skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early in my career (late 90s) I worked at a big company that just loved getting patents, had a big patent wall and did plaque presentations, etc. I got swept up in this and patented some "novel" (:eyeroll:) uses of a device that a partner/supplier made. Yay... I got a plaque and a few bucks, but Big Corp was never going to commercialize these uses, that was clear. They just wanted to run up the patent count.

But the partner corp was just a startup, trying to break into some markets, and now had some of those opportunities encumbered by patents and rightfully viewed our partnership as not in good faith (we didn't tell them about the patent work). The engineers at the partner firm were fairly pissed off at me, since I knew them well on a personal level and my name was on those patents. And naturally Big Corp promptly forgot about that business, never doing anything with the "IP".

I've thought about chucking those patent plaques in a fire, but I keep them in a box as reminder of that little snippet of my career, which I'd otherwise probably block out.
That's fair, but the 3 and 3a. is not about whether a decision is bad or not, but about attribution. It makes no sense to blame "technology" or engineers in news stories for being used in some way, but completely ignore the people who ordered and bankrolled it to be used in that way.
Feeling like life was whisked away.
"so their work could be taxed"...that makes no sense to me, what would be the advantage? Taxation itself doesn't magically "generate" wealth that could be used to help pay for the cost of government (which is only likely to increase as more women take up paid work outside the home).
Don’t be naive. Facebook is still hiring (not publicly like before), top positions, though.
yeah. IPFS is basically equivalent to BitTorrent. Go search some torrents from ten years ago, see how many stayed seeding the whole time.

It is better than nothing in the circumstances, but be aware of the species of creature it is.
My main regrets are code for canceled closed source projects that will never see the light of day (waste of effort), and one early-career large scale refactoring which was only ever half-finished due to time pressure - resulting in worse code than if I'd never initiated the refactoring in the first place.

Even the bad technical decisions tended to be correctable learning experiences.
Kind of infuriating that the blog post doesn't mention what "Wickr Me" is. The link in the page footer to "Wickr Me" only goes back to the same blog post.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676788>
So by this logic, it's ok to further immiserate the poor author since she was already 90% immiserated by the big bad publisher?
Ultimately you are like a kitchen knive maker whose knive was used in a stabbing. It was entirely the stabbers fault and does not diminish the utility of your product.

In a corporate setting, mitm'ing TLS and blocking sites by category is routine practice (better ways to stop bad stuff but expensive firewals are a waste when most traffic is TLS).
Interesting that they use the term "Latinx", a term actively disliked by many Hispanic Americans. It's a white person word.
Mastodon has years of history of being anti-capitalism and anti-free speech.

Best move along and not worry you got suspended.
The temperature is high enough; beyond that we haven't heard yet.
This happens all too often and furthermore is a problem beyond the chicken realm. Attention to detail is an integral part of human life and it is disgusting to see mere humans pretend to comprehend the intricacies of escaping beyond their mortal self, just for internet points.
At my first internship I built a program that generated reports with a ranking of call center agents based on their daily time on the phone and calls taken. It was used to fire the bottom X% periodically.

Not nefarious, but wasn’t how I want to spend my energy.
For the web, yes which is just such a joke. For physical goods it's far more complex than just RGB.
You don't need a license to use any color in Photoshop. You need a license for a collection of stand-in mappings for spot colors, the vast majority of which can't be convincingly represented on a monitor.

You can ignore Pantone entirely, put in whatever color you want, and nobody will know or complain. You can even use any color you want in Photoshop, then make a plate out of it for the press, and tell people the Pantone color you want that plate to be printed with.

But I sense a lot of the self-righteousness about the topic is coming from people who think that Pantone isn't doing anything, that RGB or CMYK can represent every color and Pantone is just selling them back to you. This is not true. Is Photoshop digging into users pockets again with another subscription plan? Yes.
Maybe find an instance which works with your ideology?
Quit.

The job market is in the job seeker’s favor. You can can certainly find a job with better understanding of work life balance.
Nah I don't think that's what I did. As another commenter said maybe that's how it came out (sorry), but not the intention.
Right now I have regretted spending so much time and energy learning how to build win32 applications in C and implementing multi monitor DPI support (kind of a nightmare in a library not made for this), because it has fried my brain.

But the odd dream of creating an awesome retro gui for.. well, whatever reason, will likely pop up again soon.
The Sahara desert and Australia are huge but at least for the thermosolar farm in the Moroccan desert, the difficulty is transporting the electricity far enough to sell it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure we still have a little bit of iron ruby deep within some of our build tooling.
It is a particular piece of content or a group category of content? You may not be liable if you are hosting The Illiad or some other public domain work, how much you (can?) choose or be aware of which pieces of contents you are hosting, if we are not talking about the whole collection?
the number they looked at was "number go up". This was an "investment" for the purpose of surfing a ponzi wave.

