skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few people speak at conferences as a hobby. Even fewer speak at conferences as hobby about things they get paid for. Even fewer would be legitimately willing to do this if it included an expensive middle-of-the-night flight, jet lag, and a Visa application process.
> Google's inactivity policy has multiple exemptions for people with certain things in their accounts

Such as?
The problem with breeder reactors is that they're even more expensive than burner reactors. And there is no need for them unless nuclear takes off big time, which it won't, because it has lost the race to renewables.

Breeders are from an obsolete vision of the future where we'd have an order of magnitude more nuclear power plants than we do now. In that future, uranium would start to be in short supply. But that didn't happen, uranium remains cheap, and breeders have no business case.
> Physics can't deal with the brain. No equation can be written.

There are many many many physics simulations out there that cannot be "written with an equation". Climate Modelling, for example. You cannot write a single equation to model all that. You need a big complex piece of software, made of many equations, a lot of hardware, and a lot of processing time. Any of those was simply inconceivable mere decades ago.

It's possible that it's as you say, and the brain is inscrutable if we attack the problem from the physics point of view alone.

I think that you may be right. With what we have now. But decades from now? I'm not so sure.
Interesting to see how a non-AVX, non-branching version would do, need a prefilled array of extra pointer advance (0/1) and seemingly two more for the bitbanging.
What no_time said is the answer. Me personally, I always have it running so that I can see what is running.
Every time someone writes some really carefully micro-optimized piece of code like this, I worry that the implementation won't be shared with the whole world.

This code only makes people's lives better if many languages and frameworks that translates latin-1 to utf8 are updated to have this new faster implementation.

If this took 3 days to write and benchmark, then to save 3 days of human time, we probably need to get this into the hands of hundreds of millions of people, saving each person a few hundred microseconds.
Am I right to assume there aren't any PEDs that are useful without having negatives?

I have no interest in competing/fairness, the only weight training I do is a) very light and b) just to have slightly stronger muscles to make the life I want to live easier (from going on nice walks to cycling to being able to pick up a heavy object without stress etc.)

So I don't care about stats or achievements or how my muscles look, but if there was a pill that could make me stronger for less effort without any side effects or risks I'd be more than happy to take it. But I guess that's still a pipe dream and I just need to keep on putting up with doing exercise more than I particularly want to?
Fair enough. I (42) also recently opted for Refractive Lens Exchange (cataract) surgery even though I didn't medically need it. I got sick of wearing lenses and glasses. It might be worth checking out if it's appropriate for you since contact lenses help with Keratoconus more than glasses.
Oh. You're right. Appropriate username btw!
> Samsung 256TB E3.L NVMe SSD at FMS 2023

How much time fsck needs on such a drive ?
Yes https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html
>What's the rationale for not allowing business travel but allowing the same people to travel for tourism?

Many countries don't draw the distinction at least for people with the right passport. But to the degree there's a real rationale (beyond possibly charging more for a business visa and red tape), it's probably something along the lines of the boundaries between routine business travel in another country and working in that country are blurrier than in the case of tourism and therefore some countries think it should attract more scrutiny.

You're right that I could (and have) attended tech events on my own time and my own dime and that seems like tourism by any reasonable definition but does that fact that I didn't take vacation time and maybe submitted an expense report really fundamentally change that?
Wonder if/how people could do this before sound recording devices existed that could prove you did it correctly. I can imagine intellectuals in wigs: "sdrawkcab gnikaeps ma I! Did I do it right?" "Hmmm, I suppose we'll never know..."
IANAL, but I think this would very much qualify as misrepresenting the purpose of the trip.
> Long weekend "city breaks" are pretty common amongst the UK middle classes.

Presumably to nearby countries, not via 12-15h flights with layovers, and not after an onerous visa process?

I think you underestimate how much work is needed to submit a visa application. No one in their right mind would spend several days preparing documents and traveling for a total of 30 hours for just a 3 day holiday.

> Can you not go to a conference when in holiday? Isn't the difference who is paying - if you pay then it's a holiday, if work pays then it's business

The difference is "what is the primary purpose of your visit".

There are no clear rules around this, but for Schengen countries generally you decide based on the day spent on each (because that's how you must decide which country to apply to as well, when doing a multi-country trip).

I am visiting Europe this year: attending a conference for 5 days and on holiday for two weeks. My primary purpose is tourism.

If it was 5 days of conference and 4 days of holiday, I would have to submit the application with the conference being the primary purpose, and classified as a business visitor visa.

> What's the rationale for not allowing business travel but allowing the same people to travel for tourism?

