skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Element funds a lot of Matrix work, and we have a large team working on both Matrix, Element clients, Matrix hosting, and our various customer projects (around 100 people). And while Element has taken longer than I’d like to improve in terms of UI/UX, it is definitely getting there - cf https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen... etc.
Completely agree. Whatever happened to long form writing!
From the article the claim originates from: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-max-...

> When it comes to the mid and treble ranges, this firmware update has slightly changed the level of isolation, but it's a relatively minor difference.

Furthermore a comment indicates that the noise generator they might have used has slightly changed as well. I'm not sure what the outcry is all about. Most people experiencing changes in ANC usually have cruft on their microphones and that issue is easily fixed with a q-tip.
Perhaps not in the U.S due to labor laws and the EEOC, but in some countries you must also attach a head shot. Not only that, but HR can casually drop by your house unannounced to inspect your living conditions and make a note of anything "unusual". I know it sounds straight out of Severance, but that's how things would be stateside if unions and others hadn't drawn the line somewhere.
> even the people who taught it were still just learning it.

Still true today.
Google does Tensorflow and V8.
Yep, while the focus in the past was to appeal to power users (because they would bring in the regular users through word of mouth and recommendations), now that most users are already captive to a variety of platforms, the focus switched to dark patterns and deceptive practices to deepen the lock-in and increase switching costs.

Now power users are merely an inconvenience, since they usually advocate against dark patterns and prefer purely functional software.

I'm not sure how to really combat this. It might be too late.
Ctrl+Alt+Del on a Windows system waiting on a hung process during shutdown.
> Based on the current supply chain and logistics situation, the estimated delivery time is approximately 90 business days.
>I can't claim copyright on a work by an AI, because I'm not the author

Is there any source for this? The only things I can find are people trying to assert non humans as copyright holders and being told no.
It's a shame there's no official PICO-8 runtime for any of those little devices, last time I checked compatibility was a bit spotty from the open-sourced reimplementations. Things have probably gotten better on that front since I last looked though.

This thing supports a Raspberry Pi compute module so I assume it will run the Pi version of PICO-8.
Now he's smarter than two Einsteins!
> the IBM salesmen stood around talking to each other. Whether or not this actually sold computers was a question we never discussed.
> They hired me as "contractor"

> and work unpaid overtime

You're a contractor. Contractors are paid hourly. If you're working extra hours, you should be getting paid for the extra hours, you just have to make sure to keep track of them.
Node didn't even exist yet when python and ruby were in competition.
I guess you're specifically referring to TOTP or SMS-based OTP. Email OTP still requires an internet connection, for example.
Windows Search has almost always been useless IMHO. I've used an old copy of Funduc Search and Replace forever for this and when I can't on another machine, it's FINDSTR from the commandline. If you're looking for just filenames, voidtools Everything is awesome.
That reminds me of one of my dad's favourite jokes.

A guy goes up to the shipyard gates and asks to see the foreman. When the foreman comes along he asks "Hey, any chance of a job in your yard?"

"Yes, of course", says the foreman, "if you're prepared to start at the bottom and work your way up. Are you any good at making tea?"

"Yes", says the man, "I can make the tea!"

"Great!", says the foreman, "do you know how to drive a forklift?"

The man squints at him quizzically, "How big is your f***** teapot, then?"
What do you mean it exploded?
I Almost Took Down Production Due to a Near-Empty Config File
A few years ago I would've been all over having a dedicated Weechat IRC client, it looks very tempting.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-r-01
He's not wrong, but he's also overlooking that it's darn easy to open Twitter and start typing, and get instant conversation started, IE: it's a path of least resistance. Set up your own site? Sure, I wish more people would, but it takes some degree of knowledge to do that, and then your mom and your dog are the only people who will find your site unless you work really hard at self-promotion. Facebook would have been a good place for this in the past, but is a cesspool these days. There might be specialized forums and interest groups out there - but it can be hard to pin your content for general use, IE: it gets lost in some thread, whereas at least Twitter is tied to you.

