skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be a misconfiguration but I’m fairly sure you couldn’t change this behaviour in the past. Each worker would take a job in advance and you could not prevent it (I might be misremembering but I think I checked the source at the time).

In my experience, RabbitMQ isn’t a good fit for long running tasks. This was 10 years ago. But honestly, if you have a short number of long running tasks, Postgres is probably a better fit. You get transactional control and you remove a load of complexity from the system.
My superficial impression is they've been investing more in their networking services for enterprise customers but don't take my word for it. I don't pay much attention to their announcement weeks.
This is two days off of being an April Fools' RFC, but it's hard not to consider it to be one.

Estimating carbon emissions related to a single network request sounds incredibly error prone. Computers don't have nice, linear efficiency curves, they have computational overheads, and they can't reclock perfectly according to incoming demand. So you'd need your web server to check instantaneous CPU power consumption, subtract out CPU utilization from non web server processes, divide by the currently in-flight number of requests, and multiply by the request time. All of that adds error to the process.

I guess the only benefit here is that you could have some middleware somewhere that adds up CO2e figures calculated by backend web services to compute another CO2e figure? But even then this seems like a really fiddly and bad way for an organization to count up carbon.

Furthermore the actual methodology for counting up CO2e is part of a proprietary ISO standard, because I doubt they expected a freely-implementable RFC to actually need to count industrial CO2e emissions.
The Singularity and the Dawn of the Devil
That's true.

You're testing it with the lives of others on the road or walking beside it too.
Discusses the threats the singularity presents and ways to mitigate risk.
Yeah, would be great to live in a magic land, where the US has no competitors, adversaries and sworn enemies. But this isn't magic land. US defense contractors are very much for profit and deliver a product that deters or kills some very bad people, more and more discriminating between collateral damage and intended targets - far more than can be said of Russian in Ukraine, for example.

There's an entire generation in this country that thinks the US is safe, a villain even. How wrong they are, and how much they stand to lose if the US loses.
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The point is that an engineer at a FAANG likely owns a miniscule fraction of the stack, whatever that may be. The average company doesn't need or want someone who is so deeply specialised.
One thing I noticed right away, is when I scrolled down their page it didn't pop up that horrible popup all substack pages have asking you to subscribe; maybe they can ditch Notes and implement that feature on the rest of substack.
Location: Zurich/CH
Remote: Yes/Hybrid
Willing to relocate: maybe
Technologies: FPGA (VHDL), Python, Functional Safety, testing in general
Résumé/CV: ask me
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animated gifs. lots of free tools available. substack probably has staff designers to make it extra pretty.
When you sell a capability you are making a commitment. The fact that you deluded yourself about it does not get you off the hook. You are still responsible for your claims. Or should be.
Is the key difference that no one can prove the current hardware will be unable to reach a level 5 solution?

Taken to the (more) absurd we wouldn’t have this issue if the claim was the cars could fly, be boats, or time travel. People wouldn’t buy the “capability” either.

This is a fascinating murky area and seems there’s no market solution beyond caveat emptor
> Software Engineering make me only realize that people are never happy.

I'm not convinced this is an innate property of humanity, rather I think it is a conditioned behavior to keep us buying things. Pay attention to what marketing tells you, what it really tells you, behind the ostensible message. It is not telling you good things about yourself or your life, and it is bombarding you constantly with these intrusive thoughts.
Really? It's hard to imagine him doing anything at this point that would offset the good he's done for society.

He upset and tore down the military-industrial complex launch monopoly saving the collective US tax payers billions through starting SpaceX (and could soon revolutionize access to space for the average person within the next decade). (Also note that without SpaceX, we'd still be paying money to Russia to send US astronauts to space, which wouldn't be a good look during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.)

He created an electrical vehicle revolution that's taking the world by storm, changing industries and pushing us much faster toward ending global warming than would have happened without. It's hard to imagine a few misguided political opinions could offset all of that. Let's be realistic here.

(Yes you can't attribute all that to him solely, as Elon himself says commonly, the praise should be given to the workers at SpaceX and Tesla, not him. But at the same time, without him, they would have never happened.)
I am very good at all layers of the stack (except maybe just decent on the frontend), yet it's hard to stand out when any open position has 500+ resumes applying for it.

My self esteem and confidence is at an all time low. It is soul-crushing to have had a brilliant career and get barely 1% response rate. I can't only blame it on my CV being terrible (went through half a dozen iterations already)
Might help if folks post locations of where they're looking? I get a general vibe (with no hard data) that the NYC area has no shortage of work for SWEs, but other cities might not? I'd be curious to hear other folks' thoughts on their locations.
Publishing an RFC like this in early April seems risky, given IETF traditions…

The lack of consideration for how this header should be processed by caches or proxies suggests a corresponding lack of seriousness in terms of thinking through even how it could meet its stated goals. Maybe it did just land a couple days late?
It's a social media website. There's no cost to the users to switch away, we saw that with the Digg migration. And Reddit has been top dog in this kind of social media for at least a decade, we aren't talking about jumping ship on out of whimsy, maybe it's time for Reddit to die?

