skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We outlaw addictive chemical substances, and maybe such tech should also be looked at in similar light.

Yeah, so the solution is not to convince engineers, but to convince politicians to get laws like GDPR. Trying to convince workers or companies to stop earning money has never worked well.
I once lived in the CDG airport for 18ish hours and that was unpleasant enough. RIP to a true legend.

There's been a Sheraton hotel inside one of the terminals since ~1995, hopefully he got a chance to stay there before he died.
Needs a viewer discretion warning.

Man it almost looks intentional from the footage, but I don't think the small plane could get such a precise hit if he tried.
Maybe that means all the recruiters are being laid off
The chemistry of superglue polymerisation [video]
He's talking about this being a significant marker in the potential end of the institutional use of an entire technology.
If you're interested, Hams do an activity called a "Foxhunt" where they're trying to triangulate the position of a broadcasted signal. It's sort of like wargaming, but for Hams.

This, in conjunction with whoever owns the plot of land the offending device happens to live on, determines who is to blame when someone is broadcasting illegally.

Here's a link describing the activity, in case you're interested:
https://hamradioplanet.com/what-is-a-fox-hunt-in-ham-radio/
YES.

I am getting flooded with offerings but just for the "Stay in your cubicle and write code for a boring company, but we have a pingpong table so we're super fun" cringe jobs. It's like recruiters have to make some dumb quota to make and just spam everyone. Nobody truely cares anymore. Engineers are really desired and recruiters know that, but they also kinda judge you negatively for it. Like smiling at you but hating your guts at the same time. (A lot of recruiters where hired during covid19 to find SEs)

Others want to make you pass 25 different psychological and programming tests that have absolutely nothing to do with the actual job, and some you have a great conversation with but never hear back from

It sucks. Big time.
I don't actually think this is as much of a false dichotomy as you believe.

In my experience that separation between physical ability and smarts has always existed on some level. Yes of course there are engineers who work out, and soccer players who code, but I've generally seen that the best engineers do not work out much, and the best soccer players do not code much.

Some of that may in fact just come down to time and how much they're spending it on their craft. At the end of the day though, the very brightest and most talented software devs I know are simply out of shape.
"They do not hire disagreeable people."

And this is why skilled people can't find a job. Unless you can kiss a*s you won't get hired. This is wrong! If some one agrees with every word you say, this should be a red light. This might means the person don't have a mind of there own. Unless you want to hire a robot ^_^
I'd be quite interested in the billing part.

Such a charger needs to be presented some kind of authorization, but the amount of energy transferred (and thus the amount charged) is only determined later.

Is the logic for that server-side, or is it triggered from within the charger? If the latter, could you avoid being charged by power-cycling the computer inside the charger before finishing the charge?

Probably the safer option would be for the charger to send a message like "for authorization XYZ, I've, until now, supplied 5.003kWh" every 5 seconds, then a server-side stream processor can detect the end of the charge and initiate billing.
At best, you skimmed it and then posted a useless reply that you couldn't even justify. Zero contribution to anything, but hey - I gave you a bit of that attention that you used in a negative way. You didn't understand a thing.
Tailwind's just a shorthand style for writing [a particular snapshotted older version of] CSS based on the theory that saving on keystrokes is worth more than understandable naming. It then leverages this brevity to let people over-define styles directly in the HTML, which would otherwise take paragraphs of normal CSS and therefore be unwieldy to do (so you'd just alias it into a new CSS property in a separate file). That's about it.

While brevity is a nice feature, and we should always strive to make the dev experience as elegant and simple as possible, methinks Tailwind is just asking to become yet another dead-end standard which I very much hope has a standardized compiler back to vanilla CSS. (Does it not?)
But as Milton Waddams said, "the ratio of people to cake is too great".
The rest of Lahde's goodbye letter is also interesting, and can be found here in its entirety: https://web.archive.org/web/20081019183111/http://ftalphavil...
Are we even sure that a child would be better off with a woman who is a pathological liar? You could easily argue the type of woman who would choose to get pregnant when staring down a ten year prison sentence is exactly the type of woman who would not be a good mother.

I would still argue you are to fixated on the singular case of the child. The harm Holmes did here effected hundreds if not tens of thousands of people extremely negatively (think of all the years/funding for bio research thrown down the toilet) and any future deterrence of behavior like this is worth it.
Can you provide a link to this study?

