skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how the dark skies map is actually built. I assume it tries to make generalizations based on density of buildings. And that is only as accurate as the building data is in the map source.

It's probably fairly accurate overall, but there is undoubtedly some region-specific things (different lighting styles, etc) that throw a wrench into the mix.

One place out my direction has a blue blob in the middle of a dark gray area, so you wonder what kind of civilization is there. Nothing, just a few buildings that are uninhabited and unlit. So there's no light pollution in actuality, but dark skies thinks there is.
It's a natural trend cycle: things grow beautifully, they stagnate, their corruption load exceeds their productivity and they start declining, then they collapse in lieu of something new.

There's hope for revitalization, but only if it's caught early-on. I feel Mozilla doesn't have much time.

A cliche that may apply here is "follow the money". If your primary financiers are entities that prefer you to avoid competing with what that financier is producing, you're not looking at the interests of the userbase anymore.
>the backstory here is that TSMC N3 is a trainwreck, it's now separated into two different nodes, N3B (for bad) and N3E (enhanced).

Without N3B, there will never be N3E.

It was the same with N7. And none of these are new to a new node generation.
It shows the comparison right on the chart, what else you need? But you should get m3 most times if you want to use it for the longest period.
I think strike breaking is pretty much not-done in most of Europe, and hasn't been done for nearly a century. How this will play out is not something I can predict, but it's definitely an escalation and could result in massive boycotts and the end of Tesla in Sweden. It's certainly not a constructive step towards resolving the conflict.
I would think that the court can make quick work of this case and say that a government official can't block someone from seeing their post but can block someone from commenting.
Nvidia tests chatbots in chip design process in bid to use more AI
I'm not really a fan of the term "overengineered." I often find it is a direct translation of "Something I don't understand quickly."

In my experience (including my own development), overly complex designs accrete, as opposed to start off complex.

They usually seem to begin with "This is simple, let me just do this...", then, when we run into Roadblock A, we design in a mitigation, and so on...

Eventually, we have a ghastly chimera.

Other times, it comes from trying to coerce software written for one purpose, into another, and the glue code is kinda messy.

Also, there was an article mentioned here, about "Don't design a general-purpose framework."

I can concur with that. The app I'm releasing now, has a server component that is, in my opinion, way too complex. I designed it, and implemented it, so I get to say that.

The deal was that I originally developed it as a general-purpose framework. It has a layered architecture, and I did heavy-duty unit testing of each layer, as I was writing it.

It works very well, is fast, and secure.

But way too complex, as this app is its only implementation. It handles a lot of stuff this app never touches, like trees of user permissions. I have a very simple, rather "flat" permission structure, so a whole shitton of code never gets used. It was tested heavily, works well, but will never be used. I don't like having unused code paths, but I don't have the luxury of time to remove it (I have removed some, but there's plenty more, where that came from).

If I were to rewrite it (I won't -see "works very well", above), it would be much simpler.
I found it was not only the zinc, but omega-3 from seafood was even more crucial. Also, lowering my omega 6. Omega 3 three increases the transport of zinc through these zinc transporters.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145306/

When I was first found deficient , I took 200 mg of zinc sulfate which has 50 mg of elemental zinc for quite a few weeks, and there was no change. It wasn’t until I changed my fatty acid intake that my levels got up to .81.

Also, I found that Zand zinc lozenges, which contain, zinc, methionine, will raise my zinc faster than a lot of tablet supplements. It may be that I get more absorption in my mouth, then in my gut.

But before doing this, you should get both your zinc and copper tested. Zinc will inhibit copper absorption and can end up in a deficiency after a while.

I still eat a lot of muscles since they’re very well balanced in zinc and copper.
Spotify planning to pay small artists even less
> even though it feels like we humans are able to dictate and direct our thoughts, it seems that it doesn't entirely works that way.

Because it's not a binary thing, the thought process is more complex but we can take our body for example. We all control our body, right? But now you take an average office worker vs profession sportsman and see that one can do way more precise and measured movements.

Thoughts are similar, you take some buddhist monk who recites 5 hour long mantras by memory for dozen of years and their thought control would be on another level. It is just the question of training and developing the skill.
I've never seen it myself, but I plan to. I once showed to colleagues a photo of what can be seen by naked eye (the milky way) and they would not believe me even remotely (it wasn't super exposed).
No not "remote workers". More, "some interest group local to California that may involve some unclear number of remote workers."
If you're attractive you can get away with a lot of Awful behavior..

