skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the unions cooperate together this way, it looks like they can shut down whatever business they want to, especially since they can decide not to deliver packages and mail. Why should a union accept a company's terms at all? If you're powerful enough to shut down a business, what's stopping you from getting whatever you want, regardless of whether it's reasonable?
Nuclear, you mean? Sure, but you can make the same argument about a cost/benefit analysis, they're more efficient as a threat or deterrent than in actual use.
Almost as if their real goal isn't to lower emissions...
DATA ENGINEERING, Data DevOps, Data Mesh core platform | Aira Home Energy | Sweden - Stockholm | Full time Employment

Want to make your cloud data engineering hours matter for the planet, not only sales?

Does it make you excited to see real hardware, mechanical & on-board software stuff lyiung around next to your desk, where you code your modern cloud data stack things?

Do you want to be in a start-up that is already operational, with strong financial backing and scaling up?

Do you want to join our core data team where we build the data platform for this growing and evolving business to act on, in a data mesh-inspired fashion, using all the best practices we can distill from this very experienced data & analytics engineering team?

Are you comfortable hands-on with a few things like GCP, AWS, Python, Terraform, CICD, data movement & job orchestration tools, streaming data ingest, data infrastructure, data security, data transformation and processing?

Or is this a friend of yours we are talking about? Or you, in the future?

In any case, go ahead and check out the positions we are looking to fill:

Data engineer: https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/boeOAWhya8s/jobs/330053...

Analytics engineer: https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/boeOAWhya8s/jobs/330286...

This position will be mainly on-site in Stockholm, Sweden. Nice central location and an inspiring culture.

Some facts:

- Climate tech company, dedicated to replacing fossil fuel with heat pumps and other smart climate tech for residential home heating

- Behind the hardware offering, there is data and software engineering all over the value chain for us to be part of with data

- Current consumer offering live in Italy, Germany, UK

- Head office in Stockholm

- Initially funded by Vargas Holding, after that a recent round closed, more info:
https://www.airahome.com/news/clean-energy-tech-champion-air...
Ask HN: Help me find a Weekly Calendar based TODO app that was mentioned here
After trying many different things, I use a series of 5 Google Keep notes titled "Monday," "Tuesday" etc with recurring reminders set so they pop up on that day. This means I can plan my week on Sunday, and then only see the relevant day's lists, so I don't get distracted by the rest of the week's tasks.

I remember reading a list of people's favorite TODO apps (or maybe productivity apps, or just general list of favorite apps) here a while ago -- probably over a year ago -- where someone mentioned an app that replicated this setup. At the time I didn't think much of it because my setup, while low-tech, worked just fine. However, now, I'm using fewer Google services and would like to find that app. Unfortunately, after several hours of searching the web and HN, I'm unable to find that comment.

Help!
A good complementary example is cluster munitions. They’re banned but the big players like Russia and the US never signed those treaties because they found the cluster munitions too useful, while signing plenty of chemical and biological weapons bans because they weren’t very useful.
I loathe SUV's more than anyone I know but I think it's fair to acknowledge that we _have_ banned and/or regulated entire classes of vehicle. You need a commercial driver's license over 11,794 kg https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/registration/commercial-drivers-li... (which feels bonkers compared to the 3,500 kg in Europe) for instance.

Of course, safety is important, so you also are forbidden from operating electric scooters on many public roads.
I would like to see real statistics but my gut feeling from running read/write intensive data applications on SSD and ECC RAM is that both of them fail often enough that this move is somewhat lateral in terms of resiliency.

But in terms of clawing raw performance decimals, I applaud the effort. This would be a fun redis project.
Next time there's a data breach at Azure, there will be fireworks.
Yes dealerships and repair shops
Bank runs are what FDIC and similar insurance are for. I don't have enough friends to bother a bank or their insurers.
Insane argument that regulatory capture is the best possible outcome. Are you suggesting anything more just would undo society?
That’s strange, more or less all countries that are wealthy have a unionized workforce.

And by wealthy countries, I don’t mean countries where a select few have all the money and power and the working man is struggling.

I would absolutely prefer to live in a country where my fellow man work for a “non-productive” factory in Sweden, or any other advanced European economy, than in the US.

And quite frankly, if management wants to exploit their workers, they can go fuck themselves.
I would even argue that cryptocurrencies are worse than banks. They are unregulated and some politicians believe wrongly it is good. That is the worst possible combination?

By design cryptocurrencies make rich people richer. Either they buy more graphics-cards or disks or just steal processor power (a reminder: JavaScript in your browser can mine for others). The attempt with disk space make it even worse (Who had that idea? A drive manufacturer envy on Nvidia/AMD?). In the meanwhile electricity is wasted. And criminals love it.

