skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a personal anecdote: my father is an engineer at a small, 8-person company. He's 68. They use two languages: C and Java. The short story is, they created a system for telco companies in late 90s. Said system deals directly with specific Telco hardware and needs to run real-time fast. The system is over 20 years old and despite this or that patch over the years its core remains the same. So there's a C part, which is the engine and is really performant, and a Java part, admin tooling, testing and integration.

So I guess if I had to find companies with C jobs I would try:
- niche jobs/industries
- small companies
- decades old systems

The problem is that those aren't usually on the mainstream channels for job searching, and they may take years to open a single position.
Totally agree that developing in no-code tools is incredibly frustrating. This was one of the main reasons we built Workflows for developers. Code is and always has been a great way to automate. Too often we found the GUI getting in the way of what is simple to build and maintain using code.

By focusing on developers we were able to lean into supporting existing development workflows: versioning with Git, testing with staging environments, debugging with dev tools, monitoring with Datadog, etc.

Our goal is to remove all the boilerplate (spinning up a new box, managing access permissions, setting up staging data and environments, etc) that it takes to just get to writing the business logic unique to you. In my experience this causes as much debt as the logic itself!

I hope you can kick the tires on the new product — would love any feedback on how this could be even better for devs
See also the cases where children are arrested and jailed for 'child pornography' for sending nude photos of themselves to others.
>but that in no way undermines the legitimacy of the current government...

I never said it did. But you [deliberately?] failed to mention that the previous pro-Russian government was also democratically elected. Pointing out instead that it was 'corrupt'. Well, a government can be corrupt and still democratically elected. And [cf. several previous UK elections] a government can also be 'democratically elected' with a majority of the people voting against it.

>Clearly, as we see from the peoples’ reaction to Russian occupation...

Yes. It's amazing how, in the western press everyone in Ukraine is opposed to the invasion. Yet on sites like Russia today, we're given the impression that in those territories in the east annexed by Russia, huge numbers of the population are rejoicing at being 'liberated'.

You're 'clearly' seeing only one side of the story. I'm not saying that what's being reported on the Russian side isn't full of lies, half-truths and propaganda. But I'm cynical [or realist] enough not to take what we're being fed by our side at face value either.

As the man said "The first casualty of war is truth"
I stopped using evernote after their drastic UI change (which was universally loathed), and I got tired of it not supporting markdown or code snippets.

While I found the product useful for keeping tech notes, I was constantly getting tripped up by the formatting. It became clear to me this was aimed at journalist rather than software developers.

While I support journalist having a product that is a good fit for them, from a business perspective I think they were chasing a relatively poor demographic with a shrinking user base.

It's a shame though, it was a great product I was otherwise happy to pay for.
I recently switched to Apple Notes for the ecosystem experience. I like it.

That said, it *absolutely boggles my mind that there is no Markdown support*.
This sort of hits on what I was thinking when I saw this feature: already, nobody reads anything. And now, nobody has to write anything either.
> It's why I think ordinary cops shouldn't carry guns.

And neither should ordinary people, generally.
The only reason to use C in the first place is if you're doing something "impure": i.e. you're very dependent on memory layout, poking bytes directly into hardware, predictable timing properties, and so on.
The signaling is surprisingly simple. There is no active negotiation, the EVSE just outputs a PWM signal to specify how much current the car is allowed to draw, and the car uses a variable resistor to request the power be turned on or off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772#Signaling
Weird time to be alive when we are afraid to get within 10 feet of a kid a yell "HEY KID, GET OUT OF THE ROAD!". And yet, totally understand.
Wow, someone copied something. Better send out the battleships to blockade their country and bring them to their knees for this unspeakable crime against humanity.

You're damn right I have no respect for copyright law. I want to see it abolished. As far as I'm concerned, copyright infringement is civil disobedience and a moral imperative. These monopolists don't have any respect for our rights either: they systematically rob us of our fair use and public domain rights. So why should anyone give a shit about some monopolist's imaginary property?
I bet if you never thought about Twitter again, you'd be just fine.

There is no 9-9-6 culture shift, there is no value shift in software engineers across the country, there is no need to build a Twitter competitor, none of this actually matters.
The same thing happens in state sentencing. There's a vast gap between minimum and maximum sentencing. Most sentences fall somewhere in the middle, depending on the details of the particular act in question. (You stole from a little old lady versus stealing from a drug dealer, for example.)
Producing and distributing hydrogen requires significant infrastructure that releases vastly more CO2 than moving lithium around for EV’s. I think you got blinded by thinking of hydrogen as green but it doesn’t magically show up.

