skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helen Fischer's work on personality types may hold some value that various hormones cause personality traits. Myers Briggs imho is just messed up thing no better than horoscopes.

It used to be used at a large company that I worked for. The preferred types were RED and BLUE around 2010. GREEN AND YELLOW I remember were overlooked for promotions. Everyone was trying to be the biggest idiot in the room to prove they were RED person. It propogated bullying and prevented good teamwork. Credit Stealing was legitimized with preference for RED. If Helen Fischer is correct and RED people are the closest to testesterone heavy people, the RED people have the shortest neural circuits.
The website is openbsd httpd serving the repository.

https://tycho.sytes.net/TinyClock/README.md

The Makefile creates index.html from README.md (and also TinyClock.dmg)
One Olympic swimming football bus tree worth of data.

When I was reading the thread the other day about a trees worth of oxygen from the MOXIE experiment, I couldn't help thinking: why not just use a term everyone is familiar with, litres per minute air.

Enough oxygen to sustain an adult at rest for x minutes.

I'm beginning to suspect there's an in-joke with science / tech writers about strained analogies.

And I'm not in.
Information theory is fascinating to anyone who likes the mathy underpinnings of seemingly non-mathy things, and it's everywhere. Cool stuff.

Speaking of information and decompression, my brain initially interpreted the title as a breaking news headline about a female supervillain who's also a theory nerd.

It was only the added context of the domain name that fixed the error.
mac.com before MobileMe, still have my @mac.com ;)
They are actual pixels all from one sensor. They are put into groups of 4 to get 12 effective megapixels.
Make no mistake, the issue is in no way resolved on new manufactured 1st gen pros. New manufactured stock are more likely to be covered by the original purchase warranty and so there is less pressure on Apple to extend support.

I recently had my pre-Oct 2020 pros replaced with new manufactured stock under this support program. Within less than a month the replacements developed the same sound issues, supported by Apple's diagnosis and another free replacement.

I don't think I use them in an unusual way - I don't even wear them during exercise. There is just something inherently flawed in the design that causes the sound quality to subtly degrade by a significant amount.
> Eliminate capital gains tax.

That's a terrible idea. Capital gains is basically the only way to tax the uber and intergenerationally wealthy. If anything, capital gains tax should be at the same level as income tax, so that there's less economic incentive to game the system.
Yup, smaller carriers in Europe don't offer eSIM for their prepay options, which are super useful (a couple of bucks to get a ton of data with EU roaming as well).
Apple A16 Bionic: All you need to know about the new chip
My take is that YC can’t afford not to operate that way.

My impression is the Decision Matrix looks like.

High Low
Execution Execution

Good Maybe No
Idea

Bad Maybe No
Idea

The idea does not matter much because it is easy to use an external source for ideas when a team has a bad idea or no idea.

On the other hand, there’s no external way to fix low execution.

The other thing is that it is often hard to tell good new ideas from bad new ideas in the context of startups. So idea is often a weak signal.

As the GP argued, everyone has startup ideas.
Right but that’s bending SQLite a lot no? I mean it’s meant to be used as a file that has a sql interface. But I digress.
Same here. I've tried every single price point of in-ear headphones. They all fall off.

Haven't dared to spend the almost 300€ for Airpods Pro because of this.

But the OG style stays in my ear like magic, doesn't fall off when running etc.
>Perl and Python have some of the same problems. The most obvious being that neither is a compiled language and neither has static typing.

followed by:

>This might provoke Python programmers, but Python is an anti-social language. It focuses primarily on the needs of developers and not as much on the user of the software. That’s not very nice. In fact, it is pretty arrogant.

First two "arguments". Goes downhill fast.
Your statement that C cannot be used to implement zero cost abstractions is factually false. There are no other options here. You said something that is incorrect.

Edit: downvoting will not change that
UltraTrac on my Fenix 5 is pretty useless though, you may as well not be recording at all at that point. I'm not sure if it's gotten better on the more recent watches, but the reported mileage would be off by 30%+ and the resulting map wouldn't even come close to resembling my actual path.

That said, even in normal GPS only mode (no Gallileo/GLONASS), the 5 when it was new would get 30 hours of recording. Enough for most ultras, 3 days of backpacking if you record 8 hours/day, and also enough for a week trip with an hour of running every day.
We have a very difficult winter ahead of us, especially here in Europe. Inflation is on the rise, energy prices are skyrocketing, wages are almost stationary and people are worried about the future. Im afraid that the recession/depression is coming…
isn't helium valuable? seems like a good "waste" to produce
OCSP stapling increases how large the first response from the server is, increasing the time to first useful byte.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17563/36082843_575px.jpg
I got a good speed up in [insert work project here] but that was more of an experiment since it isn't really performance constrained in the first place.
Well please don't use any Linux distro either, most of the tooling is written in Python.
People who study for the “correct” personality alongside the code quiz questions which all have very little to do with the actual job they will be doing.

