skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine had a fun article in April 2021 on this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-20/hometo...
Duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000488

(Today; 19 points, 5 comments)
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That is it exactly, very good.
That graph is for total population to manufacturing population. kube-system is probably referring to the least paying jobs, in service businesses like hotels agents, housekeepers, fast food employees, retail employees, etc.
paying low wages and taking more profit
Google just published that 50% of exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome are Use After Free, so I'm very bearish on the "temporal safety will be enough" thing being pushed.

Temporal safety does not require a borrow checker etc, you can use a GC and get it.
I heard programming CNC is booming right now pay-wise.
sei italiano? pensato che la conversazione era buona ma io ho solo studiato l'italiano da 6 mesi.
What was the pay? Oftentimes outsourcing means trying to get software for 1/10th of the real cost. Then when another company amazingly delivers any software at all, they are blamed for the quality problems that are really the result of the completely unrealistic budget.

And sorry to say but racism often plays a part in these stories.
I have been personally emailed to participate in an interview under another candidates name. It set off so many alarms for me. I did not respond.

Here’s what I was sent.

> Hope you're doing well.

> We're a tightly-knit team of full-stack developers and we need someone who can help us with client communications. Most of our developers are not native English speakers and we often face communication issues. That's why we need someone who's based in the U.S and has technical background.

> The main responsibility will be taking job interviews on our behalf. You should be able to join the meetings under someone else's name.

> This is an hourly engagement and the rate is $40 ~ $80 / hr depending on your experience.

> Please kindly reply to this email if you're interested.
>For me, if I go into Home Depot or somewhere it's more likely that the store was on my way home from work, I had a vague notion that "I need a new tape measure" or whatever, so I stop and go in. In that case, I have NO problem walking right back out if they make it hard to buy the thing I want.

You stop in on your way from work. You see that tape measure, but it's locked down. There's an employee one aisle over who can help.

You bail.

The act of going to HD, parking, and going to find that tape measure probably takes about 5-10, maybe 15 mins depending on how far off of your route home the store is. Do you consider the cumulative time spent performing those tasks to have been wasted if you leave empty-handed?
This. Amazing how people get caught up in their fantasies and ignore simple facts.
In what universe should the agency get 70% while the person doing the work gets 30%?
> Without gas they have no reason to tolerate Putin.

Nope.

If you think about this on a geopolitical scale, China has every interest in wanting their Northern border with Russia secure, and to advance the Chinese Belt & Road initiative, and collaborate on non-USD currency trading, and other things that make them both sanctions resistant. China also wants Russian Technology where they still hold leadership positions.

Most importantly, China wants Taiwan back.

The global balance of power may shift in China's favor if the best fabs in the world are suddenly Chinese, and they can sanction the US, limiting their access to chips.

These supply chain issues would be a great tool during wartime.
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The person you are replying to seemed clearly to be against exposing children to books like you are supporting. They were for book banning.
Same. Bulletproof, "it just works", and it has great perf and overall UX to boot. Couldn't be happier.
He looks a like a loser. Not u. I am him or her.

U know what I mean
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During the pandemic, it was HR’s policy that people shouldn’t be pressured to turn on their webcam when working from home. Reason being that not everyone had an ideal working environment, and being forced to turn on your camera would only add to the stress.

That policy has kind of stuck around with our team, and now people rarely turn on their cameras during team meetings. I would prefer to see peoples’ faces, but it seems I'm in the minority, and I’ve given up on trying to advocate for it.
Remember that when the iPhone came out, wireless carriers thought Motorola and Nokia and friends had too much power and they were looking at whether they could get white label phone manufacturers to make phones for them directly.

1990’s and 2000’s mobile in the US was a refugee camp for executives from the Bell Telephone breakup. They were a bunch of dirt bags trying to snap up everything they could, including re-patenting information technology by adding, “but without wires” to existing patents.

The RAZR phone was one of the first times they’d blinked in a while, and Apple showed up in the afterglow.
Ask HN: Ways to make Git and Git(hub/lab) easier for non-tech folk?
I'm helping a distributed group of community organisers collaborate on some collective markdown files hosted in github.

As I coder beyond the initial complicated nature of Git, it can be a greatly empowering tool to enable distributed, open work practices amongst people who have often never met in person.

But the default git interface over CLI remains complicated and takes time to teach and understand even to people wanting to get into software development.

I'm seeing hope in newer markdown driven interfaces like Obsidian which help with text based authoring but in itself it's not directly about making working with git less complicated.

Does anyone know of approaches,tools, methods that can reduce the barriers to non-tech folk participating in git / git(hub/lab) projects?
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/VHW6l
It’s not just information technology. Standard Oil was the catalyst for much of US anti-monopoly legislation.

