skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly, `guake` had/has a downstream issue where the terminal would crash because a dependency of a dependency of a dependency was 15+ years old, had no maintainers, no one wanted to take it over, and would hard crash if it encountered emojis.

The build-around was having to fiddle with a bunch of core system stuff (super descriptive on my part) with lots of overloading system packages and just... no thanks.

I did it once; never doing it again because then you have to deal with having a non-standard system from then on. Switched to `kitty` and have no problems with emojis.

tl;dr: If you are designing a CLI tool, please refrain from emojis.
Google Brings Back Founders Page, Brin to Fend Off ChatGPT Threat
Yes, I remember being permanently blocked from using Adsense without warning or explanation. As far as I know, I’d done nothing wrong. Nothing even remotely dodgy.
Reading your comment reminds me that I should be careful not to rely too heavily on Google Docs and Workspace.

Google is too big to offer the personal touch. They’re a very cold and uncompromising company.
Hoarding of talent!
This is the default iirc because that's what works for computer illiterate people. My partner specifically disabled that and does manual updates instead (I don't primarily use the Play store on my own device myself, so I don't have enough experience to judge whether this was user error). Despite that, their weather app got updated at some point after like five years of not updating it, and now everything (startup and detail screens) takes five times longer to load and it doesn't show the cities anymore that they want to see (can only show N on the screen and they iirc used to have 3 more or something). Of course there's no way to downgrade like you could on F-Droid (though, to be fair, it doesn't have releases going five years back, but it would also just never force this and it'd be safe to do updates intermittently because you can always choose "nah, don't like this change, I'll go back").

The closest experience I have is a GrapheneOS device where, after installing the Play Store, it ~daily tries to background install some VR app, no idea what that's about (purple hexagon logo, don't remember the name). I don't want this VR game on a work device. Installation fails because it requires manual confirmation (the store doesn't have background install permissions, which I think confuses the heck out of this google thing which is used to being a backdoor with superpowers) but the home screen keeps doing this animation to show another where this app is now loading, and fails some time later. For some reason it stopped prompting me with every attempt, not sure how I made it do that, but it switching home screens whenever I pick up the device is also annoying.

Background installs are totally a thing on the Play Store.
Nothing inherent except that nuclear portions of the plan needs needs a higher level of construction to build the (non-nuclear) support infrastructure to operate
"exaggerated" as in "falsely advertised"?
copy the celebrity.
As has been explained to you numerous times, reservoirs are normally constructed, not found, and no lake or river is needed. So, you really do just need a hill with unused top. (Penstocks and turbines are also constructed.)

There will be no need for "one day's" worth of batteries, but in any case battery production is ramping up fast, and that will continue as long as demand increases.

Numerous storage technologies will be used. It is not clear yet which will be cheapest. Hydrogen might not be among them.
> People like Jeff Dean or Demis Hassabis are the kind of people who can make me stop everything I'm doing and listen to them when they say that the company should go into a direction.

I wonder if maybe these people are too principled to spy on people to the extent that Google does to profit the way they do. Maybe they select for a CEO who is talented, but also driven by money enough to prioritize that at all costs.
I think it's also a bit of the mercenary mindset mixed in there as well. I feel like people don't want to mix or try to make friends with their coworkers anymore. I get wanting to have boundaries between work and life, but I feel like most people interpret it as "Don't become friends with work people" instead of not talking only about work with work-friends.

Anecdotally, most of the people with this view I found to already have a good group of friends whether from college or from earlier work/social situations. It feels a bit rich to say that you shouldn't make friends with coworkers when your social circle is already full.
Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest
Possibly, thought T-mobile is nation-scale at least, and after the ATT payment they had the financials to pay for the best.
In the Nordics, in December we had the 3 largest reactors out of 11 out of commission combined with a cold spell. That was a nicely expensive week.
Or you could just, you know, not read the author's stuff? They're posted here enough that you know it's going to be there. No one is demanding you read it and then share your brilliant takes on sexuality with us.
The American government traded him to Russia in exchange for a basketball player.

He seems like a thoroughly unpleasant man to me and I think he belongs in prison, but I don't think anything in his past suggests that he'd be a direct threat to other passengers if allowed to fly. Banning him from the country makes a lot of sense, maybe even banning him from airplanes as part of his sentence after a trial. But secret punishments are no bueno, even when the guy is a scumbag.
Higher dimensions often capture people's imagination, so this is potentially an exciting subject. However the youtube description makes it sound like the author is unaware that this kind of approach has been mainstream for a century (although for all I know they may well have some truly new idea, in which case I assume it'll show up on arxive.org):

Kaluza–Klein theory: "is a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the idea of a fifth dimension beyond the common 4D of space and time and considered an important precursor to string theory....sent his results to Einstein in 1919[2] and published them in 1921." [0]

As an alternate geometric approach in higher dimensions, it turned out to handle e.g. electromagnetism and Maxwell's equations well, but generalizing it further turned out to be, well, hard, and physicists have been trying ever since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
> I also find tiny body-text-sized emojis hard to grok.

