skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is the theory behind crowdsourcing, but what is the actual legal reality? We often don't know that until it has been tested in a court.
> It also dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes to locate missing children, which is an almost-daily occurrence.

Just curious, where do you source the missing child image from? Ask the parents for a picture? Hope they remember which gate/turnstile they entered in, when, and then scrub through the footage for a clear shot of the kid to then search for live?

E: I suppose the system logs when/where their tickets were scanned in?
Sell Yann on the climate doom, see if they/them buys that.
While I can understand the cynicism, the real answer is a lot closer to something much more boring, which is most people just don't care about the actual numbers, and if they were to release them, while interesting to a small few, generally no one would actually care.

There's also a common misnomer that Amazon.com is somehow just this one giant app running on a set of servers, which isn't remotely how it's actually deployed, and that's before we spend time arguing whether a team's instances even count as "primary e-commerce front-end stack" or not. :P
I thought I heard that once the helium is gone, it's gone. We can't make it; we can't pump any more out of the ground. That would seem to be a hard-stop. Is that really the kind of resource we want to turn over to capitalists; who are driven primarily by stock incentives and short-term profit?
> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price that people have been conditioned to believe is the norm over the last decade is wholly unsustainable given the stagnant wages.

Canada.
The media is covering all of those places and more.
If you are not actively looking for a better paid job you should. That salary for cyber anywhere in the UK is grossly underpaid.
500 miles at 60 miles an hour is 8 1/3 hours. yes, that’s only an extra 2 1/3 hour over 300, and whether that is significant will really depend on the operator.

the increase in range could be enough to garner more commercial interest, more family interest. doesn’t remove the infra needs, does reduce it. driving “all day” becomes more plausible.

a lot like with the laptop battery performance increases. how we use laptops has changed a lot, now that you can use one “all day long.”

anxiety seems like the right choice. low grade, but present. not panic, not discomfort, something in between.
> It was very grounding to understand how disk capacity has grown over time.

And yet the funny thing is, all the documents that are absolutely critical to my personal life would fit on a floppy no problem. That said I'd never have risked them to a floppy even when you could get them new. I never had good luck with floppies lasting any length of time at all.

I think my family's first computer had a 1GB hard drive in it (at most), now I can get an SD card with 1000 times that. It's amazing and truthfully I don't understand how it's possible.
What you're missing, is that all the property owners take out massive amounts of credit, believing that the rise in property values will cover it and they can just remortgage in 5 years. So they buy pointless shit like Range Rovers even though they live in the city and take luxury holidays they wouldn't be able to afford otherwise. The smarter ones use the extra credit to buy more houses. If the property prices tank all these people go bankrupt. No government will let it happen because they'll become unelectable for decades. It's truly absolute dogshit.
High-temp superconductors are made of ceramic, so they are very inconvenient to work with. They are also mechanically brittle.

So the largest high-temp MRI for now is only big enough to image the head. That being said, there has been a lot of progress in the high-TC superconductors in the recent years.
Meta's Segment Anything written with C++ / GGML
This is a port of Meta's Segment Anything computer vision model which allows easy segmentation of shapes in images. Originally written in Python, Yavor Ivanov has ported it to C++ using the GGML library created by Georgi Gerganov which is optimized for CPU instead of GPU, specifically Apple Silicon M1/M2. The repo is still in it's early stage
Suspicious
Where AGPL stops is actually very well defined.
I seem to recall that at one point Microsoft guaranteed to match Google's offers, because Google had clearly figured out how to hire the best engineers.
> I don't remember as strong as a pushback from any of these companies changing their licenses

The Elasticsearch backlash was big for what it's worth, both privately inside companies and publicly (AWS forked it).
Not all, just the vast majority... but the same could be said on macOS for x86-64 Steam games anyways. Funnily enough, many games on Steam beat Steam to the punch already and launch as aarch64 even though the launcher client is emulated.
Seems cynical. In my experience, junior devs are just more susceptible to cargo-culting and getting excited about cool ways to apply the things they learned in undergrad. I haven't actually seen a lot of "resume-driven development" in my (relatively limited) time in the industry... just well-intentioned eager people with more knowledge than wisdom.
> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK [...]

Without diminishing the scale of the crisis in the UK: Canada checking in here.
Knife Engineering: Steel, Heat Treating, and Geometry (Book)
Obligatory notes for non-UK readers:

We didn't in fact elect the Truss administration in any meaningful sense. Nor did we elect the current Sunak administration in any meaningful sense. In fact historically close to half of our Prime Ministers have landed the job without first leading their party to victory in a general election.

