skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my qualifications is rare and in high demand where I live - I get cold calls from recruiters all the time that are hoping I will agree to change jobs to whoever they’re recruiting for.
In my experience they call you and ask you if you’re interested in a position. They ask what your salary expectations are etc… then they just ask you if you want a job. You still have to provide references and proof of qualifications, registration etc - but it’s a fairly simple process.

I got my current job 2 years ago without an interview because I went into the building and asked the lovely receptionist if I could speak to the manager - she asked why, I gave my name, and my qualification and she called the manager asked if the manager would be interested and they were - so I went and handed the manager my credentials etc and started a few weeks later.

I also managed to score a job that was completely irrelevant to my qualification but I was bored and want to do something else for a bit - by just asking for it, and it was a job that required maybe one or two days a week of actual work. I managed to negotiate almost $100k a year for 2 days a week, and then I went and worked in another job - and just to put in perspective, it was just a reception/admin type role. I only asked for the job because I was fairly confident I could ask for a high wage relative to the actual job and get exactly what I wanted.

I think it’s just easier for some people than others. I think I might be quite Machiavellian compared to others. When I have a really specific goal I can generally engineer a situation to go exactly how I want it to go including getting jobs without interviewing. But I have a pretty good success rate when interviewing as well.
Well I know what is it for.

What I also know however, is that creating a custom template is not something most users have been waiting for not something they use expect maybe for a tiny fraction that looked for that possibility and read the corresponding doc.

And that tiny fraction of power user could have created that directory when needed while currently it is just an empty dir that sits unusead on probably 99% of the users homedirs.
An object without behavior is not an object, it's a self-contradictory statement.

Objects are a pattern that appears in all languages (if you are implementing a plugin API of any sort you need to have hidden data and a shared interface). A language having OO features only makes this easier. Same with FP, you can do OO and FP in C, all FP means is that your functions don't have hidden side effects.

If you make a Point class with getters and setters for its internal data, you've just emulated a record type in a really dumb and inefficient way. The whole "you could replace the internal representation with polar coordinates" example never ever happens.
Indeed. A much better approach is to say thank you if something was done if it was demanded, even for daily business tasks.

Usually the 'please' is superficial because there is no way to say 'no' without an excuse.
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Pairing of electrons in artificial atoms, quantum state predicted 50 years ago
The previous mandate of a 50% joint venture in the automotive sector is outdated. Take for example Tesla in China, which operates without a joint venture. Similarly, BMW's Chinese operations are only 30% owned by a local entity, deviating from the earlier 50% norm. Despite certain industry-specific regulations, it's essential to recognize that China aligns well with its WTO obligations—a framework that the U.S. and other Western nations have both agreed upon and ratified.
> Now it is honestly too expensive, £8 a pint in pub near work, it makes going out less fun.

Aren’t the salaries higher as well? In Paris a pint is €7 on average (~£6) but according to Glassdoor the average SWE salary is only €53k/yr vs. £68k for London.
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The impression I've got from reading a bit around this is that Lars can write great drum parts (especially great Metallica drum parts), and he can them play well enough... with sufficient practice.

The trouble is, so I've read, that he doesn't like to practice and doesn't do it as much as he "ought" to. Especially given Metallica's position in the industry/culture.

So he can go into a studio and record a great drum track... but it'll take him a bunch of takes to get right. For the other band members, who've put in the practice and shown up to the studio with their parts dialled in, that's frustrating and the source of a fair amount of tension. And while everyone misses a note or two in the course of an hour+ live show, the lack of practice means Lars tends to fluff a line a bit more frequently than the other members. But also, because of how fundamental the drum track is for keeping everyone else together, when Lars misses it causes more problems for the performance than when James, Kirk or Robert do.
and the bass tracks are too high
> the fact they aren't syntax sugar over prototypes was a mistake

Totally different meaning.
The advice boils down to: Contribute to open source and hope to get noticed.

I was expecting something more actionable tbh, but it does make sense. It is a bit disappointing to read that systems programming jobs are basically out of reach unless you're willing to put in a bunch of free work.
The FBI can request assistance from a Swiss court and the Swiss government may assist in some cases, and that's what happened here. That being said, even in such cases, emails cannot be decrypted, which was proven again in this case.
yes, there's a disable interrupt instruction that any code can execute
It should be noted than London's population was 8.6 million in 1939 and decreased to less than 7 million in the 80s/90s before starting to grow again.
The alternative is to not allow tracking at all.
Exactly. Universality and fairness is non-negotiable.
Curious: is this how routers are handled where you live? In Austria and the neighboring countries you typically get a device from the provider preconfigured, even if you don't want one.
> The very _complexity_ of it somehow feels subtly wrong, like doubling down in the wrong direction

I read an article a while ago which sold me on the stellarator that said something like: "The tokamak has magnets in a configuration that gives simple engineering but hard physics, whereas the stellarator has hard engineering to make a complex magnet but that results in simple physics".

