skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you proposed that people could buy extra votes in elections, at say 100$ a pop, virtually everyone would call it an affront to democracy, as rightly so. Yet it is precisely what happened when it comes to governance of joint-stock companies.
Except for the change in acquisition and contracting behind the scenes that was driven by that colossal failure.

Have you noticed that the IRS website is accessible and searchable? That SBA is functional? Conpare that to, say, Department of Commerce, where things are a mess (currently).

The US realized it needed to pick things up a bit and, while it's still a hard space to work in, started to shift to a better playbook.

https://playbook.cio.gov/
That would be if the company were in Germany. But not outside Germany, there the freelancer is classified as "exporter" (both for US and EU clients).
This stuff would be great not just for sounds in game, but e.g. in racing or flight simulators I would want the plane engine realistically simulated since a large part of flying some aircraft is doing it in a way that reduces wear and tear on this critical component! Stuff like spark plug fouling, engine flooding, carb temperature effects, mixture/RPM/manifold pressure optimisation at altitude, etc.
Perhaps it's a bit different if you're not a native English speaker, since the emotional aspects of the word are missing. To us, it's just a foreign-language keyword, like "if" or "for".
Lane keeping in my Subaru has been amazing. Better than any non Tesla I’ve tried. But sometimes the PID loop is really nasty and while I want to bias to the left of the lane it keeps fighting me. If I let go it throws me into the next lane. It hasn’t happened ever since I learned how the car reacts to that behaviour.

But it’s still very, very bad and I hope Subaru’s controls engineers are addressing it.
> the pot is just being boiled slowly enough to not notice.

That metaphor is based on a myth¹:

> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out. Changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
So even the inventors quite misunderstand how they came up with this marvel. (we are lost ^^)
Just because someone points out facts that happen to be bad for the current administration doesn’t make it a “right wing talking point.” Even in political terms, criticism of a democrat isn’t necessarily aimed at “the right wing,” because the plurality of the population identify as independents.
The term of art is "short cycle". There's also the related "turndown ratio" which is just minimum_output/maximum_output. The discussion at [1] isn't bad, but [2] has a little diagram showing the cycling (in this case as a benefit of variable-rate inverters, but also as a warning).

[1] https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/question/what-is-minisp...

[2] https://carbonswitch.com/heat-pump-sizing-guide/
Aren’t blinkers run by a simple electrical system with no computer?
memory safe - correct. But "fearless concurrency" is mostly plain propaganda. Lots of deadlockable code in Rust. You still need to pay close attention to structuring code for concurrency and some libs are deadlock prone in async.
Not only that, the suffix array [1] is using counting sort O(n) instead of a comparison based O(n log n) sort. That is because they assume integer alphabets. For general alphabets they can only achieve O(n log n).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08305
This seems like the most likely explanation. Whoever left the device in the plane isn't likely to own up to it (if they even remember where they left it!) since they may lose their job.
Plug: I help companies solving these kind of things. Hire me. ;D
>these businesses have fallen for snake oil salesmen telling them things like VPSs are indicators of "nefarious purposes"

They are indicators. 95% of the abuse on my VPS came from China, services like Contabo, DigitalOcean, Linode, Azure, Oracle, GCP, M247, and Tor. Some of these are no longer allowed to even reach L7 for my website. One other statistic I noticed is that some of those providers have 0% legitimate traffic.
What are the most commonly used UI software for rust?

I don't think there is a QT equivalent? I guess there are bindings for QT, though, but I don't know if it plays well with the particularities of QT.
Did you ever try macOS (OS X) circa 2006–2014? It was really, really good and then they ruined it for the sake of having a (kind of) unified design language with iOS.

I'm typing this on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
CICO is the mother of all motte-and-bailey fallacies. The motte is a restatement of thermodynamics and therefore completely unassailable, at least in this universe. From this the proponents sally forth to make claims like "counting calories is a good way to lose weight". Whenever someone refutes this or anything else CICOs pulled from the bailey they, the CICOs, retreat to the motte and say stuff like "see, you did have a calorie deficit from IF".

