skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of your entry-level jobs were supposed to be for highschool and college kids working part time.

This is some soft language hiding some bad assumptions.

"supposed to be" - what does this mean? because it's a lot more interesting...low skilled jobs, are probably what we're going to be talking about. However, it's not the 1950s anymore. eg Staffing a movie theater is not a part-time job (which you would know if you have ever worked one), even post-covid.

Targeting for graduates (or current students) is reserved for economies like college towns, historically. Those places have also experienced wages rising noticeably over, at least, the last 2 decades. Industrial and metropolitan areas don't have enough "school labor" to staff all the unskilled positions, regardless.

> Not all jobs are intended to "live" off of

If you have a fulltime job, the minimum wage is intended to allow you to survive^. The main issue is that places with fulltime positions open to unskilled labor, have living costs that outpace the minimum wage...all the way out to the most rural of US towns. The financial guidelines for employees from McDonalds, Wallmart, etc are telling.

^Claiming that jobs that pay minimum wage and only allow working 30 hours a week, aren't intended to "live" off of, is cherry picking exploitative employers. This is not compelling, nor the common case, so we can focus the discussion on the issues that the majority of the economy deal with.
I've already explained why I omitted the civil war. WW2 presented an existential threat to the K, prior to that, the country had experienced multiple partial or complete takeovers by foreign powers every few centuries, going back to the Romans.

I didn't say anything about 'crushing optimism.' Good vibes only is a contemporary American idiom that essentially says 'don't bother me with any negative opinions.' This can be a mild desire to socialize with chilled out people, or breezy way of indicating you don't give a shit about other people.
Completely depends on what you’re measuring.

To me, economy isn’t an abstract thing to be measured without taking people’s quality of life into perspective. That just feels too much like stats for the sake of stats.

The PPP based measurement is way more interesting.
Tulare Lake’s ghostly rebirth brings wonder – and hardship
In a developed country, low-skilled labor will be a net negative even if well integrated. That's the definition of being below the average of the recipient country.
those look excellent, some even have a bluray drive still. would love this in europe
> it’s a proven technique that’s used by military personnel in life or death scenarios,

What if it’s not life and death and you just want to resist the temptation to take a cookie from the cookie jar. 4-4-4-4 seems a bit overkill for that.
Great video on the current state of drone air delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMqbj4Kj-z0

Basically Amazon is massively hampered by FAA regulations that say they can't fly drones beyond operator line of sight. In other words, the remote pilot must be able to see the drone at all times. It's also that drone delivery was never meant to replace all deliveries. It's only specific use cases where it is economical, such as delivery to a lone, rural house, where sending a car would be time consuming and expensive. You can get waivers for the line of sight rule but it requires sophisticated auto-avoidance tech that they're still working on (that must handle automated avoidance in rain or shine, night and day, clouds or not, winds and so on). So it's massively hard problem that was never meant to be a whole "wave" of next gen delivery.
> We observe no change in the votes posts receive on Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT. This finding suggests that ChatGPT is displacing a wide variety of Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content.

My alternative hypothesis: ChatGPT is eliminating all the long-tail, garbage questions, so the vote patterns don't change because the missing questions weren't getting much of them anyway.
Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests
That must be unique to Europe because in the United States, a 90th percentile income is >$200,000. I don't make that and I live extremely comfortably on my own.
Never waste a midlife crisis
Yep, very similar situation here. I get a lot of email for two different people, one in Texas and one in Leeds.

I also started getting a ton of spam from some cell phone retailer in Jakarta - someone used an email address of mine to sign up for a SIM, it seems, and unsubscribing from their crapflood is behind a password, assuming they'd even honor it. I blackholed their mail server at mine, but that doesn't scale.

And I get an endless stream of "a lot has happened since you last logged in" any time I un-blackhole Zuckerbook, and I've never used them.

At this point, every commercial entity I do business with gets a unique email address so I can turn them off. But that doesn't stop the confused/stupid/malicious from using them.

If I can find the time, I've been wanting to write a new milter-type tool to make it much easier to control which mail servers I'll talk. Yes, this is how SMTP dies. But at least it will be usable for me in the mean time.
pretty sure that I have same thing in solaredge car charger for past couple of years
Optane was never going to reach Flash levels of density. It was always in that awkward zone between DDR4 and Flash. Slower than DDR4 but faster than Flash. More dense than DDR4 but less dense than Flash.

It was a failure of marketing and building. Today's computers use a team of DRAM (like DDR5) and Flash. (GPU-ram like HBM or GDDR6 are still DRAM fundamentally).
Cool bonus feature of Nixhub.io I wanted to share -- Package pages are linkable/bookmarkable!

