skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these criticisms come across as pretty entitled and spoiled. Lots of places never give out any gifts, or give you a shitty cheap watch or a plastic company pen in recognition for 30 years of dedicated service.

The socks complaint really bugs me. If I received a pair of socks from my boss, as long as they weren't tube socks, I'd actually like and use them! As long as you don't love in the tropics, it's hard to have too many socks.

Company swag can be great when it's medium or high quality, or at least a bit exclusive.

A few examples:

* Medium- or high-end backpack, jacket, or other clothing embroidered with then coolest version of the company logo

* Soft and comfy team- or project-specific designed t-shirt or hoodie

* Branded shades or tennis shoes

* Cash is always nice, too

As long as the gift isn't offensively cheap or completely thoughtless, I wouldn't respond harshly or harbor any bad feelings. Any token of appreciation is likely better than none at all.

Perhaps best to be considerate and ask around beforehand and allow people to opt out from the gift? This could help minimize the likelihood of negative responses and feels.

p.s. Who remembers Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation? That was a quintessential example of an offensive company holiday gift; IIRC, without any warning, the cheap-ass boss swapped a long-standing cash bonus for a fruit club membership.
> But putting aside anecdotes, I'm talking about things we know Tesla has done. Like taking away battery capacity (with no compensation) for existing owners in order to reduce liability risk for the company. Or how about deciding to take away features from individual customers because they've determined that customer should never have had the feature? Something that costs Tesla nothing but is a great big middle finger to their customers.

Those are tiny examples that only applied to a really small number of users. Hardly some grand plans of fraud.

More relevant things would be FSD not being transferable, at least while its in Beta. That is actually user hostile.
Mamba 1.0 has been released
The verge is slowly becoming a GREAT outlet
I've personally taken to using Tumblr again after the last few months, and I've been hearing increasing talk of moving back to it with how things have been looking on Twitter, especially with the Musk takeover. This move couldn't have been better timed, and I honestly hope it serves them well.
“Secure 2FA” app is an odd title. A 2FA app is nothing if it’s not secure. The “secure” bit here is redundant. The fact that it has to be said is actually a red flag. Are you saying it’s secure because in reality it really isn’t?
This can't be the reason- lots of datastores let you customize the compression scheme of various subsets of data.
I can see why for legacy projects, but for new projects, what are they?
Ultimately it comes down to a numbers game which we can roughly estimate by looking at the number of STEM graduates generated by each country assuming the research output of each individual is roughly equivalent.

The US does have the advantage in that high performing individuals on the level of Einstein have a higher chance of emerging due to much more personal freedom and social mobility, but that is difficult to account for because someone like Einstein may or may not emerge in the next 100 years.
They absolutely are, anybody relying on the Colorado River and its compact are at risk, ie the southwestern US and Denver but particularly the southern division states like California and Arizona.

Was slightly worried to hear people thinking Ohio is at any risk of desertification is all :)
> except you can’t pay them to go away.

Has anyone tried?
It's possible that some green light improves aesthetics.
Each of the industries you mention has a tech stack which must remain modern. That means that new work will migrate to the language easiest to do the work and find workers.

It's gonna migrate away from C++ if C++ becomes "legacy."

Embedded systems work is perhaps the exception - since there will be old hardware in the field. But firmware parts go out of production within 2-10 years and so new drivers require creation and new features encourage a migration to a whole new system.
Workshop on Machine Assisted Proofs
This was made over 20 years ago. The 3do never had much success but it wasn't obsolete yet.
I don't really see why you would create a keyboard in this way.

> ...except 99% of all PCBs aren't that complicated. You don't need to know the specifics of RF in order to design a board that controls some LEDs.

There is a difference between creating something that works, which is easy enough to do, and creating something that is competitive on the consumer market, i.e. that BARELY works. This is the difference and why you would pay an EE to do this job.
I felt guilty about it, past tense.
I don't really know, but it seems like you could just short circuit all of that by just answering the fucking phone and not bothering with Bluetootha nd stuff.
I mean technically it’s true: Biden and the Democrats have caused record inflation, which caused them to increase….
"Don't use pointers" was definitely never in the style guide.
You’re not wrong that things can’t trivially be switched but it continues to highlight the need to switch to market pricing. Water has been subsidized so low for so long that it doesn’t factor in to planning at all. Letting rates rise would encourage a ton of efficiency improvements and relocation which currently aren’t even being considered.
Read "Ignition!" by John Clark. https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612 . Mostly about search for liquid rocket fuels, but talks about the industry as a whole to some extent.
Yeah title framing is a little misleading. They are track to be a part owner of 13% of subsea cables. The article is clearly focused on Meta but I don't think they're an outlier among big tech. Pretty sure Google is the only big tech company to own their own private cables and they have a bunch.
What usually happens is chaos and bugs.
Joel wrote about it in 2004: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
If they go vertical like Amazon they will soon be building the ships that put the cables down…
Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops
Summary:

UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used on the fossilized seashells from the Earth's current geological era to reveal patterns of color that had long since faded away. Now, scientists show that fluorescent color patterns can even be found in shells that are around 240 million years old, from the Earth's Mesozoic Era.
The majority of Protonmail accounts are used for dealing drugs on the darknet and similar things, nobody really cares much about bugs.
The folding@home approach is very limited to short individual simulation times (a millisecond total, maybe, but 100 disconnected nanoseconds at a time), so it then relies on various 'enhanced sampling' techniques to try to put your thumb on the scale to bias things into exploring interesting dynamics. It seems like it is probably more effective the more you already know about a given protein target. Meta's approach (which seems like AF2, but faster/worse?) seems to have a similar problem, in that it's even less trustworthy when you apply it to a new target you have relatively little concrete information about.
A large model for visual cortex brain-like robust, versatile visual processing
I like where you're going with this, and particularly with the increase of video calls, it's still strange to just pick up and see a person.

The flow I get people into is to communicate via text (slack, whatsapp, etc depending on the nature of the environment) with a "hey, is now a good time to call", or "I wanted to discuss XYZ", and we can then hash out the best method for communication.

The authors complaint is valid, but I think it is more of a UX issue, similar to what you're suggesting here.

Great handle BTW
U.S. FCC commissioner visits Taiwan to discuss cybersecurity, telecoms
If you go and look at the boards you'll find a lot of posters lean hard left.
It's not even fart. The developer didn't know that was a meaning in the US when he changed the name to that. It's the sound a Mastodon makes. This is 100% people projecting their own assumptions and judging based on that, not anything to do with the project. It's not even a meaning I considered back when he made the change, and it's one of the meanings in the version of English I speak. Folks tell on themselves when they get hung up on this.
Another way to say it: You can't move the goal post once you've started running towards it.
Santa Monica is not the source of the state's housing crisis, and in a democracy where power should rest at the local level, the people of cities like Santa Monica should be free to determine their future in terms of railroads and housing density.

There's an element of tyranny and expropriation in the YIMBY movement.
Phylum's extension framework is built on Deno for this exact reason. The ability to provide granular permissions was something we were really interested in.

Deno is a really cool project, imo.
True. I also like Python.

The problem is when you need 30 servers instead of one to manage your load, though, lol.
Egypt's difficult balancing act between the West and Russia
>If any app would allow me to have some sort of ability to let me set a level of "pain" (traffic, stoplights, smaller roads, extra turns) that's acceptable vs. a level of time savings, I'd use that app and never look back.

In all seriousness, have you tried Waze? Gives multiple options each time you search, allowing to choose routes that are simpler, or maybe partially but not fully use tolls.
Never thought I would see Al-Hallaj mentioned on HN. Even for a Sufi, he's very... off the beaten path.
My parents technically don't have a four digit local number any more, but it's the same† national number as it was back then. BT moved two digits from the exchange code to the local part when they digitised the exchange.

†: All UK national numbers gained an extra '1' after the leading '0'; I'm asserting that change doesn't count.
AB2656 may have also been killed because it was a victim of compromising too much and the proponents did not see much value in trying to get it across the finish line.

A developer having to (1) wait a year after submitting the approval to then "call into question" the deadline and then (2) wait another 3 months for a decision after that and then (3) sue the city for a court order to proceed

is not a "streamlined" process. In fact it's more or less what the process already is today in some cities. I'd much rather see a better system introduced, rather than that bandaid solution:

"If the completed environmental review is not approved within a year after submission [for some projects which fulfill X criteria], it is assumed compliant." with further safeguards like "a city must start the review process within 90 days and present major findings within another 90 days after that" to avoid the "we just started reviewing it a day before the deadline" delay tactic.
+1, there's so much more that may be going on 'under the hood'. Thanks for mentioning ME/CFS and Long Covid. Recently had to quit my job and postpone starting my university studies due to what I (and my doc) suspect to be a pretty severe case of Long Covid. Previously diagnosed with ADHD too, however I do have my own thoughts on that, especially among the rather young demographic I belong.

Bottom line is, I have arrived at a point where I can no longer power through or treat the symptoms only. Finding a root cause and healing myself is all I do right now. Even though I'm very young, I've successfully ignored all the warning signs before _something_ took me out completely. I consider it a great lesson, albeit the toughest one I've ever gotten by far. Here's to our healing.
I'm in the same boat as you: how exactly did the psychedelic experience affect a long lasting change. Here's my story of how psilocybin cured my existential depression. I had other insights during the trip, but this is my after-the-fact reasoning about why the trip was effective at alleviating depression.

