skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that treating the adversarial and anti-business (and, dare I say, inhumane) US immigration policies as simple facts of life is a mistake. These are not stone tablets carved by a god; these are policies that people presently living dreamed up and implemented. They were made and they can be unmade.

Life isn’t unfair nearly as often as US immigration policies are unfair.
I've been to Lunettes pour Tous stores https://lunettespourtous.com/ in the past. It felt revolutionary, because you could walk in, get an eye test, and have your glasses made within 30 minutes at the same store, at a very reasonable price.

It looks like they deliver as well. Hard to describe their price range as they have a million options you can pick as part of the ordering process - easy to end up with something well under 100EUR though without picking all the cheapest options.
As someone who immigrated to West. I was initially shocked by people's attitude. At times I was outright told that you are

* Filling diversity quota

* Cheaper

* Economic migrant

The worst part about this is that I was working doubly hard, paying insane taxes while paying insane rents. But eventually I realized people saying these things are just looking for their psychological safety. Of course such people are a minority and usually from lower rungs of society. When they see foreigners coming over and living a better life, they come up with abstracts and conspiracy theories. Sad to see such people filtering onto HN. This place has always been forward looking, so far.
A customer wanted to have multiple nodes running Minima for a network switch, IIRC.

Having Genera/Ivory boards in a Mac was also seen as a delivery vehicle. For example:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Mac...

"MacIvory Delivery is not suitable for application development or debugging.... MacIvory Delivery is tailored for delivery environments"
After a bit more trying out, can I just say this looks like a really well made tool! I'm going to use it for real for keeping track of a couple of private projects.
> I'd be surprised if they didn't receive reallocation package (16k USD according to teamblind?).

Are you sure they will be allowed to keep it? Relocation package is usually tied to one year work period in the new location and you have to give it back if you leave earlier than that.
Every person involved in software engineering should be aware of CI/CD and use it all the time, not only "devops people".
Qt has solved this problem in a pretty neat way
Twitter – Archiveteam
The problem with this approach is that reality is the opposite.

Good/best practices are rarely followed, maybe 20% of practitioners actually follow them in any field.

So that means that on a daily basis, about 80% of people need to work in those "broken" environments.
Well, we got selected on our 3rd attempt. The first time we had our MVP and followed the approach of not needing the product. The second time we had a full-fledged product but not a proven PMF. The third time is where we had a decent product, 50K+ app installs without any performance marketing, 45% MoM user retention.

Our success was purely based when we ticked all three boxes: 1. Product 2. Team 3. Growth
The article explains that:

>On my laptop it takes about 20ms to do the search above with 16 characters - but by doubling the input string size to 32 characters, it takes over 12 minutes to finish. Exponential running time really does suck.

I checked with 32 characters on regex101, and it says "Match 1 halted after 119986 step(s)" when you click the debug icon (click the message above the regex input box).
Interesting, but after doing about 50 I found I was getting the correct answer 100% of the time
Show HN: A simple, super-cheap DALL-E 2 GUI
I was running some tests and realised that it's up to 6 times cheaper to play with Dall-e 2 using their API instead of their editor (plus the API is pay-as-you-go).

This isn't anything complex or impossible to achieve using Jupyter notebooks. But some of my friends found it easier to use, so here you go.

To use, get your API key and start writing prompts.

More info and GH links: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1591138659297726464
Because they don't deliver to europe.
Just some random observations for context:

Comparing the darkness of graphite to black ink, I find that pencil begins to look as dark as ink at around a hardness of 7B.

I personally can't write cursive with a woodcased pencil softer than 4B. Even then I have to renew the point every half dozen words.

Mitsubishi Hi-Uni have probably the overall highest quality for woodcased graphite pencils. That's considering the case wood, the finish, the consistency between pencils, the lack of grit in the graphite, etc. Other brands may offer something you prefer in a particular case.

Faber-Castell 9000 tend to be lighter by grade than other brands. Their harder grades are reputed to be firmer and smoother than usual.

Staedtler Mars Lumograph have added carbon in the mix to reduce glare, making the graphite look blacker. The softer grades are a bit darker than other brands. I have found quality and darkness to be rather inconsistent, though.
Fwiw I understand why people despise Don. But I don't understand the blind dedication to hate, especially when other politicians and leaders pull similar shenanigans and then there's crickets.

If you're violently against X or Y that's fine. But apply the rules evenly, fairly, and rationally. When you hate so hard and so long that you lose your compass...that's irrational.

The majority of Trump haters fall into this bucket.
I'm not really sure this is a low value theoretical question. Here is a fun application:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/2955491.2955678

Using SR to find an invertible function which can effectively linearise its input. I don't think it is too difficult to think of applications where discovering relationships in terms of a limited set of operators is useful.
Obviously not true for many countries. In Sweden we often use English even for domestic contracts. I've seen employment agreements in English between a Swedish company and a Swedish employee.
It's still possible to perform while being less able to get gigs, less able to come up with good jokes, less able to make those jokes relevant, increasingly feeling the jokes are superfluous as everything seems to get at satire-level status by itself, etc - in other words while "not being able to perform" and being slowly put out of a job.

Which was the point (and even made in jest)...
Seeing as Twitter is becoming increasingly erratic, one begins to wonder about the chances of abrupt data loss.
4 meetings in two weeks? You are being precious if you think thats a lot. 80% of time on work is a lot most businesses average 60%.
The particular attack vector mentioned in the original post could be mitigated by not allowing users to change their iCloud password from their unlocked mobile devices without either additional Face ID verification or entering their current iCloud password.

Furthermore, the ability to log yourself out from all other devices seems more harmful than useful, too. Other than all of my other devices having been stolen, what's the potential use case here? If my iCloud password has been compromised but I still have a device that password is currently used on, why wouldn't I be want to still be logged in on that device for the time being?

Other than that, some alternative way of remotely wiping and bricking a stolen could be helpful and might work as a deterrent for thieves, too. For example, similar to how 1Password does this, Apple could allow their iCloud users to generate a master key that would authenticate in such a situation and authorize them to carry out such actions.
Importantly, "ITEN batteries do not need to have as high capacities as they can be recharged with energy harvesting techniques".
I felt like kind of a numbskull when I made the observation that "Asahi" must be a similarly diversified company (Asahi Pentax cameras, Asahi beer) and was informed that "Asahi" means morning or rising sun by some patient soul.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi
GPT-4 Rumours from Silicon Valley
If you are in Spain : https://greyhounders.com
> Doesn't have to inevitable, though. They literally have all the data.

Even if you have all the data, lets say there is a 4 person team being reduced to 3 during this redundancy - What do you do? Fire Anne instead of Peter purely because Peter joined the team more recently? Sure that sounds more fair for Peter, but it's less fair for Anne.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/vibrator-inventio...
Never heard of Robinlook in southern Germany. I would have said the other large chain besides Fielmann is Apollo (known as Pearle in another European countries).
great point. it seems only natural these should be converted to residential
Older people are horndogs, they just have many age-related issues, and not everyone is able to overcome them or the stigma, since we tend to idealize the elderly, like they are supposed to be pristine and wise, when the evidence is to the contrary on both counts.
Agreed. However, I still believe explaining acronyms is good practice.
I got 18 in a row before I missed. There's something around the corner of the eyes that's weird, but I'll be damned if I could figure out how exactly to articulate it.
These scenarios don't just apply to being laid off. Another scenario which happens is that company ownership or control changes, and some key promises which were made to prospective employees get broken.

I relocated to a big unpleasant city for a job early in my career, and the big promise from the hiring folks (all good people) was that "we hire at a low rate, but we give big raises fast". Their prime example was another young "star" like me who doubled his salar in less than two years.

What the managers (and I) didn't know is that the recent acquisition of the company by a much bigger company meant that significant changes were coming. In my first six months, a lot of the developer perks (free lunch, but just normal food... nothing like a Google lunch) started to get scaled back or eliminated entirely. And then at my six month review, when my first raise should occur, my manager was honestly regretful to inform me that despite my excellent performance, he was only able to give an 8% raise because any higher increase had to be personally reviewed and signed off on by the CEO... and nobody was doing that.

So not only did I burn 6 months at a place that was heading downhill, but it took another 6 months to be sure of this when the next review/raise period came (and disappointed). Meanwhile, I had other peers who had gone to some big accounting firms and were already enjoying nice perks, travel opportunities, and rapidly increasing pay.

None of this was life shattering, but it is life days or months misspent. The feeling is that one has been cheated, even if there was no malintent on the part of the company. Aka, "bum deal".
It usually appears to be somebody who is angry about… something.
And if it gets stopped in customs, the handling fees, etc. will wipe out any saving.
Oregon university plans to develop new rechargeable battery – AP News
Eh, large redundancies are usually planned semi-confidentially and executed immediately for obvious reasons, which makes these sort of things pretty inevitable.

The obvious reasons aren't just from a corporate perspective, it's also for an employee welfare perspective - Sometimes it's better that 13% of people immediately know rather than 100% of employees worrying about their job before 13% are eventually sacked.
They don't? Is that a new thing? I have like four Zenni glasses.
Most-Regretted College Majors
similar: https://shopviu.com/en_de/
See this discussion (includes comment by President of VideoLAN) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911
yes, very true. I had to give up on environmental advocacy because the career path was non-existent.