So if you want to view all the versions available for NodeJS, you can visit https://nixhub.io/packages/nodejs

You can even link to a specific version with an anchor link. For example, you can see NodeJS 19.8.0 at https://nixhub.io/packages/nodejs#19.8.0
https://archive.is/B6oiq
> To eliminate the reliance on a central server, ZeroNet provides an internal plugin called BootStrapper, which allows peers to function as trackers.

Why use this concept of trackers when we have better (more distributed) alternatives in the form of distributed hash tables (DHTs), such as Kademlia, the one BitTorrent itself uses for trackerless torrents?
For sure cut down code complexity for the single clever code writer who wanted to be fancy. Not so sure about all the readers that will come afterwards.
But then you have no story to tell! What a boring thermo sensor lol
For users with multiple Apple devices, this should enable the same password syncing and auto gen capabilities as using Safari. For me, that means a lot less hassle using Chrome as my dev browser (otherwise when I’m prompted to create a password, I switch to Safari to create/submit it, then copy from Keychain Access, which works but it’s a PITA).
Switchblade 300 is basically an expensive shotgun shell designed to avoid collateral damage. It was made for special forces to take out very specific threats. Ukraine has been doing much better with commercial drones dropping grenades into trenches.

Lancet-3 is a disposable 12kg drone made pretty cheaply. The Switchblade 600 is 55kg and pretty expensive (not to mention the massive difference between hauling around 26lbs vs 120lbs).

A Switchblade 400/500 with a lower weight could hit that sweet spot too, but I don't think it was ever designed. My guess is that we'll see it and some other solutions in the near future.

If Ukraine had a Lancet-style drone, I believe it could make a massive difference taking out stuff far behind the lines pressuring Russian artillery and tanks.
This is a plus, I’ve noticed the duck.com addresses from DDG are already blocked heavily.
The thing that makes rural areas inefficient for trucks (distance between customers) is far worse for drones. Drones have to be based out of somewhere close to the customer due to their short battery life, which means you have to have a lot of bases, each of which only serves a handful of customers. A truck will burn a lot of fuel per customer, but a single one can still serve a large area on one tank and can be based out of a nearby city.
Aluminum makes it worse but steam explosions as such are nothing to sneeze at. And there are quite a few ways to inadvertently set you up for one.
> Normally it’s challenging to use [hafnium oxide] for memory because it has no structure at the atomic level – its hafnium and oxygen atoms are randomly mixed together.

What on earth does this mean? Looks like a typically non-random crystal to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium(IV)_oxide

The actual article is open access, but rather dense:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1946

It seems they used amorphous hafnium oxide:

> To create this amorphous nanocomposite, we added Ba to hafnium oxide during the single-step thin film deposition, and because of its simplicity of compositional control, we used pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to deposit the films. The PLD target had a Ba:Hf cation ratio of 1:2, which exceeds the solubility limit of dopants (with large atomic radii) in (crystalline) hafnium oxide, so that the formation of a second (amorphous) phase could be expected (22).

Is that what the article means? Because it also then talks about adding barium on top of this, whereas you don't even get the amorphous phase without barium.

Anyway, the paper also explains the deal with the Barium "bridges", which the authors call columns, fairly clearly (but it's too long to copy here).

Other observations:

- The authors seem to be very proud of producing this device mostly using "industry-compatible" processes, which i think means stuff you could do in a conventional chip fab, and where they don't, they have a story about how they could. This seems to contrast with other experiments in this field where the techniques would be very difficult to export from the lab.

- Switching time seems to be > ~100 ns. Maybe that can be optimised a lot. And i don't know what that translates to in terms of latency at bus level. But that time is ~100x SRAM, ~30x DRAM, ~10x some of these other wacky high-speed storage technologies, but ~1000x less than flash. Could have those numbers highly mixed up, so correct me if i'm wrong.

- There is some chat about "neuromorphic" functionality, where storage works like neurons. I won't go into the details but this sounds like a fad that is probably getting semiconductor researchers nice big grants, and will go absolutely nowhere.
US wages have not followed US productivity for the last 50 years as well.
He wasn't stopped due to AI. He was observed due to AI. He was stopped for speeding 15-20mph over the limit, illegally passing on the right, and changing lanes without signaling.
Unfortunately yes, it still is IMO.
Really appreciate the kind words. If you don't mind my asking, what sort of issues were y'all experiencing that prompted you to start looking for solutions now?
The concept of "coroutines" is as much about control flow as "subroutines" (function calls and return statements).

But when you have a construct that has their own call stacks, it's a relatively small step to implement lightweight threads with it.

Since doing concurrency happens much more often than any other smart use of coroutines, many people conflate the two.