No right minded person would hire me for an “energetic, outgoing go-getter” job.
It's a bit buried, but the gist appears to be (italics mine):

"And that’s it — there’s simply very little data on how well the Myers-Briggs (and other type-based personality tests) measures personality and even less on how it might predict job performance."
I had no idea! I was sure it was “SQL Lite” ever since I heard about it a decade ago. Its support for mostly text strings while MySQL and Postgres supported a myriad types made me think it’s just a small embedded “lite” library for when you wanted to bundle a mostly SQL database with your app lol
I haven't seen Nazi memorabilia and branding on current Wagner soldiers fighting in Ukraine. I know of that bold dude with lots of tattoos from Wagner that was most definitely a Nazi, but I think he has been dead for a few years now. I have seen lots of Nazi memorabilia and branding on Azov, Right Sector and other brigades that are part of today's Ukrainian Army.

But, ignoring the Azov guys (even though that's hard to do), what gets me it's stuff like this [1] or this [2], i.e. Ukrainian kids being brainwashed behind the lines to adopt the Nazi ideology (because, yes, adopting the Nazi salute en masse means that you're teaching those kids to adopt the Nazi ideology). I had sincerely hoped that we had managed to come past those very dark times, that Europe's kids wouldn't have to do the Nazi salute of their own volition anytime soon. Looks like I was wrong, and it's frightening that the West takes the side of those who teach their kids the Nazi salute.

Later edit: To say nothing of Bandera, whose name is still carried by lots of streets in Ukraine. But I've had this discussion before here on HN and I was told that it's totally ok for a WW2 war criminal to be idolised in this day and age, so I will not fight that battle anymore.

[1] https://twitter. com/anatoliisharii/status/1567434109886111745/photo/1 (pls. remove the white space between the . and com, not sure it is legal inside of the EU to link to people doing the Nazi salute, this looks like it's back from 2018).

[2] https://twitter. com/DeuNachrichten/status/1566044503680884737 (the same, pls remove the white spce after the ., this is from a few days ago)
Existing transmitters would not use Bluetooth but some custom radio signal on for example 123 kHz, i don't think the watch can suppor it
Well, let's assume that the "expected" behaviour holds, shall we?
Let's open up a python REPL and try

>>> 'caterpillar' * 2
'caterpillarcaterpillar'

OK, now for something different:

>>> [1, 2, 3] * 2
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]

Marvellous! How about this then:

>>> True * 2
2

Wait, what? Hm.

>>> False * 2
0

Whoops! Implicit type conversion takes place...
Even worse:

>>> 'abc' + 'efg'
'acbefg'
>>> 'efg' + 'abc'
'efgabc'

Now I'm stumped. Isn't addition supposed to be commutative?

So yeah, without contracts in place, operator overloading is BAD. You can never know what the operator does, or what its properties are by just looking at how it's used. There's simply no enforced rules and so no-one's stopping you from doing

>>> class Complex:
def __init__(self, real, imag):
self.real = real
self.imag = imag

def __add__(self, other):
return Complex(self.real - other.real, self.imag - other.imag)

def __repr__(self):
return f'Complex({self.real}+{self.imag})'

>>> x = Complex(1, 2)
>>> y = Complex(1, 2)
>>> x + y
Complex(0+0j)

Now this intentionally being malicious of course, but plenty of libraries overload operators in non-intuitive ways so that the operator's properties and behaviour isn't obvious. This is especially true if commutative operators are implemented as being non-commutative (e.g. abusing '+' for concatenation instead of using another symbol like '&' for example) or if the behaviour changes depending on the order of operands.
This reminds me somewhat of Stanley's symmetric chromatic function, which I guess came about ten years later (1995). Actually, what you're describing seems to be something I rediscovered a couple years ago, where P_k is interpreted as the kth power sum symmetric polynomial in n variables.

I'd be interested in learning more about your invariant. Do you have a copy of your thesis anywhere?
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It's a Mac OS X program that runs on post-X macOS.
So it should have little to no impact.
I believe Apple said they're recyclable and also made from recycled materials. Not ideal to have to replace the entire device, though
This is true, but the point is it isn't only new homeowners getting harmed. It's also old homeowners financing lifestyles on margin.
The medical industry is something like 20% of the economy. That’s not the case for the tax prep industry. Their lobbying is outsized, and able to be more narrowly focused on the couple things they really care about.
> These are all artefacts of software development as we practice it, rather than truisms.

