skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah! You got what I meant... We have the opportunity to make a big leap by exploring a new Era of creativity provided these technological advances.

It's the same cynical people questioning if "machines going to replace people" didn't figure out that the machines need to build themselves first.

When machines build themselves (with no humans since conception), let's see how the "patent ideas" world wouldn't fall apart.

Until then, We can get our piece of Cake by augmenting our human creative process.

Sorry but I'm not the daydreamer here. I can't live under the false premise that Intelectual Property is something that would control the input(training, learning, etc.) for all the A.I. (created or to-be-created).
I disagree with the first paragraph (because eventually we will have the technology) but agree with the second, which is a good point.
Just tell them you're Jewish.
If you mean "is this a reciprocating piston engine with a generator that's plumbed for natural gas?" then no ... this is fuel-cell technology, not internal combustion.
The paper by Elizabeth Derryberry [1] is really fascinating.

They classified four distinct dialects of white-crowned sparrows in urban and rural communities and studied the changes of their bird song when background noise levels lowered during the pandemic. They measured a doubling of the signal-to-noise ratio of bird songs to urban noise, which doubled the distance you can hear birds and lead to a 4-fold increase in the amount of birds that you heard during that time.

I recently learned how to distinguish between different bird types by appearance and their songs thanks to Merlin Bird ID, which is essentially a Pokédex for birds. Being able to identify different bird species has been eye-opening since I had never paid much attention to the different songs and behaviors of different birds.

Anyone can record audio and the spectrum of bird songs in the recording can be used to classify the bird species. It's super accessible to anyone who's interested in getting started.

Also, white crown sparrows are really cute.

[1] http://www.engdes.com/sigwin/company/biblio/papers/Singing%2...
Not entirely true, there are many ways in which you can use a custom location and still take advantage of the binary cache. You can do it with chroot, file system namespaces, bind mounts and so on. There's also a nice user friendly tool that does exactly this [1].

[1]: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
The book "Diplomacy" has a precious chapter about two Oder rivers and Stalin fooling the West by picking the most western Oder for the German-Polish border, where nowadays a lot of people has multiple heritages.
"The universe just starts contorting itself to ensure nothing ever exceeds the speed of light."

This pretty well describes what it's like walking around in a game. Everything looks and acts pretty normal and rational up close, yet I can walk across a continent in a few minutes, yet each individual step along the way looked normal.
Where can I see good explanations of these terms?
I was SURE they had learned their lesson after the clusterfuck that was 3.1/3.2 but no, right back at the same shit again.

It's hard to see this as anything but purpose-built to make it harder to tell what a cable is capable of (a huge boon to scammers, aka: 90% of cable sellers). If the USB-IF had half a brain between them all (clearly they don't) they would require the data/charging/etc specs to be printed on the cable. Instead they spend their time coming up with confusing standards that are indecipherable to the average person which lead to a shitty world where everyone needs a cable tester to know what a cable is capable of, or they have constant bad experiences with a cable that fits the port but underperforms if it works at all.

I've heard some people say this is because it's all marketing-driven vs engineering-driven, if that's the case the fire the whole department because they suck at marketing. It's gotten to the point the only cables I can trust are from Anker and even those suffer from lack of labeling on them.
Yeah we didn't do the icon part. But the original comment said make them all the same, then we figured out why that's not practical.
or writing assembly code
Please write concisely.
Kentucky, Wisconsin, Nevada and Vermont all achieved better gender-pay equality than California, Colorado, and New York without the need to enforce private sector from revealing the salary offer.

Is this the more depriving by state governments of the common workers’ privacy through needless encroaching laws?

Who gains by this loss of privacy?
Original title: FTC Takes Action to Stop Credit Karma From Tricking Consumers With Allegedly False “Pre-Approved” Credit Offers

The title I used for this post comes from the FTC’s Consumer Alert about the same action: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/09/ftc-orders-...
I can't corroborate this at all.

I come from a CS background. If you leave school and enter the workforce at SAS, you will be at a disadvantage insofar as you are looking for a workplace that you hope to learn something from or one that you hope reinforces good engineering practices. The semiconductor industry, from the vantage point of an experienced systems thinker, reinforces awful engineering practices. All the things that SE folks take for granted—version control, e.g, as a discipline/tool to name one example, for regression analysis—say goodbye to any of these things, along with any expectation of competence from your colleagues.

The semiconductor industry sources heavily from the defense sector, and this has deleterious, catastrophic effects.

A close friend (from a non-CS engineering background) I know to still be at SAS. We don't talk about finances, but at around 8 years in, I estimate that he just recently (since COVID) crossed the six figure threshold. He's in a fairly senior role. Meanwhile: "What's x86?" — a direct quote from a conversation not too long ago.