I've often struggled with existential depression: Along the lines of "The sun is going to explode in a few billion years, what's the point in doing anything today?" This didn't really affect my day-to-day life that much, but I often struggled to be motivated because of this overhanging existential "what's the point?"

Dosage: 5g dried golden teachers, ground with burr grinder, soaked in lemon juice, and then consumed in one go.

Felt like nothing was happening all that much for an hour, but then a gradual come-up of an altered state, euphoria. My senses started merging: words had taste, sounds had color, etc. then I felt I was losing touch with reality (later realized this was my ego fighting to hold on).

Things that I thought were intrinsic to the human conscious experience started to break down: I lost an understanding of the concept of time (looking at my bedside clock was nonsensical), as the trip became more aggressive, I actually started losing the concept of 4D space-time. There was no differentiation between having my eyes open or closed. I felt like I had been blasted into a high dimensional space of many possible realities.

My brain couldn't make sense of this new experience. This was actually REALLY scary, not in a bad trip sense, but in a "holy shit, I'm kind of lost in this incomprehensible set of realities and have no way of navigating back home." I distinctly had the feeling like I was a god-like being that was literally constructing reality with my thoughts.

Ultimately I remember just completely relaxing into it and finding a crazy inner peace: white light, no sense of personal identity, no sense of time.

As I was coming out of the trip, I started to "rediscover" things: Oh! Time is just the relative ordering of events. Oh, THIS particular reality I'm in has 3 spatial dimensions.

Out of all the infinite, confusing, scary possibilities of existence, I returned to my life here on earth in this body. This made me feel so so grateful for THIS existence, in THIS body, in THIS reality. Almost felt like I'd again found the oasis of our reality in the desert of all possible realities. The gratefulness I felt after being on some metaphysical trip that had felt like a lifetime and being able to return to the familiar made me appreciate how wonderful existence is and how great it is to inhabit this reality.

tl;dr; Being blasted out into a scary confusing set of all possible realities and somehow finding a path back to this familiar reality made me really appreciate what I'd previously taken for granted.
Russian commanders discussed using nuclear arms in Ukraine, says US
In 15 years? Potentially we'll have brain interfaces by then. Just imagine the job you want done and you'll "see" in your mind's eye the existing solutions in your code-base and then on the (contemporary version of the) internet.
> if you get in at 7am on a workday, it automatically selects "work" as your destination. Then around 4pm, it will select "Home".

OK, but you need GPS navigation and maps to get between "work" and "home"?
Also there are genuine reasons to want to be able to type out slurs that aren't racist.

I have an interest in linguistics (complete with degree - so I'm not just saying that to be racist), and discussing something like 'how the use of ethnic slurs has changed over time in English speaking countries' or how the euphemism treadmill functions with regard to insults would be impossible with this filter in place. Similar as to how a hard coded 'no swears' would make it hard to discuss English infixes since the most obvious infix is 'fuck'.

Which is the exact kind of niche, pedantic, really nerdy small group discussion that is a good match for this.
Celebrities are people whose lives revolve around status. A blue icon loss might be funny to you and me, but to them it causes real distress because their Narcissistic self depends on such minor status symbols. It's really sad.
> Great, so they'll suck open street map data, but won't contribute back.

They already are.

> Same as apple, they'll build their own map in a private walled garden and suck bits off OSM but won't contribute back.

They already are and have for years.
Yep, a declarative mechanism would be nice like OAuth scopes.

Though, like scopes, I think many times packages would need broad access, but maybe not?
L’Oréal suspends advertising spending on Twitter
In his defense investors are very short term oriented. Unless you were an Amazon investor in the early days … investors these days seem to just care about quarterly earnings. I still think the meta verse is bullshit and Meta as a whole is a net negative to society (Instagram included) but… investors are not these long horizon angels either.
Ancient genomes reveal hidden history of human adaptation
Summary

The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of human evolution.
Somebody said Samsung?
Probably why the Nordstream pipelines were blown up in a hurry.
> repeatable playbook-like resources

Is there someplace we can find out more? I’m very curious.
Snark for me, not for thee
I thought that Java Applets (and maybe flash, I am less familiar) had an advanced security model, but it was exploit after exploit because of the huge attack surfaces?

I suspect you may run into similar sandbox escapes once things are complicated enough. So it seems like a good idea if they can be made bug free, but good luck with that?
> Skills trumps passion and following you passion is a bad advice.