Yes, there are various sites promoting themselves as places for long-form writing, but they have their own issues with copyright, walled gardens, etc. This is a space that needs entrepreneurial focus.
I knew Python decently well before I ever played with Ruby.

Ruby to me feels like a very ugly version of Python. It's like Python and Perl had a baby, and I have very strong negative opinions of Perl's syntax. It baffles me how a language that people jokingly refer to as a "write-only" language ever got any sort of ground.
I should have said (and I believe explained in the rest of the comment) that it's a bit like asking "why is pain after an injury a 'disorder'" of a person suffering from chronic pain. PTSD is a disorder beacause it is a chronic version of a completely normal accute reaction.
1. This is an "old" resume. I'm not as old as OP's dad but I definitely recall putting my gender, height, probably weight, definitely "health: excellent", etc. on my resumes in the 1980s. Different times. Times of discrimination? Probably. :-/

2. As others point out, this gentleman was in aerospace and even though he wasn't a pilot, here's a fun fact for the morning ... I watched a documentary on the early years of fighter pilot selection and grooming. Russia apparently recognized and exploited the value of a short heart-brain distance in its pilots. If I recall correctly, pilots with shorter distances between heart and brain can pull higher G's (or maybe negative G's) before browning or blacking out in certain maneuvers. It makes sense when you think about it. So if you're an air force looking for every edge you can, you might select for this trait. Shorter men (specifically, shorter sitting height: reasonably correlated with heart-brain distance). Also some women, I would expect. Anyways, this is probably not why OP's dad shared his height, but sharing a possible TIL as it was for me... :-)
This does not work for me. Java image that takes 30 seconds to build on x86 machine took 40 minutes to build on M1 after which I killed it. So this feature essentially does not exist as it's not usable. I don't think that's how most people use it. I, personally, rent x86 VPS just for docker.

Most images nowadays have ARM version, so probably that's how most people use it.
> resume and skills from 1980

Wow, I had a resume (with several years of experience) in 1980. Now I’m feeling really auld.

My mom has roots in the era of programming where the program was entered by wiring a plugboard...
Vantage integrates with Azure to track AWS, GCP, and Azure costs in one place
> Most mantras try to force all work into the "group collaboration" bucket. If HR and other management-training groups value isolated work and individual contributions they sure don't show it. Literally every piece of training I've received about working effectively has been about collaboration.

I think that's because isolated/individual work is so obvious and default that there's nothing to train.

People know how to work alone. They often have to be actively encouraged to collaborate, however. HR isn't trying to force "all" work into collaboration, that's silly. But the right way to collaborate often isn't remotely obvious, when there are so many types of collaboration and so many different types of tasks/projects. So training makes sense and pays off here.
The usual answer to that is you keep the money in the business entity while paying yourself a minimal salary. You spend it on business expenses (commonly stuff like travel or a vehicle or computer hardware, with some semi-plausible fig-leaf of business use), or take it as long-term capital gains later on.

The other answer that could fit the premise is a solo 401k, for the higher pre-tax contribution limit than a standard employer 401k.

I'd be surprised if there was really anything substantial besides those.
And yet, in our system that prioritizes efficiency, we have more slavery than at any point in human history. Something doesn't add up.
Secondary sanctions may hit the Chinese-owned Indian companies, which could make them no more resilient at all. No? It seems like doesn't matter so much who is employed there as much as who owns them.
iCloud Mail supports it too
Just as a data point, my desktop is a Xeon e3-1230 v5, which is the same silicon as the i7 from 2015. The CPU cost $250 new, the entire desktop was $1100 or so, not including the monitors.

I followed the https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/building/how-to-build-...