I sometimes see this confusion in discussions about Kotlin's coroutines. An example of using coroutines that is not about concurrency:
https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.sequence...
But if your iteration is so fast then you don’t need a channel at all. Just use a plain for loop.
This is a wonderful idea! I’d love to see this implemented somewhere.
What about an RV? In a forest service campground?
Can you beat our firewall?
The move when using the IDF is quite smooth though.
I struggle to understand the appeal of these more premium ESP32 boards. I’m gonna throw the same code on it. It’s an ESP32 either way. What exactly am I buying here for that 3x price
It also conveniently doubles as a fireworks detector!
I have a similar setup of Nginx proxy, Backends are Go binaries (without Docker) and Postgres. If it's for a pet project the free tier on GCP suffices.
We don't care about size of economy, we care about aspects of daily life of the average person.
Hundreds of drones plunge into Yarra River
Ah maybe, maybe not … best effort blah blah cybercriminals something.

So you see, your honor, as a service provider, we did no wrong.
I think that is a somewhat narrow view. Maybe to make the contrast sharper: Why should I contribute any information just so that it immediately gets monetized by a handful of LLM firms?

The new situation isn't the same as search as that wasn't there to hide information sources or to immediately convert information into useful things (texts, guides, etc.).
It’s new for macOS.
Bitwarden defaults to Base domain.

So if your credentials are stored for foo.bar.com they'll be proposed on any subdomains and the naked domain of bar.com.

You can switch it to Host. That way the credentials are only proposed on on foo.bar.com but not on cuz.bar.com.

Safari doesn't do that.
There is a big potential role for open source or more specifically copyleft / free AI here that is released as a community project but can be monetized as well. The evidence from software is that there is lots of interest in contributing to such products.
Apple was worth 2 trillion last year. This year it's worth 3 trillion. Five years ago, there had never been a US company worth 1 trillion before. Something is broken.
In the US, the immigrant labor does not stay low skilled for long or was never low skilled in the first place. See: tech company CEOs
I would say gegen for against. But yeah noch mal wieder is definitely in my lexicon.
Yes, the article never outlined the practical differences between natural and synthetic caffeine.
"but I do wonder whether underground parking would at least help"

Our local Tesco (Yeovil, Somerset, UK) had a fairly large car park, and a rather strange split level two storey thing at the periphery which seems to have been designed and built for dodgy purposes and is minimally used! Around 20 odd years ago they simply put a second storey on most of it.

You need to provide walkways anyway, so you minimally encroach on those with concrete encased steel pillars (mostly for fire retardant but handy extra section anyway). It's a pretty cheap way to nearly double your parking.
> I would think the quality/convenience/cost of the alternative would be by far the biggest factor

The alternatives almost never beat a car in quality, convenience, and cost (minus parking costs, which is the point). The exceptions are very specific cases, like inter-Manhattan travel at certain times of the day, for example, where $2.75 can get you most places faster than your own car and cheaper than a cab.
Evidence?

Evidence against: https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/mariel-impact.pdf
What, more so than holding yourself hostage by holding your breath? The aim of 4-4-4-4 is to get into the habit of calming the mind down so that the desire passes with the subsequent realisation that all desires pass. This seems like it's relying on willpower which is only going to take you so far.
I notice the article doesn't directly claim that the production of synthetic caffeine is inherently and notably polluting/dangerous, merely that today the major manufacturer(s) happen to be located in industrial zones that are polluted/low-regulation.

I don't think that coincidence (with one data-point I can't call it a correlation) as very compelling. There are great many completely innocuous products or manufacturing steps which could likewise be located in a place like that for economic reasons.

So it seems another framing could fit, of: "Synthetic caffeine is easy to manufacture and compact to ship, so much so that most of the world's needs have been centralized to one place with cheap labor costs."
Ironically posted as a reply to a comment cherry picking stats.
I used to use an MX record that had mailinator handle nospam.jrock.us email addresses... but stopped doing it for anonymity reason. ("whois nospam.jrock.us" whoops there's my home address!)

The alternative I currently use is letting Gmail handle the spam. I used to be big into jon-foo@jrock.us for "foo" and that sort of thing, but every address ended up on every spam list anyway, and the filtering didn't increase the signal to noise ratio.

For true throwaways I just use mailinator. If I want to receive email from someone someday, I can just create another account. If they spam me, Google will filter it out. So it goes.
You’re absolutely right. People advocating for it can’t seem to see beyond their nose.
Yeah I 100% understand wanting to optimize this for something like generators if we imagine them as first-class constructs. But they’re not at all a replacement for channels – they would be an addition, or specialization. I’ve never seen real world Go code that has needed it but maybe this will change with generics. It’s worth keeping an eye on, at least.

Channels otoh are very versatile: everything from spsc to mpmc with buffering and starvation protections, fast cancelation and notifications, etc etc. They’re not perfect, but it’s a helluva bang-for-the-buck for a single primitive. Literally all you have to do for performance is add buffering and coalesce “units of work”, and you’re good to go.
To those that are in the embedded space, what are some websites that I can lurk to get a better understanding? Places to buy parts?

