skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two Lumumbas are father and son, not the same person, hence why the latter goes by his middle name Antar as well usually.
Producing really good software is really hard.

Here's a tip for all the backwards big companies in Europe: pay your software engineers a lot more. Whatever you're paying now, increase it by 2x-3x. If you want the best, you're going to have to pay for it, or you're going to suffer the predictably mediocre results indefinitely (to the benefit of Tesla & Co.; Tesla's sales are now up to $67 billion; that's closing in on the size of BMW's consumer auto division).
I think he’d rather have a girl who’d laugh for no one else.
>> the alternative of giving them no education is almost a sure fire guarantee that they'll be ill-equipped to be able to get a job with the potential to become a productive member of society

These are my friends that I'm talking about. They don't want to be, will never be, and never could be if they wanted to, productive members of society.

What's your alternative?

I can sure fire guarantee you that they'll be ill-equipped to be able to get a job with the potential to become a productive member of society, no matter what happens.

So what happens to them?

Seriously, you're making me defend meth addicts. Christ.
Generally eligibility for student loans is a good first filter. Research is another.
I remember having a large collection of shareware DOS games. Once playing one of the games our family PC died. My father blamed me for contracting a virus from those shareware games. So I stopped playing them. Now I'm pretty sure it was actually a disk failure because of the specific sound the HDD made.
The story quotes a few people who mention how nobody will take responsibility for this. It's the governor, or the mayor, or the city government, or state government - etc. I wish the reporter would actually take a position on this. Whose fault is this and how do you know?
Virtually all contractors in the UK are operating through a LLC and paying themselves in dividends

This hasn't been entirely true for a long time and it's almost the opposite of true today. The vast majority of contract work in the UK today is now forced under umbrellas where you'd be an employee of your umbrella firm and not working through your own Ltd. There is still outside IR35 work around but close to 100% of larger (and typically better-paying) clients don't want to get near it because of the risks since the recent changes in the rules.

If you go through PAYE, you make yourself an employee, and you must pay yourself a pension. But going through PAYE is a net loss, because then you also have to pay national insurance not only on your side, but also on the employers' side. Paying NI if you can perfectly legally avoid paying it is stupid.

I urge anyone considering working as a freelancer or contractor in the UK to take the time to talk to a real accountant before trusting this advice. The above paragraph is all kinds of wrong.
If that's the case, at least they could make change the default of allowing wake-by-mouse-movement via a software update, as demonstrated by my experiment just now.
Got a Mazda3 this year and the "no bullshit" infotainment stack was a huge selling point for me. Airplay integration using a knob is a little wonky in places (primarily interacting with maps), but I consider it a feature not a bug because I basically don't do any interaction I can't do via voice commands. Physical buttons for all climate etc, not a capacitive "button" to be found in the car.
I have been working for years on a system designed to do much of what is described in their 'Level 2' layer. It is a single system that can effectively manage unstructured (i.e. file) data, semi-structured data (NoSql), and highly structured data (RDBMS).

I don't have the resources available to me like this team, so there are still a lot of features on my TODO list that would enable some of the things they are looking for, but it can do many things now. It can manage 200M+ files and find subsets of them in sub-second speed. It can build relational tables with hundreds of millions of rows and thousands of columns and perform queries faster than many conventional DBs.

www.Didgets.com is where you can download the beta software.
Demo videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-L1oTcH0ocMXShifCt4JQQ
The devil has enough advocates. Don't feel the need to throw your hat into the ring.
Flagging as commercial self-promotion by new account. HN isn't for your advertising.
i wonder whether it makes sense to do a diff across all hormonal production in normal and Down person and try to correct that diff by regular injections, etc.
CF isn't a utility. KF is perfectly capable of operating on their own, without CF's products. This is strictly a matter of CF's desire to continue to do business with them. Their whole spiel on the blog post about how they're a utility is just dancing around the issue - they have no legal obligations that an actual utility does. It's an interesting discussion if they, and others like them, should be considered a utility. But that's neither here nor there because they aren't one.
Computers started becoming widespread.
Import PyGraphistry: 100X faster Python imports with lazy loading and Tuna
Carbon capture requires power. It’s never ever gonna be carbon neutral nor carbon negative.

Unless you grow trees. They are - by far away - the most efficient and effective CC device that exists.
Check the console for another one.
They denounced Richard Stallman.
Is propane refill self serve in the UK?

In most of the US, we have not adopted lpg for vehicles, and grill tanks are now exchanged (because it is easier than having a technician on site?). In the 90s there were some lng vehicle refill at home for pilot programs.
Read it in context dude. Try again, or better yet, move on.
I think the parent comment was referring to blocking access to other server instances rather than blocking individual users.