Also, moving lithium around releases negligible CO2, an EV battery only needs 15 pounds of lithium and lasts 25 years. You can work out the exact number based on specific origin and destinations but it’s on the order of driving an ICE 1 to 10 miles. Which shouldn’t be surprising because boats are very efficient, lithium is light, and cars weigh a lot.
> I sure hope social psychologists don't use torture.

The phrasing was very specific: " standard persuasive methods identified by social psychologists". You don't need to use a method just because you've identified it.
Netflix gives account holders the ability to kick freeloaders
Fox news will do that
Right now American seats basic economy in the middle seats and main in isle or windows. The system will try and seat family’s together if they are on the same reservation and the kids are under 15.

So you’re best to pay for seats if you want to be together. However, if you pay for seats and they change your flight on you, those seats are ‘lost and you need to call for a refund.
Then remember Henry Ford: "build product to satisfy 80% of customers. 10% will change mind and 10% will pay additional money for customization".

With knowing of Pareto principle, this mean, first step in development should satisfy 20% TYPES of most frequent requests, which are usually 80% of all requests by quantity.

Second step should been discussed with marketing, to invest into real things, not into ephemeral numbers.
Most EVERNOTE users wanted it? I sincerely doubt that even 20% of Evernote users want that.

People that want a collaborative Docs app already have Google Docs. Evernote is mostly a "digital cabinet". It's where notes and documents go to die (in a good way).
How about "subconscious"? It's interesting to see how some statements are based on wrong translations and misunderstanding.
All the current major game engines are C++. C hasn't been widely used since the Quake 3 days.

While yes the Vulkan & OpenGL APIs are pure C, that's very, very little of what you actually code against. You very quickly abstract that or use a middleware like bgfx or whatever. In the case of Vulkan while the spec API is C, there's first-class C++ wrappers/bindings provided as well: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp

And other than Vulkan & OpenGL, you'll find that most other APIs/libraries in the space are C++, not C. Valve's libraries are C++. Dear ImGui is C++. Bullet & PhysX are C++. Microsoft's glTF SDK is C++. etc...

You can argue endlessly about how "true C++" those all are or if they're just "C with namespaces" but that's largely irrelevant - they aren't C and they need a C++ compiler.
I would wager that 99% of people using the word "hysterical" have no clue about that history.

I'm in my 30s and this is a little fact I just learned today.
Ask HN: If real rates are still well in the negatives, why all the panic?
I thought the same.. but who knows, in all serious, maybe the woman feared someone would accuse her of attempted kidnapping.
redirected me too many times. is this what its supposed to do?
An 8 year old walking home, half a mile, confronted by the neighbor on the kids own street and the kid stated where they were going when the neighbor asked. They called the cops AFTER that. Per the article.
Quantum Microscopes Could Enable Atom-Scale MRI
I walk in silence and let my mind wonder. This has been more productive than any focused activity.

A much needed pause to the constant effort to pack more and more into my brain.
This hack might help some: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-ssh-into-wsl2-on-windo...
thanks for the suggestion. This is exactly what I needed:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distilled-thoughts-hydrogen-p...

esp the efficiency chart about 1/3rd way in lays it bare.
Actually this is wrong. They did not receive any funds from the Government.
There is an article in Italian with the words of one of the founders.

https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/20_aprile_22/luca-ferrari...
That was only while they investigated (which I'm fine with). It's annoying but it's NOT a CPS horror story.
Depends on how critical it is for you/your company. I work on products that have internal tooling, and if they run on the latest version of Chrome, it's good enough (although I personally test them on Firefox, too, and someone used an older version of Safari the other day, and found a weird bug).

However, some of our tools are used by the general public (I've found the user agent for a coupon app as well as some PlayStation browser in the logs; might have been spoofed, of course). Those are written to the lowest common HTML/CSS/JS standards, so we don't try fancy features, and Babel or similar can be helpful. IE11 is out of grace, but we still support years old versions of most browsers, because it costs money and goodwill when too many fail.
How do you promote / seed your apps ?
Obsidian.md if I'm to take 'personal database' to mean how I store my random, occasionally interlinked information. So I suppose that's effectively the file system with some nice linking in markdown over the top of it.
Under no circumstances do you ever talk to the police, child protective services, or any government official.

If you're being investigated, always communicate through an attorney.

Government workers operate with the apathy of any person at a regular job. They almost never think they're making the wrong judgements, and they can and will lie to you and misrepresent you in court.
The half billion monthly active users and $5B annual revenue beg to differ. And it trickles down in the form of paychecks — does that matter?
Travel insurance can be bizarrely difficult, though. My travel delay coverage covers "mechanical" issues but not "operational" ones. Plane broke? Covered (if you can get the airline to admit it). Pilot couldn't be found? Not covered. Why the difference? No one knows!
It's not TSA, but I was particularly dumbfounded at Heathrow Airport when security exited straight into an extended shopping corridor of champagne, jewelry, and caviar.
> Heather Wallace plead guilty to child endangerment and can no longer work with kids.

