skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort answer: have bills to pay. Degrees / training to keep current / technical certifications are expensive. More $$ for same amount of time helps pay down expenses quicker.

1) Software development is by definition research related.

2) IT services are non-research realted and have a defined/bounded focus/goal(s).

#2 / bounded development much easier to allocate resources over time (unknowns & knows are defined/generally known up front). Similar topic would be why companies like to outsource things (cloud, human resources, software,

#1 / unbounded development, much harder to allocate resources over time (many unknowns, and unknown "what don't know")

Simplifying things, management likes #2. #2 keeps things within budget/minimizes resources which leaves little room for funding/resources for research/learning.

#1, is similar to doing things for 1st time -- large amount of resources upfront and over time in order to possibily produce something. BUT, that something may not be useable/return resource investment until other known/unknown things happen. Examples: Original development of first IC. Laser. 8088 developed as IC for DataRace display (not as cpu computer). Xero Parc and the Alto. AT&T Unix (vs bsd/minux/linux). Dirty Operating System, Disk Operating Sytem, Gnu DOS. 1970's Polaroid employee developing the digital camera (pre-IC / cpu chips). Rise of Amazon, where amazon didn't return an investment for more than a decade. Nerf as a graduate project. Dell & Facebook as side projects. make/git as quick thing to help get research work done.

Related topics:

case studies/write-ups on why founders get tossed from founding company once company gets beyond start-up phase.

Diy medical device story: https://www.medtechdive.com/news/tidepool-loop-clearance-diy...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610599/
No one uses a saas like that one for large scale scraping (billions of requests)
There are elevators. They are being retro-fitted and sometines it's not simple at all to add them but they exist.

> They are located in 25 metro stations.

https://www.stm.info/en/elevatoraccess
In some ways breeders might be safer.

There is no risk of a steam explosion. The core shuts itself if it overheats so it has been demonstrated that reactivity insertions and loss of cooling can be resolved passively

https://gain.inl.gov/Shared%20Documents/Fast%20Flux%20Test%2...

There was fear in the early days that in a meltdown the core might become denser and produce a small nuclear explosion but after thinking through the problem for years and a lot of experience it seems the core disperses in a worst cast. Dangerous iodine isotopes dissolve in the coolant and are trapped in case of fuel damage. Potentially a fast reactor can capture almost all the tritium produced for use.

You can have a sodium fire but most sodium fires are pool fires which aren’t very dangerous. Fires happen all the time in industrial facilities, you detect them and put them out. They aren’t necessarily a big problem.
how would i view this picture on a machine im talking to over serial?
May I plug https://github.com/G-Research/ApiSurface/ ? It ensures this as part of your testing pipeline, and requires an appropriate minor or major SemVer bump if you alter the API in a non-breaking or breaking way.
Nimbys want less people certainly, but most want that by watching their investment continue to skyrocket.
You make my point perfectly by accusing me of marxism out of the blue when I never even manifested any opinion on anything even near it.
I have one of these "marble" pans.

https://www.amazon.com/Ceramic-Marble-Coated-Aluminium-KW/dp...

I bought it at an Asian kitchen store 8-9 years ago because I needed a pan, and it's still unbelievably nonstick. I have overheated it multiple times, but carefully avoided using metal utensils on it. I'm not sure if it's really made of marble but it certainly is durable.
Sure if there's space.
We don't know how the DMA will actually be interpreted.

There are three aspects that people often conflate, the ability to install apps from outside Apple's App Store, the ability to install apps that Apple hasn't notarized, and the ability for developers to skip paying a percentage of app sales to Apple.

We might get all three of these, but we might also get just one or two. I can imagine a world where you'll be free to install a .ipa from any website and pay for in-app purchases with your credit card, but where the .ipa will have to go through App Review and the developer will be audited to ensure that the necessary fees go to Apple.
> With proper insulation of the tank the thermal energy can be usefully stored for up to a week.[15]

> [15] Ehrlich, Robert (2013). "Thermal storage". Renewable Energy: A First Course. CRC Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4398-6115-8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_...
They work phenomenally well on induction stoves! I use a single-burner plug-in induction unit in my small apartment kitchen and it works so well cast iron pans and an iron dutch oven.
I hate CSS: how can I build UIs?
Backend developer with wishes of becoming a "company of 1".

Trying to learn to develop simple UIs, but just keep hitting my head against CSS. It just does not click.

Is there something out there that will just let me put things on the screen, where I won't need to care about padding, margins, overflow etc?