Like, honestly, who gives a shit about conde naste's social media site?
"test a system with our own lives" is actually an understatement; FSD Beta is being tested on other peoples' lives without their consent. Other drivers, pedestrians, etc.
Willful negligence resulting in death arguably is violence. It becomes obvious when the device is not a blood test but say firing a gun in the air without regard to where the bullet will land. Willfully misrepresenting medical testing is firing a gun in the air without regard to where it goes; it is totally unreasonable to believe the outcome will be anything but violent.
That's the theory. In reality, there are "prison consultants" who can help you get into a "better" prison.

You can ask for citations, and I actually found one [1].

[1] https://archive.ph/vFvq7
However you put it, but this judgement proves that justice exists, and i am happy to see scammers put behind bars in the mother of democracy. USA in-spite of its gun culture still rocks in some aspects.
Sometimes the joined area is not visibly accessible, and I don't know if lead has been used.

You could use a lead test swab. They come as small as precision q-tips.
It's hard to keep morale up after spending multiple hours composing a few thoughtful, "good fit" applications, just to be auto-rejected immediately upon submission without them even being seen by a human. I don't even bother anymore unless I have someone on the other end who's willing to usher my application straight to a hiring manager.
That's why posted it. Most people ignore them but they do have good opportunities and generally don't have issues with ageism that exists. They are very invested in tech though. Mostly devices and embedded systems from what I know.
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Completely agree. I'm not sure who benefits from locking people in cages when their ability to roam free doesn't endanger anyone's safety. Ban her from owning equity in any business if you need to avoid repeat offenses.

If the purpose is retribution or deterrence there are so many cheaper and less cruel ways to achieve those ends than taking decades of life and handing hundreds of thousands of dollars to prison industrial complex: caning, banishment, compulsory face tattoos of shame, whatever. The only reason we have prison sentences for crimes like this (along with most property and drug crimes) is so we can torture people without having to look at it directly. I wonder what society would be like if juries had to personally flog each person they sentence, or execute them at the date of (life_expectancy-sentence_years). The way we deal with crime in America today is sanitized barbarism, but if you peel back any layer of the justice system it's pretty easy to see it for what it is.
Tom Scott at the Bay of Fundy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrTsWtPVIY
Even worse, they might even try to _hire_ you!
You act as if I'm trying to place some unreasonable standard for verbosity upon you. In reality, it doesn't take that, and it would have sufficed to have just said "JS" where you originally wrote "Node".

The JS-is-not-Node aside was not exactly the most important part of my last comment, anyway.
whenever i see RDBMS queues i think : why would you implement a queue or stack in a b-tree ?

always go back to fundamentals. the rdbms is giving you replication , queries , locking but at what cost ?
They use smart pigs to inspect pipelines too. They are awesome looking machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJ083afaYY
I took their meaning to be that at any large company you work in a pretty niche area because there are so many other employees. You get used to "not my problem" which isn't an attitude that makes sense in small companies.

The problem though is assuming that the majority of jobs are with small companies. Although 99% of US businesses are SMBs, only 45% of employees in the US (from quick Google checks) work for SMBs. So the majority of jobs are at large companies and I don't think FAANG would be so much a penalty (except for that you might have compensation expectations that don't fit these companies).
Emacs 29 has just issued a pre-release. Using it now.
Here's the stumbling block - people aren't looking for "real information" when they ask what you do at a party, they're just looking to get a rough idea of who you are so they can find common ground to continue the conversation.
Is fighting "flash of unstyled text" part of that?
Most companies don’t need or care about good people. They need cheap people who can keep the machines running and not break anything too badly until they either get acquired or they absolutely have to invest in fixing their stack.
Have you considered moving abroad? I’m a mediocre engineer compared to the rockstars in my field and I regularly get interviews at startups, and medium to large companies here in Germany.

I feel as though the jobs are for me to take or the interviews are for me to fail.

Honestly think about it. I do interviews for the company I work for (though I’m a senior data engineer I really like being people facing and meeting folks) and the market here is hungry for talent.

The larger companies might be laying off like their American counterparts but smaller (less aggressively tech focused) firms (like real estate, banking, manufacturing, pharma, etc) are hiring like crazy and so are startups.

