skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And some of those investors already lost their asses buying up SFH. I'm sure the rest see the writing on the wall. For example, BRG spun off a home trust division just this month, and it's the one that bought up all of these SFH during the boom. Could it be that they were expecting a massive drop in value of these investments?

SFH are a pretty insane choice of RE investment for institutions because they are so incredibly inefficient compared to apartment and office buildings.
> Unless Taleo blocks you centrally and now you cant apply to half the companies in the world.

is anyone ever hired through dumping a resume into those big systems? doesn't seem like a loss.
Far more courses in college rely on one or two exams over coursework. To be more precise, men tend to do better on tests of mastery of material over evidences of participation.
No they use predictable reflection, not arbitrary reflection. The subset just needs to be told ahead of time which classes you want to be able to interact with reflectively. As I say, it's not an issue for my quite-large application.
>> Galyn mentioned she might have a copy at her house. So we went home to get that machine, and you can watch the video for how that went…

DLP software hadn't yet been invented
Chinese-made monocrystalline silicon panels are expected to have extremely long lifetimes (25+ years with no degradation) relative to thin film types (Cd-Te, etc.) However, another main issue is quality encapsulation of the panels; if done shoddily this greatly shortens the lifetime of the panels. Practically, look for manufacturers who have the longest guarantees.

https://solaranalytica.com/solar-panel-encapsulation/
No, what it has made abundantly clear is that poor incentives produce poor outcomes. There's significant penalty for underlabeling with regard to the known to cause cancer business and no penalty for gratuitous labeling. So every damn thing gets labeled to minimize potential liability and now carcinogenicity is a joke.
> we need to fix it with the same urgency as problems of transport, environment and health

So do nothing and ignore it, especially if the person is poor.
In a story of insane luck (and unluck!), the craziest part is definitely this

" He said that if I had had a spleen, it almost certainly would have ruptured when I hit the water, and I would have bled to death. Of the 25 pilots in our squadron, I am the only one without a spleen. It gives me something to think about. Maybe it does you as well."
No worries! I like js, I'm just feeling the pain of trying to move off webpack.
one of the reasons i LOVED clarkson's farm (jeremy clarkson -- from top gear/grand tour -- series on farming). it showed how absurdly hard farming.

comparing software development (which, let's be honest, is super cushy) to farming is insulting.
The job application system is broken and is in dire need of a fix. Half the time companies just post jobs to test the candidates they can get when they really have an internal person they are going to hire.
Hey, I am building a legal tech startup and would love to get your input. Will shoot you an email.
Member states often don't fully follow EU law. Yes, it's theoretically forbidden, but only the most extreme cases lead to repercussions.
Billboards are per definition targeted ads to people with a car driving on that road in that location.
I’m referring to NCC group’s pricing, not Dyalog
> I usually explained that the people who design the HP printers most likely never even talked to the people who design the HP laptops

While that is certainly true, the overall priorities of the company (is customer service important, which customers matter, how important is initial quality vs ongoing support, etc) are set at higher levels; many ties one that both those teams report up to.
Which Foundry Is in the Lead? It Depends
There is a long standing tradition on HN to complain about titles that don't totally and completely accurately capture the message of the article, such that the article is a mere 1000 word bit of fluff to the tweet-sized message itself. Any title short of that measure is clickbait or just wrong. Best option is to ignore them.
In the UK the next step would be to approach either the Police and Crime Commissioner (an elected person who oversees the local Police service), or the local Member of Parliament, or to seek a Judicial Review via the courts.

If you’re genuinely at risk then surely this can be established and must become actionable?
Very nice reference.

Anybody here got a complementary source to suggest for dealing with more difficult flash chips?

( > If your BIOS flash chip is in a PLCC or WSON package, you will need specialized equipment to connect to the chip, the process for which is not currently covered in this guide. )

I've got a laptop with BIOS on WSON laying around unused since a while back because I haven't managed to take the time and dig up what's a reasonable way to interface with them. ( Bought the machine with an expectation of just clipping onto SOIC, like it's been in all my previous encounters. That'll teach me to look up the specs for the exact model rather than just something similar in the product line I guess.)
Yes, the default limits are there to prevent abuse and runaway misconfigurations. They won't turn down revenue if you confirm it's intentional.
I don't know to be honest, but big tech is not really as left-leaning as Republicans imagine. They are pretending to be for their audiences, but they don't like the accountability, the regulations.

On the other hand the report is guaranteed to be biased if it's anything like the climate change hit pieces these conservative organizations put out. They always cherry pick data from optimistic scenarios, changing titles, disregarding context. They do anything to arrive to their conclusion. And it all usually ends up presented on Twitter with vitriol.
Who does that, the locals who are working in a failed or corrupt state?

