skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> well it's hard to get blamed for hiring a bad intern if you hire him from MIT.

Whew! I had four paid internships while I was at MIT and for two of them I got nothing meaningful accomplished. I learned a lot from that but for those two I was of no use to the companies.

Even decades later I still feel bad about that, so it's nice to think that nobody suffered as a result.
Can someone explain how this sudden change of license is even possible (legally)?

I mean, what if I contributed to the project back when it was Apache licensed, in good faith that my changes would be freely available (as in free beer)? Now they decide that they ask money for something that includes my contribution? Don't they have to ask for the contributors permissions to be able to do that?

(Just a hypothetical example, I am not an Akka contributor.)
The only gambling I've done was a Sunday poker night with friends for relatively low stakes and that was over 4 years ago. Right now I see ads for sports betting all the time and its ridiculous. Not only do I really not care much for sports (except formula 1 --- maybe football during end of season) I have never gone to a casino, never so much as looked at a sports betting site and I see them all the time. I'm simply not interested.

I keep blocking them on twitter and sharing not interested on reddit but it doesn't seem to change much.
Leaked “shopping list” reveals Russia’s most “desperately” needed war tech
> The weak suffer what they must.
Realpolitik right here. /s
The article was so much more interesting than the headline or other commenters seemingly commenting on the headline itself, I recommend people give it a read. It explores a lot more what would make a good manager and what does that mean and what is it supposed to be a good manager does.

> The minority of people who deliver results are drowned out by the people focusing on controlling the narratives. And for those who stick around, the operational overhead of the ineffective management only grows
Following the rabbit hole leads to this wiki[0] which points to this "homebrew source"[1] which says, under Laboratory equipment -> Learn more:

"Although it is theoretically possible to make a 'low-cost' production (using only a 5mL syringe, a spinning top filter, a kitchen scale and a pressure cooker), the reproducibility and the quality will not be desired."

[0] https://diyhrt.wiki
[1] https://oelabs.co/en
I’ve been on the internet long enough to know what harassment is, and I went on Kiwi Farms enough to know the site culture. There will always be people laughing at other people on the internet and I would prefer it stays that way.
> 43% of the batch were accepted with only an idea

I would love to hear more details about this lot. A billion+ people on the planet (including most of this forum I bet) have "killer" startup ideas and swear they can successfully execute on them with some money. How exactly does YC judge their merit and fund them without as much as a working prototype? Do you look at past history of successful launches? Education/work pedigree? Personality? It's pretty wild that such founders make up almost half of the batch.
Ooof, will they be letting go 20,000-30,000 employees? Sounds scary.
Crypto Lender Celsius Resembled Ponzi Scheme at Times, Vermont Regulator Says
trention has no evidence.

He also misapplies principles like Occam's Razor, in Latin ""Numquam ponenda est pluritas sine necessitate" (Multiples should not be posited without necessity) and cumulative probabilities, despite not knowing the science on infection seropositivity, and having a situation that literally demands multiples.

In a complex situation where there are multiple causes, and multiple effects simultaneously due to multiple agents taking action, he refuses to provide evidence and then blames it all on covid deaths, even when the deaths are happening among working age individuals which by their very nature, are less likely to have multiple comorbidities or the advanced age which are more likely to be associated with Covid fatalities.

He does not accept that the governors that sequestered covid patients in nursing homes with highly vulnerable residents have any culpability for the wildfire infections that killed many of our most vulnerable. Nope, he brushes all that away too.
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Cash, Raven coin, Zcash, Monero, Kadena, Ethereum Classic, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu and Flux. Eth Classic, Flux and Kadena are the only PoW smart contract platforms in the top 100 AFAIK.
It’s rather disappointing how Swift is comparatively much more of an overcomplicated kitchen sink language.
> Please don't refer to people and their livelihoods as "fat." Cheering people losing their jobs is gross.

