skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this for a career change, and it was worth it, but the adjustment period was extremely long (4-6x).

Financially it was okay (still painful; 20% cut + move to vhcol area), but I underestimated how much it would grate to _not matter_. I had grown accustomed to a certain level of deference and respect that was not available in the new role, and in fact my willingness to move "down" was viewed with some suspicion.

People will (almost) always assume you "couldn't cut it" in the old role (or had a mental health crisis or something), and higher-ranked people in the new job will rightly look at you as a potential threat from below.

Good luck. Moving back to IC can be good for some people, but I agree with the other poster that "self sabotage" is a phrase that suggests this may not be right for you.
Yep. Could replace "Medusa" with "OSCommerce" and the article content would be the same. Not a great piece.
I don't think anybody is accusing the submitter of being a sockpuppet. It's just a rather well-known project already, and there's not any news to discuss related to it right now (as far as I know).

I get that there's always one of today's lucky 10,000, but I think a certain threshold of obscureness is reasonable. It wouldn't make sense to submit the Linux Kernel project, or Mozilla Firefox without any news.

Maybe I'm overestimating how well-known ReactOS is, though.
For those interested, that "Mozilla Museum" site pictured is and Mozilla banners came from [1] (it is visible in status bar tooltip in the screenshot, so just to save you some typing).

That broken "Animation: Mozilla destroys Internet Exploder" is archived [2].

[1] http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20000816155258/http://www.remarca...
Have you tried TeXmacs?
FWIW the concern here isn't you taking a screenshot, it's that an illicit app in the background is screen recording your phone and sending it off.
According to Wikipedia [1] jet fuel has 43 MJ/kg and lithium ion batteries with silicon nanowire anode have 1.566 MJ/kg. With that you get get 714 kg of batteries for 26 kg of jet fuel. The Tesla Model S 85 kWh battery has 0.57 MW/kg [2] which gives 1961 kg. Looking only at the energy density, the numbers from the article seem quite optimistic for the battery weight, but it is not clear what they actually calculated and I guess their numbers might contain factors accounting for efficiency. Do they account for the difference in weight, of the energy source and energy conversion mechanism, 26 kg vs 600 kg is nothing were I would expect similar performance?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Battery
Do browsers support it?
> zlib is 23k lines

I don't know, because zlib makes concessions for every imaginable platform, has special optimizations for them, plus is in C which isn't particularly logic-dense.
Honestly, unless there is any specific feature added that you find important (the wifi update or whatnot), a refurbushed/discounted m1 pro seems like a no-brainer choice under a more restricted budget.
I wonder how much this would have costed if they used mechanical Turk instead.
i actually don't think i understood a word
> Back then you could slap together some HTML, add a picture and an under-construction GIF and call it a day. Everyone with their huge 800x600 monitors would see the same thing.

How I remember it was that HTML standards were lagging far behind what browsers did. So you you put a "Best viewed with Netscape <version number here>" GIF there, or even "Best viewed with Mozilla" if you weren't afraid of turning back some people.
This is exactly why I use OSS whenever possible. Once you've gone through all the trouble of the post, you can spend a little more time to submit a patch.
1 crore views per month on YT let you live like a king in PK.

They are living almost entirely off Western clicks, since Asian traffic counts for nothing in YT algo.

A classmate of mine once made an amateur documentary about Pakistani heavy industry few years ago, and then it oddly took off.
> The top end company stock prices are just like real estate, the money experts

Anyone celebrating expensive real estate is celebrating destruction of our economy.

Real estate is an economic input, same as food and fuel.
When those get expensive, it is understood that it will lead to widespread misery and poverty.

The people that make money off sitting on real contribute nothong, they should be treated the same way. assomeone who'd make money from hoarding canned tuna.
given Apple is now confident with their in-house processors now, i continue to wonder how much of inefficiencies are due to processor architecture v/s inefficient/bloated modern application development.
LLMs can do better
Diffusion models?
I don't have a strong opinion on this myself, but I am curious how the general sentiment of "that's a good wage for Kenya and this is fine" might change if they were hiring developers there instead.
So much effort and processing power going into narrowing down and coercing a vastly general thing, makes me wonder at what point it stops being worth it to use the LLM.
I respond to myself. https://disboard.org/es/servers/tag/english-learning?sort=-m...
Anti-racism and inclusive racism (2021)
This is why HN post subject of just the project name are confusing. Is there something new here we should be excited about in the project?
> It should never happen if the IP addresses are well protected."

Sounds like they need someone who knows how any of this series of tubes stuff works.