Well, they're not laws of nature or anything. But pragmatically, how could it be otherwise? When it comes to bridges and buildings, correctness beats timeliness, but when it comes to software the opposite is usually true. There are exceptions of course (e.g. medical software)

> Maybe we should reserve the term software engineering for the applications of software development where rigour is involved?

Agree.
Could be interesting if they couple it with a Closed Cycle Gas Turbine [1] and a tiny steam plant, like the gas CCGT plants of today. Then the heat engine part should see similar, or even higher, efficiencies compared to gas based CCGT plants.

Boiling water using the Rankine cycle [2] and it will be as dead in the water as nuclear and coal is today.

A thing to keep in mind though is that it is very hard to compete with the engineering of an axle straight into a generator like wind turbines or a solid state system like solar PV. Working fluids, cooling loops and what not are awful to build and maintain.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-cycle_gas_turbine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle
When I was at school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire (UK) around 1988 my physics class (A level aged 17) was somewhat enlivened by a visit by a bunch of clever chaps from JET at the Culham labs from up the road.

This was the first time I heard the "nuclear fusion is 25 years away" joke and it was told as such. We were also shown a graph of how many orders of magnitude away from ignition (for want of the correct word) by date. It had an initial steep decline but then turned right quite sharply and had annoying looking tendency to avoid the magic value.

Now, once you have ignition, you have to sustain it and extract power from it. That's quite tricky too!
Not only is there a suicide note, but their employer confirmed their passing. This defense is one that is parroted almost exclusively by the KF users responsible for Near's death to deflect blame. The burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that there is some conspiracy afoot to fake a suicide.

You mentioned that all Kiwi Farms does is "showcase the horrible activities of horrible people." Setting aside the absurdity of this statement, does this apply to Near in your opinion?
I get into LinkedIn Learning via my library card. You might be able to as well.
The honor system is wonderful when it works. If it was the universal answer, it would be universally applied.

"The student-faculty ratio at California Institute of Technology is 3:1, and the school has 66.7% of its classes with fewer than 20 students."

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/california-institute-of...
What? No reactor in every home? Those house of the future films lied to me in every way.
I was asked to take the StrengthsFinder test (imo kind of similar to Myers-Briggs) after being hired on at my current employer. The results basically said my strengths are ADHD, but in a really positive way. Nobody ever followed up with me on it or mentioned it again. Honestly it was pretty accurate. The job is extremely laid back, no hard deadlines, no emergencies, etc. It's been a huge challenge to maintain a similar level of output when compared to past jobs.
https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Pr...

Their environmental reports that they release each year indicate that they do, yes. It also looks like there's an audit report in there as well that logs the recycled materials as verified (page 109).
If you think from a different perspective that may be not reasonable. Consider a company that has multiple sources of income. One of the sources uses Akka and brings only, for example, 2.5 million a year. And now the expenses of running it will grow considerably, it may even become on the verge of sustainability because total income of the company is more than $25 million. It's not very reasonable in this case. That's why usually vendors have different plans to choose from.
I don't know what the math looks like here, but there is waste heat in this, right? We could lower CO2, but "unlimited cheap energy" at the scale required to make a dent in climate change surely gives off a pretty phenomenal amount of heat. I wonder what the equation looks like for the overall effect on the planet.
It's not like lightning cables have an infinite lifespan though. And they won't actually be sent into the ocean
> What is the most convincing, clear evidence of a lack of long term health issues?

The same convincing, clear evidence we have of a lack of long term health issues from eating a gluten free diet. There will never be any that will satisfy you, as one can’t prove a negative.
Yes, it is likely we’d revoke an intermediate if a significant fraction of all issued certs had to be revoked. But we do want our revocation infrastructure to support revoking all certs if needed.

We have a set of backup intermediates that can be activated if we had to revoke the active ones for any reason, so the disruption wouldn’t be too high hopefully.

(I work at Let’s Encrypt, but this is my own opinion and not that of my employer)
Better yet, you should scan the shape of each candidate’s skull and use that as a metric to aid in decisionmaking.
Yeah, I did this. But it's not enough. Most phone number blocking apps get really slow blocking a couple of area codes. Number Shield loads _very_ slowly on my iPhone 13 with just 919 and 984 blocked. But they do fire prober calls from other locations too. The interesting thing is that they never actually say anything on the phone or in text. It's solely some sort of DoS against me. Weird.
But there’s also a difference between “secure” and “confidential”.