They could not possibly have looked at any numbers any deeper than what FTX told them.
My favorite ads like this are the string of Foxconn ads that have come out over the years. All of their ML jobs required N+3 years of experience with PyTorch where N was the age of PyTorch. Etc. Anyone could tell the "silicon valley" thing was a hoax by just reading job ads.

I just looked at their current postings and there's even one that asks for a "Computer Vision Software Engineer" whose job will be "porting 3rd party functions or GPL", which is pretty transparently the result of a game of telephone that start with "'rewrite' FOSS code so we don't have to follow the license terms". (Which in CV probably isn't even going to help because that whole space is extremely patent encumbered... in that space, if you're "porting" code you are almost certainly infringing patents).

https://foxconnjobs.net/job/computer-vision-software-enginee...
True, but then you are giving incorrect information about that file.

I tend to prefer failing before returning wrong data. Who knows what the program using the function will decide to do based on that data...
I never said that cis women don't deserve this right. If you look my other responses in this thread you'll see that I have expressed that they do multiple times.

I also don't just mean accomodation in terms of words: if trans men have any needs different to cis women, then medical literature on pregancy must include this when in circumstances where it's appropriate.
We use IronRuby for a monitoring application at my job. Its provides dashboards with hundreds of red/green annuciator tiles that users across the enterprise can create and customize. They can make a call to an API or run an SQL query or whatever and then as part of the tile configuration they include a few dozen lines of Ironruby to determine if the query results are good or bad and what messages to display on TV screens around the offices.

We couldn't have made it user customizable without something like IronRuby, thank you so much for implementing it!
Wasting your time and having awkward conversations is table stakes for dating, no? All of that would still be happening if you only ever interacted with cis people!

Are large numbers of cis people really finding that trans people are contributing substantially to their difficulty in finding a suitable partner? I see no evidence of it. This concern is almost always raised in rhetorically heated threads about trans identity, in the service of a particular argument – but almost never in threads about dating.
Have any pictures to show?
VSCode has extensive plugin ecosystem now and has a lot of inbuilt features. It works great, has become a default editor for me. Unless I need Rider/VS2022. I just hope they separate all their jupyiter notebook stuff into an extension so I can disable it. Feels like unnecessary bloat having it by default when they have such a great plugin api
"Women-born-women" is a term sometimes used among trans-exclusionary feminists. That very use made it - and similar-sounding terms - very much non-neutral.
Google gave me nothing
https://web.archive.org/web/20221118053855/https://quillette...
There's no way to depend on specific versions of C or C++. The actual binaries vary depending on architecture, compilation toolchain settings, compilation flags, link options, and all sorts of other things. There's really no way to address those built artifacts even if they were available on pypi or something.
They can't provide a credible source because the evidence is exactly the opposite.
The instance states it is anarchist/communist. Why join that instance if you're a capitalist?
https://www.insider.com/fake-honey-problems-how-it-works-202...

A lot of honey is imported from places where it has been mixed with other sugars or adulterated in other ways. The bottlers either don't know or don't care because the price is lower and the profit margin is higher.

The labeling laws are being broken by a number of big producers. The adulterated honey is generally safe, but is not pure honey.
Thing is, when the company that pays you actively wants to track everyone, there's little you can do as the person that creates tech form them.

If the piece of software you created is unbiased and unopinionated, it can be used for evil purposes.
If you make the software deliberatedly against that, you have to (a) take measures without the company knowing (b) have the manpower to do it alone while still reaching development goals (c) those measures can be undone by another developer that cares less that you.

After all, software big enough is collective by nature. It's also unfair to us to think that we're responsible for any misuse as if we were mechanical engineers creating weapons for war
> Here's several articles from 2017, for example.

That's around the time I learned about it. Notably, this is couple years after the poster worked on their project.
Probing (especially analog) is common throughout all discrete components. Baud rates are negotiated, clock speeds probed, handshakes made, etc.

The idea that DDR4/5 analog probing is “black magic” makes me think of a software engineer who’s had their first go at a hardware TRM.
The Java (openjdk) hashmap putValue doesn't seem to compare types, it just uses .equals()

if (p.hash == hash &&
((k = p.key) == key || (key != null && key.equals(k))))

You can't really rely on checking types in a Hashmap anyways because the type you're hashing can have more possible values than the 32bit hash. For example you can have 2 strings that have a hash collision.

NaN's work in a Java hashmap because Float.hashCode returns floatToIntBits(float) which normalizes all NaN's to a canonical value.
Musk Considers Further Twitter Layoffs in Sales on Monday
https://archive.ph/0gOX1
Ok I just read a bit more and apparently there are some fringe geophysicists who think it really is more like a reactor. I didn't know that.
Pretty sure it’s Qualcomm. Not familiar with any other companies that were so proud of their parents to build a wall to them
I'm not sure I've ever built something that I'm unhappy about the ethics of, aside from participating in a few products I believe were completely pointless.

