skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somone who never really viewed systemd as a problem I'm starting to think the systemd "haters" were actually right, at least somewhat...

Viewing Poettering as some kind malicious entity undermining projects sounds like a conspiracy theory. But now with him working for Microsoft his actions do look like a lot like the "embrace, extend, and extinguish" pattern to me. Yes, yes "Microsoft <3 Linux", of course...

And now I am supposed to cheer for the groundwork for the creation of an allmighty authority with the ability to "sanction" some (parts of) operating systems, but not others?
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We knew the odds the Covid vaccine would substantially reduce transmission were very low. Covid first impacts your mucosal immune compartment, which means an infection first gives you all the symptoms exhibited by a mild case of Covid. It also mostly spreads from there as you exhale.

The vaccine does not target your mucosal immune system. It's injected. Thus, the vaccine will help you if you develop a severe case of Covid that spreads beyond your throat/sinuses/lungs. Immune system compartments work largely independently. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27169/

> The first is that immune responses induced within one compartment are largely confined in expression to that particular compartment. The second is that lymphocytes are restricted to particular compartments by expression of homing receptors that are bound by ligands, known as addressins, that are specifically expressed within the tissues of the compartment. (Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease. 5th edition.)
Is it a trap?
I'm not finished reading it, but I have to say that this is one of the best write-ups on cryptocurrency I have ever seen. It isn't reductionist, narrow-minded, or deliberately tuning out people's needs and concerns purely because they don't share them (like most skeptics of the scene.) Nor is it full of meaningless idealistic fluff, like you see from the scenes worst evangelists.

This is an extremely nuanced matter, and it always has been. It's just nice to see a narrative that is expansive enough to account for that, for once. Especially here on HN.
> Covid was/is killing people, vaccines prevent that, so vaccines must be required. Very simple.

There's a pretty significant difference between "you may not sell dangerous products" and "you must use X medicine".

Next up, government mandated pedometers with minimum step counts, broccoli consumption, teeth brushing (prevents heart disease that kills people!), flossing, and minimum hours of sleep per night.

Once we've kept the fat, foul-breathed insomniacs out of society, government bans you from going into the wilderness (bears! bee allergies!), driving a car, riding a bike, running with scissors, and using a computer for more than a few hours a day.

Some of these things obviously kill more than others, but heart disease, cancer and "accident" are all leading causes of death in the US, with heart disease and cancer beating out COVID in 2020 and probably 2022.
You are close, but there is a subtle problem.

Most people do not really believe that the subconscious impacts our decisions. They may even theoretically say they do, but in practice their executive function believes it decided the decisions that were really done subconsciously.

Ironically, if you believe that you are making the decisions, you cannot override them, and then you are actually not making the decisions.

The key to free will is to really understand that you do not have it.
Yes, a tech startup.
For those curious but with less ambition (t'Hooft's syllabus is pretty wild for people who don't actually want to work in the field) I'd recommend Leonard Susskind's Theoretical Minimum series. It's a lecture series recorded at Stanford, available for free on Youtube. There's even one or two books by now I believe that cover classical and quantum mechanics. The video lectures go all the way to the standard model, general relativity, cosmology and even some string theory - all of it presented in a way that people with upper high-school or lower undergrad level math knowledge should be able to follow.
> I don't trust Poetteringware. Poettering's team has a record of foisting technology on users, resulting in the need for e.g. the Devuan fork.

They have been developing software, that enough people have deemed useful to include it in their distributions. Some have disagreed, and have made other choices. No one was forced to do anything, there have been no "foisting" and the "need" for Devuan is a subjective opinion.

There is really no need to transform purely technical arguments into personal attacks. This just discourages participating into free software development.
Odeillo solar furnace can reach 3300°C and melt about any metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace

However it's hardly "low tech" :)
After the "novel psychoactive substance" boom of the 2010's some countries just blanket banned psychoactive substances with a handful of exceptions (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine).

Australia enacted such laws in 2017.

Everyone knew it was coming - eventually the politicians would tire of playing whackamolecule.
It seems very unlikely to me that any electric magnetic event could simultaneously destroy modern life while at the same time cause minimum damage to human life. One of the biggest concerns with massive solar storms is that they will cause firestorms in things connected to the power grid. If its not strong enough to do that, then it is unlikely to have the penetrating power to reach all electrical systems.
> Google receives a huge number of job applications and the selection process involves a great deal of randomness/luck.

Google receives a huge number of applications from unqualified people. They take the very few that are Google-level.
I'm sure it results in some false negatives, but I don't know of a better way to filter the applicant pool to something reasonable. And so far it's helped me hire a fantastic team of developers, many of whom don't have the standard credentials you might look for on a résumé.