Many definitions of security include integrity and availability as a properties to protect - and storing data in multiple locations can definitely help protect both of those.
Good luck trying to "scale up" (at least in the near future). Tokamaks are only getting to be "scaled up" now, after pretty much decades, and basically only thanks to ITER (factor of ten plasma volume compared to the second largest tokamak). And ITER is a megaproject comparable (both in budget and time) with the SLS program. Maybe even more expensive (depending on if you believe the official number, 22bn EUR, or the unofficial estimate, 40bn EUR) and DEFINITELY more complex with far more cutting edge science (plasma physics, material science...), technology, and engineering required.

If ITER succeeds (proves that fusion in a magnetic confinement device can be used to produce net electricity and it's "just" a matter of scaling things up that is holding fusion back), then sure, investors are going to line up, even for alternative designs. Fusion will be all the rage. But until then, I doubt anyone is scaling anything fusion-related up. Well and if ITER fails, then we are all fucked, and we can turn the fusion "are we there yet" clock back 50 years.
Thanks for the correction! I conflated what (I believe) some rust teams use as the thing that every thing in official rust uses. I think Rust uses both Discord and Zulip[0].

[0] https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/
Indeed. Until a few years ago I was also under the impression that the satellite phone constellations were geostationary or at least geosynchronous. I remember growing up in the 90s hearing about satellite phones and how they had a very noticeable delay, which I assumed meant they were way up there. But perhaps that was just an older generation of constellations, because Globalstar and Iridium (by far the most popular networks in use by consumer-grade devices) are definitely LEO.
Ask Salman Rushdie.
Funny, I have a friend with Apple airpods and has he walks through his house they ask / try to connect to all his apple devices.

That's part of the reason why I prefer a cord.
Mildly related question: European tech workers, what are you doing with your (monthly) savings?

Hoarding euros? Converting to USD? $SPY? Gold? The same as always?
More than half of their reactors are currently out of commission. And Macron was one of the people responsible for signing off on the deal that sold off their turbine development to GE due to pressure of the DOJ. They were talking about buying "it" back. Although I don't know what the scope or timeline of the buyback is. I also remember that contrary to previous promises GE started dismantling one of those factories.
> I've never saw a software engineer hoard some knowledge for a competitive edge.

Not even in work?
This is where voluntary euthanasia, as is being practiced in Canada, would be suitable option.

I wouldn't want to continue living if I was a burden on society and my family.
"It doesn't work and is junk science, but at least it doesn't work for everyone equally" is an interesting methodology.

I'd rather take the intuition of some interviewer because at least that's based on something real. I mean if objectivity is the only criterion you simply may want to roll a set of dice for the applicants because those are cheaper than Myers-Briggs consultants.

the attitude of replacing useful human judgements with useless metrics in the name of eliminating bias is one of the worst trends in modern hiring.
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> systems programming language that is not safe?

It sounds like you're saying rust because I don't know what other languages claim both.

Rust is an awful language. That's why. If you're using a systems programming language then chances are unsafeness isn't the problem you're most concerned with
google "pixel binning". It improves signal:noise ratio.
> Unless it's entirely self-hostable and/or runs entirely locally on the user's machine, it's a hard pass from me.

It runs locally on your machine.

> Also, this marketing copy makes your product sound a lot more like some kind of AI hype scam than an actual product

Yea, I can see your perspective. We're still in stealth mode so will be more forthcoming soon. For more context, here is the full founding story:

I started to go deaf in my 20s. When I turned 30, a hearing aid changed my life. To lose a sense and gain it back again feels like gaining a superpower. Ever since that moment, I’ve been on a hunt for ways technology can augment human capabilities and give us superpowers.

That hunt ultimately led me to memory. Studies show 90% of memories are forgotten after a week. Just like going deaf, our memory gets worse as we get older. But does it have to? If we have hearing aids for hearing and glasses for vision, what’s the equivalent for memory?

What if we could use technology to augment our memory the same way a hearing aid can augment our hearing? This question is why we founded Rewind. Our vision is to give humans perfect memory. We are building a search engine for your life.
There's folks who have suicided when their fraud gets detected. Truly, their entire self-worth tied up in a score.

e.g https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/marathoner-frank-meza-suic...
South Korea also wasted recent years trying to shut down nuclear reactors and painting the nuclear industry as evil anti-environmental cabals. It's infuriating that Korea's politics is governed by either conservatives (who think environmental regulations should bend over for industries) or liberals (who think it's "eco-friendly" to shut down nuclear, when 44% of the electricity is coming from freaking coal).
Sure, no I used Wikipedia's Initial release dates. It says Postgres 8 July 1996, Apache http server 1995, Blender January 2, 1994.

I guess I miss remembered python I thought it was 93 for some reason, maybe that is java.