skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be both reassuring & unsettling to know that even experts can't forecast the future. FB / Meta made two large stock bybacks, one with cash and one with debt, at a very high premium.

Just in case you may feel bad for your investments, just remember no one can forecast the future.
I think you mean to say as long as humans continue to prioritize other things over these things, these things won’t change.
Exactly - this is a HUGE common problem at startups, describing their ideal customer who doesn't really exist and completely ignoring their actual customer base and what it is made up of.

The vast majority of the people signing up are going to be wannabe engineers - what percentage are actually highly technical needs to be determined.
>It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

>The whole point was to be decentralized, and now we have Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare deciding what we are and are not allowed to see, read and buy. And virtually in lockstep, they are becoming increasingly prudish.

I mean, yes and no. People have been successful in sanitizing the mainstream internet, the pop culture internet, the one your grandparents like to visit. There's plenty of internet out there beyond what is commonly used.
So, those times were worse than WW1, WW2? Interesting perspextive, that...
QtCreator works with non-Qt, CMake based projects, has a feature set which is very competitive with CLion's and it's about a billion times faster.
That's like an acetate "dubplate" that promoters used give to club DJs to get new music out (mostly replaced by digital files now of course). They were good for a small number of plays and used just to gauge the crowd reaction.
> recently had to introduce a forced case randomization in order to keep plaintiffs from shopping for him

I thought all U.S. District Courts had random assignment of cases to judges?
there is no storage capability that would allow europe to work on renewable it doesnt scale just look at how your storage batteries are made! look ar how lithium is harvested please…
A guy in basement making guesses? See my other comment.
Energy suppliers are just middlemen and are making huge losses due to the price caps, but energy generators are making loads of money. (At least in operating profit; some - but not all - have had huge losses from writing off their Russian operations.)
I got rejected and then when they inevitably called me up the next year the recruiter pulled up the feedback from my interview and I wasn't recommended because I rewrote a function to be easier to unit test, after being asked "how would you test this?". By rewrote I mean I added a parameter to take in a fictional db client, rather than instantiate directly.

I told her no thank you and hung up.
Knowing algorithms and hardware is completely unrelated to knowing where to click in vscode.
Hum, pardon me to being harsh but the best offline resource is your desktop(s)/homeserver(s) storage witch need something more than software to massively download on-line resources, like a design to be useful offline.

A small example:

- can you read, search etc your emails offline? If not try to correct because being able to is not just useful in emergency condition. From fetchmail to OfflineIMAP/isync to maildrop (refiling via filters) passing through notmuch are some tools of the trade;

- can you read, search etc your digital life (like contracts, banks transactions, notes, ...) there are many not-integrated and often crappy tools for such usage, the best I found so far are Emacs/org-{mode,roam,attach,agenda,...} exporting regularly POSSIBLY automatically if your bank(s) offer such ability or things like woob can wrap the bank anyway, anything might be a useful practice BUT it need to be done regularly or it's simply overwhelming trying to do in a rush...

- can you here music, see movies, browse pictures etc, I mean the ludic part of your digital life offline? If not try to choose some tools and way of organizing such mass of file as soon as you can...

- can you WORK offline? Like for instance can you write/read docs works related, code if any in a local editor, on a local repository etc? If not try to see and discuss with your company operation the available options because again it's not only valid in case of outage but as a standard practice to REDUCE infra cost and augment it's resilience...

Oh, BTW since a desktop typically demand electricity, like a fridge, a heating systems etc can you juice your devices? That's might be "simple" under certain circumstances but it's definitively EXPENSIVE and can't be done at all in a rush. So secondary limited options like printed books, a partner to be together etc might be other options.

Behind the rude part: I'm in France and for what I see here this winter will be probably mostly calm, no real dramatic outages are foreseen except for the newspapers who smell a bit of PR to keep people focused on emergency things instead of seen the nazist derive of our countries. For more than this winter I'm far less confident though.

If you are in Germany or Italy, well there things can be calm, in UK far less mostly due to the fragility of their infra much more private-centered so much more for someone profit instead of a for-the-country public service.
> I haven't been able to figure out how the "unmount" of a virtual thread works.

The native stack is just memory like any other, pointed to by the stack pointer. You can unmount one stack and mount another by changing the stack pointer. You can also do it by copying the stack out to a backing store, and copying the new thread's stack back in. I think the JVM does the latter, but not an expert.
Absolutely. A small time investment upfront (~1 hr) yields big dividends for development velocity and code quality.
This seems a bit naive. While money is a social construct it is also a proxy for resources. Also, to be clear, just because things are socially constructed doesn't mean they aren't useful. Most things are social constructs.
Post-Startup Life (2019)
Apple's iPhone 14 Pro Max has best display in the world
That’s awesome and the references are great. Thank you for that. I’ve really been working on learning early history the past few years, especially from “the East”, where I had no real formal education.

