skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say “live long enough” because it probably means waiting until AI can generate the whole experience including the character AI
Korean is like japanese, minus the kanji.
What makes you say that? Besides C strings (pointer to characters, null-terminated) we have Pascal strings (pointer to length, followed by the characters), and then there is the variant that I'm not sure what it's called, that consists of a pair of (pointer, length). The last variant is my favorite, an is much nicer to use: you can take substrings without making a copy, you never have to iterate a string to find out its length, and your strings can contain the NULL character (which happens to be a perfectly normal unicode character).
>> I’ve had a CFO tell me he’s willing to pay 2x-3x salary

I took that into account. I made between 100k and 200k per year vs the other guys 600k for the same work, which I arguably did better since it was my specialty. The company really was being taken for a ride by the contractors (if what I was told was true).
Weird my best friend who works at MS said they were pausing hiring and I just got an offer rescinded last week...
You really think they prefer sitting motionless in a tank to having a task to do? How is that consistent with any of the rest of mammalia?
Ask HN: Chip startups?
Are there any start-ups in the chip space? I think this falls in the 'sounds like a bad idea' bucket, but could be potentially good idea.
This is not how the US monetary system works at all. Money collected in taxes is DESTROYED. It will never enter the economy again.
Yes but bugs in code are usually due to technical debt and doing things arseways from the outset. If you 'ship early, ship often' you will also 'ship bad code early, ship bad code often'.
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Anyone know what CF's referenced "high-availability" Postgres architecture looks like?
> Peppers containing capsaicin—such as the Scotch bonnets used in Jamaican beef patties (shown here)—not only appeal to the tastebuds, they also can help preserve foods that otherwise might spoil.

Here it is, as expected.
Remember this is a joint venture with 51% Chinese ownership. Meaning of course the Chinese have the final word.
Java 19 and the future: Loom is Looming
Aquisitions!
I think a big part of it was that coal was useless in the smelting process during roman times due to its impurities. Coke wasn't discovered until ~400 AD and it wasnt even really used until ~900 AD.

Without the need for lots of coal, there was less incentive in steam engines.

meanwhile Roam already good means of smelting iron (wood->charcoal). I think had Roam discovered coke, it would indeed had an industrial revolution.
Anti-Patterns in Startup Engineering Hiring
Those inconsistencies you mention are pretty good, but of of course you missed those that are more fun:

"read" vs "read" (I have read this book/I will read this book).

"bow" vs "bow" (At the end of the opera everybody takes a bow/We shoot the arrows with a bow).

etc.
Just shop with a list and don't break the rule of not buying anything not on the list.
it's so similar to a few zachtronics games that i'm wondering if it isn't by an ex-zachtronicser
selling things at-cost or whatever is no excuse for shoddy packing methods
Meh.

Someone has to rise the question of when do we stop wasting ressources because we can? Or maybe we can’t anymore ? But he’s not allowed to rise this problem because he’s rich?

If this guy was after money he would have continued his career in finance. Usual Macron bashing, he’s responsible for anything bad that happens but can’t get credit for anything good.
I underestimated the delightful power of HN public editing, but rest assured the calculation cells are protected in the sheet :)
".. but rust-analyzer is a dumpster fire next to clangd.."

Sorry, but this is patently false and is just straight-up misinformation. rust-analyzer is an extraordinary piece of work with careful, well-thought out idiomatic software design, easy usage and relatively low productive defect count.

Rust, the language, itself might be rather over-hyped here on HN - its most loved status will drop significantly with larger real-world adoption. However, the rust-analyzer project isn't overhyped and is a clean and elegant product of software engineering. I wish I was good enough to design and code language software like this.
I really missed the sodium lamps after my university "upgraded" to LED. There was something peaceful about the monochrome, and their gentle whine when they got too old.
Interesting trading activity before the SpaceX/T-Mobile announcement
China Deploys Rain-Seeding Drones to End Drought in Sichuan
If you have like-minded buddies, you are way ahead of the game (even if you don't have an idea). Choose something that seems fun - maybe something you would want to buy/use yourselves and start working on it. Borrow 8 hours a week from your current employer. They won't miss it, because you will probably gain that much in productivity as your skills and morale improve.

