skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently saw some work from the University of Kentucky on reading the Herculaneum scrolls. These scrolls were carbonized by volcanic activity (Pompeii?) and obviously can't be unrolled without disintegrating. They used some interesting CT (xray) scanning plus machine learning to distinguish the carbon-based ink from the mostly carbon substrate and retrieve legible text.

Of course, that only gets you the printed text. You might lose notes and doodles in the margins, or other physical evidence. But, it's certainly promising for works that are too delicate to physically open and inspect
Better to link directly to [0], which lists a few cases from a long time ago, but overall the situation in the US looks pretty good. In the rest of the world however...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_St...
GitHub – HermanMartinus/bearblog: Free, no-nonsense, super fast blogging
Hello, what would be your recommendations for someone who wants to take the next step from basics of C to contributing to FOSS repos (for ex: FFMPEG or VLC or mpv)?
I have been working my way through [Modern C](https://inria.hal.science/hal-02383654/file/ModernC.pdf) but I can't seem to figure out how does one start with making(/contributing to) non trivial projects.
The two best suggestions that have come up elsewhere here:

Wood
Bamboo
Don't think I ever used indeed.com, just got something recently, the market for the last few months in the UK has been the worst I'd seen since 2008
My previous version of https://sive.rs/ti (until a few hours ago) had no shell script, but just walked people through every step. It took like 50+ hours to write up.

But so many people were getting stuck and frustrated trying to type in all those commands, (and mistaking "l" for "1" and such), that I realized I could help more people have their own server if I put most of those steps into a shell script.

Hopefully it'll be enough to give them a taste of the benefits of having their own server, then they can learn more about the steps afterwards.
> and expecting different outcomes from the eating, e.g. the level of satiety or the effect on your energy until lunch.

But eating the same can absolutely result with different levels of satiety and energy. Ever been sick, poisoned, or depressed?
nbb – No Bullshit Blogging
The Empire strikes back. The remnants of the UK steel industry, which once led the world, are being taken over by an Indian company.
How come I keep reading these types of posts, hearing these stories, yet I've never experienced anything remotely close to this? Job hunting has always been the opposite for me; being inundated by sharks trying to aggressively recruit me.

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For reference; here's a quick summary of my job history: Mid 20s, I was working for a retail bank in Iceland (where I'm from), doing ASP.NET and C#. With about 4 years of experience, I decided I was a "big fish in a small pond" and that I needed a greater challenge. I was interested in finance and wanted to move to London and do quant trading or HFT, so one night I applied for about 5-6 different jobs posted on Indeed.co.uk. At 7AM the next morning the phone started ringing. 3 days later I was in London, doing five interviews a day for 4 days straight, and long story short, ended up doing about a 15-20 interviews and ending the week with a dozen offers.

Since then, I've done the occasional round of interviews, just to determine whether I'm "optimally employed", and they've never been an issue to set up. Basically just message a couple of reliable recruiters on LinkedIn, tell them "hey I'm interested, and I'm looking for X" and they come back with job specs on a silver platter. I've NEVER not got an interview somewhere I wanted to work. Literally never. I've been rejected a handful of times, most of which I'd chalk up to the interviewers or the hiring process being terrible. I've rejected or cut short A LOT of hiring processes, though, I have some insane stories to tell regarding that.

Now, I work almost entirely by referral. I didn't even interview for my current role or send them a CV, because I'm working for and with people who know me. And I have a feeling that's how it'll stay from now on.

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So, now that I got that out of the way - why the F00k is my experience so askew with these horror stories? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to put anyone down, or brag, or say they're doing it wrong or something, I'm simply asking; what causes the difference in experiences? Is it the fact that London finance runs on recruiters? Is that not a thing elsewhere? The last time I submitted an application directly to a company was in 2009. Since then, I've always had recruiters do it on my behalf.
> Trying to cold-apply to every single job with a spray and pray approach is about as fruitful as cold calling every company you can to sell a product which may or may not apply to them.

This also describes most of the recruiters who contact me; occasionally they happen to be aligned with me job hunting, but usually they were in the "java == javascript" category, and time has only changed this into the "all mobile developers are interchangeable, so even though this is an android position and your last 13 years was iOS…" category.
I don't deny this at all, but this still requires context to determine "health". I truly resent the conception that sugar is somehow a toxin and not a necessary nutrient.

I also don't want to truly deny the addictive nature of sugar. It can have enormously negative effects on peoples lives. The answer is not to reject sugar, though! It is to moderate sugar intake.
I have met the owner of https://www.findmyprofession.com/ a few times and he seems like a good guy but I haven’t used their services. They claim to be such a middleman.
Yeah same, I worry though that this is just a side-effect of our skills being currently under-supplied for the current demand.