Just arrest them seems like a very simplistic idea here...
Recent article on this topic. Off late am curious to know more on consciousness. https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-probl...
If your appointee is charismatic, obviously competent, clearly virtuous, etc., perhaps more so than you are, then people may decide they prefer having him in your position. In that sense, a highly virtuous appointee may be a threat to a tyrant. I've seen claims that Putin has chosen some appointees where one can see that "not being a threat to Putin" was prioritized over other qualities.
This doesn't make any sense. Most people are salaried and their time isn't tracked that way anyway.

Most employment contracts, even for salaried workers, list things such as "37.5hrs per week".

If this is the understanding, and you aren't working diligently for those hours, you're a thief and fraudster, a scam artist, and should be fired.

If you get done a task early, ask for more work!

The attitude of people in this thread is laughable. People in this field are some of the most privileged, well paid members of our society.

To hear such persons moan and bleet over their lot is laughable. Grow up people. Just disgusting.
Not their salary per se, to be clear. They will tell you how much income someone paid tax on in the previous tax year.
If you give the person you're interviewing access to the same tools they'd have in a regular day on the job (Google, manpages, etc.), I'd say that's a fair and probably relatively enjoyable interview.

Rejecting someone because they can't recall the correct netstat syntax doesn't seem like good hiring practice, but I assume in good faith that's not what you meant :)
> Big ask, but can we wait to release until X number of packages are supported before releasing? And stay in RC until then?

No, that’s silly.

(1) There’s no reason for something that otherwise is ready for stable to stay in RC because an arbitrary number of edternal packages aren’t ready to say they are ready for it, and

(2) No user actually benefits from X number of packages being ready, they benefit from the specific packages they depend on being ready. So its best for them to track them, and upgrade only when all the specific packages they need support the new version.
We have a lot better understanding of memories than we do consciousness though. We can visualize and quantify the memory making process. New neurons, new connections, the chemicals involved, etc.

Memories are a pretty well understood and tangible part of neuroscience at this point.
Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts (1998)
While yes, backups should be tested, this all happened over two decades ago.
>The average person wants to turn their hobby into a day job because the average person's day job sucks

I have a metahobby: I collect hobbies. Invariably someone will tell me I should try to make money from one of them and my response is always "I HAVE a JOB, and I like it. I do this for fun. But thank you."

Also, a lot of people don't realize the skills of {HOBBY_X} and the skills of {SELLING_HOBBY_X} are usually quite different and few people possess proficiency and interest in both.
> If browsers get great sandbox features and hardware acceleration with access to all sensors

Seems like you already realize this, but at least on iPhone, they won't. Apple will continue to sandbag safari while banning other browser engines in order to nudge users toward apps.
Hydrus also distributes plugins as encoded images.

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/index.html
> they want to get that person's opinion on what kind of employee you are

At least in the US such reference checks are impossible these days. To avoid litigation any serious company is going to:

a.) have the call directed to an HR rep rather than the manager or any other employees

b.) the HR rep will only verify title and dates of employment.

I haven't heard of anyone doing the type of reference check you're describing since the very early 2000s.
That’s because the web is handicapped on iOS. If web was as capable, of course they wouldn’t stress apps as much.
Google and Microsoft hit by slowing economy
> I'd expect people to get sued/fired left and right over this if it's truly widespread.

The attribute of being labeled male is not a protected class (maybe legally, definitely de facto) in the same way that of being labeled female is.

To your broader point, disparate outcomes is ipso facto evidence of sexism. At least, that's what our society has settled on for other excluded identities, so we should do the same for men.
That's not what happened in 2008. This exact scenario was the primary cause of the financial meltdown at the time. The prevailing wisdom was people would always pay their mortgage, so the securitization of real estate mortgages were viewed as a safe investment - and invest they did! When the housing bubble popped a lot of investment banks who thought they had safe assets suddenly found themselves upside down, further compounding the problem and turning it into a full-fledged crises necessitating congressional intervention. Perhaps you're too young to know this story, but this is what happened. There's no reason to believe homeowners won't behave in the same manner today. We can argue whether this behavior is rational or not, but we're rather infamous for not being rational creatures, are we not?
In a way, you're both right. iPhone sales were 231 million units in 2015 and 242 million in 2021 (with some drops in between).

Revenue is higher in 2021, but probably as a result of selling higher priced SKUs.
I would have agreed with you on everything, but inflation's really hurting people right now.

Our inflation is anything but moderate
I browse without JS by default (using uMatrix), not to resist fingerprinting but because it is:

- More secure, especially if the website doesn't use TLS.

- Faster. Many websites work well enough even without JS or only some of it.

Disabling JS to resist fingerprinting may be counterproductive as only a minority of people disable it. My current approach is to use LibRedirect[1] et al to avoid using big websites such as YouTube directly.

