skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was affected by the meta layoffs. Haven't looked seriously. Here is my read on the market situation.

1. Last 10 years of low interest rates and growth made Faang like companies seem much more valuable than they were. Now that tech is making it easier/cheaper to build and compete with their products (think TikTok vs Insta or AI driven frameworks for automating all kinds of workflows) expect the big/old companies to take time to realize and pivot to build more valuable products to stay alive. And it's not just Faang but any companies that are ripe to disruption where if you get hired it may be less stock comp or volatile job durability.

2. Also related to this, the FTC is tightening the screws(meta was blocked from supernatural, Nvidia could not buy arm) so they can't grow the way they did monopolistically like before and expect less of hiring bounties.

3. Seasonal and recession effects will slow down things for a bit but the former will wear off come January. Latter is a wildcard.

4. Don't get the first job you get without vetting the positiom even if it takes 3-4 months to find one(assuming you are not squeezed by issues like immigration or cost of living). Try vetting the companies and see if they value what you have to offer and the place is not toxic. Remember that only cracking the tech round is a zero sum game but mutual value in a work relationship is not and often more important. So vet it well.

5. If it's been a while since you last looked and are procrastinating on practice of leetcode or interview prep cause or you aren't clear on what to do like I am, take care of my mind first. Meditation, simplifying your life, figuring out what you really value in life and why you value it, is useful. Networking and talking to people on what's out there to change what you do is also useful.
Ugh, what a loss for this community and the Ruby community.

This should be worthy of a Hacker News black banner today.
I strongly believe in accessibility technologies and accessibility on the web but I also don't think any individual should be required to make their webpage accessible. Regulatory barriers ensure that only those with sufficient resources are allowed to have a presence in that space. The current approach, which are guidelines (like WCAG) that most corporations and governments take seriously is a much better approach.
I know of a few people who will be receiving this link as a gift from me today :)
Not sure if it's what you're after, but for short stays in nice places in the UK, I'd highly recommend https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/.

They basically restore, manage, and rent out old properties in the UK (cottages, castles, gatehouses, towers, old churches, etc.) for short stays.

I've stayed in a bunch, and they're always super interesting, cosy, and a great change of scene.

Only downside is that wifi/4g/etc. is likely to be poor.
> Of course I wasn't the first to think of it but that didn't matter, the joy is the same.

Thank you for emphasising this key point! There's pleasure and there can be prestige in being the first to solve a mathematical problem, but there's joy and accomplishment just in solving the problem yourself, even if your approach is exactly the classical one. I am a rock climber as well as a mathematician, and I compare it to that: the first person to summit a route will get the big-name recognition, but it's still worth it for me to come along and summit myself later, even if I use exactly the same sequence as tens of people who have gone before me.
Russia is hell on earth within some respects and that doesn’t mean the US isn’t when it comes to others. It’s subjective what it means hell on earth but neither the US nor Russia take the medal for worst place in the world to be.
...until you start comparing lag and CPU performance. Then it becomes obvious what kind of bloated software the world is producing.
Of course, some percentage of pirates become sales conversions, as well. I’ve bought plenty of movies and music after pirating it. I know many people like this. True that this is the exception, not the rule, but then we’re back to the “I am only consuming this because it’s free” issue.
where did the urls point to? Docs that didn't have what it was saying it did? Makes me wonder if ever in the history of that url (ie wayback machine) if that feature was ever mentioned...
Exactly last thing you want are monarchist martyrs.
What is odd is that he mentioned LibreOffice when *GNU* TeXmacs (https://texmacs.org) exists.

Edit: url
All cases of this are astounding. No other life - astounding. Live, but none other intelligent - astounding. We are first, but there will be more - astounding. There is lots of intelligent life - astounding. We are the last - astounding.
Airbnb Visualization Components
If you are handwriting the function in assembly, you'll know what registers hold the function parameters, what types of values they are supposed to be, and with care, you can produce debug information and CFI directives to allow for stack unwinding, it's just annoying to do - but that's just the tradeoff you make for the performance improvement I suppose.
See also the "Scunthorpe Problem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Car wraps are a good option since they have effects you can’t get with paint and act as a protective wrap that can be swapped later after damage.
There's a few different mods which do this and it depends on which one how they solve it. Some start you off with power in the first place in the form of wind turbines, and some give you an inefficient way to produce power from fuel which doesn't require water.
Ron DeSantis' Quiet Relationship with Amazon
I think that depends on the size of the universe. If the universe really is infinite, I don’t think we can say anything about where we are on the list. Even if only one star in a billion galaxies has intelligent life, there could already be an infinite number of civilizations ahead of us.
Have used btdu - very useful on Btrfs systems with lots of snapshots.
Sounds like a GPT prompt.
The same could be asked about the USPS designs custom vehicles, or why UPS has special package cars with changes from a default box van.

