skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix's design gives good guarantees about reproducibility. It may not be bit-perfect, but in general it is _very_ good. Maybe the Zero to Nix article on Caching, and its linked pages will help? https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/caching

The long and short of it is a merkle tree of hashed inputs :).
My mother-in-law once attempted to turn on the ignition while my father-in-law was pumping gas. She was hot and wanted the A/C back on.

My wife and I were in the back seat and not pleased by that action. I would think a modern car can handle that without exploding but why risk it? Just deal with the heat for, oh, another 30 seconds. We were filling up a Honda Accord, not some camper van with a giant tank.
> "Since the Android app requires location permissions to use the hardware device"

God because Blutooth LE devices need location permission on Android? How is that still a thing, I remember being outraged about that a decade ago or something.
Yes, the homevoter mentality is much worse in the English speaking countries than it is in continental Europe or in developed East Asia.
China owns 300k acres of land in the U.S. Here's where
> That 2% is still a big cost

They can use it as fertilizer.
I have noticed the same thing as the person you're replying to.

I think the reason is there are a lot of tech / tech-adjacent workers on Reddit and they know people less than 100 miles away (in the USA) are doing the same job as them, possibly at the same company even, but are getting significantly higher compensation packages.
What do we do about it? The obvious answer is just stop buying this junk, but how would anyone know?

I'm curious, have you (or anyone else) seen novel solutions to this problem? Is this even solvable? Ideas everyone!
> What would you do otherwise to show me that you're a programmer?

Pretty much every other job in every other industry seems to do OK with education, experience and references.

If I want to hire a guy to tile my bathroom I don't need him to slap some tiles onto a whiteboard to get the job - some photos of the last few jobs he's done would be just fine.

Is the programming profession really so full of inept frauds? Is our industry so unable to regulate university education that qualifications are so worthless?
But faang companies try to objectively compare all candidates. Also they have so many resumes that it doesn't seem feasible to review code on GitHub.
"In the good times" when dollar was backed by gold, bankers would borrow at 3%, lend at 6% and go to a golf course at 3 o'clock.

The economy is working incorrectly - due to central banks.

Being punished for saving is just insane.
GP's remark that "the precision required to apply enough tension to pull the electrons of every single atom into that state is absurd" made me want to ask the same thing, so seconding this question.

I assume feedback control is an obvious enough approach that the researchers already checked and rejected it - but I'm curious as to why specifically it would not work. In my layman non-physicist non-material-scientist imagination, I'm thinking of an aggregation of such self-regulating piezo "cells", or even continuous surface tuned to locally stretch/contract "just right" with the current flowing over it (is such a feat even possible)?
Are corporate profits to blame for inflation?
Feel free to give this a read, it has an answer for your assertion about waters role: https://mindofjp.medium.com/what-really-happens-to-a-human-b...
I like the fact that they are extremely cheap to manufacture and also to maintain.

With housing shortage in many parts of the world, could this be a solution for the poor?

You could even stack them on top of each other like marbles (assuming an edging so they don't roll off), and be able to use a very small space for hundreds if not thousands of dwellings.

Electricity and network could be done by using a meshing technology.
> How can you stop people from caring, or alternatively how can you make them vote against their interest?

Voting against their interests: nothing. That said, I've often found folks deemed to be voting against their interests to be doing nothing of the sort.

Those who don't care are, for me, also fine. They're self selecting out of having a voice. If they want to have one in the future, they can engage. The tragedy is those who want to engage but can't. Due to registration requirements, ersatz poll taxes, difficulty of getting to and from poll sites or keeping tabs on the election calendar.

(Apathy is unlikely to be solved with reforms versus education. I've never met an apathetic voter who cast a blank ballot in protest. If they show up, they tend to find something to vote on.)
This European engine is comparable to Merlin, not Raptor.
I have a nice, handmade mechanical watch and it's never tried to spam-call any emergency services. Also shows the time fairly reliably.
I dropped my Pixel in water and since it had previously cracked, it had lost the waterproofing. The water apparently shorted the power button and the screen. That was a fun night when the dead phone woke up and started dialling 112 repeatedly and there was nothing I could do short of smashing the damn thing with a hammer to stop it.

Every electronic device needs to have a physical disconnect for the power supply. It should be considered a severe enough fault to warrant not getting market approval if this is missing.
a decent quality house in a te ch metro is 1.5-2 million

so you are looking at 14k per month in payments
SLES is worse than RHEL in my eyes. Their support is horrendous, absolutely the worst in the industry. Their early move to btrfs caused so many headaches at client sites. I haven't trusted their technical decision making since.
> That’s literally all compiler people do.

I know. My point is that in lots of cases it is unnecessary and in fact unhelpful.