>These were global disconnections caused by a security breach, resulting from the unintentional sharing by race competitors of IP addresses connecting teams to the server.

gee, maybe every racer should receive separate virtual tunnel to the server

>this is just incompetence

apparently in rFactor you cant rejoin the race after random disconnection, you are booted to the menu. And they tried to run 24 hour event in it.
Useful compared to writing a regex in notepad yeah.

Last time I was challenged by regex I easily found very fancy web page with so many nice features. Actual documentation, ability to select a specific regex engine (or implementation or whatever you call it) , real-time results on test data, highlighting that shows how the regex works, etc.
and that was years ago I’m sure there’s even better web apps now.

I can’t imagine having a better experience asking AI chat than using a web app made for the purpose
Well, they have time then. All military VTOL programs (the ones I know of) in the development pipeline are conventional: either helicopters or jet engine powered (I think the only one here is the F-35). Until the follow-up generation to those comes, this type of engine has around 20 to 30 years of development time left.

That being said, this whole idea is too late to the eVTOL start-up craze. Three years ago the animations alone might have been worth 100 million or so.
> That's a bad comparison, as you're comparing a full authentication process against just one step: with Office 365 (and SMS verification for DigiD) you additionally need to provide a username and password, which you don't need to do with the app.

I hadn't even noticed that app login doesn't require username and password. With a password manager that doesn't add a lot of friction. Even when accounting for that extra step, I still find Office 365 and SMS verification much easier.
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It's because the default program structure in C and C++ makes functions blocking, with the caller assuming that if the callee returned it completed. Jamming a non-blocking program structure smack in the middle of a blocking system is never pretty, and most people prefer not to deal with the additional complexity. For the same reason, even though Windows has overlapped IO and other asynchronous IO mechanisms, most people prefer to use the synchronous functions.
This is real and a serious threat. Both the company I work in and I (personal account) have been targeted with this specific method. I got tens of random notification pop-ups on my phone in different days and I almost approved it once. It didn’t stop until I disabled login using that specific email address altogether.

Edit: I received the notifications for Microsoft Authenticator app
yup, the tailscale team is awesome
It's just the dichotomy of using $2/hour labor to build a product that makes you obscenely wealthy.

As another poster said- in Kenya a job is a job and they still paid above average. Money going to Kenya is a good thing. They are doing the work so it must be worth it.
LinkedIn SF Quietly Shifts to 65% Plant-Based Menu, Halves CO2 Emissions
1 gallon of regular gasoline is 33kWh and a gallon weighs 6lbs. For a 33kWh battery pack comprised of 18650 Samsung 35E cells, you’re probably looking at around 300lbs for just the cells alone.

Irregardless, it doesn’t matter because an electric motor will be far more efficient using the energy stored than a fueled engine (be it gas turbine or ICE). In automobiles for example, 80% of the energy from the gasoline is wasted.
Look these people are making decisions about their AI to combat hate and misinformation which is now political for some reason.

“Yes but have you considered that they might suddenly made decisions to encourage hate and misinformation?”

You’re not arguing about anything except power. That OpenAI has any amount of control over the output of their models / API. They picked the training data, they picked how it’s trained, they did the refinements. If you’re worried about what they could do given their position that ship sailed so long ago it reached the new world.
I am not getting the angle here. Anyone, including you, can write GPT-like code, train the model with public data and release it for free. It may cost a few million to train in GPU costs, but if what you say is that important, surely there are folks here(I am assuming a good chunk of HN folks have a decent amount of disposable income) who will donate it for the public good? If there are not, then they either don't consider it important or are just virtue signaling. Or the effort is actually hard to implement.

I am totally okay with OpenAI being worth $30 billion or whatever when compared to crypto scams being worth billions.
What's so bad about the format?
Yeah it seems like it would only be worth mentioning if its less than the local livable/minimum wage or the employees were mistreated.
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I don't understand why you mention CMake.

CMake is not a build system, it does not replace make, or vsproj, or even pkgconfig.

It's a _meta_ build system - that is it generates makefiles/vsproj/etc.

CMake does not _find_ libraries magically. You can have CMake modules to use pkgconfig, or custom search scenarios, or whatever else you want, to find libraries and flags.

Really it's two different things working at different levels, one does not replace the other.
How about Japan? Once you get a job the visa process is simple (provided you have a college degree). There are more and more jobs that don't require Japanese language skills. Housing is affordable. Crime is extremely low. The salaries aren't as high as America but they've been in the up in recent years
At a time your are bleeding money is it smart to have a 250 person team creating an ERP from the ground up? If I was a big investor I’d want to know if it saved them money and why didn’t they focus more on their manufacturing problems. Elon said they backtracked on the amount of automation he thought they could build in the assembly line. It could’ve easily been a mistake creating your own ERP, glad it worked out.