Overzealous spam filters seem like the email equivalent. I have reoccurring issues trying to get self hosted email received by GMail/outlook addresses. Although these filters are an impersonal corporate policy rather than up to an individual instance admin's discretion.
Yes I read the article, but none of this discredits carbon capture. It discredits burning oil and gas.

You don't need to capture carbon to pump out the oil and gas, and you don't need to pump oil and gas to capture and sequester the carbon. Just because that's what oil companies are doing at the moment, doesnt mean that that's the best way to use carbon capture tech.

Let's keep doing the carbon capture and stop burning the oil and gas.
Right.

Im in awe at the mental gymnastics some are doing in this comment section trying to blame “racism” and Republicans.

This was caused by incompetent city government, period. Blame Jackson’s city council, mayor or even the voters themselves for not fixing this. But it doesn’t make any sense to blame “racist”, “white supremacist” people who don’t even live in Jackson.
% is certainly much smaller: computers are so cheap these days that it makes sense to pay people to do boring stuff with them.

However: in absolute terms, I bet there's way more challenging/interesting work now than 40 years ago, and in geographical terms, there are definitely way more places it's possible to do that work.

Food for thought:

> I suppose the picture of computing is of a topsy-turvy growth obeying laws of a commercial "natural" selection. This could be entirely accurate considering how fast it has grown. Things started out in a scholarly vein, but the rush of commerce hasn't allowed much time to think where we're going.

(that sentiment was penned in 1963)
Are they vegan if you use animal-derived manure on them?

Because if they're not, I've got some pretty bad news for the people who eat organic vegan food...
> Firstly sea levels have nothing to do with this at all, these coastal changes were caused by erosion.

The paper seems to say these islands were likely formed from unconsolidated glacial till, and subsequently eroded by some combination of melting glaciers and the Holocene sea-level rise.

Islands formed when the sea level was low, and eroded when the sea level was high. When you say sea level rise had 'nothing to do with it', you're contradicting the paper.
A lot of work is put into making porn, facebook games, prayer, cigarette manufacturing, the gambling industry etc. I'm not saying these are all useless things, but most people wouldn't bat an eye at someone "discounting" their work. If the work going into SLS doesn't achieve anything, then they discounted the work themselves, no need for a 3rd party.
It’s not credible at all: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/no-atlantis-ha...
yes, but these are a few exceptions and they apply to most countries worldwide. using that as an argument that a truly location independent job is not possible feels a bit pedantic, when the parent comment is about companies that artificially limit their remote hiring to a few specific countries for no discernible reason.
They used a very defined set of rules, which automatically includes a review (which is in progress). What the occupiers did was unsafe, harmful to a lot of people,and very strategic because they had a few ex military and police in their ranks. There was no reasonable way to remove them without causing greater disruption. There are a lot of unprecedented moves these days, deaths are not a good benchmark, clearing up disruptive idiots with white gloves is the least of my concerns.
ElixirConf was this past weekend, I wasn’t there (sadly) but probably these were all reveals from that.
You really think that reaching a stalemate with a military as small as that of Ukraine was his aim? The equilibrium reached is slowly but surely swinging against Putin.

He ran away from the capital. He is running out of troops and is getting close to conscription. He is dragging out ‘50s and ‘60s tank relicts to fight after losing his prime weapons. His airforce is hiding and his best ship was sunk. His oligarchs are starting to desert him and are getting bombed or falling out windows.
Some of the bugs and ergonomics problem you describe seem dangerous. The regulators should come in and ban those cars until they are fixed.
Could it get back to him via the FTC (in a "this is your accuser" way)?
I love my job :-) and HN makes me better at it (new tech, psychology, understanding organizations, society...)
> What I wish now is something like:

> nix change nothing (if my changes somehow don't do anything, like in my issue)

I miss this feedback greatly having used Ansible since 2013 and only this year diving into a single NixOS installation as my intro.
Thanks for following up, I assumed stations would get large volume liquid fuel; but it makes sense that transfer can me safer with in gas form for consumers.
Collecting everyone's hostnames and internal IPs. They got a privacy policy?
This guy has such a dangerous mindset.

We can easily have a trillion humans living in abundance in our solar system. It is work to get there. But requires no new science, but more engineering. Reusable cheaper access to space, start building rotating habitats, surround the sun.
That’s fine :)
I grew up in this part of the world! Quite a strange juxtaposition seeing my home on the front page of this site.

So maybe I can offer some lesser known interesting context:

Wales is only some 300km west of London, yet I have childhood memories (some 35 years ago) of needing to try to speak Welsh to my elderly (in his 80s) neighbour who struggled with English.

There is a theory that English's use of "do" (so-called "Do-support") comes from the Welsh language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support#Origins

The stones for Stonehenge come from the Preseli mountains, a small range of blue-ish hills exactly on the coast where these lost islands are proposed.