Trimming the fat is a commonly used idiom, not only in business but anywhere there is excess and unnecessary items not helping the bottomline. As an investor I care much more about Google's profitability than the ineffective headcount. They can trim plenty of employees and still be an effective ad company. People hardly work there (not all but a significant amount), its been known in the industry forever.
I used to work at an research/architecture (buildings, not software) firm that was a leader in carbon emission estimation. To estimate the carbon emissions from building operational energy, what we did was find the rate of carbon emission at the local grid[1] and then multiply it by the predicted operational energy from an energy model. For example, for a single family home drawing from a blended grid mix of coal, gas, and nuclear, you might have a carbon emission rate of 150 kgC02/MBtu for 0.04 kBtu/ft2 of operational energy, over the course of an hour. This works out to:

150 kgC02/MBtu * 4E-5 MBtu/ft2 = 0.006 kgC02/ft2

You then integrate this over the course of the year. This gets complicated as there are variations in the resolution of carbon emissions from different grids, the grid emission rates, and which grid the building uses.

To estimate server carbon emission rate, you just have to swap the building energy use intensity for server energy use, and everything else should be the same.

[1] Grid Emission Rate Sources
EPA: https://www.epa.gov/egrid/data-explorer
WattTime: https://www.watttime.org/
Which God knows this? Have you asked and been told this by said God? In which manner of appearance did God take when conversing said information to you: a burning bush or a 60' tall marshmallow icon?
>>I would take a smart doctor motivated by money over a dumber one motivated by caring for people.

Luckily we don't have to make that choice, we can have the best of the best - the smartest people who want to go into medicine for the right reason - thats why its hard to get into medical school, as it should be.

>>"The reality is all of the top surgeons, cardiologists, etc...."

I assume since you are making such a sweeping statement that presume to know what motivates 100% of MD's, that you have a link or reference to back up that unequivocal statement? I thought so.

>>Well rounded is just a euphemism to discriminate against Asians through affirmative action.

Are you one of those people that assumes if you simply mentioned race in your argument, you win by default? Pathetic.
Kids have been at it for way longer than that. What are packs of trading cards, if not loot boxes in the physical world? I knew plenty of kids who spent all their allowance money on packs of Pokémon cards, hoping to score that rare Charizard.
Show HN: Ostinato Traffic Generator v1.2.0
Some of the new features in v1.2.0 -

Send IP/GRE packets

New per-stream stats - duration, avg tx/rx pkt/bit rates

IMIX traffic made easy

Port traffic rate configuration as load %

Bulk edit packets using Find & Replace

Export PCAP with nanosec resolution

GUI Themes - both light and dark!

a bunch of bugfixes!
Until everyone finds out what is happening and another last source of human connection becomes ruined. Writing a post about it is a surefire way to get there, but having te idea in the first place is how you start.
The thing with tech though is that it's easy to add new connections, connecting anything to anything.

You might have two independent datasets that can't be stored together due to privacy or security regulations. The teams who work on that know and understand that. But some other team working on something completely unrelated might join those datasets for some non-nefarious purpose, which then creates a new dataset with those data combined. Now other teams who also don't know about the regulations might build on top of that combined dataset. They might even generate new data fields from the data that's not supposed to be joined. This stuff can propogate through layers of systems, queries, service calls, analytical engines, offline spreadsheets, etc. It's very difficult to keep track while keeping your engineering teams independent and nimble.
Is anyone here a lawyer that can explain the ramifications of this in all party consent states?
The Threadripper Pro 5000-series is available for retail purchases [1].

When 3000-series was launched, it was first OEM only (Lenovo) but later became available in retail too.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AMD-ThreadripperTM-PRO-5975WX-64-Thre...
> competition (winner takes all) naturally results in oligopoly or monopoly in any market.