Where do you start?
While I agree with the notion, I'm fairly sure this quote is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
> Does anyone really want to process analog data?

I mean... maybe we should?

All radio waves, such as 802.11, are fundamentally analog data. And then they are converted back into digital with incredible QAM-encoding levels. If you think QLC 4-bits per Flash-cell is big, wait till you see 256-QAM (aka: 8-bits per 802.11 timeslice), or more.

I believe I saw some spec for some fiber-optic cable that is 32768-QAM (aka: 15-bits per timeslice).

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Then again, Flash (and other memory) are composed of individual cells. True-analog signals like radio-waves are truly analog, so maybe its not quite the same.

But maybe we should think of things like tape or hard-drives as an analog signal. Or maybe not, who knows? I'm not actually a storage specialist so I don't really know. (Nor am I really in communications, lol).
Yes, I'm fond of that too. A problem I have with much of modern analytic philosophy is that while it nominally addresses this question, it's often policy advocacy in pseudo-objective wrapping. I've got books which have interesting ideas and whose propositions I largely agree with, but which would have been better off as an earnestly argued 10 page essay instead of a lumbering and tedious 150 page apologia.
Nobody said GDP equals quality of life, what are you talking about?
We have this at my company that's "open to everyone" but the people i see on it is always non asian male minorities and women.
BLISS is a typeless word-oriented language like BCPL, so I am surprised to see it in this list. Also I am amused to hear VAX/VMS described as a mainframe operating system.
Has that ever been confirmed? Because some variants operate from carriers and I'd be surprised if they have special hangars inside.
Paint like an Egyptian: X-rays reveal creative process behind ancient tomb art
> Your house/apartment on the other hand...you should expect a high/higher level of privacy there, even looking into the windows - if something is found looking into the windows it should not be admissible as evidence without a warrant.

I think police are allowed to look through windows from areas where the public can generally go. Like a public sidewalk or at your front door. Or something like that. I don't think they're generally allowed to walk around the house looking through windows, though.
You better destroy your brain immediately old chum. It's an engine that spends most of its day organising, grouping, predicting the things you see, hear, smell, touch around you
However, they contain momentum and energy. With an "photons in a mirror box" type of a system, this translates to the system "as a whole" having mass.
Hmm. The way I see it, self control is not a switch that is flipped on or off, it's definitely more like a spectrum of some kind, and generally I think having more of it is always going to be an improvement. Can't attest to whether or not this particular article's advice is actually useful; explanation hits me as a bit pop-sci but even if there were no scientific reason it should work, I bet it still helps in a sort-of placebo way.

But I digress. If I want to lose weight, I know "going on a diet" is not how it works. You need lifestyle changes that you keep. You need to change your relationship with food, exercise, and have some self-restraint to continue to make better choices and hold yourself to them.

But that does require deciding that you should "lose weight" or perhaps "eat healthier". On the other hand, if you decide that two beers every so often is OK with you, well, of course, everyone is pretty much entitled to decide that for themselves. But maybe to some degree, self-discipline is also partly not letting oneself make excuses for their own pointlessly harmful (even if only a tiny bit at once) behaviors that they'd probably ultimately be better off without. It's easy, since well, all of us, including me, do this sort of thing all the time: we're only human, after all.

That said, there's obviously no objectively correct answer, it's definitely not that simple. Nobody orients their lives around just what is "healthier" or "safer" because that would be boring and depressing, no doubt about it. But to the point about alcohol, I don't really drink anymore and even though I never had a drinking problem, I just don't really miss it. It never really did a ton for me, I mostly am just dumber when drunk. I'd prefer to be in control of my state of mind for the most part, so I don't generally have interest in drugs that impair your state of mind much. Not to mention, alcohol is probably not good for you in moderation after all anyways, so eh.

I feel that it's pretty likely that people need to hear different things at different phases of life, though, and this is just what I feel like I need with where I'm at now. Maybe I'll have to throw it all out later :)
The problem with LCD windows like that is that they default to opaque, and require power to align the crystals to become clear.

Fine for your fancy boardroom, not so good for a vehicle when a minor hardware fault can instantly render the driver blind.
It's not as exciting as you might expect-- group of meth heads on the street he was attending to, and one insane lady just hopped in and drove off.
> We are ruled by atlanticist neoliberals you put there in the first place.

And who exactly was running continental Europe before that?
Just for prototyping ease tbh.

You would always make a custom board for an actual mass appeal product. If it's not a mass made product why do you care? Pick the easiest one regardless of cost.

This is essentially a dev kit. With the ability to easily mess with it. You don't care about the cost here because it's not really an expense when amortized.
I feel the same way but this wariness is amplified by the fact that I don’t trust Meta. Still, I’d be more inclined to sign up to Whatsapp than create a Facebook account; a few real-world friends have said they’d prefer to use Whatsapp over SMS – particularly for sending photos.