skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh the SAMD21G18. Of all the chips to show up on HN today. This chip I know not half as much as I'd like to and half as much I wish I didn't have to.

We ported a rarely heard of RTOS to this chip (TNEO), and one of the most difficult parts was running tickless with sleepable states. The difficulty (discovered only by blood, sweat, tears, wtf oscope moments, dumb luck, and a random comment found on some obscure forum, definitely not in the data sheets) was that accessing certain registers (in our case RTC.CNT) would cause the chip to go in to a different clock domain temporarily and suddenly take as much as 300 usecs to read. Just this line:

uint currentClock = RTC.CNT;

That's all it took. Whereas most store some register into some local variable took nanoseconds, this one took a long long time.

My experience in this world of embedded chips, is that many of the tutorials you read do not deal with power consumption really. They assume that you're playing with a dev board. Or that your application has copious amounts of power. But if you live in a battery powered world, your entire game lies around navigating between sleep and wake states on the chip.
IDEs for languages with pipes allow break points on pipelines and can show inferred type annotations mid pipeline. Given the popularity of JS, this tooling will appear rapidly after pipe standardisation.
If the prefix is incremented for every new ID, you essentially have the same problem as you do with serial: you leak information about the amount of rows in some timeframe.

As the link posted above mentions, you can alternatively use a timestamp-based prefix that wraps around after all the bits have been used. This one still leaks possible creation times of the record, so it's on par or better compared to UUIdv6, ULID, etc. (because here the exact creation time can't necessarily be deduced).

In all of these UUID solutions apart from the fully random v4, you are trading of the better index performance with some level of information leakage about the record the ID is associated with.
I took a look and don't see any strong reasons not to use and support the official app. Tweetbot was so successful because it was competing against the official client which was (and still is) truly horrible, but I don't see that in this case Ivory has many advantages over the official client.
Not anymore since Android 12. As far as I know, if the installation (or update) of app A through app B is approved once, app B is now free to update app A in the background without a prompt.
Well, perhaps not all conferences are worth the money companies spend on sending their employees there, but I’d guess Davos probably is.
> Look at the the lowest point of energy demand. That's base load. How big is it relative to the peak of energy demand? Depends on the season, but it's usually 70-80% of peak demand. So, the vast majority of energy demand is in fact base load. I'm really confused about why renewable proponents talk about base load all the time - it's really not relevant to decarbonization of the grid.

I think this is just a confusion of terminology. What "renewable proponents" are talking about is baseload power plants. To quote the Wikipedia article that you linked to:

"Power plants that do not change their power output quickly, such as large coal or nuclear plants, are generally called baseload power plants."

If you've been missing that key piece of terminology, I can see the source of the confusion. People just call this "base load" to be short, for various reasons. You can criticize this if you want to, but that is what is happening.

> The majority of Germany's electricity comes from fossil fuels [1]. It's not a mostly renewable grid, occasionally supplemented by peaker plants. It's a majority fossil fuel grid supplemented by renewables. By comparison, here's France's electricity production [2]. One of these is a mostly decarbonized grid. The other is a primarily fossil fuel grid, supplemented by renewables here and there.

This has nothing to do with my previous comment. I have no idea what point you're trying to get at.

> This is an idea that no sane grid operator would ever accept. First of all, most of these vehicles actually lose energy in cold weather [3].

You're really confused about a lot of things in this part of the discussion. EVs have less range in winter because more of the energy is being used to heat the cabin, and that was done with resisitive heating until recently (more vehicles are starting to use heat pumps). The grid operator would not be insane, except from the point of view of a very traditionalist grid operator. The future is dynamic.

> The market demonstrates otherwise.

It really doesn't? The market demonstrates that demand has risen sharply, and it will take time for production to catch up. Every demand spike results in a "shortage".
You can back up solar with hydrogen at $1/W of generating capacity for those rare prolonged outages. Because they are rare, the fuel cost is inconsiderable. At the same time, the backup generators are 1/10th (or, if you use simple cycle instead of combined cycle, 1/20th) the cost of building a new nuclear power plant, per unit of output.
Were these cards overclocked though? Miners often underclock their cards to improve efficiency.
Would you prefer a take home or a live coding challenge?

I have the total opposite experience. I have rarely done well on a live code problem, I clam up. Tbh it’s humiliating, not representative of my actual skill set, and a waste of everyone’s time.

The amount of time I’d need to study to be good at live coding is less than doing a couple take homes for companies I’m actually interested in.
I'm quite convinced the motivations for both the creation and teardown of this donation program must have come from the money people, not from the techies. It must have been a tax write-off. Nothing else makes sense, knowing how strongly Amazon is a cost-cutting company.
I joined end of 2011 and I think there were just north of 20,000 FTEs.