The straw part is brilliant. I image that kind of like traditional Yerba Mate.

It’s kind of interesting that the fruit peel as a yeast source and aromatics are used in different Belgian brewing today. Modern beer only uses a few strains but these open vat brewing facilities can end up developing their own.

But it was interesting to me that all the earliest writing about trading and inventory of beer was not so much about cultures that prioritized getting smashed, but that beer was a utilitarian dietary staple.

And I guess for the most part, all alcoholic beverages have been “acquired tastes.” I’ve tried some meads with honey. I wouldn’t pick them out of today’s selection, but they’re not bad.

I really would be curious to try this. I also wonder if it’s the same as Egyptian beer. More hesitant on the Mongolian airag, but I’d probably give that a shot out of adventurism. The more commoner ones fascinate me more than the fancy elite beverages.
I'm not anti-nuclear and I don't have a problem discussing it as an option. I have a problem with repetitive arguments that push an agenda though. The "Only if they hadn't closed those few plants everything would have been perfect" argument is not only false but is pushing an agenda that is part of the culture war.

Notice the OP doesn't even mention the environmentalists etc. but the comment is instantly recognisable. It's the same talking point that needs to be repeated every single time.
I’ve realized only recently a way to interpret what’s going on at Google economically-speaking: as companies grow and as economies grow as well (e.g. to be more automated and industrialized), this always results in greater bureaucracy [1]. However, Google while it did add more bureaucracy, tried to instead turn these new less-purposeful jobs and bloat into widescale attempts at “innovation”.

Partly legitimate, but partly to maintain culture and a semblance of being an innovative company, in spite of the fact that they are a monopoly that, at the end of the day, is not really incentivized to innovate (e.g. M&A is much more practical for monopolies, as is competitor sabotage, sales and marketing, which of course they’ve also done).

I guess Peter Thiel for example said this long ago (in a convo with Eric Schmidt iirc): that Google is actively anti-competitive. And this is always, always the case for monopolies. They’ve just done such a good job of marketing and creating sideshows to make it appear otherwise. Not to say that they haven’t made some legitimate tech breakthroughs since being a monopoly, but also that tech is solely to serve their ads monopoly, rather than to serve the general public (e.g. what do you think their ML investments are for? It’s not to create C-3PO…)

[1] see e.g. Max Weber for how industrialization leads to bureaucracy, or more recently, David Graeber’s bullshit jobs talk or book for a more fun, anecdotal take.
Might be a bit anecdotal, but I actually hired ex-Googlers for two different startups in the past. I would be hesitant to do it again.

They can indeed be good at building complex systems.

But when we needed simple systems, they would still build complex systems.

When we needed to ship product, they would still build complex systems.

Twice I had the experience where an ex-Googler would promise to rewrite a piece of software from scratch because it had a bad architecture, only to quit/get fired few months later (obviously the big rewrite was not finished by then).
> Reviewers that try and apples to apples all products by comparing cost, size, advertised features and ergonomics are doing no better than you or I opening up a package and appraising it.

Unless you're buying every product on the market and load testing them in your garage, some folks do a lot better than that (e.g. project farm, or torque test channel).

But it clearly requires time and passion, and serious rigs for some of the tests (not everybody has a Skidmore lying around).
By search, I assume you mean how would you do a database search with FHE referred to in the article. A simple example of private information retrieval is as follows:

Suppose Bob has an array of data he arranges into an mxn matrix, A. This data is not encrypted, but is encoded appropriately. Note that many FHE schemes allow you to compute ciphertext-plaintext operations.

Alice can send him 2 vectors x and y encrypted under her key, where x and y are all zero except for single 1. Bob homomorphically computes Ax = b. Since x is all zeros except for element i, the operation Ax effectively selects the ith column of A. Bob then computes dot(b, y). Since y is all zeros except for a 1 at element j, the dot product effectively selects the jth row of y. Bob sends the dot product back to Alice, which due to FHE is still encrypted under her key.

Alice decrypts the result and has looked up the j,ith element in A without Bob learning Alice's query or which data was involved in processing her search.

The default program on the Sunscreen[1] compiler playground shows this exact algorithm.

Disclaimer: I am an employee of Sunscreen.

[1]: https://playground.sunscreen.tech/
The EU has had many sanctions against google, tried to force them to change various practices, just like the pointless attempts to get microsoft to make changes. None of them made any real difference.
I've an airthings (https://shop.airthings.com/GB_EN/view-pollution.html) sensor, which measures a bunch of things.