The real mistake was pleading guilty. She should have gotten better representation...
Google is sued for auto-installing Covid “spyware” on people’s phones
> My children have had the cops called on them for playing in our front yard.

Where do you live?

Whenever I read these stories it feels like I live on a different planet from everyone else.
I wonder why cars don't just use the large 3-phase inverter they already have to drive the motor as a charger.
4. If you're going to do the rewrite, don't take many years working on it, just to release a broken product missing lots of core features.

5. If you're releasing a broken product missing core features, don't take many YEARS after release to un-brake your product and build some of the missing features again.
I doubt people make indie films specifically targeted at getting a job either.
> but there's a group of people who see children playing outside of direct parent supervision as a categorically dangerous activity

We can broaden that a bit to: “There’s an ever growing group of people who think they can and should be the arbiter of other people’s behavior.”

Everyone needs to learn to mind their own fucking business.
If it were easier to link from one note to another, that'd be my main note taking app.
Reason has a bias for the stories it chooses to cover, but I can't find any examples of it misreporting a story. Can you provide any?
I think it goes earlier than that with media fearmongering to sell papers
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Evernote absolutely did realize its potential. The problem is that they threw everything into the trash afterwards with their decisions.

It's what happens when you don't care about building a decent product.
Also this was posted days ago:

Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566329
The reason they pivoted away from wrapping linux syscalls, etc. was that ultimately efficiently supporting features tied tightly to hardware (eg; CUDA) became extremely difficult (at least, achieving decent performance).

Virtualization is so efficient nowadays that it's much performant to go that route vs porting where often there will be difficult to debug performance regressions and bugs. So what WSL provides instead is much tighter integration between that linux VM and windows (including performant filesystem access, etc.).
It's not a security, it's a bank. Sort of.

Genesis seems to have been acting as what's called a "non-bank bank" or "non-depository institution". They took deposits and lent them out.
Whether this is legal in the US is open to question. "Non-bank banks", until now, were for qualified institutional clients, like other banks, brokerages, and such. They did not take retail deposits. They could make loans, from their own money. Anybody can make a loan.
It's taking deposits that's regulated. Because, 1929.

I'd thought nonbank banks taking deposits was illegal. It may turn out to be. The Consumer Finance Protection Board is asking some questions.[1]

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/the-cfpb-final...
those "nosey neighbours" are why these stupid rules exist in the first place
I'm baffled as to why her attorney advised she take the plea deal.
It's a weed article. We don't have to be serious all the time on HN :)
Hardware remote attestation will end that soon. Every app will refuse to run on modified devices and it will be impossible to circumvent because it's in hardware.
> A blunt response like, "Fuck off. Don't talk to my son.", followed by walking away from her, may have been harsher and not particularly polite, but perhaps it'd cause a person like her to avoid such meddling in the future.

No, it would solidify that persons' belief that the people were bad people and embolden her to act more swiftly next time.

Confrontation and escalation with swearing doesn't teach people a lesson. It makes them dig their heels in.
Google still does this! They seem to use some sort of generative neural net to produce fake names, descriptions, and even reviews for the trap locations.

You can report the location to Google as "bad data" and they'll delete it, but then a totally different fake location will re-appear in its place a few days later.
Tanatloc – An open source FEA software than runs on your laptop or in the cloud
Hi all. Franck here, cofounder at Airthium (YC S17 / https://airthium.com)

We make a breakthrough heat engine to decarbonize industrial heat and electricity production.

Part of that effort includes a lot of numerical simulations with custom made physics models based on FreeFEM, a powerful open source PDE solver.

Tanatloc is a graphical interface for FreeFEM. It allows mechanical engineers and researchers to solve problems locally or in the cloud.

We are working on a code editor so that everyone will be able to submit their own physics models. Our goal is to build the largest open source FEA models database!

It's time to democratize access to numerical simulation. We can't wait to see what startups and inventors will be able to do with Tanatloc :)
I don't understand your criticism, and I think you might have been mis-understanding my intent. The Everettian (Many Worlds) interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is itself at odds with the concept of absolute certainty. I am thinking about this in terms of E. T. Jaynes perspective that probability theory is an extension of traditional logic, and is required for reasoning about the MWI.

