skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US western state concept of township, range and section for land survey and land title ownership is interesting. Dry land wheat farmers in some parts of WA own entire "sections". You can see them from space east of Wenatchee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_su...
I don't understand this line of thinking. The purpose of those regulations is to reduce e-waste. How is the EU's fault if some companies produce cheap shit that doesn't work very well? And do you really think things would get better without those rules?
For the sake of specificity, which "gender transition treatment" are you talking about exactly? Hormonal treatments and puberty blockers are generally very easily reversible. If we are talking about surgery, which age do you suggest is fit for giving consent to it? Why should it be different from the age of general medical consent for other equally life-changing treatments?

It's also interesting that you mention "any possible treatment for homosexuality" as if homosexuality is a condition that needs treatment. I'd be willing to bet an arm and a leg that more than 99% of the "patients" who "wish" to undergo those "treatments" do so under immense social pressure from people who still think homosexuality is a disease than can be cured. Speaking of that, they also don't "bother to track the patients after the procedure for a minimum of 10-20 years" to see if they have been cured :)
Something about this feels "horoscopy". Meaning most people who read this will think "that's me!". I wonder if that is the intent.
Macrium for system images and Kopia for files
HN has been over the Leetcode interview discussion a thousand times, and it's more complicated than a sentence can argue, so we can agree to disagree on Leetcode interviews. :)
https://signalsandthreads.com/programmable-hardware/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cgRXhpQLY are worth a listen if you’re interested in hardcaml (they’re both with the author of this article) - I’m not a hardware person by any means, but still found both interesting.
There's a lot to tell about how things were and how they digressed. Beside the physical aspect or ergonomics, there was something calming of a very small core software. Powering an old machine throwing you into a BASIC shell in one second is relaxing. Modern day suffers from the paradox of choice, too many things to digest, too many variants, too much stuff you never gets to understand.

There were also more 'mystical' aspects to old machines, they were slow but fit your brain more, you can't swallow the whole internet .. you need time, those machines being limited, gave you time to think, they also had their own peculiar mechanics, and it made for a nice ritual (told that before but the pleasure of hearing a tape drive ramping up, a LP deck spinning.. it all feeds your brain with a soothing feeling)
I wonder what computers would be capable off if we would develop a new stack from the ground up (bits and bytes) with the silicon in mind which we have available today…
Visas – Japan's demand for software engineers
Japan is a country with an acute shortage of software engineers. And unlike many other developed countries, getting a working visa is much easier in Japan.
In Australia a 500 megawatt black coal power plant emits the C02 amount of just under 700K average family cars whereas a brown coal power plant emits a little over 900K av. family cars.

( Not SUVs | 'trucks' etc )

Mind you, a 500 MW plant can service ~350K multi car homes; so the C02 output of that plant is within the ballpark (ie. less than a x10 factor) of the C02 output from the cars in the homes serviced by the plant.

ie. They're each as much of an issue as the other and change would be good here.
I've found my self in this position as well.

So far I've managed to identify a few key points which has served me well so far.

- Being able to produce results even when there is a lot of unknowns.

- Fairly good communication skills across several departments. People usually listens to what you say.

- Being known as goto kind of person. If it's about getting the gist about something or direct help of implementing any kind of service/api.

And lastly the main point of being Sellable: Being a generalist has put you into a lot of scenarios were others have no previous knowledge about. And thus making you easier to act as an early asset in assignments.
> Imagine everything this does manages to push the earth into a 100 year ice age

Looks like the plot of Snowpiercer, minus the perpetually moving train part.
Right. The wildcard/free electron I have observed and worked closely with the most has an almost physical allergic reaction to power and control. They throw themselves headfirst into fires and spit out solutions that work and endure, but are horrified of holding any official title beyond their nebulous, job descriptionless role. Receiving public credit also makes them recoil in horror — so long as 1) the CEO duly compensates them for their effort and time (this person has a ruthlessly mercenary personality…funnily enough) and 2) the solution they shipped works, they are happy.

But one thing that I think a lot of what the article missed, and perhaps what demarcates the good from the just okay wildcards, is that the one of the overall goals for any task is to find a good specialist/maintainer who will continue on and refine the min-viable into something sustainable long term. Those who care not to firefight, but to do the work of tending the garden while they go on to fight the next fire.
All apple has to do is ignore the invoices...
Ask HN: Is NextJS querying Rails API-only a good architecture?
Both would be running on different servers (vercel and AWS, respectively) and the React/Next presentation layer would make API calls to the Rails API backend.

