skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more with this post.

- Nope, I don't want spend my week doing 1:1 with a team.

- 40 years old and I was never so sharp as developer as now. Focused. Precise. Fearless.

- Being the most senior developer in my team, doesn't put me in any special position other than I deliver a lot of good code, I do a lot of devops tasks, i review a lot of PR and people hear me.

- I can scale my work through my peers.

- I trust and respect the managers and architects, because I understand how hard their job is.

- They trust and respect me because they know that I could do their work (and they mine) and the roles are not ranks, but choices.

I don't fear for my job. I know that in the worst case scenario, even earning 50% of my salary would be more than the average of the population and I would still have fun with that. I can work in a niche market like Java.. or hell even Cobol :)
Ground meat in a sauce is actually the only situation where it is easily distinguishable for me. The texture doesn’t feel right. It ends up rubbery, kind of like overcooked fish. And it doesn’t impart the same kind of umami depth of flavor. I end up having to supplement with bouillon instead, but then it gets a little too salty.
Because data is mostly useless trash, and retrieving usable information out of a trash mountain that is getting much larger every minute is a serious challenge. This is one of the big problems with the internet info mining approach.
Try signing up for https://beta.openai.com/playground, I got access to GPT-3 in a couple days. For GPT-2 you can try out https://transformer.huggingface.co/
Doesn't matter. For some retro enthusiasts only original hardware produced during the era is acceptable.
Linked article appears to state the PA system is physically isolated — which I would assume means only known components of the PA system interact with each other:

>> Professional reverse engineer/hardware hacker/security analyst Andrew Tierney (aka Cybergibbons) dug up the Airbus 321 documents in this thread, and is stumped too.

https://twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1573328954517499904
I was asking because last year I billed a few times from NL a company registered in Florida. My accountant thought for some reason that I had to inform tax authorities over there. But he didn’t have experience with it.
I’ve yet to try an impossible burger but one of the best burgers I’ve ever had was a veggie burger patty made in house at a little brewery near me. Seasonings and texture etc were perfect. Wasn’t trying to be a burger but trying to be a very good veggie patty and succeeded.
I learned to code at 12 in 1986 in 65C02 assembly language. By the time I graduated from college in 1996, I had done hobby programming in assembly in four processors. I didn’t do a single side project from 1996 to present unless it was just to learn a new to me technology for my next job.

During that time, I was a part time fitness instructor as a hobby, I trained for half marathons with friends, dabbled in real estate until around 2009 (guess how that worked out), got remarried, raised two (step) sons and now my wife and I are making plans to live a digital nomad life flying across the US. Our free time will be spent sightseeing and learning Spanish well enough to have a different experience when we stay in Mexico for a few weeks later this year.
Many online services use it for encoding, decoding, transcoding, cutting, merging and muxing video and audio formats. It implements a lot of codecs. It is often also used to generate video thumbnails. Its filters [1] are also very powerful to create complex chains of functionality.

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html
I have a proxmox system that I host lxcs on to serve as development environments for various web apps or network services that have different Linux based tech stacks. I also run some services inside lxcs on my Linux based router. Local network name services, an NFS volume, etc. The strength is the simplicity. I found it all easy to set up and very low maintenance.
Be careful with an impermeable vapor barrier especially if adding one. It may work perfectly for keeping water out of the wall cavity in winter, but become the condensation layer in summer - on the wall side!

You can use smart vapor control layers (such as Intello) to counteract this - but be sure you’ve discussed how the wall can dry out if it gets wet.

And the worst of all is if you end up with two vapor barriers - one on the inside and one on the outside - you’ll end up with a “dirty diaper” effect.

https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/digests/bsd-106-un...
I feel like the premium pricing for the plant based alternative is a major problem. Personally I think they've achieved "good enough" results, but I rarely eat them because of the cost difference at restaurants.

The story is flipped for home cooking, e.g., making mapo or meatballs at home. We actually prefer the plant based alternative there, and lately it's also been the economical choice.
Dreams of cargo lifting airships gave us https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort
Why does it cost more then?
Similar, and similar situation. Invested savings and retirement accounts have taken a beating - my cash is 'only' losing to some inflation. But on-hand cash savings for ~2ish years - could possibly be a bit longer if we cut a couple things.
Local, state, and federal government at this stage of our national financial collapse is a bottomless grifting machine.

Telling someone to pay their taxes to fix this problem is kind of like telling someone to drink more poison to cure their stomach ache.
Also, time to restore for many peoples solutions can be days or weeks (if something goes wrong). Oops if that means you’re down for weeks. For some businesses (SaaS), there is no point event trying to come back from that.
If done right, I don't see what's wrong with it. A dozen weeks back, oil was 120, now it is less than 80. We should be able to fill it back and make money while doing it.