The other piece that I think is important and not regarded high enough is that delivering for Amazon is all-in-all a rough job physically and mentally (considering that Amazon is at the height of metrics-driven companies and will shit on you for missing your number by 1), so there is an incredibly high chance that they will use these to boost morale (and already are -- Amazon has different tiers of vans internally that drivers work through as they progress at the company [with the new Rivian vehicles being at the top of the tier list], so surely it's being used as some incentive -- "hey check out this new electric van that we want you to drive, it has heated seats and steering wheel ;)".

Plus, this is the type of company who cares about 1-2% optimization long-term because of scale. Maybe the lower step of the Rivian van causes a 3% decrease in hip-originated workers compensation claims, idk.

Also EVs are so much cheaper to run than gasoline delivery vehicles, especially if your routes are stop and go -- that's worse-case for a gas engine, but EVs love it because of regenerative braking.
Apple Car Reportedly Won’t Be Self-Driving and Now Delayed Until 2026
Anyone else ask themselves why the signup process requires a phone number, despite signing up with a third party auth provider that already had my phone number? There is no reason to collect this data.
Good point.

Alternative is to compile your Clj uberjar using GraalVM. Here's a project to document how to do that and which common libraries are compilable:

https://github.com/clj-easy/graalvm-clojure
Well I'll take you at your word then. Be aware that new accounts or accounts without much comment history are treated with more suspicion on HN when they discuss hot button issues like gender or politics.

> It’s toxic as fuck. Being a woman in tech blows. You can’t be pretty or you’re considered incompetent and shallow. You can’t be ugly or you’re treated poorly for that.

One of the best programmers I've ever worked with was a woman. Former Google. I'd prefer not to discuss how attractive she is because it doesn't matter to me. I'm sorry you're having a rough time in Scandinavia and, from your comment history, formerly the USA. I've worked with non-aggressive teams from different places, but I've also observed women being mistreated in both Canada and the USA as well.

That said, I've seen ASD men mistreated as well. Unfortunately there are jerks out there and we can all try to do better.
There is absolutely a fraction of blame to be shared by the population of superpowers such US, China and Russia.
Students design robot to collect micro plastics from beaches
Using Bitmaps to Perform Range Queries
This post discusses how FeatureBase uses Bit-sliced indexes to significantly reduce the number of bitmaps needed to represent a range of integer values. And by applying range-encoding to the indexes, it is able to perform lightning fast range queries.
The dev blog from Microsoft in a different comment covers this:

"This will be too low if the original addition contained a carry from bit 0 to bit 1, which happens if bit 0 is set in both of the terms, so we detect that case and make the necessary adjustment."

return (a / 2) + (b / 2) + (a & b & 1);
But investigating money laundering and certain forms of organized crimes is extremely hard without being able to trace transactions. There's no point in having laws if they can't be enforced.

That's why a limited amount of privacy is all that governments with these kind of laws could possibly accept. That is: privacy from other private individual and organizations, and from the government as long as they don't have a court order to look into your transaction.

It might be possibly to design a cryptocurrency that satisfies government requirements, and maintains a balance between privacy and ability to investigate economic crimes, but I don't think most blockchain developers is interested in that.
Can it answer "Don't know"? Or does it suffer from over-inflated ego, just like humans?
Two things: Telegram hit that critical mass of users early on that ensures there are enough reasons to use telegram that new users sign up and stay, and the client itself is a solidly good user experience. Contrast that with something like Element or Session where there aren't many people to talk to and the client is buggy jank and you've explained why people are still using Telegram.
At most. Radio waves follow the inverse square law for attenuation, most of the signals we have sent over the past 100 years are not detectable out that far.
by politicians who want to make it seem everyone using a VPN is doing evil stuff
I guess it's the same as with the death penalty: it's a decision that's very permanent and irrevocable. Someone may be convinced that "there's nothing in it for them" now, but are you really sure they would feel the same in a few months or a few years?
Anything touched by the FAA wasn't considered on technical merit, it was pure inertia and being terrified of any change, no matter how warranted. C.f. leaded gas for general aviation.
woops, misread the indent-depth of the posts as reply, not to the same parent.
It looks like I have Internet Connectivity issues!
Even if you have infinite time, is there enough energy to get between universes?
It’s weird for sure. The number of important things that people don’t understand is always surprising although it’s very common.