Our system of government places the vast majority of the real power at national level. That power is normally wielded by a Prime Minister who is only indirectly elected by commanding majority support among the directly elected MPs in the House of Commons. That means the PM and the government they in turn appoint can change without any general election taking place.

In theory MPs are supposed to hold the government to account on our behalf. Unfortunately those MPs are themselves elected via a First Past The Post voting system that is infamously unreasonable on almost any mathematical basis that should matter. It frequently results in a large majority of MPs for a single party that did not win anything like a majority in a general election while simultaneously reducing smaller parties that still won a significant minority of the popular vote to parliamentary irrelevance.

As ever with these political problems the feedback loops consistently prevent anything being significantly improved. At any given time the one of our two largest parties that almost always has a majority of MPs and runs the government as a result would have to surrender its dominance in order to effect meaningful change in our democratic structures and turkeys rarely vote for Christmas. So we end up with a situation not so different to the US, where there are effectively only two parties that matter and the real decisions are often made before the main election when the parties select their preferred candidates internally. And each party ends up being a "broad church" with a lot of internal disagreement and inconsistency because breaking up into smaller parties that more faithfully represent the true opinions of their members would guarantee losses in every election forever if the other guys didn't do the same thing.
>occasionally

Very regularly, actually.

Methi (fenugreek) paratha is popular wherever parathas are, which is large parts of India.
(The creation of the universe, as described by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
I'd prefer a different solution in which the ecosystem of off-the-shelf consumer-grade routers and behind-the-router IoT devices cooperates to block Internet access, for a single IoT device, if that device is in a suitably exploitable state.

This isn't a perfect solution but your "support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time" is a non-starter. For example, suppose I'm designing a doll for the Christmas 2024 season. The doll uses the Internet because it's an AI product that converses with young children about the latest STEM news. I don't know how long it'll be used: maybe my eight year old daughter will just find it boring, or maybe she'll physically destroy the doll because she disagrees with its opinion on the Riemann hypothesis.

I can't afford to maintain firmware beyond January 2025. If I have to commit, I'll just never release the product, and children will potentially have worse learning outcomes forever. But I am willing to have my 1.0 firmware send beacon frames to cooperating routers, announcing that my combination of product ID and patch level is a8217a61-09de-4b1e-8a99-b6fbc180cdce, and please blackhole me if this is a dangerous version. This requires more engineering to work effectively, but please don't stifle innovation by small IoT vendors who cannot commit firmware-maintenance resources to a product with an unknown revenue stream.
Never buillding a back door for LEOs sounds like a reasonable option.
Everything from parents kicking their kids out or charging them rent at 18 (or ever) to anecdotes from North American friends of how they got pushed out of home to pay rent while in university.

The endless lectures of Dave Ramsey on not wanting to provide a "hammock" for kids are also an abundant source of information.

North American parents won't consistently have a college fund for their kids. Also planning to pay for the down payment on their home is absolutely not normal for them.
Competitive salaries with the US isn’t really a thing in countries with socialized healthcare, welfare, etc. With these institutions in place life looks qualitatively different at any salary.

Problems start when these institutions get systematically dismantled and salaries don’t change to make up for them.
The guardian is a British newspaper
Also Australia. Property is king.
Well it does if your contributions are made under the GPL and not transfered via a CLA.
Bigtable does 6B QPS though…

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/youtube-run...
> If you're the type of person that would only sharpen knives once a year because it takes half hour to set up your sharpening rig and sharpen your knife, get an electric sharpener instead

This is an obsolete dichotomy. There are excellent modern low-porosity stones that you can get wet and use immediately. For example, resin bonded diamond (e.g. CGS, Venev, Naniwa Diamond), Shapton Glass (unspecified “ceramic”), or diamond-in-nickel (DMT).

The idea of a long progression of expensive stones seems to be almost entirely a myth — there seems to be no actual benefit, and possibly quite a bit of wasted time and increased chance of entirely failing to get a good edge, if you use a zillion different grits. A cheap coarse stone or two and one (expensive) medium-fine stone is plenty, and you won’t touch that coarse stone if your knife is already in decent shape. Throw in a strop loaded with a decent abrasive and you can maintain your knife in a minute or two.

