skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that struck me immediately is that while I remember the blinking GiFs as terribly annoying they seem tame compared to todays web without an ad-blocker.
Consumer consumption is not based on reality but on perceptions by the consumers. If they fear the future, they don't buy. It is not important if the law has passed or not (if passed it would have gone into effect in some months), the damage - beside many other things - is done.
> Plus the Tax Man quickly got involved and ruled that many Contracting arrangements were actually a sham.

That's not entirely true. The tax man was lobbied by big consultancies that were losing talent. Because quite often, an employee of consultancy would have found they could make more money by working with the consultancy client directly and cutting out the middleman.

If these arrangements were "a sham" then tax man would have included big consultancies in the scope of relevant legislation, like IR35 here in the UK.
I'm not. It's just a trite and boring old "joke", made even more trite and boring on account of this thread not even being about Emacs.
Symbology devices ship with btrfs based raid by default.
I give up on films and series the moment I need subtitles to follow dialogues.
I guess this is Apple's way to add Passkeys support into Chrome as well, for macOS users using Chrome, which is very common, or macOS users with an Android device.
This is great. I wish there was an RSS feed or newsletter I could sign up to - I'm not going to remember to check this in 12 months time.

Also they have a lot of other cool sites linked in their about page: https://thehtml.review/about.html
> the trick is to operate like a business, not an employee.

That's not how it works. Actually the changed legislation made it irrelevant. What matters is the client's appetite for risk.

That being said, it's peculiar that big consultancies were excluded from this legislation - they operate exactly the same business model after all.
There's a big spectrum and you have good points.

I honestly believe that a small amount of people are better off being medicated, keyword being very small (<0.1%). Those that would be a danger to themselves or others in a real way. So I concede some ground.

But I refuse to believe that a society with a significant % of people on anti-depressants is a way to live. Look at my country's statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1020727/antidepressants-...

Most of my friends on them are just bummed out about their life but not enough to change their situation. Perhaps CBT is the answer, my big issue is that the majority of therapists over-prescribes, and that makes me lose trust in the whole thing.

It's like trying to see the good parts of cryptocurrencies, you need to ignore a lot of shit and in the end you wonder if its worth it.
> Hourly rates Your price should be a reflectance of your skills level and your reputation. In the beginning of your consultancy career I would suggest to lowball the price, but not too much.

I've found that in my case it was beneficial for both parties if I asked a rate that made it worth it for me.

Worst case scenario they said no.

Every time I lowballed, I regretted it and didn't do my best and couldn't help it.
I have a 2000 civic. The thermoswich went bad and I replaced it (bit of a bother, tried to do it fast while coolant was pouring out the opening).

Couple years later it went bad again (I probably put in a crappy one from a generic country) so instead of going through that again I just stuck a bent paper clip into the socket of the wire that plugs into the thermoswich. Now it always has the fan on when the car is on.

Could have gotten the same effect by tampering with the relay (this short that I added actually just activates the relay for the fan) but I went with the easiest option.
Peeng (which is now gnip.io, ping in reverse) is now only for cron/onprem monitoring but eventually we want to add it a lot of other features (nested subdomains, dynamic status pages, pings (not reverse)).

If you have any idea what would be make Peeng even more great it'll be cool to hear!
There are two things I have learned from this thread:

1. glibc has been handling things with a lot more civility post-Drepper, and while it's had as hard a time as any OS infrastructure project, that's helped a lot when it came to managing more polarizing issues.

2. The greatest enemy to wider Rust adoption is not that C-educated programmers are reluctant to learn and apply more solid principles. The greatest enemy to wider Rust adoption is that, despite having ample material about the past mistakes of their forerunners, the Rust community is only learning from those that relate to language design and ignoring all the other ones.
> Bringing gf, renting cars, beach stay... would ruin it.

Not only that, it might not be tax deductible!
Yeah I don't disagree entirely with the intent - stop tax dodging by dodgy companies and by dodgy contractors.

But the implementation, my god, it's a mess, and it seems to put the liability all in the wrong place, on the weakest party in the relationship.

And as I said elsewhere, the root cause of the difference in taxation for the contractor is that investment income is taxed less than earned income, something I find pretty hard to accept in principle.
Overall from recent experience, I've had better luck in LinkedIn compared to other platforms. The time you send your application matters too. I filter out job postings when they are over a week old. There's usually no point being 100th in line.
Well, you will need to give up SQLite if you really feel this way, and reimplement it in a safe language.

It will also be some time before Rust has substantial penetration into Linux; you might need to find a kernel that implements the POSIX interfaces safely.

These will not be easy problems to solve.
Is InDriver app working in NYC? It's just an app where driver and a pax negotiate on price and driver pays very small commission if at all.
If the "EU" mentioned in the tweet in 2008 does include the UK and the "EU" mentioned in the tweet in 2023 does not include the UK, then the EU is smaller by ~15% - the size of the UK economy.
> It's historically very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features.

