skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a firefighter this is just as funny as cringeworthy to read.

> An electric car fire gets very hot, and there may be a risk of explosion where toxic gases will be released

You know what? That's the case with _every_ car fire in enclosed spaces.

Explosions in car fires are very rare (tires will regularly pop), but every fire will release toxic gases. Especially car fires with lots of highly refined materials in the interior. That's why we wear heavy protective equipment when dealing with fires.

> electric cars, hybrid cars and also hydrogen cars will not be allowed on board

Well, the future does not look bright for this shipping company.
There's a disproportionate focus on it all too I think.

Cloud deployment and CI/CD and networking and all that stuff absolutely matter, and must be done right to avoid a world of pain, but often it's largely a one-time setup - and then you focus on the same old tried-and-tested coding techniques and principals to Get The App Done.

For example you spend a month on the infra, then a year building, maintaining and enhancing "the app".

Maybe I'm wrong but so much tech discussion here and elsewhere seems to be on the infra part, lately. But coding well, including interacting efficiently with resources such as DBs, just isn't as prominent I don't think?

Maybe there's nothing to say of course. Or maybe the old microservices-vs-monoliths is exactly that...
Vulnerability 'Zenbleed' discovered in AMD's Zen 2 processors
I can't imagine it makes absolutely any difference to a car ferry. And also it's not like all EVs weigh more than ICE cars - we have an EV that weighs 1200kg and a normal ICE car that weighs 2200kg - why is the first one forbidden but the other one isn't?
Is there any actual evidence of foul play here? Could just be the note got enough bad ratings to stop being featured. Not that removing it would be entirely out of character for him, but Musk has gotten community notes applied to his Tweets before and always maintained that that was allowed and a good thing.
Except as the previous post points out, you can’t get cloud GPUs.
I switch between IntelliJ and Eclipse during my daily workflow and IntelliJ always feels like an absolute hog. And I do feel like it's been getting worse with the later releases.
Eh. Nothing that you quoted would concern me about this person. I am anti-gun and vote that way, but I am mature enough to see the other side's perspective. If a person says he refuses to use Rust because because they prohibit firearms, then as a person I would find it quite understandable, and as an interviewer I would bring it up in the interview to point out that he'll have to work with whatever tech stack we use, and should we switch to Rust, would it be a problem?

Frankly, I think if people won't hire because of a post like this, then the interviewers are the one contributing to the problem.
The last one is definitely a big factor, combined with the fact that you still have to compile to SQL, i.e. you are limited by its limitations, and there isn't always a workaround.

The rest are also true to some degree. But I think that once a serious contender comes along, people will eventually move to it.
You mention that he doesn't stay in bad situations for long. How is he with romantic relationships? That attitude sounds like someone who probably wouldn't stick around through the first rough patch, so probably hasn't had too many long-term romantic relationships.

Not making a value judgement, just curious if that he approaches them the same as he does with work, or if he treats those a bit differently.
I've heard it as: It's like a dog riding a skateboard. It's not impressive how well it rides, it's impressive that it rides at all.

But I can't find the original source or anything.
Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid more demand
Out of all the places in the world, I would assume Norway would be the last to do so.

Does it make sense? Will they revert the decision after complaints?
Hard to tell if this ferry is used by locals or is it only some touristy thing (for rented cars).
> Make sure 1) the product has already been released to the public and 2) the hardware isn't stolen... don't give away anything proprietary

Basically no one I've ever met was able to show me work from the giant corporation they worked for.

But it's not because of NDAs. Indeed because of the nature of my business, those companies are my customers, we already all work together, I've signed NDAs, they are actually permitted to show me stuff.

It's because they didn't do anything. NDA = Not Doing Anything.

> That alone will get you 80% of the way to the job.

Large corporations (500+) employ like half of Americans, and probably way more than 50% of tech workers. So many of their management systems boil down to having 2-10 people redundantly doing the same work. So many do no work. I mean I'm sure they aspire to do work, but there isn't any to do.

As long as this remains the norm, your interviewers will, statistically speaking, have done similarly little as you, and that will be okay, and leetcode will prevail.
Yeah. I won't be surprised if the marketing for this misfeature pivots to "it will prevent harassment of marginalized groups".
It would be interesting to see an audit on where the money actually goes.

It is probably not "list occupation as drummer on your tax return and get a 25 euro buck credit"
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I think it was a Microsoft feature but you had to have certified hardware for support.

There were 2 windows servers both plugged into the same scsi disk pack, and it used a couple of crossover cables I believe for the heartbeat.

I remember the unix guys were ribbing the windows guy a bit who confessed he regretted pushing for the cluster as it was so unreliable.

It was the typical windows experience of the time with a management console that just hung when doing operations.
Did they give him the job?

