, they do not. Joining a professional society is not a condition of licensure, nor is licensure required to join (I have been a member if IEEE since I joined in undergrad in 2001 and never even took the FE).

Continuing education requirements are set by the state you are licensed in. Texas (where I would have been if I had pursued licensure) requires a mere 15 Professional Development Hours per year, of which five may be self-directed. That is far, far below what our industry expects.

Also, I worked for four years as an electrical engineer without even being an EIT. Not all "real Engineers" require licenses.

> There is a software PE exam

Not anymore. Every state that once offered it has dropped it, and NCEES no longer maintains such a test.

> if that meant never needing to do another leetcode or take home assignment or whiteboard exercise in an interview cycle

Considering how low the requirements for maintaining a PE are after passing the initial exams, I don't think that has a snowball's chance in Hell of flying in this industry.
It’s simpler than that.

If you promise a lavish trip to the Virgin Islands to your sales staff for hitting certain numbers, you must deliver that lavish trip when they hit those numbers.

Imagine if you were promised a specific bonus check if your team hit certain goals. Your team works hard to hit those goals. Then management tells you times have changed and you won’t be receiving that bonus check despite keeping your end of the bargain. Most people would start looking for a new job immediately, or at least lose motivation altogether. Nobody wants to continue working somewhere after a bait and switch like that.
This very much depends, and probably isn't a good idea. Mortgages are some of the cheapest loans you can get.

You'll almost always be better off putting your extra cash into index funds instead of overpaying a mortgage.

Index funds historically return ~7% long-term, while your mortgage will likely be 3-5%. By overpaying a mortgage, you're missing out on an extra 2-4%: it's better to pay ~4% in order to get a gain of ~7% elsewhere.

Not to mention that every cent you put in to your mortgage is now locked in to your home equity, meaning it's difficult to access that money if you need it. You can sell your stock holdings and have the cash in a matter of days. Accessing the money you put in to mortgage repayment probably means taking out a HELOC or similar, which takes time and requires getting approved for the loan. If you're in a particularly bad situation, this might not even be plausible. And you'll pay extra interest for the privilege of accessing your own wealth.

On top of all of that, the tax implications are bad too. Long-term capital gains rates are low. Mortgage interest you pay is deductible. You lose both those benefits by overpaying your mortgage instead of investing the cash.

Of course, in fairness, early repaying a mortgage is a guaranteed return of 4%, while investing in the markets carries risk. However, in OP's situation—where they likely won't need any of this extra cash on short notice—you can ride out down markets and sell once they've recovered.
LineageOS support is my only criteria for selecting a phone these days... this new Zenphone looks interesting
You've never read one article from the sports section of your local newspaper?
Why are browser vendors so terrible at auth stuff :(
There is no "Russian Gas Crisis".

All the Germans have to do is turn on Nordstream 2. It's pressurised and ready for use. But they'd better hurry up about it.

The Russians won't keep allocating that amount of gas to Nordstream 2 indefinitely. It will end up being allocated to other clients, meaning that even if the Germans belatedly turn on Nordstream 2 finally, there won't be any gas left in it for them to use.
I recently learned however that the SteamOS desktop is built on a read-only image, with the expectation software will be installed via flatpak.

It is apparently possible to turn the read-only protection off to use pacman or your own thing, but anything you do may be wiped out on the next OS update.

See: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/671A-4453-E8D2-32...

I believe it was mentioned in a previous story that it would at least not void the warranty to replace SteamOS entirely though.
Is there an API? I'm didn't see one on the home page. If not, what makes these servers "cloud"?
With lobbying and money as protected speech can have thousands or millions worth of influence without social media.
Face ID doesn't work very well in the dark, and it's especially awful if you're lying on your side using an iPad in bed in the dark, since the angle is wrong.

Touch ID was markedly superior in contexts like this, in addition to being easier to activate.
Electron exists entirely because the web platform does not have access to lower level APIs. When the web incorporates these features (e.g. FileSystem Access), PWAs will replace electron.