The engineering is a much more understood beast. It was still fairly novel as they had to have a computer do the design of the magnets, but that is now a solved problem. But then if that allows us to simplify the (very difficult and novel) physics it feels like the "obviously" correct decision.

The other thing that makes me a stellarator fan is that the JET/ITER work is later and more expensive that predicted at every stage. The W7-X provided a plan for the runs they wanted to do and upgrades to the reactor and they have basically run entirely to schedule.
I see lots of new office buildings and sports facilities, so I was wondering what happened on the residential side. What I found is this dataset:

Total Number of Dwellings and Net Additional Dwellings, Borough
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/net-additional-dwellings-...

It shows 614,474 net new dwellings between 2001/02 and 2021/22. Unfortunately, they don't appear to collect data on floor space at all. So this is less informative than it could be.

The number of residents per dwelling has gone up from 2.4 to 2.5. between 2001 and 2020.
It has more than enough ram, but the cpu and gpu will probably slow you down, but that depends on what you are used to :).

But it's sold out already.
What else would 'syntax sugar over prototypes' mean?
There is indeed an obligation to notify under Swiss law.
> You don't kow tow have to but never attack a group of people like "They will never change".

This is my view formed after living in Germany for the better part of a decade and seeing multiple Governments push back modernization projects and allocate the budget intended for them to populist people pleasing measures - and then seeing a lot of Germans agree with these measures. It's also formed from a lot of discussion on the /r/german subreddit and with Germans I know personally of varying age groups - most of them do not believe these are big problems or that substantial effort has to be put into to change them.

> Even incl. racism.

I don't want to talk about this as it is off-topic for the post, but racism is alive and very healthy in Germany. It's just not as "in-your-face" as in other countries which are generally thought of as having "racism problems".
I'm not a Londoner, I only visit occasionally, but I think this may be a psychological response to a big increase.

I used to like going out in London: "everything's so cheap!" Especially, getting a nice beer at a random pub would cost significantly less than a random basic lager in Paris.

But this year, I was shocked to see the price increase. It's now pricier than Paris, even though Paris prices have also edged up a bit.

And since my cash is Euros, I always compared the prices as converted to euros, so this accounted for the conversion rate variations.
Yes this is a thing was trivially protected by the GIL. There is the same thing with mutating the same map concurrently in Go that will panic for example.

PEP 703 goes over this in the "Container Thread-Safety" (I think container here refers to the fact that the object has references to other objects, this is the things that already are special-cased in CPython to be managed specifically by the garbage collector):

> This PEP proposes using per-object locks to provide many of the same protections that the GIL provides. For example, every list, dictionary, and set will have an associated lightweight lock. All operations that modify the object must hold the object’s lock. Most operations that read from the object should acquire the object’s lock as well; the few read operations that can proceed without holding a lock are described below.

More information at https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#container-thread-safety
That’s not how PR and newspapers tend to work together - it’s rare that it’s a paid arrangement. The PR company pitches a story on behalf of their client (band, stadium, etc) and perhaps offers interviews or quotes or whatever. If it’s paid, there will be a disclosure. Otherwise, it’s just the paper needing content to sit alongside their advertising.

(Wife worked in PR for a decade.)
Microsoft seems to have broken SPF for hotmail.com：sysadmin
Riyadh and Dubai are bad examples as they are in the middle of a desert.
Agree, very interesting stuff. Before I get to the soils, animal ag intro.

https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomf...

The animal agriculture industry is the leading cause of most environmental degradation that is currently occurring. These detrimental effects happen due to overgrazing, habitat loss, overfishing, and more. We are currently in the next mass extinction and animal agriculture is only fueling this catastrophe. Waste in the meat industry, too, is a major problem in of itself.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.142033699

Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy

Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s. According to this preliminary and exploratory assessment, humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land ... shifts in global food production to plant-based diets by 2050 could lead to sequestration of 332–547 GtCO2, equivalent to 99–163% of the CO2 emissions budget consistent with a 66% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 °C

And back to soils ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/soil-has-micro...

Soil Has a Microbiome, Too - The unique mix of microbes in soil has a profound effect on which plants thrive and which ones die

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/07/secret-w...