If masks don't work then why do surgeons wear them?
> because they lost access to systems after learning they were laid off, they switched to LinkedIn instead to say farewell

LinkedIn? What sort of verdict on Facebook is that?
4 people to debate the merits of LED vs CFL, one to screw it in (probably an incandescent when research money starts running low). Same as today.
It's networking for people who need jobs, in the style of the current trend.
Why do surgeons wear masks?
Look at the cockpit view from a P-63 Kingcobra. No chance.

https://www.detailandscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/01...
Same here. The recruiter email and LinkedIn spam has definitely declined.
The world has reached 8B people but soon we'll hit a decline we'll never reverse
Most companies are on a soft or hard hiring freeze right now. Many growth efforts are funded through debt that has recently become expensive. Even if a company doesn’t rely on debt for growth they are probably waiting to see if macro trends point to how hard of a recession we’ll go through before readjusting budgets. Come January most companies will reopen hiring aligned to macro trends in the economy and their own fiscal makeup.

What’d important to know is right now is a critical point before trends show how bad things may get. During this period companies tend to hold their breathe.

Of course, usually most companies will backfill for positions so you can find those even during a freeze.
You don’t need to be cynical about being agreeable. You can just have a positive disposition, smile when you sit down, and find the positives instead of surfacing the negatives. A lot of people get an ego kick feeling smarter than others because they’re more cynical.
> A big impediment to moving away from SPAs is that we’ve collectively spent years building up an entire infrastructure of backend services which power the internet by communicating with browsers in JSON

Something I like about Django/DRF (and likely many others I haven’t used) is that it makes the above an imaginary problem. Django trivializes accepting form or Json or xml or whatnot. It just wants a Python object after deserialization and usually you can get a few of those formats for free, or otherwise very little work.
oh the joys of medicine Down Under
This type of useless reddit snark is the reason I wish I could filter out green names. Low effort bait has no place on HN.
I'd see them being different in terms of moderation acting as an allow list, and censorship acting as a deny list.

They also have different targets - moderation is about a forum, while censorship is about an idea
GCC being freely available is by far the exception, historically. Such that I don't really get your point. Do we know why/how GCC was able to pull off being free?

And, as I said in a sibling thread, my assertion is that it took massive corporate spending for Sun to get inroads with Java. In large because they were competing with GCC.
I turned my harp into a game controller [video]
>It's only a matter of time until there is the stool-transplant equivalent to a sperm bank.

We've had one in Australia for a few years now!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/first-public-poo-bank...
> "Conclusions ... don't ride the buses is probably an early and obvious one."

Yes, the air quality on London buses is consistently terrible on cold days. There is very little ventilation in those buses other than "open the windows", and when it gets cold people don't do that. Often it seems like you're not only breathing in everyone else's food smells and stinky breath, but road fumes and dust as well.
Good advice? This is AMAZING advice! I can't remember the last time I received such great advice. This advice is like a gift from the heavens. Life changing stuff right here.
What do the green names mean? I've seen them before but have had no idea.
are you saying that there's a bias against Java devs?
(Open) Dylan is surviving just fine, and we expect to do a new release later this month.
No more Boeing passenger jets that buzz around in circles or nose-dive into the ground for the time being then.
It's almost certainly the same place. Ur existed through many empires (Sumerian, Old Babylonian, Chaldean, etc...) and the era that the Torah was written in is most likely when southern Mesopotamia was known as "Chaldea" (ie. Of the "Chaldees").
New accounts.
Predicted at least as far back as 2007

> Despite these early warnings about likely future nonlinear rapid response, IPCC continues, at least implicitly, to assume a linear response to BAU [business-as-usual: 3°C] forcings.
Yet BAU forcings exceed by far any forcings in recent palaeoclimate history.

> Part of the explanation for the inconsistency between palaeoclimate data and IPCC projections lies in the fact that existing ice sheet models are missing realistic (if any) representation of the physics of ice streams and icequakes, processes that are needed to obtain realistic nonlinear behaviour.

Hansen James, Sato Makiko, Kharecha Pushker, Russell Gary, Lea David W and Siddall Mark 2007 Climate change and trace gases
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.3651925–1954
http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2007.2052

[PDF] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_ha02210k.pd...
Agreeing is pretty much always the best move in the beginning. If you after careful consideration thinks something is wrong, you better be ready to offer an alternative or make a compelling argument for dropping it. You'll also have to have earned their trust, otherwise you're just some random stranger with an opinion.
I love this.

That's such a beautiful example why Bitcoin is garbage.

If you have 100.000k shells and have 0 value you still have physically 100.000k shells you can still do things with.

While you have literally a private key representing 100.000k bitcoins with no value.
That’s the problem of unculturable species that pervades microbiology and anything related like agriculture. We have no idea what percentage of bacteria species can even survive long enough to be studied in the lab let alone industrialized. Even if someone manages to grow them accidentally, we’d never know it because if they don’t absorb any of the known stains, it’ll just look like agar on a plate under a microscope.