Naturally? Name one. Google/Apple/Amazon/Netflix/Tesla don't have monopolies.
Ask HN: Daily users of Mastodon, what do you use it for?
I see a lot of discussion on HN about how we need decentralized social media, and how Twitter / Facebook / TikTok etc is the root of all evil.

But Mastodon has existed for a long time now, and at least in my techie social circle, it seems like nobody uses it at all.

To the folks who do use it, what purpose does it serve for you?

Who is actually using it every day? What for?
Who wants to use a train/tram to haul kids and their things around? Do you really think it's possible to haul an infant, a toddler, and a 4 year-old around and all their things using a train that will only get you so close and now you have to walk another 4 blocks? Who wants to do that?

A home with space and a nice sized yard and an automobile to travel around in is great. It's nice to have a local train too to get into the adjacent metropolis, etc.
Many, many places that are not served by gas lines have external propane tanks now, and those are right next to the house. How would this be any different?
> Scientific Management

There's the problem, right there.

I'll just leave it at that...

I was an engineering manager for 25 years.

I hated almost every minute of it, but I'm pretty sure that I was able to justify my existence (indeed, as I worked for a Japanese company, I had to do a weekly QCD report, and I called it my "Justify Your Existence Report").

Way too much to go into detail, but the post seems to be the usual "Post something inflammatory, and watch the clicks come in" kind of thing.
I don't know whether this is bumping into a complicated legal area of audio recording consent, but your company might want to ask a lawyer (about any wrongs to the company, any obligations the company has, etc.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...

If you're not the head of the company, you could raise it with a higher level of management, or ask in-house counsel.
Turn on closed captioning?
Pretty much the same as any other industry, and the answer will depend on the company more than the industry. What do you expect to be special about programming in the medical industry?
Recently bought a espresso machine, the company that sold it included a hand written thank you and a few candies in the packaging. I found it really interesting, and felt good about it and so I found myself using them to buy a few other items for brewing coffee.

Then they signed me up for a newsletter, blocked their domain and stopped using them ever-since.
trention,

you need to provide some evidence instead of endlessly misusing some heuristic, or principle like Occam's Razor.
But I would have no trouble offering them the IP, I do that for all my clients anyway. You buy code from me, it's your code. Same with my work, if you hire me to write some code for you, you are getting me working on your thing. I'm just going to write it at home anyway (all of these jobs are remote). If you want me to work on another thing you just hire me to do that too.
Amager Bakke
sorry for my careless reply to OP. I meant that e.g. a beam that would usually be 10x20" (totally made up numbers) without taking into consideration fire, would have to be 15x30" to have the required fire rating (say 1 hour or whatever it should be). Thus every structural element has to be larger than it would be when taking into consideration only earthquakes or wind/snow loads.
I don't think so, but to close that profit-per-employee gap they'll have to find ways to get profit up, while likely letting normal resignation/performance churn trim the count.
> And their recent communist path ensures against any socialist/woke revolution for at least the next 20 years.

I think I have an idea why he had problems finding friends.
Um, yes? That's how it works with literally every piece of software that have any permissions locally. What if Google Chrome decided to do the same thing unilaterally?
I'm reminded of football coaches. Some of them used to play football, but even then were rarely superstar players. They definitely can't suit up and take over for a missing player - yet they're held responsible for the wins and losses more than the players themselves, and the players have incredible respect and deference for what they do.
Not at all new by the way. First parent is 220 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen

Faked signature by machine had been popular for 80 years.
That looks like exactly what OP was looking for. One would assume that over time and at scale the price would come down significantly.

Hydrogen embrittlement seems to be an unavoidable problem so not sure how that plays out.
My primary "personal" system is an M1 MBP with 8GB of RAM. I edit 6K video on it all the time. While it could certainly use more RAM, I don't feel like I need it bad enough to justify spending the money right now.

My gaming desktop only has 16GB of RAM. It's the fastest DDR4 that my motherboard will support, granted, but all of the games I play on it are CPU or GPU bound. Additional RAM isn't going to significantly help anything.
Not saying you're wrong, but all this is optics and there is quite a bit of brainwashing at work no matter where you live.