Yes, thermodynamics is always correct but usually not the appropriate level of analysis at which to address human problems.

A simple restatement of CICO arguments in terms of car fuel is enough to see how utterly trivial they are:

"My uncle got stranded on the highway"

"How so?"

"Ran out of gas"

"Well, he must have had less energy in the tank then he needed to get to his destination. Simple CICO"

Notice how the response is completely correct yet utterly useless. We haven't learned anything about why the uncle ran out of fuel. Was it a leak? CICO is true. Did he forget to fill up? CICO is true. Was he out of money and desperately hoping for the best? CICO is true. Thermodynamics is always true!

Notice how all of the different real reasons need a completely different solution. If you responded with "you just need to have enough fuel available to the engine to make it to the destination" as your "solution" people would think you are autistic.

If, when presented with the real solution, you said "well, see because he gave his uncle money for gas, now the fuel balance is postive" people would ask if you had a stroke.

Why is it that this level of "argumentation" is somehow okay for intelligent people when it comes to weight loss but would get you laughed out of the room on literally any other topic? Try it: poverty? money-in-money-out! Housing? Houses-built-Houses-used! Job problems? Literally just get fired once less then you get hired!
Question is how to make more money in EU by working remotely and getting a US salary. Living in the US is totally different. Anyway, if you can make more, under similar conditions, why not?
No, it just means you should heavily discount what this Tabarok guy has to say about it.
Polestar is a Volvo subsidiary that does electrical vehicles that overlap a lot with Volvo's own EVs. Polestar 2 is their main model and its specs are nice, pretty much the second best after Tesla.

However what PS2 is also known for is an absolute shite quality of their firmware.

Cars refusing to start and requiring a "service" out of blue (with one lucky guy scoring this in the middle of a forest). Chargers not engaging or, better yet, not disengaging. Basic functions, like blinkers and car locks, breaking after an update. Updates, in general, are more of "oh, fuck, not again" events rather than the positive news.

Like, I understand it's a complex software. I had a Bimmer show at "-10 km to destination", an Audi refusing to open a truck if parked too close to the wall, but the amount of bugs in Polestar is insane over the baseline.

But, yeah, it's (possibly) written in Rust. Yay.

[1] https://www.polestar.com

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Polestar/

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Edit - Added "(possibly)". The point was that the choice of the language matters less if your bugs are higher level and your QA process is lacking.
I don’t find this to be very impressive. I used SableCC [0] 15 years ago, which generates Java source code (classes) for the AST along with the parser, including Visitor traversal. It was missing line number information and character data between tokens, but that was straightforward to add by modifying the built-in templates used to generate the AST classes. I was also able to add generically-typed return values to the Visitor mechanism just by editing the built-in templates.

[0] https://sablecc.org/
Ok, then. If this really matters for the survival of the population or not, depends on the context. When the plant seeds is dead already. Flowering starts a metabolical countdown that ends with the "suicide" of the entire plant.

He has part of a flowering stalk in the hand, not viable seeds there. Yes is bad, but... he could have good reasons to do it.

For example if he wants to pollinate a batch of cultured plants at the lab to assure to increase the genetical diversity but remaining purebreed. Scientists do this all the time.

Or he could want to maintain an herbarium because we need to assure that this is the only Ferula species in our breeding population, and this needs sampling the population and microscope.

Or to take a sample of the pollen to see if both plants are the same. Search for fossil pollen of Silphium in archaeological sites sounds like a reasonable idea to me.

Or to sample the chemicals to see if some could be useful, (would lead to the plant being cultured, propagated in mass and saved as economical resource).

Or to deliberately forbid the plant flowering when is small. To abort the dying countdown and potentiate vegetative grow (so the plant flower one year later with much, much more seeds in a bigger plant).