The pressure is constantly less than 1000 hPa (after 1 year of having the device, not once was higher (I live at 100 m msl) so it must be higher. When I reported the problem, the technical support said "we use Bosch Sensors, so it is impossible that they are wrong".

Not only the service is trash, but also the whole interface, which requires permanent internet connection. You can access from your phone the status of the air at your home from anywhere in the world... my fear is if anybody else also can. Notably, after 1 year, there was no SW update... I really doubt the device is safe.

I only have it because of Radon measurements. And I hope they are at least more or less ok.
The Moog store in Asheville has dozens of synths just out and hooked up for visitors to play on their sales floor. Best toy store I've been to in years!
The south coast AQMD has a great website testing various air quality (mostly pm2.5) in lab and real-world situations against equipment

http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec
I just have a mac so don't have the real hardware to run proper games. I've used Stadia for the last year+ and here are some nice aspects to cloud gaming you may have overlooked.

- No downloads. This means if I wanna play any game in my 'library', I just click a button. Not decide if I wanna wait X hours to download/install the game or figure out what to delete to free up space. This means when new updates come out I just get to play them, not time out the download, etc. For cloud-only games, this also frees them from having to limit the game to to user hard-drive space.

- No cheating. I mean I guess you could rig an AI that watches your screen and reacts to it but that's much, much harder than current cheats. For a while when cheating was a bit too rampant, some destiny users opted to play PvP on Stadia instead just for the fair games.

- Convenience. Being able to switch devices/screens mid session was quite nice. Same for launching games to do a bit of maintenance from my phone (i.e. check daily vendors on my lunch break)
How much of that is the healthy user bias though. Those are all things healthy people generally do.
Try buying the CO2 monitors intended for agricultural/greenhouse use from a agricultural specialty store that's within your country. They won't be as inexpensive as the consumer units but at least you'll have some confidence that the readings are accurate.
My guess is if you saw an outage with edge, it was because you were being routed by us-west-2
Take a detour into Transylvania County and look for white squirrels.
And they don't even create (and then quickly retire) random new product. Do they? What would be Meta's equivalent of Stadia?
You have no idea who Steam's CEO would be in a scenario where they were shutting down, so you certainly have no idea whether that CEO would un-DRM anything.
> It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

Not just in a porn way. Looking back at archives of the old internet just seem way more risque. For example, take the hacker magazine phrack. Maybe its a bad example because a hacker mag is always going to be out there, but the early issues included all sorts of stuff around making improvised bombs. Its hard to imagine anything like that on the semi-mainstream internet now a days.
It's even worse than that. Not only is keeping the UI updated a herculean task. It is written in a programming language (Dart) that virtually nobody outside of Google uses. Other than another giant tech company, no one could keep Flutter going if Google ever drops it.
I build one with the SCD41, seems comparable, was a bit cheaper.
I always find these conversations strange. The stone was erected by a long dead Greek Pharaoh of an ancient civilization that happened to be located on what is now Egypt. The stone was found in 1798 by the French and taken by the British as a spoil of war and, eventually, found it's way to the British Museum.

Who has claim? The Greeks? It was ruled by a Greek at the time. The Romans who ruled later? The French? The British? The pre-revolution Egyptians? The post coup Egyptians?

Everyone involved is long dead. It's not like WWII looting where the grand child of the former owner wants their property back.

At some point this is all the ancient history of us all.
Seems like a good development. I've been doing Node.js for last few years after letting go of Java. But there's something uneasy about async/await. For one thing it's difficult to debug how the async functions interact.
Do you know about Qt for Small Business? https://www.qt.io/pricing/qt-for-small-business
Aware of the link, though you have not provided any clarification for why there are two links; strikes me as odd if authors are trying to post it anonymously that simple Google finds authors names.
Web technologies in and of themselves aren't bad, but their usage is strongly correlated with cost-saving measures and the questionable technical decisions that result since choosing a web app itself is often a cost-saving measure.

VS Code is an example of things gone right, where Microsoft has clearly hired an AAA-class team and funded them well. Within the same company, Teams is an example of the exact opposite and much more representative of the typical web app.

In Spotify's case, if they're aggressively caching album art, metadata, and/or audio I would say that's of questionable value to the user. Art and information on songs/albums/artists/etc are in nearly all cases only going to be seen once or twice by the user per session, and so keeping them sitting in memory doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Caching audio that's not been played is very questionable (to the point that I don't think they're doing this) because many, many people are still on metered connections and Spotify would quickly be blowing past bandwidth limits if it were pre-caching albums left and right.

Disk caching makes a ton of sense for Spotify, given that it's being done in a standarized directory that the OS can clear to free up space when necessary, but on machines with 8GB or especially 4GB of RAM there's a very good chance that by aggressively caching to memory they're evacuating other things that would better serve the user to be sitting in memory.