In the end, if you find success (which is rare) it probably won't be with your original idea. Once you have a body of work, keep an eye out for other applications of your core technologies. When your real idea comes along, be willing to pivot.
That's outdated reasoning. With stablecoins, you get the reliable store of value along with the transactional guarantees.
There are measures to detect deepfakes, like asking a person to turn their head sideways. I opened a branchless neobank account here in the EU and part of the signup required me to turn my head sideways so that they could prove the video was not a deepfake. It's really an arms race.
> Golang devs like to re-invent the wheel, in a kind of Apple-ish way - all other are doing it wrong, we're going to do it better. ofc it's debatable whether they're correct with their approach.

I'm very happy with these tradeoffs. Not only is it a pleasure not to have to deal with libc (truly static binaries on Linux, 2mb docker images, etc), but because interop is tedious/expensive, the ecosystem is largely pure-Go. This means that we rarely (if ever) have to deal with C's abysmal build tooling and (lack of) package managers and stuff like cross compilation is trivial. Everything builds consistently on every system, every time, and irrespective of target platform (provided there are no C dependencies).
No mention of Japan or Asia. Last I lived there (~10 years ago), business cards were an essential part of almost every business encounter. So, if you do business in Japan (and maybe other East Asian countries), you want business cards. There's all sorts of etiquette in how you hand them to one another, but so long as you keep them right side up facing your partner so they can read it, you're 80% of the way there.
so, it seems GitHub's license scanning gizmo doesn't know about the file named "copyright" but it's ISC: https://github.com/cloudflare/cf-pgbouncer/blob/master/COPYR...

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they also seem to be using an internal build of debian or something because libbssl-fips-dev <https://github.com/cloudflare/cf-pgbouncer/blob/master/cfset...> and rubygem-fpm don't exist in docker.io/library/debian:bullseye
I've seen the following in action:

1. Recruiter sources a direct hire. At hire they're paid 30% of one year's salary, and if the hire is still there 30/60/90 days later, they keep the money.

2. 10% finders fee for fixed-price contract to a contractor (paid by the contractor, not the company)

3. Company employs someone, who is then billed out to another company as staff augmentation / contract. Markup varies widely but ranges from 2-200% and in my experience is inversely proportional to the quality of the person doing the work.
Your sense of satire is quite evolved.
Japanese is a language with no future tense and a very choppy system of plurals (many of which have to be inferred). I don't think it's a good candidate.
Grass is a more effective carbon sink than trees.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/08/19/...
Solved is a strong word

TCEC shows opening lines which allow for AIs to best each other, maybe tournaments need to move to that eventually. It's what they've done in checkers
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The myth is that governments are "fundamentally incapable." That they're not in this particular case doesn't speak to the larger issue.

One political party has been devoted to handicapping government functions at every possible point for at least 40 years, and still some parts of the government continue to function well, so well that people don't even notice or think about them.

People notice the IRS--underfunded on purpose, and with intense lobbying to ensure it is illegal to provide a higher quality of service--and the DMV--underfunded in most states--but not anything else that works cost-effectively, like public schools or the USPS.
Those were cards for brothels, not strip clubs
> Something like 25 pages being sufficient to describe it.

Wirth attached importance to the fact that there are only 16 pages; on closer inspection, however, one realizes that not everything has been specified and the omission of redundant descriptions easily leads to ambiguity in the given writing style.