Early in my career I had an “Asimov moment” firsthand - I was an intern working on a project to instrument an industrial facility with better sensors, etc. The whole place was dependent on a 100 year old machine that just did its thing every day with only minor maintenance and repairs. (I think the power source has been swapped out a few times) The manufacturer was long defunct and the plan was to keep the thing running indefinitely. Pretty sure it’s still there!
What do you do when operating on the largest int type available?
Aframe news app to showcase media outlets' Balkans bias
I don't know that it was intentional, but I clicked the link thinking it translated to something like "Someone highly involved in Linux kernel development is about to step down". Maybe not click bait in the typical sense, but I was baited into clicking it. You get a pass for cheeky titles though when the article is actually interesting and well written like this one.
Virtual walking via the Balkans
What type do I get if I'm multiply four int32s?
> you're asking it to do probably about 20,000 times more computation every time you press a key

If hinting, spellchecker and autocompletion takes so much computation you have terrible tooling. This kind of functions existed 25 years ago and they were real-time.
Interesting and telling indeed. A southern US accent is acceptable to portray as threatening (or unintelligent or otherwise villainous). I would say the Russian accent is similarly A-OK to use for such prejudice. Racial stereotyping is exempt from being considered hate speech, it seems, when the target is the Bad People™.
How many bits is x/y?

Assuming x and y are 32-bit integers
That appears to be a different source, so of course it should be left off a list of things that RFA has reported. (If indeed RFA reported those things.)
It's pretty easy to get inverters attached to a battery to act like "virtual inertia", in fact this kind of service to the grid is an area where they massively outcompete traditional turbines (providing far better frequency stability for lower cost). This concern is a complete non-issue if you have even a small fraction of the storage that a renewable grid needs.
The problem with extremist takes like yours, is they remove any nuance, to the point of covering for other equally "anti-human" acts that eventually pop up.

Take the falun gong cult, or Scientology of the east for instance.

They were protected and given special status in New York and now spend a large amount of their time spreading nonsense propaganda about not just China but supporting extremists right wing parties globally.

No one in the US even bothered to cover them until they were banned for trying to spend 20millon on pro-trump ads in 2020.

And guess what they own most of the leading YouTube channels about China and are the gateway to anyone curious about how China functions.

I'll know, since I was watching one of their channels since 2010 and only found how how much fake made up stuff they made up only much later.

Same thing happened with how ISIS was formed due to the sheer ignorance of the decision makers.

ignorance breeds stupidity.
With a million more well on the way.
If the vaccine doesn't stop infection or spread, and the virus is 99.998% survival for ages <21, why do they need it again? It's an honest question.
editorial. it's not making any bones about being an opinion piece
I heard about a startup doing exactly this yesterday evening (pen testing AI models for adversarial attacks). I think they're mostly targeting images and convnets at the moment.
I can't recall the name of the company at the moment, but will update here with a reply when I find it.
It’s an editorial piece, closer to opinion than news.
The prices are on that page, from CAD$305 to CAD$689 depending on the model you want/need.
>The Internet is a tool, not an endpoint.

Not to be pedant about such things, but there may be a reason it's a common scifi trope that people are hooked to machines and live in virtual worlds. It is not out of question that the internet eventually becomes an endpoint in itself.
First option isn't relevant to the discussion.
I think LaMBDA would be really fun. If you asked ChatGPT what movies it likes, it would tell that it is a large language model trained by OpenAI and it can't have opinions yada yada yada.
No; the apology is in the last paragraph where the poster attempts to suggest that the DPRK is not really any worse than many other countries in the rest of the world.
Is the zeroth I'm worried about.
> The goal was to understand how much cash remained in the system

The RBI which prints the banknotes knows how much cash is in the system. I've heard a lot of nonsensical justifications of demonetization. This is by far the the worst.

> but with 6 years of hindsight doesn't seem as bad. It kicked off India's digital economy

Kick starting India's digital economy did not require bringing the physical economy to a fucking standstill.

> UPI payments went from $1.5B in October 2016, to $10B the following month.

Do you have a source for this? NPCI has very different figures: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-statistics

Value of UPI transactions in October 2016 was 48.57Cr, rising to 100.46Cr in November and 700Cr in December. In November 2022, the figure is 11,90,593.39Cr.

> This triggered mass adoption of phone payment apps,

Define mass. In 2016 smartphone penetration in India was ~24%.

> In most tier-1 and tier-2 cities in India, you don't need cash or a credit card to survive.

Ah, the endless queues, the needless suffering, the lost jobs and destroyed lives, all made up for by the fact that the urban middle class now has the convenience of UPI!

> Today banks don't accept any significant amount as cash deposits and there are strict caps on annual cash transactions.

Which to repeat myself, did not require bringing the economy to a fucking standstill. And limitations on value of cash transactions aren't a new idea and predate demonetization.

> Overall, the "demonetization" event of Nov 2016 was imho a success as far as the government's objectives were concerned.

99.3% of the demonetized currency was returned and six years later, the amount of cash in the economy has doubled. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to claim this was a success.
You’re weirdly trying to attack the author. Why is that?
Man, Wikipedia has gone full insane, and this article is proof. This is the guy who tried to flee the country with a suitcase full of as much foreign currency as he could stuff in it, after his secret police intentionally didn't keep records of who they were beating to death until they realized he was too insane even for them.