Is this stable and efficient? I ask as a lot of blog posts I see recommend quite complex architectures passing far more than just API calls between the two... Thanks
Not exactly everyone. I will continue to pay artists for their art. Once the AI will train mostly on derivative works produced by itself, with most artists whose work was used without asking to originally train the AI out of business, it will be very fun. Those who will be able to use all that stuff as a new kind of raw material to create pristine art will be a tiny minority, and it will really be a new chapter in the art book. For everybody else, the marvellous AI will be in the hands of the lords of social media, producing an infinite stream of uninsteresting stuff you love watching while scrolling the infinitely long page depicting the sterile desert we contributed to create teaching the machine what we like and what we don't. Very fun, indeed. An AI generated mirror of our mediocrity, with no way out. And please, don't start telling me that our brains work the same and that every piece of art is derivative work. Human beings are a little bit more complex than a neural network.
This is off topic here. If you want to chat with a communist about this, you can feel free to email me, I'm happy to clarify any points to the best of my ability.
Yes, but there are more, worse, bigger frauds than the FTT part of this. FTT was comparatively minor and honest given the rest of what was happening. More a tool than a crime in and of itself...

The bigger fraud was:

1. You put money into FTX and either kept it as USD/EUR/JPY etc or used it to buy Crypto

2. FTX told you they had that money/coins

3. FTX gave that to Alameda who gambled it away on a "if we make money we keep it, if we lose it, that's your problem" basis.

SBF, his parents and other senior people at both companies (plus other legal entities) were all helping themselves to peoples cash basically all the time as far as anyone can tell. Everything from fake expenses to "loans" they would never pay back to pump and dump BS. So it was BOTH a big fraud (using customer deposits to fund speculation) AND 1001 small frauds (taking funds meant to customers but used for speculation and actually using them to buy free houses for people or pay huge unearned bonuses etc).
A strange inversion, these used to be tools, limited but tools, to get something done, and now they're nearly unlimited but you do very few with them. Very odd.
Because then you'd need to call resistors "semiconductors" coz they also change resistance with temperature and that's not useful to anyone.
Mr Bowie was talking more about his professional craft - be it writing code, public speaking, or playing rock guitar; going to the edge of your comfort zone in that craft is the way to learn it. I don't think that cold showers are anyone's professional craft, even if they might be beneficial to health and alertness.
Most of that article seems to be talking about an omicron wave, not delta. You were selective in your quote as that article states "we found higher levels of protection among those who received two doses of BNT162b2 compared with those who received two doses of CoronaVac", which supports my claim, given that 2 doses was the initial recommended schedule.

Regardless, unless they are large and well conducted systemic reviews, single articles and studies are not enough to represent reality or for either of us to derive conclusions. Good science is slow, much slower than needed for policy decisions.
Yet somehow, despite the general tendency to squareness in political boundaries, electoral boundaries wind up with bizarre shapes...
Code calling this function will get slightly faster.
Unless we get a nuclear exchange, then the starlink chains will drive into each other - and dual use, form a protective shrapnel cloud around the earth stopping ICBMs, explaining the recent hype on fast missiles that can dodge these clouds..
Pretty much. He’s been that kind of “magnate does strange things” since long, but since he publicly joined the political conversation, he hasn’t done anything to undo that framing.

Look, some of his points have some standing but the points have to be more nuanced. I’m also annoyed by PoCo and the power-grab by US identity-identitarian Calvinists, painting anyone that does not defer to their moral authority as fascist monsters. I’m also irritated by the “present your pronouns” because you’re “either an ally or part of the problem.”

But indeed, for every time you snap back, there’s a real trans person who’s suffering an identity crisis, victimized and exploited by all sides of the polarized flame-fest that’s smashing any chance for a reasonable debate.

I don’t know if Musk is a true reactionary bumpkin of just burnt out, and out of touch. He should really get a public relations specialist to fix his public persona and teach him how to stay out of rhetorical minefields.
Same in Norway
There is no mention in the article of using external antennas with the existing phones.
Less handy if the 911 responder is buzy with 200 other calls and can't take yours at the moment.
I can't think of any examples where they'd show up in aerial photos, but the traces of original Spanish land grants in California are still clearly in the land registry, some still undivided.
lead with the heart
Any suggestions for resources to get an understanding of the mathematics etc behind cryptography in general, and the ZK space?
> I'd take a hefty pay cut to jump on a "hell yes" project.

Very easy to say. Let's get back to it when you have actually taken a hefty pay cut.
You know how slow unassisted GPS is?
> Like so many things in government, the WHI started out as a joke

I can't think of anything else in government - not known for humor - having started as a joke. I wonder what examples the author had in mind.