> in the end it is very much a subjective thing

The differences and little similarities, as far as specified, are objectively ascertainable. But of course there are far more important things. From my point of view Oberon (including Oberon-2 and especially Oberon-07) is too minimalistic for non-academic projects anyway. That's why I threw my hat into the ring with Oberon+ (http://www.oberon-lang.ch ); its specification is still small with about 50 pages.
The biggest surprise for me from this article is that the author didn't like Newpipe, which is surprising for me. I know that it breaks every couple of weeks when Youtube changes something to mess with youtube-dl/newpipe/other systems, but usually within a few hours someone has a dev-build out with the fix, and the main branch gets the fix within a day or two, if that even. I actually think their choice of FDroid is what made the experience painful as it does lag behind I've noticed and I guess it conditions you to wait for the update instead of check the issues and pull a temporary apk. (I like newpipe so much that as a reluctant android user, I have second thoughts on going back to iOS since I'm not aware of any newpipe equivalent (happy to be shown otherwise!))

Overall based on the author's commentary I get why they might like something like the PinePhone as it's less about what it is and more what it represents. Hopefully these phones get to a more stable space in some years.
Oh man. Patrick Bateman in shambles
Is the exported HTML runnable? Ie. does it come with a Python interpreter embedded?

Great idea and tool overall!
not to mention, horsepower is hardly ever the choke these days. I would say that the greatest limiting factor here is the lack of screen space, because now your dev must context switch to read documentation etc
Maybe they are downloading a low res video demonstrating an emergency field medicine procedure to save a life far from hospitals. Maybe they are a journalist or a whistleblower uploading a picture that may change the outcome of a war.

A central party trying to decide what data is most important is going to be wrong when it counts most.

If a single user is monopolizing all bandwidth and a new user joins, throttle the existing user in half to make room.

There might also need to be a way to signal a need for emergency bandwidth, 911 style, that can give you priority access for a short time window, with the option for a carrier to cut off your device IMEI entirely if it is used too frequently.
He says that like consuming less and living a simpler life is a bad thing
> Newton's quote about standing on the shoulders of giants is apt here. :)

Even if he was making a jab at Robert Hooke when he said it.
That's a great option for desktop but this flub was done on mobile.
There’s extremely few exceptions though, very much unlike other languages.

Pronunciation is extremely systematic too. You could record the sound of each character as an audio file and put each file in order of a word/sentence and it’ll sound like (bad, robotic) Finnish.

This also means that you can hear a spoken word (or a name!) and just know how it’s spelled, even if you have no idea what it means. Compare that to English!

This article is clearly satire, but it’s a delightful language, especially for nerds who think learning consistent grammar rules is easier than endless lists of exceptions (Hi there, French!)

The only practical downside is that just about every word is unique to the Finnish language group, except recent imports (eg bussi, teatteri). Eg “mom” is a word with an “m” in every other language I’m familiar with, but it’s “äiti” in Finnish.
I much prefer the ergonomics of passing out-parameters than TLS. Honestly, TLS has always struck me as a code smell in any language.
Yeah I think #1 and #2 are valid criticisms. My issue with the parent comment's line of reasoning is that it doesn't apply the same level of rigor to evaluating whiteboarding as it does to work sample tests. Our goal should be to identify which evaluation approach is most predictive based on the evidence available.
Try notmuch-emacs to see a modern one:

- search based, entirely

- tags, like GMail labels NOT folders, while they are equally integrated in search (just folder: instead of tag:)

The issue:

- does not embed ANYTHING to fetch your mails, so you need something else to do so, like OfflineIMAP/mbsync or fetchmail etc

- does not touch files so you need wrappers to delete/refile etc them

Why? Because no one have felt the need to integrate to help new users...

Similarly no modern UI, there is a semi-abandoned WebUI, Astroid a webkit/GTk GUI, but almost no one develop them...
As long as one understands the tradeoffs, no problem.
> Should physicists and engineers worry about whether a discovery they make could be used for new weapons?

Szilard and Einstein thought it was worth worrying about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein–Szilard_letter
3d printer object generation software can include using other predesigned software components.

Printing/deployment occuring via push of a button to upload image to 3d printer embedded device.
I hadn't thought in terms of collective guilt including everyone
If you have an accessible 120v outlet, it's extremely likely you can charge just with that. Evidence - had an ev since 2012, using only 120 volts. Only the most inefficient recent evs argue for higher voltage.