We can afford to let people come to us a little bit more than someone who (even though probably has a wealth of experience) is applying for something where the supply of applicants is above or is more inline with the demand.
You might find this documentary interesting: "Everything Is A Remix" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/nJPERZDfyWc?si=IooGFXhb5gbYNWyS
what would they gain by getting your resume?
> Remember when your resume was the ticket in a company’s door?

No, I don't. For instance, one job, over a decade ago, I got the offer, which was followed by, "oh, by the way, can you give us your resume, so we have it on file".
100% agree. this thing is WAY too stylish. just put the information so that a computer can read it in. the annoyance factor is probably enough to reject him in some cases.
For a fee, I could get you in touch with a few people who are able to find middlemen
I experienced this too but the other way, French -> Spanish, and I think it may be particular to these languages as there's so much confusing overlap (for non-natives). I've since dropped French entirely and haven't had any issues with mixed recall with Spanish recently. I imagine learning both can be done if you were to get to a solid foundation with one before attempting the other.
Putin said "ruined their counteroffensive in this direction" - Russkies blew the dam

Biden said "there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it" - totally unrelated things.

*shurg_emoji*
Quite likely!

There's nothing wrong with either, though, and I wouldn't recommend judging anyone's mastery of style or grammar based on only a single (and quite idiosyncratic) communication channel.
I feel like fingerprinting is inevitable with any hardware access, including WebGL or WebGPU. It’s one of my big concerns about Chrome exposing more and more of the hardware it runs on in the goal of being a Web based OS.

That said, fingerprinting is not as big a risk as what I was thinking of, which is one process being able to peer into another’s on the GPU. There are various takes on isolation on the GPU but they tend to have strong caveats attached.
This is displayed whnever I open a new terminal:

Welcome to workstation - Today is Sunday, September 17th 2023

There have been 53 years and 272 days in the unix epoch!

There are 14 years and 127 days until the 32-bit time apocalypse

Prepare yourself...
That would be a fair question, we generally don't come to our impressions by random choice alone. My guess is the value of the vulnerability on the black market would be significantly higher and Apple could afford to compete with that better if they wanted. Only the GP could tell us the reasoning for their impression though.
> Super easy to open one tweet a person sends me and due to either immediate login wall or due to a new bug, bounce right out of there.

Twitter links are starting to feel like those ExpertsExchange results in old Google searches.
Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International.

Planet Wreckers Final Report: For a list of winners, please refer to page #9.

For those pointing fingers and suggesting crazy geo-engineering solutions, this study is only focused on new drilling and expansion. It doesn't take into consideration anything else.
dunno about x% of all exploits but this is a systematic attempt at count/census of 6 categories memory safety failures

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts...
Its likely that if many things were made in the US, they would be too expensive for most people to afford, a smartphone might cost $5000. The US could re-industrialize but it takes a lot of robotics due to high labor costs in the US.
Personally for me all three trains parted and there are no more trains arriving: job search, dating, real estate. I guess I will seat on the chair over here waiting for the third end of the world, because the two previous world ends I have also missed.
Capitalization at the beginning of your sentence would have made for an even more dramatic effect ;)
Separate services which don't propagate information.
That's rather my point—it's not the chemical itself but rather the rate of consumption that is the issue.
there are a few links at the bottom of HN that can help you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - these are guidelines on what is and is not appropriate on HN. they can help guide you toward what are appropriate posts and comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html - FAQs that answer a lot of the questions that you've been asking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - the (very specific) rules on what "Show HN" is, and why and why not you would post to the special "Show HN" section of HN.

I would recommend reading them thoroughly before continuing to respond, as it might help temper some of your comments and the responses to them.
I used Yazi for about a day and loved it, but there's just enough ergonomics missing that I ended up switching back to nnn for now.

My main issue I couldn't find a way to filter the list of files/directories for the current directory I'm in. Let's say I want to go to directory `cpp`, and it's 22 entries down the list of current files/folders. If I try to `fd` for `cpp`, I'm going to get back a ton of results from all over my hard drive. So it seems like I need to just scroll way down, which is a bummer. In nnn, you can just type `/` then `cpp` and it will filter results in CWD that match.

A nice-to-have would be live fuzzy-find functionality for the fd/rg integration, but that is not so critical.

The other thing I like about nnn is it retains `g` and `G` from vim to go to the top and bottom of the list of results respectively. I didn't see a similar operation in yazi.