Good luck to you!
Yea, my wife works at a retail store here in the bay area and theft so normalized its unbelievable to me. They hire low paying loss prevention staff that have 0 power to do anything and just use to their time to look daunting while following shoplifters around so they can claim insurance loss when they walk out of the store with merch. They don't call the police or do anything that could be cause for the criminals to bring a suit against the store for violating their rights.
This seems extremely counter-intuitive. I'd figure with so many experienced and talented people looking, it would be an employer's market and they'd use it to reign in pay at least a bit. Why do you think this might not be occurring?
And simulate interstellar expansion for those who want it... Just plug them in machine and have AI generate them the trip or experience.
No-one is proposing that all mentally ill people (effectively all people) are forcibly medicated.

Only those that are an acute danger to themselves and others, degrading the world around them on a non-statistical basis.

The alternative is to imprison them.

You are engaging in a strawman here.
> They raised a ton of money on a high valuation, spent 25mil to make 1 mil last year and are now scrambling to raise a new crowd sourced round because they don't want to get wiped out in a down round.

Sorry to get off-topic, but is there a read/book to understand funding, VCs, etc., from a holistic POV. I totally didn't expect that consequence of having to raise a crowd sourced round due to initial high valuation.
Ah. I missed the “floating” part. That makes sense.
Nats has all of these features built in, and is a small standalone binary with optional persistence. I still don’t understand why it’s not more popular.
Prisoner of Geography by Tim Marshall

This covers in general every geopolitical important region. After finishing this you can look up deeper materials for regions that interest you.
Building your company so that you can keep up your own delusions (and repeat them to customers) in spite of evidence sounds like it might be fraud.
No that’s not fraud. Fraud requires a lie and justifiable, detrimental reliance on that lie by a victim.
> “There’s no place for fraud in Amazon’s store,” Amazon spokesperson Christy Distefano says

Hmm, has she ever used Amazon before? It's trivial to find fraudulent sellers, fraudulent products, fraudulent listings, fraudulent reviews.

I'm unable to leave a review for my headphones because the vendor has closed->renamed->reopened their shop 2 or 3 times since my purchase. Items I purchase frequently include a gift offer in exchange for 5-star reviews. I've also been contacted by vendors and asked to buy their product, leave a 5-star review, then receive a full refund.
We are hiring for Staff+ roles at fal.ai. Reach out to us:

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was there a "mass exodus"? What percentage of people actually left twitter forever to another system and stayed there? What percentage of audience or "influencers"?

Disclaimer - I'm not on Twitter, but my impression is that a few folks made a large amount of noise for leaving but most people shrugged. Other networks mat have seen a temporary large percentage Increase, but a) how much of that stuck and b) a large percentage increase of tiny absolute. Umber can be misleading.

Basically, every 4 years, half of America threatens to move to Canada, but here I am in Toronto and I ain't seeing it :->
Ah, I thought you were saying they were the same, my misunderstanding.

I can see an argument that PZs are incoherent by construction, but I'm not sure why a PM is. Can you explain why you think that is so?
I discovered this song [1] from Ethiopiques Vol. 10 some time ago when I was in a rough spot and it helped me, so I also highly recommend the Ethiopiques collection.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1A5NTzSN08
> Programs which have offered the homeless real homes, with privacy, the ability to safely store belongings and keep pets, and the ability to decorate, cook, and sleep in quiet, have not had any difficulty filling those homes, but these programs are few and far between (none exist in the US, that I know of).

This one is close to what you're describing:

https://www.lihihousing.org/tinyhouses

(Consider donating!)

These tiny house villages are real tiny homes, providing privacy & dignity.

And you're right about people preferring anything over a shelter:

"Some of the people we spoke with told us that if given a choice between staying in a nearby homeless shelter or spending their nights in a tent, they will choose the tent" (https://www.krem.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-inland-n...)

A tiny house in a small-by-design village is a better solution than a tent in a large encampment or shelter.
White House Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments from Colorado River
Well, I definitely lost interest in all the superhero movies ages ago.

I'm just sitting here curating a list of hundreds of 80s songs, wondering why I can't get all the videos to play on my TV like my own custom MTV playlist.

Something definitely seems wrong with popular culture these days, but I'm not going to be able to help you sort it out...
*forgot to add context: I’m an American living in Germany for the last 5 years.
I use gifski, it's perfect: https://gif.ski/
I suspect you might really mean more generally International Relations, in which case reading intro IR textbooks or history about specific events is probably more informative if your goal is to understand "why do countries do the things they do and what are the 'rules'". Something like https://www.cfr.org/book/world might be a good place to start. It's relatively recent and I just gave it a skim and while it's certainly an American worldview it seems to stay pretty objective and I think it would be a worthwhile introduction.
Verily, I have beheld greater self-absorbed bullies than the man who speaketh thus. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WX_mgnAFA0
How do you handle stale 'processing' jobs (i.e. jobs that were picked-up by a consumer but never finished - maybe because the consumer died)?
Hucksters, almost all of them.