Literally the oldest surviving epic is Gilgamesh, which features Tiamat, the mother of dragons.
Safety glass just means the glass has added safety features - these can be of different types.

Laminated glass is a common one, with multiple layers of glass bonded together. If the glass is broken, the bonding material will (should) hold the glass together. This is presumably what the OP's glass was meant to be. This is common for skylights and automotive windshields.

Another type is toughened glass where the glass is treated (toughened) so that when it breaks it crumbles into small granular chunks that aren't sharp or dangerous in the way glass shards are. This is presumably what you were thinking about, and might have been what OP had installed based on their description of the failure. This is common in the passenger windows of cars.

It's common after an accident to see a broken but intact windshield (laminated glass) and other windows to be completely missing as they fragmented into small chunks (toughened).

There is also wire mesh glass, that you've probably seen in more industrial and commercial settings that is a lot more fire resistant than plain glass.
If the problem is "you're using nul-terminated strings" as the GP said, then "don't use C" a good step towards fixing that problem, no?
mi250x is ~2xMI210
While you're correct about the brakes, the rest is made-up nonsense; the inspector is going to be a mechanic that knows these cars, not an ignorant clipboard warrior going down a ticklist. They'd fail it on the brakes, but starting it is a matter of asking or familiarity with the car / model.

And you wouldn't take your oldtimer to any random mechanic, you'd take it to a specialist.
We all know why.
Thr biggest expense in an EV by far are the batteries so it makes sense to deck the car out and sell in the upper range of the market. If they tried to sell a low tech EV it would still be expensive with all the problems that go with that. Manufacturers would have a harder sale and make less profit. It makes better sense to go high tech.

Having said that it is possible to get a low tech inexpensive EV shipped to you from China but they are closer to golf cars than the type of cars we expect.
It's wrong anyway. Even back in 2008, it was more than 50 watt hours per liter.

The graph is taken straight from the DOE website, here:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-apri....

Without attribution of course. They just re cited the paper the DOE cites.

The paper has no such graph:

https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1842609

The graph is clearly wrong.
It probably just has a link because it’s a relatively unknown brand, the author doesn’t need to link to Apple for people to know what a MacBook is. This level of paranoia about a niche laptop company is fascinating.
Google doesn't see anything just because it uses web technology. For instance, the payroll system I use is a web app, but Google doesn't see my company's payroll data. What Google sees is a marketing blurb about the payroll system.

Google sees everything that is public and everything that uses their ad network, including data from apps that don't use the web at all.
There are some lower-fidelity electric cars out there, such as the Dacia Spring or some of the very cheap Chinese cars.

That being said, electric cars will always be more high tech than ICE cars because they have to. You will need a more or less fancy screen for finding charging stations and navigating them. You will need at least one app on your car or mobile for payments. You will need a mobile app connected with your car for pre-conditioning and bringing the battery to operating temperature.

EVs are a different means of transport than ICE cars, and they're being used differently.
France was also eager to bomb Libya, that's true. But the US really didn't want to intervene in Syria at first.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-the-united-states-has...
Nobody claims that it is, but you're allowed to own cars that aren't street legal, you just can't drive them anywhere on public roads.
The intention was to sweep up the consultants. They even bragged about getting an extra £1 billion out of these people.

It was mostly about enforcing a clearer class distinction between dirty workers and good clean capitalists (who are handed a lower tax bill).

The list of rules actually has an interesting historical parallel - the Soviet Union would deport peasants ruled "outside ir35" to siberia and confiscate their assets in a process known as dekulakization.
If you can't name even one specific product and only have us "creatively think of some" (none of us can come up with, hence asking YOU about it), then maybe there is none.
Unfortunately it can have the same symptoms as a real heart attack or stroke. Tightness and pain in the chest. A feeling of dizziness. Visual things like not being able to focus or darkness around the edges. For me the most pronounced thing is a crawling sensation under the skin of my head and down my face and the weird feeling that something is sticking out the side of my head. And yea, the intrusive thought that you're going to die, which your brain seems to rationalize with a bunch of stupid reasons.

You can also hyperventilate and not really notice it in your breathing. That makes your hands curl up by themselves and then pins and needles. I only got that once, after that I learnt some breathing exercises.
They wouldn't know since they stole it from the DOE website here:
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-apri....

