skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Sweden have something like CPS? In America, if someone discovers you have a child they can make repeated allegation to CPS. CPS is required to investigate and they're also required by law to not disclose who reported it. So having your name in a book with any evidence you have children allows anyone to harrass you endlessly, each time you'll be under investigation for weeks to months and you can never find out who's causing it.
Same here with 150k+. Not using it, certainly never asked for it.

Same with all the vPro stuff (which is kinda related but not completely).

We do use Windows autopilot though but that doesn't depend on IME.
Photo Sculpture (1939)
Self-taught software developer and entrepreneur Damian Philips-King
Interview with Damian Philips-King and how he taught himself how to code and how he prevailed in the industry without a technical educational background.
The US housing shortage is likely to worsen, experts predict
Capacity factor is still 12% in ireland. 7% on a mostly clear week in mid winter. Your solar array has to be about 30x as big as the floor area to cover net daily energy on most days.

Maybe down to 20x with bifacial modules and relying on grid or backup for a few hours a day during bad days in winter. Eyeballing some photos in the US, including the parking and setbacks you might be able to cover 10% of the power in winter or 15% year average

In some areas you can probably put up a 3MW wind turbine or three. That would substantially lower the cost and size of storage. Max density for an entire area is only 10W/m^2 though so it's only another 4% assuming the available land looks like some random amazon datacenter I glanced at.

Still, 15% ish net annual is a dent for doing the extremely energy intensive thing without expanding the land use (assuming it's a good wind site).

I wonder if in some future where 70% efficient five junction panels are available whether it would make it easier to cool. You'd effectively be taking the sun heat and putting it inside so the outside would be cooler.
Which one of these cores perform the same functions and present the same attack surface as the IME?
$100/hr is a low salary for contract work (at least for software engineers in the US). Maybe for $300 I would do it.

Of course if I were unemployed and didn’t have other options I’d do it for free…
It's nice to see the CL ecosystem evolving. SBCL sees regular updates with new optimizations. The editor support is getting better: Vim, Atom, Sublime, VSCode… have good to very good support[0], & Jupyter notebook, the Lem editor… and a new lisper started a CL editor based on Tauri: Parrot https://github.com/fonol/parrot. Cool projects emerge (lisp-stats , the Sento / cl-gserver actors library, the Kons-9 3D graphics library, the CLOG web-gui…)

> 50MB

With compression (zstd now), SBCL binaries weigh ±25MB. Start-up time is super fast. I built a standalone binary for my web app, it is straightforward to start it on the background and access it from an Electron window.

[0]: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

[1]: https://github.com/Lisp-Stat/lisp-stat/

[2]: https://github.com/mdbergmann/cl-gserver
Is there one of him removing the cast part from the mold?
(Apologies for missing this comment!)

That's great! Although I'm focused on creating "intensity" with everything, I think a big part of that will be figuring out what it means for situations where slowing down is the right thing to do. What does "intensity" look like when I'm hanging out with my daughter, or recharging after a long week? Probably something like putting away any distractions and being wholly focused on whatever we are doing :)

> I would be very interested in taking part in such a community,
If you're still interested, what would be the best way to contact you to chat more?
I don't even do that in SF, the great crime capital of the world.
"Jesus Christ!" is my only reaction. This guy survived a sequence of catastrophes, any one of which could have killed him: fire in a plane, failed ejection and being ripped out of the plane, parachute not deploying and hitting water, and being in open ocean for a few hours.

I do wonder how in the world he survived hitting the water. Is it just that he hit the jackpot in terms of his entry angle, body position, clothing or boots, and/or likely hitting the water at a crest or something where the surface tension was broken up a bit?
It's due to the runtime.

JavaScript has a runtime that updates as it executes. It notices a loop is being run frequently and then compiles a new version of the loop that runs faster.

Python doesn't have this functionality.

WebAssembly is for running things in the browser and would slow everything down (Python, JS, C++). The tests in the post are run natively (on my command line).
Electromagnetism, to take your example, is very much a theory that we can use to make predictions about a new system once we can write down its description. Yes, we sometimes make new discoveries and we have to develop new theories for those (like when we discovered that electricity and magnetism are governed by the same force), but that doesn't mean that for every new circuit layout we have start afresh by collecting data. We can apply the theory to the description and get a reasonable prediction. And that's what feels different about organic compounds. We already have the formula, but we still can't deduce much from it.
So everyone’s equity is now converted into more bank profits. Neat.
Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store
What a great surprise (but not shocking) to see it's a work of the author of "Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" [1].

[1]: https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/
This guy survived his gas tank popping like a balloon inside his supersonic fighter jet, his eject mechanism failing, his backup eject mechanism failing, and his parachute not opening
Ambient temperature water is entering the system somewhere. You'd put your heat exchanger there.