Businesses in general tend to consolidate over time.
A lot of languages do have auto formatters with opinionated defaults for this.

For go, gofmt is so opinionated that you can't even configure it, which is kinda cool because it means all go code that uses it will look the same.

There's also rustfmt for rust and prettier for JS/TS (and I assume similar for lots of other languages I'm not familiar with), both of which are configurable, which I prefer - but I can see the upsides of a one-size-fits-all code formatting tool (especially for a language like go where a reasonably constrained feature set/syntax is an explicit goal of the language).
I agree with you completely but that's not really in common public discourse.

I guess I'm trying to make a gutter thread to capture all those sort of comments.
Just out of curiosity, what maintenance would a computer need? Dusting?
> Modern cars have almost all become the poster child for "bad ui" with their addition of touchscreens that almost universally look dated and run poorly.

The dashboard dials have little left to be optimized. This is separate from the issue of media controls in the centre console.

Given occasional hiccups with CarPlay itself, intermittent dropouts or UI lag because of a flaky cable or an older phone running the last supported OS is intolerable to something as mission critical as the speedo.
Exactly this? He said he was going to blow it up?
Amusing watching the mental contortions posters make to avoid admitting the obvious…

It’s like Cirque de Soleil.
coughEthereumcough
Since younger players are growing up and developing with these incredibly powerful chess engines, I wonder if that plays a role in their ability to play at such a level.

If this were the case, I think we'd see younger players more likely to get these 100s more often as they're learning from chess engines.

Does anyone familiarized with the topic know if this makes sense?
Things that are maintained usually have more character. That wooly jumper with the elbow patches or that old motorcycle that's had the engine rebuilt. Of course nowadays people will just opt to buy the new version of something that is made to look like it was old and remade. But the old things were usually of better quality materials and the idiosyncratic details of a maintainer simply can't be recreated in something new and mass produced.
Springboard: The History of PalmPilot, the First Real Smartphone (2021)
The tap was already turned off. I think everyone at the time understood Biden's comments to mean the nordstream 2 pipeline wouldn't be operational because of diplomatic pressure on Germany. And that's exactly what happened, Germany decided not to certify it and it was left functional but not pumping any gas (the current leak was likely just enough to keep the line pressurized).

I also don't think the US sees Germany as a "rival" in this way at all, they are a strong trading partner.

The motivations are not that clear for any actor really. Someone wanted to burn a potential bridge between the EU and Russia, but it's not clear to me why the US would want to lose their biggest carrot (immediately dumping cash into Russia if sanctions were lifted and gas could be bought), or why Russia would want to lose a pipeline they invested so much into, sitting there and just tempting the west to Germany to ease sanctions.
Your comment comes across the same as the people who say they don't want schools to discuss the existinence of different views than their own. Maybe they are rabid capitalists, so they don't want their kids to hear about the existence of communism or something. The world exists, there are gay people. Some of them started thinking about these things when they were teenagers. They were not "tricked" or convinced to be something else.
It’s lower if looking at overall gdp. Not PPP as your link does. Normal gdp per capita is under $7K/year.
super+h minimises. pretty sure you can make it anything you want.

if you're looking specifically for "alt-spc n" to minimise I'm sure you can find a way to make that work - but why? to retain muscle memory between windows and gnome?
Syriana is a terrible movie. The whole Stinger plot device is dumb. The value of a Stinger is the seeker, not the warhead. A chemist with a large copper bowl can build a self-forging warhead that will hole a ship, whereas a Stinger works by flinging a bunch of high energy shrapnel at a lightweight structure.
This. There’s zero cost to keeping them - including when migrating hosts! It wasn’t all that intentional, I just didn’t need to delete them.

Also, I wrote a lot of those emails (over 25+ years…). Sometimes it’s handy to refer to things I’ve written.
44% of the participants were drinking instant coffee. I don't think socioeconomic status is relevant.
I don't know the details, but I know that third-party apps can add iMessage apps. And the microphone input to replace/supplement the keyboard is a systemwide thing, working on any(?) text input.
It's a travesty of justice that we have allowed this to be law. The government should never be able to steal your assets when you haven't even been convicted of a crime.
That's exactly the problem many people have with learning languages, they think it's a huge undertaking and cannot be taken lightly. So they don't even try. Imagine if sports - running, basketball, soccer etc - were thought to be the same, that one cannot do them for fun as a hobby. Absurd! We'd have lot less monolinguals when we'd stop taking language learning so seriously.

I speak 4 languages, have passive understanding of another 3-4 and rudimentary basics of 3-5 more. Never worked hard for any of them, it has always been for fun as hobby. My spouse says I'm gifted with languages but it's not true, I'm just playing around until something sticks. I just don't have that mental block.
> as one-element arrays of anonymous subclasses in Java.

