skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If so, I can’t believe anyone would sign up for that knowing your employer then directly knows you’re on blind

Why would anyone care?
We were just discussing how to do this today! How would you say your offering compares to, eg, Redox Engine, in terms of pricing and overall compatibility? Will you be open sourcing the entire stack, or keeping some parts proprietary?
"Vaxxas?" Who approved that name?
Retail stores can be started by anyone, and there are tons of optometrists that sell glasses from their own store.

The “insurance” company presents a higher barrier, since it is basically the government handing a discount to people for buying via employer subsidized vision “insurance”. The discount is that this benefit can be paid with pre tax dollars, so it obfuscates the real prices when people with vision insurance shop for eyewear.

I put “insurance” in quotes because the annual benefit maximums, like dental “insurance”, are so low that the premiums are simply prepaying for routine exams/eyeglasses. In effect, employer subsidized dental/vision insurance is just an advantage for large employers who can afford to administer those benefits and the employees who are lucky enough to work at those kinds of employers get to pay for routine dental/vision with pre tax dollars.
I worked on early versions of Midjourney
> what if they worked on something that was a good investment of their time?

It's not always obviously true that there is such a project. Neither companies nor teams are fungible enough to make this necessarily true, at least not to the extent that ROI is expected to be higher than a smaller more focused team.
Those quotes ain't generally bullshit. They are general and generic pieces wisdom - but of course, whether they are really wise, depends on the actual technology and the actual product and the actual problems.
This is one of the factors that make decently large, remote outdoor electronic events (bush doofs etc) such an experience. There's no better way to enjoy the tranquil surrounds of nature than slapping a giant Funktion One system into it.
The next HN Bansky?
I mean heat pumps are great but no need to require them. Gas is cheap too and when it gets expensive heat pumps will be even better
This is called yellow journalism and it has existed for a long time. While I disagree with it(I get these stupid things and have to throw them away) it's the side effect of a free press. People who are too confident their side will remain in power indefinitely insist on putting new limits on freedom of press.
AI and the Future of Pixel Art
For my solo SaaS company:

Backups:

- Backblaze (disaster recovery for my laptop)

Hosting:

- Cloudflare Workers

- fly.io (actually free when under $5/mo usage but I wish I was giving them money)

- AWS

Emails:

- Postmark
After messing around with emails that weren't being received (especially with email-only auth), glad I found Postmark

- Gsuite

- Dmarc Reports
Monitoring to see if I configured Dmarc correctly everywhere
Some of the comments below are talking about how to successfully argue against the move. Does your company have some history you can point out? We've had enough of these type guys and their failed space ship projects that any proposal for a language shift, or major framework adoption is viewed with skepticism first.

We've dealt with "new guy wants to overhaul ..." scenario. When I joined this company we were a C++ shop with some Perl and bash. Multiple new recruits successfully lobbied to implement refactors, or new projects in a hot language/framework. Several of the refactors were a huge waste of resources that either didn't come to fruition, or were only partially successful.

Now, we are a Perl shop with active development in 3 other languages(not counting front end), and we're maintaining legacy apps in an additional 4 languages. And we've deprecated apps in at least 3 additional languages.

I guess I should be thankful none of them have lobbied for switching databases. :-O On any given year, we average 3-4 programmers and 2-4 contractors(mostly front end) Two of us have been there 15+ years, but the other full timers seem to move on around the three year mark. Because of that all the hot shots have left. When a major bug is discovered in their code it can take a long time to fix, and any breakage due to upgrades is quite a hassle since those of us left aren't experts at every language we have to maintain.
Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores

(September 30, 2009) David Unger, from IBM Research, discusses how his experience in computer science has led him to the conclusion that even if your ideas succeed, the real legacy is the people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU
Saas - basically a monthly service
In Django, you would write an annotation as documented at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/db/aggregation/...