Most of my big regrets were bad technical decisions that worsened the quality. I'm sure every dev has stories like that but for a long time my mistakes followed a pattern.

Often because I didn't follow best practices and reinvented a wheel, without being aware of how much time the project would take up.

A lot of my biggest regrets were personal projects, they almost all were major time drains that I would say worsened my life. My expectations were too high and the disappointment was far larger than any enjoyment.

I am still working on selling things on eBay and decluttering stuff bought for DIY projects.

Now I constantly advocate for best practices. A lot of my biggest contributions come from finding ways to make things work without adding more custom software.

There's just so much good software out there, often that already does exactly what you want.
Nassim Taleb has an article about this but I can't remember the name. Something like tyranny of the minority. Worth a read. The main idea is the most vocal, intolerant minority runs the world.
Yes, there was misalignment on service ownership and management decided on Friday that our team would cover 24x7 on call for 10 days of holiday (we have a company holiday the week of us thanksgiving).

The 10 days were split between 3 team members (myself and 2 others).

The situation is a failure, feels arbitrary and makes me livid.

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Would love to do that :p get their numbers tell them to make sure they have internet at all times and be within 5 minutes of their laptop at all times.
Does this mean a version of VB6 (classic ASP) could run on .NET Core (Linux)? That would finally liberate the language from the platform (IIS on Windows).
The fact that you can say "a male" - and people do it all the time, e.g. it's typical in police reports - means that it's not just an adjective.
Past present and future…

Reminds me how Ellen Page the young woman was not in Inception, but Elliot Page the male actor played a woman’s role…

I learned quite awhile ago that none of this was ever supposed to stand up to logical review. That’s the point.
Apps will still overflow if they try to parse a 64-bit Unix timestamp using a 32-bit integer. If that's the case, I imagine they'll break in interesting ways.
Criminal sentences for first time offenders very rarely follow the sentencing guidelines, and in some ways you can consider them to be a starting point for negotiation. When I was a prosecutor, fully 90%+ of the ~750 cases I handled in the 18 months I was there were guilty pleas of some sort. Pleading a 2 year case down to probation was a daily occurrence. (Note that I worked at the state level, not federally.) The machine is lubricated for quick settlement.

Mandatory minimums are obviously a different story.
Simon Peyton Jones on the state of GHC at Haskell implementors' workshop [video]
a dutch auction seems neither fair nor in line with how artists would want their tickets sold.

sure, some artists may want as much money as they can make but surely the majority want their fans to be able to see them affordably? at least, i hope.
What is so bad about catching people taking unauthorised breaks?
I implemented various pieces of flight software for the Cargo Dragon space capsule, and to a lesser extent the Falcon 9 rocket. I got to be on a mission control shift for the C2 mission that first berthed with the International Space Station. Some of the software framework I wrote back then ended up getting used in Starlink despite having never worked on it directly, so I can say I have code orbiting the Earth on several thousand satellites.

I've spent the last 6-7 years making autonomous aircraft that deliver medical supplies in various African countries. Probably a hundred thousand deliveries or so have been for emergency blood transfusions, typically for women that hemorrhaged during labor. So that's got to be quite a few lives/families saved!
It’s usually quakes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/15/swiss-geotherm...

https://www.dw.com/en/france-firm-shelves-geothermal-project...
Google “Twitter careers.” Apply on there. Wait and see what happens.
There's a more recent trend claiming that "male" and "female" are similarly fluid and not set in stone.
Y2038 programming is my retirement plan. I’ll be around 60 and probably kicked out of Silicon Valley employability due to ageism. Like the cobol programmers in the 90s, in 2038 they will be scrambling to find old farts who still know C and UNIX.
Sounds like you need a guard dog
I built a system for distributing and collecting homework assignments, and the assignments themselves were distributed with automated tests. Students would have instant feedback on their homework with clear tests and point assignments. Great idea, right? A high level required course of 40+ students could be scheduled, collected, and graded all in under an hour.

Not to mention the nightmare of early GitHub for Education used in the first semester (all forks mutually visible, what were they thinking!?), a genuinely shocking percentage of the class tried to cheat their way around it, thinking that I wasn't looking. Cheating felt like it had significantly increased the moment they thought we weren't looking. I expected some cheating, sure, but it really felt like it went higher and stayed higher than before.

The course has moved to others (who I have nothing but respect for), but I hear it is "notorious" for cheating. I was so proud of this system, and the distribution/collection systems are still used by a department, but the experience has really left me with a bad taste in my mouth wrt anything related to automated grading.
Man, this took hours to set up on a 2019 MacBook Pro...
Now add blue bubbles for all the people still employed.
I've seen a posted phd position that was extremely weak academically, because they just wanted someone with a CS degree to implement their pre-existing ideas, but didn't want to pay a developer's salary.

