skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure but we're talking in a technical forum where most of people work in software. Most devs in Poland make good or really good money.

That may be, but on the topic of emigration from the EU to US, I was talking about the general population and what reasons they may have to move there since the initial question was about Germans wanting to move to the US, not about German devs exclusively wanting to move to the US, so please not move the goalposts to just to the SW dev bubble.

Yes, I'm aware many SW devs in Europe can build comfy lives, especially in low-Col eastern Europe with western wages, but again, that's a bubble of a small subset of the country's total workforce. The vast majority of Poles not working in tech don't earn that well at all (average salary in Poland is 20,265 EUR/year, and if you exclude well paid SW devs it's probably much lower) so pretty sure they might be more inclined to move to the US is given the chance at a 5x or so pay bump.

>I can't imagine a person who makes minimal and moves to US in hopes of making more.

The alternative to well paid SW dev careers in Europe is not minimal wage person living paycheck to paycheck. There are other jobs in between that pay mediocre or sub-mediocre in most EU countries but pay stellar in the US. For example my office mate's brother moved to the US(North Carolina) to work in banking just like he did in Austria but according to him he "gets paid bank just to move money from one account to another and has less stres than at his job in Europe".

Same for other average jobs as well, that while not living paycheck to paycheck in Europe, don't allow you to build any wealth either, but in the US can get paid significantly more even adjusted to CoL(North Carolina is not Poland cheap but it's not SV expensive either).
I don't have the impression that anybody here is discussing a single external hard drive.

Also, there's nothing particularly "enterprise" or technically exceptional in backup software that can read old versions of files (for testing) while writing new ones (for current backups) and can copy old backups to new storage locations.
Sure, but they’re also probably planning work for 2024. They may just figure they have more people than they need at the moment.
Anyone here did see an improvement in memory retrieval after switching from taking notes by typing on their computer to taking notes on something like Remarkable?
There’s a difference between thinking an argument is bad and being offended by it. (For what it’s worth, I think GP’s response is also worse than it could’ve been. On the other hand, I’m not seeing any accusation of trolling—i.e. of bad faith—in GGP’s comment.)
Messing around with Linux and BSD hosts one my home LAN in the 90's and 00's is how I learned enough to make colleagues believe I actually new something about networks and systems administration. Well, it did teach me - though I still feel like an impostor among academically trained network engineers.

Same with my serious involvement in the Openstreetmap project, where I learned everything I could about geographic data just prior to having a major corporate GIS system dumped on my lap.

Have fun, follow the white rabbit - he'll lead you to the good stuff !
Never done the grit scale, and I'm not convinced it's a relaible measure as a one off, self-assessment scale.

Grit, resilience, mental toughness, growth mindset are all great concepts but they're not really able to be measured in a validated way that produces reliable data.
It's how most of the crypto market fools people.

Some guy clones bitcoin in his basement, increases the block size/rate (or something stupid like that to use as a sales pitch), sticks a picture of a moon on it, pre-mines 99.99% and then the next day puts the remaining 0.01% on the market, it's bid up by his friends and bingo, "market cap" of $100B in 24hrs.
> Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch?

I don’t understand why this hyperbolic title is needed; the patent infringement dispute is over pulse oximetry, right? If compelled to do so, would Apple not just remove that feature and keep selling the watch? I own one such Apple Watch; as far as I know it has no ability to estimate arterial O2 saturation.
Interesting timing considering the on-going process of unionizing.
Would you be so kind to translate those?
Not really true for Germany during the cold war, pretty sure that wasn't the only example. Just think about things like security clearances.
Anyone know if there is a name for this 3D control schema? This feels like one of the most intuitive setups I've ever used.
Spotify made a gamble that having some headline Podcasters would build the listener market. Podcasters release regularly and have a different potential for becoming viral compared to musicians so it's a valid commercial decision to make.

Seems like their headline gambles didn't work but googling suggests that the podcast listener market increased 10% in the last year so I think they'll probably try again.
It's baffling that an experienced mechanic wouldn't know that there's often a 2x-5x price difference in "genuine", "OEM" and "third-party" auto-parts. It's something you usually learn the first time you repair your car as an amateur.

So he knows about that, but "I couldn't wait for overnight shipping, or otherwise I could have replaced all the coils for the cost of just one OEM one at the dealership" doesn't build the same amount of YouTube drama.
That's so cool of you to say this. Please email me at chris@extrastatic.com with any questions or feedback!

And, as a bonus I'll share all the warts with you! It's not perfect but I love blogging with it.
Just played this game and honestly I'm impressed how it's made. Interesting to see how it works even if it's simplified.
I think it’s a mistaken reference to https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Ketubot.7.10 which mentions trades like a tanner but doesn’t mention a dyer.
> Subscribe to Premium Membership to read the rest.