I'll also note that I did miss the point of the OPs comment, but I think not in the way you suggested.
Binance role in FTX collapse under congressional scrutiny
> The same seems to be the case when using WSL2 - you run VM and Docker inside this VM, removing the file sync/translation part out of the equation, resulting in speed boots.

I'm sure that this is true for most people out there, but for some random reason, WSL2 actually ran much slower for me than Hyper-V. It was one of those boring Laravel projects where you mount the application source into a container directory so PHP can execute them and serve you the results through Nginx with PHP-FPM or whatever you want, as opposed to just running something like a database or a statically compiled application.

Except that it was unusable with WSL2 as the Docker back end (regular Docker Desktop install), but much better with Hyper-V for the same goal. It was odd, because the experience of other devs on that exact same codebase was the opposite, WSL2 was faster for them. And then there was someone for whom WSL2 wouldn't work at all because of network connectivity issues.

I don't really have an explanation for this, merely an anecdote about how these abstractions can be odd, leaky or flawed at times, based on your hardware or other configuration details. That said, Windows is still okay as a desktop operating system (in the eyes of many folks out there) and I am still a proponent of containers, even if working with them directly inside of *nix as your development box is a more painless experience.
UTM 4
Show HN: Pomodoro with friends
Many of the e-bikes and scooters are sold out of small shops in NYC's various Chinatown areas. Typically the shops are run by local small business owners who have direct connections to factory owners overseas who are willing to sell to the NYC shop owner at a factory price. As a result these bikes tend to be rather dubious in origin as they were manufactured, imported, and sold without necessarily going through the same certifications that a large business would have required.

On the one hand its a profitable venture for small local businesses, and the vast majority of these e-bikes function fine without big government regulation stepping in and trying to control things. But on the other hand there are a worrying number of scattered incidents of dangerous fires in our very dense city.

I think this is why the article makes such a big deal about trying to track down brands and origins of the burned e-bikes. Is it random events distributed across all the e-bikes, or are there just a few bad sources that are selling particularly dangerous e-bikes? I don't think anyone knows yet.
Ford chief warns electric vehicles require 40% less labour
> It isn't the neighbors job to be mentally functional.

I'm not sure I agree. One of the requirements for an adult citizen in a civil society is to be reasonable in your dealings with neighbors.

> It is, however, the police's, DA, and CPS's job.

"Mentally functional" does not necessarily mean "giving citizens a break". The criminal law that the mom was charged with is a law, it's on the books, and law enforcement is supposed to enforce the law. They do have a certain amount of discretion, but the incentives they are facing, particularly in a community which is strongly in favor of "law and order" (which I suspect the one in question is), are against their exercising discretion in favor of a citizen. And putting the "sex trafficking" thing into the mix just makes it worse.

The only real way to fix this is to remove things like this from the discretion of law enforcement by not having a law like this in the first place. (Unfortunately, it appears that when the law was revised to allow kids more independence, they only revised the family law code, not the criminal code. They should have revised both. So I would say the ultimate fault here is the legislature, for being incompetent when making law.)
As bird flu spreads, is it time to rethink farming poultry?
In America that will immediately identify you as a childlifter. Next thing that happens, you'll have to deal with the cops and the court system.
I disagree based on personal (anecdotal) data.

When I get into a “flow” on a project I can work 12+ hour days. My productivity dwindles as the day gets old for sure, but I don’t think it ever gets to zero or close. I dream/think about the project and the first thing on my mind in the morning is the next step on the project.

Last time I was in flow, I single handedly built the next generation of a tool in 2 months. It’s currently taking the other team about 6 months to do the same but for another platform. The complexity is roughly the same and I think the engineers are as smart, if not smarter than me. I think the difference was that I did 12-16 hours for 2 month (including weekends).

This is not sustainable of course. I developed my back and wrist pain at the end of the 2 months. This is something I consciously stop myself from doing ever again because health is all you got at the end of the day.
Which one of them has "and decide which laws are too stupid to enforce" in their job description? :/
one planned but no solution for fakes; problem is NP hard.
When CPS is investigating abuse it seems completely reasonable for them to implement a safety plan to ensure ongoing abuse doesn't occur during the investigation. Far better than yanking the kids into protective custody.
You haven't asked me repeatedly to stop doing this. It's the first time. I see far worse crap from other users all the time. It kind of looks like you're protecting paulg and elon from criticism.

You did shut my account down previously but it was determined you were mistaken.
Local news? Is nearly extinct, supposedly. Will be in (what's left of it) shortly, as this article posted today. Articles about articles are news, right?

Based on the public info, the locations and stuff check out. In my experience, fakes are usually almost totally fake or unverifiable. I don't think this is fabricated.