There is a Welsh settlement in Argentina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wladfa

Not strictly Welsh, but the Severn Estuary, which is the calm, funnel of sea between Wales and England, that invites ships into the harbour of Bristol, points exactly towards Newfoundland in North America. This Welsh-English estuary is where John Cabot made the second recorded voyage of a modern European to the New World[1]. Nowadays, we think of Airports as being the doorways to whole new worlds, but there was a time when it was the coastline and harbours of the South West British Isles that rang and echoed with the adventures, legends, captains, pirates, spices, gems and foreigners of unimaginable far away lands.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cabot#Second_voyage
Also, the depth of the inspections present in all of the JetBrains products make them absolutely incomparable to any "linter" setup or current LSP implementations. But, relevant to this topic, so too is it some unholy incantations to try and run those same inspections in CI, partially because I think that very concept isn't important to JetBrains and partially because of the indexing required by the JB IDEs that drive everyone starkraving mad as compared to the less intelligent editors that can load a text file in a super big hurry
Seems perfectly reasonable to me, maybe 1 month off a year. All my UK contractor friends make over £550pd and have work whenever they want
Is there a parameter for this, to stop when subsequent iterations do nothing?
"A database-oriented operating system" -- where have I heard this before?

Oh, right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

(No, I never used this.)

Incidentally, the name of its creator would be pretty unfortunate these days: Dick Pick.
Rust's syntax is just baroque.

It's full of unnecessary noise and additionally very irregular. (With complete craziness thrown in between like the semicolon rule to "visually distinguish" procedures and functions, which must be a kind of joke I don't get).

I really don't understand how such a conceptionally well thought out language got this pretty ugly syntax.

(And no, you don't need such ugly syntax "because language features". Just have a look at Scala 3 that is much more powerful but maintains a clean, almost pythonic syntax).
Not much useful stories based on my real life story.

My friends are programmers, too. But they never get to senior level programmers, even if they keep working in software engineering for more than 10 years, or 20 years.

The reason? They refused to learn unit testing.

They love manual testing, from function to the software.

God bless them.
It's even worse when there's some sort of immigration situation involved, as in, your PI can fire you anytime and then you go back to whatever hellhole you managed to get out through your work and dedication over the years.

The power imbalance between professors and students in that situation is abysmally huge. The things they do to students are unbelievable until you see them happening (e.g. PIs asking for sexual favors, neglecting their students, humiliating them, making them work on stuff they're not supposed to, and the list goes on and on).

I went through a horrible experience myself, where my daughter got kidnapped by some staff from KAUST (they played the "you are in a remote country with no laws, we can do whatever we want to you"-card). It led me to leave academia for good; I'm actually doing much better now in the industry but it was a very traumatic experience and it saddens me to think about how many people are still being abused in this context by assholes like that.

I am more than willing to work on something to put an end to this, if any of you in this thread are interested, shoot me an email (check profile), it's starting small but it's getting off the ground now :).
It's really not as simple as that. For example, typically an employer is not allowed to fire you/let you go for going on parental leave. This hypothetical SF engineer is unlikely to get his old job back after 3 years. What are e.g. your health insurance and rental costs in SF during the 3 years you're off? In many countries all workers have certain benefits by law, this affects the society as a whole so you get benefits from that. Even if this specific engineer is better off, which isn't that clear, they're still impacted by society as a whole.
A processor is a bunch of chemicals floating around in frozen sand, but what's the point of such a statement?
New Dacia cars fit the bill and they use modern Renault drivetrains under license. Funnily they get poor safety ratings because they don't include many electronic driving aids (lol)

Their structural safety is great.
Agreed, these posts from Dockyard have been really low quality. Dockyard makes some awesome stuff generally, so I'm surprised at how shallow and marketing-speak these have been.

That said I'm really excited for this and the other projects. Looking forward to some more technical dives.
It was a more generic question.

Should a sentient being like a goat or a pig who passes the mirror test and is regarded to have the intelligence of a 2-3 year old child… should those animals be regarded as property, be exploited, made to suffer and their life taken away against their will? Even if we humans don’t need to exploit these animals anymore for our survival?

We have the technology and knowhow to feed ourselves more sustainably and without causing environmental destruction and suffering as we do now.
One of the transistors in the early stages of the amplifier (or effects pedal) acted as a detector for the AM signal probably being picked up by a cable that worked as an antenna. It worked essentially as a untuned crystal radio followed by a powerful audio amplifier. The problem usually is a result of bad grounding or screening.
The chart literally says "net"(s) salary. ~1400€ is also the minimum wage in France, and if you count in that you have a kinda decent welfare (still light years ahead of US) it means that you can live a better life than the equivalent in the US
That's what I was trying to say. They want to do it differently than they did with pot. With pot you could easily get a doctor to write a prescription and you used THC and CBD as needed in the comfort of your own home. With hallucinogens it sure seems like they want you to take them under the supervision of a therapist, who will guide your experience in a therapeutic direction. A few reasons come to mind for why they might be doing this

- To reassure the legal authorities that the use of them is properly supervised and safe

- To bring them to a wider audience, such as a depressed grandma who needs to accept her approaching death but would never take them on her own

- For their own status, power and money needs. It worries me that once they achieve this, they will fight legalization for recreational use

That's all fine, but don't tell me I can't take them for my own pleasure and purpose when I want, such as at a music festival, on a hike in the woods, or just because. I really don't need a therapist to guide my trip, thank you very much.