That said, I do think I'm going to try and simplify the question even further, since I think having anything at all will accomplish the goal, so there's no point making people do any more work than absolutely necessary.
Funny, I think that's great.

It's considerate of an applicants time by saving them the hassle about price conversation up front. That's for your benefit, not theirs (they lose the "grip" they might otherwise have at price negotiation time due to your sunk cost, which is totally to their benefit). Some applicants know to ask about wage this early, but many don't, so it's equalizing to let anyone opt out pre-pipeline, not just the confident men who've done a billion interviews and know to ask asap.

As for video, that feels like a company trying to supplement a prior process that used to lean a lot on in-person networking and associated soft skills assessment, which is lost in online apply processes. Not everyone feels at ease in networking settings, and so many ppl don't show up to those "meet first" spaces. This is giving the introverts and non-urban ppl a way to enter their pipeline while still requiring those applicants to put some of their personality on the table early on in the filter.

I dunno, I don't get the criticisms in this sub-thread, but I assume commenters have a neurotype that this specifically rubs the wrong way?
> Does Retool have a query builder?

Yes. It may not be exactly like the one in Airforms. You can do CRUD operations/mappings without writing any SQL, or you can drop into SQL (with autocomplete and a schema browser) if you need more complexity.

> Does it support query parameters?

Yes.

> Does it support displaying fields from lookup tables (i.e., tables joined via foreign key)?

Yes.

> How do you pick a record from a foreign table (when you want to update the foreign key itself)?

There are multiple ways to do it. The easiest way is to run a query to get the IDs (and labels) from the table you're joining and then add that to some kind of input (list, table, etc.)

Like I said in a previous comment, a lot of this stuff requires knowing how to code or at least some technical understanding of databases, which might be a differentiator.
The power pins are in the spec rated for 9.2A each, for a total of 662.4W@12V. To be compliant the connector must handle at least that. At the same time, the max advertised capacity is 600W, so a device must pull at most that.

So by the spec it must have at 10% headroom - and to live up to that, manufacturers must add their own margin on top. Rating for 1kW would be a 66% margin and a humongous waste of copper, and it wouldn't solve this contact issue in the first place.

Regarding wire gauge - unrelated to the problem at hand - 16AWG is already overkill. For house installation in EU, we rate that gauge for 13A to 18.5A depending on thermal conditons, with 13A being "very poor" thermal conditions (no cooling and surrounded by other hot things). With 6 pairs in parallel, that gives a conservative minimum of 78A capacity - and with the excellent thermal conditions of a case with fans ("very good" is normally just a dangling cable, not one with fans cooling it), the realistic capacity should exceed 120A. As you say, we need only 50A, so that's a 140% margin! Even 20AWG would be plenty here.
A goole calendar view with 2,3,4 month or even custom view showing events in the day. Its not like there isnt enough screen real estate to fit it all in with modern displays.

or maybe im the only one who wants this.
The difference is that if you really understand, realize that it is an illusion, it becomes possible to change the situation.
I've also been a contributor to Gitea, but it's not time yet to call the banners.

I don't think this announcement was handled particularly well, but nonetheless, I think it's an important development for gitea to grow and become sustainable.

Specifically, Gitea is in desperate need of full-time maintainers (and probably a part-time project manager), and I see this as an essential step to creating the necessary governance for that.

I remain cautiously optimistic and would encourage everyone who is passionate about the project to raise their concerns and wishes in a constructive way. Another fork would be a disaster for the entire ecosystem and I think should only happen if there really are SIGNIFICANTLY diverging interests in the project.

I also haven't heard anything in the gitea threads about crypto, so I think they're just referring to bounties and other distributed payments.
Then things might be different, but in our present reality it was always transparently clear to anyone who had eyes to see that the justification for coercination was founded on nothing more than hysteria, lies and wishful thinking.
That's my problem - the small ones are $5 at most, but you cross a certain radius and bam - $10k.

I wanted to build a "fake sun" in my apartment, but lenses of proper size were either unavailable or had to be custom made, ballooning the price heavily.

Plan B is to use a parabolic dish to collimate the light, but such a setup is pretty awkward.
I think Amazon patented that so all good! :-)

(Yes it expired was contested etc.)
Thanks for sharing. Many of us feel similar. I do.