The replacement for the lost heat would happen to the equilibriated water and could happen with a heat pump. In principle (if your heat pump and exchanger is perfect) this generates no entropy so is more efficient than putting things with finite temperature delta in contact. In practise it's probably just simpler and requires a smaller heat pump.

Whether you use the waste water (which will still be a degree or two above as exchangers aren't perfect) or whatever your normal source is (ground source may be warmer) would be about cost and making the heat pump work for not-the-shower too.
It’s a benchmark that is basically the ideal case for a JIT so it’s really Python vs. JS that got native compiled.

I’m in no way criticizing the benchmark but that’s the reason for the starker difference.
If you're downsizing, full cash or majority cash offers (if an option) would be the exception here.
"I'll solve this problem using cryptos", congrats you now have 34 problems and 92 security issues.
The later one is just a library and you can already use it in the standard JVM ( with the disadvantage of not having the same performance as if you run it with graalvm), but if the JIT and other internal stuff is already on standard JVM, that will run the same way
I don’t want it either, to be clear. But I also don’t sympathize with Meta’s whining.
If you want to have two windows side by side, each maximized to half the screen, how would you do it with Expose?
Interesting idea. When I tap "Plan A Trip", the box color highlights, but nothing happens, and I don't see a way to get beyond that page.
Since I'm a terrible developer, I expect the problem is never actually in performance of library or cpu. It's going to be in poor coding, so if you're like me...

https://pypi.org/project/viztracer/

python3 viztracer my_script.py arg1 arg2

Then when you exit, it'll do some processing and tell you exactly the vizviewer command you need to run. It opens a webgui and you can drill in to see which of your functions are taking too long. Then you know what you need to optimize.
How does something like this access my network? Like if I'm connected to WiFi, what's the stack look like for this chip getting access to that without the OS cooperating?
I interviewed at around 10 companies in 2009 and all were 4+ hours. These were all Bay Area startups or FANG.
It's called a credit union.
But you joined 13 years ago ;-)
Trafficking refers to people who are generally not slaves in their home country but are lured or transported to a foreign country to be exploited. It’s a distinct phenomenon, so I don’t see why it should be lumped under slavery.
There are many companies that write FOSS software and make money doing it.
> vaccines take years to test not months

This is because of money, not because of fundamental scientific issues.

This time, there was a financial backer (the government) that was willing to fund development of a whole bunch of vaccine candidates, without any preconditions. That's never happened before.

Normally, if you want to develop a vaccine, you have to go to investors, and convince them that your vaccine has a high probability of succeeding, not only technologically but financially. If you're lucky, you find someone to fund phase-1 trials. After those trials are done, you analyze the results, and then go try to convince investors to fund phase-2 trials. You have to finish those trials, analyze the results, and then go try to convince investors to fund phase-3 trials, which are extremely expensive.

If there's someone who guarantees funding for all three phases up-front, you can go a lot faster, without sacrificing scientific integrity at all. You can begin recruiting people for the phase-3 trials before phase-1 trials even begin. You can immediately begin the next phase of the trials once you know the vaccine passes the requisite safety threshold, even if the previous trials are still returning data.

Normally, these things are done strictly in order in order to minimize financial risk. If there is no financial risk, you can do a lot of things in parallel.

> And now it is acknowledged to not protect you or prevent the spread of COVID.

The vaccines reduce your risk of serious disease or death by orders of magnitude. That's extremely strong protection. They reduce your chance of infection and transmission by a bit (more in the first few months after vaccination), but not as much as they protect your health.

> How can you claim any social good here? it has bad side effects and does not work.

The vaccines have likely saved more than a million lives in the US. The worst side effects are extremely rare, and are caused at a higher rate by the virus itself.
Do you act as merchant of record (to handle VAT)?
There are so many solutions out there that use Stripe for billing which involves so much extra work for European founders.
It's fairly difficult to establish criminal levels of defamation.

A recent high profile case in Sweden seems to establish that persecuting a man, acquitted by court, with continued accusations of sexual assault, through wide-audience Twitter and similar, as well as a number of moderately large audience paper publications, qualifies.

(For context: in the social environment in question the consequences effectively destroy the target's livelihood as well as severely impairing his social life)

But getting to near the end of that one took about five years of process, so I guess it can't have been firmly in obvious territory.
"Besides this Node.js integration, you can also use Bun where µWebSockets is the built-in web server."

Interesting. Bun keeps getting more compelling.
> Where the hope mainly comes from is small chip developers like SiFive, who make many of their drivers and such open-source. But that's only if you buy from vendors like them ...

So, you're saying it is possible (or will be down the track...) as long as things are bought from SiFive or a similar OSS-friendly place.