There was never a chance that Bitcoin would improve anything. At least cash is anonymous and doesn’t need an internet connection.

btw.

Good news? Yes!
Real time transfer (SEPA) will likely soon not cost more than regular transfer in the EU. Good banks already don’t charge that. And it is a common federated standard. It is more complicated than forcing everyone to be a customer of one bank (named PayPal) but already works well for years.
It is sort of like learning a piano. You learn cords. You break words into chunks and work out from there. Now after this whole thread I am conscious of it (grr). Also there are two little nubs on most keyboards on the f and j keys to get you into position quickly. Feel for the nubs and type away. Miss them and it is jumble city.
Maybe the quality of the Chinese competitors is/was worse but ESP32 and its predecessor have completely taken over the cheap BLE/WiFi segment by simply flooding hobbyists and students with ultra-cheap devkits.

Maybe something the Western competitors should learn from.
Better example is landmines.
Either you've a very short term memory or you are just very ignorant of what banks do with your money.
> The only technical advantage of early firearms was their lethality.

The article doesn't mention it - but firearms generally have a far greater psychological "punch" than bows & arrows. Especially when used at any scale, or against opponents unfamiliar with them - as would be the case for all but veteran troops, back in the early firearms era.
> Everything I see shows it as volatile as ever

What do you see?

When I look at highest month over month changes, I see:

2017: 95%
2018: 31%
2019: 41%
2020: 40%
2021: 58%
2022: 23%
2023: 19%

> something that is not fixed in nature is, IMHO, a far better system

Why?
> - it asks for a keyboard locale, which then relocated the @ symbol somewhere totally bizarre (why it would allow this instead of forcing the keyboard it is installed with is beyond me, and I just chose UK vs USA, as I am used to this choice being more important for autocorrect and AUS spelling is more UK than US. No - apparently there are a bunch of keyboard layout differences that will then mean you need to google in an external device to work out why the @ symbol has moved, which means you can’t log in with your Microsoft account

I'm sorry, but obviously the keyboard layout moves keys. How else would you expect someone to type using dvorak, have Z and Y keys swapped on German language keyboards or swap keys to perform the most common function for a language. ö and é for example are on the same key but swapped in which one you need Shift for between German and French layouts.
Omegle was a site nearly purely for weirdos and perverts. There could have been better controls put in place.. but the owners decided not to do that.
Presumably that headline would be "Nordics are Getting Involved in RISC-V"
In the same vein, I heard in a recent The Tim Traveller video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SQVIZxUrDg) that a third of the power produced from the coal excavated from one mine was used to power the excavators from that mine.
That's not the point - they promise to keep no logs, and the best way to demonstrate that they don't is to not even have any fixed storage in the servers at all (they presumably netboot from a read-only image). So they have done this with their VPN servers, now they are rolling out the strategy to DNS servers as well.
Yes, my experience with Windows 11 is that everything is constantly, in my case a Dell machine with extra OEM bloat to deal with. It can be harder for older people to deal with that, I'm already 30 and finding all that harder to navigate already.

Maybe sticking with an older version of that software that doesn't need windows 11 might be the best option if possible.
Indeed, it might take few days to weeks to do enough ML model iterations to get to the final few lines of model config changes that go to production.
No, that's just wrong. They can store these credentials encrypted with algorithms such as AES-256. No need to store them in plain text.

This is actually standard security practice when you absolutely have to store a key in a way that you can use it later, such as a password or an API key.
Sweden is fairly decent for avionics actually. For example we’ve designed and built our own fighter yet (the Gripen), which I’d say is impressive for a small country of 10 million inhabitants.

I’m interested in fundamental challenges around computing: programming languages, cloud platforms, operating systems, combinatorial optimization, database technology, machine learning and the like. Not many bleeding edge opportunities around that here.

We also have a work culture were effort and ability is not rewarded (which at least I associate with strong unions), but “playing politics” is. It’s very hard to stay motivated in a culture like that. I think this is an important part of the downward spiral.
High grade sarcasm? You had me going until the power button part.
Unless things have changed recently, Nordic is still king of low power applications.

With that being said, I've worked with both the Nordic NRF SDK and the Espressif SDK and greatly preferred Espressif.

For doo-dads that I make for my home, esp32 and esp8266 are fantastic. The modules are inexpensive and the community is huge. I would not want to be in Nordic's shoes right now.
It was all just a shit test. Your willingness or unwillingness to go along signaled your fortitude.
>> influential parts of society are still relying on them.

> waiters are now being exploited by their employers

So yes, employers are relying on tips to exploit waiters, and they have more influence on their society than the waiters.

To answer your point on societies that don't have a tipping culture (I guess you mean a vibrant tipping culture. I don't think there is any society with absolutely no tipping whatsoever): when the balance of influence changes, culture also changes.