(The cited paper does not contain this graph, see https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1842609)
I think everyone instinctively knew that “once it is in the browser it cannot fail”, so it has been a schelling point for tech.
it's not always unpopular, it's unpopular when the integration costs (as in both actual budget but also cultural/psychological) become bigger than what the population expected.

for example look at Hungary. immigration is very unpopular at the polls, yet now the same government that created this sentiment through endless propaganda passed laws to allow more immigration of laborers, because the new Chinese battery factories that are under construction will require a lot more unskilled labor than which is available. they try to limit any kind of anchoring, no family unification, no visa for non-working spouses, etc. but it's not clear that this will actually attract enough workers...
I'd love to have a cheap sporty car, the Miata is great, but I'd add the MX-5 as well. It doesn't even have to be that fast or anything.
Reflecting on this nine months later, it feels a lot of people misread the pace of innovation, and where inertia actually stays. A couple of aspects I thought of when I heard about Jasper layoffs.

1. A lot of value was supposed to come from selling to enterprises. The narrative was that they would move slowly and hence nimble startups could sell to them and generate quick revenue.
The assumptions are really tested on this one. First, the virality and popularity meant any Engg leader working on AI related projects got social capital and prestige (and a promotion) inside the company, making it preferable for companies to build than buy. An API form factor helped immensely in getting to a POC within a day. Second, for those buying, many startups (in LLMOps) ended up selling the same thing, so they slowed down to evaluate. Third, the data privacy issues meant no enterprise was willing to go for cloud solutions.

2. A lot of startups never picked up the tougher problems. Eg: Training an open source model, or finetuning as a service, the core aspects to change the underlying behavior of a model was picked up in open source, but most startups never picked that part up. Partly to do with things that got hype. An LLM wrapper would show off a cool demo, gets shared widely, thus encouraging others to build something similar, rather than go deep.
A very clear indication of this was how Open AI and then Anthropic stopped offering finetuning services on newer models electing to just enable zero/few shot learning and bigger context windows. Easy for them, but tough for consumers who really wanted a customized solution.

There are still very cool moonshots out there, and probably unlock the value not captured by incumbents. At this point, my working assumption is that for an AI startup to capture value, they would have to go deeper into the stack, and offer a service their competitors would take effort to do (and by extension enterprises would take time to do). Eg: Ability/Training a open source model locally for search and summarization based on proprietary data. I know BCG[1] did it pretty well and got spectacular results.

[1]https://bcg.com/press/10may2023-intel-bcg-announce-collabora...
There's a loooong history of philosophy-as-political-advocacy, going back to Plato's Republic, and arguably before. Not just in the Western tradition either --- 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ, a/k/a Master Kong, a/k/a Confucius) comes notably to mind. al-Kindi, Avicenna, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun , Machiavelli, Moore, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau.

And not just the overt stuff either, but a whole slew of religious philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and more.
> I'm not understanding what you're meaning here.

If this was PowerShell then I would just get the list of files in $PGDATA, create folders and then move the files in the list, ie

$files = gci $PGDATA
try {
New-item "$PGDATA/old" -erroraction stop
New-item "$PGDATA/new" -erroraction stop
}
catch {
throw "Failed to create the necessary dirs"
}
try {
$files | Move-Item -Destination "$PGDATA/old" -erroraction stop
}
catch {
# throw "Failed to move pg_data, your databases are now borked, good luck"
gci "$PGDATA/new" | move-item $PGDATA
}

It's way more streamlined and if creating the dirs would fail (especially `new`) then it would fail before moving the data. And you don't need to `set +e` in this part.

I tried to replicate this in Linux and... it's a mess.

`find` includes the directory in the list, `ls -1` does the thing but bash stores it's output as a single string, redirecting it to the file get this file included in the list... I even tried xargs, but quickly abandoned the idea. Though if you can create the redirected output file in some other place than $PGDATA (`/tmp` perharps?) then `ls -1` trick would work.
There are too many such words in English, and you need to memorize all this shit. Unlike any other major language.
Also unzipping and decrypting, already makes sure encryption worked and zipping worked and you did not end up with a 0 byte backup file (because of permission etc.).

Same goes of course for snapshots and backups in the cloud. I have several clients which had backup problems because of misconfiguration in AWS/GCP.
This logic is always funny. Fun fact: Motorcycles don't have a reverse gear, and lots of motorcycles are extremely heavy. So if you end up facing down hill and something is blocking your way? You're stuffed. You can't even get off and walk away because the bike is liable to roll forward off it's stand.

Do you know how motorcycles solve this problem? Don't do it! Just don't get into that situation. How do you do a hill start? You don't. If you're really forced, you can try, it'll be difficult but often it's just easier to avoid the situation.
I would wager it isn't even noise, but a fusion of all senses, especially your butt :)
Some important points from the article under the limitations section

- Each participant in the dataset spent up to 40 hours in the MRI machine to gather sufficient training data.

- Models were trained separately for every participant and are not generalizable across people.
Image limitations: MindEye is limited to the kinds of natural scenes used for training the model. For other image distributions, additional data collection and specialized generative models would be needed.