That's still a large improvement over the current situation, even if other vendors take different, locked down approach.
What is insane is that after falling in the water he was still conscious and had the presence of mind to cut the parachute chords.
How do you retain all your bearings after multiple things going wrong and just not give up? Testament to his fight to live ( am sure he's unique in that respect).
> why the hell would this tech be put inside consumer devices

Because it is cheaper to make one single CPU chip variant, that is then sold to both the corporate and consumer channels, than it is to make two, one with ME for the corporate channel, and another without ME for the consumer channel.

Plus, once the ME was required to actually boot the CPU (note, why it became a requirement is a different argument), it then became much more expensive to omit for consumer grade CPU's because a "non-ME consumer grade" CPU would need to be a completely different chip with some alternate way to "initially boot up".
Rates will eventually settle at ~5%+ after its confirmed inflation is brought down, and then remain there. 40% may not happen but we will be back to 2019 pricing in most markets in 2023, and then back to tracking 2-6% inflationary gains. That correction is guaranteed. I'm watching my market closely and it's collapsing. 40% gains is an aggregate, not every market in the US hit that, and not all will drop that much. It could happen on the coasts, we'll see soon enough.
Oh, the irony... Remember the hardwired 'Find My' geolocation function built into the permanently-on T2 chip?
Both SRE and DevOps are essentially evolved sysadmin roles. The DevOps philosophy is cross-functional and many sysadmins have adopted a DevOps approach. The latest edition of the classic sysadmin book "The Practice of System and Network Administration" is now centered around DevOps.
If your definition of "wordy" is "anything longer than a 20 word phrase", I mean, I don't know what to say really. Your response to OP was definitely wordy then. And so is this response.

You've basically redefined the word so that it no longer has any meaning.
Ask HN: Navigating Startup Growing Pains Situation
Throwaway to protect identity of myself and the company.

I am considering a principal engineering role at an early stage startup. They have raised low single digit millions in seed, they have an opportunity to raise more at low-to-mid 8-figures valuation. Not much revenue yet, but my impression is they have a strong deal pipeline coming with prospective clients lining up to sign. Just one problem, their core tech is a disaster. To the point I don't think they are confident they can provide acceptable service to new clients until they re-architect much of their existing platform.

This is where I come in. I have a niche background that is extremely relevant to their problem space. Their technical cofounder who designed the initial platform has pretty limited experience and is not in a position to chart this course without someone else taking lead. So I would rearchitecting and refactoring most to all of their platform.

Delivering the next gen platform will be critical to the future of the company. This actually makes the opportunity more interesting to me. On the otherhand, I know I would resent the technical cofounder receiving an enormous financial benefit from developing a non-viable disaster from which the company needs to be rescued.

How do I negotiate a situation where I can receive the value of what I provide?
Challenges to DevOps Adoption
Unfortunately it lost me at the risk to brick my computer. Intel needs to be brought to court to stop enabling IME, not with hacks. If i have to use IME, the system I use will be considered insufficient for secure purposes and i'll just use another system for secure matters.
I had fun with this but I _really_ wanted a learning mode. I was more interested in solving the puzzle of the regex than maxing out my score. Maybe make a version where you can get maximum points for a period of time then the possible points starts to go down. You can still continue after it hits 0, you just won't get any points
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Monetization doesn't imply profitability. Though if they really are downsizing essentially no time or effort on it and bringing in essentially no revenue, they aren't heavily monetized.

But even just conceptually framing your hobbies as something that could bring in revenue can change how you approach things, and probably not for the better in terms of enjoyment or stress relief.
> We're heavily using it to build Seafowl, an analytical database that's optimized for running SQL queries directly from the user's browser...

Interesting. Where does seafowl fit in when I compare it with, say, data-stack-in-a-box approach, for ex: meltano + dbt + duckdb + superset [0]? Is my thinking right that seafowl possibly replaces both duckdb (with IOx) and superset (if there's a web front-end)?

Incidentally, dagster had an article up just yesterday making a case for poor-man's datalake with dbt + dagster + duckdb [1]. What does splitgraph replace if I were to use it in a similar setup?

Thanks.

[0] https://archive.is/DxU1e

[1] https://archive.is/5ikU4
What about Python 3.10?
Solved by Margaret Hamilton. http://htius.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Systems_Language

Cf. "System Design from Provably Correct Constructs" https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart
These pumped storage plants are great. However, just like standard hydroelectric plants, they do not scale easily. You cannot build them just about anywhere, you need rather specific conditions, like suitable topography or availability of water. These won’t suffice for our storage needs.
#1 only applies to those that are either living in a home and want to use an increase in the home’s price to get more leverage to purchase a more expensive home, or for people who have multiple properties and earn money by buying low and selling high.