He has no real professional experience outside of SAS, was not set up in an environment that rewards "extracurricular" experience, so he doesn't have any of that, either, and he's effectively stuck as a result of the "golden" handcuffs that the path at SAS has led him on.

Don't work in the semiconductor industry, folks. What you can expect to be is a monkey pressing buttons on a machine (that your supervisor—and their supervisor—doesn't understand, and nor will you; you pass butter). Make no mistake: there's an abundance of low-hanging fruit. But you won't have, as Gerry Weinberg put it, "permission" to pick it.

By all means, if your prospects/ambitions look to be something like working for the state/federal government, learning nothing over your career, and cashing mediocre checks for doing mediocre work along the way, then by all means go for it. Otherwise, it is likelier that you'll be hobbled by your time in the industry. And not for no good reason. If I'm evaluating someone and it came up that they'd done any significant time in the world of semiconductors, the net impression it'd have on me (having hash an insider's view of it) would be one worse than if they said that they'd just gotten their degree and had spent the last N years flipping burgers, cf Dan Luu.

Don't do semiconductors, folks.

PS: sorry, drunk.
The whole paragraph suggests it more strongly. Specifically why would you say "affected" rather than exposed / accessed?:

> FAQ: Can you tell us more about what specifically happened? In late July 2022, an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems. On or around August 4, 2022, we determined through our ongoing investigation that personal information of certain customers was affected. We have taken action to secure the affected systems, and have engaged a leading outside cybersecurity firm and are coordinating with law enforcement.
So put power? You can run fiber right alongside 50 amp high voltage cables if you want without any signal corruption issues whatsoever.

For practical purposes they'd need just {fiber, 19VDC, GND}, and none of the schengens that USB-C has. No shielding issues, no signal corruption issues, nothing. And you could run it for kilometers.
> (I've never written a line of code professionally)

I don't know that I have either, but I certainly had code in production.
Well said. Hopefully in jail she has time for self reflection. Lots of time.
Amazon Closes, Abandons Plans for Dozens of US Warehouses
> colleagues quickly became disgruntled towards the person taking mat/pat leave because that meant more workload for them

That's not really a place you'd want to work anyway, as this reeks of both bad management and bad colleagues. Would the same colleagues be disgruntled toward that person if said person had a death in the family? I mean shit happens and management needs to step up with better planning and scaling down the workload to account for the time off of the employee. If colleagues are disgruntled towards the employee taking time off and not at management for making them work more, they're either assholes or idiots.
Wait a minute... it's meant to be reprogrammed?

SO THAT'S WHY I was pushed to try to use it (but didn't see the point after a few minutes) It's self contained AND REPROGRAMMABLE????? Holy cow!
> I admire your ambition, but perhaps rein it in a little ?

I hope whatever happened to you to make you think like this is resolved, because it saddens me to see people tell others to pipe their ambitions, goals and visions down because THEY don't see it as a reality.

If everyone believed this, we'd have never advanced at all as a society because nobody would push the boundaries.
Please don't use GoDaddy. You can search HN to see why it's a horrible company.
This seems materially different than the predatory adjustable rate mortgages pushed on minority communities in the 90s-00s. They're assessing creditworthiness using other metrics to try and work around institutional racism, not pushing bad mortgages on people who can't afford them. I deeply mistrust banks, but I don't find anything outwardly malicious here.
You can also make (extract) Iron from corn flakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXo7l42vRA
Americans are extremely loud, both the people and the behaviors. People talk loudly, but it's not just that - restaurants blast music, shops even blast music. There's nothing more strange than going to a fancy wine bar and having hip hop or some garbage bass music being blasted so people basically have to yell at each other.

How'd it get to this point?
Wonderful! I will be sharing this one a lot. Thank you.
But only if you have oil and natural gas peakers.
For anyone who wants to read the bill, it's SB-1162.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> Patch notes are an encouraged place for political statements...

Wouldn't a blog post or a social media post be a more appropriate place for something like that, given the larger focus on interaction and outreach on those, versus something that is generally (in my experience) just used to list a bunch of changes between two versions of software?

That said, I agree with Valve that there really shouldn't be a place for harassment or really toxic behavior on the platform, at least when it's possible to limit it. Interpretations of what counts and what doesn't might vary, but this seems like a decent example of moderation action.
It works even on my phone with Firefox. It animates the text as it is spoken. The only improvement I can think of is to make the talk icon appear close to the selection.
I got the same.

I find it insulting to offer a credit check. If I wanted, I would get 20 credit checks just this year. Credit checks are also (mostly) free. Everyone and their mother offers them.