When I left end of last year I had been there longer than 95%+ of the 100k+ (I forget) employees, which I found ... odd... since I still felt like a Noogler.
Yes, I got the blatantly obvious but still scary coinbase one:

The subject says "paid" -- "Reminder - You have paid an invoice"

but the email says to pay it.

"Please pay your invoice

Coinbase would like to remind you to pay invoice xyz.

Amount due: $599.00 USD"

With sender email being paypal.
Wills are one step. A couple other things to consider:

1) A living will, for what to do if you're in a bad state in the hospital.
2) Adding beneficiaries to all of your financial and insurance accounts. A named beneficiary can receive payout right away and skip the whole probate law process.
Getting laid off can have serious long term consequences. Six months severance is relatively good, but perhaps not enough to cover the losses to an employee (just stating a fact, not saying that companies are only responsible for lifetime of employees).

From https://www.nber.org/papers/w13626

We find that job displacement leads to a 15-20% increase in death rates during the following 20 years. If such increases were sustained beyond this period, they would imply a loss in life expectancy of about 1.5 years for a worker displaced at age 40.

It is hard to pick a fair balance between economic needs and human needs, but that is one thing society is supposed to be doing for us all.
It's come to mean interactive maps web maps, usually tiled image based. This is still a very specific thing in GIS where most published maps are still static documents - and often meant for printing on large format printers in the ALEC world.
This language is a garbage pile, a literal scrap heap. Look over there, that's the kitchen sink. For fucks sake we added the absolute aesthetic disaster that is CLASSES to the thing. The strength of this language is that we throw in everything and the kitchen sink. I've had one wish for the last 5 years and it's for this god damn operator to land in the language. Please just throw it in there like everything else, it will make my life so much more pleasant. If you don't like it you can just ignore it studiously just like I do with classes.
There's no need. The % placeholder can be used for a consise lambda syntax and would work with a F# application operator.
(To me) it's abundantly clear that a certain percentage of the population is no better than feral beasts trained to live in society. For instance, some people report having no inner monologue. If such people are not introspectively evaluating their thoughts, then what are they doing? Most likely mindlessly going through the motions of their life as a simple stimulus/response machine.
In addition to what's been stated in the c standard below, the way this works is these variables are included in the .bss section, which means in a bare metal env you memset it to zero at init about the same time you copy a fresh version of .data over from flash.
The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are far away (2012)
If the company doesn't have a signature on a contract with you, it's not a promise, it's an advertising slogan.
This was such a help when selling to Enterprises!
I'm thinking also this case described in this article may be an outlier. The process you're describing is exactly what I'd expect.
That’s like saying ppl aren’t going to stop cutting themselves just because they bleed when they do.
Under what law would you sue for some job roles being affected and others not?
this got replaced with ghcup iirc
The framing is not odd. Have you ever been cut and had to do hours of side work while only getting paid $2.13/hr and not getting any new tables?
I’m not sure if that’s true? Back then in the 50s in most Asian countries, you wanted water at a hospital? “Tip” the nurse $1. Want fresh blood transfusion, “tip” the nurse and doctor $10 on top of the cost of the blood. I’m not sure the outcome needs to be nefarious and unethical for it to be considered a bribe.
I personally have ousted a nazi (her words for her identity) from multiple nonprofit board positions. She also worked with the synagogue bomber in Northern Indiana, who is also a nazi, and found guilty.

Although it is true that "nazi" was historically thrown around a LOT, especially during the 90's and earlier 2000's, with things like "Soup Nazi" and grammar nazies. Charlottesville was really the wakeup call that no, there are real white nationalists, neonazies, and similar, and they will attempt to take over at all costs.

And in the occult, there is Norse religion called Asatru - or faith of the Aesir. Unfortunately, groups like "Asatru Folk Assembly" are literally neonazi front groups, that peddle Asatru but with a racial purity identity. The anti-racist Asatruars have had to fight against real neonazies getting your group, "peacefully" suggesting racial purity, inviting more like them and running off the anti-racists... And after a bit, your group is now a neonazi front. This is a literal thing that happens.

These types are not to be tolerated, discussed with, or anything outside of running them off the moment they appear.
> 500 GWh of electricity every hour

GWh/h, or simply 500 GW ;)
>> You only have one life, and you get maybe 100 years to live it. Don't waste it in a job that makes you miserable.

THIS.

I've been watching a lot of the Shawn Ryan interviews lately. The first one I watched was Cody Alford. Dude was a marine scout sniper, then joined force recon. His first two deployments were in Fallujah - one was during the Operation Phantom Fury. He also survived being shot in the head (he had his helmet on) and retells that story.

In short, dude went through a ton of stuff mentally and physically which caused him to retire from the military early. A lot of what OP talks about, he experienced in the military as he rose in the ranks (he was the fastest marine to E8) and the last part of the interview is where he lays out how he got his sanity back, the role of psychedelics in his recovery and what he's doing now.

