skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes some sense to me when you realize the 8080 was salvaging work they did attempting to win the Datapoint contract (which they lost), and making the best of a terrible design in the 8008 by being "source" compatible.

The "real" next gen processor was supposed to be iAPX 432 but due to delays they needed a stopgap, thus the 8086 was born in a hurry... so anything with high risk was off the table from the start. It was never going to get rid of segmented memory though believe it or not they added GP registers compared to the 8080.

Funny how iAPX 432 would not be the last time Intel tried to set a new standard for CPUs nor the last time they tried to rely on sufficiently clever compilers.

All of the above mentioned CPUs suffered from trying to be suitable for desktop calculators and/or prioritizing assembly language conveniences. iAPX 432 tried to partially implement garbage collection in hardware.

Even the venerable 286 and its broken protected mode was designed for industrial systems - Intel never intended it to be used in a general purpose PC which may explain some of its quirks.
Have you looked into non-EU member countries in Europe, say Kosovo or Macedonia? Let me know if you are interested and I can help.
My email is in my profile.
Spend $100k that he doesn't have on lawyers only to potentially recover $10k good times. Corporations need to be fined millions of dollars every single time this happens even once.
I don’t think these languages really compete outside of a fairly narrow dimension. They both seem to be doing well. But that’s beside the point.

People in the Clojure community have been trying to build such frameworks. But every one of them seems to stay in a weird niche where they’re not comprehensive and _easy_ enough to draw in people who’d use something like Django et al.

I think one of the reasons is that they’re all trying to cater to the crowd that wouldn’t use such a framework anyway.

Secondly it’s already very quick to create a web app in Clojure. If you use a set of libraries you pay with some initial setup/thinking/choosing cost. The benefit is then to have a program that is more malleable and composable, which is kind of the point for many who choose Clojure in tge first place.

There’s really a mismatch of expectations and philosophy I feel.
Burner phone? Those only exist in the movies, like pew-pew silencers. In real life, mobile telecommunication systems are some of the most easily traced systems of all.
Anonymous email like ProtonMail, sent from a free VPN using a downtown Starbucks free WiFi would be far, far more opsec-friendly.
Krebs is notorious for dropping dox on people based on somewhat questionable evidence.

Its kind of his whole deal.
Apples and oranges were just an example to illustrate the problem with the CPI, which is what most people mean when they say "inflation", after which the US CPI is used extensively, including lots of historic data on variance. I can only conclude you didn't read the whole article or you're making a rhetorical point in lieu of an argument because the conclusions are uncomfortable.

I actually agree that price rises like oil are not really inflation - what Keynes would call semi inflation. Regardless, oil price rises were not due to money supply and the subsequent monetary shenanigans are just economic theatre (and even that is being questioned at the inner sanctum: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2021062pap... )
For $10K there is no solution and companies know that. That's why it is becoming a big risk.
Either a company would need to be extremely diligent about fixing workflow exceptions or they would be overwhelmed by the cost of support, especially across countries.

And I used to work for a bank which took years to put password reset online, despite it being 25% of support calls. And we only operated in one province.

Companies would need to fundamentally change their cultures to fix this kind of issue as often the team doing the dev isn’t even aware of the support issues it creates.

Nobody on the IT team even knew password reset was 1/4 of support.
What are the advantages of this NumPy / Python rewriting approach vs using a VHLL directly targeting the vector accelerator HW, like Futhark?

As a first impression the tower of abstraction (Python - NumPy - functional subset JIT) looks a bit too multilayered for a sustainable foundation.
My wife has been a Starbucks barista for 17 years. She uses a K-cup machine at home. We had the fancy stuff but she doesn’t want to deal with that outside of work.
Life is short, jjjj is perfect, peace and tranquility for us all vim users.
The difference is that arch doesn't have downstream forks of repositories. They just package the upstream versions which means the dev cycle is much tighter which in turn means they can update more frequently which means they just switch to the next major version and don't worry about breaking their special sauce forks. The downside is that there are people using old distros and stuck with old major versions who use eg. Python 2 by default.
I had a large sum of money scammed from my credit card a few weeks ago - a single transaction to Upwork. I'd never heard of them before this month.

I know it's not the same issue, and the creds obviously came from somewhere else, but the amount of fishy reports I found just searching them here on Hacker News means I will never go near them.
Well, Jesus did prescribe a prayer when they asked him to. Imagine what he could've done with ChatGPT.
> I'm not a talented developer

> [uses F#]

That has to be humblebragging. The average .net developer is terrified of or doesn't even know about F#.
>Provided the documents, went through the visual verification with a webcam, answered the questions, and solved the programming task live, ...