So something like

Album.objects.annotate(duration=Sum('track__length')).order_by('duration')

There are also libraries that enable you to define an annotation or aggregation inside a model, that you can then get with a call like select_properties, similar to the built-in select_related (which you use to get a foreign key in one query) and prefetch_related (which is select_related for many-to-many fields).
The coins failed because exchanges shouldn't even have been created in the first place. Bitcoin should have been as easy to use and ubiquitous as the US dollar. As we all know, cryptocurrency turned into stocks instead.
He could just move to Product Design for half the pay of a swe and the same treatment as a production artist. Worst of both worlds.
The acronyms are very twitter friendly.
It's worse than "shadow bank". It's bank who is allowed to print money at its whims and create any arbitrary leverage it wants.
Maybe they can furnish the rugs for adam nueman's new apartment/hostel thing...
What I love about this is how the design looks different from what you'd get if you designed a site in a more common way. Every tool has different affordances. And I love that you can see that in the site. It's immediately obvious that something about the creation of the website is unique
Damn. And I thought I was tough for holding the line against spam and popup ads at a 1-developer shop from 2001-2004. Thank you for your service.
Mojeek Focus – Distraction free search
I took an Ethics for Engineers course as an elective in college (sometime during the stone age). Wrote a paper on Therac-25. Had I not, I may not even been cognizant of the risk involved.

A single week lecture on this topic could move the needle.

Or regulators like FDA could demand to see corporate training materials given to software "engineers" (I concur on the quotes) on how to promote product safety.
National Advertising Division finds Comcast wireless ads are misleading
Sometimes when I think about how anxiety-provoking it must be to even _think_ about making Half-Life 3, I wonder if Valve might not be better off building something that completely defies expectations about what "Half-Life 3" should be instead of trying to meet those existing expectations and then inevitably disappointing a huge number of people even if they produce something pretty damn good.

What could it look like instead? Anything! I think a Divinity-style RPG Half-Life would be heaps of fun. Or a hero-based RTS that still has Gordon Freeman centre stage. I think basically any genre that can tell a story would be fine.

Of course this guarantees disappointing a lot of people, but I feel there's a lot better chance of Valve producing something creatively worthwhile this way than trying to make a "vastly better Half-Life 2", which is what most people seem to be waiting for.
Actually, it’s pronounced “charuto”, for cigar in Portuguese.
There are still some basic optimizations the Python compiler makes. It has, for example, a keyhole optimizer, and some built in optimizations around integer objects to name two.

It’s nothing too fancy, but it still does the basics.
You're still my hero
GitHub Actions for Elixir CI
it's perfect since it's a total sham to distract from the wedding wealth gap
doesn't quite achieve the same soft blurry effect as analog video recorded at 4-hour-speed onto a long VHS tape back in the day.
Oops, sorry, I copy-pasted the wrong link. Thanks for the correction.
> be kind

Absolutely not. I’d be neutral.
Sam Bankman-Fried No Longer a Billionaire After $14.6B Overnight Wipe-Out
Stories behind Bay Area tech company names (2015)
Even a quick glance at the number of sub-headings on the Wikipedia article on the Hellenistic Period shows his conquests had wide impact. [0]

Alexander was no Ozymandias.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_period
The wealthy owner class benefits heavily from this structure so don't count on it changing ever.
I am not a tank expert, but if I had a tank battalion, I would try shooting these things with the massive array of cannons.
I just bought from this store. Waiting for shipment

https://trf-ny.com/collections/soy-sauce/products/turubishio
Get your eyes tested and buy glasses at Costco.
Also if your prescription is a simple one, Costco sells off the shelf reading glasses for around $20 for three pairs.
The problem is that you need to be fairly far up the chain of mathematics and physics before you can build intuition about inorganic chemstry.

Oddly, organic chemistry is, to a certain extent, easier to build intutition about as the lower levels are a lot of "this reaction takes thingit A from the molecule and puts on thingit B with n% efficiency." This make organic very similar to solving jigsaw puzzles.
Probably mass-produced?