I don't care if it's not very customisable. I just need something to test product ideas quickly.
Love the idea! Keep going
this is a tangent, but it also kind of seems like a lot of the development behind Serenity is being sucked away by the Ladybird browser now. Especially with it now having funding I fear that Serenity will wither further and further as the focus shifts.
In 24-hour time, those are 12-24 and 0-12, respectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

A place open 24 hours/day is open in the period 0-24.
Ask HN: How do you ensure remote interviewees are safe and uncoerced?
A while back, I did a series of (apparently flubbed) interviews at gunpoint.

I was living with my mother and father, and my father would often stand at the top of the stairs to the basement, armed, begrudgingly staying out of "his" space long enough to conduct an interview.

In parallel, the local police would harass me -- showing up, saying they could search my room or belongings, basically... treating me more like a prisoner of war on house arrest than a published scientist.

(I confided to them I was attempting OSCP, and one of those responding eventually was himself arrested, so there may have been a conflict of interest with the locals, given I was known to report on illegal activities to contacts out of state from my brief stint in policy -- I used to joke my senator was useless so I have to route everything through Ron Wyden, who will one day make anime real)

Anyways... to get on topic: do you account for situations like this in your interview process? Does your company offer re-interviews or leads on safe spaces for interviews?

On my end, I've given up on tech after the above experience -- I felt like folks who knew what was going on exploited my terror to get free consulting, then after my COBRA expired I was abandoned, but I passed a leftover sign from domestic violence month that made me think back to that time.
Totally agree. Even the mention of Elmish, which has nothing to do with the creator of Elm, is derailed into yet another discussion of why some people hate the creator of Elm. It is the deadest of beaten horses on HN.
> [...] where you forgot how to log in, and want to retrieve your data.

That's a use case typically better addressed with good backups, since there are indeed more failure modes when using effective full disk encryption.
The missing piece is renewable fuels. Having some kind of hydrogen or ammonia, biodiesel etc. from solar and wind and available to supplement real-time generation when needed would make it much more feasible to drop fossil fuels.
Yikes. This is truly tin foil hat stuff.

> Over the years, Moon’s hidden money has helped many Republicans through hard times.

Okay. You offer three examples. One is obvious nonsense--Bush won by 8% in '88, winning 4/5 states. Supporting him was hardly "helping Republicans through hard times" and said support presumably went unnoticed, as support in a presidential campaign has the lowest value-per-dollar of any form of political support.

Given that, your entire argument is

> Moon --has money in--> "business interests associated with moon" --give money to--> AFC --does business with--> Richard Viguerie --supports--> GOP

Ergo, Moon has influence over the GOP? Lol. Then there's:

> Moon --has money in--> "business interests associated with moon" --give money to--> AFC --toes party line during Iran-Contra in support of--> GOP

Ergo, Moon has influence over the GOP. One cannot possibly be convinced of this without first desperately wanting to be convinced. Maybe it hits better if you've got the whole thing pinned up on your wall with thumbtacks, with the relationships mapped out in red yarn and a tin foil hat to keep the 5G at bay.

Look--giving money to a cause while separated by multiple parties is the flimsiest form of association imaginable. Pretending that this relationship (if you can even call it that) is necessarily reversible (A gives to B, who gives to C, who helps D, ergo D is under the influence of A) is just laughable. It's worth noting separately that this whole rhetorical house of cards rests on the assumption that "business interests associated with moon" means "Moon's money", which is likely just another batch of motivated reasoning.

> In the late 1970s, a congressional investigation tied Moon’s Unification Church to the “Koreagate” influence-buying scheme directed by South Korea’s intelligence service, the KCIA, against U.S. institutions.

Are you going to tie this in? Or are you hoping for a leap of faith?

> In 1983, the moderate Republican Ripon Society raised warning flags, too. Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), then Ripon chairman, charged that Moon’s church had “infiltrated the new right and the party it [the new right] wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.”

Imagine quoting a politician as evidence.

> But President Ronald Reagan embraced the Washington Times as his “favorite” newspaper and Moon’s newspaper returned the favor by defending the Reagan-Bush administrations at nearly every turn.

One can appreciate a paper for providing good press coverage without drinking the kool-aid of the owner's cult. Don't you agree?

> In 1991, President Bush invited the paper’s new editor-in-chief, Wesley Pruden, to lunch “just to tell you how valuable the Times has become in Washington, where we read it every day.”

This could be the sole piece of evidence of an super-secret back channel between Bush and the Moon cult<-->Korean intelligence axis! Or it could be a conservative politician showing appreciation to a conservative news outlet for their positive coverage of the administration--doubtless one of many such lunches. Occam's Razor applies.
Yes, great machines but I shake my fist at whoever decided to solder-in the damn battery

I've done two now and replaced them with Keystone1250 battery holders from Digikey, soldered on the reverse side

They hold nice big CR2450 cells now and can be easily swapped but it's a real pain to have to do this at all
Ah yeah, don’t pump your ground water for agriculture, doesn’t matter if you’re dumping it on almonds or grass. I’m well aligned on that.