Nonetheless, good to learn about WHI.
Apple Lightning was better than micro USB, but surely not better than USB-C (a standard which apple itself helped promulgate). The king is dead. Long live the king.
While public Wifi providers may try to MITM, TLS effectively prevents that from happening unless you are prone to accept "insecure certificate/connection" warnings.

Leaked keys or keys obtained/accessible by law enforcement from vpn providers effectively allow them to MITM you: https://www.byos.io/blog/nordvpn-torguard-and-vikingvpn-brea...

That said, why did you choose EXpressVPN?

> If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. - Snowden, Sep 16 2021

- https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1438291654239215619

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/trust-but-verify-an-in-depth-a...
No. Public money is not public's money. Is just money taken from the public (i.e. taxpayers). How it is spent is not your business. Your government knows better. /s
Is that accurate? If so there's way more wildcard types on HN than I've bumped into. I need to move to somewhere more wildcard heavy!

When this article says wildcard I think "that's me!" because I do anything from web dev (actual role) to sysadmin (preferred role) to IT security to GDPR compliance to billing clients to looking for new clients to project management to hiring to data admin to research and development (my 2nd last job qualified for a government grant for this one haha) to ..

I've not yet been asked to do something I couldn't at a minimum do a "yeah that will do for now cheers" job on. You might not want me setting up your Kubernetes production cluster (yet), but a prototype or test net? Come back in an hour boss.

The list goes on. I can also plan, direct, shoot, edit, promote videos and podcasts too but it's been a while.

I'm not saying match the skillset but does everyone saying "that's me" have a skillset that looks like someone just picked what to learn by rolling dice? That's what I'm picturing when I identify myself as the wildcard person described in the article.
The First Chat Bot “Eliza”
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, Eliza simulated conversation by using a "pattern matching" and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part of the program, but had no built in framework for contextualizing events.
soooo only the first digit in number matters ? rest look pretty randomly assigned
The point of right to roam is it isn't even a civil matter: one can roam private land, and can't be asked to leave solely on that basis.
Beware: this requires your email to get the results. There's no mention of it before taking the test.

Edit: Nevermind, you can leave the email field blank.
That's the secrete good offer plan? Its extremely expensive. The same price in the Nordic countries would give you at least 20GB data and free roaming in all of EU.
sounds like adhd + polygloth to me, it's great to start new things, and terrible when it takes too long. I almost feel represented by this article, although I'm not a programmer (unless I have to be)
Elon Musk is surrounded by yes-men, and it's a recipe for disaster
>i.e. letting grandma out into the yard for a bit of alone time while I put the kettle on...

I think you could have worded this to make your gran sound less like a dog...
Why hundreds of thousands of kids in the US dread their 21st birthdays
If you’d read the article you’d see that I specifically call out disabling browser push notifications, not web sockets or server sent events.
I was in Vietnam week ago, the country didn't feel like authoritarian regime, at least regime there is not as authoritarian like Canada or Australia.
There may be a series of large blasts in the eastern and southeastern regions of the United States, potentially involving gas. Similar events may also occur in eastern and northeastern parts of Europe, possibly linked to Russia. It is uncertain if these events are a result of an attack.

A major tsunami or shipping incident could occur in the Indian Ocean or Southeast Asia.

A plane may crash into the ground in Northeast India or Bangladesh.

There may be a train disaster in Western China.

There could be an explosion at Pine Gap or Alice Springs in Australia.
Other news sources, without the FT paywall:

https://www.raconteur.net/global-business/indias-new-digital...

https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/ondc-to-democrat...

https://inc42.com/resources/how-indias-ambitious-ondc-projec...

Also:

https://ondc.org/

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

Previous HN stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30732547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31214899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31257886
They weren't developed for alpha or delta but for the original variant.
Alpha was only detected weeks before the vaccines got approved, delta wasn't even around yet. The first updated vaccine that got approved was for omicron.
When a property is landlocked like this, you should have a right of way through other people land, isn't it the case?
They are natives and breath the local atmosphere.
Your reply makes no sense. Not every Afghani collaborated, and plenty of collaborators follow Islam. This is obvious. This doesn't make those who collaborated any safer.

You don't even need to know any specifics: it's a well-known humans tend to punish traitors even if they have a lot in common.
This is half true, A-GPS makes it work much better.
Which was released in 2015 and Apple still does not support.

I doubt they will let anything compete with MagSafe short of more EU regulation.
I think it’s basically my internal valuations of the endeavors. Building a payment facilitator seems like a side hustle compared to the space/energy initiatives. That said, X/PayPal certainly helped a good number of people bootstrap more ambitious companies.
Several similar cases since the last week. The only possible benefit could be fishing for personal data, or testing the product against us to see if it can fake to be a human.