Glass lenses cost me Rs 1000 (about $12.5) a few months back (myopia, -5) - I'd say these were on the cheaper side, and no special coating (they cost as much as the lenses themselves!!). Frames on the cheaper end also cost around this much.
This is the best explanation of the eigenthings in my opinion. Too many people, this article included, reach for more advanced concepts to explain something as simple as "eigenvectors are how an operator transforms stuff and eigenvalues are how much."
This claim is not from Musk, but the author of that article.

> But the latest twist in this ongoing saga has resurfaced questions about what the popular social media site will look like under the leadership of a so-called free speech absolutist.

I think he’s being labeled as one in this article but it doesn’t seem like Musk is claiming to be an absolutist.
> The VC/Execs seem to have latched on to the idea of companies being overstaffed, and this narrative is being amplified by "tech influencers" as a way to explain layoffs. Without data to back this claim, I'm gonna treat it as just another unfounded claim.

I hate to be "that guy", but I've been saying the same thing for a few years, based on my observation that about a third of the software engineering staff does the vast majority of the actual useful work while the rest is playing around, not infrequently making life harder for the third of actually useful people.

I don't have hard data, just anecdotal evidence.

It's probably not a binary thing though: both could be true to some degree, and details will no doubt differ per company.
Social media employs some of the smartest, most well educated people in the world with the specific goal of you being 24/7 addicted.
Or freebsd jails.
> They failed to charge my credit card and now they removed all credits and said they cannot give it back.

I don't have any advice, but someone who would have advice would probably appreciate some clarity on the following:

How many attempts did they make to charge your credit card? How many emails did you receive about failed charge attempts? What kind of ultimatums/deadlines were stated in these emails in regards to your subscription or credits? After the first failed charge attempt, how soon were your subscription inactive and/or credits lost?
I guess they solve different purposes but I think the aesthetic is timelessly attention grabbing!
"I am chroot"
A container is not a process.

It’s an execution environment created by namespaces (mount, pid, network, others) and cgroups.

A container can house many processes.
> They also claim to use custom technology

Can I get them with a protective undercoating and extended warranty?
I've personally toasted 2 x M.2 NVME Boards confusing them with M.2 SATA. The key was close enough that I didn't realize the expensive error.
Engines usually push (their contemporary) materials to their limits so it's not really a surprise that they're harder to make from scratch. The infrastructure to make ICEs is one of the largest in the world and they are only so cheap because of their scale and production steadily getting automated since the post war consumer boom.

Making that automation, however, has been easier than ever! DIY CNC designs are a dime dozen ranging from routers to pick and places to mills, there are at least half a dozen serious open source competitors for the firmware to drive them, and the welding equipment and skills necessary to make a CNC rigid enough to cut steel is more accessible than ever (designs exist even!). All the parts you need for all kinds of mechanical contraptions and automation buildouts are available from McMaster Carr with same/next day shipping in some regions and there are even low cost open source robotic arms with six degrees of freedom! Something as simple as aluminum extrusions have created a sea change in how mechanical structures are built and modified from cells in automated factories to 3d printers to automated labs. Hell, you can make 3d printed liquid cooled rocket engine nozzle in metal by uploading a CAD file and test it in Mojave a few weeks later without ever touching manufacturing equipment. /rant
https://google.com/search?q=reddit+"Zenni"+"Payne"+"Eyebuydi...
I wish I could down vote this (submission of a Blind link).
Can someone link me to the I think google vid of what a container is
Show HN: Cloudflare Turnstile for Angular, a ReCAPTCHA Alternative
I saw a similar aggressively red warning on Mobile Safari. Apparently it uses the same database of "deceptive" pages.

