skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/26/signal-says-it-will-exit.... Thanks!
>What followed was a vile and vitriolic rant about how their kid was the leader of the Lego robotics team, and maybe it's because you aren't assigning them the right work, and on and on.

The quality of American parenting has taken a big nose-dive in 10 years...
Thanks. Again this article does not link to the supposed draft bill, and what it actually says. They directly jump to saying government wants to "intercept". How does the Govt propose to intercept? What was actually proposed in the bill? They also say the Govt. is seeking public feedback on the draft. Ideally this news source should link to the draft in question so that people can read, and raise their objections.
I remember the very moment in my first year of phys undergrad when it clicked for me that what I was learning in my ODE, lin-alg, and classical mechanics were all related. It was like this 'holy shit it all makes sense' moment.
I forgot how early Lego went with controlled electromechanics. Even before mindstorms they had some kind of electromechanical drawing board.
Its was a proposed law (to solicit feedback). Signal is not exiting but would exit if such law comes to India.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/govt-proposes-law-...

But Telecom Authority of India rules out any immediate intervention.

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/trai-rules-out-reg...

I couldn't quote from the article here but looks like they are going to wait till clarity emerges from International jurisdiction.
Tell me how Shelby County vs Holder was not ignoring the law?
> They don’t officially support non-cloud use.

Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud.

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
Australia is very large country with relatively few humans: only one continent (Antarctica) and one country (Mongolia) have lower population density.
That’s absolutely insane because it’s a blatant lie.

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
> I'm guessing it's making your own ammo yourself, yes?

Yes. It's mainly done for two reasons: cost and performance.

If you use a lot of ammo you can reduce your net costs. Depending on what you shoot the cost savings can be substantial, especially if your firearm is not a common type.

You can achieve higher performance (accuracy, power, etc.) as well. Refining the 'load' (primer, powder and bullet are the main variables) to a particular firearm, as well as precisely controlling materials and assembly, can improve accuracy.

Lately, availability has also become a motivator. Ammo scarcity can sometimes be worked around by acquiring components and assembling them yourself.

Anyhow, it's a common pursuit and a continuation of historical practice; at one time everyone made all of their own ammo. The downsides are the time and equipment necessary, including space to accommodate it all, which needs to be dry and clear of unrelated traffic, and the possibility of injuring or killing yourself or others if you do it wrong.

I've done it and it suits geek type mentalities; a multidimensional optimization problem involving obscure knowledge and refinement. It's quite a thrill to touch off a round you designed and assembled.
They're both open source licenses just slightly different ones (gpl2+CPE and upl I guess). Sun liked to use odd licenses.
Isn't this what Bill Barr and the Trump administration wanted, too?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-wi...
Can't figure out if Musk's brain lacks an anchor, or he does this on purpose to keep people guessing.
"Getting shit to work" is more foundational to machine learning than you would think, and containers helps a lot with that. If you want to train models on someone else's machine - and you probably will, for anything big - you need to know a little about how that sort of thing is done today.

And if you want to try two different deep learning frameworks, dependent on different versions of cuda, and want them to not break each other, God help you if you try that without containers.

It's not that they don't have a "course in docker". I understand that. It's that they haven't even heard of it, so they don't even know where to start to look for solutions to problems like that. I have been through that pain myself.

Containers is just one of so many easy things, that make your job so much easier, I've learned the painful way in 20 years as a developer in (mostly) non-elite companies, where no one else knew it either because they hadn't been taught at the local universities, because no one there knew it either.
I cannot add enough grievance when I say wholeheartedly, Let's keep it about technology and engineering, please
Supernote A5X vs ReMarkable 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfK3YCXujxA
Looks good! The design is, hm, very opinionated, but well done.

Shameless plug - last year, I solve my New Tab page too :-) And it shares a lot of ideas with yours - https://new-tab.vlad.studio/
no, i am not disappointed at all. if anything, i sympathise with you. the older i get, the less i care about the nitty gritty detail of how should i set my editor up. i just want to install editor which detects (and installs the ide-like tooling support) the programming i use, churn some shitty code away, and be done with it. nowadays, like you, i just use vscode and vsvim. most of the time, it works and that is what matters.
My commute is 80 miles each way - I would have left that job long ago if I didn't have "autopilot" reducing the mental effort of the drive.YMMV
This was a joke right?
Maybe he doesn’t have time now to write words on HN on the topic of reloading a gun, but if he did there would be more ammo for his point.
The job that started my tech career was in tech support. It was for a storage company in the very early 2000s. I ended up becoming a technical account manager, then went to a startup where I continued the role but also got into light sustaining engineering (digging for kernel bugs using core files uploaded by customers).