Last I checked the “state of the art” was to use a freaking electron microscope and hope that the plating process didn’t destroy the sample.
You would need absurd numbers of plants. You breathe out ~11L/hr CO2, which is ~22g. Over a day this is ~0.5 kg. So your plants would need to be getting collectively 0.5kg heavier daily by pulling CO2 from the air just to balance out your own breathing, let alone the CO2 coming in from the outside.
The tweet says 2K, not 3K as in the headline.
yes, i usually slept without an alarm and there's a very noticable difference of about 2 hours between training and non-training days (i.e. 7 vs. 9 hours). i'm not a professional athlete, i'm a motivated amateur.

non-athletes often think it's nice to eat whatever you want and not gain weight, but it's actually quite unpleasant to having to force feed yourself all the time; not at least because you start wanting to eat certain meals - with a purpose. it took me a ridiculous amount of time and effort to put on some mass.

i used to go to the gym because i was bored. when i didn't feel great, i went to the gym because i knew i'd feel better afterwards. the gym was my safe space and my default activity. now that i have a family conditions have changed considerably; training is usually done late at night, in between obligations or on a few "me time" weekend hours for longer bike rides. works well enough, i can't complain.
Velveteen Rabbit has been a favorite for the San Francisco-based ODC Dance company for a very long time. With some connection to that community, it is a difficult road to stable adulthood from the mix of talented, ambitious, flawed, selfish and occasionally fallen alumnae in that crowd. There is no explaining the emotional intensity of hearts on fire, nor the enduring charms of simple childhood play deep within.
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I think maybe some plants do their carbon fixation at night? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC540897/
(Free) LISPs on Linux today look a bit rough, is there any implementation that turns Linux into something that has the look and feel of a LISP machine?

Parentheses aside, don't expect people to pick up a language if all they can see is a REPL where the only edit operation that works is DEL(ete), at a time when all other languages have graphical IDEs with syntax coloring, context-sensitive help, single-step debugging etc. (and no, I don't mean Emacs).

edit: screen shot to support the argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bank_Common_Lisp#/media/...
B-17s collided and died in WW2 a lot because of the close formations, often in poor visibility.
Unfortunately these type of posts aren’t limited to new accounts but I agree with you about the Reddit snark.
If we're talking military logistics, that may well still win out on efficiency over current methods. Even if it doesn't, it still has enough potential advantages to be game-changing.
What's the math if I have a cat?
In the chaos post 911 there was a lot of resources poured into the new Homeland Security and TSA agencies, as well as huge expectations. Rights of travelers weren’t the first priority, it was all about safety and national security. Only by the passage of time were they able to moderate their practices and adopt reasonable policies for treating travelers, especially edge cases. That and lawsuits. When the courts get involved, things tend to change rather quickly relative to lodging complaints.

I think this is a general dynamic. A familiar metaphor might be that of a startup’s journey from idea to stability at scale. It takes time and mistakes to figure out how to balance stakeholders’s interests.

I also think tech/eng UX practices have had such a cultural impact that customer experience and usability are more top of mind for decision makers and customers alike. Concurrently, ubiquitous pocket cameras and video distribution have held all kinds of law enforcement more accountable, including TSA. Commerce drives this. A sharp decline in flight travel due to draconian enforcement would be railed against by business and government interests alike. With some of the safety and security concerns waning, the pressure is on TSA to get out of the way.

I wouldn’t call any of that optimism per se, but I see how it could be perceived that way. Travelers most definitely did get taught to fear the TSA and it’s cost us tremendously. That fear is well-earned, and the panopticon + excessive policing powers still need to be corrected on a legislative level.
RPITX is the spiritual successor of your project!

https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx

And it does work with nearly every RPi.

And unlike only doing FM (97MHz-108MHz), it can emit from an IQ datastream from 10KHz to 1.5GHz.
I can't believe they were still running a rails frontend til now, to be honest. I thought rails had fallen out of favor at least 5 years ago (deservedly in my biased estimation). We'll see what happens with Github. I don't have any use for the new bells and whistles like editing the repo directly from the webpage (scary!), or deeper VS Code integration. I'm not interested in Co-Pilot, though a co-worker told me the other day that it had saved him hours in a particular instance.

I just hope they don't kill the parts that I think are useful, and the things that made GH so valuable in the first place. It's a worrying trend that software seems to get worse for users in the name of making more money.
Green names indicate recently created accounts. I'm unsure of the exact cutoff, but it should be around two weeks.
While I'm sure there are places where that's the winning move, I think most companies are just fine hiring from the majority of folks who fall somewhere on the spectrum between "agree with everything as hard as possible" and "argue/complain in the interview to the point that it becomes a culture-fit red flag".

If you're looking for technical work and are really getting rejected because of something at the culture-fit level (which is where "agreeableness" falls), I'd say it's less likely that you're insufficiently kiss-ass/agreeable, and more likely that you're being identified as "potential problem teammate" material for other reasons.
No, some laptops are designed for easy repair and upgrades. My 2010 ThinkPad simply has unscrewable panels to access the RAM and hard disk, and Framework is even better.
> the chances that our lives will be forgotten is at least just a little less likely due to our written record.