Excuse me, WTF? You have to code something in order to get verified? (!)
Or a 20 year old one from the thrift store.
Or the technical infrastructure doesn’t support them well. Or the support team doesn’t know MacOS or Linux, so it becomes a lot harder to provide support. There could be many reasons.
They actually already make a special version of windows for those purposes and it isn't available to the open market. Government editions that have no telemetry, advertising, or integrated cloud products at all.

I know it is a pipe dream but I wish they could be forced to sell this to the general public.
GDB and grep but built for windows.

Or you could use Cheat Engine if you have a fear of terminals.
I think the squashing of politics here is one of the reasons the comments remain civil and interesting. Too many (me included) get off topic and start flam wars. I don't think there is a political bias here. It's one of the few places I believe that to be true. All highly partizan comments get down votes or flags because they're off topic.
Early in my career I quickly moved off projects whenever I found myself working for people like you.

As a junior, especially when working for large organisations I frankly didn’t give a shit whether I did what was described as “my job”, I was interested in learning as much as possible, working across multiple teams and areas and maximising the value of my output (as opposed to the alignment between my output and a job description or someone barely more senior than me’s idea of what I should be doing).

Some managers hated this. Others trusted me, treated me as an equal, and let me propose ideas and take on tasks that nobody even knew/thought were possible and deliver massively outsized value. Those are the ones that made my career.

My advice to anyone young and ambitious is that if you find yourself just “concentrating on your tasks” most of the time, get out of there.
If that were the reason, the year of Linux on the desktop would have happened 20 years ago.
I think a US lawyer would charge about $200-300 for a formal letter. Could be enough to solve the issue.
Ok, buggy software might explain why my M1 speakers, and the motherboard had to be replaced within a year?
I don't think there is any more pressure created when making a coffee with an AeroPress than with any other immersion method. The plunger is just to push the liquid through, it doesn't create any additional pressure.
I have this feeling that the kids who appear better at uni are the ones who happened to pick up certain not-quite-programming skills before they started. Basics of networking, how installation of programs happens, how to use the command line, that kind of thing.

I looked over her shoulder as my wife was doing a CS degree, and I realised there's a bunch of these little things that make life a lot easier if you know them.
Hungary tried price controls when this inflation cycle started. It still has some in effect.

Hungary has more than two times the inflation of the EU average. The highest in the EU.

Price controls on flour and gas/petrol led to people buying a lot more compared to supply. This led to gas stations closing. People started baking more, but price of bread exploded because folks bought flour and bakeries were in a tight spot (I don't remember the exact chain of events).

Of course grocery shops increased the price of everything else relatively to make up for the loss on the controlled items.

Clearly, tackling inflation should be independent from providing basic necessities like food and shelter and healthcare.
So you think Azure is the only "cloud"-platform that can run windows? I talked about Azure not an OS, this has nothing todo with Windows, DOS or Xenix.
It is also the middle of the night where HN mods usually live (USA).
Show HN: Text rendering performance in AvaloniaUI v11
A reasonably-scoped take-home project is fine in isolation.

The problem is the sheer number of steps required, of which the project is just one step. For example for a recent position I looked at:

1. Initial interview with some HR person: 1 hour

2. Interview with a tech person and review some code sample (spot security issues, bugs etc): 1.5 hours

3. Take home project (supposed to take 2 hours, but you'll want to make it look good so you'll probably spend twice that): 4 hours

4. Another in-depth interview with a couple other tech people: 2 hours

5. Another interview with the CTO: 30 mins

6. References & background check.

That's not atypical. Round after round of interviews. It becomes an endurance test, where only the most dedicated will stay the distance. While the 8-10 hours might not seem much stretched out over several days, you want to add some prep, keep your calendar clear so it does eat up your spare time, especially if you are already working.

And that's just one job. What if you are interviewing at multiple companies?

Note the take-home is at the start of the process, not the end: so you can end up putting a lot of effort in before you have even cleared four or five other hurdles. Oh, and I don't even have an offer yet. It could well be the offer on the table isn't worth my time.

Now you could say "well, we only want dedicated people". Fine, but I'm dedicated in so far as I get paid to be working for you. I don't get paid to run your interview gauntlet. Maybe you want people willing to do free overtime?

And this is way more than it used to be maybe 10 years ago, and it's for small to medium sized companies, not FAANG or other big corps. Nor is it a feature of recent layoffs and resulting increase in the talent pool: this has been the case for a few years now.

I think there's a few factors at work:

- Endurance test

- Risk aversion culture in management

- Copypasta whatever Google or Apple do
My main gripe with the US it the abuse of the word football. The ball is no longer a ball shape and you no longer move it around with your feet.
Some people are also suggesting progressively decreasing the capital gains discount on property, to force the housing prices down over time and address supply issues.
I am hitting up Upwork support as I hire a fair bit through them and see if I can do anything. Such BS.
As I see it, Microsoft has become so incompetent as an organization that they can no longer be said to have core competencies.
Why tho? They still deliver great on topics in a tone and depth not many do (eg. popular science). I do agree their comment section became comprised of bitter 50+ people.
Same here for me, graduated in 1977, Exeter Uni. Physics Department. But it varied from department to department, lectures were compulsory in Law for instance.
> they would be overwhelmed by the cost of support

Yes, of cause? If you can't pay for the support you need to provide then you need to raise prices. Imagine a logistics company complaining that they would be overwhelmed by the cost of fuel.