What is an illegal attempt to do something? Who decides what is legal?
as per my other comment, in most of the sufficiently big or historical cases you have to distinguish between two things:

- reality

- the socially acceptable fiction in the report

the exercise would be to create an output that allows people to pretend we know where all instances of "log4j" were used, or that sufficient depth and resources have been expended on such.

but in a sufficiently large and complex organisation, we (and by we I mean technically able, knowledgeable or sufficiently aware individuals) know that the content of such is likely to be as factually true as reading a historian's report entitled: "enumeration of all points in past century where cutlery has been used".
The unpleasant surprises of genetic ancestry testing
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> nobody had time to [...] set up source control

Now wait, how do developers develop without source control?

As an individual contributor, I consider a number of things in that paragraph good practice. Specs, say. But source control? That's just so fundamentally basic that I lack vocabulary to express how essentially important I consider it to be. How does a team get anything done without one?
mediopolitical narrative is driving hard on this topic right now since covid left a void that ukraine can't fill (though they're trying, with the nuclear plant[0]). i'd support a framing around pollution, but not climate change.

CO₂ (a gas that life co-evolved with and depends on) simply isn't our most important environmental issue. let's focus instead on pollution: CO, NOₓ, SO₂, VOCs (PAHs & petroleum hydrocarbons, phthalates, alcohols, aldehydes, terpenes, ketones, formaldehyde, etc.), lead, mercury, ozone, radon & other radioactive elements, fertilizers/pesticides, plastics, and especially particulates, which are things that kill millions of people right now, every year (not to mention all the harm to everyone else as well).

the focus on climate change is fashion, but with a little tweak we can actually address impactful environmental problems instead.

[0]: nuclear, by the way, has the potential to help significantly, principally by removing coal, our biggest categorical polluter, from the energy mix. incidentally, that would also measurably reduce CO₂ emissions.
Well put. He's my 2nd favourite composer, behind Dvorak. Also this excerpt from the article made me smile - "which makes one regret that Rachmaninoff neglected chamber music in his maturity."

Bet if he hadn't everyone'd howl about how he should've left chamber music alone...
Are we talking MOAT as in moat, or is there an acronym here?
land of the free.....:/
The idea of doing a spectrum recording and having something else process it in non-real time was actually used for Mobile Assisted GPS used to locate mobile phone users ringing emergency services.

Iirc it was a stopgap measure to improve cell tower location without requiring handsets smart enough to process GPS or that didn't have enough time to get a fix. It's briefly mentioned in Wikipedia though details are scant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_resource_location_serv...
19% more efficient, I could have gotten behind. But 20%?! Come on.
In my experience a good chunk of engineering managers were simply the greedy engineers who did not want or were not able to contribute technically and preferred to jump into management for an easier life and higher pay. That worked out for many of them which is one of the reason for dysfunction at some large tech companies.
The US/Israel are guilty of all three of those things (to my knowledge, Iran hasn’t actually stated genocidal intent towards Israel, only that they support destruction of the state of Israel, which is often conflated as such)
Wasn't Youtube acquired after Google Videos was already created?
I'm not sure the problem is the name.

I think there has been a lot of recognition in the last 10 years that sqlite is actually quite robust, but it still hasn't been considered suitable for serious use is based on how software and database servers have traditionally operated.

It seems like what's changing that now is the recognition that other approaches may make more sense given modern software architecture.
Because according to the related articles, that multi-foot rise in sea levels depends on the melting of the large portion of the glacier that is on land.