It's hard to get really skilled at something if you're not passionate about it.
They've already shown they're willing to go vertical with the recent announcement about legs.
As far as I can follow your argument, it seems to be that the native tools perform better on the small inputs (that only ever take a second or three to complete), and that the creators ("maintainers"?) of Sucrase have their thumb on the scale or something, since they emphasize in their results the very large inputs that will involve longer running jobs where their tool has had a chance to warm up. In other words, the tools you're defending only do better when it doesn't really matter, and the tool you're downplaying outperforms the competition on the jobs where it actually does matter. If anything is backwards (or "stupid", as you put it) then that seems to be it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. In that case, please provide a better benchmark.
Some systems steer people into the pit of failure, others steer people towards the pit of success.
This is essentially the fine-grained control the Java Security Manager enabled. But hardly anyone used it and it was deprecated sadly.
The red content is intended to be supplied by a separate red LED. A red LED produces red much more efficiently than the phosphor on a white LED, so it saves power to leave red out entirely if you know it will be paired with red.
Hi Bob, I just want to say you're 14 -- don't worry about making money or success. There's plenty of time for that. And for coming to terms with the lack thereof. You're still a kid so get off Hacker News and go enjoy drawing pictures and making mediocre music. After all, unless your a child prodigy, what else could it be but mediocre? And that's more than enough! You won't get a second chance at being young, enjoy it while you can.
I imagine it varies wildly based on the project. How any other project behaves doesn't change the experience of working with the go project.

Comparing go to itself, I feel like they've lost some steam and are coping with the ecosystem steadily growing. I can't say for sure if that's the case, and I can have a lot of empathy for anyone just feeling exhausted all the time these days. That doesn't change the experience on the trying-to-contribute side of the interaction though.
World population by late 1990s was 6 billion. Landline audio phone calls were reliable with fixed guaranteed bandwidth, albeit expensive. Today there are more people, but has there been a linear increase in 1:1 calls? More bridge/group/conferencing calls, yes.
When one sees the last commit as 29 days ago, or the previous commit as 8 years ago, one can easily assume it wasn't code from 1995. So again. Why is this even interesting?
>Does that mean you get to just create a narrative?

Eh? GP was pretty clear in showing that the developers of the project are pro-censorship, not only in hard-coding in naive badword filters, but also in how they handle responses to requests on their own project

>Dessalines is the closest in that thread with telling people they can use voat or gab if they want to use slurs, which at least implies some racism

There is no "some" in their statement. They are saying that if you have a problem with blanket-filtering language, then that means that you want to use words that are designated as bad, and that only bad people use those words. It's purely black-and-white. Nobody could ever want to use those words in any other context, according to them

>that other dev Nutomic has a pretty inoffensive stance when he says "If you dont like it, fork it. Stop bothering us about it, we will never fully remove the slur filter."

On the contrary, saying that anyone who disagrees with you is a "bother" is offensive, especially if you flip-flop on your position and plug the change in anyways, which is what they did
Y'know, that's a great point. I actually don't know how things look from the parent's side--I can tell you for sure they don't have my number, but "Anna"'s number must be a business phone, as I know parents always have a number they can call.
You could also use systemd-homed with dm-crypt or cryptfs to have two users with two different encrypted home partitions.
i.e. -> In other wErds
Title is inaccurate; v7.20 (dot-twenty) was released.
Yeah I started using it out of curiosity, its very bare bones and not sure why I would use it over Chase
This seems like a good thing frankly. C++ sucks to work in (I have 10 years exp with it professionally). I’d never start a new project in C++. Maybe C for an exotic arch, but not C++.

Good riddance.
I wish they had broken down that survey question further to find out _how many_ spaces the highest paid developers use. Then I could finally have a data-driven answer to put in my prettier config!
Is replacing or supplanting entirely off the table?
They should allow porn too. Time to compete with twitter.
Apparently we'd need 5 hours of storage to reach 97% carbon free grid:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

It's rivers that are in short supply. Contrary to popular opinion, pumped storage doesnt require rivers. There are actually rather a lot of suitable sites for pumped storage - certainly a lot more than we'd need to hit that 97% mark:

https://www.dnv.com/news/estorage-study-shows-huge-potential...

For the last 1-2% - anything beyond what pumped storage and batteries and demand shifting can't handle windgas will suffice. Every kwh generated by synthesizing methane at 50% efficiency, storing and using it to generate electricity would still be cheaper than every equivalent kWh generated by a nuclear power plant. Yes, it's that expensive:

https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...
Even Gas cooktops without a pilot light are surprisingly inefficient with under 40% of the energy ending up in your pan. (Which is why the air several feet above the pan is so hot.) On top of this you end up venting air your HVAC system just used a lot of energy to make pleasant outside and/or breathing noxious fumes from incomplete combustion so Carbon Monoxide, NOx, formaldehyde etc

Induction stoves powered by natural gas power plants are more efficient than directly cooking with natural gas plus you can use clean solar/wind/nuclear/hydropower or oddballs like geothermal.