When's the last time you used Java? I remember having to use anonymous classes but we've had lambdas for a good 8 years now? Or is it that you don't like how lambdas "fullfil" a SAM interface instead of having a true Function representation.

If it's the latter, I'm sincerely very curious what we're missing out on since I'm mostly used to it.
Thank you, I didn't expect my original comment to get attention, I just wanted a healthy discussion and education on things I don't know.
I noticed this as well, most of the time it seems like an very odd seemingly random string (and not displaying the actual number at all if I…recall correctly?)
You pull down on the screen to show the top cards for various settings and long press Bluetooth to open up options, then press "+Pair Device". Put whatever device you are connecting in pairing mode, then click on it in that list once it shows up. It's pretty self explanatory on the Android side, the issues seem to stem from the implementation of Bluetooth on many other devices.

This is on a Pixel 4.
I know a bit about this industry and I have worked on some profitable systems. Honestly not a bad effort for someone working on their own with low-cost data. Don’t let the haters get you down. I would recommend you to pick up a more recent textbook on portfolio construction like Isichenko’s recent book.
Esperanto has some warts like any language, but since it was created artificially, a lot of the grammar rules make more sense. It does make me wonder how much easier it would be to do natural language processing on it compared to other languages.

I also wonder what a language would look like if it was designed to be easy for computers to “understand” while at the same time being easy to speak and learn
What's your tip for what makes one good?

I dont do a ton but for me it always seemed like the weak point was the grip was 3+ inches from the tip. If I am soldering something that is just a couple mm from the hole next to it then this requires a decemt amount of dexterity - even if things are held nicely.
>do you think there is a cabal of powerful academics who have their identity so wrapped up in "Humans only came to the Americas 25,000 years ago"

Unfortunately there is a cabal of powerful academics in almost every field who have their identities and their professional reputations wrapped up in a wide variety of flimsy, dated conjecture. It is why the statement, "science advances one funeral at a time" was coined and remains so relevant.
For anyone who didn't get the reference in the post title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
I don't think real-time ray tracing is lame. Diffuse is low-frequency and redundant, denoisers work magically well. It's 1spp per frame, but the denoiser is essentially allowing the application to distribute the workload across frames. For perfect specular a single ray is sufficient, and glossy is somewhere in between the two. The limitation doesn't have to do much with firing more rays than handling more complex materials; what I just described decouples diffuse/specular and is how games are doing it these days. But if the current materials are plausible, then what's wrong with this approach?

I do think it is the/a right approach... when used judiciously and when an alternative rasterization approach doesn't already exist or has obvious flaws. For example, some games use a hybrid SSR-RT reflection; do the SSR first, then fire rays where the SSR misses (insufficient information in screen-space.) I think the UE5 Matrix demo does this. You kind of get the best of both approaches.

The article in this sense proposes a false dichotomy; to choose between the complex "hacks" of rasterization, or the easiness of RT. Except that rasterization has decades of research and solutions are well-known and already implemented, and RT is not 'do the dumb thing and let the hardware do the work'.

I don't think BVH construction is as bad as your friend paints it. There are semi-parallel approaches available, i.e. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327216026_PLOCTree_...
> so much of our built society [..] is designed to appeal to consumers. Consumers who want their phone to be light, waterproof, beautiful and more powerful than the last one they bought, and at the lowest price possible.

Nope, i beg to differ. The appeal is built too, it's no secret that our global retail economy is largely driven by marketing and communication, since ww2. Hence it's driven by producers and not by consumers: these criteria are what producers want consumers to want. Which they largely managed to assert. Mass media, mass consumption, all this is guided from the top, not the bottom. Surely there is nuance, the top-down control strives to test if it's not too far from something that would actually be appealing to the bottom. But the main driving force here is to pump up the volume, and to do so by creating markets, by forcefully pushing goods onto consumers habits and by making things short-lived (using forced obsolescence, but more commonly and insidiously by producing pointless new versions all the time). Actually once you go down that path, you see that the whole underpinnings of "consumer"/"producer" duality is biased towards this state of affairs. It's no wonder Marx babbled about taking over the means of productions (and ipso facto destroying passive consumption as a practice). Even Knuth says that the only proper way to make any tool is to design it for your own use (can't remember out the source for this one, probably something about TeX). This is a major reason for grassroots software domination against corporate products, despite the ridiculous imbalance.
Shameless plug for my CLI for creating MaskedEmails that is using these APIs (since beta actually) - https://github.com/dvcrn/maskedemail-cli

If you're into domain/service-specific email addresses, give it a go!
Making paying a bribe illegal changes the equilibrium. If soliciting a bribe as a government official has the same penalty for paying it, there’s incentives to do it and hide it. However, if soliciting is illegal but paying is not, then it’s more likely that they receiver will get dinged.