Money must be like democracy. The worst possible way to organize society with the possible exception of everything else we have tried.
FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals
I really like pencils as well. A few years ago I started a development journal mainly to stay motivated and so that I could look back to see how far I had come. I quickly found out that the whole process was a lot more enjoyable with nice paper and pencils.

I use several pencils and like them all really. I currently use all four Blackwings (black, pearl, natural and 602) as well as as a Tombow MONO 2H if I want fine lines, and I occassionally use the Mitsubishi k9800HB which is nice but not my favorite.

Now I am going to try the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B and even the KH-20 pencil sharpener. I like the manual long point sharpener from Blackwing and it is what I use daily. Overall, for general use, I like either the blackwing natural or the 602. The Black is very dark and makes normal pencil look anemic but you do have to sharpen frequently, although sometimes pausing to sharpen helps me clarify my thoughts, so I don't really mind. The pearl gives you similar quality, but is slightly harder so it last longer between sharpenings. Also a very good choice.
> where you sell the majority of your earthly possessions, property, cars, etc.

I think this bit is actually a good thing. The rest of the story is indeed unfortunate, but having to eliminate possessions is probably more positive in life than negative. We tend to accumulate so much, and then our stuff becomes an invisible burden.
Russian software disguised as American finds its way into US Army, CDC apps
Indeed, people vastly underestimate how far you can go with a single server. Even Digital Ocean offers a 48 vCPUs/96 GB instance for ~1000 USD which you'll be able to host most of the businesses seen on HN with. Obviously, if you're doing storage intensive stuff, you wouldn't use the built-in storage, if you're doing really CPU intensive stuff you might outsource that to a different instance and so on.

But people tend to want to distribute their app with 5k monthly users to 10 really weak instances instead of just 2 medium ones or 1 big one. And in that, they think it makes it more reliable but fail to account for the added complexity of distributed architectures and start to fail when doing deployments and changes instead.

Another part people underestimate is the performance of dedicated instances vs "virtual" instances. Many times I've seen people shocked at how last applications work when running on dedicated instances, and how far you can scale with them as you won't have to upgrade as often as you think. Cloud is mainly meant (for me at least) for software you need to be able to scale really fast up AND down, not just up as you get more users. But most businesses I've worked for, with and started myself, never really had that need.
Charlie Temple are cheap and okayish. If you don't use glasses full-time, they're a good option, otherwise not so much. Or at least this was my impression from 3 years ago.

My partner is a full-time user or Ace & Tate and she's happy with them.
Have you tried that? Has it ever worked? How many people do you know that have done that? 1%? 5%? 10%?

What you're saying is fantasy land except for executives.
Secure Filesystem in Docker
Thanks for explaining. I didn't have a pre paid card for as long as I can remember. Strabge so, my son's prepaid card works just fine in the EU outside of Germany...

Edit: Just realized, that's not a prepaid card anymore, so forget everything I said...
The regression will 'set the value of the parameters'. OPs point is that when you want to change the regression your main 'hyper-parameter' (i.e. one that you get to choose rather than one that the system determines for you) is the number of parameters.

Most Neural networks have other hyper-paramters, but the ones in SR are probably quite interpretable and intuitive.
TL;DR Most-regretted college majors are:

Journalism

Sociology

Liberal arts/general studies

Communications

Education

Marketing management + research

Medical/clinical assisting

Political science + government

Biology

English language + literature
I wonder if it's not a bit like the Dunning-Kruger effect. The good people around us struggle thinking that they're bad, while the bad people blithely go around thinking they're good.
The web of responsibilities multiply. To your point, children are a choice and thus effect the shape of said web. As the reading mentions that some advocated for more romantic fluidity, moving with the heart. I saw this as a more youthful pursuit. As with aging, other issues, that have more to do with compassion and duty, come to the fore. I would say the hope of a steady relationship would be a partner to help navigate said challenges.
Show HN: Insipring Developers Quotes with Visuals
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko says that Twitter lacked plans for cold-boot
In a whistleblower statement to congress, Peter "Mudge" Zatko mentions that Twitter lacks plans and processes to "cold boot"

56. Cascading data center problems: In or around the spring of 2021, Twitter's primary data center began to experience problems from a runaway engineering process, requiring the company to move operations to other systems outside of this datacenter. But, the other systems could not handle these rapid changes and also began experiencing problems. Engineers flagged the catastrophic danger that all the data centers might go offline simultaneously. A couple months earlier in February, Mudge had flagged this precise risk to the Board because Twitter data centers were fragile, and Twitter lacked plans and processes to "cold boot." That meant that if all the centers went offline simultaneously, even briefly, Twitter was unsure if they could bring the service back up. Downtime estimates ranged from weeks of round-the-clock work, to permanent irreparable failure.
Having worked in tech for 25 years it doesn’t surprise me. Some people I’ve worked with are barely human.