I’d be cautious to not underestimate the effects of dilution due to the sheer growing size of that written record. Given enough time, almost everyone will be effectively forgotten, like a drop of ink in the ocean.
>> So? It's a proof of concept.

Mentioning that even this proof of concept is illegal is useful, as it isn't mentioned in the article. This is so easy to make that practically anyone could do it, which makes this very relevant.
When I wrote this [1] my principle dig was at the universities, who I
have long considered derelict in their duties to curate and maintain
the civic cannon.

Not a single academic had the courage to reply me (or the ability to
read the blatant, unsubtle sub-text). I cannot find a single
institution that still counts "the global public" amongst its
stakeholders. They are fully in bed with the likes of Elsevier and the
project to privatise knowledge.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/2048-informatio...
This is the kind of terrible advice that many people (including many programmers) think is great advice because they don’t see nuance in the world.

To get a job you don’t have to agree to the nth degree with everything that’s said to you. You just have to be a nice more-or-less qualified person who’s enjoyable to be around and communicate with. That’s a foreign concept to many people (not just programmers) so they look for some “trick” like never disagreeing.

It’s even better that this trick makes them feel better about being a miserable wet blanket because they’re putting one over on the interviewers.
It's open-source. Read the code. You don't have to trust anybody.
Github is indeed not a monopoly as far as a fitted out office building is not a monopoly. It does have an extremely high exit cost. And it's not reasonable for the owner of an office building to refuse access for your staff for saying something horrible about them.

Offices (and SaaS products) are dangling on a thin thread. It doesn't take a lot to lose customers. Lots of them. Especially when working from home (hosted gitlab) is a reasonable option. Most offices near me are converted to housing. You can't convert github to housing so it has even less tangible value if it pisses users off which starts a chain reaction of risk.

It's also bloody unreliable and in the forefront of people's attention for risk already.
Java was free, too; and at the time, djgpp was effectively the only free c++ toolchain on DOS and Windows.

Common Lisp wasn't even available to DOS and Windows users, let alone free or corporately backed. Even now every single free common lisp has substandard or outright broken Windows support.

Common Lisp didn't bother to show up to the party. That's the first problem; it was priced terribly, when it did become usefully available.
Was this a consulting company? That means they hired you a role that wasn't actually funded. They're not usually so transparent about it. Basically they interview to fill roles for projects that aren't sold yet. If they are sold, they need to staff up fast so they can't wait. If the sale falls through they leave candidates dangling.
> (...) but I believe that Syntax 2 is an excuse create a new language and reuse the C++ name.

This. It looks like a blatant attempt to ride the coattails of C++, which oddly enough is not the first case coming from Redmond (see C++/CX).

If the concept is able to fly on its own without these marketing crutches then it would be more credible to just claim it's a successor.
FTX balance sheet, revealed
Yes, but even the Framework is more difficult to repair than many desktops, and certainly less upgradable.

Most devices are going to make some sort of tradeoff, the question is which ones are reasonable given the upsides.
I will never understand how people can just get rid of their pets.
There aren't that many libraries available with full XPath 3.x conformance. In order to give some constructive feedback, perhaps an optional .conf file with ns-prefix->ns-name mappings could be read and passed to the XPath engine as ns-context? Even w/o the XPath functions support and only XPath selector expression this would make the tool to cover most of the usecases eg. simply finding elements.
What's this Hyper-Text stuff all about? Is this supposed to be about some weird decentralized version of Obsidian and other knowledge management apps? It all seems really hacky and clunky, because of this silly one-size-fits-all and decentralization stuff they keep harping about. Though the proposals at the end about providing an automated 'view' over existing databases are intriguing.
Sure, I might have overstated the case a bit. There was scattered used of Akkadian as a written language into Alexander the Great's time; there was possibly some knowledge of that time in Babylon around then.

Still, the end of Mesopotamian records is abrupt. There's a written record from prehistory until the wars of around 700 BC, where the use of writing drops off but doesn't completely stop. But written records in Akkadian, the education of priests and scribes in Akkadian and Sumerian (itself dead for 2000 years by then as a purely liturgical language) basically stops after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC.

I'd note that writing in antiquity was deeply tied to both administration and to religion. The Persians were Zoroastrians; they do not seem to have oppressed, but state support went to Zoroastrianism and not the traditional Mesopotamian cults (and their scribes and schools). They imposed their own administrative structure on the conquered territories. Persian became the written standard, pretty much overnight. Akkadian seems to have ceased to be spoken within a couple generations among the ruling class, and within a few hundred more years it was not only dead but basically forgotten.
Reading his Wikipedia, I wonder if he was of sound mind even before being trapped there. Things like his unproven claim of being expelled from Iran, "losing" his documents because he mailed them to Brussels...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri