skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number after the x is the number of lanes, FYI.
Can someone explain to me what the purpose of date of birth collection is? If it’s to verify the person is an adult, anyone can just lie. And why not just ask for age or age range instead?
The reactors are down for maintenance. Nuclear still provides ~50% of France's power.

As for "Public Citizen":

Bernie Cohen at UPitt once offered to eat 5000mg of pure plutonium, if Ralph Nader would at the same time eat 5000mg of caffeine. Nader didn't take him up on the offer, which is just as well.
Unless they are paying for it with their own personal money, then I don't see how it couldn't be considered police powers if they are using it in an investigation.
I'm not sure but to me it sounds like there is some similarity in how a bird modulates sounds and how primitive synthesizers do it, so I guess those sounds are easier to mimic or something
It's not really about quick cash. The truth is just that additional SWEs are right now more useful than additional fab engineers, in the US. It sucks to hear but it's true. There just aren't that many fab engineers necessary. Even TSMC employs a large part of SWE and IC designers, probably close to or more than process engineers.

Fab engineers in the US are fairly disposable because their existence isn't based on market needs but really as a hedge by the US to be independent. That's going to suck for you because TSMC isn't going to value you that much because you're not really business critical, you're just there to get government subsidies. In Taiwan it's another story and it's almost competitive with good SWE jobs.
ICPF Contest 2022
So do it? Steel is cheap and recyclable.
Given that they mention 'penetration' I can practically guarantee they're talking about card counting, I can't think of any other reason it would ever matter.

Semi-offtopic: It seems like it would be very easy for casinos to completely prevent card counting at blackjack.

I wonder if the fact a lot of games are beatable is intentional bait for novice counters that will screw up and lose. Maybe casinos have done the math on this and figure they win more from the novices than they lose from the experts (before they kick them out).
That’s a bit harsh, but this is definitely a very Raspberry Pi-focused take on inflation. Besides, electronics were already going up pre-war.
not that annualcreditreport.com feels any less random.
Not to mention the endless packaging these deliveries arrive in.
After reading TFA, I'm sorry I wrote this. Please accept my apologies for the useless shitty comment.
It's shocking to me the massive number of folks who don't understand this basic detail. Same with "climate change" or whatever it's called this week. We'll be paying the cost of ignoring that one for decades if not centuries to come…
Some places still actively refuse to allow DD.

I once had an BoA, on two occasions in a row, hold my payroll checks. I had a BoA acct and so did my employer.

For some reason I could cash my check, deposit the cash in my acct and have it be there immediately. But if I deposited the check it would be held.

Come to find out my employer did this constantly, on purpose, to give themselves more time to pay workers.

Owner lived on 5+ acres of prime land in Albuquerque, had another property in Santa Fe, and bled money and showed off with his company-name-painted year-of pace-car corvette... but pled poverty come payday.

American employers are a different kind of sociopathic leech.
I think that everyone who has kids should teach them about gambling at a young age. Teach them how to play blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, sports gambling, etc. You can sneak in math lessons in a way that can be entertaining, but the greater lesson should be that the house always has an edge on the player.

While gambling can be addicting, I don't think the correct response is to make it illegal. Perhaps there should be more regulation regarding the amount you can wager within a year, but keeping things underground is IMO worse for society.
Absolutely.

The 2x2 is the Gold Standard of Pain: ubiquitous, plentiful, and no matter where it connects, it's knee-buckling (vs. say the 2x3s, which I find can be tolerable if it runs lengthwise along the outside lane of your foot.. you can kinda roll with it).

The 2x2 is the bedbug of toys: perfectly engineered for torment.
Use a step function and run a parallel task?
This has been my experience also. I finished the Nix Pills, and got some personal Python/Haskell projects built using nixpkgs by following the nixpkgs language-specific documentation, but anything off the beaten path is going to involve lots of blog posts and clicking through source code. For example in the Haskell world there are so many blog posts that go in different directions from the nixpkgs docs, using flakes, haskell.nix, etc.

We adopted it in an organization of ~100 engineers, and the only way it’s been possible is having a full-time Nix team writing custom Nix functions specific for our environment and projects. That team also does “Nix help desk” work for one-off questions.

Once it works, it does a great job of hermetic builds, easy Docker images, easy to add cross-repo dependencies mixing C++/Python etc. But there are too many rough edges I can’t recommend it in the general case over Dockerfiles, Bazel or language-specific tooling, Cmake, etc. Pick something simpler, ideally whatever is popular for your language.
You’re essentially saying someone on a 100k salary can’t complain, as it’s their fault if they’re feeling inflation. Why are you defending a system that is punishing the majority? Stockholm Syndrome?
I felt like it was using police to highlight the dangers of data brokers, rather than pointing the finger at police. Either way it seems like we agree that the problem here isn’t that the police are using a tool that aggregates 3rd-party data, but rather that the data is allowed to be aggregated and sold to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy312cUHumk&t=288s

Fiber can be very durable.

Once you get past the sticker shock of the transceivers.
Many of the chemicals are made domestically as shipping large quantities of pyrophoric chemicals like silane over oceans is challenging.

Air Liquide, Air Products, Versum Materials, Brewer Science are all companies with significant US presence.
People at the low end of the economic spectrum are typically unbanked in the US, so they get a paper check if they have a regular job with most companies. These most often are taken to check cashing places designed to prey on the poor, but all sorts of businesses do paycheck-related stuff as a promotion for that sort of clientele. I've seen grocery stores, BBQ joints, strip clubs, tire/wheel stores, gun stores, and too many others to list.
Sure but people able to be process engineers on the caliber of those at TSMC are likely to be able to get good SWE jobs if they really wanted to. We're talking about highly qualified jobs here, un Taiwan a lot of those are gonna have PhDs+.
Unfortunately the site is going through some hiccups
After a recent bad experience around an alcoholic, I now understand, at least in part, why prohibition happened. Not that it was the right choice. However, it is very sad how much disease we allow, as a society, without much effort at addressing the root societal causes. These types of diseases kill people. Yet, much of society has normalized the causes. The question, isn't whether or not the some "call" was the right call. That is beside the point. The question should be "what now?" The answer shouldn't be "status quo."
Total layer size is also restricted.
Last year I wrote some code in Rust to read GF files (the output from Metafont). Knuth was fond of these sorts of fixed-point representations of non-integers in his file formats and all of the binary formats he created around TeX and MF employ Q15.16 fixed-point numbers where integer values are not acceptable. Likewise, internally to TeX and MF, all non-integer calculations are done with Q15,16 fixed-point numbers since at the time that DEK was writing his programs, there was no standardized FP implementation and significant differences in FP calculations could occur between different architectures and he wanted to be able to guarantee identical output on all platforms.
I think AirBnB is using Server-Driven UIs (SDUI) in its native apps. One may have at least one native screen just for fallback. Most of the apps are not offline-first anyway, in the best case they implement some speculative/optimistic UI with retries for cases when connection suddenly drops for short amount of time.

I'd say only tiny number of mobile apps support true offline operation, e.g. supporting following buzzwords:

Offline-first
Occasionally-connected systems
Infrequently-connected systems
Partial connectivity
Intermittent connectivity

Packaging a webserver together with an app is also an old idea, though clearly hackish, it's probably better fit for embedded devices/IoT and desktop apps, much less for mobile.
Similarly, if anyone wants to try it via a Telegram bot, try mine! https://t.me/piratediffusion
> many left leaning socialist types are on here

That’s the most ridiculous statement I’ve seen today, bar none.
I believe Totalphase tests signal integrity instead of specifically what kind of cable it is - which solves the forward compatibility problem but their stuff is very expensive for the home user
Arent there IDE to Compact Flash Adapters?
I usually give them 1970/1/1 as my birthday. That's easier to remember, since password managers don't work well with date inputs sometimes.
A close relative lives on a 400€/month pension in a northern climate. Close friends, a family of five, live frugally, but comfortably on a high _four_ figure income, as in sub-9999€. Wouldn't be for me, but they do it and they're really happy.

Ill health - yourself or someone dependent on you- might be the reason, or extremely bad luck, not-so-smart decisions, living and working in a VHCOL area, or ...

Something other than inflation might be the reason you are struggling financially.
Surely this is the best way to review a workplace? What method is better?
Trains are great if you live in a country where they go lots of places. At least for me in the US, the driving to get to and from the nearest train terminus can be comparable to the amount of driving to go straight to my destination, even when going surprisingly far. (Of course, trains can be much better if you start and end close to an existing route.)
I would share more details but there is a chance that I am mis-using the ToS of a large tech company by running it in this way so going to hold off until I've built + deployed it on a GPU cloud host. If anyone has AWS/GCP gpu host credits that you want to gift me I'd def love that - would even have a credits page or something when I put a site up.

I would like to use an affordable GPU cloud hosting solution but I had some difficulties with Vast.ai even though they are pretty affordable. It seems like because the instance they give you is just a running Docker container, I can't easily run Docker inside those instances, so I will probably just have to rewrite this in a more scalable way and have it deploy a container that I have designed to operate in an equally simple way (handle webhook request from Twilio/parse message/run message prompt through txt2img and then upload to s3 and send back the S3 link to the original sender).

I plan to support img2img via photos taken on a phone camera and ingested as an MMS message after I have rewritten this to make it actually productionized and scalable. This was a 1.5 hr proof of concept after I tried to write a better version yesterday actually running on a GPU host machine but was facing the above infrastructure problems.

Basically just FastAPI for the API/hooks, Twilio for messaging and [REDACTED] for running the model.
Police don't need warrants when given consent. Police can search your house without a warrant if you tell them that they can. Police can buy information from data brokers. Warrants compel compliance
I’m in the decision process around this stuff right now and would be curious if you have any more opinions around the two tools.
That's neat, although the left channel of my wireless earbuds drop out like 2% of the time!

What I want is a shoulder implanted pacemaker that's significantly smaller, with a quarter of the primary battery capacity, and an inductively charged supercap that can store enough charge to run at least week between charges.
> One of the credit unions I use has predominately cashless branches.

That sounds a lot like Boeing Employees Credit Union and is one of the dozen or so reasons I can't understand why they are so popular around where I live.

I use Seattle Credit Union (formerly Seattle Metropolitan) and not only do they handle cash in branches, they were open the whole pandemic though some branches needed an appointment to make sure someone would be there.

It just amazes me that a credit union can get so popular while effectively outsourcing (for example, when someone like you would go to "a non-cashless credit union") a basic function of banking. I know of a couple of credit unions in the Puget Sound region who have dropped out of the co-op credit union network in response to BECU only doing shared member activities via their ATM. BECU's customers would turn around and come to those other credit unions, increasing their load.
That happened a lot. Even worse, you'd buy a metro card, lose it, and find it only after it's expired. Why they would expire I don't know. Once it's expired it no longer works. You could mail it back to them and ask for a refund, but seeing as you aren't sure how much money was on the card, most people just ate the loss.

I for one, am not sad to see this whole thing go away.
What made you leave?
Yeah definitely agree with you there. I really wish there were more made-for-US Japanese diesels around but that’s purely preference (for biodiesel)- import JP cars are pretty common on the west coast but that’s not my preference. Still sorely miss my ‘92 Nissan hardbody, ‘03 Toyota echo, and ‘80 civic to this day but assume they’re all still being driven.
Always thought the mr2 was a super sweet car!

Edit: and fwiw I’ve been seeing a diesel Corolla on craigslist around Seattle but they want like 12k for it - maybe that thing should get put in a museum
It will be infinitely more expensive and harder than just using fiber. Two transceivers is 350 bucks total for 2km single mode. 200 for multi mode if you want cheapest possible
A 4 port switch is about 700 bucks.

You could also do 25gb x 4 and aggregate at probably 1/3 price. You could upgrade later, without changing fiber. You could also go with the switch but use 25g transceivers, and upgrade the transceivers later. This is about 60% cost.

In a year this will all be half that price. USB4 plus a ton of repeaters plus … is going to dwarf the initial cost of 100g fiber quickly. In 5 years, you will probably be able to run 800g over the same fiber if you are bored. A or aggregate 100g links. You would have to replace all the USB with new USB-9 2x2.4 SE stuff.
I’m talking about the hypocrisy of holding it against someone for having worked somewhere that you yourself have worked at, not the industry itself.
My Land Cruiser is still going strong with just shy of 270k. The next timing service is due in less than 3k miles and I’ll perform the work myself just like I’ve always done.

I’ve spent 20 years working as a carpenter and electrician, but for 3 of those years I managed an import repair shop in the US.

Based purely on my anecdotes from running that shop, the only car manufacturers worth your time and money are Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura.

I’ve been on sabbatical since Jan 3 as I attempt to reinvent myself as a software developer. None of it would be possible if it weren’t for all the money I made repairing BMWs, Mercedes, Audi/VWs (lol), and Land Rover/Jaguars.

There isn’t much money to be made repairing Toyotas or Hondas.
its crazy how this works better in my browser than on my macbook air M1
I live in Argentina so it's been affecting me for my whole life as far as I know :(
no longer working or reduced performance

I am assuming Linux. Some of this is also true for Mac.

Reduced performance, battery life for sure. If one has enough ram they can work around this by doing builds in a ram disk e.g. /dev/shm and then committing artifacts to the encrypted disk. Along that same line, if one is using tmpfs such as /dev/shm to do ephemeral work in ram then be sure that swap is either encrypted or disabled as tmpfs is swap-backed and one could leak sensitive information into unencrypted swap. MacOS by default does not or did not have a ram disk but you can manually mount one.

Performance impact can be somewhat mitigated by ensuring the encryption used is AES and that the CPU supports the AES-NI instruction set and a modern kernel is being used. Really old kernels had a single encryption write thread.

lscpu | grep --color -i aes # or
grep --color -i aes /proc/cpuinfo

Some proprietary encryption software can set exclusive locks on disks or files so unless you are using dm-crypt/LUKS2 that would be something to research ahead of time in the event you need direct-io access such as a database and even in those cases there is usually a configuration work-around.
Many people still don’t ;). I’m one of the only software engineers I know who gambles on sports or plays cards.

Sports gambling has been legal in the UK and other parts of the EU for a long time.

Betting on horses and dogs, too, has been legal for forever.
Cubic runs Ventra.. that roll out was a very bad roll out that could have been easily prevented with QA.
How do you hold the data selling 3rd parties accountable?

GDPR USA edition.
Agree. While this is certainly a notable milestone it does seem a little premature to celebrate considering the caveats of the current version.
It's misinformation because the natural carbon cycle adds and removes CO2 that keeps a balance. Around 750 Gt of carbon moves through the carbon cycle each year, and the keyword here is that it moves through. The natural emissions are always counterbalanced. The biological pump is one of the most important part of this system, which evolved to work like this.

Unfortunately as it turns out this system can't cope with the extra emissions. Most of it is still absorbed, but a lot of it lingers in the atmosphere, causing trouble. Even the oceans have trouble absorbing the extra emissions. They now threaten the biological pump itself.

This is why people are so depressed when it comes to climate change, because never mind the greenhouse effect, which is in itself substantial, but once you screw with things like the biological pump there is no telling what will happen. This is a big, fine-tuned system, not unlike a spaceship. It is very risky to poke it. Granted it is likely that the system will snap back into working conditions in a few million years, but that's not exactly reassuring for us.
I'm not Polish and cannot judge the merits of this WWII claim.