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/663/485/1f8...
Are there no other people who can work on the TeX and Metafont after Knuth? What if someone else wants to create bug fixes for these projects? How would they version TeX? Or do they have to fork TeX and have a new versioning system?
Are you a citizen of Montenegro? If you are, feel free to use it! Otherwise, I suggest that you use something else.
What the definition of 'employee' vs. 'independent contractor with a non-compete clause in their contract' in relation to this?
Strikebreaking is not necessarily illegal but remember that Sweden, and EU in general, is very heavily unionized. And these unions are not insular - they sometimes co-operate even across sector borders to defend their members' rights (and the respect for worker's rights in general). If they are so inclined, the unions have no shortage of means to force companies to co-operate. If a company is for example breaking rules / angering the unions with impunity, the trade unions can together declare an embargo on this one company. It essentially means that all union members (which in industrial sectors is close to 100% of employees) refuse to carry out orders to e.g. make deliveries or perform services for this one company. This makes it very fast completely infeasible for the company to even operate in the country as they have no access to suppliers.

Because of this, companies generally know that when operating in this part of the world they can't just use strong arm tactics to suppress union activity. It's not even that hard, these unions are not run by stupid people and they are completely capable of negotiating on sensible terms.
Now imagine if he were to use Microsoft Word and had to manually change all the uppercase letters to lowercase.
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Even better than finished software is modifiable software;

open-source-available minimalist zero-dependency projects that you can fork, fix and compile in 5 minutes.
I mean, even if you did find a large archive that did this, the same would happen on Linux. The problem isn't the operating system here, it's that compressed tarballs don't include indices in their compressed form. You have to decompress (in-memory) then iterate the metadata.
I think once the idea of heteronormativity had percolated through all of society as a well understood concept, it would no longer be as pressing a concern. These concepts tend to be in vogue specifically because they are salient.

It is intellectually dangerous to read a piece like this "apolitically", precisely because a biased political agenda is wearing the garb of a much more universal observation. If the writer had mixed "luxury beliefs" from all over the political spectrum, then there would be a clear focus on what the title purports to concern. Instead, there is a second agenda that is being silently conflated without being acknowledged.
It's about dang time. Years ago I attended a security conference where an FBI guy was actually advising people to pay the ransom. I was shocked.
This reminds of this study that shows that there can be new contributors to Rust projects and still avoid the introduction of vulnerabilities, https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/gradingcurve-secdev23.pdf
> Writing Vanilla JS ES6+ is not that hard, actually it is pretty fun.

i like vanilla es6 too. i've enjoyed using it with htmx, rather than using intercooler or alpine.
That looks like a pure marketing slide to me. I don't think it would make sense to actually have separate dedicated silicon for these.
The article starts with "everything is FACT"

then ends with:

Every .io domain you buy funds a government committing crimes against humanity. Every .io domain you renew legitimises and reinforces the continued exile of the Chagossians.

which is hyperbole at best, and bollocks at worst. .io isn't sold or owned by the british (or US) government

Most people don't understand what .io is for, moreover the UK goverment has almost no idea what .io stands for.

so to say that its supporting crimes against humanity is somewhat of a stretch. Thats like saying that watching pakistan play cricket is supporting the deportation of 1.4 million afghan refugees.
The problem is saying this to a crowd where a decent size of the demographic makes all of their friends at the office. Or maybe that’s a bay area thing. Regardless, I always found it really unhealthy. Instead of making this the new normal one should ask themselves why it is you feel compelled to make all your friends at the office and wrapping your life 24 hours a day in the context of work. There is nothing wrong with making friends there, but it seems for a decent number of folks to be their only source of friendship which is a bit of a societal issue.
If they were restricting controllers from the start, that would be one thing, and controller exclusivity is something every console manufacturer right back to Atari has always thought about from the very beginning - mostly for cash-grab reasons, but also, much later on, with this very excuse. It's why the original XBox's USB controllers were a different shape.

But to me this feels like a clear-cut case of interoperability, unilaterally and unconditionally removed after the fact of the sale of both millions of consoles and controllers (both first-party and not). Are they sure they want to do that? Now?

This also reminds me very much of Sony's removal of OtherOS in the PS3, and I draw the analogy with what happened to the console's security afterwards very much in mind.
Because state regulations make things unaffordable
Yes, we all came in the same people. But there will be many people who inhabit Europe now who came from southern Europe and the caucuses. These people came from a later migration from Africa then the cold adapted people who came earlier. There were two migrations out of Africa, and this will determine if a person has called adapted or not.
It seems apparent?