No idea, you'd have to ask the consulates.
It's a viable strategy to increase TC, however I would not follow it for three reasons:

1. The algorithm is suboptimal as you will be applying to one job at a time and won't have any negotiation leverage. You might get what the recruiter promised but not as much if you applied even to one more firm with a similar TC.

2. This requires frequent job charges, which may be an impediment to further job prospects. Depends on your field though.

3. It amplifies recruiter spam, every response, even a rejection, raises your score in the spam databases, much so a non-rejection like this. I used to politely decline recruiter spam until I began to notice I keep getting spammed by the same firms/people. I then stopped responding and that reduced the spam significantly.
16-Bit Serial Homebrew CPU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

Probably a better article overall:

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php
Oh my god is that true. My son returned from Iraq mid-tour on a break. His younger brother had an airsoft game (stay with me) going on, after dark, with a dozen friends. They'd build an airsoft tower (small building, windows and a rooftop vantage) and were playing capture the tower.

He chatted, loaded an airsoft rifle, and we walked down the lane to the field. As he talked to me he was casting his gaze around, raising his rifle occasionally, firing off a shot.

We just walked to the tower, no attempt at concealment, no special gear. By the time we'd gotten there everybody was reloading at the reload station. He'd hit everybody, in the dark, in the grass or in the tower.

Proceeded to reorganize them into squads and play for an hour or two. Had a blast that night, lots of scenarios, everybody got to play a role.

Anyway yes, training makes all the difference. Holding the weapon, pointing it are the basics they teach the first day.
>That's a very romantic view of the real-world experience of random messages on LinkedIn, many times with even the wrong name on them.

They never said the worst ROI didn't also come from responding to recuiters. I've met great ones that lead me to interesting roles and ones that tried to gaslight me on the same platform. It's a people problem more than a recruiter problem specifically.
Actually seeing a tarantula made them a lot less scary. Hard to be afraid of something so fluffy.
You're right. I see it now. Thanks for the clarification.
FOSS can also simply mean Free Open Source Software, not related to any specific org or license.
> the war as a knock-on side effect of Covid

This doesn't make sense since the war has been happening, at some intensity, since about 2014. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

The decapitation offensive was an escalation in an already existing conflict. If anything triggered it I would say it was the failure of Russian influence ops in the US, and the roll up of their agents e.g. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-fbi-deripaska-sanctions/32...

> If you’re in the UK and you’re hurting and you voted to Leave, you broke it and you bought it.

Correct. Unfortunately the rest of us have to unbreak it somehow.
It is (in RFC 2606), along with .test, .invalid, and .localhost, for similar reasons [0].

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
Good news, everyone! There is a WiFi standard for it: 802.11ah[1]. Seems like you can even buy hardware for it[2] today. Its most likely not going to show up in your phone anytime soon, though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah

[2]: https://www.silextechnology.com/connectivity-solutions/wifi-...
A few years ago I had a Mac that did that. Pretty sure it was because I actually had two Xcodes, one from the App Store and one downloaded from developer.apple.com.
Another proof that Linus is not always right. There were many folks who just blindly regurgitated AVX 512 is evil, without even actually knowing a thing about it.
Microchips in the Parmigiano and Other Ways Europeans Are Fighting Fake Food
My father, an inveterate Costco shopper, has a half-joke about this, because also the cashiers will routinely inquire if you "found everything OK?"

He says that this is actually a threshold poll, and if too many people respond "yes" that triggers the Grand Reshuffling of Merchandise overnight!

I actually think he's exactly right. Why does a cashier care whether you found everything? You're already checking out, it's too late to go hunting for more, and the cashier can't be the one who could help you look. So it's not an invitation to customer service, it's simply gauging your satisfaction.
You can add all the extra restrictions you want, but they effectively won’t do anything. Expecting both the GPL and the additional restrictions to apply is a violation of section 7 of the GPL.

> All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

Debian explains this further in their patch file.
How to build a low-power website
Lots of skills. Not just different ammo. Rapid fire, rapid reload, double wield, night vision, double tap. The list goes on.
There are a couple of neat stories including him on Folklore.org:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Origins_of_Splin...

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Joining_the_Mac_...

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
100 MB memory per learn.microsoft.com tab, for a bit of what feels like entirely static (a good thing) HTML.
It's not his duty to do anything, and he's explicitly saying people have accepted speaking slots then not shown up so your doubts are unfounded. Have you never attended a conference where there is a last-minute change in a speaker or talk? Theirs is not the first time I've heard of that happening, either.
Rapidgzip – Parallel Decompression and Seeking in Gzip (Knespel, Brunst – 2023) [pdf]
Repo: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/rapidgzip

As someone who has dabbled quite a lot with deflate this was a very interesting find. It seems like the format that never wants to die.