We did the same thing saving GM more than a dozen years back.
TLS Offload in the FreeBSD Kernel [pdf]
The way you avoid this altogether is by having a decentralized structure of governance such that the compromise of one node doesn't bring the rest down. If you want some specific arrangement to criticize, let's start with this:

https://internationalistcommune.com/social-contract/
It's worse than that: once we start refilling it we bring back all of the demand that releasing oil from the SPR kicked into the future.

It follows that if either 1.) demand drops or 2.) supply increases the refilling will create exactly the same problem in the future that releasing oil from the SPR was supposed to solve.
Yeah insulation that is a vapor barrier shouldn’t replace insulation that wasn’t without considering the effects.

You can use something like rock wool (in batts or panels) to get insulation that is still vapor permeable and water resistant.
I'm going a step further. No grid connection at all. Uptime isn't great anyway-about 87% in July in my neighborhood.
What potential effect could an island of the sort have on potential maritime boundaries? After all, these boundaries are drawn according to islands in the ocean.
Replace oil with interet rates and this could have been wrote by Ben Bernanke. Government price manipulation leads to problems and repeatedly fails. Typically governments become more authoritarian when the price and economy manipulation is failing.
What did you mean by "but postpone being too humble until you are sure you are great"? How does it follow from what you wrote before?
Technology isn’t everything. Sometimes focusing on a problem and executing really well is what matters. Even Google can get distracted from the core user need it was built around.
As another point of reference, using the touchscreen interface was the single worst thing about the 2021 XC40 I drove for a while. So I’m not sure anyone should be taking advice from volvo on software.
Cheers my friend. Don't forget to buy more cleaning oil.
A lot of comments so far are complaining about the software quality in cars now. But what did you expect? This is what happens when you hire the same kinds of people to write the software for your car that you've hired for 25 years to write the terrible internal applications inside the company that everyone hates, and in the same terrible way. The end result is going to be exactly the same.

Over the years, I've seen various discussions brush up against the issue of professional certification. Professional Engineer, in civil engineering, is a serious credential, which can hold people professionally liable for bridges that fail, or buildings that fall over. Making cars a network of computers that all talk to each other, operated entirely "by wire," and giving up any consideration of mechanical backups (like with a plane) is going to very quickly drive the point home that the programming profession needs a similar credential. As a mechanical engineer who has made a living writing software for 30 years, I understand the difference, but the legal externalities are not going to care that software is VASTLY more complicated than, say, designing a plane wing with a factor of safety.

Now, I have to go figure out why my Rails application can no longer restart the delayed_job process on deploy. Is the problem in Rails, Ruby, my gems, Capistrano, permissions, SSH, or some updated package on my Linux VM? Designing a bridge, frankly, is easier, because it's "concrete" and closed-form. Sure, I'll figure out my deployment problem, but next month some obscure thing in the 24 layers that make up a simple web app these days is going to get updated, and break something else. At least once a bridge is built, it's done.
With the huge power density of solar panels on its massive upper surface, why not?
Ah, this is in Kansas. Three years ago, there was a similar story in Florida.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
"Justification", like "legitimacy", is a subjective measure.
The same can be said for most insurance products. Whether it’s Worth it is subjective.
May be the crowd is getting a bit tired of the whole "Rust fanboism".too many articles on HN about Rust. It's just another language at the end of the day.
He didn't fill it, and he sold off a lot more than he bought (particularly around 2018, when oil was near a local max). He started buying in 2020. He wanted to fill it, but ran out of money in that part of the budget before he could, and Congress did not want to raise it.

Here's a primary source:

https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-executes-d...
I can bet there are a lot of people still working in crypto because of sunk cost fallacy.
Thanks for the summaries here. Avoiding even clicking on a link to The Verge increasingly is a thing. It’s a clickbait machine by now…
>What have Google and Facebook been doing all this time?

Trying their hardest to replace quality results with things that will generate ad revenue while still making the user feel like they're getting the results they wanted.

>With all the data Google and Facebook have on everyone why is Tiktok, which I'm using with an email unconnected to anything else of mine and all iPhone privacy settings enabled, far better at showing me what I want?

I checked out TikTok for half a second and noticed that it's just damn good at going, "Hey, tenebrisalietum asked to see how to hang drywall, so show them how to hang drywall". Google sorta does that, too, but as you said, they're going, "Hey, tenebrisalietum wants to see how to hang drywall, does one of our advertisers have a video about that that we can show them? Lowe's does? Cool, fuck the quality of it, let's get that money".

TikTok knows that people just want to be shown what they ask for without all the extra bullshit. FB and Google started down the path of adding bullshit for money, and they won't go back at this point.
The fun of those games is playing together as peers.

And never being told you're doing it wrong.

And a level playing field where you might actually win.

The pleasure is an absence of common pains.

YMMV.
Some of the forums have features to do that on upload - you just have to configure it.