Asking for employers to pay more for remote workers than they do for in-office employees will either result in fewer remote jobs or remote jobs paying lower salary (which will lead to lower demand for remote jobs).
No, more like a fairy tale.
If it works out as say £150/seat/month to be in the office vs say £600/year for a reliable broadband connection, contributions toward power/heat, and providing a chair/desk/monitor setup, many won't consider the 2/3 cost saving worthwhile.
What discrepancy?

I've been omitting months for a very, very long time and have gone through numerous background checks from different companies. Never once has omitting months been a problem or even something anyone wanted clarification about. I'm not saying anything that isn't accurate. I'm just rounding off irrelevant detail, no different than omitting the exact day that I started and ended each job.

Nobody cares about what month you started and ended, unless your employment lasted less than a year, maybe.
The most popular Macbook Pro?

Look, I'm a 16" guy myself, I even carried one of the 17" cafeteria trays back in the day… but it's clearly the sweet spot for _most_ people.
In highschool, some friends and I came up with a prank that I'm still amazed how simple, yet hilarious it was.

We wrote a small piece of software. Bare in mind that this was early 2000s and all we knew was some rudimentary Turbo Pascal 7. We would sit in front of the keyboard and have the pranked person next to us. We would tell them to ask a question to the program.

So we would run the program and the first prompt would have you type something along the lines of: "oh magic program, please answer this question for us".
The program would say "Ask away...".
You would type your question, hit enter and oh and behold! a reasonable answer to your question.

Needless to say, when we were "typing" the "oh magic program" quote, we were actually typing the answer to the question, but had rigged the output so that no matter what character we typed, it would always be that string. Thus the program "knew" the answer.

Funny thing is, this worked because of it's timing. This was an era where a lot of kids had grown up with a computer around the house, but many hadn't (third world country). So while it wasn't uncommon that some of us could type quickly and without looking at the keyboard, it wasn't the norm either. I'm sure kids nowadays would immediately catch up to the trick in no time. A handful of our classmates did.
Aside from the issues described further downthread:

• On Btrfs the `df` command lies. You can't get an accurate count of free space.

• There is no working `fsck` and the existing repair tools come with dire warnings. Take these very very seriously. I have tested them. They do not work and will destroy data.

• The main point of Btrfs is snapshots. [open]SUSE, Spiral Linux, Garuda Linux and siduction all use these heavily for transactional updates.

But the snapshot tool cannot test that there's enough free space for the snapshot, because `df` lies. So, it will fill up your disk.

Writing to a full Btrfs volume will corrupt it. In my testing it destroyed my root partition roughly once per year. It was the most unstable fs I have tried since the era of ext2 in the mid-1990s. (Yes I am that old.)
There are hundreds of TLDs that prohibit proxy registrations. .us is one of many.

e.g. https://www.domain.com/help/article/domain-management-tlds-n...

It is quite logical for TLDs with nexus requirements. Not every TLD operates like a free-for-all in the way some of the more popular gTLDs do.
The amount that movements get adopted by, amplified by, and sometimes co-opted by people who have no idea what they are talking about is substantial. Thats before you even get into the grifters (Shaun King).

Just to bring in another contentious topic, but this simple interview personifies what I saw in summer 2020.
https://x.com/israel_advocacy/status/1718742999591456921
Whatever your view on the relative merits, you have 2 protestors talking about how 1) they don't really support the chant 2) of course they chanted it 3) no we don't actually know the context of half the words in the chant

I'm not from the UK but I generally interpret the specifics of those accents to be a bit more upper class than lower for sure. Not to mention the phrasing, words used, and general indirection of the response.

One of my neighbors was like this during summer 2020. In retrospect she admitted she was just bored of being locked up during covid, and ended up to the right of me on policing lol.
Some places have government grants funding the arts.

On the other hand, I grew up in one of those places, the UK, and there were a lot of people moaning that the TV License (which funds the BBC) was an abominable stealth tax or words to that effect.

I'm now in Germany, where everyone has to pay the equivalent even if they don't own a TV or watch live over the internet (unlike the UK where not doing that means you don't need to pay); I've not heard anyone complain so far… but I don't know if that's because they genuinely don't, or if I'm peacefully oblivious by never having been suckered into reading a German-language comments section.
I would love that. Makes more money for us since we can now build competitive service more easily.
How the scrum/agile/lean/etc. project theology works
> the main one is somewhere between 1 and 10 bytes per image depending on whose answer I use for the question "how many images was it trained

Here is a catch tho. It's just "by average" several bytes. We can't tell if some images practically contribute 0 bit to the final results while some others contribute more.