But water is not a scarce resource and putting it on plants is not a negative sum game.

The planet recycles water. Grass is 100% sustainable if maintained using the planets natural water cycles.

The water in the sky falls on a water shed which is harvested into a local water supply which comes right back to a tap.
> But we also don’t know if there’s a trick up the sleeve that allows any of those models to be asked a very specific question that will result in a very specific answer.

So sanitize user input. Don't let the question get asked the specific way the user wanted it to.

Take a page out of OpenAI's book and sanitize the output too.
FWIW retrofitting is difficult in Berlin too, so they make a point of indicating which stations (fewer than half) are accessible.
Yep. Then, because they are electrically charged and inside a magnetic field, they are accelerated out of the core and become propellant. If the magnetic field is strong enough, it seems they can reach quite a high speed. 5% of the speed of light even. It would be pretty cool to go to Mars and back on 20kg of fuel.
That's a good start but if you're old or with multiple young children it requires careful planning. I drive into the city with my family rather than trying to remember exactly which stations I won't be trapped in.
Ah the old "physical objects work the same as digital copies" argument. Yes I would download a car. You can still drive yours. I was trying to pay you for use of the car but you insisted I drive around your deadbeat family and pay for the drive through that I don't eat.
Try a good mainstream distribution with KDE. I think you'll like it a lot more than you imagine.
Straight from the 2015 USDA guidelines:

Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be
limited to no more than 300 milligrams per day. The
2015 DGAC will not bring forward this
recommendation because available evidence shows no
appreciable relationship between consumption of
dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, consistent
with the conclusions of the AHA/ACC report.
Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for
overconsumption.

Page 72:
https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Scientific-Re...
This happened to me at the start of my career too. I work in video games, and started right at the end of 2d consoles (one of my first projects was a SNES game). My second job was at Sony, where I worked on the PlayStation before it’s release. The industry, all of a sudden, had a lack of programmers with skills in 3d, and so everyone was scrambling to learn it. The only people in my circle who knew 3d were ex military contractors who had worked on sims, and so there were amazing opportunities for me as a junior who had an extra year to learn the PlayStation before it was released generally, and that gave me the head start I needed to move rapidly into a senior role. When I was young, at the time, I attributed it to my good skill. Only in hindsight do I see the what amazing opportunities were brought to me by being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, and have the foresight or ambition to take advantage of the opportunities as they presented themselves. It was easier to take risks then, with nothing to lose, but even now I don’t fear risk the way many people do, and that too is a blessing. It’s funny to look back and realize how lucky we are with the opportunities that show up for us, and I have since then been on a mission to give as many chances to people from diverse backgrounds and life stories as many opportunities as I had.
It's not been without its detractors [0], but overall the mayor remains quite popular and making Montreal more accessible to bikes and pedestrians has been a consistent priority since the beginning of her mandate.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bike-paths-park-ex-m...
I'm sure he was. It's easy for us to see 15 years later that the combination of EVs + solar/wind has a huge efficiency gain because you can get to avoid internal combustion altogether, but EVs were nascent enough in 2008 for that to not be as clear, so those assumptions didn't make it into his calculations.
I like cooking, but I don't want to take care of the small details, so I just get a non-stick pan and cook what I like with it.

(Similarly, I like programming, but that doesn't mean I enjoy taking care of all the mallocs/free that a C program requires, I just use a language with a GC)
Let's just call it what it really is: an authoritarian attempt to force everyone to change their schedules to accommodate the desire of a few interests to synchronize society's schedule to what best fits their preferred outcomes.
Noon isn't really before or after noon, but we want to lump it together with one of them, so we picked the one that made 12:00 and 12:01 go together.
(Edit: or for that matter, 12:00:00 and 12:00:01, down to arbitrary closeness, as sibling comment points out)
> Finally it is a meteorological reality that when it’s very cold in the UK and energy demands are high… it is also usually very still with no wind, and of course in the middle of winter when there are few hours of daylight helping us with solar generation.

Your meteorological reality seems to not correlate with actual reality. In the UK the highest energy demand is actually correlated with high wind speeds [1]

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa69c6
Not sure if TPM related but Spotify doesn't even let me log in in Firefox on FreeBSD.
> Beyond technological changes to the power supply and carbon taxes and regulations for industries,

A modern CPU still uses 100W of power and this is ok.
Remember when they told us Maldives would be sunk by climate change. It's still there.

If the proportionally tiny amounts of anthropogenic CO2 are really that big a factor we are already sunk.