Sadly most of the admins for these type of fora are just learning as they go.
I have a friend from Egypt who is light years ahead of every other immigrant I know in terms of fluency, accent, etc.

His secret? He watches a ton of Seinfeld, haha. I mean a ton. And I think what really happened is he formed a sort of identity with the show- part of him is truly “American” at this point.
Is this a new spin on the 'lost my seed phrase in a boating accident' line?
I miss linux-vserver. Easily the most simple containerization I ever worked with.
Maybe moving the target to the bullet impact would work - walk the shot to the target or the target to the shot? Both still have many other variables - but there is one good reason why they moved the shot instead of the target.

It would be very difficult to find impact points of the misses - The best they could do was listen for where they hit.
Very interesting: only one moving part, aside perhaps from steering surfaces. Or is it passively stable? This sidesteps Makani Power's absurd complexity, able to use buoyancy for loft, instead of needing to be a self-piloting powered craft. It would be good if the figure-8 path could be a natural result of tether and vehicle geometry.

I wonder if the tether could carry air to establish positive pressure in the vehicle body, against leaks. Buoyancy from the sea floor should provide all the pressure needed.
Quieter than a window air conditioner, a bit louder than whole-home I suspect.
Thanks, that looks pretty interesting.

They explicitly support the RP2040 as well, with demo code. Very useful. :)
Well if the whole fleet is 30 cars (asof this summer according to electrek - https://electrek.co/2022/06/23/gm-cruise-takes-first-fares-f...)

3 out of 30 is pretty pretty bad!
But you’re also more expensive and picky about where you work and what tools you’d use. That natural ignorance and inexpensiveness lends younger devs a competitive advantage
What do you think capitalism means? You say nobody likes it, but also that it's what creates all the wealth we have... How are those two ideas compatible?
Any assembly language gets you the same thing, and 6502 assembly is likely not the one your current machine understands natively.

(if it is, I would like to read your blog)
To expand, the genesis of the SPR was the 1973 oil embargo.

At that point it was less a question of price than physical availability. Scarcity causes price shocks... but also simply inability to obtain oil at any price.

That lack of access creates emergency scenarios, which creates motivational fear, which is the political/strategic power the embargo had.

By creating a credibly large stockpile, the US mitigated the emotional (i.e. emergency lack of access) implications of an embargo, which mitigated the strategic effect of the embargo (no fearful, rioting populace, less political pressure), as regardless of price rises the US would have access to oil.

So that's why it was created.

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Unfortunately, or fortunately, a credibly-large stockpile also begs the question: why not use its existence during non-embargo times to trade some of its inventory?

By definition, you're a seller of last resort and huge volume, so you can always find buyers.

And if you expect the price to randomly oscillate, you can sacrifice some temporary amount for a decent profit, refilling when you can. Because remember, you don't actually need the resource unless there's a breakdown in oil markets (e.g. supply disruption or embargo). Any oil sitting in the SPR isn't making you money.

The risk scenario for the trading option is: you lessen your available volume too low (in comparison to US consumption/production) and oil producers uses the opportunity to embargo oil for political advantage again.

Given the specifics of the world now (US/Canadian production capacity from tar sands and fracking, and most of OPEC needing the revenue from sales to keep their economies solvent), an embargo doesn't seem likely.
The GrVertex structure has z and w components too. But it’s a fair point that the x and y is specified in screen space, not world space. I had forgotten that. But the hardware does depth buffering based on the z component, so it’s still 3D.
Hilariously, Reddit's search is still notoriously unusable despite years and years of complaints. That said, if there's any benefit from Reddit replacing nearly every single forum on the internet, it's that if there exists something worth reviewing, it's probably posted there.
I had a rental MB a few months ago and while the build quality and ride were excellent, it remains by a very wide margin the absolute worst car I have ever driven. There were dozens of buttons and knobs and touchpads (so many touchpads!) in the cabin, none of them with any meaningful information about how they are used, much less an obvious use. The interior was utterly barren of visual contrast, so I couldn't discern important information even when it wasn't shouldered out of place by the implacable clutter. It was a car for a hoarder with means. I'm also not exaggerating for effect: I hated it, and I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff I was supposed to operate.
Most if not all development still takes place in Sweden. I think any perceived quality loss is more likely to be because of the increased complexity both in modern cars in general, and because Volvo wants to be more upmarket and premium which leads to more features and therefore bugs. Although I wouldn't consider indicating lights to be a premium feature.
This was initially a good laugh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739220 . Since one cannot reply to that post anymore, turning the monitor off is not a feature of a text editor; although font color is a feature the length or presence of entered text is visible by the cursor position & neither options disable editing (append only?). Using a command similar to this on a POSIX terminal is an option to hide the input & seem to disable backspace & delete:

echo "Thoughts?"; read -d $'\04' -s x; echo "$x"
Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc. all have European offices. At least some of these allow fully remote work from Europe. If you’re looking for a big tech company in particular, I’d start by checking out their job boards.
in Europe Union not USA
> ageism in tech

Several reasons for ageism sometimes missed. This from someone whose been discriminated against, who has hired, who now owns a company & who was also a recruiter.