This depends a lot on emoji font. Apple's 3D-ish, highly colorful, rasterized emoji are very difficult to discern at small sizes, for example, unless you already know what they are.

More stylized emoji fonts, like EmojiOne or emoji that are drawn basically the same way as text glyphs, like in Symbola, are way, way easier to read, especially at small sizes.

If you're on an Apple device, though, you're close to fucked, since the operating system just ignores your font choices when it comes to emoji. The best you can do is carefully hack the actual files for the Apple Color Emoji font on macOS, which requires you to disable SIP and will cause lots of app crashes if you do it wrong. But if you're using an OS that has some respect for you and your choices, try a different emoji font!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459724
> Where on earth do you get that number from?

Guestimate. You can tell me I pulled it out of my ass, and you'd be right. But it's that type of number.

A better answer is looking at the size of Google when it was doing (approximately) the same things. Google has 20k employees in 2009. It has 155k today. I don't see Google doing much for me in 2022 that it wasn't doing in 2009.

I could probably go a long ways before that too.

A lot of what's happened from 2009 to 2022 is churn. Make-work to keep people employed.

> Also, they have a 27% operating margin, how much more "efficient" do they need to be?

Let me spell this out: In many cases, the same thing can be accomplished in 100 lines of code as 10,000 lines of code. That's largely a function of architecture, discipline, and cleverness. 100 lines of code is orders-of-magnitude easier to maintain and faster to evolve.

The Google codebase is *massive*. If you need a new feature, with good communication channels and focus, you can architect it in. With poor communication channels, it get kludged in.

Communications scales as O(n^2) where n is the number of employees. There's a similar power law for how pieces of code can interact and introduce complex bugs.

By "more efficient," I don't mean Google would be able to do more per dollar. With a smaller, better workforce, and a smaller, better codebase, Google would be better able to maintain old products, add new features, and develop new ones.
I think this is a compliment from the journalism community. Any journalist on a particular beat is going to lurk on various news aggregators and forums, looking for a scoop. This writer has probably seen dozens, hundreds of stories come across HN's headlines that were reporting on blogs already given exposure and news stories that had already broken. If the journalist determined that in this case, HN had the scoop, and dang's outlet was the first to publish the link to the hacktivist's blog, then HN rightly deserves credit as having the scoop. I have no idea whether it went down that way; I'm just describing a Platonic ideal.
Seems like we have managed to implement winner take all in Tech interviews too. Of course most people get 0 offers from 13 interviews
Why not just close the tab then? No one is forcing you to read it.
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The boss of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, publicly said "In 2030, you will own nothing and you will be happy."

Let that sink in. That's how psychopathic those people are.
> Amaflix and Marv-Ney

What's Marv-Ney?
> I find it hard to believe that a team of $200k-$300k/yr earning employees at Google can't find a way to generate more than 5% net margin for the company?

But does the decrease of 6% of those employees have a resulting income decrease? Likely most teams will continue to function without the missing employees. Also plenty of the employees are recruiting and HR and other non-income-generating employees.

Also yes they have billions in marketable securities, in debt, and interest income, etc

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20220427_alphabet_10Q.pd...
you have 60 days to get a new job or move to some b1 visa. abs not stressful for people when you see the current market.
Care to highlight any specific example?
To be honest, the timelines Github have gave here are very generous (1 year). Most companies (even big one) these days will shut-down in a short 30 days notice.
I don't have any questions, but a comment.

Your story isn't too different from the struggles many feel when they do it the traditional way and get a bachelor's degree in their early 20s, or whatever age they do it at. This is very relatable. Thanks for sharing.
The emoji is called pien ぴえん
The damage is done, they are alas, already triggered.
On the subject of diet quality, I've always been a "calories in, calories out" kind of person. There are certain foods that will make you feel satiated for longer, of course, which will increase your chances of success. But at the end of the day, it basically just comes down to how many calories you put in your body.

On that note, I was really intrigued by this whitepaper I read via Zero Acre Farms that dives into obesogenic compounds like HNE and linoleic acid: https://www.zeroacre.com/white-papers/how-vegetable-oil-make...