Of course could be just because... national geographic wanted a stupid photo

But before to start badmouthing anybody, we need to have all the context. As botanic, he can have solid reasons to remove part of a flower stalk in an endangered species. Governments grant special permits for scientific work covering exactly this things.
Hah! Amazing!
https://opolis.co/ seems to be US-only.
Worked for me. Love it, thanks for sharing!
MPEG's an industry group, Google's not. Pretty easy to understand.
> But it sure does look minimal and slick, until you have to actually use the thing.

Modern UI """design""" in a nutshell. So-called designers (1) optimise for "looking good on a screenshot / promo screen", rather than for usability and aesthetics for the user, and (2) do so according to their own subjective tastes, instead of evidence-based approaches. These are to me the two major sources of the atrocious design of much of modern software.
Total Commander

Notepad++

Don't need to explain I guess.
Also good to say; many singles or child free couples can change their timezone to match their client. I changed from US to SG and back a few times over the past 10 years while living in the EU. It was actually quite nice; asia was better because finishing your day when the rest of your friends wake up is nicer than saying you cannot really do anything after 4 pm but you get used to it anyway.
As someone who grew up in USSR I am generally a bit sceptical about collectively owned businesses. Not saying that it never works, but in general privately owned business is usually more efficient. Owning a business collectively opens it to politicking and bad decision making by committee.

On the other hand, if the business model is simple enough, co-owning it might make sense.
I just don't agree! Sorry.
It is ok to evolve the language, but then start to also write it as you pronounce it. I feel it is stupid a language which is "spoken differently as spelled". Yes, I know, just about any natural language is so. But the less so the better.
> Last week, [Beyond Meat's] chief operating officer was reportedly arrested for biting another man on the nose

enough said
You're actually dead wrong and this is spoken like someone with no experience in this space. What actually happened was not only log4j, but then multiple pre-auth CVEs in Atlassian suite products, effectively brought down DI2E, a collaboration and developer tooling platform that was open to the Internet and used by huge numbers of unclassified DoD and IC development projects. Since it was already sunsetting and had reduced staff, most programs still haven't gotten back data that was lost when the web fronts went offline suddenly to mitigate ongoing attacks. This wasn't catastrophic, but months of work were lost

The reality is, the greatest vulnerability here isn't in government-procured software that uses OSS libraries directly. The DoD's own critical custom applications are largely as secure as secure gets. The much bigger problem is in proprietary software, like the Atlassian suite, that uses OSS libraries in its own supply chain.

In fact, the DoD has had mandates from the highest level for years to use FOSS everywhere it is available, and to require all new contractors to open source anything they create for government use that isn't classified. The only reason something like the Atlassian suite is still used is a combination of institutional inertia and the lack of comparably feature-complete FOSS alternatives (the vast majority of this kind of space going to SaaS companies that don't allow you to self-host).
One of the things that set off the whole actix debacle was a PR removing unsafe code with the equivalent safe code was rejected, even as it was shown to cause unsoundness reachable by safe code using the framework.
Although I am not a fan of cloudflare, cloudflare doesn't just block you. It's up to the administrator to choose what action he applies to what type of user.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/firewall/cf-firewall-rules...
The rendition GPU was a risc processors but alas way to early and underperforming
> Is Mozilla really trying to juxtapose themselves here against another browser that removes support for power user customization like they don't do it? That's wild. Is there no one left at Moz that remembers them throwing away the entire ecosystem of XUL based extensions that allowed for many things that current Firefox builds don't re: blocking and UI customization.

Dropping XUL wasn't some 'hahah, own the power users' thing, it was a move to allow the Firefox architecture to modernize, with XUL this wasn't possible. I have plenty of criticisms of Mozilla, but simplifying things to the point of removing all important context is not the way to do it imo.
Ask HN: How to master verbal communication?
Being a foreigner in a new country and starting a new job I suddenly realized that my verbal communication lags far behind my writing skills.

English is not my native language, which makes my challenge of improving it harder.