Throw in "when Web Assembly can interact with the DOM and browser APIs" and you have the most powerful cross-language, cross-platform UI toolkit in existence.

It'll mark the year of the Linux desktop... probably, maybe - please.
> I know the video is a joke, but the whole thing about meat having an unacceptable carbon footprint pisses me off to no end.

But... It does. 220lbs of methane per cow on average. Annually.

> Guess what, those who believe that bugs are the answer. Bugs eat plants. Bugs don't burp, but to grow insects at scale, the plants need to be processed and brought to them. Guess what that means? Burning fossil fuels in transportation.

This is a bit absurd. Now I'm not saying I'm not in said "bug camp" - but you're arguing that transport of plants, using fossil fuels, even remotely touches the amount of fossil fuels, not to mention water, that is required for transport of livestock / processed meat?

> Cows, on the other hand, can feed on grassland.

True. Cows feed on grassland that could be significantly more productive acre for acre. Not only the space they need to live but the space required to grow the feed corn, the water that is consumed and the fossil fuels that get burned. The argument is fantasy at best.

The final thing being - cows don't exist without humans in their current capacity. Insects, on the other hand do. We don't need meat. We have access to plenty of what we need to thrive via plants without bugs. It's unfortunate that meat is looked at as a staple with overconsumption of specific meats even being touted as healthy (e.g. chicken).
Imagine a parallel world where HTML block-level tags are useful and sensible. Let’s think through the ones which would actually be nice to have…

I would start with <block>, which would take the place of <div>. But, big twist, you could put anything inside of <HERE> and get default block behavior. That way you get <article> and <aside> for free and people would know that it’s arbitrary, thus feeling more free to be descriptive with their tags.

</rant>
I think a lot of kids just don't like (or get) poetry in general, and there are lots of verses in LoTR. I guess in most cases they are easy to skip, but not in the Bombadil chapters.

Myself I enjoyed the poetry, but my first reading of Tolkien at the age of 12 was in Russian translation. The poetry was translated absolutely beautifully, and I memorized several poems from the book. But I don't know how I would like the original poetry if English was my first language.

I think the Tolkien's books are very poetic overall, not just the verses, and it's much subtler than just an adventure story of the fight between good and evil. These days, when I re-read LoTR, I do it for this "poetic" value, for impressions, rather than for the story (which I know so well, it becomes just a background)...
Running Windows 11 here, tons of stuff installed, including bloated Visual Studio 2022 with almost everything. Runs great, but I do have a beast of a machine.

I routinely have weeks of uptime, rebooting only to update...usually a 5 minute affair. I don't think an hour long update for Windows 11 even exists.

You are right about Windows being aggressive about wanting to reboot and update, though you're able to configure 'active hours' for this to happen outside of normal usage. Furthermore, you can use the Group Policy editor to fully customize every aspect of how Windows Update works if you're running Pro, Enterprise, or Educational SKUs, thereby disabling auto-reboot if you desire.
Won't be upgrading until a New removable battery phone is made.
I have a complete-but-one set of the Gardner Dozois-edited Best New SF for much the same reason. You can pinpoint the exact year everyone realised networks were going to be big, or when turgid Dune-influenced 70s SF got replaced with fast, nimble cyberpunk.
Ask the Chinese — they've made the threats clear and public.
I mean the state could pay for it...but then people just pay for it with taxes. Which is fine but also just moving the ball around. Unless you think the state wouldn't pay wrongful death lawsuits and therefore could charge the user (taxpayers) less.
You are right on the money but let me add even more content.

- The alleged wrongdoing broke rules in US laws but are permissible (and even common) in the ecuadorean legal framework.

- the alleged wrong doing took place in Ecuador, while the case was being tried in an ecuadorean court.