The paper makes some pretty big claims, and I don't know enough about nutrition to refute them. Maybe somebody here does?
Why do I need to care about "pull" or "push"? That's a thing the server instance does for me.
>pockets

Indeed
The official app makes it awkward to read the local timeline, which is where the real fun is on smaller instances.
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I played a lot of CS 1.5 and CS 1.6 (and some CS:GO) and to be honest its 'far' from CS experience ... but its just different - more QUAKE like - its not bad - its just different ... and I am getting old so aiming at anything at the speed I got used to when I was at my 20s is another thing :p
In my experience the best bartenders are those who can code switch between customers. Sure it's important to know how to make this or that drink, but that can be learned or looked up pretty fast, and the subsidiary duties (inventory, cleaning, cash/credit management) are basic skills almost every service industry worker has to grasp to survive.

You might say "customer service" is the key to success, but I prefer "code switching" because, although they are complementary skills, you can have great empathy and compassion yet still be incapable of communicating that to the customer in a way that works.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean put on accents or use unnatural slang. Instead, listen. Match cadence as best you can in your own accent. Become familiar with various subcultures you might encounter so that you can be a better (active) listener. Learn and remember which regular customers can tolerate banter and to what extent. Develop thick skin (within reason).

Remember your regulars, but avoid assuming what they want.

Be consistent with your schedule.

Lots more but that's initial suggestions from one who has been on both sides of this.
Imagine you're a 12 year old in 2065 forced to wear a shocking device that forces you to "pay attention" in class but for whatever reason it incorrectly identifies you as never paying attention.

You could argue that it is poorly made but perhaps the model was trained in a rush because it was a cheap, knock-off produced en-masse for school-scale.

Even if its well-made; imagine you're some 1 in a 1,000,000 non-typical. Who is the school going to believe, some irksome child or the system that works perfectly fine for 99.99% of other students? "Obviously" in such a case, the child is lying and just needs to learn to pay attention.
It's the difference between somebody selling weapons to other people to blow up airplanes, and being willing to blow themselves up in an airplane. The former does not evidence an inclination for the latter.
"Hey dude… is that Freedom Rock?! Well, turn it up." ;-)
Nah man, I can complain about anything I want.

That grind set mindset, “you can do anything you set your mind to, so you can only blame yourself for not having {life goal}” is a recipe for depression and burnout
uh? Since when does PayPal requires you forking over your Social Security Number?
Same here. By the end, I was just reflexively moving back to the bottom right hand quarter, doing my 3 point turn, and then taking the circuit back to the destination.
Given the furry/weeb connection, it will inevitably be called "uwu"
Look downthread. Dang made an exception.
I think this write up is a good resource for those who got called into at least an interview. I wonder how does one improve if the rejections come even before a single interview? At that stage companies typically will not give you any reason for the rejection either for legal reasons or simply convenience. This leaves you hesitating whether to apply to other companies for fear they will reject you for the same unknown reason.

Maybe someone who has been in the other side of equation can explain, what are the common reasons would get someone discarded before an interview and is there really no way to communicate those better to the rejectee?
> 'Attention is all you need' is a clever play on words

Can you elaborate? (I'm not a native speaker)
There is no hint of a shortage of places good for pumped hydro.

What is in short supply is existing hydro-power dams that have not yet been retrofitted with pumps.

Retrofitting an existing hydro plant is cheaper than building a hilltop reservoir, penstock, turbine, and pump. The latter might cost more than other alternatives. Anywhere that is true, expect to see one of the others used.
Show HN: TypeHub – a collaborative platform to design open data specifications
Let me do some cocktail-napkin math here.

US generation capacity in Feb 2022 was 1.2e12 Watts [1]

(let's take that as the value for 2021 as well)

US electricity consumption in 2021 was 3.93e15 Watt-Hours. [2]

Now, 1 Watt over a 365.25-day year is 8766 Watt-Hours. So, US capacity for 2021 under our assumption was 8766 * 1.2e12 = 1.05e16 . That's 3x capacity over need.

So, those doom-and-gloom descriptions of inadequacy of solar and wind seem to rely on a low capacity/need rate.

[1] - https://www.publicpower.org/resource/americas-electricity-ge...

[2] - https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
There's a fairly new CSS selector to configure emoji rendering, choosing between a text-like rendering and the coloured emoji rendering.

So far, there's very little browser support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...
My god, what whining.
Refusing to tip or tipping less does affect restaurant bosses, but the effect is one step removed. By not tipping or leaving smaller tips, customers reduce the total take-home pay of the servers, which pressures restaurant bosses to increase the base wage in order to retain the servers.