Otherwise, very awesome tool, the performance is excellent, I appreciate how you explicitly state the external shell programs you interface with, I love the built in previews, and the devicons look clean.
The article mentions the deal would reduce the UK's carbon emissions by 1.5%

From [0] the UK's steel industry apparently accounts for 2.4% of all emissions, so clearly a huge chunk of the (small) UK steel making industry.

I've seen guestimates of the total cost to fully decarbonise the country going into the trillions, so on face value this would appear value for money or perhaps low hanging fruit.

[0] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-...
> Up a level: why were "activists" protesting Cop City at all? I thought "more training" was the thing people were always agitating for.

If this is an honest question, it must be coming from a lack of knowledge about policing in the U.S. for the last two decades:

After 9/11-- and especially after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq-- there was an escalation in militarized police tactics, equipment and grants. Some of this started in the preceding decades during the war on drugs. But anti-terrorism federal grants and many other sources of funding for militarization training and equipment flowed like rivers post 9/11. This funding was-- and mostly still is-- available to police from the largest cities to the smallest municipality. This and the war on drugs have become a sizable chunk of police department budgets. If you go to a town of 1,000 people and see a local police humvee vehicle tooling around, they got it at least in part through some militarization or anti-drug grant. Possibly both. (Note: if there's a dog in the humvee it's probably the latter, which means the department has an ongoing obligation to show stats for how they've been using this equipment and dog in successful anti-drug efforts. Not sure what the obligations are for the anti-terror grants, though.)

By at least the 2010's, critics on both the left and right were speaking about the problems of this approach to policing. Essentially, a) it creates/exacerbates an "police vs. citizens" approach to policing that's at odds with the core goal of police being a community service for citizens, and b) there isn't enough time in a day nor money in a municipality to train police to do public safety and develop the skills necessary to competently use military anti-terrorism/anti-insurgency tactics and equipment.

The activists who aren't radical-- e.g., the ones who aren't anti-state-- typically want more (I'd say better) training on the public safety side of things. This means things like de-escalation techniques, outreach with citizens, partnering with social workers, detective work, etc.

What you will nearly never hear police reform activists in the U.S. agitating for is more militarization training and equipment for the police. That includes a number of the civil libertarians on the right.

Finally, I'll say that the activists I've read are convinced that Cop City is all about funding more militarized training of Atlanta PD. I don't know enough about the plans to know whether that's true or not. But the idea of activists pushing back against ostensible police militarization training/funding is in keeping with two decades of efforts on the left-- and right-- to protect the bill of rights in the 21st century.
> this would rely on the compiler effectively implementing some kind of unbreakable firewall, to prevent a type that does not implement Leak from ever getting used with pre-2024 code

Couldn't this be done just by changing how 2021 code is compiled, such that:

All types impl Leak

All generic type parameters have a Leak constraint added

All trait objects are changed to include "+ Leak"

In other words, treat pre 2024 code as if it was the equivalent code in the presense of the Leak trait, requiring that all types are Leak.
I was conflicted when I first read this, because it's beautiful and speaks to the actual tenets of ideal conservative thought: preserving and making accessible the hard-learned lessons of the past.

But like real conservative thought, it conflates these with the fear of good things that are new, such as promoting equality and collective action.

The strongest rebuttal to this poem is acknowledging that comparing our wisdom and foolishness with foreign wisdom and foolishness can inform us of what is truly fundamental.
I think a "linter" that does formal verification would be a good solution. People use things like clippy already and my hope is that using one of the verification tools such as Kani could become equally widespread for checking common things like absence of panics and leaks.
Archivists typically don't like destroying a work when preserving it. Scanning a book also only gives you an optical image. In some cases, like medieval manuscripts, the pages may have been erased and written over. If we simply scan the book and destroy the physical copy, we've lost that evidence.

But again, for cheap mass-market works, most archivists probably won't care about destroying one copy out of a million to preserve the work. It's really only a problem for very old and very rare works
Yeah it's just slang for some kind of nefarious action. It's in a lot of rap songs, west coast origin seems possible for sure but been around a long time. East coast version is juug.
> I find that disgusting.

i am unfazed
“Sugar” is sucrose, which is fructose and glucose. We can use glucose as a nutrient… fructose is debatable.

“Sugars” covers a wide variety of more complex chemicals, from maltose to lactose.
My recollection of the English-like nature of Applescript is that there would be multiple ways to express something, and more than one of them would work, but it always seemed totally unpredictable which would work and which wouldn't. That's actually a bit worse (more frustrating) than the way you're describing it. Overall, I agree with you that it was unsatisfying for both professional programmers and non-programmers, and that's why it failed to take off.
I remember being in my teens, messing around, asking mom if eggs were good or bad for us this week?