There are good companies out there though. Finding them is difficult though.
The systems used to register new users are likely quite different from those used to notify existing users during an earthquake. One is write-limited the other is read-limited. The developers quite correctly spent their time optimizing their infrastructure for the read-limited case rather than the write-limited case.
That is literally the easiest inclusive way that works beyond a single country's borders. Easier for me would be iDeal, but that's not easier for you unless you're also Dutch. Easier for people in the USA might be credit cards, but those are issued only if you have a credit rating at all and the rating is good (I don't meet the former condition so bank said no), and surely transferring money from anywhere in the world to an IBAN got to be common enough that it's doable and cheap/free in any country with decent payment infrastructure?
Can I turn it off? Tbh this TPM thingy doesn't solve any problem for me.
It's all about who has the power over the keys.

1. If the user can supply private keys that are treated as first class citizens, then yay!

2. If the user can't supply private keys, or the user's private key is treated as a second class citizen, then boo.

Given who is driving TPM usage right now (ie: Microsoft), my intuition says situation 2 is far more likely. I'm continually surprised by the number of people who think this is an unreasonable and/or paranoid.
Can confirm from Germany.
Cucumber does not really provide anything RF does not, except for Ruby houses. And Cypress is web automation tool, RF being generic one. One could write Cypress library for RF, but as there already are Selenium and Playwright libraries for RF, I don't think it will happen anytime soon at least.
There are thousands of high schools, and for each college, most applications come from a relatively small group (usually based on geography, while for elite schools, a set of top "feeders"). So to answer your question, no, most colleges are only familiar with the scale of a small percentage of schools.
Everybody is hoping to acquire lazy and complacent suckers, who won't switch to another employer or cell phone/insurance provider even though the terms they're getting are no longer on par with what the market offers. This strategy largely works too, as I've worked with some exceptional developers working for really meh salaries. They don't think about leaving, too.
So that you can be confident that your software hosted with a random cloud provider has been faithfully launched? This is why Intel is keeping SGX in their Xeon processors despite killing it off in consumer oriented series--servers benefit greatly from the ability to prove to clients that they are well behaved
Oh yeah I agree. We had a couple of horrendous systems made with Excel and VBS about 10 years ago and in order to work with them I had to enable and disable all sorts of stuff before I could work freely. On my work computer of course.

I believe there are best practices for office computer security policy.
> Gitea honestly might be so popular because it had a more free license than GPL

Citation needed.
folly is the cloak of knavery
Don't non-consumer account holders pay much higher fees? I seem to remember they were okay if you can have a very low transaction cap, but if you need to accept/send many payments, you had to get expensive subscriptions or pay per transaction.

Almost certainly still cheaper than literally any alternative, though, since you need that bank account anyway and I will get very much doubt they'd take as big a cut as the paypal mafia.
Can investors wire money to a subsidiary company instead of holding?
I have a fintech company, based outside the US.

There is a holding company and the subsidiary company. The subsidiary comp already has a corp bank account, but the corp account for holding is taking too long.

We have signed SAFEs and we want to receive money ASAP.

Can we give investors a wiring info for our subsidiary account for now ? Or will that create too many problems down the line ?
If I’m not mistaken it goes like this: Graal JIT compiler is itself written in Java, and thanks to the incredible architecture of OpenJDK even something as internal can be plug’n’play.

Every other part of Graal is also ordinary java classes, for example Truffle, which can execute interpreters and JIT optimize them very effectively (Truffle’s javascript can run after warm up with comparable speed as V8, while the former has orders of magnitude smaller team/budget). This is possible because the JIT compiler has a few special intrinsics for these libraries that allow for this magic, and also the reuse of the many many thousands of workhours that went into the OpenJDK project, reusing its killer GCs, etc.
Jåva sounds cooler :P
Yeah, I share the sentiment. What it boils down to is that you need to write the test two times. The supposed feature that once written the keywords can be reused is mostly a joke. There will be few heavily-used keywords, and a really long tail of one-time keywords, which is a pain.

I see a single advantage to these frameworks though. They force you to write a test in a specific way that looks like a real-world scenario with clear delineations between setup stages, assertions, and so on. Not that it's impossible to achieve with regular programming language, obviously.
If i remember right, RF was Pekka's thesis work inside Nokia and it was later open-sourced and a foundation was formed around it.
I have learned a lot at this not-even-layman level from following Sabine Hossenfelder - for example, her series on the basics of Quantum Mechanics:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/04/understanding-quant...

(each blog post is also delivered in YT video form, pick whichever you prefer)
> AFAIK, secure boot can be disabled, both in the BIOS and in the Kernel.

For now.
Twitter runs most of their infrastructure on Graal EE, so it sounds quite reliable to me.
Yes they should. They should also prioritize ops over sales, and yet they don't.