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This doesn't actually seem any better than Cython and is, in my opinion, many many years behind it. What am I missing here?
Yep, it's just not public yet
However still scalable as like, just manually for now
Who is on which end of that crapware spectrum? And what is the crapware?

Asking as someone who's only had a Pixel, or iPhone before that.
Just to cite one example, all that blazing compute is what enables the cameras to work as well as they do.
Musk Has an Original Idea to End Divisions in America
How do you handle submissions? Just by email or perhaps with a webform?
I'm very suspicious that while the FAQ says this test phase only affects the non-mobile web [1], it also says "data (3G/LTE/5G etc.) costs may be incurred". So they are perhaps willing to enable P2P in the mobile web as well under the favorable condition?

[1] Not clearly worded in English, but the Korean version explicitly mentions "PC".
Being Social May Be Purposeful in Older Adulthood: A Measurement Burst Design
nope it's just stock android
Good try. Fortunately we can check the text[1] and there are no characters named "Lily".

However, there is a prior reference to lilies as a thing of beauty:

> Our beaux are terribly at a loss for similies: you have lilies of the valley for comparisons; we nothing but what with the idea of whiteness gives that of coldness too.

and it seems likely the author was referring to that theme.

Additionally this isn't the only quote from a similar timeframe:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.h...

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/94/

[1] https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/brooke/emily/emily.h...
I used logisim in my digital logic class and enjoyed it quite a bit. I love that it’s still getting attention and upkeep
I still have my OnePlus 3T, my first Android (coming from Windows Phone, RIP). Running Lineage and microg, although all but only a couple of apps are from F-Droid. I haven't seen any need to upgrade yet
This is a small android phone
I agree that it’s the best one they sell now. I just had to retire my iPhone SE first-generation from 2016 which was finally starting to fail on me. Coming from that, the newer 3rd gen SE still feels too large in my hands. My biggest gripe, though, is the glass back instead of the old aluminum back. I think this smoothness is the reason the thing keeps falling out of my pocket no matter where I sit or what I’m wearing. The thing will not stay put!
Writing this on a Zenfone 8 running lineage, it works pretty well!
Out of curiosity, why? USB-C offers no marked improvements over Lightning, none whatsoever, plus it's more fragile and the port size is significantly larger.
Can confirm, moved from an iPhone 7 to a 13 mini, Face ID fails ~40% of the time, it sucks.
On August 20, 2021, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB (for openGauss) officially launched a new kernel feature, Ustore, a storage engine that provides high-performance database services for enterprise-level users and further injects energy into enterprise digital transformation. The openGauss community will also release this feature soon to explore the cutting-edge theories and best practices of databases with many database kernel developers.

The Ustore storage engine, also called in-place update storage engine, is a new storage mode added to the openGauss Kernel. The row storage engine used by the earlier openGauss Kernel versions is in append update mode. The append update mode has good performance in addition, deletion, and HOT (Heap Only Tuple) update (that is, update on the same page) in the service. However, in a non-HOT UPDATE scenario across data pages, garbage collection is not efficient. Ustore can solve this problem.
Read a review, that A9 seems fantastic. Made by Nokia or similar and I'd give it a go.
looks cool, what’s your tech stack?
Pretend I never got a raise, set the new portion of my salary to go straight into savings so I don't see it in my paycheck, stash it away and keep living frugally.

Maybe enjoy some extra travel but otherwise I try to be pretty anti-consumption soas not to get swept up in the hedonistic treadmill involved with keeping up with the Joneses.
> The Music app is barely functional for listening to your own music files...

The fact that you can't click a band name to navigate to that band's list of albums when playing local media is perhaps the thing I hate most about iOS. The band name renders in the color of a link, but is non-interactive.
Yeah, that's the dream. But there are lots of tiny details to figure out to make it really usable in prod and not gimmicky. Hasura is a great product indeed.
As expected from Daniel Abadi, this is good stuff. The cross over between isolation levels and consistency levels adds a lot of complexity, which is a real problem when most developers don't deeply understand isolation levels already.