I wonder what strategies and lifehacks worked for you to make your speech more concise and eloquent?

yes, i know that it’s all about practice. But which specific ways and kinds of practicing are most effective ones is not clear to me.
They used to keep the rust in the chassis. Now it's on chips. That's progress!
That's life I guess. If TopTal adding 70% on top of your rate still gives you 2x EU salary, is that so bad? When an E7 at Facebook London earns 250k and E7 in Menlo Park earns 860k, there is quite a margin to exploit...
Here is the talk they reference. Fairly short https://youtu.be/balGGAd6ZrI
Not since... 2005
I’ve worked for a macro hedge fund so I know the space.

None of the strategies I saw at my time there had anything to do with accurately predicting specific market levels. Quite the opposite they were largely off market positions for the main component with the occasional hedge on the market.
ahem... I have been writing with a dvorak keyboard for more than a decade.

The move from qwerty to dvorak took me 4 months of PAIN. You must have a strong will to keep going, because the interference of real life will generate a strong drag to qwerty.

And I got a few ortholinear keyboards with that (next is columnar/ortholinear DYO mechanical keyboard with RISC-V 64 bits firmware... ok ok ok, that's all theory, I may end-up with a staggered qwerty if I am too busy doing something else and I do run out of keyboards).
I wanted to way "separate BS from facts"... along the lines in any case.
Wood is thicker, denser, and has more structure than paper. My guess is that paper is a closer analogy in this case.
Yep, in many places you would need multiple clients to prevent being seen as an de facto employee.
Right, they didn’t overpay, they bought at the market rate? The price they would have paid from any supplier?
It’s because older generations inevitably devalue an evolving culture they can no longer comprehend as a defense mechanism to avoid admitting they can’t keep up. Anyone who seriously makes this argument that the Kids These Days are lazy/bad/worse than their own generation is either delusional or just lazy.
https://metrosaga.com/speed-professional-cyclists-ride/ says "The Bicycling Magazine reports that a professional Tour de France cyclist maintains the average speed depending on the terrain. On flat ground, the speed of the rider is between 25 and 28 mph."

That's 40 to 45 kph.

https://www.road-bike.co.uk/articles/average-speed.php says "Quite competent club rider, some regular training likely, medium-long distances (say 50-60 miles): 20-24 mph" (for "'mixed' terrain (ie rolling hills about 30% of the time, and pretty flat the rest of the time").

That's 32 to 39 kph.

Have you considered that Lance Armstrong might not be a good baseline for the median bike rider on the streets?
aren't state-of-the-art landmines platic based?
Yeah I don't get what the parent comment is proposing.

People say this or that will happen in the long term, but there are so many impossible to predict variables that the best you can really do is try to keep the economy robust enough to absorb shocks.

Economy slowing because of COVID? Deal with that.

Inflation happening because of constrained supply chains? Use the oil reserve to reduce the price.

These are pretty reasonable policies that both side of politics would do when in power because they make sense.
So USA uses 20m barrels per day and the SPR holds 700m at it's peak, or just over a month of reserves. On the other hand barrel production has tripled to 15m barrels per day from 20 years ago. The headline is a bit sensationalist...
The Polstar software is written in Rust?
You mean like download qt and make an app that compiles on everything and integrates much better than a webpage while also being much faster and smaller?
AIX was/is one of the few big commercial unixes I've never got to touch, is it worth it?
That won't always be the case. Basically, it's all about with whom you trade most. If Saudi Arabia finds themselves in a position where they have 50+% of their imports and export originates in China it will make sense to switch to RMBs to all trades, and the dollar price of oil, or other goods becomes irrelevant. And the Chinese economy is on track to become bigger that American by 2030.
My least favorite Hacker News trope is pretending not to understand what a metaphor is to nitpick an inaccuracy in the literal interpretation.
That immediatly bought this scene to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11gOV4FhuCk
I've tried plant based burgers multiple times and it's just not the same. The first time I had an "impossible burger", I didn't actually know it was fake meat, I just assumed it was the name of the burger at the time, I thought it was horrible. I had a different shops "impossible" burger few years later and it was far from horrible, but just doesn't have the same impact as a good burger.