> make it better

Well, you first need to get agreement from your language users on what constitutes "better". Removing the dynamism from a dynamic language does not make it "better".
Yes. I can't cite it, but I remember seeing a study that said hunter gatherers in warmer climates can have up to 200 different food sources.

Of course I'm sure it's highly dependent on season and region.
No worries! Half joking as I literally just started the show a day or two ago and am loving it and even had it on in the background while I read your comment.
Well, that neither news or “secret”. Nice find though
Timing and sync in an untrustworthy world – Part 1
What does that mean and how does that answer the question? How is electron better than using a local webserver and web page for accessibility?
There's a little more to it. If it was merely about getting all the profit you could out of land, there's be no sense capping a bay area neighborhood at single family home densities, when you could probably build a 25 story condo on each single family home lot and sell each story as its own luxury condo for the price of that 1930s single story california home that sits there today.

I think nimbyism just appeals to the monkey side of the brain we all have. If you are happy and surviving, there's probably millions of years of biological evolution in your behavior that's telling you to keep up what you are doing where you are. There's probably a side of your brain that subconsciously gets irritated at seeing more humans move into an area competing for resources with you, even if today that just means a parking spot at the grocery store and not an appreciable dent on game populations. Stuff like cities and dense living on top of many different "tribes" only happened within the last few thousand years, that's only like 50-100 generations and that's only considering those ancient cities that were around then, plenty of places have been rural for all of human history. Not nearly enough time to expect a significant amount of adaption, and that's only if there is a remarkably strong selective pressure favoring adaption.
Azure has Azure Container Apps.
That's interesting. I grew up in Utah and many students at public schools were the children of first-generation Mexican immigrants (or first-generation themselves) and often the answer to, "What does pendejo mean?" (because of course that question came up in Spanish class) would be something along the lines of, "I can't describe it". This helps to explain why if the question itself seems to have a parsing error. In this case, "What are this word's meanings?" might have been a more yielding question (not than an 8th grader is likely to think of that).
This is straight ChatGPT output, right? It would be polite to tag it as such, especially given its habit of confabulation.
Your comment is completely unrealistic. The battery supply chain doesn't produce enough for grid scale storage. It will be many years until that is practical. Gravity power storage holds promise, but outside of a few limited pumped hydroelectric facilities it remains unproven.
Yup, the flexibility of running against any model via langchain is super helpful.
In absolute terms, pre-digital cryptographic equipment operator isn't the worst wartime job I can think of. However, on a U-boat, all of the jobs were equally worse (due to life expectancy).
I mean, some subs are still private, I believe others are still in malicious compliance mode, and in another week if you used a 3p app you will find it gone or paid only.

But sure, unless reddit mods were ready to walk en masse (because it would take a few weeks to get everything in order, and maybe months to re-stabilize reddit) this wasn't going to be some coup de grâce. It was always going to be either nothing or a slow death by 1000 paper cuts as the creators moved elsewhere.

>Lemmy got some exposure, as did Mastodon. But that exposure is very small.

I say that is a good thing. very small for reddit's scale is more than enough to create a network effect if all the cards are right. I don't think they were but I've seen worse hands in lieu of these blackouts.

I don't think the goal of any people leaving should be to pretend that there will be a 100% perfect replacement with all the bells and whistles and none of the bullshit. Rebuilding will take years and the best time to start was yesterday. If that sounds like work, then you see why "a whale can swallow up the consequences".
Bad engineering
Didn't need to. Shreddit is point & shoot idiot proof

Though you do need to give it access to your account via auth which many probably won't like

If they restore the comments I'll look at something more sophisticated like editing with PRAW.
Victron's android mobile app for battery management does this as well. Luckily I spoof my GPS, according to them I'm in the middle of the pacific.
Scripting Language? Engine Language? Why not both? [video]
This is an easy explanation, but not the whole story -- single-family homes can be a good investment even while allowing the construction of apartment buildings.

Without the limitations of zoning, a single-family home could be worth the same as several apartments in a 4-plex minus construction costs. As density increases, low-density housing becomes more valuable, and high-density housing remains accessible, a process that then resets for the next generation.
>We have a labor shortage instead.

Not from the Netherlands, but the labor shortage I see Austria is mostly companies still trying to pay 2020 wages rather than a lack of people motivated toi switch jobs/immigrate.

Labor shortage here is just propaganda for "we can't find people willing to work at the salaries we want to pay". In similar fashion I have a constant Ferrari shortage because I can't seem to find these cars at the prices I'm wiling to pay.
Boomers are going to have to suck it up and pay more taxes, or leave at which point we should exit tax them. They soaked up all the opportunities, and voted themselves no taxes, and promised themselves trillions of dollars their grandkids productivity.