But of cause Upworks has no benefit to raising prices for their services, as that would make competition harder.
The ROK is a nice way to make Espresso. Manual pressure. Try it
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> GDB and grep but built for windows

Beat me to it. Windows would be intolerable for me without MinGW/MSYS[0]. (Sure, there's WSL2, but that's not quite the same, and I was using MinGW and friends long before it existed.)

[0] https://www.msys2.org/wiki/MSYS2-introduction/
Are you talking about LTSC or something else?

I have looked into buying LTSC. Apparently you need a business (I own a “shelf” company which has never done anything, but legally it counts), and a Microsoft volume license agreement. I looked into the later. Supposedly there is this trick where you order all these useless-but-cheap Identity Manager CALs to cheaply meet the minimum order requirement for a volume license. But I got a bit stuck working out what to order (or even if it was still available through resellers in my country). I lost interest at that point.
To mention, none of these are like Upwork. I've tried them all, and they don't really have competition that makes it as easy as Upwork to find and hire someone.

Freelancer.com is the nearest. The rest are doing very diff models. TopTal doesn't even belong on a comparison list.
> There are only 3 ways to decrease inflation: ... - Interest rates ...

Why is this taken as a fact? You hand out money to people with money. It is a zero sum game.

The reason you need to increase rates with inflation is to make it viable to sit on the currency. Otherwise you need to sell it as fast as possible to avoid inflation.
Good morning dang! Happy Saturday. :(
What made Putin finally to invade Ukraine in 2022?
It's so cool to see this on HN. I think this is one of the B&W Tek units that came from the NuSkin device which was err... of debatable scientific merit. It appeared on Dr Oz at one point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfizniDX3pQ

Loads of these appeared on eBay as well as the complete Nu Skin units with identifying logos removed they used to go for about $15 which was a bargain. I think I picked up 5 or 6. Wrote up my note here:

https://everydaything.substack.com/p/b-and-w-optical-spectro...
It’s much worse than just auth too. Microsoft’s security policy around email is so bad that using Office 365 email should be considered a security problem.

They’re actively enabling phishing because they choose to rollback standards support.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/how-microsoft-became-phi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34911811
We do get observational evidence, the only problem is it tells us the opposite of what we thought, eg minimum wage evidence contradicts what theory would say.

Somehow this doesn't seem to matter though, we still teach the theory.
Chrome wasn't built for 1000 tabs. You need firefox for that.
Australia's problem is inflated property prices, it's money being generated out of the air. This is a disaster for renters and is creating disparity. Boomers and older gen X are or will be cashed up to their eyeballs after offloading one or two investment properties, this has happened over the last few years.
Why does everyone like skinny jeans and not bell bottoms? Light mode or dark mode? Fashion trends change. Cynically, there's also a measure of job security in chasing trends. Gotta keep up with the latest whizbang framework.
Optimisation for maximising profit, yay!
I suggest the book Programming Machine Learning. I'm slowly going through the book using another language, and it's easy to translate since the book doesn't use Python's machine learning libraries.
From earlier threads on hacker news it motivated me to read snow crash. However the book was very difficult to finish. I literally used spark notes to finish it, it got so long in the tooth and boring towards the end.

Is it just me? I like books like the three body problem that are entertaining but snow crash was like a much much worse version of the da Vinci code with some VR thrown in.
In the abstract, sustained demand but with a drop in supply of goods, will produce price inflation with no particular need to change the money supply.

This is what we have seen with (for example) gas and oil in the wake of the russia-ukraine conflict.

I claim, as I have always claimed, that monetary supply is only a single variable in the calculation, not the be-all and end-all. The idea that it is the only factor (not the only important factor but the only factor) is a tenet of the religious pseudo-economics of the "Austrian School". Not that economics is the most rigorous of sciences in the first place, but Austrian economics is more akin to a moral code and set of beliefs.
Theoretically it's not too difficult to build an interface to the linear CCD used in these devices. I put together an interface here:

https://41j.com/blog/2020/01/notes-on-using-a-ilx511-linear-...

And put together gerbers here: https://41j.com/blog/2020/02/ilx511-ccd-interface-r2/

Plan was to eventually design a new board for these spectrometers. But obviously never got round to completing the project (and probably never will).
Libiiwa – Scalable and Unified Multi-Control Framework for the KUKA LBR Iiwa
We can stop traveling for leisure, this would go a long way already.