First of all I am surprised this is even possible. Given the extremely minimal and non-aligned nature of the deflate headers, I actually discarded this as being feasible, with the false positive rate likely being too high.

The paper and implementation is an amazing piece of engineering. Hats off to the author. With an index, you are in "easy" mode, so I consider the unindexed "hard mode" the big accomplishment.

I am still digesting it. So if I read the paper correctly the false positive rate is approximately 1 for every 5GB. Very reasonable.
I appreciate the gesture, but isn't this self defeating? Arresting a leaker led to.. another leak website close down?
Either way throughput will depend on the fraction of >192 characters, what input data gave 12GB/s seems to be a mystery.
I still use Windows for Photoshop and for games. Sure, more and more games seem to work with Steam's thing, but I sometimes get a noticeable performance boost when playing the same title under Windows compared to Linux. There was some Tomb Raider game which could barely do FHD on Linux but worked perfectly with max settings and 4k under Windows.

> and some video conference software (e.g. webex with camera

Meh, IME webex works fine enough in a browser (Firefox/X11). I haven't had any more issues under than Linux than my colleagues running Windows. Even Teams is just as crappy under Linux.

> [bluetooth]

I like when people complain about Linux and the proverbial crappy sound issues. The best Bluetooth headphone experience I've ever had was hands down Linux (though I've never had AirPods). It's the only one which connects reliably to my phones right away (macos was usually good enough at this) and it's also the only one that can use the better codec (ldac).
It seems you're conflating gender and sex. The person' sex hasn't changed, their gender did.
Taos Operating System (1995)
Potentially historic summer storm event to unfold in SoCal this weekend
There is, but there’s not nearly enough of them. Check out Fauxpilot https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
I think what he meant was that the only higher-speed rated cables they had also happened to be gold plated, which triggered the know-it-all consumers
Aluminum pots cannot have their power varied too much. Either they freeze up or they ruin the walls by overheating. Some variably can be tolerated, and would be useful, but they wouldn't be highly dispatchable like electrolysers would be (and are not at a scale that could load balance entire grids.)
So 1. I'm using the wrong hardware. It's my fault. 2. I'm using the wrong browser. 3. I should be working out the dependency story and compiling some driver from Github myself.

It's 2023. For me that means my OS cannot hardware decode video. It's just not a real option for maybe 99% of PC users.
Sure but how do you account for two of them not working vs other ones working? It's likely doing some effect, but it seems to be just nuanced enough.

I feel like after I got the filter on my glasses that when I lay in bed, I'm not laying there feeling unable to sleep like I would many nights before. Is it placebo? Maybe, but I totally forgot I got the filter on my glasses and realized sometime later.
When we study ants, we do not begin with a belief that their behavior is wrong or improper. We assume that they act in a way that is required for their survival and proliferation.

It would be ‘nice’ to say that such things are just a social dysfunction that we can safely avoid. They may not be. A lemming that follows the herd may find that it has led them off a cliff, but a lemming that doesn’t will certainly die.

We may now have better options to opt out. I’m mostly speaking to the relatively wealthy, skilled, and able. But I’m not sure. Opting out of one hysteria may also require membership in another such mass movement, complete with an obvious enemy, and a ridiculous but necessary set of rituals to convince others that we are not a threat.

I’ve believed throughout most of my life that communications and especially privacy technology would give us better options. I’m not sure it’s ending up that way. I see great technological developments in that direction, but almost all social developments in their use going the opposite way.

I think what these things come down to is each individual assessing a practical threat to themselves and reacting accordingly. I don’t generally accept explanations that assume entire populations acting wholly irrationally. It can also probably be seen as arising from material conditions such as increased resource scarcity, which is a tautological result of economic cycles, regardless of how the economists may measure their positive effect. This view requires extraordinary sociological imagination, to consider what type of situation that you could find yourself in, which would lead you to switch sides on your most ardent beliefs. That situation is therefore the threat, not the people, but it may be unavoidable. I believe that people are smart and compassionate and empathetic and do realize this, but it doesn’t affect their best option for actions, posturing, and espoused beliefs.
I think the people who leave it on see it as "rewriting history" -- e.g., if you typed [cmd1], [cmd1], [cmd2], and you erase duplicates, your history no longer reflects what you actually typed. The people who leave it off see the history as more like "a list of interesting things I did at some point", so erasing duplicates means it's easier to find the most interesting things.
This isn't quite the point of the article, but we allow people to apply for student discounts for our service, and provide the following example that we ask users to send to us over Intercom:

> Hello, could I please apply for the student discount?