The other side of this is offering a bribe to an honest government official: Let them take it (and turn it over to law enforcement) and then turn in the payer.

In both those cases, it’s now riskier to solicit/offer bribes.
China prepares to tweak Yuan fixing process to slow its fall
this appears very much like actor based concurrency/isolation model.
why ?
Constellation Kubernetes engine aims to provide best possible data security
"steadily beating the S&P 500 for over a year on a weekly basis"

Can be achieved by chance alone.

If not chance, I can give you a strategy that would be highly likely to achieve such a result: it would take a lot of risk though!

I love it when people post this stuff to HN. Naive people try it, loose a bundle to market makers, then go back to their day job.
"Undersea mining" is mostly scooping up mineralized stuff ("Manganese Nodules") using a dredge-like apparatus.
To my knowledge, nobody uses explosives for that style of mining, and undersea mining is relatively rare anyway.
(I used to work at the research end of the Australian mining industry.)
6 months of political bickering over whether we should do it or not is an eternity over turning a valve on an already functional and apparently pressurized pipeline ready to go.

I won't pretend to understand the motivations here but it definitely further drives the wedge between the EU and Russia.
I think the author is right that the meaning of `lambda` in the Python is really `anonymous def` and could be more succinctly and simply explained without any reference to lambdas at all.

The Lambda Calculus really is formally about single argument functions. Here is one of many good references for that: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lambda-calculus/

Hence, the multi-argument lambdas of Python are something of a contradiction in terms, or a kind of artistic license. Now that I think about it, I can't think of a good reason not to use `def` for the anonymous function syntax in Python:

def (x, y, z...): <expr>
People like you must be banned forever.
I sometimes end up on pages that I can't scroll. It turns out some pages show a sticky div with a cookie consent dialog, and uBlock has removed it but left the overflow: hidden on the body tag that the site owner found necessary to put there until I click on the now removed div for some reason.
Yeah the numbers there don't add up as their savings plan changes once people pay off their mortgage, have a rainy day fund and have the kids education fund ready.They tell people to max out savings at that point. So it's starts out at 15% but ends up being much higher.
All of them. I used to work for one. Every government/private sector contract is like this. A giant waste of money. This is where we spend so much money on the military and government projects with poor results.
Just get a single door convertible or a top freezer bottom fridge style. Something made for commercial use can also work. Complexity is the enemy of reliability.

The reason freezers are at the top isn’t because it’s best to have frozen food at eye level, it’s because that’s where the refrigerant expands and is coolest and then it takes on heat as it condenses again and descends through the fridge.

Convertibles are great because you can have either a fridge or a freezer with the flip of a switch. Get 2 of them and you have way more space for about the price of a french door fridge.
China benefits greatly, Russian oil and gas now have only one reliable buyer for the foreseeable future. Invading Taiwan is now easier since blockading the shipping lanes from the ME will have little impact on the Chinese war machine if they get reliable oil from Russia.
Gas transfered by pipelines is not LNG (it's lot liquified).
That's why you need LNG terminals to deliquify it after sea transportation before putting it in a pipeline.
As someone that has been a hardcore Mac user since the 80s, it feels really weird liking things that Microsoft has been doing lately...
yeah I'm not certain you're wrong

but I think your point about postal addresses is important

part of the reason we still require snail mail for legal process is dumb legacy stuff, but the other part is that email isn't a good replacement
We didn't have much money, so until 1997 my home computer was a 1000 hx. dos 2.11 in rom, but you had to boot 3.2 from a floppy to run a lot of "newer" software.

the memory upgrade card got you to 384, then you could buy a tube of ICs to fill out the rest of the dip sockets on the memory card for a beastly 640k
> Back when I worked at Microsoft, 2014 or so, we had serious problems finding Win32 developers. We essentially had to train people up.

Microsoft only has itself to blame for this. They charge an arm and a leg for their dev environment setting it up is a pain no matter what, the stuff you get “free” when you pay for the dev environment is not nearly enough to create anything worthwhile. So why should any CS department bother with win32 circa 2005. As much as Balmer liked to chant about the importance of developers he sure liked to milk them dry.
There is a tool in the MacOS that will find large sized apps and allow you to delete them.
Except for kilopascals, sometimes, none of the other things is even something physicists (or chemists or engineers) use regularly. Nanometers, angstroms, and femtometers are much more commonly found in the jargon.

You’re being pedantic, and incorrectly so at that.