skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this to demonstrate a few basic programming techniques to my nephew on a Raspberry Pi a few years ago. I asked him what he wanted to see and he said "a square train!" (Kid loves Minecraft, wants to see everything modeled in little cubes.) So I imported Python's turtle module and had it draw a train with square wheels, square boxcars, a square smokestack, etc. Then I showed him something called "refactoring", by taking the instructions to draw, say, a wheel, and putting them into a function so we can draw as many wheels as we like, anywhere, by calling it.

Anyway, it must've helped give him the bug because a couple years later he was asking to help me load software onto his Raspberry Pi-powered car, entering Linux commands with ease.

He turns 12 this year. He's probably outgrown Thonny. I bet he's ready for Emacs.
I typoed corporation. My point was that you would become the very thing you were trying to avoid.
> international transfer in the EU costs me around 7 €

Are you sure about that? I thought with SEPA all Euro transfers within the EU have to be the same fee as national transfers, which is free for almost all consumer bank accounts in Austria.

My bank charges for instant transfers on my business account (around 8€), but other than that all transfers are free.
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Ah and Bitcoin is so dangerous. We obviously need central banks to solve all it's terrible problems. /s
I like keypass, but merging my android and pc versions every so often is a task I'd like to automate. I dont do google/apple cloud so avoiding that.
dslreports.com maybe?
When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10]

If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all.

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo...

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s...

[2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab...

[3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-...

[4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc...

[5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat...

[6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-...

[7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar...

[8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

[9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

[10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris
In the case of Facebook, at least, even after the layoffs, their staffing levels were just putting them back at the 2019 levels.

If Google laid off all of their engineers that were working on money losing projects that they are going to probably cancel in a year anyway, no one would see a decrease in service and their net income would increase.

As far as tech startups, they are mostly Ponzi schemes anyway where the investors were planning to pawn off their companies via either acquisition or an IPO.

Can you name one major tech company that has IPOd and created a profitable sustainable business in the last decade besides AirBnB?
Bases are getting makerspaces; I discovered that Miramar has one in the base library a couple of months ago! They are rolling them out as they get funding.
Automobile passenger compartments are vented, otherwise there'd be problematic pressure spikes on door/hatch closures. You're not getting deprived of oxygen sleeping in a vehicle.
As long as they only store aggregates I cannot say that I see that issue.
Certainly, many applications don't need this kind of complexity.

But if you're working on one who does, you're typically glad to use Rust :)
Pure speculation? Folks are smarter than that as a rule. They'd comment on how that would be cool, then how it would affect kids, then whether kids really care and so on. You know, real thoughtful conversation and not just name-calling.
Yeah. Speed and memory efficiency don’t come for free. Use Rust when you benefit enough to compensate for the cost of grokking the plumbing.
I work at Berkeley Lab and there are tons of internationals here. I think it differs between labs - just an hour away at the Livermore Lab there are a lot fewer internationals because of what they do. We don't do anything classified and this lab hands out visas like they're candy.
Waymo is completely self driving and does it well… even years ago was cruising around self driving

And you don’t see them doing all the carnival barking line Tesla does
Great advice. The only thing that's missing is to grind leetcode as hard as you can. As much as HN and Reddit hates leetcode, most companies still use it in some form. Getting good at leetcode-style questions will allow you to get through the first few interview stages more consistently. Then, in the later interview stages, you can show off your personal projects and open source contributions.
I was not expecting that, but I'm in, I'll buy a pair for my office stereo then move my office HomePod to the lounge.

I bought the first HomePod when they first came out and I heard it in the apple store and couldn't believe a single speaker was producing that sound. I use it constantly to play music in my office, set reminders and timers, asking about the weather and controlling the lights. I seem to be lucky in that Siri mostly understands what I'm saying.

This is once piece of tech I just take for granted, it does what it does very well with no fussing. I'm really happy to see Apple bring out a new version.

For me a smart speaker has to be a very good speaker first as my primary use for it is listening to music. Everything else is just icing on the cake and only really saves me from picking up my phone and authenticating to it to use Siri.
I think you're vastly underestimating the havoc that can be wrought by a single submarine briefly surfacing near a carrier group, belching out a giant swarm of expendable drones and disappearing under the waves again.
Other tech companies have a class system too, it’s just between FTE, vendors, and contractors. Badge colors keep the classes separate.
Probably ones that need specific windows drivers.
Great advice.
This is the worst time job hunting for most of us since the tech economy hasn't really cut jobs since 08. 2020 and 2021 were crazy times, I interviewed with Amazon at least 4 times, got an interview with FB even. I don't consider myself to be a great dev and wound up making 200k per year at a point.