When we closed the borders where I live during the first COVID outbreak, cases went almost down to zero.

To quote the comment I was replying to:

> For most of the world it's not a necessity, but a personal choice.

This applies to traveling as well.

But of course, people don’t want to change habits.
Open Airport Map
Or just a case of bad hardware from the factory. QC is run by humans and sometimes out of spec (aka busted) hardware makes it out of the factory. Was your replacement covered by Apple care?
The Harrys Farm youtube channel explains it fairly basically in this video, I'll try and link direct to about where he talks about it specifically (although whole thing might be worth watching if you're interested in how farming works in the UK)
https://youtu.be/b6m29rSSmCM?t=552

For those who can't watch the video, basically the gist is most of the food in shortage (lettuce, tomato, cucumbers etc) is normally grown in the UK in large greenhouses from local producers, but energy prices got too high last year making it uneconomical to grow in a greenhouse as obviously it's energy intensive to do so. The govt refused any support and supermarkets rejected the potential higher prices and instead decided they could just source product overseas instead. The greenhouse producers therefore didn't plant much for this season, but the foreign sourced produce also had a poor harvest which resulted in no excess available for export to the UK and therefore some stores now can't stock some fresh produce. Energy prices have come down and so local UK produce growers are now growing again and should be back to normal supply in a couple of months. Although he mentions earlier in the video that this years wheat crop is doing poorly and that is normally used as animal feed which could mean potential future shortages for things like meat and eggs.
A logistics company that didn’t pay for fuel wouldn’t have any customers. Upwork can keep most customers without support.

If a logistics company most of the time didn’t need to buy fuel and sometimes just didn’t deliver if it required too much fuel, plenty of people would still use it if it were cheap.
> Looking at what can be done but I might need plastic surgery to fix my nose. Anyone else have tales of woe?

Have you tried a CPAP machine? I completely stopped snoring once I started using one.
There's a huge gamification of these consulting companies
> during the dubstep parts of the song, the snares sound nice and crisp. At those points, the tweeters are probably putting out 2-4x the amount of power they could handle without melting - briefly. But then when the nasty clipped lead comes in, that overloads them a lot more and the safety daemon clamps down on the tweeter volume.

That's called compression.
You can get a streaming stick with the remote for like $50. It will come with all the stupid DRM in place required to stream 1080p/4K/HDR whatever and it'll be designed to be used from 10 feet away with a remote. Plus it'll use like 3W of power.

Setting that all up on PC is much more of a chore.
This is reminding me that I wanted to watch The Student Prince https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047537/ (1954 film based on 1901 novel, set in a before-then-but-unspecified historical period)
Have you tried the competing software in a business environment, it is pretty easy to see why MS productivity software dominates.
For like $12/u/month you get full web and desktop office software, MFA, and AzureAD, which you can use as a SSO indentity provider for free, for one lisc that cost $4/m you can then make use of conditional access policies that give you massive options over how you manage an access all aspects of the tenant.

They now are giving teams (slack knockoff) a free dialing number so it now can be used for phone conferencing without non-organizational people.

Onedrive gives you 1Tb of syncable storage per user, and 1TB per user pool for shared office resources.

I spent years as a google apps advocate, but seriously for the money, no one touchs what MS is offering right now.
Google had MS hands down 10 years ago, and let google apps die on the vine. It is a damn shame too, because they were the only ones that have anything comparable.
It’s possibly related, however.

The likely cause for their ban is going to be KYC getting around to review and money laundering regs/insurers demanding a certain course of action - cessation and seizure, possibly a report to relevant LE.

Platforms like eBay and upwork - anything where there’s a transfer of money between two third parties - have an enormous duty of responsibility around laundering and fraud, and even the slightest suspicion will result in a ban.
I can tell you what my problem with Mastodon was.

"This looks interesting. What web site do I go to to sign up and start using this? Huh, there are unnecessary hoops to jump through. I can't be bothered with this right now. Maybe I'll look into this again later."

And later never came.
I’ve loved this series for many years - highly recommended.

If, like me, you’re unfamiliar with ship terminology I’d suggest not getting too hung up on understanding exactly what bit of the ship he’s talking about. There’s lots of great historical detail - but O’Brian also tells a fabulous story.
The reason why Samsung's Galaxy S23 has a 'huge' system partition
IDK, it pales in comparison to any decent monitor speaker. Even the cheapest.

Laptops unfortunately always sounds "from inside a cardboard box".
The “Debate” about Program Verif and the Lipton-Demillo-Perlis Paper (2021)
Well. a big part is curiosity, and apparently he isn’t curious not interested in what his tools do.

I used to read every help file on windows / visual c++, the FreeBSD manual, plowed through the file system and tested this it. Just because I was curious