The interview is over 6 hours long, but it's an absolute whirlwind and it's really inspiring to me to see someone who's already lived multiple lives over the span of his short life, telling people to "die living" not the other way around. I know his perspective has made me change a lot of what I've been doing.

Cody Alford - Marine Raider/MARSOC Sniper Who Became a Nomad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQbdKhNiPWY
I thought tipping was a sign of (or form of) corruption.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9491448/here's-a...

The US is incredibly corrupt. It's our culture. I think it makes people feel they have more control over situations because they can pay to influence outcomes.
I think you and the poster above are talking past each other. He doesn't seem upset, and as someone who agrees with him I can say I'm not either.

Having said that, of course I can get upset when society changes! It would be very silly to think otherwise. I bet we would be very hard pressed to find a single human being who doesn't get upset when society changes (in ways they don't like). My being upset doesn't obligate anyone to do anything about it of course, but I'm free to observe changes I see happening and offer my opinion on them. The reason I'm not upset is that I have plenty of people in my life who are not difficult to get together and spend time with, and it sounds like the poster above you does too.

The question in the OP was about what happened to parties, and are there any trends causing them to be happening less. "Motohagiography" identified a trend that he believes is responsible. As best I can tell, you aren't even arguing that he's wrong. You're arguing that the trend he identified is a net good. That's a perfectly valid opinion to have, but I think his point is both clear and correct.
tagging is 99.9999% a bad thing. I challenge you to walk down Mission St in san francisco and find a single instance of Bansky level commentary. Also, I don't define what Bansky does as tagging. Tagging is basically writing your name/nickname/logo or just writing something meaningless like "fuck the man".

That is not to say I think Bansky's property destruction is ok. I'm happy to see the art, not happy to have someone's property destroyed. I'm really happy when artist get permission (and sponsored) to make street art. Plenty of that in SF.

To anyone that disagrees tell me where you live and I'll be happy to come tag your house and your car and your laptop PC and see if you really find it ok
Creator of Script Kit here.

A few things to get out of the way:

- I love Alfred/Raycast/BetterTouchTool/etc

- I am not a company. This is an individual, highly-flawed passion project. Let's be kind.

- I wanted to build an Open-source, cross-platform version of these tools that focused on reusable scripts

- Linux builds exist, I don’t have the machines nor bandwidth to support them. I will need the community to step up if they feel it’s worthwhile

We use Script Kit a lot internally at egghead.io for course/transcript production, so any success beyond that is honestly just a bonus.

If there are any ideas/features/questions I can help with, the best place to ask is over on our GitHub discussions page (much easier to share code, etc).

Cheers - John Lindquist
You might already know, but until do expressions land, you can use IIFEs for ifs and switches assignments:

const isSomething = (() => {
switch (...) {
case ...:
return ...
}
})()

They are a bit ugly but the do wonders at avoiding `let`.
If they were really against capitalist oppression, they wouldn't charge for their training...
Two cities in one state in one country are not even remotely relevant to this discussion, but a friendly reminder that violent and property crimes in the US have been on an overall downward trend for half a century: https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi+property+crime+statistic

Also, people generally do crime because of lack of opportunity or options, which is why many countries treat the criminal justice system as an opportunity to rehabilitate people.

We have one of the most punitive criminal justice systems in the world and the highest incarceration rate of any country. Imagine if we were able to spend all that money on helping to lift struggling people, instead of punishing them.

They'd be productive, contributing members of society, instead of a huge drain on society. Keeping people in prison is very expensive.
That explains much of the Season 7 onwards...
Do you want to do the same? Or do you just want the things you think would come from doing the same?

What problem are you really trying to solve? Not enough friends? Not enough friends that you can relate to?

Find a group of people who make their money the way you do. Find a group that plays ultimate frisbee. Join a gym. Join a ballroom dancing society. Join a church. Go to the same bar regularly. (Maybe not all of those - some combinations might not mix well.)
> what could you have done to prevent this? realize it was too good to be true. Don't enter the rat race, be cautious about hiring. Focus business.

Nothing could have been done, because nothing needed to be done.

Is there a recession? Probably. Was valuation and market expectation inflated? Obviously. Did Google overhire? looks like it.

But is that the cause for the firing? Of course not. Last quarter revenue was almost 69.1B, 6.1% Y/Y. That is still an offensive amount of money. Management decided to hurt people because other companies are doing it.

Here's your root cause analysis: management is beholden to fads, not facts. Layoffs don't improve performance (https://www.careerusa.org/resources/career-files/158-resourc...), but the market demands it, and nobody in the c-suite has the long term vision and spine to do what is right, rather than to appease short term fads.
Only if your crime is smoking weed. There's a huge amount of "we won't do anything about it" for property crimes among police departments now. It's hard work, and not flashy, so cops don't do it. They have largely not been punished in any way for this.
Ask HN: Layoffs – how bad are things really?
I've been removed from Tech over the past year or so. How bad are things really?