Now it's all coming back down to reality and I'm rapidly re-adjusting my expectations. Interviews are getting much much harder, I'm getting ghosted after final stages, and it's easy to get discouraged. Looking at the news it's not just me becoming a crap dev overnight, but the entire tech economy looking like crap.

Let's hope it at least stabilizes soon. As is I think I'll have to take a massive paycut.
Can I read books and access computers? Can I break open slot machines to learn how to repair them?

If both are yes then that's a pretty interesting place.
Non-contact record players been built.[1] The trouble is, non-contact record players track every tiny bit of dust. Elaborate record cleaning is required. So they're not useful for routine use. Also, they're overly expensive low volume products.

The IRENE people are trying machine learning to recognize and remove dust and scratches. That sort of thing is for reading archival items once and generating a archival digital copy at some very high sampling rate and resolution. That's then down-converted for listening.

Many early cylinder records sound quite good when played back with modern equipment. It turns out that most of the distortion came from the mechanical playback process, where huge stylus pressures were used to get enough motion to directly drive a speaker membrane. The recording process was making reasonably good recordings.

(History of electronics: "We need more volts." "We need more gain." "We need more frequency." "We need more stability." "We need more power capacity." "We need more gates". "We need less heat.")

CDs, DVDs, etc. have error-correcting codes, so they don't have this problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
I don't see why the US should care about Mecca as far as financial leverage goes.
That sounds awesome! Which country?
UK examples: A friend of mine had to wait 1.5 years for the paperwork to come through from the home office for his wife’s visa before she was allowed to move here.

Dealing with utilities is a total pain in the arse e.g A new electricity connection takes 3 months to connect the wires from the street then another 3 months for a different organisation to come and install the meter. The meter installer fills out thier forms incorrectly and you are left with a huge bill for electricity that’s not been used (happening to me also happened to a friend last year). The only way to correct this is to physically get a new meter installed to replace the old one; another 3 month wait while batting away threats of court action for a huge power bill. Phone and Water are just as painful. No-one at any utility company has any idea what the proper procedure is for doing the paperwork. I’ve had problems dealing with electricity companies in the last houses I’ve lived in and problems with the water supplier in my last two office locations.

Last time I checked there was a 3 month wait to renew a passport; no changes apart from another 10 years of validity.

If you want to speak to anyone at the tax office you have to go on hold for 3-4 hours. The only other way to communicate with them is by writing a physical letter which they will never reply to. The tax credits department doesn’t speak to the income tax department even though they share the same addresses, website and bank account. You have to go on hold for hours to get information sent out from one department to be able to send the information straight back to the other one at the same address.

Planning permission is an absolute shitshow, it’s meant to take max 2 months but regularly takes over a year.

Edit: If you employ someone there are a whole bunch of complicated returns you have to file every month. You also have to find your employees a pension, even though one of the things you have to pay is employers national insurance which is already a pension. You can offload this to a payroll consultant for a monthly fee but it’s about 10% on top of the salary cost of someone on the average wage and they still phone you up and offload the weird corner case stuff back onto you.

The only thing that’s easy here is setting up a company; super quick on companies house website.

Everything else is super vague and badly organised.
It’s funny that @sama’s company is working with a company named Sama. It also confused me when reading some of the comments at first.
I've used this IDE to teach my wife programming.
It's really great for beginners where they can just pick it up without worrying about which versions of Python they should use and how to import/delete packages!
Yes. Went from Senior leadership back to IC. Life is so much easier for me. I'm doing more coding, solving harder problems and less "people management".

But the company is also a big factor. Previous job was a rotating door. New job has a solid culture.
> Everything I devoted my life to for years, taken from me, multiple times.

Sounds like you need to step back and re-evaluate your approach. Your work for a large, soulless corporation should not be what you devoted your life to. It's work, not your life.
>I would say it's fair that the military could say that gambling while enlisted is not allowed and shut down the slot rooms.

Then you'd have the right wing whining about how "woke" the military is with their cancel culture, shutting down gambling the same way they shut down homophobia and sexism and racism by integrating and ordering enlisted people to suck it up and follow the military orders and regulations they signed up to follow.
Slacking off, as you call it, is part of working. What she did was claim to have worked on clients' files without having opened them. She didn't claim that a job had taken her six hours when it took her 5.5 plus some downtime. She claimed to have worked on accounts that she had barely perused the data for.
Funny stuff. Scientific American really screwed up that headline.
I think you're in the wrong thread?
Also apple seemingly keeps making the factory case worse. I use to never use anything on my phone with the old iphones that had the all metal cases. Would drop it all the time and never had an issue.