In Firefox I also disable network.http.sendRefererHeader. It breaks some websites which rely on it for "security" though.

[1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect

EDIT: I just found out on the amiunique website that over 12% of browsers disable it. Does this include bots?
I was really excited for a good new ROS like system or something, but instead I got automated testing T.T
It varies of course – these 5 do not claim to read cover letters in either of those scenarios, and each work for important recruiting firms. They said they simply look at too many candidates a day to possibly be able to read cover letters regularly.

Depending on the person, the time spent writing a cover letter may be better put to just more applications.
Remarkable, yes, but I wouldn’t use “impressive” for either fall. Surviving such ordeals is (almost) 100% luck.

I would use impressive for cases where the main subject has considerable influence in the outcome, as, for example, Ernest Shackleton had, or as people lost at sea for months with very limited resources had.

(In this case, the part where he survives while in the ocean may be impressive, but I have no idea how hard that was)
Deaths, divorces, moves, bankruptcies, etc. still happen, so there's still a market. The average peasant didn't suddenly begin to make 2x more per month, so for the same fixed monthly payment, the house price needs to go way down. Cash buyers may be less sensitive to rates, but even they have significantly slowed purchases since the low rate frenzy.
Reviews would say those things ideally.
I don't think they are overpriced, I think that they price their product realistically. They're competing in a niche market and the ethos of that niche means that their target customers categorically will not accept the bloat that comes with consumer laptops from the big manufacturers, who subsidise the lower margins on these models with bloatware. Cost to serve consumers is likely a lot higher than business as businesses are generally prepared to pay for that extra cover.
The best way to ruin a good hobby is to try to go pro. Sometimes I feel that way about coding.
> People like this [...]

I mean you can be critical of communication forms without punching down.
> Is there a ranking of olive oil certifying organizations?

Even skimming, the COOC guidelines look to be more rigorous.

In addition to lab tests (by one of three labs approved by COOC), there's a blind sensory test by olive oil experts, a requirement to print the harvest date on the vessel, and a requirement to print a "best by" date as well.

I understand your desire to find out the quality regardless of the provenance of the olives. But given the rampant fraud in the industry, I just can't see a persuasive argument for speculating about an oil that doesn't pass both certifications in California. Especially when the company in question has the word "California" in its name, more especially when its oil was previously certified by COOC. By the time you figure out the answers to all your questions, we'll be on to the next harvest and the bottle of olive oil you wanted to buy will have gone bad.
I mean… google maps? Chrome? YouTube (purchased in 2005 and not the same product/scale at all anymore)
> It's really, really easy to sue somebody in the US.

Small claims, yes. District court and above, not always.
Winning the case? Even harder. Trying to a get any lawyer on contingency against deeper pockets is not practical 99% of the time.
This is not clear to me, on one hand you say it's acceptable to look things up, on the other hand you should be able to calculate things in your head?
> Getting a job these days sans personal collections requires sending out many, many applications.

I am sorry this is the way you see it.

Have you ever tried figuring out where you would like to work, researching the company, be excellently prepared for the interview and working them to get the best terms?

Trust me, it is easier than ever and I have been a long time on the job market. Right now, trying to put ANY effort will immediately put you in front of other candidates because 99% of candidates, frankly, are too lazy for barest effort on their part. Which this entire comment section is an excellent example of.
Lisp Languages – A list of Lisp-flavored programming languages
That post has a broken link, and this one is the resubmission.
Ah -- got it! This is the beauty of aligning ourselves with technologies like Arrow, Parquet and DataFusion. We can share as well as benefit from the efforts of the broader community
I think people forget how often computers in the 80’s and 90’s were turned off, keeping track of time with a backup battery, and just how many machines had a dead backup battery and users that didn’t know any better.

I fielded tech support questions from an app that had grown to send email. Every week we got a couple of emails from some time on January 1, 1970, each from a new person, and a whole slew of people whose batteries were on the edge of failing and so their machine was days or months off from reality.

The HTTP 1.0 spec already had a solution for two machines with different ideas of the current date. It’s one of my favorite parts of the spec and I’ve used it a few times in order to avoid having to implement my own time negotiation protocols (or in fact to stop others from doing it).

I don’t think that battery chemistry has changed all that dramatically since that time. It was still a 2032 cell, for machines that have a discrete battery. Instead it’s the clock chip and network time protocols that have gotten more efficient, and we use the machines more consistently. Or at least the machines where time counts matter the most are on all the time.
Wow.. so much bad luck (the original failure, ejection failure, parachute failure) countered by that much luck (not hitting the plane during "manual" eject, not bleeding to death because havin his spleen removed 4 years earlier) ..amazing unbelievable story with some good end :)
Is your collection or restoration work publicly available?
That's using 50£/MWh, which sounds like an inaccurate wholesale price to me. With a quick search, I'm seeing the average rate in 2022 around £0.225/kWh, or 4.5x your rate. 5 kettles a day sounds right for my household, and would be £31.5/yr
From my personal experience hiring people, frequent job switchers are much easier to evaluate and tell me a much clearer story about how they will contribute to the company.