>

> [PLEASE READ AND DELETE THIS – After sending this initial message, please attach a proof of your student status, such as a photo of your valid Student ID so we can process this quicker!]

I don't think any of the countless people that have asked for the discount have ever removed the "PLEASE REMOVE" part, and many don't bother to send the proof until we ask for it either.
Let’s build a website using XML – Terence Eden’s Blog
Supermarkets can probably only do this to a very limited extent. Moving entire aisles of product has a large human labor and training cost they would need to pay for, not to mention physical space and plate wiring limitations. They can't just chain a few code blocks every time some one gets a bright idea.

I will say costco will often move a product I regularly buy to an endcap to put it on sale. Then I can't find it anymore and am unable to buy it that week. I've tried asking the employees where it went but they never know either. Now I do a brief scan and then give up. For all I know they stopped carrying the product entirely.
Oh man you'd hate trying to sell customer an USB-C cable then.
Very cool! I love the combination of location and year. It's really crazy how useful your intuition can be.
Private and well-compensated medical workers still don't offer a sci-fi "healing tubes". Private healthcare is maybe marginally better for 1% of the population, but far more expensive.
HIPS (Hiding In Plain Sight)!
It is mostly an educational code. Once you learn AVX-512 you can get boosts in many areas.
And quite avoidable, even on a 100% renewable grid.
IMO, effective "scripting" just means the ability to solve ad hoc problems easily by writing task-specific glue that delegates the hard parts of the program to (1) an effective set of libraries you've written yourself and (2) external code or tools when it makes sense.

From this perspective, the languages of the glue, the libraries, and the external code all matter less than the ease of writing the glue; interfacing with the external code; and maintaining the libraries. The best language for this probably comes down to a combination of what you're comfortable writing (and reading, and maintaining) and what kinds of tasks you're trying to solve.

For me personally, using Python glue and libraries strikes a pretty good balance here. Writing a script "in Python" doesn't mean you need to reinvent the wheel. If you think `parallel` provides a better interface for map-reduce parallelism than `subprocess` (or than a library function you've written on top of `subprocess`), no problem: you can just call `parallel` from Python (and you'll probably find yourself writing a library function on top of it to abstract away the fact that it's a shell script).

But if you're much more effective working in Bash than Python, then writing your glue and developing your libraries in Bash could be the way to go.
A small lever that pulls horizontally inwards, from front to back, is almost standardized for the inside door handle. Front doors usually have an interconnect that opens the lock also.

For electronic windows, on newer cars it's nearly standard that the switch can be engages by pushing down or pulling up.
This was one of the reasons, why I went with one of the Boox devices (Max Lumi) in my case. It is Android, so adding even easier than working around their Linux distro.

Screen sharing (actually it doubles as a remote control as well) via https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

And as they don't try to leverage proprietary formats, Syncthing for syncing books and notes. And NetGuard for a good measure, so it doesn't call home.
Would a recruiter recommend you to automate respond back to them and ask for 50% more salary? I'd love to work with a recruiter like that.

>However, I would also recommend applying directly to jobs.

They are helpful for awareness. Especially when seeking out startups. I'm not going to randomly find those on a job board often.
I believe the FAQ suggests you can suspend your account for longer absences, specifically mentioning prison sentences.
Absolutely, really helps the pacing of the movie.
Did you forget the discussion was about kitchens? And many people's homes do not have all individual bedrooms and things like den/study/second lounge. The advantages and disadvantages of open plan suit your preferences. Your preferences are not universal.
Yeah I had a couple rough years with panic attacks, high anxiety state (always been anxious but not to that level). What you start to realize is that you are actually scared of the anxiety itself, not the situations so much. So, you sort of get caught in loop of being scared of your own emotions. The treatment is simple, but takes work and a lot of habit forming through time... but essentially you just stop thinking of the anxiety as an emotion you shouldn't have or should fear.

Like you said, just let it be and stop caring about it. Anxiety can be a good thing, it's a normal emotion. Any attempt to stop it or control it will end in disaster. Let your body/mind do it's thing. Emotions are fleeting and they will always come and go. Over time you sort "re-wire" your brain to stop panicking every-time it feels a fleeting anxious feeling.
> we could pay someone's salary to install, maintain, and upgrade some open source alternative (and the VPS to run it), or we could just pay for Snowflake and stop wasting engineering's time

You are missing the "we could pay someone that provides a commodified, open-source alternative to Snowflake" option.

It would be cheaper, it wouldn't require any of your engineering team resources and it would help us all get rid of single vendor lock-in.
Yes, here are the reserved TLDs [0]:

test
example
invalid
localhost
local
localdomain
domain
lan
home
host
corp

0. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-chapin-rfc2606bis-00.h...
Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)