The show trial was a miscarriage of justice, because it wasn't done largely and publicly enough. Imprisoning him for appeal would have been a good idea for international relations, but his death was a point of unification of the country.
If you mean directly in front of the entrance, yes, there will always be a bunch of wasps waiting for their turn to get in. And, yes, do not get too close to that spot unless you know what you are doing. In particular: know their flight paths and do not stand there.
Click on 'fine' to sort the table by amount. The first 10 in the list are 1.9 billion Euro together.
Yes, but that converts to 128 bits before doing the actual sum (maybe the compiler can still optimize that away?)

My idea was a better language where typecasts are never needed at all, because the compiler knows how the result will be used (in this example, returned as int64_t), and can produce whatever code is most efficient and either produces the correct result or a runtime exception.

edit:
Also any non-toy compiler will optimize division by powers of two into a shift operation, so ChatGPT isn't being clever at all here, just repeating a common superstition.
I haven’t heard this one, but I’m in the US. Maybe they are elsewhere. Can you name some of these politicians?
I’ve got a Seek Thermal attachment from my iPhone I got on cyber Monday a few years ago. Once you have one you find all sorts of uses for them.
Sure. Under the US system, they "fix" this problem by pricing people out of the queues and they end up dying.

I could reduce the demand for anything if I'm allowed to arbitrarily raise its price.
"I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person"

"Ginevra Davis studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford and now works in art and design. She writes about technology and youth culture."

One step would be to stop using your state-issued name on the internet. "Cr4zyBoy4eva" is a bit better than the Facebook/LinkedIn-mandated "real name", but rather childish, hence why an arbitrary UUID string might be a better fit. "There are no girls on the internet" and "on the internet men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agents" point to a deeper truth, which will only be amplified by the post-Turing test chatbots, beyond ChatGPT: the internet is not for humans, there are no humans on the internet, don't be a human on the internet.
…using a well-instrumented sex toy to calibrate an orgasm PID loop.

This is hilarious and genius.
Watching a 747 land or takeoff is always giving me goosebumps. Somehow we have normalized too many things too fast.
> If he tried to convince them to pay for a consultant to tell them the same thing, things might have been different.

More people in the industry need to realize these kinds of hacks and start playing the game. Management will back you on almost anything so long as you make it look like a win for them.

You want security vulnerabilities addressed, ask for a pen-test and then tell the testers where to look.
Google results are already bad, ChatGPT will only accelerate the death of the current algorithm.

Check out this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

I was thinking of this issue this morning, I wonder if anyone tried to create a search engine that has weight for content approved by experts and will add more smaller weight based on engagement or other factors. I think Pocket is an example for what I have in mind.

It will definitely require massive resources to make, but it will be the new trusted Google.
>the actual task of moving boxes of stuff is fulfilled perfectly well by a Ford Transit

Former UPS driver here. Our performance was measured in SPORH, or Stops Per On Road Hour. Supervisors will touch base with you and quote metrics like how many seconds it took you to go from the turning off the vehicle to entering the cargo area, or from pressing the key fob to enable the ignition switch to pulling off. The point is, all of these optimizations add up when you are performing them 200+ times per day. Driving a Ford Transit vs one of these Rivian EDVs or a P1200 package car would mean employing 2-3x the workers.

>Maybe there's a slight efficiency improvement, but seems nowhere near the massive investment + maintenance required for a specialized truck.

Just the sliding pocket passenger-side door is a massive improvement over any non-specialized vehicle. Think of the investment divided by the number of drivers, not as a lump-sum. As for maintenance, UPS and USPS both have in-house mechanics, I'm sure the same is true of Amazon.
We still have cash right now - that is the important distinction. You can choose to put your cash under your mattress, self custody has always been a thing.

Our bank accounts have some legislated protections and even if they decide to de-platform me from my bank account they have to provide me with the money (sanctions aside) in that bank account in the form of cash or a medium that can be exchanged for cash.

If cash ceases to exist then what? If the government decides that I (or a group) are to be blocked from transacting, without cash then what happens?

We currently have choice - CBDCs will remove that choice for everyone and unilaterally grant governments an absurd amount of power - as demonstrated in that thread
Discord is a bloated UI nightmare. There are so many awkward choices. Most annoying is that the server list is icons only. There are many servers with similar icons. Just allow me to have actual text there.
The argument against that is that groups of this memetic profile have been documented in the US since the 1960's, and in Deutschland since the 1980's, both of which predate the FSB as such (1995).

On the "for" hand, they could all plausibly be Полезные идиоты (NB loan word from english!) and so it'll be interesting to see whether TFA's "one suspected supporter [who] is from Russia" winds up connected during the prosecution.