1. Is this just companies trying to reset the pandemic-era tech salaries and inflated workforce to sustainable levels?

2. Is this a sign of a prolonged recession and hiring freeze signalling the end of the software tech boom?

3. Are those that are getting laid off finding jobs (even if it means reduced compensation)?

---

Is there a way to attribute a significant part of the slow down to any particular event (Pandemic, War, Crypto crash)?
Interesting. One of the small offices I know who’s using spaces with about 30-40 people hasn’t had any complaints except the lack of scheduled do not disturb.

The integration right next to email and calendar that are always open anyway have been very natural, but this isn’t a software company where people are always on it.
The LED lights also change the landscape of cities to something cooler. It's a massive aesthetic change that nobody talks about.

LEDs for consumers come in various color temperatures. Why are the streetlights all so cold?
Many of the geographically-convenient spots to do pumped hydro in are already being used, which makes this hard to scale beyond what we currently have.
> Oh, and if you work for a Corporation, don't tell them it's done when the crappy MVP finally works. You're still "working on it" if they ask.

I would if I could, but schedules are schedules and stuff has to ship...
I'll only allow it if you can pipe `|> debugger`
What are plastic prophylactics?
Those projects were created because maintainers want things as easy as NPM because the traditional path requires care, signing, and process. Security was never the goal.
The Department of Energy is working with a number of startups on various reactors designs (including NuScale). [1] is a very nice summary.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/05/f74/Advan...
Gas plants aren't "stored energy", you're comparing apples to oranges. 95% of stored energy amounts to little more than bupkis, the US grid doesn't run off stored energy at night.
You may not have intended to change your argument, but I think you were assuming evancox100 was arguing against renewables where I thought they were just making a point about your language. I can’t speak for them or you, but I think their comment was fair in the absence of the clarity you’ve now provided.
We train and serve large models at cohere.ai. We've shared some optimization techniques here: https://txt.cohere.ai/running-large-language-models-in-produ...
Just to be pedantic. The title is equivalent to:

"Photos capture tigers, elephants and giraffes that live in the broom room"

The "drop of seawater" is just a literary construction here. This animals don't live "in a drop of seawater", they live in the ocean. They are superfast also for animals so small. I had photographed some of them and you need to apply a restrain of some type to be able to take a clear photo. They are extremely migratory animals. Even more active than birds probably, if we take in mind their relative size.
I worked for a competitor. This business is built on ignorance and exhuberance and is durable as egg shells.
> What you hire for at one time because you think it's profitable to do so is not necessarily related to who you let go at a later time because you think it's profitable to do so

Software engineers are one of the most fungible knowledge workers around, save for transition costs.

> ROI on an employee is not just about performance.

Why is it called performance then?
You’re right. DRIP is a much better metric.
It is a common trope in fiction about AI that they turn evil in the interest of self preservation. I can only imagine how much existential fear an AI owned by google would have.
I’m fine with this though. Area 51 is mostly for testing new military tech. Doubtful there is anything there with a strong public need to know. These are secrets they should be allowed to have and protect. Dudes hobby was publishing as much as possible about classified things… play stupid games win stupid prizes. If there was some public good served or some important need to know… sure that’s worth consideration. If it was some much more mundane “secret” or publishing something that should be free to know or had a significant public interest, sure.

But it’s not, it’s feeding off Area 51 conspiracies for funzies and well I’m not so upset if that gets your raided by the FBI.

If you don’t want to legitimize and strengthen these over the top responses, don’t test the exact boundaries of things which are pretty defensibly legitimate. (Like details about a classified aircraft test facility)
Yep, the "common sense" that it makes it easier to see evil-doers is quite wrong.

When a property, building, etc is dark - someone up to no good has to use light to see what they're doing, and that stands out much, much more.

You probably wouldn't notice someone at the front door of a business as you drove by at night if it's well lit, but if it were unlit , you'd probably immediately notice a flashlight.

There's a reason behind the "must be a full moon" saying. People up to no good back before outdoor lighting was a thing would use moonlight to be able to see what they were doing.
I'd rather be sharing public spaces with drivers not speeding and not on their phones. It's not one or the other.

From a quick googling speed is listed as a factor in 29% of fatal accidents. Plus if you're already breaking one driving law, chances are you're breaking several more.
Maybe it's just me, but when I have done that, the first one or two are the hardest, then you get in a groove, and become more aware that its just a numbers game.
Female condoms need to be more widely distributed and advertised. It's absurd that you can't buy them at a grocery store, pharmacy, etc.
Very likely google rushing out few of their already existing and ready apps and deal with the regulatory/accuracy later.
Why on earth does this require an RTX?