The reasons 120v garage charging won't work for you:

1. You commonly drive 200+ miles, need to come home, charge, driving 200 or 300 miles almost immediately.

When I need to do this I can go to a supercharger or fast dc charger, but that's rare. There's another alternative, I have used my house's dryer vent to charge at 30 amps, 220v maybe a dozen times in 10 years.
It occurs to me I see this term bandied around, but I've never actually seen it defined. Perhaps I'm too young, idk. Is it the thing when you need a medical treatment to live but a panel of accountants working for your employer's health insurer decides they won't fund it? Or is it the thing where you need insulin to live but a panel of businessmen from a cartel of companies all agree to charge multiples of your daily wage per day for it? Or are we talking about something else?

Could you explain what you mean by "death panels"?
US Department of Justice begins drafting antitrust lawsuit against Apple
Show HN: I released an indie racing game (single dev)
It took me 20 months to develop it in my spare time. I used Unity game engine, I did not have any game dev experience before.
It was more complex that I thought at the begining, I spent lots of time on promotion, marketing, founding company, learning about the legal aspects of different parts, for example music.
Some parts were easier than I expected. Unity makes it very easy to build for all three operating systems (Win, MacOs, Linux), I am not sure why more game devs are not using this possibility.
I also like working on Steam as distribution system. It is not exactly easy for a newcomer, but once you know your way around it has many nice features and it is easy to upload your builds.
Let's see how well this game does, I am excited to either improving it or jumping to a new gamedev project :)
Just moved a django app from heroku hobby to fly.io.
flyctl CLI, the documentation was super easy to work with.
Fly.io Trial Plan is a decent alternative for Heroku hobby dynos (SSL certs through Let's Encrypt was a pleasant surprise).
Try telling that to some of the world's best-known conservationists who supported SeaWorld: Julie Scardina, Jack Hanna, Guy Harvey, Bindi Irwin...
I'm not sure what it's called

In D we call them dynamic arrays. They could be called length-delineated strings.
My interpretation would be mail+jobs@example.com, given that it's become the de facto standard, and mail@example.com looks like his main one.
> The M2 numbers from the N5P process were underwhelming.

No, they weren't. Performance improvements are precisely in line with every previous hardware update. Apple hardware updates are always and only incremental improvements, since the very beginning. Apple is reasonably predictable in this regard. Expecting more than what Apple has always given in hardware updates is overtly unrealistic.
Steam engines and other technologies simply had no hope of happening on a large scale until materials science, including metallurgy and chemistry, had caught up, and that wasn't going to happen for a very long time regardless.
should be in the title: locals are getting priced out
Unless you are a journalist or a dissident and need to relay information that will save human lives, but cannot risk exposing your identity, location, or the message content to anyone but the recipients.

Not all emergencies are the same.
If there is anyone I would trust on Finnish as a language would be Suussu Lacksonen (blair) A famous finnish translator and movie maker...

Also you should pleasure your ears by listening to this if you think Finnish is a global language...

(ALSO I See Torvalds behind this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_uq7ypZnc

I have never been so beautifully scolded in a language I cannot understand
Tortilla avataan?
Citibank, California. No notice or legal motion. I only knew about it because I had setup withdraw alerts on the account. I received a letter from the bank a few days after the fact, so it is clear they knew how to get to me. They also charged me some $125 'legal fee'.

You'd think that if you move out of state or even the country... but apparently, as I've found out now, the FTB is pretty hardcore about these things. You have to file 0 on California tax returns even after you leave the state.

I had only kept the account open so that I could xfer money oversees more easily as there was a citibank branch in Vietnam (where I moved) that allowed for free ~24 hour xfers. I kept a minimal amount of funds in there to avoid fees. Luckily, I use another bank primarily and the FTB didn't go after that account, otherwise, I'd be broke and unable to pay my bills.