I wonder how the vendors feel about bespoke erp integrations. I’m sure Tesla wielded its might to force them to copy or find a new customer. When I did ticketing system’s integrations, bespoke systems were sometimes a massive pain to deal with and ancient.
Problem is, why should I trust it, that it doesn't miss or interpose "not" in crucial place?

ChatGPT was caught in blatant lie (if we can say such about language model), presented with 100% confidence (if we can say such about language model) multiple times.
My grandparents had something very similar on cassette... no tidbits even, just, "1234, Greater Spotted Swallow [birdcall]" (the numbers referring to an accompanying book). My sister and I must have spent listened to those two tapes dozens of times.
Also governments use thier access to target people for political repression or death not to recommend you a local restaurant or laundry detergent. Not even close to the same thing.
Thinking, lots of purposeful thinking.
Reading, carefully choosing what to read, thinking about the lessons learned and figuring out how to put them in practice.
How the Byzantine's Government spending led to its collapse
The links seems to be down
People have mentioned the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II[1] and the TEX Shinobi[2] as external keyboards that have trackpoints.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

[2] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?variant=16969883648090
Exactly my thoughts. We can do better than both these solutions but it's going to take an industry to adopt the practice. I like what vcpkg is doing... I'm a cmake guy myself, but I always found pkg-config to be useful to the point where you're upset when it's not present and that presents a problem. Build chains need consistency, reproducibility, and some form of order.
It's pretty pathetic how many people feel the need to dunk on this bit of code just because it's not how they would write it. There's nothing really wrong with it. I'm sure the author was aware of alternative, perhaps more concise solutions using a string builder but they chose to be clear instead.

So many big egos in software.
My partner and I just moved to the Netherlands and I mildly disagree. For one, we really like the diversity and appreciate the different cultures and histories. But I also think there's something to different member states getting to experiment on their own. Like, the Finns are onto something with their school system for sure, but the Dutch have a lot of Montessori schools--what are the pros and cons of each approach?

But, yeah not that we're wild about international train travel--that's a sore spot for sure. But generally we view the differences as a kind of richness and less of an inconvenience.
After moving to the States and losing my Dutch mobile number I was also not able to use it for more than 10 years.

During covid the government provided an ability to schedule a zoom call to verify identity remotely and set up Digid with a foreign number so I finally have it.
Temperature and humidity sensor is a nice perk for those of us with acoustic guitars and orchids. Presumably it can be used with Apple Shortcuts to trigger notifications. Might upgrade my first gen HomePod eventually, but it still sounds great.
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If you define a term differently from most other people, it's on you to make the translations.

If you're a solipsist, it doesn't matter, but then nothing does.
Ugh. The truly "free" version has income caps. (Don't get me started on a politics rant.)

The form-based approach is fine if you like that kind of thing, or just have 1-2 W2s.

Paid Tax-prep software is "worth it" because it simplifies the whole process.

But again, nothing wrong with filling out the forms yourself if you like that kind of thing.
I love 100 Rabbits. Their web format inspired my NeatCSS framework.

https://neat.joeldare.com
I stopped using windows search a while ago.

It is unreasonably slow. Everything (the app) indexes every file on all of your drives in seconds, then filters the list instantly as you type.

When I start typing an application name that has a shortcut in the start menu, it shouldn't take seconds to find, period. There is no excuse. I'm shocked how bad windows search is every time I have to use it on another machine.

After trying multiple application launchers, I've settled with UELI. It does a lot of things (much more than windows search), instantly.
So that’s 300 million doctors appointments a year that could be spent doing something else - treating someone who actually has something wrong with them. That’s before we even get to the question of whether doing this actually helps more than it hurts.

Is that a worthwhile use of their time? Do we see a net improvement in health outcomes if we do this? Healthcare is littered with treatments that were thought to be helpful but turned out to have negative outcomes.

If you want to introduce something new it really is on you to demonstrate that it represents an improvement to the status quo, because what a “reasonable person” thinks very often turns out to be completely false & ends up doing actual harm.
Alright, I'll do a bit of reorganization today to ditch the "KB" thing. I'm considering scrapping the static site generator in favor of pure HTML, but... that bears careful thought.
Worth noting:

- We lost two tweeters (7 down to 5)

- We lost two mics (6 down to 4)

Really curious how the sound compares to the original.
> It does not follow that it leads to greater disposable income.

It wasn't supposed to. It was suppose to point out a concrete example of how stronger worker protection leads to being paid fairly for the work you do, while US workers are not.