Otherwise, a homeowner not looking to trade up using leverage from current home’s equity is in the same camp as #2. Higher home prices simply mean higher prices for everything else (eventually), which the average homeowner is not going to like.
Fast Zero Shot Object Detection with OpenAI Clip [video]
The evolution of statements with initializers in C++
Other posters commented that it's not even true, so 'purely incidental' is arguably euphemistic (instead of 'false').
Interesting idea. But not sure how much you can rely on results for B2B ideas (might be good for consumer facing apps/services)

>> P.S. Registering is frictionless, just need username and password, email is optional, no email validation required. Please try it out!

Hard disagree. This is a high friction registration. A password field for a non-essential website is like an instant conversion drop off. Just ask for an email, and send login link to email. That's it.
- If a PR solves an known issue, maintainers could specify the prospective reward in advance on the issue. The contributor should though always be able to set their own terms, discuss them with maintainers, and see them go through once the PR is merged.

- Maintainers could theoretically steal the code in a PR, but since everything is public they would lose reputations with contributors and the community. Future contributors will be wary of opening new PR in case maintainers act in bad faith.

- MTE doesn't impose any restriction or rules when it comes to how contributions should be managed, so it's up to project owners to come up with their own rules.

- I'd expect projects to specify objective rules to quantify rewards, for example based on effort required, task difficulty and impact on the project. I would also expect that estimates would naturally become more accurate as the project and number of maintainers grow
I'm really impressed with the performance improvements in Python 3.11.

I ran a very basic benchmark against a local web application: I got 413.56 requests/second on 3.10 and the exact same code gave me 533.89 requests/second on 3.11.

That's a big enough increase that I think it's worth actively upgrading projects. Usually I wait for a few months for things to settle in first.
Mine were all bay area startups too. No FAANG. Crazy.
It is going to come on half a dozen or so double density disks.
Fun idea, but pretty unfun to play. Half the questions are just five, six different words you need to `|` together, and not enough time to even type out that many words.

Feels like the author thinks regex is a useful way to match a bunch of unrelated words in a paragraph. Not really the point of regex.
TinkerTool 9 with full support for macOS 13 Ventura
Nice one ;-)

However, I'd like to point out that Germany politicked its way into this energy crisis. Engineers really weren't asked.
Web MiniDisc folks ported the reverse-engineered the NetMD protocol tools to JS, and can now upload audio and patch device firmware on any MD device connected via Chrome/Chromium. Porting Odin is likely to be feasible.
Wait, are people getting paid to fill these applications out in your mind? Or are they not getting paid to do the work that hiring managers USED to do but are now TOO LAZY to do and have automated away? And why are businesses not cutting lazy management salaries now that their work has been moved to be automated?
What model of refrigerator do you have? Mine pulls down about 1.2kWh per day.

The water heater is the real power suck for me. Here's a couple typical days: https://i.imgur.com/Hx8Zgk4.png
Interesting

Can someone enter your house without using any force or tools?
Yes of course. An escrow is required for many contracts, especially for government subsidiaries. We have a SaaS service (a complex environment including a react front end) and still use an escrow service. A lot of it relies on docker images.
All the fresnel lenses i've seen have the focus in the center of the panel, because they only expect you to use one at a time. I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make an array of n^2 (9?) fresnel lenses where they each have the appropriate pattern for their position in the array. I think you might be able to get away with three molds for a 9-array (middle, side, corner). The resulting lenses would be much cheaper to manufacture and ship because shipping a stack of 9 6-ft squares is much easier logistically than shipping an 18ft square.
What is the efficiency and power generation?
That's not entirely true, my municipal government has skin in the game because taxes are based on property values here. So for example, I know someone who had the bricks redone on his house and when he got the permit to do the renovation, it stipulated that the surface area of brick afterwards was to be equal or greater than before. I suppose it is because brick has higher value than vinyl siding.
In this case, the driver does not have any hardware. It's a purely software driver for an anti-malware scanner.
The odds of all those failures seems impossibly high. I wonder if the exploding fuel tank and/or resulting fire is what damaged the eject mechanism?
Kudos to old Intel keyboard or similar mechanical, I really want to type on this on a regular basis but most of my work is happening on my laptop.

OK, you convinced me that touchtyping is not important when you program. But what about learning? The SICP book contains tens of kilobytes of code which needs to be typed, copypasting of code while learning just doesn't work for me. If I do not do any typos when learning a new programming language, I just do not feel it. But if I need to observe the keyboard while learning than all the learning process goes south because I do typos not because I do not know the language but because I do not know the keyboard. Nothing impossible in doing this without touchtyping but for me this is too annoying.

And there is nothing wizardy in learning how to properly press a few tens of buttons, this is not anything creative.