My best bet would be several people playing with the new toy. Trolling 3.0. The other post from the same account sound identically "robotish".
Where I came from, this notion is basically non-existent. I meant sex. And also, the article didn’t state anything about gender. There is a specific footnote about this.
That is freaking awesome, it's like a refrigerator that still had lead shielding.

I haven't worked for the government for 6 or so years, but the last box of skillcraft I had maybe 3 worked out of the box, and not one made it through annotating a paper. It was so bad that I bought a box of cheap store brand ones for myself so I could take notes.
Collecting the Best C++ Practices
The fact that there may be differences in the abstract is very different than claiming that there are specific differences.

We have hundreds of years of claimed differences which today sound a bit silly.
You can see what wikipedia says about it

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

Personally, whenever I read "socioeconomic status" I mentally replace with "how much money they got".

(Yes, I know, socioeconomic status includes assets other than money, But money can easily be converted to a lot of things. That's why people like it.)
Epic. Just a great story.

> We called it Jurassic Amber Ale or T-Rex Lager or something, and it was pretty good," Cano says. It was served at his daughter's wedding

Plus the tasting notes later about spiciness.
I think Europeans may not really get how big some of these places are until they experience it first hand - it can easily take 9 hours at freeway speed to drive from one corner of WA state to the other (Blaine to Walla Walla), and that's if you stick to the freeways and highest possible speed highways, keep cruise control on at 115-120 km/h wherever possible, and take an absolute bare minimum of stops for gas and restrooms only.

On the other hand just the province of British Columbia is the size of a good chunk of all of western Europe added together, in square km, and can take a very long time to get from Vancouver to somewhere in the far north (or a far off coastal location by combination of roads and ferries), due to its many mountain ranges and thousands of km of coastline.
Which UI conventions are broken? SwiftUI mostly uses the standard AppKit widgets, then it's up to the developer to use it or to customise everything and make a monster out of it.
The main "issue" is that it's much easier to customise things in SwiftUI.
Sure, academic achievement is valued, as is making money (which is valued in every capitalist society). But the definition given is:

"The Masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement, heroism, assertiveness, and material rewards for success."

The type of individualistic, heroic achievement that American culture values isn't valued here. Being a high achiever so you can be a great worker for your company is, and of course women want men who are tall and earn a lot of money, which again seems somewhat universal.

But going back to the definition as given, there are 4 specific things listed here. Two of them are "heroism" and "assertiveness". Neither of these things are cornerstones of Japanese culture at all. Japan is a collectivist society where people are anything but assertive. Yet Japan is ranked 95. This makes no sense to me. These 4 traits together seem to accurately describe American society, yet America is 62. If anything, these numbers are reversed.

Another thing I'll point out: in America, CEOs make tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year, orders of magnitude higher than the lowest-paid workers. In Japan, this is not the case at all. Top company executives aren't paid remotely as much as America's highest-paid execs, and the gap between the lowest and highest paid is a fraction as much. (The execs at the biggest companies are paid a lot of course, but not compared to the truly obscene compensation packages American CEOs get.) There's a definite sense of one's duty to the society here that simply does not exist in the US. So yes, "material rewards for success" is valued here, but not the way it is in the US. In the US, people seem to literally worship wealth and wealthy people; here in Japan, rich people are generally not celebrities. So I would say even this factor, "material rewards for success" is not as valued here as in the US.

In summary, Japan's ranking simply does not fit the definition of "masculinity" given, in comparison to other nations, particularly the US.
Spagetti bolognese with fried potatoes, together with a big mac. And a bottle of cheap whisky.
More like pissing in the ocean.
I've played with https://stable-diffusion-ui.github.io/ a bit and it's been a good stepping stone to learning more about SD.

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui is also popular but requires a lot more config to get going.
> China already has the second-largest civil nuclear power sector in the world, in terms of power supplied to the grid, after the United States

TIL.
My goto would be https://github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig it’s very simple to use, but doesn’t offer all the bells and whistles like carlos’ env pkg.
biggest problem i have is: if there is some new better standard can we ever move to it?

micro-USB would likely not have improved much without some kind of competition. a big part of why USB-C is reversible was because Apple (and others) made reversible connectors and people showed a lot of preference for that.
Location service uses gps (and similar satellite networks), cell and wifi info combined, so they are kind of not wrong. But it's not needed for "GPS" but it's hard to cut through the layers for people?
> that these things would exist even without them

Would these things eventually have been invented / brought to market by someone else? Probably. Infinite monkeys etc.