Now i drop my phone once and the back is shattered. Honestly getting pretty sick of the direction apple has gone with the iphone. I just want the iphone 7 with better battery life and some hardware upgrades.
> Why does it matter whether you're acquainted with the recipient?

Because the transfers can't be canceled/reversed, so there's no recourse if the recipient is scamming you.
This is a numbers game.

1) Apply everywhere, literally in the hundreds. Different cities, different states, etc.

2) Make sure you are prepared. Do hundreds of Leetcode questions at least to the medium level. Do lots of systems design questions as well. The fact of life is that you need to show you can do coding questions and your competitors will all be at the top of their game here. If you don't match them, why exactly would you be a better candidate than them?
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Tough spot - these days people look for tailored information for the answer to only their question. But often they really need all the context in order to understand the answer to just their question. (And we all hope they grow into stewards of the whole answer.)

At work, you could maintain documents for things you need to explain in detail, and when verbally discussing specific parts, reference relevant parts of the written doc.
> There are so many alternatives to chemical fertilizer: manure (cow, horse, chicken, human), compost, planting nitrogen fixers, sowing ground cover plants...

Cool. And which of those can I generate using excess electrical energy from my solar panels?

>I have never used a chemical fertilizer in my garden, and am striving towards a completely autonomous fertilization cycle

That is great. I don't have the time or interest in managing animals, and I manage my space for food production because it gives me a sense of control and independence over my food-supply. Over the last 3 years I've imported almost 5000kg of animal manures into my gardens. Its incredibly expensive, and even with that additional fertility, I need more. Its more important for me to have the independence and control over my food-supply than it is to hold to a particular relgiosity around where my N comes from. If I have animal manures, I'll use them. If I have chemical fertilizers, I'll use them. When I have pest issues, I try to use IPM. When that fails, I'll use a pesticide.
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50,000 sons
45,000 daughters
about the same again in fathers and mothers
Agreed. That's way more readable.
Not really sure how this advice is still relevant since Facebook with its own app store model helped save the tech industry in 2007 from the downturn like the one in 2001-3.

The next big thing appears to be AI (not VR), but I don't really see how it can really compete with that historic low cost startup. What would a MVP AI even look like? Would it only be a good AI part of the time? We already have that. Try using Siri.

> That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “Facebook Class.”

> The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors.

> “Everything was happening so fast,” recalls Joachim De Lombaert, now 23. His team’s app netted $3,000 a day and morphed into a company that later sold for a six-figure sum.

> Early on, the Facebook Class became a microcosm of Silicon Valley. Working in teams of three, the 75 students created apps that collectively had 16 million users in just 10 weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html
On top of my head: CPAN and Debian's since both are distributed with mirrors not controlled by the the main project. It is possible that some mirrors save statistics but there is no aggregation of it. But, yes, most package manager servers track download statistics and as long as they throw away the IP addresses I do not see any harm.
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I mean, even the article suggests that if the military reversed course and allowed surfing, there may not be as many people jumping at the opportunity as OP suggests. It says that military personnel have smuggled surfboards and failed to get many other folk interested in joining them over the course of a whole year:

>Somehow, he’d managed to smuggle his 8’6 pintail out there (we’d find this tricky to believe were it not for the images featured in the original article above) and he spent his year finding fun down the line tubes to jam it into. Unfortunately for Tom, he wasn’t able to coax many mates out into the lineup to join him, largely due to the abundance of hazards that lurk between the fast-breaking waves and the shallow coral reefs, including an array of hungry sharks, sting-rays, and stonefish. And of course, the the limited medical facilities on land should you come to blows with any of them.

And just because something's "in paradise" doesn't mean there's plenty to do, and simply suggesting a sport that not everyone's into doesn't really support that assertion. Paradise can be quite uneventful, even if it's still paradise.
I wanted to confirm that significant debt can preclude someone from acquiring a security clearance. Significant new debt can be reason to rescind an active clearance too.
It's definitely true that it's harder to find no-dates, but they absolutely exist. I think one reason they persist is that not every collector is well-heeled enough to keep all their watches on winders.

I know if I go to the safe to put on, say, my Omega, I might just put it right back in there if the delta between the actual date and the date when the watch stopped is too large. LOL. I've got some no-dates (mostly dressier, hand-wound), or I can roll the dice on one of the other date-window autos.