It's time to start hunting and punishing those who pay illegal immigrants less than minimum wage (I dont think we should bother trying to fight illegal immigration against the immigrants, punish the citizens who are breaking their local laws ie paying too little)

>Historically low unemployment (likely from the other factors)

I actually think this is more about the historically low amount of folks participating in the economy. A lot of these bureau stats only consider folks who want a job. But what is also really eye opening is the percent of the population who does some work. That number is hitting 40yr lows, and approaching numbers seen in 50/60s when it was far less common for women to work.

Why does this matter? Imagine society has N hours of labor required to keep it functioning? If fewer people are willing to work, then the remaining worker pool must do more hours of work (or become far more productive).
Can this be interpreted as an example of the Braess's paradox [1] where removing weak links makes the structure/network less resistant?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
> That 2 hours rule seems to be health related. But a lot of food gets bad much before it becomes unsafe to eat.

Name one that does that in a 6 hour time period.

> It's not 20 minutes. It's 20 minutes more than the normal trip duration.

Tomato tomato. It's a negligible time period. Food out for 3 hours and 20 minutes is not going to be worse off than food out for 3 hours.

> Anyway, city traffic is not caused by people getting to a grocery store. That's all a red herring.

City traffic is caused by people driving cars. People drive cars to grocery stores.

City traffic isn't caused by bike lanes, buses, or trains either. That's all a red herring.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2019/jul/0...

[0]> But fluid and traffic are not the same thing, as shown by 60 years of governments trying and failing to road-build their way out of congestion. The idea of induced demand – more road space brings more cars – has been known for decades, and it also works in reverse. This is especially so with bike lanes, which are such an efficient use of the same space that they can often mean the same amount of space carrying more people overall.

[1]> Yes, traffic jams have worsened in some cities where bike lanes have been built, but studies show this is largely down to other factors, for example the growth in the number of Uber-type private hire vehicles and Amazon delivery vans.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/induced-travel-de...

[1] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/understanding-and-managing-conges...
You're substantially right, of course, but to play devil's advocate:

1) the negative real central bank interest rates are a recent anomaly in my country, and above-inflation deposit interest was easy to find before that

2) mortgage lending should indirectly generate meaningful economic activity, in the form of building construction and maintenance

3) buying stocks on the secondary market also only indirectly generates meaningful economic activity - all it does directly is take stocks out of the seller's hands, replacing it with cash - presumably, this causes a chain of trades that lead to the primary market (or possibly to a mortgage)
Could someone fill me in: why do people want to monitor their 12V battery? Is it just a proxy for “you seem to have left your light on”?

It honestly feels like a way to spy on family/company vehicles. Powered by the battery… knowing its voltage just being a side effect. But I guess that’s only if the app also tells you these data.
> They can’t use foam for flotation at that depth. There is a concrete like “synthetic foam” if you want unpowered rise to surface but it’s expensive. I read early on they wanted carbon to be light enough to get back up by releasing weights on powerloss.

This would make sense. The first bathyscapes (FNRS-2, Trieste) used the same iron ballast method via electromagnets, but bouyancy was provided by an external tank filled with a liquid of lower density than water -- gasoline.

I hadn't heard of the foam before, but I looked to see how modern deep submersibles provided bouyancy. The first one I checked was the one I'm most familiar with from my childhood fascination with the Titanic -- DSV Alvin, commissioned in 1964 and taken by Robert Ballard on the very first expedition to the wreck -- and it uses such a foam developed around the same time. A minor correction, though: the foam is called "syntactic foam"; the term shares its etymology with "syntax": from Greek σύν (sún, “together”) and τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”). These foams are composite materials containing what they call "cenospheres" or "microballoons": tiny, rigid, hollow spheres. Why use a large steel ballast filled with flammable hydrocarbons when you can use thousands of much smaller ones made out of an assortment of materials from ceramic to titanium to polymers?
> The moderator boycott is not only affecting auction dynamics but media strategy, as advertisers don’t want to appear tone-deaf during a contentious period for the platform.

> [Advertisers] didn’t want to become the subject of users’ opinions about Reddit’s decisions.
Why did this seem worth trying, to you?
Real estate isn't immune to the law of supply and demand, which mandate that you can only pick at most two out of size (or quality) of the housing unit, location (and the quality thereof), and price. Most places in the US are either affordable and boring or the other way around.

> soulless suburbs where there's literally nothing

This is a bit of a reductionist take on those younger people's part. You can have just as much fun at the TGI Friday's at your local strip mall as you can at the hippest restaurant no one else has ever heard of in Brooklyn. It's just a matter of who you spend that time with, and how you perceive that time, in the Stoic tradition.
> actually the next suspect should be red chillis, adulterated with lead oxide.