Then ran the build step "time ./x.py build -j 8"
...
Build completed successfully in 0:36:53

real 36m53.398s
user 254m52.720s
sys 12m48.289s

Seems pretty reasonable considering it's not a particularly high end desktop from 2015. Seems like a cheap price to pay for increased reliability and security.
> can we also bring back walk-on hiring?

This used to happen in the 80s. I went to interview at a startup company in Mountain View in 1987. There was some chit-chat then the interviewer asked me to wire-wrap a circuit (diagram was provided) and power it on and connect it up to the logic analyzer - he went away for about 1/2 an hour while I did that. He came back and complemented me on my neatness. Then he took me over across the room to talk to the VP of engineering who, after a few minutes of chit-chat, asked me when I would like to start. Those were the days.
Tried entering my email. Fail 1 - doesn't allow autofill.

Then tried signing in. "Enter the passcode that was sent to <email>." Fail 2 - no passcode was ever sent. (Yes, I tried the resend button multiple times, because I'm not a moron. Yes, I checked my spam folder, because I'm not a moron. I know the HN crowd would have taken great pleasure in explaining the obvious to me if I hadn't mentioned it.)

Even if that had worked, how is copying a code from unencrypted email supposed to be either easier or more secure than a password? Fail 3.
Probably not. Unless you're rendering to another target besides the DOM (ie canvas) I doubt you see JS displacement as #1 in the browser. JS is not the performance bottleneck, the DOM itself is. And in the meantime, you've got 25 years of example code, component libraries, talent development, dev productivity tooling, browser integration, etc built up around it.

And unlike other operating systems, the browser does not give you any kind of standard library of reasonably good components to build on. So the sheer size and volume of components and the ecosystem built up around npm well be an uphill battle for any WASM target language to compete with.
> It was only a few years back and we were building C++ compilers on machines with barely 16MB.

"A few years" seems like a serious understatement, but beyond that... compilers in the time period you're talking about weren't really doing optimizations, they were just shoveling assembly out the door. Doing very little work takes very few resources, but the resulting binaries were way slower than they could have been. Any compiler that uses LLVM tends to be slow, in my experience, but it does offer excellent optimizations.
Windows search is hot garbage. That's why I install Everything Search [1] on every windows PC I use.

[1]: https://www.voidtools.com/
I'm pretty sure that applies to something like a non passthrough LLC, but would explicitly not apply to a sole proprietorship, which he is advocating for.
Zig puts the whole project into a single giant compilation unit. This has some benefits, but one of the drawbacks as you note is memory usage for larger projects.
If only this worked:

"female with two hands that have five fingers, and normal looking face, giving a presentation in a well-lit office with correct shadows, and a clock on a wall that is perfectly round with legible roman numerals correctly placed around the dial ..."
Great! Another way to "waste" time.

Congratulations for the effort.
> even went as far as porting Jetpack Compose to work on iOS

Well, Gluon promises the same for JavaFX apps and there is a sample app actually downloadable from the AppStore.

> j2cl still brings in a light JVM to the Web

Not at all, it compiles to very optimized Javascript. Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is also teavm, which is not a VM contrary to its name -- this latter transforms java byte code so it works with guest languages as well.
Unfortunately, the feature itself is vital for making web apps work in anything like a coherent fashion, so it isn't something that can be disabled (though there may be meat on the bones of permission-gating it).
Just curious, what is the state sponsored healthcare? Where I'm at, I'm only aware of Medicaid and CHIP.
+1 - Never do free work. NE-VER!
This has nothing to do with 'absolute safety' (whatever that entails) but about vastly increased memory and thread safety compared to C.

Torvalds is merely stating the obvious and being a obnoxious dick-head at the same time.
There's no OSX x86 emulation.

There's Rosetta emulation and qemu emulation.

Rosetta emulation is quite fast. But docker does not use it. At least for now.

qemu emulation is extraordinarily slow and basically unusable for anything but the simplest code.
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
Non-Fungible Token Bubble Lasted 10 Months – David Rosenthal
My father was a physicist. He learned to program in FORTRAN in the university in the 70's.