- … Non-invasive neuroimaging methods like fMRI not only require participant compliance but also full concentration on following instructions during the lengthy scan process. …
He also snuck in the claim that alignment means “AI that thinks like a human” which is not at all what people mean by the word.
Oh I missed that. If it's really about the Eurozone, then the UK was never in it in the first place.
> I don't know how he does it, he must type in his sleep.

You are close. He writes while he goes on walks and has had a number of writing on the go hardware setups over the years.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
Programming language discords might be good. Code review stack exchange has been pretty helpful, though maybe wait until you have a grasp on the basics before posting.

If you struggle with broad issues a HN post is probably a good place to start, assuming you can express your question well. I imagine you'll get the highest signal to noise ratio here.

Edit: btw nobody can pm you as you have no contact info in your bio afaict.
German here.

> USA had blown up the pipelines delivering cheap energy from Russia

Well, did they? I know this theory but AFAIK they could trace it back to some people in Ukrainian military. Western secret services (afair from Netherlands) even warned them twice that this was being planned but they didn’t react.

> USA is deliberately suffocating German economy.

Sorry, but those are ALL mistakes made by Germans themselves. They have been cheating, they have been lobbying the German governments to ease transformation cost for short-sighted profit, the (conservative) German governments acted to slow down renewables while quitting nuclear power earlier than planned. I think it’s not a coincidence that Putin started the war on Ukraine just at the time, Germany phased out its last nuclear power plants. It’s all stupidity on the German side, esp. when Merkel is still claiming that “she always knew who Putin really was”.
Java's constant security nightmares and lack of integration into browsers was the bigger problem, IMHO.
The only reliable way is to simply not use it.

Unfortunately this is impractical for many.
Exactly. We have supercomputers in our pockets, yet showing a simple todo list takes seconds. Where does all the power go?!
You are assuming there were good intentions. The real reason for this legislation was the fact that big consultancies were losing talent. Why should someone work through a big consultancy if they could work with the client directly.

Like, why earn £50k at consultancy if you can make £500 a day without them. It's a no brainer.

So these big firms lobbied Treasury and government and they used tax avoidance as a vehicle for the "reform". It's funny though how the fact that big consultancies are actually avoiding paying tax is never brought in.

Like tax yield from a big consultancy employee on £50k is substantially lower than from a contractor on £500 a day, even if they pay themselves the mythical low salary + dividend (which is a result of PAYE being not fit for purpose, but I digress).

Currently IR35 actually _enables_ abuse of low paid workers, because they can get hired on inside IR35 and can't get any employment protections.
I'm not depriving myself of writing, not by any means! I'm just depriving the internet of it.
No age is too early for a crisis. One model I have heard is that we need to reinvent ourselves every 7 to 10 years. I had one crisis of reinvention at 30. Now at 38 I am in another one.
non-rotating?
I'm a bit surprised about the lack of languages that parallelizes code automatically as much as possible, but only as far as measured performance suggests. It requires a semantics that supports concurrency, for example iteration over sequences needs to be in unspecified order by default, and also rests on whole program flow analysis, but I see no principle obstacles.

Hasn't Microsoft done some research on such a language years ago already? There is also ParaSail made by someone from the Ada community. What happened to these projects? Nobody uses them?
Swig – Connect C/C++ programs with high-level programming languages
Same is true for most social programs in Europe
The ESP32 notably does not come with monitor, keyboard, disk drives, or mouse.
Actors look more diverse to me than ever.
> They’re all shitty and people have been disillusioned into thinking a giant 3000lb hunk of metal made in 2023 hitting someone going fast is going to hurt the someone more than a giant 3000lb hunk of metal made in 1973 going fast is severely disillusioned about what makes a 3000lb hunk of fast moving metal dangerous.

That's the thing with crash resistance progress - two cars colliding into what would have been a fatal crash in 1973 have pretty good chances of everyone leaving alive with barely more than a concussion trauma.
It's a classic corrupt regulatory capture. Big consultancies are not bound by IR35 despite operating the same business model.

Guess what kind of business our PM's wife is involved in...
I didn’t hear about this certain case but I’d not be too surprised here. Given Germany has been unsuccessfully trying to digitize their government services, there’s been many cases where people filled out PDFs online, which got printed on paper on the other side, sent by fax to another authority, there scanned and then worked on to finally send paper mail to the initial requesters.
Wasn't responding to the article, was responding to my commenting parent.
I need subtitles for practically every movie these days.

Absurd.
WSL1 was a dead end, not because of compatibility but because of performance, especially when it comes to file system access and process operations. Windows is supremely complex in both, with things like filesystem filters, fused fork+exec+setuid+setcap+doWindowsStuffThatDoesntHaveUnixEquivalents syscalls, all of which you cannot avoid. If you layer a Linux syscall personality on top of that, things will get molasses-slow quickly.