(I use a cheap balsa wood strop loaded with 1 micron CBN suspended in water. Total setup time to strop a knife is however long it takes to get it out of a drawer. WEAR A REAL MASK and work outside while applying the CBN — I seriously doubt that inhaling a fine mist of tiny minerals is a good idea.)
Funny how it worked for Eisenhower.
I'm not sure how much of it is Google and how much is just a broader collection of SV companies, but engineering salaries, including software, in general were much more conventional professional salaries until at least the dot-com era. I started with a computer company for about $40K in the mid-80s (with a grad degree) so a bit over $100K today with nothing special with respect to other benefits.
Really nice embarrassing catches, thank you for flagging and debugging!!! Patch fixed both of these :)
N-Gate (HN weekly summaries)
The issue (elsewhere than the UK) is that regulations have also made building so expensive that it's actually not worth it. People cannot pay for new houses, even on very cheap land. I don't even understand how it's supposed to work, by the current building standards in .be I'd say about 80% of all houses (mostly older ones) would be torn down if we follow the letter of the law. And a lot of those building standards (e.g. electrical safety, piping safety) apply to existing housing, not just to newly built ones.

Social housing used to be famous for the government simply not following building codes (whether that meant maximum land occupancy or isolation/material standards), and disclaimed responsibility when it lead to accidents. But it made a lot of people home owners.
Nice. Python programmers now want to move semi to the shift state (and colon without) for a while as well. ;-)
Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
It's not just the work donated via the open source channel, it's also the associated credibility, enthusiastic coverage and referrals, and general good will, that accrues to such a project. None of which they would have enjoyed had they been a private project.
One of the links in this article leads down a heck of a rabbit hole for those of you who love ultra-tiny keyboards: Plover, the open-source stenography engine, which uses what is essentially a 15% chording keyboard and a very dense shortcut expansion dictionary to let you type at ~200-300 wpm vs. the 40-120 wpm of QWERTY.

https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/

Yes, there are people who use it for programming, too.

Not my thing at all, but maybe it's yours.
Deno gives me hope for web development. The security model, no bundler and general pace of progress is great. They've drastically improved node interop but if they could close the gaps (and sort out extension/less imports) so many more projects could finally jump ship over to Deno.
"Try" == "it's a .gov email - looks good!"
If it works for Formula 1 race-cars, it'll work for aircraft.

Amazing things, old car tyres. Some people even build houses out of them.
Are you referring to 647(j)(1), 647(j)(2), 647(j)(3), or 647(j)(4)?

You really might want to re-read the code. It isn't as applicable to your story as you seem to feel:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
What do you mean by meditation? I mean it's a funny subject.

And so is neurodivergency for that matter.

You're comparing one deep mystery with another deep mystery.

How about a "maybe" or a "I don't know"?

Or a "well here's my experience" even?
"The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined."

0.5% of the US population died due to the Spanish Flu.

Look, I understand where you're coming from, but I don't know that you would actually prefer 1918 policies if the same scenario were to be replayed in the present day.
I assume you mean "besides aggregators", so no need to mention HN, Slashdot, Google News, Reddit, etc?

If so, I'm not sure there is any dedicated news site I visit every day, but one that comes pretty close would be wral.com. That's a local news site for my area, and if nothing else, I'm on there to check the weather quite often, so I can plan my bicycling activities for the next few days. Plus they report on all of the general local news that I have at least a mild interest in.
Does that mean most Eurostat staff isn't permanent?
To play devil's advocate, it's possible that Red Hat wasn't actively evil, but they just believed in throwing cash at open-source projects, which enabled a lot of jerks within the community.
Show HN: Revenut – A lightweight open-source alternative to Stripe's mobile app
Yes please, encourage more game on steam to have their gameservers compiled for arm.
> The only thing that affects housing prices is the supply of houses.

Well yes and no. I would argue, treating housing as an investment vehicle for both corporate and foreign interests has had the biggest influence on low end housing prices around the world. Corporate buy-ups, government backed loans and "affordability" scemes have all actually pushed pricing higher.

To be clear A large percentage of corporate and foreign ownership isn't actually needed to have a large influence on pricing simply because of where they are most likely to invest. Just a couple of percent adds significant upwards pressure on the low end of the market where affordability is felt the most keenly. After all buy low sell high.
You're voted down but right - it's hilariously bad, written as if by a teenager that has just discovered Ayn Rand.

Its a short read.
Every US company I’ve worked with that ended up with a London dev branch as part of an acquisition seems well aware of the wage disparity. They pull over the cream of the crop on L1 visas. It’s like temp-to-perm except 1000 times worse because it’s Sr resources with families broken on the countrywide collusion to underpay IT workers.

Part of it seems to be that the UK based companies don’t expect massive success. They have a thing, it makes some people at the top a pretty good living, that’s enough. They obviously could create massively successful companies based on the talent available, but no one wants to.

Or possibly more accurately: the people who want to realize that proximity to other like-minded people is critical to success, and they leave.