So yea, it definitely has me on edge now about banks in general. I was already pro-crypto and now I'm only more so. Too many people feel it isn't their problem... until it is.
Yeah this doesn't work for me. I develop with a lot of sensors and hardware and drivers are a pain in the ass.

I have a box of 30 cameras and exactly zero work on Mac.

Also, fuck Mac keyboards, I can't develop with them, and the constant quacking noises and spinning beachballs that I have to meditate to while I have absolutely NO idea what's causing the delay.

Even Alt+Tab doesn't work correctly, tiling shortcuts don't work consistently, and sending bytes over USB HID API to switch logitech devices isn't reliable either.

(I own zero Macs, all of my personal machines are Linux, I was given a Mac M1 for work and it's inefficient as hell, productivity-wise.)
The Xen project members list suggests otherwise: https://xenproject.org/about-us/project-members/

Even if it is a custom hypervisor, AWS likely derived it from Xen and sponsors the project to continue doing so.
Could you please specify to which part of "the West" is US more hostile than China? Being in/from EU, I think mostly everyone - going by recent public polls - is very happy about our partnership with the US given recent events, and a lot of people are already talking about the Chinese threat too. People here hoped China would take a pro-Ukrainian stance (with the TV presenter dressed in UA colors one time, etc), but that didn't materialize and instead China seems to be cooperating with Russia and people here dislike that a lot.

I haven't seen any serious claims (except from the remains of the pro-Putin nutcases, and the amount of these went to like 1/10000 the state before the war) about US hostility for a very long time - most people here think that giving up Afghanistan was a huge mistake. Most of my friends who didn't like the US acting as world police have said they were mistaken.
The emphasis on novelty has deep roots in academic publishing. It used to be that publishing was expensive, and any repetition came at the expense of other things that could have been published. Today, however, publishing is essentially free.

Yes, publishing is cheap or free, but attention is still scarce.
Hangul is a marvel of an alphabet, especially when you realize it was created from scratch six centuries ago.
Some times you will see the acronym TPC for Technical Program Committee. Searching for 'conference TPC' returns some relevant hits.
> It's bypassing peer review.

Unfortunately, if you aren't already part of the in-crowd, getting peer review at all can be very difficult, if you have any type of unorthodox idea. Because, you guessed it, you get labelled as a "crank", so why bother wasting time reviewing your paper?
Record it where? Hence lie the bugs as C doesn't offer a reliable way to associate the two.

I made a proposal to fix this in C, but it went nowhere:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
New York City is owed $500m in parking fines. No one is paying up
It's usually a soupy mix of salesforce API integration work and wading through tons and tons of programmery-looking user interfaces.

It's not hard, but it requires an incredible amount of overhead to first understand various different salesforce specific concepts and then understand the various different broken workflows your company has adopted using those concepts.
Well done satire will fool any community. That's the definition of good satire. I don't think HN is any more easily fooled than other communities. And frequently HN finds some aspect being ridiculed and shows that in fact it's not nearly as dismissable as the satire would have one believe.
That's relative humidity, not absolute. Absolute humidity has an additional Arrhenius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation) factor. For instance, 100% relative humidity at 40 C is 51.1 g/cm^3, while at 20 C it's only 17.3 g/cm^3.
That turns out not to be a problem in the us, because the increased electricity use by expected ev charging is contained in our 2 or 3% increase per year. I expected this will be true for other places. Also in the us you find that people are using unneeded capacity at night.
Architect and developer are very different roles, you can be good at one and terrible at the other. And honestly it's going to be hard for you to convince me that a quarter million a year is not a good cash comp for any level of developer.

I don't think anybody is lying but if your first reaction is to compare consulting/contracting engagements with W2 FTE salaries you're just in for a bad time. They're just too different. $300/hr does not immediately correlate to $600k/yr (in fact it almost never does).
It's part of an elaborate scheme to convince people that Finland exists. We all know it doesn't.