The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future - Don’t dismiss soil: its unknowable wonders could ensure the survival of our species

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/05/how-climate-c...

Getting to root of possible carbon storage changes due to climate change

https://regenerationinternational.org/2023/02/16/maximizing-...

Maximizing Photosynthesis and Root Exudates through Regenerative Agriculture to Increase Soil Organic Carbon to Mitigate Climate Change

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin...

Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows
Recovery email is not forced, it's optional.
> The better way is to design it from the ground up with a bunch of instrumentation that keeps all of your invariants under close observation and that stops the moment anything is not according to your assumptions.

Any personal "war stories" you are willing to share explaining how you went about designing such a system? :-) Or any presentation of someone who did that?
> I've never heard of underwater landslides

Good heavens. You do surprise me. There have been some vast ones, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide

Some have the potential to massively affect human life well above sea level, e.g. La Palma in the Canary Islands, which when it goes will inundate much of the east coast of the USA:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1609

The video from that is sensationalist but makes some good points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utAunBKXV4
Micro should have been 389M then.
> As an immigrant (and a very well paid one paying obnoxiously high taxes),

Public services cost money. Relative to contributions to society (if you compare to the lady in the supermarket or the immigrant guy cleaning the toilets), SWE pay is what is obnoxiously high.

Sure the paperwork and bureaucracy is annoying. But India isn't exactly known for shining in this regard. At least the corruption in the public sector is magnitudes less in Germany compared to India. Things may be slow, but not because you didn't pay up, but because they are just ... slow.

The slowness has advantages too. The right wing guys will have a harder time taking over because everything is so slow. (Fingers crossed)

> German exam: 5 months. What, you want the results for your exam also? Better wait another year then. Honestly Germany is a shit show,

It's a "shit show" because you need to wait for a while for your language exam results? Your priorities are odd. There are a few thousand things higher up on my personal priority list. What about corruption? Environment? Safety? Health care? Pension? Child care? Just sitting in a street café having a latte, reading a book, watching birds sing and kids play near by, all in central Berlin, all while being safe, breathing clean air and not hearing a 7-lane highway?

> But the worst part of all this is - the vast majority of Germans think this is all acceptable and okay.

So, why is this bad then? A society that is happy with how things work, that's the dream state, right? If you immigrated there and don't like it, well, you seem to be in the minority. Perhaps choose a place that's more to your liking then.

(I'm neither a citizen nor a resident in Germany.)
really helpful posts. however, I wanted to save them as pdf's but your website's layout is broken. when you select print - it only wants to show wants on the screen not everythign on the page.
Corporate socialism is much like communism. Both have in common a ruling caste that benefits from exploting the masses. Which is why we need something better than communism or capitalism. I am curious as to why we seem to have stalled political innovation. Are we stuck with variations of these concepts for the next couple milenia?
One of the boring ways to upgrade the grid is to raise the transmission limits set to prevent overheating in the summer when it's cold in the winter.

Reminds me of "the duck curve" where the worry was that gas plants couldn't ramp output fast enough. There were many exciting high tech solutions but one solution was just to ask the gas plants if they could ramp faster. Turns out they could, they'd just not needed to before.

Seems to be a recurring pattern: you can hyperventilate about how something is hard or impossible or you can ask some engineers if they can improve things. If you get really desperate you can pay people for coming up with solutions and create a market. Of course that all assumes you actually want to solve the problem.

edit: recent third example. Grid connection queues in England had zombie projects in them because you got fined if you left the queue. They had an amnesty and a bunch off them dropped out moving up dates for real projects.
It's not really about the cost.

I would say it's pollution, crime and lack of avenues for small kids.

I was living on a skyscraper and the amount of black dust I was removing from next to the windows was mind-blowing. I still remember moving 1hr out of London and feeling like I was breathing again.
Not what I wanted for my kids.

The amount of stabbing and theft going on was pretty crazy. It was all around you.
Some parks are ok and touristy, some parks are straight up dodgy and you run into drugged up, drunk people, (homeless?) people harassing you.

There are almost no kids around so not super easy to find friends for your kids. Nurseries are small and crowded because real estate is at a premium.

Again, moving out from the city fixed all the problems. Town life in the UK is actually pretty great. Sure you will miss on the main pros of London, events and networking.

I'd recommend finding a nice town commuting distance from London to reap the most benefits.
True! But there are also a lot of people who let their flash settings on auto all the time. I guess a LED flash is just as distracting as an old-school flash, even if it is not as bright.
The train discussion is often interesting with people who have lived somewhere where trains/public transport is spotty at best or nonexisting.