I'm especially glad in those moments that I don't have any day-dates.

When I was a kid in the 70s, the Success Token most of the upper-middle-class men I knew opted for (if they opted for one) was a Rolex. It was usually either:

- A Submariner in all steel (think 60s Bond); or

- A steel Datejust on a two-tone Jubilee bracelet with a champagne face (a color scheme aped by a million Citizens and Seikos); or

- An all-gold Day-Date on a gold President bracelet (think Tony Soprano).

My dad took the middle path.
go's crypto is all original to go (other than possibly some assembly implementations ported from other projects), and nearly uniformly excellent.

I would take the go TLS implementation over, say, openssl (which is what many/most other languages end up using) any day of the week.
Have you considered fly.io?
I'm surprised this isn't outcompeted into failure by domestic civilian competition base-adjacent where they can offer far more, ahem, "services", to complement the gambling.
I’m not sure that major tech companies are all that heavily driven by esg ratings, but you’re definitely correct that there’s a difference in work culture.

Chinese tech is notorious for the 996 work schedule, that wouldn’t fly in the west.
In the late 90's I used to sit next to a team of about 20 VB developers. When MS decided to make VB obsolete, those folks had to re-learn software development and were getting intern like opportunities because suddenly all that VB knowledge and experience was worth exactly zero. Hopefully y'all fare better when they decide to nuke C# and .NET.
He's off by at least an order of magnitude. Otherwise, lighting 10 candles would be like firing up a 1000-watt space heater, which is obviously not the case.
The IEEE 802 family naming seems straightforward by comparison.

I'd love something like USC C 3.1.zxcvbn where it goes {form factor} {major}.{minor}.{capabilities}.
> Out of all my friends, only one tried setting me up with someone on a blind date.

> Goodness, I can't even describe to you the kind of disgust I felt from her face when I walked through the restaurant door for our first and only date.

Well, now we see why none of his friends set him up on blind dates.

I feel bad for the poor girl who suffered an hour with him.
He announced that he would leave Twitter -- which he did. For two days. Dec. 18th to Dec. 20th
"Delayed" and "get undone, leaving negative balances" aren't the same, though. The first is annoying; the second is terrifying.
Owner will likely check their email more than visit their site. I know that’s true for various small sites of mine.
If you have excess electricity, I always thought it would make sense to use the Birkeland–Eyde process [1].

From what I understand it is very energy inefficient, but scales down well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland%E2%80%93Eyde_proce...
50kg? Try more like 500kg. I usually get a 5 yard load dropped off once a year, and that isn't nearly enough.
And can be enough if you don't need large quantities of investment capital. If you don't _need_ it, but _want_ it to get fabulously wealthy... well, "lifestyle business" is not the path to that, by definition.

It's almost like the interests of those who want to get fabulously wealthy -- whether founders or investors -- become misaligned with the interests of the users, even steeper/faster than when you "just" have a "lifestyle business".
Taking a little inspiration from Sublime Text in terms of usage of screen real estate would do the author a lot of good. That said, functionally this is amazing.
Consider the fact that the US military fleeces taxpayers to the tune of Elon Musk's entire net worth every 10 weeks; I'm fine with consensually subsidizing that a bit from the incomes of those who explicitly opted in to participating in it.

They've actually double opted in: first to join up, and second to put money in the slot machine. Let them pay for it.
I'm pretty sure you can actually configure the windows firewall the same way, but you would have to it up front, instead of having it prompt you.
Interesting. I've been working on a side project that combines argument mapping with actual syntax checking - meaning that if an argument's conclusion is purported to be "proven" via the sufficiency of its premises and sub premises, then a counterpoint further down in the graph will notify the conclusion that its truth value is now in doubt. I wonder if it could use argdown as an input method.
Yes, but that difference isn't Apple's fault, only the 5% they add on top. Every product you buy in Europe is more expensive because of the higher VAT.
By aligning the interests of the custodian and beneficiary.
"Zelle transactions made between Jan 14 and Jan 17 may be delayed in occurring and posting to accounts as requested. Transfers will be completed and will appear in your account activity and balances as soon as possible. We apologize for any delay and inconvenience"

That's what Bank of America says on the mobile app. I sent a couple of Zelle payments on Jan 15 and Jan 17. They payment I sent on Jan 15 is missing on my side.

EDIT: an hour later, BofA fixed my Zelle Jan 15 transaction.
First we got bugs in our servers, now we need to learn to deblimp them? This field evolves too quickly