Many distributed SQL databases (e.g. Cockroach, spanner) default to strong consistency and strong isolation. This is the right thing to do, because it saves developers from having to reason about the complex interactions between consistency and isolation. They also typically support a "recent snapshot" mode (often called "consistent prefix" in literature) for read-only, which can be good for latency optimizing read only workloads which can tolerate a little bit of staleness, while still not having to think about weak isolation (snapshot on read only transactions is equivalent to serializability).
Ow, good to know.

int.to_bytes and bytes.to_int requires a byteorder argument, curious that struct doesn't
Democrats revive the fight for net neutrality
An excellent 1981 radio production of 'Canticle' is still online.

[https://archive.org/details/NPRPresentsACANTICLEFORLIEBOWITZ...]
> Are they silently taking it in the rear (or rather passing it onto consumers) instead of sending lawyers after ISPs?

This is one of leading theories right now. The transit cost in Korea is indeed relatively high so the content providers do have higher pressure [1].

[1] https://opennet.or.kr/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/intro-and-Q... (a transcript of the seminar on Korean net neutrality, hosted by Open Net Korea on Nov 2021)
It's only 1mm wider than an iPhone 6 with its 4.7" screen.
I think the critical aspect of whether or not you need them and hence whether or not they represent a good set of trade-offs, is on what dimensions are you optimizing for.

My previous employer was a small engineering org of around 40 engineers with a monolith of below average quality, trying to go in a microservices direction and not really having that pan out a great deal due to being unable to spare the engineering bandwidth to invest enough in managing the complexity while still having to deal with the monolith.

My current employer is an engineering org of around 4000 engineers that one two headed monolith that makes up the original product (web app + api share some code and are monoliths in their own right) and also very successfully uses microservices for everything else and there is a lot of them.

At my previous employer dealing with the monolith was fine even though the code was rather horrid, and we would release twice a week. The "microservices" I wound up building/working on there were not worth the overhead / complexity added at all and we would have been far, far, far better off investing in cleaning up the monolith to make it safer/easier to work in.

At my current employer dealing with the monolith is not fine. You have to book releases in a calendar, it's scary, it's giant, and despite multiple releases of it per day, there are so many other teams that book releases for it that you have to queue up to get your turn and it's done that way for safety. Yes, we also use feature flagging too. It's also vastly more difficult to know/find who you have to communicate with about changes to the monoliths because unlike a tiny engineering org, that information simply doesn't fit in your head. Here, the microservices we own are awesome in comparison. They are small code bases that are easy to reason about, our organization invested a massive amount in the technical maturity needed to operate, maintain, and be able to handle the complexity, and we have continuous deployment pipelines that mean we can safely release multiple times per day and when PRs are merged they are shipped all the way through to production in around 15 minutes.

So, when you say "more complex and slower" you have to ask yourself "than what?" There is no "one is better than the other", there is only "every tool is the right tool for some job" and "every tool is also the wrong tool for almost any other job it was not designed for" and your job is to understand exactly what tool your specific situation actually calls for.

This is why I like modular monoliths as a starting point, as they're essentially a multi-tool. A half-way compromise which is not as easy to use as a full-blown dedicated tool, but is versatile enough that if it's the only tool you have and you have no idea what job you're going to need to do, then you've probably made an adequate choice regardless of what the situation calls for in the end. And if you outgrow your multi-tool, you can much more easily swap it out for a set of it's dedicated equivalents.
Rechargeable battery hid inside AA battery case
The price is "cheap" because it is low enough that most carriers will give it to you basically for free if you trade in your old phone and/or agree not to switch to a different carrier for 18-24 months.
Can PWAs use multiple windows, native menu bars or context menus, etc? I would not call those APIs "low level."
Holding onto my 6s as long as I can, because of the headphone jack. My headphones are kind of expensive. I also plug them into my laptop. If I'm putting an adapter on and off all the time I'll keep losing adapters, but I'd rather not buy a second pair of nice headphones.
> The declarative composable query language is a paradigm shift imo — not just a better ORM.