I'm in my 30s now. It turns out it was a lot of BS.
I believe SiFive's CPUs and chip designs are not open source generally, although they do open source a lot of related things such as software, specifications, tools. I looked at their GitHub and didn't find any CPUs in there, though there are a lot of repos.

Here's an interesting take on what someone thinks "open source" means in this context: gjsman-1000 wrote: Open source refers solely to the software side of things in these groups and types of projects. Thus, all of the drivers and software you need to use the SiFive is open source and thus you can say it is an open source design. However, it is not an "open hardware" design in that the IP used to design the chip is not released. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25762114

I personally don't think of closed chip designs with open software and specifications as open source chips. That would be like saying Intel and AMD x86s are open source. Though to be fair to those companies, their CPU programming models are much more open than their FPGA programming models, which requires proprietary software and secret specifications to program them at all.
>wouldn't the company perform better if we did other things with that excess money?

Of course. That's not what CEO pay/employee does, though; it trivializes the massive (over)compensation by putting it in seemingly-small terms. What we need to be analyzing CEO pay in terms of is 1) How much a person needs in order to live decently and with dignity in one's particular area, and 2) How much better than the "average" CEO any give one performs (to determine incentive pay). Certain entities, institutions, and groups have cartel-ized executive positions as a class and bid up their compensation, decoupled from real value.

Another view: $60/employee doesn't seem like a lot, but if you remove the employees making over the median, or $100k, or some other resaonable cut-off, something tells me that the lowest-paid employees would see a meaningful increase in their take-home. GGP is purposely being reductive in a way that makes rethinking the issue more silly than it actually is.
This isn't exactly the same, but someone needs to make a similar site for English text for products being exported from Asian countries. It is totally baffling to me just how bad the Engrish is on some of these products I get on Amazon: product specs, manuals, and etc vary from "slightly off" to "almost unreadable." It's actually something I have been curious about for a long time: why is it like this?

The people who make these products have to spend millions and millions of dollars setting up factories, hiring people, putting things into production, etc. But somehow they don't have a budget for a bilingual college student intern to translate a bunch of copy to English better than "using this product will bring a great joy." Why? I would be super interested in some journalist figuring out why this happens.

Of course, there's always the viewpoint of "why would they need to translate better? It's just money that they don't need to spend, and this works for their business." So I will make a super strong claim: ChatGPT can now do nearly perfect mass translations of this stuff for free, in theory simultaneously increasing translation quality and reducing costs. Despite this, for whatever reason, I predict that the average translation quality on Amazon won't improve within the next few years.

Anyone want to take the other side of that bet?
Yeah, I dislike comments on format but on mobile the site was just unusable for me. I couldn't figure out which slide was the "correct one" to move forward, and even the zooming gesture would move me to another slide. I think the video presentation would be a better link than the slides.
For IT, Mark yourself looking on LinkedIn, follow up with the swarm that messages you. Focus one ones that use the actual company email, followed by ones that at least say what company it’s for (many won’t say). Be upfront about salary/location requirements, but double check about them in the interviews.
"Everything feels automated"

That's because they are.

ATS solutions are a cancer. I used to work for a company that was trying to make the job application process easier. It didn't work, because at the end, there was an ATS behind it all.
Top tier comment right here. Well done.
The article doesn't describe the difference in process between electric arc and blast furnaces properly. Coking/metallurgical coal isn't just used for heat in steel production but because it creates a chemical reaction which normal (thermal) coal doesn't.

With an electric arc furnace, you have to use methane to achieve direct reduction instead. It's possible to use hydrogen instead of methane to do this although that doesn't make sense from an emissions standpoint unless you have a source of H2 which is produced by electrolysis using a non CO2 emitting source of electricity (and moreover from a global perspective you would ideally also want to be sure that there isn't a better use of that electricity).

I'm not clear on if that's what's proposed here but I would assume not - as I would expect the UK government would be shouting about this very loudly if so given the level of hype there is around hydrogen.
ISO8601 / RFC3339 for life.
Unity Gaming Crisis: the problem with vendor lock-in in gamedev
Oh god I forgot about the quarterly evaluations.
...yet.

Of course ChatGPT isn't going to replace any programmers now. Is anyone that has actually tried it seriously worried about that?

The reason people are worried is because it provides strong evidence that AGI might actually be possible within a few decades. Before that we really had no idea.

But it clearly isn't there yet.
I've been told that the console platform standards required a certain maximum loading time specification to be met. This would have been in the Xbox or 360 era.

Of course, meeting that with a "press any button" screen is easier than for loading the full game, so they do that!