The position kept being posted multiple times over a couple of years. Then I moved on and don't know what happened.
Many thanks, it was exactly that bug report I was thinking of, but couldn't recall where I had seen it.
He is on a rocket sled in the wrong direction for revenue. That's part of the hole, not part of a ladder.
I agree. Stuff like this was coming, only a matter of time (not that I predicted the timing, for sure).

Ukraine war is the only thing that kinda surprised me. But given that so many people expected Russia to trounce Ukraine in an invasion, maybe it makes sense that Putin saw an opening.
> Has Russia been defeated, though?

No, but even a Pyrrhic victory appears out of reach. A 100% instant capitulation by Ukraine wouldn't undue most sanctions, NATO expansion, Western military buildup, their tarnished military reputation, or even a semblance of their recent soft power. It's projected to take 10+ years to create the manufacturing base needed just to start rebuilding their former military strength, dependent as it was on Western sources.

I don't think anyone sees a way out of this that approaches a "win" from the Russian perspective.
The way ransom works is that you wait until you get the money. You don't need to believe in promises.
I was mostly thinking about the corrosive power of water when it is extremely hot and contains dissolved minerals as this water will. I doubt very much that you could actually reuse the water. Protecting the equipment, disposing the heat, obtaining make up water, and doing something with the brine are major problems.

I'm not saying that it can not be done. It probably can, but I feel that the article was a little naive.

I suppose that I should say something about injecting high pressure water into the earth. At this depth you are interacting with tectonic forces. High pressure water can unlock existing forces resulting in earthquakes in a manner similar to the quakes triggered by fracking.

In summary, there is a cost for everything. There are few, if any, silver bullets capable of solving major problems.
If you apply the "Mastodon is Twitter" model, then this story makes Mastodon look like garbage.

If you apply the "Mastodon instance is a Subreddit" model, it makes a lot more sense.

You can start to see why Mastodon views more decentralized moderation as part of the creation process, and that's important. At the same time, the concept can't really exist in the user experience on Twitter, by design.

Still, there's much more to it than even that...

It's such early days with new social media that IMO the specific mental models people apply will make a huge difference in how they interpret the experience that unrolls before them...and when their interpretation of a discouraging event based on a broad model goes viral, it raises a ton of dust in the form of fears / doubts.
And not all books are about spreading information and/or knowledge. We're not only talking about academic books here, there are also fictions. What does the latest Stephen King have to do with freedom of knowledge? I understand what you are talking about and as an author myself I do agree as per some of my comments under this thread, but let's not pretend all the books made available for free are about "knowledge".
It's interesting though that all those cultures came up with distinct terms for trans identities. I suspect there'd be a lot less pushback if this was tried with English instead of overloading the meaning of pre-existing terms.
The news here, specifically, is that:

> Enter Quaise, which “is developing technology to blast rock with microwaves to potentially drill the deepest holes on Earth.

ie. there's a new, untried at extremes, bore drilling technique.

The calculation of heat production from earths core isn't new here, and nor, sadly, is any demonstration of a bore hole at a 10 mile depth.

They do acknowledge the deepest convential borehole so far was 7.6 mile (at some considerable effort at no small expense).
Oh, I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I have lost track of when NIO is supposedly coming.
are there estimates for how much heat is produced this way? any other way? (solar magnetic field interaction?) how much is the residual heat dissipation?

edit: ah, just read the title of the link posted in the top level comment. apparently it's "half of the heat" :)
Ask HN: How do YC Founders finance homes?
I don't mean those kinds of places. I mean places that are 100% truly public squares, where what they're doing is legally protected and they can't be kicked out.
People have built structures on Earth that have lasted 1000 years so that is in our experience. It seems likely that people will still be able to read English in the next 1000 years. It is in our realm of experience.

100,000 not so much. All kinds of things can go wrong. It is expected for instance that as Yucca Mountain cools down water will infiltrate. Uranium is water soluble so some will migrate in the direction of Death Valley. Uranium is toxic the same way lead and mercury are and that is more dangerous than the radiotoxicity of uranium.

A "once through" repository will contain valuable plutonium and uranium. People might want to drill into it 10,000 years from now because they want to use it as a power source or to make nuclear explosives. For that matter we could change our minds and decide we want to recycle the waste in Yucca Mountain after all so we have to be able to retrieve the waste in the first 100 years.

A waste repository used for fission products can use highly secure but difficult to reverse approaches such as encapsulation in a salt dome or burial in areas at sea where sedimentation is taking place where waste would get deeper and deeper year after year and be blocked from migration by the tendency of ions to get trapped in clay.
Fine, engaging writer. And great how NYTimes is continually innovating the UX.