Unfortunately doesn’t sound like a scalable application strategy
With the rate at which ICE cars randomly ignite, you'd think they would've banned electric cars already (self ignition for ICE engines is way higher than that of electric cars for some reason). Cars on boats, regardless of fuel type, is just incredibly risky.

That said, it's impossible to extinguish a lithium battery so I can't blame them. When a fire does eventually start, it'll burn for the entire duration of the trip and probably a while after as well.

Their take on hybrids (with much smaller batteries) and hydrogen cars (those are just weird, more complex ICE cars) is bad, though.

My guess is that there's more going on. Perhaps the extra weight of modern cars is causing them problems? They would have to ban ridiculous vehicles like SUVs as well if that were a concern, but it could explain why a shipping company is putting out such strict limitations.
I stopped caffeine for 2 years and never felt the same. Happy for you.
But it's not a refutation. They said a blog, not any blog or every blog.

A blog can get you hired.

Your blog will not.
> They ensure that there will be a much lower chance of an article headlined "mass shooting at rust conference" being written.

I don't think this follows. Historically speaking, most mass shootings have occurred at locations that specifically disallow firearms, making them "soft targets" where the cowardly attacker will not have anyone fight back. It doesn't seem logically consistent to assume that this policy item has the effect you are stating.
From this article:

"At the same time, Schmidt has been appointed to numerous White House advisory positions, giving him privileged insight into the administration’s policies in technology, science and military defense, as well as unusual access to top policymakers."

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/eric-schmid...

A quick Google of "eric schmidt obama" brings up a lot of articles discussing their close political relationship.
Why GrubHub delivery fees are high
I'll admit I haven't read the book completely or in a long time but is it not about how the EMH is true and so anything other than B&H low-cost index funds is a fruitless pursuit? Doesn't he back that up with the random walk theory of asset prices?

Instead of me assuming I know what you mean by the methods, would you mind stating what they are?

I think we could agree that some of them are:

* Have a sound plan (I'm sure we could debate what makes a plan sound)

* Stick to the plan
> At the very least it must be patched up with newly discovered security threats.

I'd say at the very most it needs security updates. Too much software changes just to change. UI redesigns for the sake of redesign, cramming features that nobody wants so a product owner can get promoted, adding telemetry and analytics to chase metrics that no user cares about, adding annoying notifications and popups to juice "engagement". I pine for the days of desktop software, where I can wake up in the morning and not be worried that some developer 1,000 miles away from me changed my product out from under me because developers gotta develop.

Another benefit of software that doesn't change every week is you can charge one time for it rather than these awful subscription pricing that most software are switching to. They justify subscriptions because "we have to keep paying developers to develop." Not a problem that the user has, so why should the user have to pay for it?

Old, unchanged software is not obsolete. It's mature. Bugfixes only, please.
Interesting, if it isn't US based and if it isn't using US politics as a guideline (like banning russian patches).

I have lost a big part of my former trust and want for writing OSS this last few months and one thing I have learned is that if those two can't be answered with a resounding no it is a project I won't ever contemplate even though I'm neither American nor Russian.
Right, and when the death spiral is obvious, that’s the time to bail out. Until then, $1000/month is insurance against an Eli Lilly scenario
Supporting SaaS products “until the end of the Internet”
I really just don't know what to look for. Occasionally when looking at resumes I'll see a github link, and I never get any useful information from looking at it, so I mostly don't bother.
I wouldn't say sugar is innocent. It still has the same damaging metabolic effects as alcohol, but without the inebriation.
I don't think weak memory models are inherently bad. It's a trade-off. Keep in mind it was conceived during the early days of SMP - there wasn't the industry preference for stronger models, which was largely a side-effect of x86 chips choosing that approach with SMP years later.
Well, you could make both types in identical cups, put labels on the bottom of the cups, shuffle the cups, drink one, record your observations and take the label from the cup you drank and stick it to your notes.
Unless you deal with very old data, just use UTF-8 [0]. Mac terminal uses UTF-8 by default, most Linuxes use UTF-8 by default, and if you are stuck with Windows, there are libraries which let you use UTF-8 everywhere.

And if you do deal with old data, still prefer to use UTF-8, and make sure you only translate character sets if user asks / they are explicitly specified. And for the love of god, _please_ don't just hardcode two common encodings (like 8859-1 and 8859-15)... I used to deal with encodings a lot, and the only time I actually had data loss from encoding problems was from misguided apps which assume 8859-1 (and tried to convert to ASCII by stripping accents). Please either assume UTF-8 or assume nothing and keep data as-is.