Edit: Either it's juicy and the texture isn't right, or the texture is right but it isn't juicy, or the flavour isn't there. It just doesn't taste real enough, in some ways its SO close... /end edit.

Wife and I tried some of the beyond meat from the super market and that was once... never again, it was not good, any of it. Its sometimes /very/ salty, even if I don't add salt...

(as a side note I donno if it's changed but it's more expensive to buy beyond meat than it is to buy real meat)
Yeah, in NL and UK and probably others, you would need to have a company with multiple clients to be not seen as employee.
> Are there any fellow Europe based software engineers who work remotely for US companies and could share advice about landing such jobs?

Been doing for 5+ years. Assuming you're "senior" that salary is easy to get. I just search all job sites with "remote" that accept CET timezone.

Getting the $120K+ is harder though.
>IBM who brought it’s [ sic ] AIX

This is misleading at best.

AIX didn't exist for IBM to purchase. IBM collaborated with Interactive Systems Corporation under contract to develop AIX in 1985 and released AIX Version 1 in 1986. IBM collaborated with Locus Computing Corporation, again under contract, to release Version 2 in 1992. Since the mid-1980's, IBM has poured massive development into AIX, which got so stable and feature-rich that when IBM tried to switch to Linux prematurely in 2005, its customers' and their systems administrators complained until IBM's Linux deployment was shelved for nearly a decade in deference to AIX (5, 6 & 7), and never really went away; AIX is still under active development.
Kind of uncool to use the w-word. Partly because it’s offensive and partly because it’s really outdated, Alf Garnet-style language. Made me wonder if the author understood its connotation.
The compiler can't enforce manual verification, so that would be potentially misleading in a bad way.
That's what Tailscale is for. Sure, it adds another layer that you might not like. But underneath it is all Wireguard and at least most of it (not sure if all of it) is also open-source. In fact, the OP post was written by a Tailscale guy apparently.
Yes, it's a derivative that relies on use of the copyright works. You can't create a NN without using a copy of the work, so copyright applies -- there might be a Fair Use exception in USA but the outputs compete with the original creators of the works and so IMO courts are likely to rule it as non-Fair Use.
My app (which is bigger than Hello World, but not by much) is about 9M on disk. This is typical for Go apps, oddly enough. It's not compressed so far as I know.
Why downvote this comment? It's additive to the conversation... Why make it political when the comment is perfectly fine, stating another point of view?
Related: https://www.theonion.com/new-delicious-species-discovered-18...
Its very misguided. Why „U.S. and European attempts to use economic sanctions to cut off Russian oil from the global market was a catastrophic error“:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/europe-energy-catast...
my guess is lobste.rs
AIX is still developed in Austin.
The rockyou.com insight was new to me. I hadn't heard of this breach somehow. I was wondering how they had 32m users and read some more on Wikipedia and they had Facebook apps and some MySpace plugins.

From Wikipedia

> In December 2009, RockYou experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. This resulted from storing user data in an unencrypted database (including user passwords in plain text instead of using a cryptographic hash) and not patching a ten-year-old SQL vulnerability. RockYou failed to provide a notification of the breach to users and miscommunicated the extent of the breach
No need to put up with this!

Smart people are everywhere.

We can build together remotely. We can make our own companies. If we need to, we can make our own money systems.
> Take for example the statements he made in 60mins about sending US troops to Taiwan & the pandemic ending, both of these are walked back by “the whitehouse” (handlers). Brandon is not even allowed to talk to the press outside of carefully controlled, scripted scenarios and even those he screws up.

Or maybe that's all planned because the Taiwanese people need to hear we'll definitively support them while we maintain our official ambiguous position. Point is you don't really know. Are you there in the White House?