Meanwhile, feel free to check how any FANG salary for software engineers in places like Seattle compares with the cost of living, and how the salaries for equivalent positions in European cities like Amsterdam, which also has a notoriously high real estate, lead to higher disposable income.
> On desktop, you use pin, type code, then scan. I find the flow quite smooth.

I find the constant back and forth between devices annoying. 2FA is already annoying because you have to switch from desktop to mobile and back, but that can't be helped. There's no need to make it 6 times, though:
desktop (on site) -> mobile (start app + pin) -> desktop (fill in code) -> mobile (get camera) -> desktop (scan QR) -> mobile (press allow) -> desktop (continue on site)

That's just being irritating.
I think so…

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I'd like to get into Racket as a Scheme user, but I have difficulty taking it seriously when its startup times are still so high:

$ time racket -e '(display "hello")'
hello
real 0m0.721s
user 0m0.598s
sys 0m0.119s

This basically rules out using it for command line scripts, which is a major class of uses for me.
I love my OG HomePods that I got on close-out at Best Buy, but both of them have given me near constant connection issues over the last few months -- excited to have something to replace them with. I much prefer the appearance of the Big HomePod over the (not-really) equivalent Sonos One.
'Free market dynamic' just means 'natural' - for some reason people think natural = good.

Cystic fibrosis is natural. So is the Plague and brain tumous.

Collusion, wash trading, self-dealing and insider trading are all 'free market dynamics'.
I don't think your comment makes it any better. With all respect but given the HDI of Kenya, I don't think your average Kenyan worker is that versed in English, has a laptop and an Internet connection. $2/hour for a company like OpenAI (which can, most likely, afford more) is pure modern slavery.
What is much much harder in using some css from bootstrap or css grid/flex that will handle it?
This is correct. CMake is a configuration tool, not a build system. It generates make/xcodeproj/vcsln/or the like. It's meant as a replacement for autoconf or the ./configure scripts previously used to auto-configure Makefiles.
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Never did I think I would be looking for an archived copy of web.archive.org till today.
For me he is the best educator in this space bar none. When Karpathy explains stuff it just clicks in my head.
A workaround introduced me to the CSS `filter` property. (Some monster value starting with progid:DXImageTransform...).

Crazy considering how much I use the property now.
> I worry about having regrets and endangering my family's financial safety.

The tipping point—
when you no longer worry about things like finances, career track, opinions of others.

Either because you resolved those issues in your mind, or uncontrollable events have made your corporate position redundant.

Always a smart play to have a solid “Plan B” at the ready.
From Homeless to Billion Euro Exits
I feel like automatic headlights should be mandatory. In my state, if your wipers are on, your lights should be on. Even during the day rain can make it difficult to see cars that don't have their headlights on and therefore don't have red lights on in the rear. I see many people driving around at night with no lights on and it's a safety hazard. Additionally, your dash lights will be at full brightness when the headlights are off so now your eyes can see even less light coming through the windshield. If relatively expensive backup camera and a display to show it can be mandated, then a much cheaper photodiode to switch on some lights should definitely mandatory.

I wonder if the insurance lobby was the one that pushed for backup cameras, it's probably greatly reduced the number of rear collisions that they have to pay out.
I worked for a while with a software engineer who insisted in encoding the value of the macro within the name:

#define MAGIC_16 16

his rationale was that you had to go through all the uses and consider whether the change would cause an issue.

It takes all kinds.
nuclear fusion reaction with net energy gain?
The Republican party has a few core bases:

1. Rich assholes who want to become richer and don't care about people who aren't rich
2. Turbo-Christians
3. People who's economic interests are intertwined with industries republicans protect, like oil/gas
4. Culture warriors

There are also a lot of people who aren't any of those things, and aren't really invested in the Republican party, but who vote Republican because they're part of communities where that is basically expected, and they're good little sheeple.

The first three groups pretty much just in the wrong, and they deserve to lose. The culture warriors aren't exactly wrong, though they exaggerate quite a bit. Of course, if the democratic party got off the woke/identity politics train and went back to being the party of the working man it would solve a lot of problems.
What's the problem with pkg-config? You mean the slightly inconsistent behavior across those different implementations? Are they really relevant in practice? I never really had problems with it.
Siri is the main issue holding me back from buying a homepod.

Alexa & Google just bypass it in cleverness while also understanding my accent way better.

The only major plus of Siri is tight integration into ios.
What is this "audience" you speak of? I've run a blog for 25 years. First, it was FrontPage, then a custom PHP site, then a custom Rails app, and now Wordpress. The only thing that hits it is web crawlers. I do it because I must.
Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 3 – A parallel work consumer