They prey on the desperate. They preyed on my family.
You can make the car engine more efficient by making it be a small generator that is working at optimal RPMs rather than the variable RPMs driving the car itself.

Consider some of the various hybrid approaches.

Honda has the IMA. The insight is an ICE car with an "underpowered" gas motor that has an electric motor to assist it. If it runs out of gas, it's out of gas and doesn't move.

Toyota's Prius is an electric car with a gas motor that switches on when optimal. If you run out of gas in the Prius, the car will go for some further distance until the battery goes dead.

The Chevy volt is an electric car with a gas generator (and a trick that can shunt some power from the gas generator to driving the car). https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/chevy-volts-engine-more-t...

> When the battery is depleted, the range extender engine kicks in to generate electricity for the motor, as GM noted in its press materials. But when the battery is depleted and the car is running at 70 mph or above, the planetary gearset transmits additional motive force directly from the engine to the wheels.

... however, this also should take into account the efficiency of the power grid too.

https://www.epa.gov/egrid/power-profiler#/

A hybrid car in part of the grid that is heavily coal can be efficient in terms of CO2 than an electric car because it is burning gas more cleanly than the grid is burning coal.
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the only crime here (or anywhere) is screwing with rich people's money.
> he said if I had to ask I couldn't afford it

When people act that way to me, I just laugh and walk away. It feels much better than being mad, and they often look confused rather than smug. I have no problem with not rewarding them with a sale. Sometimes they'll even backpedal, I just say "Have a great day, bye!"
Ask HN: Is open source subject to sanctions?
Context: I use Kubernetes's go client, which eventually relies on github.com/mailru/easyjson

This is maintained by Mail.ru which is eventually owned by Gazprom Media which is subject to EU and USA sanctions.

Can that library continue to be used commercially given it's under MIT license or is it subject to sanctions?

Obligatory, I am not a lawyer and very confused.
When I was a student I think I read online that (for water based inks) laser printer paper works well and better than a lot of notebook paper. I think something about feathering or drying time but I don’t really remember. I’m not sure how true it was and I preferred having loose leaf paper with no lines so I was pretty happy feeling like I was getting well suited paper on the cheap.
Sorry to misunderstand you. But, among knowledgeable people, I think you find the discussions of the individuals are more complex than you’re representing, especially if you have an opportunity to listen to a complete conversation in person. With exceptions, of course.
> You can put 50k-100k miles

I get that on my ICE brakes too. My secret? Engine braking and taking my foot off the gas when the light ahead is red: something nobody seems to do sadly.

Are EV suspensions over-built enough to account for the extra weight they’re carrying? Imo that’s the big expense once vehicles start showing their age. Extremely dependent on road conditions though… not great in the salt belt.
I don't like Holmes and am pleased she's getting some comeuppance, but I can play Devil's Advocate in this one space: maybe she always wanted kids, focused on her career (lol), then this all happened, XYZ. Holmes is 39 years old. If she really, truly wanted biological children then now was the time to make sure it happened. She's a villain, but she's also a complex human being that probably has multiple priorities, goals, ambitions, etc.

Devil's advocating myself: she could freeze eggs too, yes. Can't speculate on the pros and cons of different decisions.
Original headline: >The 42 Best Pens for 2023
I dunno, I always have trouble with "Best" lists that feature double figures; it's as if the maker of the lists isn't willing to use their expertise to winnow it down to a few.
You do realize that BEVs predate internal combustion cars? You could've said the same thing about all EVs just a few years ago.

The problem with BEVs is that they have gigantic resource requirements. It is very much replacing one problematic resource base with another. Fuel cell cars lack this problem. It is not inconceivable that this fundamental problem will force our hand in the future.

Also, like I said, a fuel cell car is an EV. Your story about the Mirai losing money is not different than accusing Tesla of doing the same. Arguably even more absurd, since Mirai should cost less to make.
it is brutal, at least compared to the begining of covid...
May I ask why? I’ve done both pure tech companies and tech jobs at non-tech Fortune 100 companies. I much prefer the latter. In my experience there is less stress (I work about 30-35 hours per week), great benefits, competitive salary, interesting projects, don’t have to live in one of the tech hubs, good coworkers and boss, etc.
lol, no, nobody is saying "oh they worked at google? they must only have narrow experience, NEXT"
> not to be Stallman's group of friends

Nobody said that, either.

> That he did a good job before doesn't mean there's not a job now that still needs doing well.

And you personally know he can't help doing this job further on, and he is on his own entire board in FSF? You are free to nominate and show the world what you can do!
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