A colleague a few years ago went as far as to suggest that this is how you ended up with nazis.

I hope with ubiquitous communications now that we tell these people that no it’s not acceptable to behave like this! Compassion should be awarded.
Still, it's the environment that is broken. Hence, it's the environment that needs to be fixed.

Having people relocate to another country, because your organization isn't able to fix its own internal problems, means you're simply outsourcing your own costs to your employees.
You only need to look for pimples or blemishes on the skin. Thats how you know what the real face is.
Meta's loss, some other org in Canada's gain.

Has anyone else noticed a great percentage of those being laid off are of asian descent?
Tweet from VLC's handle:

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1592097148472274945
EDIT: “John Kona” —> “John Koza”
Twitter threads posted to HN via ThreadReaderApp
And to underline the difference: suspending withdrawals can allow a bank's customers to [eventually] get their money back when the bank's creditors get repaid. And the bank never pretended it wasn't making loans in the first place.

If a crypto exchange suspend withdrawals, on the other hand, there's no reason to suspect they're just waiting on a bunch of loans to ordinary people and businesses to come in, especially since it usually means they lied about custody of assets.
What are you even talking about? The article never says they're lesbians.

It says that Victorian prudishness would never have allowed either a man and woman kissing, nor two men kissing -- the latter because of views of homosexuality. But they had no such compunctions about two women kissing because it would have been seen as non-sexual.

You seen to be reading something that isn't in this article, and using the word "woke" in a bizarre way.
Are Haskell lists actually implemented as linked lists? I would have thought they were compiled as "array lists" like Python (arrays of pointers, but with extra space pre-allocated to make extending cheap)
Once in a while I see something about a text editor using the GPU to accelerate rendering of fonts. I would love to see some tutorial material on this. Generally speaking using the GPU is a complete mystery to me, as is anything to do with rendering fonts.
‘Iceman’ discovery wasn’t a freak event. More frozen mummies may await
That's what the fraud is.
When the treatment is being fired, then yes.
DevOps and Cloud Trends for 2023
No, that's the uncharitable, strawman version, that goes for pedanticness over understanding what it means.

It's more like a crooner saying they're being put out of a job after rock n' roll or the Beatlemania, while still having gigs...

Yes, they might still get work and sell some records, but they have a harder time justifying their career, get smaller audiences, and people see them not that culturally or socially relevant anymore...
If the above is true, it is sad and OK at the same time. Sad because it is wasted work and wasted human potential (imagine same money applied to voluntary work, social contributions, etc). At the same time, it generate jobs, which is not bad considering the levels of unemployment. Either way, I would prefer more people employed competing for digital plugins that are indistinguishable from this process.
From science fiction to reality, 'no kill' meat may be coming soon
You forgot to mention: take care of the children during the day so both parents can work the kinds of jobs which you can't do with children running around.

Which is a bit sad, pre-industrial revolution children could work and help with chores, both for sustenance farmers and for tradesmen. They were a net positive from a rather early age, and I'm pretty sure this had a (positive) impact on their psychological development as well.
https://github.com/alafr/SVG-to-PDFKit (svg-to-pdfkit)
Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second?
MacOS still has standard components at least. For Windows you can pick the best of several options and stick with that.
pretty easy. mostly there are artifacts in the background/hairs
It is. But in the real world there is no compiler to prevent misuse. There is only a very lazy and incomplete runtime checker.
For anyone else annoyed by the replies that complain everyone should know what it means and don't bother to actually answer:

"In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration (CI) and (more often) continuous delivery or (less often) continuous deployment (CD)." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CI/CD
While in most organizations pair programming probably is far less common than pointless meetings, even then it's preferable to document the outcomes of pair programming sessions, so others can benefit from those results without having to have been there synchronously or in person.
> Relocating is no protection against being laid off, be it legally or ethically.

This is not one or the other.

Relocating should probably involve a minimum notice period, legally.

Especially in this particular case, the company for sure can afford it.

They're potentially destroying a person's life (or at least a few years of their life) with something like a 0.0000001% disturbance for the company.
And that has what to do with my comment? And the comment it was replying directly to?
> As an aside, compilers probably should have constraint solvers embedded. Lots of compilation is expressible as a constraint problem.

If we had constraint solvers in our compilers, would refinement types also be a lot easier to implement?
The difference to other countries is that the notary essentially can revoke their notarization of your company and thereby voiding it (which I am not aware has ever happened), if they at any point decide you lied to them.

Germany has companies going back to the 15th century so a lot of the company founding processes have been grandfathered in over hundreds of years.

I’m actually somewhat happy about the notaries because they essentially commit to keeping a copy of your contract in eternity (until they dissolve), so you can always be assured that you can get a copy of your founding contract at any time.
They have nice frames but I wouldn't call them a cheap option