I turned off "Fraudulent Website Warning" in Settings and then I was able to access your site.
Mandating buildings can sustainably regulate internal temperatures is a good policy, but I think mandating heat pumps in new builds is a bad way of doing that. There are other strategies that may be more effective, both in terms of cost and emissions, such as the use of district heating or designing buildings for passive heat management. Building codes should allow these to be used as an alternative.
eBay Messing Up Shipping Labels
My address is in the form:

Ste. xxxx

1234 Xyz Rd

Sometown ST

12345

eBay changed its shipping label generator sometime in October so that it shows:

Ste. xxxx

Sometown ST

12345

And your package lands in limbo. I just spent the better part of an hour in chat with 3 customer support people who end up saying we are sorry, but we have no way to get your misaddressed stuff delivered to you.

Hopefully an eBay tech will reverse the change. In the meantime, packages are piling up in UPS and USPS.

WORKAROUND: Put the street address on the first line in the address on your eBay account.
First of all, the date people first crossed the Bering straight isn't the genesis of the Inuit people. The rest of the Americas were colonised first, probably because the arctic is so inhospitable. Proto-Inuit culture only appeared a few thousand years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_people
I don’t even think the shipping benefit is all that great these days. Yes, you can get it fast, but what “it” are you getting? Usually, it’s some random Alibaba rebrand with a name like XXFOOJLI and ten thousand fake reviews.
The labor pool of software engineers is very diverse in terms of backbones, ethics and morals. It puts replaceable engineers in an awkward spot to object to unprofessional requests.

For an anecdotal example, I have been told that standing up for ethics in software engineering would have negative consequences on my performance (implied: bonus, promotions, career). I have left that company, and they probably found someone more agreeable to replace me.

I don't know how we can force ethics onto companies, especially large corporations who receive thousands of applicants into engineering roles each week. There do not seem to be good incentives for engineers to be overly concerned with the overall ethical impact of their work. And so there are many engineers who won't ready to replace those who would.
> "Containers" are a mix of two major pieces of technology. One is cgroups, the other is namespaces.

I respectfully disagree with that definition of what a "container" is.

cgroups, namespaces, and so on are an implementation detail of how containers are commonly implemented on linux these days.

OpenVZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ) and Solaris Containers (aka zones) both predate the current linux implementation and did not use namespaces or cgroups.

All three of those ways of running containers are containers. unshare/namespaces/cgroups is just one possible implementation. There are also, certainly, other ways of implementing containers, so it feels wrong to define it in terms of just one specific, admittedly the most popular, implementation.
Hell, I welded in a shipyard for a while after the first .com crash. Fallback skills of all flavors are useful!
My school required a software-focused ethics course in order to graduate with a CS degree. It was great—one of the few courses that I lean on on a regular basis in my work.

Good on you for taking it as an elective, but it's weird to me that any degree in any topic can be accredited without having a mandatory ethics course, let alone a degree in a science/engineering field.
When you lose weight, where does it go?
Vax as is Aussie as.
You mean you forced an M-key drive to go upside down into a B-key slot despite the misalignment of the key?

I think I've only ever found B-key slots in adapter cards that have one M-key slot for an NVMe drive and one B-key slot for a SATA drive, but it would be hard to miss the distinction when they're right next to each other like that.
yeah, it sucks pretty hard. i ended up running something like

for (let img of document.querySelectorAll('img')) if (img.dataset.ezsrc) img.src = img.dataset.ezsrc

in the browser console
you dont learn anything useful in 2h of heavily romanticized hollywood fiction
The thing I find frightening about AI image generation is the speed of iteration. Some of the images generated by Midjourney within seconds would take a human artist quite a long time to create. You can take a complete work from a paid human artist and run it through some prompts to get closer to the result you were looking for while retaining most of the original work.

Even if AI don't completely displace concept artists in the immediate future, it will certainly displace at least some portion of a human concept artist's workflow. I think the "detail work" for concept art is a good candidate to be offloaded to AI. Why pay an artist to paint every blade of grass when you can just take their rough draft and apply a series of "incredibly detailed grass texture" (etc) prompts to it?