On the other hand, leaving excessively high tips encourages restaurant bosses to keep the base wage low, since you are relieving the bosses of the market pressure to pay a competitive wage.
Peter Thiel's opinion of actual citizen's feelings on the NHS is gaslighting.
> This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter where you are on earth, even with the poorest of educational systems, we could know what you naturally 'master' with this tech. That means knowing what subjects and concepts you can commit to memory with a gifted efficiency!! Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y!
>
> But instead we want to talk about "productivity" and "throughput" - as if everyone should be treated as an input / output device for yet another interface.

Did you really intend to write that as "but instead"? It confuses me greatly, because I feel that your first example is about as bad as TFH.
They are written on the board..?
I didn't infer 15% from the way it was written there.
But most platforms these days have some form of CRC32 "acceleration". Adler32 is easy to compute so I'm even less concerned there.

I spent a bunch of time optimising the code in fpnge (https://github.com/veluca93/fpnge), which is often notably faster than fpng (https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir/blob/5671f584dcf84ddb71e28d...), yet checksum time is basically negligible.

Having said that, the double-checksum aspect of PNG does feel unnecessary.
Exactly:
https://tucson.com/news/local/led-streetlight-conversion-mak...
y'allz, peeps
With examples of portability for Linux and Windows.
It's rather simple.

> Corporations are bound by fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit

This can be thought of as a myth, at least in the way it's usually talked about in online discourse. Leaders have enormous leeway in interpreting "maximizing profit" and anything but very actively and intentionally destroying the company almost certainly does not put one at risk of any kind of material procedures regarding fiduciary responsibility.

It is used online as a cop-out trying to excuse people acting in extremely unethical ways, causing massive damage to society, in the name of companies. This does not reflect the reality of fiduciary responsibility as a legal concept whatsoever.

This is not legal advice but even a shallow look into the topic will make this clear.
Odd that you left off the rest of that quote ("...because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things") which links to: https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/

> Maybe if there were some folks who knew rust and were interested in doing this kind of work

In this specific example, "this kind of work" would involve porting Rust to 5+ obsolete CPU architectures. Not exactly rewarding work.
Not just recipes. Ad driven and SEO industries have made every thing you search for 90% irrelevant bs. I used to be able to search for a PHP function or howto and just see the code. Now to learn something in JS I have to scroll through 500-1000 words of bloat for 10 lines of code when I just want the name of a function or the common way of doing things. This sucks.
You think they chose an Indian CEO to appeal to the Indian market? I can’t imagine they’d make such a huge decision over a factor like that.
Leaving aside the question of effectiveness and abuse of the list, the rarity of terrorist attacks doesn't say anything about the number of people who might be inclined or convinced to commit them.
> “ has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.”

Doesn't it? https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/full-emoji-list.html#1...
Seems like “cloud” and all that goes with that. Their Azure cloud and related services, government/defense cloud business, Office in the cloud, etc.
This has nothing to do with Unicode (assuming that by "Unicode" you mean "UTF-8"). The null byte has the exact same meaning in UTF-8 as ASCII: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6907297/can-utf-8-contai...
Move functionality into custom ICs blocks.

Write software that runs on bare metal, rather than on top of inefficient stacks.
> And in the average case nothing happens

On average, casino players lose a little bit of money. But with a gambler mindset, you lose everything.

> If it becomes problematic, it's quite straightforward to reverse course.

And yet two of the worst famines in the last century were not reversed.
Yeah! First I read the HN comments and saw how pissed many people were. That helped set the tune for the article (read: it helped me handle my own triggers) and it was a lot more fun that way.
Your story confirms what I have often thought, life is about connections. My own tumbling into IT with no education was a series of connections. My three main jobs over the last thirty years were through my wife's friend husband, a teenage friend from church and a teenage friend from working in a supermarket. I'd had the opportunity to give others a go myself down through the years. I had a nice moment recently when a young guy, now a senior dev, thanked me for giving him the opportunity. I interviewed him for work experience as a favour for a friend. A colleague and I could see during the interview he was a bit special, though he had no idea of this himself.

So let's hope for more people like yourself willing to have a go, and more people looking out for others.
Appealing to the immediate practicability of fusion is a desperate argument.
That's called a "sparse checkout" in git-land.

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout
I thought Lucy letby literally had a confession note at her house? [0]

It seems this was in fact the case.

I agree with your broader point however.

0. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lucy-letby-nurse...
that's true for any company that offers work visas.

you know that when applying, accepting, and relocating.

so all of my questions to the GP still stand.

what is the suggested change or even the specific complaint?

are all companies with visa workers holding their employees hostage?

or did they give them an opportunity they otherwise would not have?
The author of the “great text” of EEG - where we started, too. Yeah; I was surprised with our results, but if you follow his instruction, there’s a lot one can glean.
This looks super interesting! Thanks for the weekend reading :)