After 11 years in Enterprise IT it's been my impression that we are very short sighted. We give everything to our sales and they sell everything between heaven and earth without a thought on how we can deliver it. And once the contract is signed, no effort is made to deliver or manage, just move on to the next big contract signing.

So just as they prioritize hiring and ignore retention, they also prioritize contract signing and ignore lifecycle management. It's the same short sighted thinking in another area.
This is prejudice. DAO in its most fundamental terms is transparent auctioning, staked decision-making, et cetera; in other words, totally valid set of use cases for the purpose of managing an open source project out in the open. Perhaps one of the few cases that. One of the accidental benefits of running it in crypto is the ability to consider rewards irrespective of jurisdictions. Think contributors being rewarded for carrying out a feature, on release, in effect immediately, irrespective of where they're coming from. It could be some poor girl from Iran, or Venezuela who otherwise wouldn't be able to partake due to restrictions re: Visa/Mastercard imposed but could make some money here doing open source work. Yes, much of the blockchain space is occupied by scams but sometimes it just makes sense, especially if you're willing to take a walk outside of your average "institutional" frame of logic.
AFAICT, aluminium isn't required, merely cheap and plentiful, but if you had a solar economy you can make it cheaply anyway so it doesn't matter.

PV quality silicon, however, I know nothing significant about.

If I was trying to rebuild from mud and sticks upwards, in the style of the Primitive Technology YouTube channel, I'd probably go for thermoelectric heated first by fire and later by a focusing mirror — bronze (copper and tin) is, after all, a bronze age tech.
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Write the greatest ever cover letter for a job at Google (I am open to offers - 7+ figure offers only please)

To Whom It May Concern,

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First and foremost, I have a passion for technology and Google is at the forefront of technological innovation. I would love to be a part of a team that is constantly pushing the boundaries and developing new, groundbreaking products.

In addition to my passion for technology, I have a strong educational background. I hold a degree in computer science from a top university and I have consistently achieved excellent grades. My skills and knowledge would make me a valuable asset to the Google team.

Finally, I have a proven track record of success. I have previous experience working in the tech industry and I have a history of meeting or exceeding expectations. I am confident that I would be a high-performing employee at Google.

I believe that I have the skills, knowledge, and experience that would make me a perfect fit for the job at Google. I would love to have the opportunity to discuss my qualifications further and I thank you for your time and consideration.

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> if slow compilation is such a pain point, I wonder why it takes seven years and counting to fix this bad decision

Maybe we are giving Rust developers computers that are too fast. ;-)

OTOH, it's always wise to design for the future, so it also makes sense to give Rust developers beefy server grade hardware so they can play with SIMD pipelines and all those extra cores and threads, because that's what workstations will be a couple years from now.
yea I'm not going to run that trojan you just posted here
I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist. As you say, it just introduces unnecessary complexity for no reason.

If you can't code, you shouldn't be writing automated tests. Most of the "benefits" of Cucumber can be gained by using a good reporting framework. I like to use Serenity as I love its reports.
I know it's there, but always forget and look for it at the top where everyone would sensibly expect it to be.
Spotify. Both interfaces are crap but Spotify’s suggestions and song discovery are much better.
A few years back I took a call from a recruiter who wanted me to apply for a role at am investment bank - for less money, less holidays and longer hours than the role I had at the time.

He was genuinely confused as to why I wasn't excited by this "opportunity".
I've wondered whether this could be addressed making the pixel adjustments in the form of a QR code. Much lower data storage, but much better chance of surviving image transforms thanks to the built-in resilience and redundancy.
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I just wish they offered more than one payment option. I don't have a credit card.

Other than that it's great, uncomplicated and doesn't try to be some special CI cloud toolchain as a service and won't spam me with notifications.
In addition to replies to my original comment, see [1] and [2] for the perils that attestation poses against user rights.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/loyal-computers.en.html

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Here in Canada we refer to "traffic cones" as pylons. As someone living in London, Ontario, the first couple paragraphs of the OP was particularly funny to read; some sentences could be changed very minimally and apply all the same - "yet in a few places pylons are an intrinsic part of the landscape, like here along the edge of t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶o̶y̶a̶l̶ ̶D̶o̶c̶k̶s̶ almost every road, due to construction."
+1 the last time I used such a service to book a hotel they confirmed it and gave me a confirmation number. I printed everything on paper. When I arrived at the hotel after a 13 hour flight, I showed the receptionist the confirmation number and they 'couldn't find it in their system'. I compared my confirmation number with a colleague's who was traveling with me and they were the same unique format. How the hell does that happen