Why would that do me any good for checking? How does it remediate or mitigate the loss I have?
Not mentioned somehow was that Washington state also passed a pay range on job listings law and it goes into effect Jan 1, 2023.
The charging situation isn't their fault. USB wasn't designed for it. Non-compliant devices started allowing charging before it was ever permitted. Then they added PD but nobody supported it and manufacturers cooked up their own ad hoc systems to detect a charger.
The first I recall seeing was the art/science project "Immaculate Telegraphy". This was the first time I saw, or perhaps felt, that memory and knowledge is also imparted into the tools themselves -- knowing what to do is not enough, there's a bunch of subtle boot-strapping steps that need to bake progress into actual artifacts too. And also how much of this extra-cranial knowledge is taken for granted now.

https://immaculatetelegraphy.tumblr.com/
Playing devil's advocate: a fiber+power cable makes some sense. The main thing which limits the cable length is the data wires, not the power wires (just notice how one of the main counter-arguments for "one USB cable to rule them all" is "the higher bandwidth passive USB cables have to be shorter and thicker").
Not really, PPL protects page tables and PAC provides CFI.
I was thinking of Alan Hastings (developer of Videoscape and Lightwave) recently. I was hoping I could find an article about him but could find nothing.
Startup time is the major problem I have with spring, it can be ~ 1 minute in some apps. I'll definitely check Quarkus thank ypu!
Nothing wrong with wanting to showcase what you're working on but don't spam HN when you're not pleased with the amount of eyeballs on it (At least not multiple times within 24 hours with varying titles like you're trying to AB test)
Wow, it loads so quickly for me.
Yep, and this was the initial benefit of iron despite bronze generally being better - you can find it anywhere, vs needing to source both copper and tin which tended to come from different, far flung places.
Panasonic still has some product info.[1]

Natural gas powered fuel cells are available from some gas companies.[2]

Problems seem to be:

* Runs at very high temperatures, around 1000C, which means materials problems. Also, high grade heat is nice, but not that useful for home applications. So actual sales of this technology are to businesses.

* There's been recent work on catalysts to bring the needed temperature down to 500C or so.[3] That's easily managed; auto engines run that hot. The catalyst needs ruthenium, which is expensive, although cheaper than platinum.

* Sulfur in natural gas messes up the process, although this can be overcome. General problem with fuel cells: they need clean input gases.

* Apparently you get a lot of heat and a little electricity. This limits the usefulness. The gas company in the US which sells this services Maine and Vermont.

A nice application for this would be a little unit to provide backup power for natural gas furnaces, so you could run the fans without external power.

[1] https://www.panasonic.com/uk/corporate/sustainability/produc...

[2] https://www.eversource.com/content/ct-c/business/services/co...

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029130939.h...
Thank you for the suggestions I'll take a peek at them!
I'm curious. We hear a lot about gender pay gaps, but I suspect that H1B pay gaps may be more extreme.

Will this expose that, or do you think that companies will find a way around that?
Wikipedia has some reasonable figures about Cogeneration fuel cells (Ene-Farm is one of those "MicroCHP" fuel cell systems for home usage[1]:

> Co-generation systems can reach 85% efficiency (40–60% electric and the remainder as thermal).[5] Phosphoric-acid fuel cells (PAFC) comprise the largest segment of existing CHP products worldwide and can provide combined efficiencies close to 90%

For the "95% […] efficiency", I guess they take the hydrogen heat input for calculation of efficiency. What I miss are the losses from conversion of natural gas to hydrogen. This has to be considered when comparing efficienies eg. with gas fired power plants.

So when it comes to large-scale Combined Heat and Power plants [2], it depends.
There are not only different types of power plants (coal fired, gas fired, etc.) but also the heating part varies (process steam, district heating, etc.). If you go thermodynamically strict, you would also have to consider the quality of heat (at which pressure & temperature level is the heat extracted). This is normally not considered in the standard efficiency formula.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Efficiency_of_leadin...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
"it's really not a silver bullet"

Uh okay, it's just everything we need, the safest, the cheapest, and one of only three zero-carbon options (the other of which is drying up in the heat, and the third of which has never scaled past 0.1%)

Sure, it's been delivering 25% of our grid for 70 years basically without a hiccup, but it's "not a silver bullet" in some undescribed way

.

"Allowing fuel reprocessing in the US"

Completely unnecessary

Don't checklist opposition. We can go without with no problems
> Meanwhile West Virginia, Michigan, Colorado, and Utah all achieved gender-pay equality as well as privacy without any pay transparency.

Proof?

> Makes me wonder why California and New York are exposing the privacy part for through their state victims’ paychecks?

What on earth are you talking about? How does posting a salary range "expose the privacy" of people? Also this isn't just about pay equity, it's about knowing what you are applying for before going through the process.
You're just flailing because you don't like the evidence. Here's more, going into the many different forms that a physician's fiduciary obligations can take, including the dispensation of medical advice where a conflict of interest might arise between the physician's financial wellbeing and the health of the patient. This is from a book published in 1983, so it's not a new concept.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216764/

Here's some examples of how that can manifest:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/09/1079183...
Zero chance. She will be reflecting on the injustices done to her.
"minimization" it is called
I'm rooting for Android to reclaim the position as an underdog but it's clear Apple can do a better job with vertical integration whereas Google/Samsung/Carrier experience as a whole is a terrible UX. Add to that the fact that Google hasn't yet done a stellar job with its Pixels.