Imo, the writing on the wall is pretty clear. While I'm sure that human concept artists will continue to find work, I'm pretty sure they'll be fighting an uphill battle, and probably won't feel very valued after awhile.
I went through Linear Algebra I & II where eigenvalues & eigenvectors played a central role many a time and I was left with no elucidation regarding their practical applications.

Now I know that eigen*s (at risk of egregious oversimplification) can characterize systems and transformations, they are fundamentally widely applicable. Think of stretching narrow an arbitrary 2D image on a non-cardinal axis; an eigenvector can be a key factor that describes that transformation.
There's a setting on the Firefox desktop version; I guess it's not exposed in the Android version for some reason. These mobile phone browsers tend to be "dumbed-down" in general. Not hard to imagine it just re-uses the same error message from the desktop version, probably just as a simple oversight.
In some jurisdictions, software engineer is a protected job title that requires professional licensing (ever wonder why Google only hires "developer" in their Waterloo office but "engineer" elsewhere?). IIRC the engineer that wrote the code for the Volkswagen scandal was jailed for failing his professional obligations.

For OP's case case, I'd assume/hope a professional engineer would need to sign off on this change or be able to tell the VP to f off.
Agreed and thanks! I actually didn't realize that tweet reply to your original reply was also from you - it's what got me thinking about clear engineering codes of conduct in the first place.
The issue with Brazil is that only a tiny handful of elites own and benefit from all of the resources. Income inequality is through the roof.
It is your responsibility to be physically, mentally, and financially healthy. Do what you need to do to make that happen. Can't support wife, kids, and parents if you're dead.
A DSL for differential-dataflow would be great. A big niche/yawning chasm for such a DSL to fill would be to allow for runtime dataflow programs (i.e., to have a parser/interpreter that then relies on differential-dataflow).
Sure, but his explanation of that point is vastly over simplifying what is happening. `Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget` implies that they are basically the same when in fact the technology behind containers more or less completely rewrote the way that the kernel thinks of processes in order to work properly.

Rather than trying to associate containers with chroots, it would have been way better to go the other way. You ssh terminal? That is effectively a container. Xorg? Yea that's a container too and for convince they share the same resources. There is absolutely nothing that says that the desktop need run in the same namespace as init or that two users logged into the same machine need have the same view of the file system and networking setup. `ls /` from one user can return a completely different set than `ls /` from another and all of this is because containers are just processes, and processes are way more than just a pid in a table.
The gist of it is:

- get a calibrated mic

- use REW (Room EQ Wizard, free) to take several measurements in your room, in the listening area(s)

- REW will average them and generate an inverse EQ curve to compensate

- you can export the parametric EQ settings and use them anywhere that supports parameteric EQ such as EqualizerAPO (windows, free) or CoreAudio parametric EQ units (Mac, free) or in a standalone hardware device like the MiniDSP (~$100 IIRC)

you can always tweak the parametric EQ curve to suit your personal taste, like some extra bass or extra treble to compensate for aging ears (like mine)

have fun and good luck!
What happens in other engineering disciplines is the government revokes your license if you make a decision that violates your discipline's standards. Companies can't generally just force their engineers to do irresponsible things because even if they fired you and hired someone new, that new person would be putting their own future employability on the line by conceding. Better to get fired from a bad firm than to have to find a new career.

Obviously this doesn't solve all the problems, but it works as well as any solution I can think of.

The caveat when it comes to software is that coming to a consensus of what the standard procedures and policies should be would be nearly impossible. If and when software joins the licensed engineering fields, a lot of people are going to be very upset at whatever the requirements end up being.
How do you “control”, when it’s a (high quality) report of a single autopsy?

The idea would be to encourage other autopsies which look for similar pathology.

The key thing here is finding spike protein WITHOUT CAPSID protein in areas where the vaccine was not supposed to produce any protein (brain and heart). The foreign mRNA was supposed to stay at the injection site in the upper arm.