Sure, it's nice to be able to take a train, but if my experience is that I'm never on time and also not sure if it will start or arrive at all, what good does it do? I don't want to miss my flight in another city, so am I gonna take the train? Or the one before that? Oh, I was taking the first one of the day, that's bad luck.
You are still limited by the fact that browser APIs are mainly designed for usage with Javascript, and those Javascript APIs usually don't map all that well to languages used with WASM (which typically use the "C ABI" for FFI). There is zero chance that each web API will get a second API which is compatible with "C calling conventions".

There is a (now inactive) "interface-types" proposal, which has dissolved into "component-types", but this scope-creep definitely is already quite concerning:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types
> The mailing lists are censored and the inner circle cannot be criticized.

Well, HN isn't censored in this regard (unless you believe their influence extends here too). What specific criticisms do you have against "the inner circle"? And what evidence can you show for them?
There are some reasonable ways to do pressure-sensitive buttons cheaply.

I'm also working on an electronic instrument. What I do is glue felt on the back of a sheet of 1/8" birch ply (using liquid hide glue), and then laser cut all my button tops out of that.

The buttons are held in place by a laser-cut wooden frame, also 1/8" birch ply but without the felt. I stick packing tape to the back of the frame sticky-side up, so I can drop the button-tops in place (felt side down) and they stay put without falling out. The felt is there so the bottons have a little give to them when you press on them.

This wood/tape/felt assembly sits on top of a sheet of force-sensitive resistor, which in turn sits on a printed circuit board. Under each button there are two sets of exposed (ENIG-plated) copper traces configured like interdigitized fingers.

Pressing on the button presses on the FSR which presses against the traces, and the electrical resistance between both sets of traces drops. You can measure the drop with a simple voltage divider circuit connected to an ADC.

By using a lot of multiplexers or certain kinds of shift registers, it's possible to read hundreds of buttons.

Sensitronics makes a very nice FSR material, but I've found Velostat works quite nicely too and is vastly cheaper.
Way to assume. I love how literally everyone who criticizes Germany about being slow and inefficient is assumed to come from a place of privilege. If I missed by "servants" I'd be complaining about separating my garbage and having to make multiple trips to the recyclehof, not about bureaucracy sucking the life out of people.
You could disable it (Ctrl+E, 'set autoindent off')

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/help/o...

But even when enabled (like I have) it should indently correctly when pasting entire blocks.

If you'd like to share your setup/env/config I'd take a look at working out a patch
Super important point. And I'd say not even about degrading but more about deviating from own true self. In relationships, the need for security / protection is often measured in the degree of sacrifice the partner is willing to offer up. The problem is it's a temporary effect as this new sacrifice will at some point becomes the new baseline.

I used to sacrifice too much thinking this was how to express love, but often it's counter productive. Either becoming a crutch for the partner or completely losing a sense of self.

Example is phone messages. My girl used to get insecure and ask to see them, I had nothing to hide but obliged. Until I recognise this was feeding insecurity and crossing boundaries. I changed my perspective and the next time I said no. That was met with "arr you hiding something" (i wasnt) but explained concept of sovereignty. She stopped asking. It certainly puts the responsibility on her in that case to deal with her past issues rather than me being a bandaid for them.

That's one example, and I'm just as often the one doing the wrong in my relationship. Interesting learning experiences. But me taking this firmer position has been very important in my wellness.
The US govt can also come to Swiss courts, which does happen from time to time. But again, there's no way to decrypt emails which are encrypted.
dit.whatsapp.net: Data Collection on WhatsApp (2021)
Doesn't explain the ones frozen in place still in the process of chewing grass.
You've created an extremely inefficient architecture to do what some simple functions and some bytes can accomplish. What was the benefit of the exercise?

About the stream, first there's the fact that it's the Integer class that implements readFrom (and that class has no internal data beyond its type, so it's just a namespace) and the fact that in order to create the integer, the class has to see the data that comes out of the stream (it's just calling getters).

If you think this is object-oriented I have a bridge to sell you.
The spot were it mutates a gene leading to cancer.
To soften this a little bit, and I mean a very little.

The youth unemployment numbers are hard to judge, could be right but it is hard to tell on the outside.

The fertility figures are a long term issue, China is not alone in that but something to keep an eye on.

Those import/export figures... now that is the the most telling of how the economy is fairing nowadays. For all the speculation I have heard for decades, that is the most alarming stat I have seen. That is where the rubber meets the road for an economy that is so depended on those things to keep society function vaguely well. Stay tuned...