(I know this "contribute" word is a little non-sense in the context of ML. But existing lossy compression algorithms are not that different in this sense: if you compress a 1M frames produced by a 3D renderer to a .mpeg video, each frame doesn't contribute the same amount of bytes to the final result.)
If you don't have X account: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1719140833931485432.html
Care to share the code of this project? I am looking to build something similar.
Were those issues introduced with this feature or preexistenting?
I hear the complaints about incremental updates and not enough reason to upgrade. My opinion is that it doesn't need any updates as it's nearly perfect the way it is. What it needs is a 3 year release cycle instead of yearly. Less e-waste and more visible spec change.
It's a bit like "assistant manager" vs "assistant to the manager".
A “scab” is a person who works for a company when other people are trying to extort that company for higher wages.

The “scab” is fine with the current wage.

Scab is definitely a derogatory term for a non union worker.
The consequence is that the company will want to improve efficiency by paying for all the utilities for all employees in a single building. E.g. less WFH.
Unless you're going to pay for an extra room--which seems very unlikely (or should be) to be reimbursable as opposed to working on the kitchen table--the actual incremental costs seem pretty trivial. Even if you reimburse some pro-rated amount of internet and/or mobile, that's maybe $100/month in the US.

ADDED: If you don't have an option to go into an office, a stipend for a co-working space may be reasonable.
These days it makes sense to queue up and make sure your bag don't get checked, but I had the same initial observations.
I was about to post this exact question. Yes, they are often known as scabs, but that's an editorial decision by the submitter because the article doesn't mention them as scabs. Nor do the workers in the article.
This does not work differently in other states as far as I’m aware, California just might be more willing to enforce the laws already in place. Additionally, this not a tax credit which is money owed to you by the tax authority, rather a deduction which is a very standard vehicle in calculating net income (revenue minus costs). Who takes deduction doesn’t matter as far as the IRS is concerned, for example, as long as it’s not claimed twice. As an employee, I would rather be reimbursed for company expenses than have to manage those deductions throughout the year because part of the benefit of being W-2 is that you don’t have to worry about anything except collecting that paycheck. If I we’re on a contract, I would be managing my own expenses.
What about workers in other states (NY) working for a CA-based employer?
My time at The Babylon Bee and Not the Bee has come to an end
Other countries like Iceland have excellent genomics projects in comparison. 2/3 of Icelandic adults are sequenced and these are made available to researchers. They have represented a very important control population for medical genomics for example, among many other excellent projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCODE_genetics
This is a funny example.

From the WordStar Wikipedia:

> no current version of WordStar is available for modern operating systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
Company can't afford $75 a month? Thats cheaper than the parking at my office which is $500/m per car.
The article clarifies that scenario:

"However, if your organization has returned to in-person work, but you choose to work from home, it's less likely that your business expenses will be seen as "necessary"—as you could have avoided them by working from the office or other worksite."
Right, this will also disincentivize companies going folly remote, since this is eating into their savings for not having an office. Companies only have to pay this expense if there is no option other than remote.
sure, blame it on the poor Denisovans....
A prime example: "Acknowledging that you're on Comanche (or whoever) land".

This "acknowledgment" never seems to involve paying any rent to the Comanche for being on "their land", nor doing anything else that actually benefits the Comanche.

Taking the 15 seconds to add this to your social media profile means you can signal to everyone what a Good Person you are without ever having to actually do anything.
It’s more like 15% opt in. I know because it controls dev access to analytics on their apps.
RTO requires living near an absurdly unsustainably expensive tech hub and/or intolerably long commutes (ie working hours).
Not swedish but very, very uncommon in germany (I actually wasn't sure whether it's illegal but apparently not, it's just not common). Usually the company tries to negotiate with the union to stop the strike, so this is probably seen as very confrontational.

I don't know for how long they are striking so far, but I would see it as unbelievable confrontational, a show of force from them to prove that they dictate the terms of employment without negotiations or coming to a compromise. I feel I would not accept that.

Usually it is seen that companies have a responsibility to look after their employees.
Doesn't seem to work. Just asks for my email address and won't even accept one when I put it in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38070432

It's gonna be interesting to get some clarity on this topic.
> .me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me
> Requiring the company to pay up by force of law disincentivizes companies from hiring remote workers in California.

This was my thought as well. By increasing the burden, companies will just stop remote positions, something they are inclined to do already.
Infected how?

Our backups were the data, not code or systems (which were IaC and rebuilt as needed).
I honestly think that might be more damaging.

Third-party alternatives must be allowed, the problem is Microsoft changing the rules long after shipping the console, in a way that not all perfectly fine controllers could be updated to handle.
whatever word they use will become derogatory.