Every originally-from-the-UK tech worker I know in the US is well aware of how lucky they were to get out.
I think that's safe to assume, since income is contingent on employment and occupation at any given point - keep those services affordable to reduce the risk of citizens losing access to them
It doesn't "correctly" predict anything because most of macro-economics is junk science with value only in the limited context of political platforms and giving people some sort of false hope. When the Nobel prize winner of Economics says its all bullshit, I tend to take notice :)

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/famous-econom...
Building packages is easy for most programming languages, it's only very old ones and Python that are bad. While I wouldn't expect GitHub to support every language, and many projects will need customization, them offering a basic pipeline for "standard x" for each of e.g. the top 20 languages (other than the awkward ones) would save a lot of effort over every project reinventing its own pipeline.
Not all requests per second are made the same.

For example, it is just as true for this title to have said "How Amazon uses ... to load 1.6 MM requests per second, from just the search page."

Each search page load, is 1 request to the search backend, but 20x request fanout to the product's key-value store to render the images and titles, etc.
I'd venture to guess he's already drinking his fair share of grain alcohol and rainwater.
Well, there's also $200 worth of shit no longer left on the ground, now that we have an established market rate of $100 per pile of shit.
A few thoughts that I hope are helpful:

- remove irrelevant non-tech jobs from your CV and LinkedIn, even if they were long stints

- I don't know the market for cybersecurity engineers, but I guess that it might be too narrow of a niche in a small country

- don't just 'keep an eye out': actively look for jobs; also consider that some US companies are willing to hire remote in the UK

- given you already have some python experience and a strong mathematical background, my suggestion would be to learn as much as possible about software engineering and data science, and consider building a career in one of those fields; most people can't study stats due to weak math foundations, but you don't have that problem

- if you don't think a remote job is a good fit for you, consider moving to London

- surround yourself with smart, hardworking people
ah wow...I guess that begs the question, "will this just blow over". As far as I can tell Elasticsearch continues to do well and is more or less in the clear (could be wrong)
Please improve this (I have only dabbled), but I’ll add a couple points as well:

- Don’t run data lines and power lines right next to each other (electric signals flow through a field surrounding the trace/wire, not in or on the metal itself)

- PCB pros avoid right angles for the same reason. Bevel your corners. (You see examples of this on every board if you’re not sure what I mean)

- Verify PCB traces with a multimeter before soldering components to it (or if it’s been assembled by the PCB manufacturer, verify everything before powering it on for the first time)
is the uk really burning like all the bad news are reporting?
Abortions are illegal in Texas and anyone going out of state to get one is persecuted. Kind of a big deal.

Also, non-competes are banned in California but not in Texas. Moving to Austin means giving your employer a veto over your future career.
> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price that people have been conditioned to believe is the norm over the last decades is wholly unsustainable given the stagnant wages. Take a look at house price to wage ratio over the last two decades.

United States. In inflation-adjusted dollars, house prices are up 118% since 1965, but income is up only 18% [1]; alternatively, house-price-to-income ratio has increased from 90x in 2012 to 135x in 2022 [2]. US Millennials have been deemed "the unluckiest generation" when it comes to home ownership in the US.

[1] https://www.realestatewitch.com/house-price-to-income-ratio-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/591435/house-price-to-in...
Yeah but at the same time, tons of d*ckheads in the south keep voting for the same cohort of Tory Ratbags, so the faces change but the policies and chaos remain.

Next labour will get in, not be able to fix anything because they have no real policies, and they'll be back again.
Thank you for teaching me better english dear Sir.

(I speak natively Spanish)
That's a link to citrus plant zones and citrus breeds for Georgia, in general, not oranges in particular. And it carefully notes zone A along the southeastern corner of the state is just about the only zone that citrus stands a chance. And they all carefully mention that you have to be very careful about providing freeze protection even with those specific breeds. There is no orange production at scale in Georgia.

It is interesting to note these statements from the above publication:

"History indicates that citrus plants have been grown for many years in gardens near the Gulf of Mexico and even as far north as Charleston, South Carolina. Small satsuma plantings were developed in the Gulf states as early as the 1890s but were destroyed by the freezes of 1894-95 and 1899. Plantings resumed until the freeze of 1916-17 struck, killing thousands of acres. By the early 1940s the hardy satsuma had again made a comeback, with some 12,000 acres growing in the Gulf states of Louisiana, Alabama and northern Florida. But freezes in the two decades following World War II mostly eliminated these plantings. Currently the main commercial areas are on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Florida."

Which seems to indicate that the climate was warmer than present in certain portions of the last few centuries. Charleston regularly experiences overnight freezes throughout Dec, Jan, and Feb (crucial months for orange production) in the modern era.