It was incredibly informing. I learned so much about people, and process, and business that I never would have seen on the pure developer side. For the last 15 years I've had a fruitful career as a storage engineer, devops, and in cloud development. I owe my career, my debugging skills, and my understanding of business to those first roles in support.

I'd never do it again.
Changed from https://twitter.com/PlayTheManPod. Thanks!
The fallacy here is to assume either Adelaide or Melbourne are in the correct time zones with respect to the solar day.

Prior to 1895, Adelaide ran at solar time, GMT +9:14. When time zones were introduced, they went for GMT +9:00, but changed to GMT +9:30 after only 4 years. This probably reflected the reality that more people in SA live east of Adelaide than west of it.

Meanwhile, Sydney only had to put the clocks back 5 minutes to move from solar time to GMT +10:00, while Melbourne had to move the clocks forward 20 minutes to get into the same time zone as Sydney. (Both changes happened in February, 1895.) If we're going to have half-hour time zones, Melbourne is in the wrong one; it should be in the same zone that Adelaide currently uses.

So, in summary, by solar time Melbourne should be 20 minutes behind Sydney's current time zone and Adelaide 46 minutes. As there is a substantial population living on the NSW–Victoria border, not putting Melbourne at UTC+9:30 makes some sense. The same isn't true of SA's borders with Victoria and NSW. And so, we ended up with the current compromise, adopted in the era when railways and telegraphs became dominant.
Thanks for explaining. I definitely don’t want to have a “connected” or “cloud first” experience. If I wanted to get locked in with a cloud, I would probably to find bigger players, at least they are more likely to be around in few years.
Relative to human eyes the Tesla cameras are blind.
Aahaaa... What about already existing projects or front-ends? Nobody should use workers because there are other languages out there and also because lucasyvas said so with a playful smile
While the RM2 is probably the simplest/easiest to use, there are actually a lot of other eink tablet manufacturers - Boox, Supernote, Fujitsu Quaderno, and Quirklogic are probably the ones I'd look at. They have different tradeoffs on features, cost, size, etc but all can do roughly the same thing (allow paper-like notetaking, outdoor reading, etc).
I'm in a similar boat. But try as I might, I have yet to find a solution for the "I forgot the email address I registered with, and I am too nervous/confused/unimaginative to try my other email addresses, nor will I click the 'Trouble logging in link?' to help myself, so I'll send you an email from an address you have no record of (using my maiden name), while providing no further information to help identify myself, demanding that you tell me my credentials" people.

I get just the right amount of these emails so it's not worth hiring someone for, while still enough to drive me nuts.

I wish there was a support-as-a-service company that had non-outsourced employees (not contractors) and charged per-minute (or 6 minutes) for support, with some fixed cost for training them how to use your app, and handle basic support questions.
Agreed, really compelling, great writer.
Texas v. White was a lot more complex than that; Specifically, the court claimed that the Constitution, in its effort to "form a more perfect union," precluded secession. Secession was inherently unconstitutional, because its foundations are that the "more perfect" union is imperfect and not salvageable by any action - short of divorce.

Supreme Court Justice Salmon P. Chase in 1869, Chief Justice at the time:

"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."
Because they are guaranteed to be what it says on the label. When you get your drugs from the street, you have no way of knowing what you are ingesting unless you take a sample to a mass spectrometer every time.
Ask HN: What is the best cloud storage provider for Linux?
Hi HN.
I am looking for cloud storage, which has:
- sync on demand
- can be mounted as a drive on Linux
I use https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer for quite some time.

No useless bells an whistles (sorry author), no external API references, blazingly fast, nicely done
I found what appears to be an actual ID card you order for your cat (1 - Japanese), (2 - translated). It even has a place to specify where they like to be petted!

May resolve GP's problem as it has a spot for the birthday.

1: https://pawmy.jp/product/cat-license/

2: https://pawmy-jp.translate.goog/product/cat-license/?_x_tr_s...
Which programming paradigm had the most impact on you as an engineer and why?
If your style of programming or the way in which you approach designing solution to a problem has been severely affected (positively) after learning a programming paradigm, which one is it? Why and how do you think so?
Both were authorized by Congress though?
Isn't it time for rethink with 83 percent decline in freshwater population
>This is quite rare, something found nowhere else except Nepal and in a few small, isolated corners of the globe. Visitors entering or leaving ACWST have to remember to set their watches in the proper direction either forward or back by 45 minutes.

New Zealand has a time zone with +45 minutes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Standard_Time_Zone
Some people think the state of Texas is big. (it's 268,597 sq. miles)

Some people think the state of Alaska is big. (it's 665,400 sq. miles)

The state of Western Australia is 1,021,000 square miles.