Decades later I, still a teenager, asked him something like this: "Dad, you were a FORTRAN programmer and physicist in the 70's, you could be a very well paid developer anywhere in the developed world... why didn't you?"; he answered me: "I didn't thought this thing about computers would go too far."
The days of UK software contractors being paid £115 per hour are long gone
> For us, pods generally include 5 to 7 engineers (including an engineering manager), a product manager, a designer, and a data scientist.

Similar approach to Amazon's internal two pizza team philosphy[0]: every internal team should be small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p...
I am a serious nicotine addict and I disagree! I thought the same as you, but over the years I’ve managed to quit easily for months and years at a time. The hard part is not starting again which at least for me usually coincide with too much stress
" if you're in a contract job for 4 years, there's something wrong"

Depends on your goals. I've been contracting at the same company for 10years. It gave me the flexibility to run and operate a successful side business and take unpaid vacation time whenever I want.
I'm French Canadian and because of this I have two keyboard languages. French Canadian and English (Canada).

Before, when I'd press FN to change my keyboard language, I used to see "French Canada" and "English Canada". Now I just see "Canada" and "Canada - CSA".

This is a weird change.
Yep. My daughter remote schooled, and it would have been far more effective if the school had just mailed my wife and I the curriculum and had us teach it.

I'm sympathetic towards public schools; they have to deal with a wide variety of kids and families, and what works for my family might be a disaster for another. I'm less sympathetic to the politicians who vastly underestimated the harm from closing the schools. The schools were nowhere near prepared or equipped.
This would be a space-based weapon.
I do too. There are two different mediums to create and consume content (using this word loosely), and turning one into the other is ridiculous.
Dagger Go SDK: develop CI/CD pipelines as Go, run them in containers
Nice and informative video! My exposure to glass has mostly been working with someone doing glass blowing and hot glass work, so even the clean cullet from the recycling process would likely not be good enough there - it needs basically zero contaminants, because just one or two little dark spots in the clear part of a paperweight can be a problem.
So the claim is interest rates will never get low enough to make unprofitable social networks that are growing enticing IPOs again? Or at least for years? If that's the case I guess private acquisition is another way out, but I think kicking the can down the road and waiting for sentiment to change makes sense. No doubt interest rates play a role in appetite for risk, but also there's a lot of public cash out there looking for growth companies even in a higher interest rate environment and I can see Reddit taking that route even if it's not the perfect outcome.

Ultimately, remaining private and trying to grow a sustainable, profitable business isn't going to be what they choose. I didn't even get into the porn situation, which may be why they decide to just go the tumblr route and try and cash out to a larger tech co though.
I do not agree with you, and I think it's a pretty strong claim to make that Rust code has fewer exploitable bugs than other code without evidence. The fact that 70% of "exploitable bugs from large company products" are memory safety bugs does not imply that those products will be any harder to exploit when re-written in Rust, just that they won't have certain types of memory safety bugs - which happen to be 70% of the known exploitable bugs that have emerged.

One big reason why we have so many CVEs for memory safety bugs is that they are very easy to find with analyzers and easy to programmatically test. We currently live in a world where a lot of deployed code has not had the benefit of those analyses, but the attackers do. Hence the huge number of CVEs. Rust closes that asymmetry, which is significant.

It does not mean that we won't move on to a new class of exploitable bugs that show up due to a new class of analyzers.

Also, exploitation means a lot of things to a lot of people. The fact that it's really easy to crash a Rust program could also be considered an exploit (as a number of CVEs do).