However, I seem to recall WWI reparations being levied against Germany as among the drivers for the instability of the Weimar Republic[1] that helped inform political drift of the 1930s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
Steak houses charging separately for sides has always been a thing.
The problem is that they haven't realized there are actually two markets: one where the police can pay for customer data and another market where users can pay to have their data made inaccessible to police. Then it becomes a bidding war between LEO and the public. It's a great way to do price discovery on sensitive information which is presently subject to inefficient market solutions all while collecting a tidy profit on the side.
Wife should quit the startup and raise the kid
Might recall reading something to the effect of the C Tor daemon having run into bottlenecks due to lack of multi-threading of certain components and general concern over safety footguns.
That's the same reason I taught my 4 year old DND great way to learn basic mathematics
Gaming should be regulated in such a way that disincentives big business conglomerates from being involved. Upwards of 70% of gaming revenues is depending on the less than 10% of problem gamblers. Should be taxed and managed to ensure the house barely breaks even. Should be organized under the tax code in its own section similar to a 501.c3 -
> FWIW, every company I've ever worked at bans AGPL products / code.

Is every company you've ever worked for a software vendor? Because those are the only companies that would be impacted at all by using AGPL products/code.
Zip codes in the US sometimes have a vanity element as well. Most famously would be 90210, the Beverly Hills zip code, but a bit to the West, the part of Santa Monica with the zip code 90402 is recognized as the fanciest part of the city (I actually lived in 90402 for a few years but in a surprisingly inexpensive apartment building and not one of the multi-million dollar mansions that I regularly passed by on my commute to work).
AFAIK QE was going on continuously during crypto's boom and bust cycles so maybe crypto people tuned it out.
The one I know of that has to be done in person was a “medallion” thingy - basically the branch put their millions on the line to confirm I was who is said I was to Vanguard.
It feels like the logical place to start with web3 is something like github. There are services like this based on Arweave and perhaps other blockchains but they haven't really taken off I don't think.
Was the hacking state-sponsored?
The Optimal Wordle Word
If you're interested in traditional ironmaking, Christopher Roy filmed a documentary a few years back on the techniques used up to the beginning of the 20th century in Burkina Faso, From Iron Ore to Iron Hoe: Smelting Iron in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

It's amazing to see how much work the traditional technique required. Though I don't know how much the techniques developed over the last 3000 years, none of the materials or manufacturing techniques exhibited in the documentary seem to require anything more than Neolithic products: leather, clay, wood, rope. (With the exception of using the cast-iron knife to carve the sluice, the same is true of Plant's video.)

So it's particularly surprising to realize that the Neolithic started 12000 years ago and the Iron Age only started about 3500 years ago (the Painted Gray Ware culture in India). For 8500 years people all over the world had the tools at their disposal to make iron, but didn't know it. That's 3000 years longer than all of recorded history! It's similarly amazing to realize that from 3500 years ago until 2600-2100 years ago all iron was made by hugely inefficient processes like these rather than with blast furnaces, and that until 1000-500 years ago blast furnaces were only used in China. And it wasn't until Bessemer that they could be used to make steel.

What similar opportunities are under our noses today? (More examples in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32697419.)

If you're interested in this sort of material culture unbootstrapping, you might also be interested in the unbootstrapping efforts for software described at http://bootstrappable.org/.
A link to the paper: https://auction-upload-files.s3.amazonaws.com/Wordle_Paper_F...
Are floppy disks still manufactured?

This surprises me because I thought they were not even available to buy new anymore unless you can find new old stock.
That’s great to hear!

It does seem to be gaining in popularity for anxiety and depression.

I really can’t imagine it being as destructive as opiates having known plenty of people who have done both to the extent of having a habit with only opiates ruining people’s lives and killing some them. As far as I understand it ketamine is more of a psychological dependence than a physical one.

Time will tell I suppose.
Isn’t that how high end steak houses always organize their menu? The sides are typically separate from the steak itself and ordered a la carte. (I’m no steak house expert, but had a similar experience a couple of times and learned how it works.)