(This image is to scale, although many people can't believe it - https://www.facebook.com/theroadchoseme/posts/pfbid02YboSbqN... )
AM Stereo
I see you're looking to apply to our technical position. You will be happy to find we have excluded salary from this posting to assure your heart is really in it for the career and development! We see you have a resume to attach, please copy and paste every field into a separate box, and make sure to give us the phone number of the manager you had in 2003 and also the day you started. Excellent, now we will ghost you or if we are interested we may put you through 6 rounds of hiring interviews where you can explain to non-SME's why you deserve the opportunity to work here. Great, now complete 34 modules on sensitivity, espionage, theft, and how to operate doorknobs.
Title was submitted as "AM Stereo" but was munged by HN.
Submitted title was "AppleScript: Control your Mac with an e-mail" - we've reverted it now. Thanks!

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's already unofficial, so the government can hardly get rid of it. Apart from maybe being convenient for the locals, I suspect the real reason is that it benefits tourism. It gives tourists another reason to visit and it generates publicity (here we are discussing it on HN). If the government does have an opinion it would probably be support, in that it generates tourist dollars and doesn't inconvenience anyone, apart from a few people who might miss out on happy hour in the pub.
> You know, I'm not supposed to be snarky, but in all seriousness, there is a saying about encountering jerks everywhere you go.

The saying you refer to and your comment are both obtuse ad hominems, and I'm not sure who would mistake it for wisdom. I'm far more like hemorrhoids: I endlessly irritate assholes.
It's Automattic, not wordpress.

It is also not measured in months.

Rotations into Support (for a week IIRC) once a year used to happen as it was deemed important, until the day it was no longer important and was stopped.
I am looking for that proposed law to understand the provisions. Can you please give me a link to that if it is available.
The standard library can't ever remove anything because of the Go compatibility promise, and a certain percentage of it is mistakes. Once some functionality is later realized to be poor or incorrect, and the design prevents fixing it, there is not much that can be done other than telling people not to use it anymore. What you refer to as the worst of both worlds is unfortunately inevitable, but at least it's in service of a greater goal.

edit: clarity
Too bad the Maginot line is mentioned only in passing in the blog - the Maginot line really is a testament to the failure of central planning and bureaucracy to produce and execute on ideas that stand the tests of time and battle. A drastic (but mostly true) oversimplification is this: France, seeing Hitler’s military buildup, created an impenetrable fortress along the border and sucked the life out of the French economy to build, supply, and man it. One failure was the inability to see that German light armor could navigate the Ardennes forest and circumvent it. Another failure was that the massive gun turrets periodically embedded in the fortification were designed so that they couldn’t be rotated to point back toward France; as a result, they couldn’t be used to defend against an army which had circumvented the wall. So, in the end, the French had simply provided the Germans with a massive cache of ammunition, food, guns, and other supplies which were all stocked within the Maginot fortification. Here’s the wikipedia entry for anyone interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
That’s one of the main selling points of Remarkable. It was never targeted at “most” people.
Thank you for sharing. I suppose you're right, maybe it's the nature of internet discourse that just pushes everybody, no matter how measured or nuanced, into a box.
Matrix is great, but it leaks a ton of data.
> Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration

These are cloud services.

> Handwriting conversion

> You need to be connected to Wi-Fi and logged in to your reMarkable account.

> Read on reMarkable

> Once you’ve logged into your account and sent content to your reMarkable paper tablet, you can review, annotate, and focus on the task you’re working on without any distractions.

Almost every use-case requires some sort of connectivity to a cloud. No mention of USB.
I drove next to a guy on the highway that was sleeping in his tesla. his head was cocked backwards with his mouth wide open probably snoring. we were probably going 70mph.
People really have warped perceptions of different Asian nations. As someone that has been a resident of most of them they are mostly all like China... which shouldn't be surprising there is a lot of shared cultural history in the region and by and large they are more collectivist societies.

Some are obviously worse (looking at you Myanmar) but most are various shades of authoritarian (Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, etc) and most have heavy censorship (yeah the same culprits again).

This shouldn't surprise anyone and yet it always seems to.
Smart people don’t dictate things, majority does.
>For more than 2 decades now, Intel processors have included SSE "extensions" with a whole bank of 128 bit registers (XMM0 thru XMM15) with specialized math instructions for integer and floating point.

That's interesting, since Intel did not add 128 bit wide integer math in SSE. Those 128 bit registers were SIMD, meaning multiple data, meaning at most 64 bit integers. Later extensions (not two decades back) added larger registers. I wrote the article for Intel for the release for AVX in 2011 [2], where Intel expanded the registers to 256 bit (still no 128 bit integer math). But there has certainly not been 128 bit wide integer operations for two decades. There has been 128 bit registers split into at most 64 bit sized components, the M in SIMD. I also wrote decompilers for Intel binaries, and just looked through that code, and again, no 128 bit integers. Are you confusing 128 (or 256 or 512) bit wide registers that are split into components as actually 128 or 256 or 512 bit integer registers? Are you making stuff up?