__I don't agree with this__ just laying the reasons out for clarity sake:

- Hiring managers don't consider themselves ageist, but opt for younger employees whom they think make a better cultural fit. You can blame the 'work is my social life' culture that emerged in the 2000's and that persists today.

- Hiring managers don't want to be ageist, but they've had or heard of bad experiences where disgruntled or non-performing employees abuse the EEOC process for financial gain and retribution. Very well intentioned rules, designed to protect certain cohorts of employees, doing the exact opposite as is often the case with Gov regs.

- Hiring managers (usually fixated on 'new tech') who fear diminished learning, adoption or performance capacity in older employees.

- Money. The perception that older employees cost more in wages and benefits, without much thought to efficiency gains that accompanies gray hair.

I was age discriminated against by a well known SAAS provider, who used a 2014 interview process to extract a detailed roadmap and ideas for product growth from me, and then ghosted me. I've watched as they've (badly) implemented the specific of my roadmap the past few years, and I chuckle. 100% my fault for giving up too much value in the interview process, but it was tough time and I thought I really needed that job.
I actually find it ridiculous that engineers can be held personally liable for work performed for a company. It's not a model I would support moving towards, at all.
another article claiming 30 driverless fleet size - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/driverless-taxis-a...
I’ve seen some that are basically build as two concrete block or brick walls, and the center are was filled with rubble stone and dirt.

This is similar to an “earth house” and is very comfortable where the average (or basement) temperature is comfortable. The walls make an insane amount of thermal mass and the temperature inside changes very slowly.
Check out the stylish 8 bit error diffusion dithered gradients and cheesy 90's drum loop in this delightfully retro but content-free "Apple OpenDoc Technology Intro" -- the take-away point is that Apple and IBM and Oracle were really pushing OpenDoc and making a lot of promises about supporting it for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E

>Video clip from the original Apple OpenDoc: A Crucial breakthrough! CD

This one has a much funkier intro, and has more substantial down-to-earth information about OpenDoc. He's got HyperCard and AppleScript in their original boxes on the shelf behind him, so he knows what he's talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSFvEIpm5o

>OpenDoc: A New Standard for Compound Documents, a lecture by Kurt Piersol. The video was recorded in March 1994.

>From University Video Communications' catalog:

>"OpenDoc represents a new standard method of building editors which support assembly and editing of compound documents on many computing platforms. Kurt Piersol discusses the need for compound document systems, their requirements, and OpenDoc's industrial and technical approach."
> I don't enjoy switching contexts. My perfect agenda is composed of a single meaty task I can focus on for days.

So large companies only?
The first two require centralized governance to function, so putting it on a blockchain is useless. Voting requires anonymity, so putting it on a blockchain is dangerous.
Not much. It's just a nice memory of an exciting time.
- New Relic

- Alfred for clipboard management

- Rectangle

- Git

- The Unix shell/process model

- Vim interaction model and vi mode in its various incarnations

- Vimium

- VS Code

- Postgres

- BigQuery

- Markdown

- 1Password

- Docker
I don’t know where the idea that western style energy consumption is an issue, but the sun provides several orders of magnitude more energy than is needed.

The vast majority of the energy humanity uses is actually sunlight hitting crops. Our dependence on fossil fuels is mostly a question of costs and existing infrastructure. We have hundreds of millions of ICE cars and the infrastructure to keep them fueled. Swapping that to EV’s over 40 days is impossible, but doing so in 40 years is relatively easy.
I know right?

Just like how Skiff has being using other blockchain projects such as ENS domains as well as decentralized P2P software like IPFS to help build their product offering. [0]

Perhaps they found a use case for it.

[0] https://skiff.com
What you’re talking about happens in the US as well, and courts have held that whether you are billing through a corporation or not doesn’t impact whether you are a de facto employee.

e.g., the owner of an LLC who bills through the LLC can still be found to be a de facto employee.

It doesn’t matter that you pay income taxes, what matters is that the employer isn’t paying payroll taxes, withholding income taxes, paying unemployment insurance etc.
FWIW, completely agreed. :)
Linked lists are popular because they are useful in teaching basic data structures and complexity analysis. They can be compared to array lists.

But in real life the extra cost of allocating a node is way higher than simply copying over a block of memory, for most realistic sized workloads, which are small.
Lots of people I know dislike the taste of Beyond Meat specifically, but like Impossible and other fake meats. This article seems to be sensationalizing and over-generalizing from a single company’s failure.