The point is that they don't publish ANY numbers that aren't at the extreme end of what's possible.
Nothing will improve as long as the Python powers insist on packaging being an exercise for the community.
Instead of an ad-hominem attack against a strawman, can you actually address the points made by these people you're labeling as professionally immature and unwilling to understand these non-engineering roles? Can you actually provide anything that illustrates your point at all? Just calling us all immature children does nothing to change my mind; it only makes me think you're defensive because you know deep down that your role is actually truly worthless bullshit. How many hours per day do you spend in meetings?
"Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year" -- I guess that's somewhat more eye-catching than "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative", but not by much.
Yeah I think it's mostly a piece of fun trivia at this point. If we're talking about designing an interface for non-technical users to interact with the data (an interesting topic), then a modern one would probably look more like the omni-search bars that are part of Splunk/Datadog/etc. Those make it drastically easy to find data (with tableless text-based search by default), and easier to aggregate it too (with the left-to-right pipe | syntax).
In that case I would highly recommend "Mathematics and Its History" by John Stillwell.
If Google wants to, yes.
> Trimming the fat is a commonly used idiom, not only in business but anywhere there is excess and unnecessary items not helping the bottomline

There are lots of commonly used idioms that are gross, especially in certain contexts.

> As an investor I care much more about Google's profitability than the ineffective headcount.

And your investments are objectively less important than people putting food on the table.
There is Codex. https://forums.codexwriters.com/

It's for SFF writers, and it skews towards trad pub. There are (easy to meet) membership requirements: You need to have earned some money as an author, or have been published somewhere pro-ish.

I've been a member for many years. It's a useful community.
[Not a lawyer] That's what CLAs are for. As a prerequisite of having your PR accepted, you grant the mothership corporate entity the rights to do whatever they want with your contribution, including asking money.

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/cla

https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com
The obvious one: CL can be statically compiled.
Support a hot pocket in a hot pocket: Allow FusionAuth to log into itself
well if they had more easily removable wall panels you could still decorate and access the inner wall
You might be right. Anyway, I played it shortly after it was released and it was the mid '90s.
You may already know but it's SQL-ite (sequel-ite), like graphite, dynamite, sulfite.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ite
I use it pretty much the same I use Twitter, just a bit more filtered (i.e. I subscribe to fewer news sources, fewer people who post a lot, even among the obviously smaller set of users)
Why so hostile? We're just talking about fast food man, lol.

> Do you eat a lot of low quality fast food? That could be one reason your gut bacteria are craving food from a fast food joint instead of something that isn't deep fried and covered in Polynesian sauce.

No, I don't, which is why I don't crave fast food. I get Chick-fil-a once or twice a month for fun.
Hey, it might give a writer idea for some 3rd rate villains for their book
What is the value of having the house off-grid? Wouldn't it be better for you and the rest of society if your house was on-grid and you could pump excess energy to the grid and buy it back during winter if necessary instead of trying to store energy long-term in your house?

I understand it is an interesting problem and all that, just thinking the energy used to solve this esoteric problem might be better used for more large scale solutions?
I actually dislike this solution, because it relies on tests, while this could easily be a compile-time error.

Not sure I like that D promotes implicitly and then complains about the result of the addition not being assignable to a `char`.

But in theory, every integer could just have the maximum range of values encoded in its type, and for every arithmetic operation the compiler could check if the maximum range of the integer type is exceeded.

You could set the range explicitly:

fn mult_col(color:u8<0..31>, factor:u8<0..8>): u8<0..248> { color*factor }

Or make the function generic over any range of inputs where the possible range of outputs provably fits the output type, which would be the default.

There are crates that add ranged integers as types, but I haven’t found them satisfactory to work with.
Based on my experience living in a large home in Colorado designed for passive solar heating, the trees would block the windows in summer so we'd stay comfortable without AC, but the sun was really intense in what should have been the cooler months. I'd definitely do some thorough modeling before building one of my own.

Along with solar thermal and photovoltaics, I'd use a redox flow battery for long term storage, and a GEK for emergency generation (too loud for casual use).

- https://www.allpowerlabs.com/products/gasifier-kits