This!
the backend?
Mostly Laravel and FastAPI
The 0.5x is far more useful than the 2x. Most of the things one would do with the 2x can be had by just walking a bit closer to the subject. Or by just shooting at 1x and cropping, since there's resolution to spare.

But the 0.5x very frequently enables indoor shots that are impossible to get otherwise. Because you can't back up for a wider view if you're next to a wall.

Apple chose well.
They have joined the ranks of GM and Boeing...revenue from Congress not from sales

The CHIPS Act was an Apple-level windfall for Intel...
The iPhone SE, described in the article, has Touch ID.
My father in law stored some gold/silver in a box buried in the woods, its GPS coordinates were written down. We dug it up a few years ago. Security by obscurity.
After owning a previous Zenfone I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone ever purchase a Zenfone. Their support was terrible. If you don't mind spending a lot of money on a phone that you know you won't be able to resolve issues with the manufacturer, then maybe it is a good choice. However, if you have any issues and expect their support to be helpful then steer clear.
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact is 4.6", but super brittle. The Huawei P10 is 5.1" and has a case that makes it a tank. The SOYES XS12 Cell Phone is 3.0", if you need smaller. Have you searched using GSMArena's phone finder?

https://www.gsmarena.com/

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nHeightMax=135&nDispla...
Samsung being the worst end with many crapware, while Google just shipping stock Android, if you don't count Google's own software (such as the file manager, Phone , Messages, etc not crapware).
Not op but I enjoy trying different note taking processes

One take away from this thread is to try going all in making my notes into anki format as i take them. Currently my workflow has the anki creation separately and I never get around to converting the notes.

I also wish that I could narrow myself down to 1 tool, rather than todoist, googledocs, and anki it would be freeing(and more effective) to only use anki

Now that I think about this, creating the anki on the fly will force me to actively read and might improve the note quality in general.
I guess in this utopia, women still don't get reasonable sized pockets?

That's pretty much how it went in the 50's feminist bastion Devil Girl From Mars.
If it pivots the whole camera assembly, that should reduce the "wobbly corners" effect.
Looks interesting. Does this support Threading and/or Multiprocessing? Just looking at the readme, my guess would be no, but I might have a use for it if so.
True, although that Tensor chip is around 24 months behind Apple's chips, and the gap is getting wider and wider.
I just came up with an idea that can resist rubber hose cryptanalysis: Quantum physics.

Take a password, use some key stretching. Interpret the result: 0 indicates measure up-down. 1 indicates measure left-right. Measure qubits using this pattern. Get harddrive encryption key.

If as a prisoner you lie to your captors and they fall for it, they will measure the wrong way and the harddrive key is destroyed forever. They way qubits work you only get one attempt.
I think the low adoption of swift outside development for apple platforms is because of the immaturity of the necessary tooling and libraries, not because of issues with the language. There's a sizeable community of people who are passionate about the language and work on that tooling and library support, myself included, but there's not much institutional support outside of apple, so progress is slow.
Been looking for phones recently. The Asus ones looked actually quite good, the only reason I ruled them out (other than price) is they guarantee a pretty low number of updates. I can't find how many they say for this one, but I'd watch out for that.
Gawker was certainly trashy journalism, but I think the only lesson anybody learned from that whole experience was "Don't fuck with Peter Thiel".

Maybe I'm different from most people, but the lessons I learned were 1) there's a rich a-hole named Peter Thiel and 2) he's a petty spiteful vindictive a-hole (in my opinion based on what I know of his actions). In practical terms it mostly meant that when I saw news mention of him I knew who was being referred to.
I dont know what kind of people I expected wikipedia editors to be, but this Soibangla person is pretty much it. Big reddit moderator energy about them.