So maybe a future folding Pixel sways me back to Android but I'm happy iOS has got rid of the jank at the OS level yet Android is still tuning some threadpool or something after all these years.
> Rule #1: Domain registrar and DNS should never be the same source.

The domain registrar POINTS to whatever DNS servers, so in this attack the registrar just POINTED to their own DNS servers. Rule #1 and Rule #2 were followed but the domain was still taken over. The attacked domain also needs to send email so the gov.uk link is great guidance but can't be followed here.
I suppose there's some ambiguity in the wording... there's no way it's 95% electrical generation efficiency.

The key is that waste heat from electrical generation is used to heat an otherwise-cold home, and perhaps the hot water.

That efficiency isn't going to be possible when it's warm outside.
If you can have the team work well without you, you could probably spend the same time that you used to on one team on five teams. If you're not getting promoted to the level that you can do that, you should probably find a different place to work.
I love this channel, glad to see it here. I agree with his sentiment after working in the semiconductor industry in the Bay area off and on for the last 15 years.
> They're under 100% efficient at converting fuel to heat

I think only matter-antimatter reaction comes close to 100%. Burning fuels isn't even 1% of that.
Certified Thunderbolt 4 called are available and the fastest and most compatible you can get.

Expensive but reliable.

I don't understand all this hate for USB. Sure the labeling could be better but having a standard that is basically back compatible all the way to the nineties and now a single multipurpose port for charging/storage/displays/devices is a nice feat.
Seems like a really obvious move. Don't waste time, don't bait-and-switch.
I am neither a lawyer, nor tax advisor, but my layman understanding is:
If you transfer them (as in, you already own them as a private person and give/sell them to your UG), you will generate a taxable event where you might have to pay personal income tax on the current market value of the options. You probably don‘t want this to happen.
If you don‘t yet own them, then you might be able to set it up with your employer that shares are held my your holding. There are some explicit rules around being actively involved in the company and whether the 5% rule applies. I don‘t know the latest status quo of this and whether employee options would generally qualify for the 5% rule.
You only pay 5% of the tax. So if the corporate tax rate is 20%, your effective tax rate is 1%.
That’s always a good question to ask :) Seems like the claim is that it prevents exploits where you’d map libc executable and then spray code there. IMO if you have the ability to do this you usually have lost already but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you looking at the chart correctly? Those states have the widest pay gaps with Utah ranked the highest.
Isn't California following Colorado's lead?

> Meanwhile West Virginia, Michigan, Colorado, and Utah all achieved gender-pay equality as well as privacy without any pay transparency.

Also, how do you know that gender-pay equality has been achieved?
> California joins Colorado, New York City, and Washington state in adopting the job-posting tactic. Only Colorado’s law is currently in effect

From the article...
I found the post interesting. It provoked me to think about the low-code, no-code movements, and of the concept of folk interfaces. It is a nice term and I will try keep it with me in my future thinking. I found the 9c radio particularly appealing. It also made me consider how I ended up where I am now, and one thing that struck me is that when I was learning to program, I tried learning from textbooks about programming and they intimidated me and felt impenetrable. I didn't know how to get into them at all. Then by stroke of fortune I came across the first programming book that really took me. It was called C for Dummies, by Dan Gookin. It was filled with humor and encouraged experimentation, and above all it was empowering. It made me feel good and it inspired me: I sent a couple of busted but well-intentioned input routines off to a friend who was further along in the process than I was and he introduced me to the off-by-one-error. I never became a good C programmer, but I learned how to make the computer do my bidding in small ways, and it wasn't long before I picked up another book, on Perl and CGI.pm, and I wrote my first "web applications". Eventually I went on to do a computer science degree. Today, by HN standards, I'm maybe nothing to write home about, but I make a very comfortable living and I enjoy writing code at work. I enjoy learning about tech in my spare time, even now.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I wish to see learning to code, per se, easily accessible for all. I'm not talking about cheap or even free boot camps that promise entry into a lucrative job market. I'm talking about a kid, or a parent, or an auntie or uncle or cousin or sister or brother, about whoever, who just sees something they want to make happen and they literally do because they can. I read through the comments and I re-read the wonderful article by Robin Sloan linked below ("An app can be a home-cooked meal" -- look through this comment thread, and you'll see it, alongside my first observation of the term "OA", one that took me some time to decipher -- another thing that will stick with me).

I believe that programming is and always will be for the masses. I believe in development best practices when they are called for. But for learning, for discovering the beauty of computing and the joy of software, of writing one's first programs, I wish the barriers were less!