Edit: Another thing, I've raised the issue on Twitter that doctors and therapists who used them in therapy settings should have some experience with hallucinogens. They shut me down really quick. It's the elephant in the room apparently. How are you going to guide someone when you have no experience with them?
I absolutely agree that we can't just keep burning fossil fuels and use CCS to fix the problem.

But it doesn't matter if no one buys the carbon we capture. Sequestering it underground is a good outcome.

And yes, it's not currently profitable for anyone to capture carbon and send it underground, but it is a positive externality and that's where government needs to step in. The government pays companies to do all sorts of things, and CCS should be one of them
How is this not basically the reverse of redlining?
What really worries me is that everybody who ends up a PI has been through this harrowing process, so it perpetuates itself; just broken people breaking people. A dramatic way to put it, I guess, but I don't know what else you can say about a PI demanding someone come into a lab on the same day as their appendectomy.
How would you find an equity investment firm that is interested?
I've been following this debacle in the German press and I think there's a structural problem that they will struggle to dig their way out of. And by "they" I don't mean just VW, but much of European industry.

Software is simply not valued in Europe, and not because there aren't amazing developers there -- there are many. But software isn't considered important

Let's start with cars. Back before cars were just computers with wheels I was briefly involved in a software project at $SERIOUS_GERMAN_CAR_COMPANY. Mechanically their cars were outstanding -- I still drive this company's cars today. This project was some cool "by wire" stuff, all modeled in Matlab, just as the ECU code was. But it was clear that the mechanical guys were the top of the pyramid; the safety guys were all mechanical engineers with some programming experience. All the user-visible electronics (radio, controls, etc) was subbed out to a low-price bidder because "who cares about that stuff anyway?". This wasn't VW, but I have some family exposure to VW specifically and that mentality still comes through deeply: electronics are added to the vehicle, not integral. The mental and organizational rewiring will be very hard. These are not companies who believe you should "eat your own lunch before someone else comes and eats it for you". The long institutional problems seen in yesterday's post about Nokia and the "Burning Platform" memo are pervasive throughout Europe (and most places, including a lot of USA): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32698044

You see this in the salaries. Sure, take-home salaries in the EU are lower than US ones in across the board, but the delta in the high value professions is extreme and quite telling. My son's partner's parents in Europe are offended by what Amazon pays him in the US because "he just works in IT". Well, he's a developer in their highest revenue area, so Amazon think it's worth investing in. Tesla cars ship with all sorts of fit and finish bugs, and are above average in mechanical problems. But ("FSD" excepted) they spend more of their attention on what really matters: treating their vehicle as a modern electronic device. But the European car companies are still stuck in the mid 20th century and make the opposite branch cut. The rest of European industry is the same.

Andreeson wrote "Software is eating the world" 11 years ago. Apparently nobody on the continent of Europe has read it. Sure, software is considered important, but it's just another part of the BOM, not something strategic.

IMHO the only countries that really understand software at both a technical and business value add level are US, AUS, Canada, China, with India less so but in that group and Japan just barely getting in. Pretty damning.

FWIW I've worked in France and Germany (and non-European countries), including some car business, but most of my career has been in the Valley (starting 38 years ago). I am not from Europe or USA so in that sense I don't have a preference for either side. I prefer living in Europe but vastly prefer to work in the US.
I believe that's log out, I'm looking for sleep/hibernate.
> SpaceX could absolutely launch a mars mission with their existing rocket platforms and launch infrastructure.

Which highlights the major difference between public and private sector exploration. SpaceX killing everyone on their first attempt is a tragedy and they quickly move on, NASA doing it is a 10 year halt to any further work until a full public investigation takes place.
n^2 or worse is so easy to accomplish with embedded for loops. And adding indexes to a DB is a fairly common thing to do with even medium sized DBs.

But I do work for a very large company (not FAANG, but close) and so admittedly, the scale there is far larger than in most jobs, and knowing this stuff really does matter a lot more.
Artemis I launch attempt scrubbed
Seems a hydrogen leak was responsible
jgc knew about it in mid-2018, at least, since I was still involved with P0 at that point and spoke with him about it. I guess he forgot.