Using a lot of memory is fine when there's clear user benefit but it should still be done intelligently.
Exactly. Except for Intelligence agencies, we do not know who did it. However, the media consensus is that the enemy did self sabotage to show us they can do bad things? We know they very well can do bad things. They do not have to prove it.

Hell, GWBush was an inch away from approving tactical nuke use in Afghanistan but ultimately talked out of it and opted for the MOAB, but now a cornered rat thinking about it is now crazy? Does that mean GWB was crazy too?
Great article. I was going to start finally using jwt:s but this helps me not to.
Currently using sessions (fast & easy) and if not found, then cookie&db-login.
Just after migrating the server found out that saving the sessions manually to database was great. That allowed all users to stay logged in while the server changed.
We got at least one which seems faulty, but to their credit they immediately got back to us and asked for more data for their engineering to look at. The numbers produced are obviously very very wrong. They seem solid otherwise and are accessible with open source tools.
> It's a sign of mismanagement and especially loss of focus.

I think it's a natural symptom of running a company built on exploiting people's desire to craft and control their own image. It's corporate narcissism. Zuckerberg has been invincible for so long, how could he not be consumed by the reality distortion field himself?
You can just call outdoors 400ish, it doesn't vary hugely, or just take a bunch of measurements outdoors. Some sensors tend to zero offsets/drift periodically when they "detect" they are outside.
Yeah, well, you will encounter situations where you are right but still need to take action to avoid an accident.

After all, when you make a mistake while driving, you'll appreciate the other guy helping to avoid the collision.
This looks really cool! I've written a music bot with Serenity before and have been hosting it on a VPS. I was looking on migrating to serverless infra, but Cloudflare workers sadly didn't work with streaming audio over a voice channel for a sustained period. Is this use case supported by Shuttle?
Can I self-host after building with this tool?
YouTube..
You raise great points, but often a big motivator to play a specific game is the social aspect - playing with friends. Stadia gave me access to that when I wouldn't have otherwise. I have some really nice memories thanks to it.

Not to say I can't convince friends to replay older games - it's just a bit tougher.
It's the same reason a jury cannot be punished for giving the "wrong" decision. Otherwise you can influence the jury/judge.

In both cases, appeals are the accepted method to solve the issue.
You can provide food that ticks whatever boxes these companies have to make, but I would like to provide high nutrition food. And frankly, I don't want to spend extra on your food because you have to have the Jewish option. Or the vegan option or the one without beef.

On the other hand, in prison I would want there to be an option that satisfy each religions requirements, because I don't want the state to dictate peoples belief.
> It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

It's far more complicated than that and looking at the complicated details is useful to understand the bigger picture.

Here are some examples...

1. It's now that far more things are on the Internet than there used to be. Some things that used to be huge are now a smaller percentage in an immensely larger space. In some cases they are bigger now than they used to be.

2. Sex slaves and porn are a thing and a problem. There's both more of it and more awareness of it. In many places there are laws about this that companies who process money have to take in to account.

3. Kids and the Internet. About half the 10 year olds I know (which is more than a few) have phones with no filters on them. Kids running wild. If more things were more easily accessible than the culture around screens and handling that with kids will need to change. Kids are ready for different things at different ages and the way they view things during their formative years impacts the way they view and treat others.

I use these to just illustrate that it's more than money, power, and control by the wealthy. Sometimes (like in the case of #2) it's about the most vulnerable.
https://www.airthings.com/en-ca/wave-plus

These have worked well for us, they don't do pm2.5 but we have other sensors for that.
It’s sad we’re at this point where we can’t trust anything published. We have to think about funding, politics, peer pressure, publication bias.
You are wrong about development focus. qtbase/qtwidgets are still very much being developed.
Right, because this is the same process.
People have stopped posting on facebook. That's the reason for increasing content from other sources.
To be fair, Stadia was an astoundingly stupid idea for Google to get into, the fact that it was ever green lit is crazy to me. It fits nothing in their business model. At least the Google Pixel showcases Android and digs deep into their AI, etc. Stadia literally didn't do anything, but maybe use GCP in some way...but they didn't do it in the way Microsoft is, which is to lure gaming companies to use the cloud for their own development. It was dead before it ever launched.
My old TI-99/4a stored 90kb on a 5" floppy disk.
PM2.5 have decent accuracy and are certainly useful at low price points, RH/temp work fine, particularly with separate sensors. Pressure works fine but is pretty useless. NDIR based CO2 (ex. Sensirion SCD31 or 41) also work fine.

TOC is a bit of a mystery, it can probably detect relative change. I've used them in a lab to monitor solvent vapor and you can detect changes, hard to quantify but don't need to most of the time.