As an example, French people had a wider tipping culture, but workers fought for higher minimum wages, stronger right, and gave the finger to conditions where they need tips to make a living, or even get paid fairly. Cafes and restaurants moved to baked in service fees, and staff doesn't expect any tip as they don't need to. Employees had more influence than their employers and the situation changed.
The Making of Zarch (An Interview with David Braben)
hindsight is 20/20.

Don't criticise people for making certain decisions years ago when those don't match what you'd choose to do now. Often you'll find that they were very reasonable given the constraints at the time.

Also the spec will have evolved over time with changes that would have been made under constraint of the existing system, which tends to produce things that are not as nice compared to something that was designed from the get-go to support the features. This is something that's seen very often in software engineering, and are probably partly a reason why long-lived codebases tend to be dumpster fires in general.

Calling them 'very biased and not very smart' is not very constructive.

That's not to say that the wheel format isn't a dumpster fire (I'll have to take your word on that), or hasn't morphed into one with time & revisions.
If this is taken a bit further, we might end up with the conclusion that it is better to not fight physically at all, instead opting to fight on paper and voluntarily administering some level of damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
Replace? Currently there's a choice of either. If someone wishes to use bow and arrow, they can.

This is a thinly veiled 'lets ban guns' but this is naive at best and when you understand why the second amendment is literally 300 IQ. Banning guns is not even close to the realm of possible.

I do have an expectation the 'free world' will inevitably adopt something similar to the second amendment. Though I expect restrictions like the lack of fully automatics will be written more explicitly.

Not to mention the reality that gun manufacturing is now worldwide, achievable at home and this can never ever be regulated for the rest of history.
* unless it’s productivity
I've recently found a great middle ground for this, using esbuild to drive code as I'm writing it, while my IDE may meanwhile be complaining that all my types are broken. Getting comfortable having "broken" types while something is still in development is a nice middle ground, helping you come back to the hot spots whenever you're ready, and acting as a forcing function prior to commit or push.
2D Radial blur is a separable filter [1], which means you can calculate it via first doing a 1D blur in one direction, and then using that intermediate result and doing a 1D blur in the other direction and it is equivalent to doing a 2D radial blur.

Could one modify the stack blur algorithm to also operate in a separable fashion? It seems to me that one can combine Stack Blur with the separable concept to get the best of both worlds.

Of course traversing the data in a way not aligned with its in-memory data layout may cause issues, so one would have to figure out an efficient way to do that. I can think of a few ways of doing that using prefetching.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_filter
> People like being locked into Apple as well.

I don't. I just use Windows and Linux occasionally and that reminds me why I prefer Mac OS.

It's easy to get lock in effects when the alternatives are crap wrt usability. Even if you can get larger numbers for less money on the spec sheet.
> Switching to low-tech weapons sounds unrealistic because it would require global cooperation

Imagine a version of game theory in which a defector gets a huge, overwhelming advantage, but everyone declines to defect because they just have so much integrity and a vision of a better world. Now imagine how different the universe would have to be for that to work.
Braid, Anniversary Edition trailer [video]
What's your use case?

(can't help, just curious)
We really are doomed because some people like to think of ways that we could kill fewer of each other?
Everything You Want to Hear
The general policy is: ask, if it's not like an obvious competitor and you assign copyright to Google you'll probably get it approved. Trying to own the project is extra work.
I mean, $800 is kinda cheap for self-worth, if we’re honest. Cheaper than a sports car or house with a view or own apartment or even one vacation someplace fancy.

But yeah, ideally one shouldn’t tie self worth to perishables.
Doist | Platform Engineer | Remote-first | Full-time | Learn more & apply (through November 14): https://doist.com/careers/86E3FE7734-platform-engineer

Doist | iOS Engineer | Remote-first | Full-time | Learn more & apply (through Novemver 27): https://doist.com/careers/296CCEE773-ios-engineer

At Doist, we're building the future of work.

We envision a future in which people can work without distractions from anywhere in the world on things that they are passionate about and then unplug at the end of the day with the reassuring peace-of-mind that their tasks and teamwork are accounted for.

All our roles are fully remote, so you'll be free to work from wherever you please and on a schedule that works best for you.

To learn more about who we are and how we work, please check out our blog: https://blog.doist.com/
I agree, but that's a very generous description of what Mozilla is doing. I'd say they're less "developing a competitive browser" and more "keeping an uncompetitive browser on life support to continue to profit off it".
I think it's quite nice and intuitive to describe a pipe of filters as: filter | filter | filter. Also note that a single filter in jq is 1:N, 1 input N output where N can be zero which is a very useful feature. To express this in python etc you would probably need nested for i in (for j in ...)) and/or also use nested yield from somehow which results in a note a very CLI/ad-hoc query friendly syntax
>it's OK if a corporation violates your rights

Wrong. It's that kind of shitty, just roll over, thinking that let everything get as bad as it has.
The "Just let a 3rd party do it" loophole needs to be closed.
It doesn't quite work like this, what the banks are doing is blocking the ingress/egress points, the points where real money is transferred back and forth from real money to blockchain money. The bank never sees a bitcoin address and it would be rather useless anyway.