And that's it, _most_ software does not need to know more. Let's look at some examples:

- For file archiver, assume utf-8 everywhere and don't worry about encoding at all (unless you planning to deal with very old archives, in this case you'd need encoding support. But for something made from scratch, don't bother.) _Especially_ don't add any encoding support for "extract to console" function -- if I need a different encoding I can pipe into iconv myself, thank you very much.

- For API client, you don't need to worry about encoding either.. A very old HTTP server might return data in something other than utf-8 but (1) your HTTP library likely handles it already (2) how many such servers are left, anyway?

- For XML analyzer, use proper XML library, they will handle encodings for you.

- For web dashboard or a database, keep everything in utf-8 and things will just work.

- For ETL-like applications, many modern data sources are already in UTF-8.. and if they are not, convert everything to utf-8 ASAP.

In other words: while it's useful to know that encodings exist, unless you are working with very old data or legacy systems, utf-8 is the only thing you need.

[0] http://utf8everywhere.org/
I always found the mac and linux versions to be way faster than the windows one, for various Jetbrains IDEs. I have the impression that windows + antivirus + jetbrains is generally quite awful in terms of performance.
No it's objectively worse. The average complexity is at all time lows.
... until Google decides to dial that down to zero for "experience", or Hulu / Netflix makes you disable/whitelist/whatever to access their site.
Your first paragraph, about ad blockers, is very strong, thank you. I may even be convinced. I already want a world where communication only happens by consent, and framing this change as fundamentally coercive makes sense. One may object on the basis of wanting the consumer to consume "the whole thing", however I think that's easy to dismiss. I think I'm convinced.

Your second paragraph, about chain of trust, gets a little more wobbly, but this is a matter of fact, not opinion. Will this change require a chain of trust from hardware up? That's startling. Do you have a link? I read the proposal but don't recall seeing that.

The third paragraph seems to articulate the worry that systems will now be closed with centralized gate keepers determining what we can do with our systems. Or at least, that will be the default unless you can get grandpa's old TPM-free linux laptop working again. And even if you do, you won't be able to connect it to the future internet to do anything real. That's not a good future. It's one which makes individuals passive and controlled by central authority - and even if you don't object to this morally, you must admit that an ignorant and disabled population is weak and susceptible to attack.
Surely you've been to shows at every possible venue to be able to extrapolate that bold of a claim from your personal experience?
Quad9 blocks pirate site globally after Sony demanded €10k fine
"the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had." - Isaac Asimov, Foundation
If we can find one with the right material properties it makes long distance movement of power generation much more plausible and economical.

Which would enable us to put a lot of solar power in the desert and move it around effectively to other places on Earth.

Again, with the right material properties it could also produce efficient storage, and that also has huge implications for electrical generation.
Bologna aside, isn’t there a legit issue re the difficulty in extinguishing an EV battery pack?

I can see how “just give it a few days to burn itself out isn’t a viable strategy on a boat.
What’s the sudden official interest in UFOs/UAPs all about? Is it about getting more funding?

It can’t be they believe aliens are flying around acting like a laser pointer to a cat. Do they think adversaries have extraordinary technologies?

I can’t figure it out.
It does feel like overreach to me as well. It is a FAANG and they have great lawyers. I hope to never be in a legal kerfuffle with them but regardless I should read more about what they can enforce.

The hilarious thing about their no open source policy is that they sometimes shoot themselves in the foot. Sometimes, they’ll hire someone with a very successful open source project, in the employment contract ask them to stop working on it, then part of the company depends on that software and when it breaks, it causes chaos because the maintainer now works at the company and had to stop working on that open source project that the company relies on.
If candidate makes a 2 column PDF and at ATS allegedly reads it as "box1 line1 box2 line1 box1 line2 box2 line2..." then the human will give up.
supabase model of open source + saas might be better?
The most basic competence signal is a good LinkedIn and resume.

The problem is that if you don't know what good looks like, you don't know that your thing isn't good and you may not even know how to recognize someone who can review it for you.

The question to strive for: "if someone doesn't know me or my work and my company at all, can they look at my resume and understand what I've done, why it's impressive: and why I am an interesting candidate?"

As someone who sits on the other side of the table all the time, when someone has structured their LI/resume this way, it tells you they (1) cared to do it well (2) found a way to understand what's relevant and (3) found a way to implement it: those add up to a very strong signal layered on top of their technical skills.

Someone will inevitably reply that you can be a great dev and a terrible writer and I guess that's true but it makes it so much harder for someone to "see through it" and hire you.
I can confirm. I once created a project called Doodledocs. The reason was because I (still!) haven't seen a project that showed pen styluses pressure sensitivity in a web app. So I whipped up a collaborative drawing app where pressure sensitivity of the stylus was captured (if the stylus was capable of it).

In the beginning of my career I did 100s of job interviews. However, in this case I only did a few and I'm sure I got the job because of it.

Also, it was a lot of fun to try and create backend style type of functionality only by utilizing peer to peer! The hacking and reasoning required felt novel and fun.

The project is here (it is currently not live): https://github.com/melvinroest/doodledocs
They are sending you to Google for searches. Everything else is irrelevant if you are concerned about Google getting information about you.

If you think that Firefox won’t include DRM because of “freedum”, there is an existence proof that they will - they support WideVine.

How can Firefox be “independent” of Google when 80% of their funding comes from Google?
Parent means quality control in the context of the supply chain.
Still wrong imho, since you need to at least maintain a zip file in someone's CDN, and those folks have to maintain their CDN QoS.
Interesting.

Funny how wrong the Community Note was.

Obviously vaccine × virus aren't an xor. Many people have already had the virus by the time they were forced to take the vaccine. For those people the myocarditis risk was a strict net negative.
The random walk is an emergent phenomenon, though. It arises from the individual movements, but doesn't explain them. That's a bit like saying "Traffic" when someone asks, "Why are all these people out driving today?"
> you are under no obligation whatsoever to use their products

Well ... with this new proposal they are trying to change this, don't you think ?
Yes, it is not mandatory to watch Youtube, but it should be also mandatory that Google don't collect and sell the personal data without the owner permission or scan all the emails in every Gmail account (free o paid) ... The history of Google is full of these practices and, after discovered, every time they respond "will never do it again" ...
Same here. I was in high school from 2004-2008 and kids were already distracted in class texting each other. It would have been much worse with smartphones and I would have been among those distracted with one and I'm certain I would have learned nothing.

A small number of kids having the ability to restrain themselves and not stare at their phone all day is not a great reason to keep phones in the classroom.
s/pmgset/pmset/

This command (with -g therm) shows CPU thermals. You can also run top or Activity Monitor and if you see kernel_task taking up a lot of CPU, that's the OS throttling the CPU for heat.
I'm pretty sure you can pick coil geometries that cancel external magnetic fields. There may be some stray fields, but they can be quite modest with tight manufacturing tolerances.

It's an interesting idea worth exploring. The two places where I think feasibility may face challenge is in the energy density gated by critical current density and magnetic field and in raw discharge rate (giant inductors are not known for being able to change their current quickly).

Knowing peak capacity and aging is also tricky since you can't measure critical limits without hitting a quench (a very, very bad scenario). You'll need to maintain healthy margins so you don't have things blowing up on sunny days or after so many charge/discharge cycles.
It seems that hydrogen based cars are the way to go.

Electric car fires are nasty in garages too.
I would guess that it'll take a month or two to repro the procedure. The paper was uploaded in the last week, so we're still probably a few weeks out on peer review.
Are you a junior developer or support IT tech? I would agree that for these kind of jobs market is probably oversaturated. But for real senior software engineers (by real i mean not someone that worked on some easy CRUD app for 10 years straight doing exactly the same thing and doesn't know how to do anything else) market is very good. As for me and my friends, I'm constantly rejecting offers that have higher payout than before.
Musk always maintains something until he steps on his ego. Remember when twitter was supposed to be a "free speech" platform?

Musk has lost all benefit of the doubt, and then some.
Minutes spent is a horrible metric. It creates a perverse incentive to intentionally slow down the software.
A new technology format directly competing with the web. The less centralized that alternate solution is the less viable things like DRM become. Federated is less centralized, Web3 is even less centralized than that, but we can do better.

The greatest impediment to any alternate less centralized approach is IPv6 adoption.
Yep, I think there’s a lot of survivor bias
Yes you can and they recommend this - the exception is if your use a complex Maven / Gradle build you might have to have it delegate to these.
Or large projects. It's been several years now, but IntelliJ could be a real tortoise when I was working in a medium-sized monolith Java/Spring project with ~20 Gradle subprojects.
This looks cool!
Weekend project unlocked
That's only if you run close to the limit. You'd only ever do that in controlled labs.
You might want to check out CapacitorJS - https://capacitorjs.com/

It’s more web than RN and depending on what you’re doing might not feel as native, but it’s pretty easy to make a solid app with it.
This is like the musician problem. There are so many people willing to play for pretty much nothing or for free that it's very hard for the average musician to make money. On the consumer side, why should you always pay for music when so many people are doing it for free? There's an oversupply of eager musicians making music

Same with OSS development. Why should you pay for something if people just do it for free? Doesn't matter who the consumer is.

> Solo devs should not write and maintain anything without getting paid.

But they do, and they will regardless. And until they stop, nothing will change. There's an oversupply of eager coders coding for free

Companies will pay (their own developers) once the OSS solution doesn't work or needs extra extensions that doesn't exist.