Just using Rust does not save you from exploits. Using Rust well makes it easier to be safer.
Anders Hejlsberg: From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript
It wasn't fair use in the least. It was up to Dave & probably Comedy Central and the bad press would've done damage - it was a great move from a marketing standpoint. Not that commercial nature is a block for proper fair use (see: Weird Al's album sales) but other arrangements are...less clear at first sight sometimes.
Same. Haven't used WeeChat in a while, but I used to get a lot of value from using it with Bitlbee via a cheap VPS.
>Do the work so you don’t have to pray to a fake god to get what you want.

While I agree that work is needed...James 2:17 says faith without work is useless...that comment was straight up uncalled for.
It really depends on your security requirements and where you're coming from or what you're comparing it to. There would be still many advantages over, say, passwords stored in a pw manager, such as no shared secrets across all sites/apps, phishing protection, and far fewer opportunities for user errors.
Mortgages are ridiculously complicated.

All simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This stuff was invented long before computers --- like way back in ancient Babylon.

will fail spectacularly if your system used just a fixed decimal range.

Really? Wonder how the US economy gets by on a fixed decimal range? Have you ever paid for anything in fractions of a penny?

You cannot eschew floats in that case.

I'm sure it's possible to craft a "derivative" that no one understands using higher level math. But accounting and mortgages are all built around simple 4 function arithmetic. All you really need to do is insure you have enough range for penny accuracy and you can stumble by somehow.

See the routine I posted above in this thread.

NOTE: Nothing prevents you from using floating point math in an isolated routine if you think you really need it.

My real objection is using FP everywhere, including storage. This creates lots of potential problems that can be avoided by simply using integers. And with 64 bit processors, the required math is very efficient.
Had this happen at company that had unlimited wellness leave from day one and made a big deal about looking after people and still got dealt with ruthlessly.
The problem is developers pushing a technical choice of protocol with little regard for user experience. How does the XMPP protocol improve on the user experience? It doesn't unless you have a client/server implementation that can be deployed and showcases that power. Think SMTP and email. You want XMPP to work, find a simple way to showcase they power.

I've run the original jabberd server for an organizations internal chat server along with all the open source bells and whistles that go with it. Let me tell you I didn't once see the value of that except to save money and for privacy. But it was an organisation. If we want open federated communication the standout thing has to be the ease of use, the quality of experience and to actually highlight it's benefits. Right now I don't see that.
My grandfather died in his home after a short but severe illness with round-the-clock care from the family. It was relatively easy, as far as these sort of things are ever "easy".

My grandmother died a few years before that, after spending a year in a nursing home with a less severe illness. It just wasn't feasible to keep her at home: she couldn't really walk any more and half the family would have to pause their lives. I don't really know her opinion on that as we never really had that kind of heart-to-heart relationship, but I would certainly much rather be "put in a home" than be such a burden. My grandfather was very happy that his end was a swift one, so the family wouldn't have to put through a long drawn-out ordeal again.
No one uses PCs anymore... Relatively speaking.

Ever checked in on the youth lately? It's all smartphones, game consoles, iPads.

Students will use MacBooks/Laptops/Chromebooks for school if their course requires one but "devices" are the main computing device nowadays. Heck, even many non-technical business people have switched to iPads. Kiosks? Tablets.

The PC is no longer "the" personal computing device...
In my experience, engineering tools tend to not run well (or at all) on Linux, even with WINE. I don't mean SolidWorks and AutoCAD - programs like Compress, Caesar II, CFTurbo, MAGMA (not the CAS), Carrier HAP; in short, all those engineering tools you never hear the name of before you start working in the relevant industry.
I'm not so familiar with Zig, are you saying that the compiler fails to compile correct (i.e. according to spec) code?
When I was a contractor at a big company and the project was behind, they asked people to start working weekends. Employees were salaried and didn't get paid for the extra time. As a contractor, I tried to submit a report with "3 extra hours for saturday" and it was rejected - they said "We only pay by the day. Please re-submit with 8 hours, even if you only worked 3 hours".

Your setup is backwards and it's up to you to fix it. There are many things in your contract which are negotiable, but that all depends on your negotiating power.