The way bitcoin wallets work nowadays is that when you have some bitcoin on an address and you sent some coins to somebody it splits into two addresses, the receiver and a new address signed with your wallet key. But it is non-trivial to introspect the blockchain to know which of the two addresses you control now. It isn't perfect anonymity but it also isn't as trivial as creating a blocklist of addresses or wallets.
Ok but if you're goal is actually some form of altruism, wouldn't keeping a clearly innovative person around forever be more useful than rolling your dice with whoever is taking his spot? Statistically, they are going to be not as useful (depending on your definition of useful of course).
The only sarcasm there is the first line.
Land mines are not banned by any of the major powers (China, Russia, USA)
Amazon doesn't usually ship with DHL in France. But there's another comically bad company, not sure how they're still in business.

It's rare the Amazon sends something via them, but whenever they do, I expect to not get the package. And when I don't, I just call up Amazon support and complain about them and make it a point to mention I often have issues with that specific company. They usually offer to cancel the shipment and reship overnight. Don't know if they can actually control it or if it's coincidence, but all reshipments have been via Amazon.
Why Signals Are Better Than React Hooks [video]
That is a seriously impressive amount of power. In case anyone else is curious, it apparently provided fuel for about one hundred nuclear reactors, from that power.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-to-start-d...
> Does Tesla have a chance/way of operating in Sweden without collective bargaining?

Sure it does. It just has to survive the “sympathy actions” from many of the other unions. As I understand it many of the actual Tesla employees refuse to go on strike.
I use emacs like that. When first getting into it, 20 years ago, I was very much as described above - slowly pulling everything in my life into emacs. And then the iPhone arrived, and I started pulling out things that I wanted to do mobile: email, to do lists, and eventually notes, and recipes. Most recently, I’ve started doing JavaScript in VS code, as the LLM assistants are better than what I’ve got in emacs, but I suspect this is temporary.

I find the emacs works best when it does everything, but there’s stuff it just doesn’t do, so I do that stuff elsewhere. I look outside of emacs if I think the task is going to be done mobile, and even then, I generally choose a solution that produces plain text so I can do it inside emacs if required - but sometimes that just doesn’t work out.
New Outlook also fails at its second job for me, it won’t fetch email unless it’s the active window.
The only way I've seen it work (rarely) long term is with extensive unit tests and that takes incredible discipline.
Hennessy and Patterson is obviously a major work in our field but its hard numbers are slightly antique. Patterson has produced several papers, talks, and presentations recently that are better informed by being a hyperscaler insider.
it's a stretch to call Jezebel's content "knowledge"
We've banned the use of landmines globally?

Someone should tell Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmines_in_Ukraine
> You can't do that in a heavily competitive market that's already full of these products.

What heavily competitive market, the mobile phone duopoly?

Google has half the market, they are not the poor incumbent that doesn't have enough money to be disruptive.
Is this article serious? Can you imagine if the UN tried to prohibit Ukraine from using firearms to defend themselves?

Clearing a room with a bow and arrow? This is some really ignorant, ivory tower drivel.
> We're kind of looking for a straight "No" here from our politically involved Billionaires.

It’s a bad faith question that’s not worth asking, except as a setup for bad faith innuendo-mongering. Which is why one of the longest Theil quotes in the article is Theil describing some nobody’s theory of light fascism—-the only purpose it serves is a setup for a smear. There is nothing that Theil has ever said that would indicate that his politics are in line with FDR’s. Theil’s answer reflects that.

> Doubly so if they've just claimed "America isn't a democracy".

Yikes. He is observing an objective fact. America is and always has been constitutional republic, which is distinct from a democracy. Isn’t it amazing how Theil’s statement of a fact can be dressed up with innuendo and presented as though it was evidence of something sinister?

> Triply so if we think any of their Libertarian stylings are seriously what they believe.

I’m not sure what you mean.

> For actual fascism a "No, that's entirely incompatible with every Libertarian principle I've ever publicly espoused" would be more comforting.

As your comments have illuminated, there is no good-faith reason to be concerned about Theil being a fascist, so why would he feel the need to breathlessly disavow it? He says it’s bad policy. He’s right. Pretending that there is anything to be learned from the manner of his reply—-especially that it amounts to a revelation that all of his espoused beliefs are a lie—-is deceitful and unserious.