I know they'll likely leave after 2-3 years and knowing this allows me to prepare and organize the team in a way that a departure is not seen as failure but rather as normal evolution.

Candidates who stayed +5 years at the same company, even more those who worked under the same manager, typically trigger yellow flags during my hiring process:
1) What is the precise reason for the departure and how am I proposing something better?
2) Has the candidate reached a tipping point, either emotionally or physically (e.g., exhaustion, mental breakdown, etc.) and what is the stage of that crisis?
3) Has the candidate's personal life taken a turn recently? (e.g. newborn, death, difficult marriage, sickness in the family, unbearable debt, etc.)?
4) Did the candidate leave because the employer could not offer the right salary (easiest cases)?
5) Did the candidate leave because there weren't any or acceptable opportunities for evolution (easy to understand, but difficult to solve)?
Etc.

With frequent job switchers, I don't usually dig too much. I assume that I can easily fire them whenever I'm not satisfied, it goes both ways.
Just want to say congratulations to the team!

2 years and 9,500+ commits is a hell of a feat.

https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox
Why only to $230,000? Wouldn’t the price have to drop to 400*(2/9)=89k to keep mortgage payments the same?
The benefits not accruing to them doesn't make them less evil, it merely means they're willing to do great evil for even less personal benefit.
IOx is the data storage layer. It will replace the current TSM data storage system in InfluxDB, but it won't replace InfluxDB as a whole.
https://youtu.be/gv7mO41bbPg?t=74
The perk of HOAs is that you can get elected to it. You can organize your neighborhood to get elected and make changes if they aren’t happy with the way it’s currently run.

The whole goal of smaller and more localized governing bodies is that you have easier access to change them. The only thing stopping you is getting the support of your neighbors.
I know it's cliche to say here on HN - but this kind of comment is why I love this site. Silly, unexpected ways to use technology are so satisfying to me.
Layoutit Tokens – A Generator for Design Tokens (Exports to JSON, CSS and SASS)
Perhaps one of the upsides to working for big companies. It's probably not going to be your boss they call, it'll be the HR department. And they probably won't say anything more than "yes, this person worked here." Both because they don't know you, and because the legal department has carefully educated them on what they can and cannot say.
The ships full of gas waiting off Europe’s coast
Sorry, only Zyme is available these days.
Oh wow I need to see that series. I hope it's hilarious.

I think farming is misunderstood because historically it's what 95% of people did, and it wasn't all that high tech. Not that pre-modern farming was easy: there's endless nuances about how to actually grow plants/animals optimally. But modern farming is ridiculously high tech. A modern farmer is a business owner, a logistics engineer, a mechanic, a programmer/hacker, and a labourer. I'm probably missing a dozen sub-professions of farmer. I bet "calories generated per farmer per year" would be a fascinating timeseries graph to view.
> We have had standardized, time-zone neutral representation of time in binary, efficient, 4-byte representation since the 1970s. [...] This is just an example of how we have regressed in our algorithmic thinking.

Now I'm wondering if uWebSockets will fail spectacularly in 2038.
How many times a second do computers communicate notions of time between each other, versus to a human? We’re talking many orders of magnitude here, and inequalities like that always change the winning strategy.
Factories are full with machines that get replaced every couple decades, and that run software setups even older. Roughly a decade ago I was involved in the development of an embedded system for industrial use, and the approach to Y2038 was "doesn't matter, I'll be retired by then". The system is still sold.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of companies will handle it by just setting the clocks back 50 years or so on industrial equipment. But God have mercy on those that forget some systems.
William Woollard and I worked on a TV commercial in the early 80s. Him as the main talent and me as a very much in the background extra

Met a hero, got a day off school and earned 20 pounds of cold, hard cash
You would have to account for the difference in down payment and opportunity cost of investing the $37k difference in down payments for the same period.

So in the 7% scenario, you have $37k + investment return + $10.5k.

In the 2% scenario, you have $42k.
Signal Structure of the Starlink KU-band downlink [pdf]
It's also funny because for most years the XPS is the exact same device as the enterprise model just with a better support contract.
I am always skeptical whenever I see a headline that says new technology X can be better, cheaper, or more efficient than existing technology Y, but then fails to show in the actual story how that is true with real numbers.

This CAN produce 50% more energy than solar, but under what conditions? It seems like they should have a side-by-side chart of a solar and a wind setup that costs the same and show how much energy each one produced over the course of a year. Since nothing like that was in the article, I remain skeptical.