Why would anyone adulterated red chillis with lead oxide instead of perfectly safe iron oxide, common food colorant?
At this point its fair to assume that all these devices are collecting large amounts of data and phoning home. I wouldnt be surprised if TP Link routers also send everything back to China. But this is not limited to China anyway, the iPhone im using here is probably sending every keystroke and location data back to the US.
> why do you need a 3 bed house if you are single without kids

Because the 3 bed house is a signal to potential mates that you are financially capable of starting a family. Don't get me wrong there's a lot that goes into picking a partner and not everyone is going to be bothered by it, but there's a substantial portion out there who are going to look at where you live as an indicator of whether you're a potential long term suitor. Which is sad really because I think people used to meet, fall in love with the actual person rather than a checklist, and then took on challenges together and grew as a result, like moving into a small or rundown house, renovating it and then starting a family. There is an insidious streak in dating culture now where getting with someone who hasn't already made it is interpreted as "settling for less than you deserve". Don't get me wrong, you've got to have some standards and dealbreakers, but if you watch any of the matchmaking shows on Netflix, the criteria most of the dates have for their potential partners is wild. There's a reason Sima Aunty is always telling them to compromise, she knows exactly what's up!
Been at two FAANGs, a small startup and a mid sized company.
I cannot overstate how little I care about being an enabler and a transformer of the business, or even care about the business.

You see, as a business ( of one), I'm here to ensure my company (again me) is generating cash flow and profit for my stakeholders ( me + family + dog).

Unless I own the company or have equity >10%, it never made sense why anyone would.

That said, I enjoyed my time at the good large corps. Big and small, they all have their issues internally, but I'll take the boring and well compensated job over the interesting (almost never that interesting) and low pay one.
idk what sub7 is, but this is a great post. i like it a lot. sometimes i find it easy to forget what learning is and how it can take place and that we learn from each other and each other's work and sometimes we discover something that no one has discovered before -- it is all learning. thanks.
Is the bathroom tiling really a fair comparison?

The main reason I hire the way I do is I learned that there are people who have resumes that look like mine (with 30+ years of coding) but they don't actually know how to do any coding, even just "please write out a simple class in python that does nothing". I go out of my way to give every candidate a fair shake and I'm not looking for some fast, set-in-stone rules. Nor am I looking for you to solve any really hard problems. Still it's been depressing just how many coders I interview who can't even explain how a hash table works.
This is very true.
I make an effort to point out that MITM proxy now supports Wireguard [1] to tunnel traffic out from the handset. It literally should take no more then 5 minutes from download to packet inspection. Of course if TLS is used by the mobile app then on iOS it's a few more minutes of setup time. Unfortunately with Android, installing your own certificate in the trust store is no longer trivial.

As you point out though, the application doesn't even use TLS for sending the GPS data.

In part two [2] of the blog post series, the Alibaba's AMap SDK uses both TLS and custom encryption and this took me quite a few days to figure out the Wifi and cell data collection - so it's not always so trivial. Either way, I recommend to everyone to at least do a basic 'desk check' on the apps they install. You never know what you will find.

[1] https://mitmproxy.org/posts/wireguard-mode/

[2] https://doubleagent.net/2023/05/22/a-car-battery-monitor-tra...
>>there is a concrete like “synthetic foam”

The word you are looking for is "syntactic foam", which is an epoxy or other material typically with embedded hollow glass microspheres. This material is used for the buoyancy components of undersea vessels. It comes in a broad variety of densities and depth ratings. It is typically machined into shapes on the inside of the part fitting around the metallic components and on the outside the shape of the outer surface of the vessel. It is also somewhat expensive, more for higher depth ratings (on the scale of dozens to low thousands of dollars per cubic foot). Here's a product from one of the suppliers I worked with for more info [0]

Typically, the goal in designing the vessel is to account for the mass and buoyancy of the metal parts and design in the right final volume of syntactic foam so that the vessel is neutrally buoyant at the operating depths, and doesn't have to work to stay up or stay down.

For more moderate depths, there are also various structural foams, which use a variety of chemistries to achieve low densities and high compression strengths. These are also used in sandwich panel construction for composites (instead of honeycomb, and for the same effect), e.g., [1].

Source: I own & run a composites design & manufacturing shop which does work on, among other things aerospace and undersea projects.

[0] https://www.trelleborg.com/en/applied-technologies/products-...

[1] https://www.gurit.com/structural-core-materials/
> HFT isn't even that harmful. What's harmful is brokerages that hold large portions of financial instruments who take advantage of customers' live buying and selling with delayed swaps, intentional front running, etc

HFT does very similar things, except it's even more opaque to those not doing it. Large financial firms and exchanges sell their order data to HFTs. If you're interested in a deeper dive on what they're doing, a book like Flash Boys will explain how there's a lot more going on than just a quicker network connection.
> Donors needed

A call to action, just the kind I have been looking for. It is my duty to give a shit.