I'm starting to wonder if there's an unconscious death cult in the developed world that fetishizes planetary doom. That is the logical endpoint for the nihilism that has overtaken developed countries.
Sometimes it's ok to have a think-piece that makes you think. It doesn't all need to be answers.
Mock Interviews
Hello Everyone,

I have a few investor interviews lined up and would love to have some mock interviews. If you're in our industry, please DM me if interested in taking our mock interviews

Thanks in advance
My Electric Ride: An EV Transportation Video Challenge
In fairness it is rather terrifying :P personally I pull all necessary information into some form of version-controlled storage, and then have a test to assert that the remote information is consistent with the stored version. Life's too short to have nondeterministic builds.
half the world relies on water from the Himalayas and the tibetan highlands. China, SEA(Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand Myanmar) and South Asia all rely on glacial water for large scare agriculture
>Mottram was collared as part of Operation Venetic, the NCA's codename for the EncroChat takedown. According to the cops, their secret infiltration of the supposedly impregnable chat app, allowing officers to silently read crooks' private messages and probe criminal dealings... In 2020, police in France and the Netherlands led the effort to compromise the communications service. Once they'd busted into the network's servers, cops used that access to collect conversations and other data from EncroChat handsets and use this information to make arrests, with the NCA doing the legwork in the UK.

Nothing is off the record but off the record
No, that would be just a component of this system. It looks more like "Distributed OSGi done right" or CORBA's endgame as prophesied by Grady Booch in the 90s. Historically these kind of systems have not worked very well[1][2] but who knows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

[2] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf
Why don't you just find a maker space, become a regular there, and help people with their projects? You get all the benefits of owning one without any of the downsides.
You didn't give an example of sending money. You gave an example of database transaction of an exchange traded token. Sending IOUs that need to be changed into money isn't the same thing as sending money.

> The regulatory hurdles to send and receive money from a legacy payment system ...

=> Become a policy maker and change the regulation. You're not allowed to just evade regulations with crypto tech just because it's your opinion that democratic law was improperly legislated. That's crazy talk.

Why do you think Moneygram is expensive? Ever thought maybe it's due to legal compliance? You're not allowed to evade that.
Siri is three regexes in a trench coat, so it lacks capabilities to say or do anything that would be off-brand for Apple.
Propaganda is just advocacy that we don't like.

Same as "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
No.

> How do Source Generators compare with Type Providers in F#?

> If you’re an F# programmer (or familiar with the language), then you might have heard of Type Providers. Source Generators were inspired in part by Type Providers, but there are several differences that make them distinct. The main difference is that Type Providers are a part of the F# language proper and emit types, properties, and methods in-memory based on an external source. Source Generators are a compiler feature that analyzes C# source code, optionally with other files, emits C# source code to include back into a compilation.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g...
Fwiw they are changing old defaults. What defaults do you think prevents you from being effective, except some large plugins that maybe should be included (like LSP)?
If you’re old or have young kids life already requires careful planning.
NEOM Jobs
I found this interesting because it starts with asking for your resume to parse & autofill into the filters to show relevant jobs at NEOM (that project that's building the giant line in the desert). Turns out this is powered by https://eightfold.ai/.

Just some cool tech that I thought might be interesting to fellow HNers as it's a very different experience from most career pages.
Who is the enemy?
Who is the worst generation and who is the best?
You're confusing the IoT core one that doesn't have a desktop. The LTSC IoT has a desktop and works fine.
Fossil doesn't have a good story around cross-repo authentication (without separate per-repo accounts), CI/CD, 2FA, SSO support and such. It's a great tool if you're writing a single personal project with little regard for security, but that's about it.
Eventually more and more use cases for Bitcoin will emerge, as the government becomes less competent and more reckless with its fiat. It costs $35,000 for a reason.
When C$119M is a “bargain” compared to US costs, it should come as no surprise why public transit has so little utility in most cities (as measured by utilization as a percent of total trips).
Doesn't GitHub have protections against that ? Or does it still work as long as the bot signs up for an account ?
Thats true but a misinterpretation of the data in my opinion. Old ones are voted out because their policies mismatch the current pain points, which is definitely happening here. Libs were elected on a luxury beliefs platform that isn't compatible with the current state of the economy/interest rate regime/inflation. Enough people have finally realized this to grow disillusioned and change voting patterns.that the libs appear to be a bunch of kleptos and/or incompetent and/or corrupt is speeding up that realization.

If the libs had kept the klepto stuff to a less obvious level and adapted the binding parts of their luxury beliefs platform they probably would still be polling a majority and could have kept this going for quite a while longer.
Realised this when Reddit removed 3rd party apps I never installed the official one, my life is no worse and they lost a user. We are just animals driven by brain chemicals, I never thought app timers were for me but I use them now
You are making the assumption there won’t be some new technology that gobbles up significant energy. At one point an American’s electrical consumption might have been home lighting and a radio. Then it jumped by an order of magnitude with the refrigerator and air conditioner.