Intel intrinsics denote register size and SIMD size. For example, _mm256_add_epi16 means use 256 bit registers, and add packed integers of 16 bit size. There are no _epi128 intrinsics, only size 8,16,32,64 [1]. Another interesting place to look for these 128 bit integer instructions is [3]. Lots of IntN for N = 8,16,32,64, none for N=128. Here's [4] the Intel Software Development Manual from April 2022.... Also not seeing them. Section 4.6.2 lists supported data types - not a single 128 bit integer on that page. I don't see them in the AVX and other extension sections either.

So I'm super interested in your compiler and language that automatically emits 128 bit wide integer SIMD instructions for Intel, since they are not in the opcode or intrinsic lists. Please name the language and compiler, and even post some working code to demonstrate this auto extension to 128 bit math.

And, if you're using 128 bit registers, why would you pick 64 bit math, which fails for all the cases above? You still have not addressed that any size register fails on the examples I posted above, including your auto-extending non-portable compiler tricks.

For example, $100000,8000,365,100 fails even on 128 bit, 256 bit, even infinite bit length registers. Because your algorithm itself is bad.

So, care to post your compiler, language, and code? Also, why did you keep telling us it was 64 bit when it wasn't?

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

[2] https://hpc.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/intelAVXintro.pdf

[3] https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html

[4] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
Proposed law draft (I hate that news outlets do not link to the law they discuss)
https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft%20Indian%20Tele...
I am a twitchy shooter guy but I fell in love with this one almost immediately. Everything about it, besides the technical part, is excellent. Performance was horrible and the same thing happened to Mankind Divided, as well. Great games, horrible technology
As a Brit it's more weird to me that in late 2022 anyone is still talking about a "Covid Pass".
Every time a new Gov gets in it feels like they roll this crap out.

Those in the top of the power tree really seem to dislike the idea that anyone not them can keep secrets from them.

Its exhausting as it never seems to be a well thought out, technically or philosophically sound argument.

Are we doomed to never have technically competent leadership?
I thought Matrix homeservers had access to way more metadata than Signal. Is it better than what I thought?
On search:

IDEA out of the box has:

- fuzzy text search across your entire codebase. Supports regexes, when you need them

- fuzzy text search for symbols only (e.g. when you only need to search for method names etc.). Supports regexes, when you need them

- fuzzy text search for file names

- Ctrl/Cmd + click, or Ctrl/Cmd + B on any symbol, and you'll get a list of all the places where this symbol is used (e.g. a method name that's called from various places in code, including test code)

No extra plugins, or setting up keybindings, needed.

With vim though... Even discussion on search devolves into listing which tools everyone uses, with which options, and a discussion on how circumvent their limitations.

Edit: esp. with search almost every year there's a new tool that you absolutely must use because it's better than the previous tool. ripgrep, ag, telescope, treesitter, semgrep, use them all!
Opus patent trolls are pleasantly surprised :(
Your story sounds like mine: my earliest memories involve not being able to sleep. I found out later it runs on my father’s side of the family. Bad news is, if you’re a primary chronic insomniac like me, you will never “recover”. The best you can do is cope. That said, the best advice I ever received came from a neurologist who wrote textbooks on the subject: limit your time in bed to 7.5 hours, regardless of how much you sleep. That, in combination with meds (which I have to rotate because of desensitization), made me sleepy at night for the very first time in my life. Pleasant dreams!
It's a daily planner, if I'm not mistaken.
No I’m being sincere. Clarity is more important than performance. This is a very thoughtful decision, it relieves devs of the idiotic pressure to micro optimize.
"One test is worth a thousand opinions"

I worked at a SMB where everyone in the company had to perform some customer facing duties every month. No, we weren't terrible at it, and it helped all of us gain an appreciation of a different point of view. No customer was pissed off (in fact some were impressed when they realized they were talking to senior management), and while the company is no longer in business (for various other reasons) there was no noticeable harm caused by this.
There's a hilarious video where you can see a modern Tesla utterly failing at parking while an old Tesla with mobileye works just fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA
Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
Professional CV:

I have experience.
I am willing to work in exchange for fiat.
I look forward to joining the team.

Seriously though, read the fucking resume. I am not here to stroke an hiring manager's corpo boner on how gratified I am for the opportunity to apply to wagery nor will I be conflating my world view on being part of a TEAM. I give you a service, you give me money. We are not friends, we are not family, this is business.
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