No.
GP has a point about Point of Sales tech, and especially the reluctance of many people about giving credit card info to a random website.

I wonder if the use of a Sales Website facade is more accurate about this -- by this I mean the practice of setting up a sales site before the product is ready, solely to count how much of your traffic converts. It's not an uncommon practice and I'm guessing it would give a more accurate estimate than simply asking "would you pay for this?" merely as a hypothetical.
It is a bad idea to use "makemake" as a name, I have seen/heard about at least 5 different programs/scripts/... called makemake during the last 25 years, each of which had been quite widespread (I wouldn't have heard of that 20 years ago if it hadn't ;). And nowadays I get quite a number of Github repos called "makemake".
And there is always makedepend (and similar named programs) too, of course.

I don't want to sound too negative, but what does this version do that all the other existing 13843215 versions don't?
this may be useful:
https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens
the sun isn't magic, we now have the tech
>but twitter threw everyone into one big melting pot.

Threw everyone using twitter into one big melting pot.
Unsupervised Event-Based Independent Motion Segmentation
There's no such thing as intrinsic value
It's much worse than this. On Unix '\000' (NUL) and '\057' (/) are the _only_ things that are not allowed. Anything else, whether it's valid in any encoding or not, is allowed.
A nuclear plant is just as weaponizable as any large dam...
I don't see how it's related. If anything this will accelerate that.
It is very weather resistant, our prototypes all live outdoors 100% of the time so it is developed in the rain. We don't get snow where we are so we will need to do more testing in snow as things develop.

It is not yet aware of its surroundings.

We are still finalizing the first version to ship, so currently no other machines are in use outside of our farm. We are working on getting there!

> Nice Al welding btw.

Thank you, though I don't understand. I do all the welding myself by hand. We also have a CNC plasma cutter for cutting parts. It doesn't use AI, just Gcode. :)
Think of it as a horse. So, it looks like OP is referring to a very stable horse. Although it would probably be a stretch to call it a dependable workhorse..

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9E2797

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9E2798
> scholarly societies are still organized around paid journals.

They aren’t necessarily. In some branches of linguistics, history, and archaeology, for example, the major journals are still published by learned societies or national academies of science, and they are open-access and authors don’t pay to publish. The costs are covered by the massive endowments that the learned societies sit on (some were founded in the 19th century).
This “just so” take reminds me of a classic “Hark! A Vagrant” comic: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=340
To get my foot in the door (early 2000's) - I had to bring in "stuff" that I have done for universtity, and personal projects.

After a few unsuccessful interviews, I was going to revisit what would be best for demonstration.

However, another interview came along and decided to try one last time with my existing software and hobby demos.

One demo was a C++ engine/game I wrote in my spare time. It was first person and dynamic lights (it was a thing back then). I was showing the editor side, which had 4 windows... front, side, top, and 3d.

It was fortunate because they had a C++ project, and nobody really wanted to touch it. So I gained bonus points to getting for being open to it.

The other demos I was showing was me mucking around with Javascript. One silly game was a helicopter trying to hit balloons. It had music and sfx.

Surprisingly, of what I presented, he was really interested in the html+js demos, as they are doing a lot of web applications and want to push one of their existing products with more functionality.. animation, drag+drop, images, automation, etc.

Its funny. I felt like I had nothing to really show that would land me a job. On this ocassion, I managed to show things that just happens to link with real projects (in one way or another) they are doing. They pretty much offered me a 2 day trial (on a thurs and fri) to see how I would get on. The good news I passed without issue. They gave me a web project, heavy in javascript -- and to 1) avoid full post back (refresh) and 2) to support drag+drop.

I knew a little PHP at the time (more into C\C++) but they were using VB.NET - so managed to learn a lot in those 2 days, and meet their expectations.

I was officially a Junior Developer on Monday... and they decided to remove "junior" from my job title a few months later.
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514537 (got too many comments so disappeared from front page)
Anecdotally, most of the podcasts I listen to advertise as being on Spotify, especially the ones that skew towards a more mainstream audience. I think Spotify's podcast play has largely worked to gain the mindshare, it's really just them and Apple Podcasts.

I suspect this means that Spotify subscribers are listening to plenty of podcasts, but perhaps podcasts failed to bring new listeners into Spotify.
Generate your AI clone and monetize your community
One that I left out, Project Phoenix from Microsoft Research, using MSIL for similar purposes, with C# and C++ compilers.

Unfortunely when they killed the project, little was left on the Internet, and they have other projects with the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Phoenix

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/channel-9-video-andy-...

The paper "An overview of the PL.8 compiler" refers to how they implemented a multi-stage IL pipeline to write a mostly safe systems programming for IBM RISC project.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800230.806977

Unfortunely there isn't much publicly available, and IBM eventually pivoted the RISC efforts into AIX, thus abandoning this effort.

Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit used EM intermediate language as its bitcode format,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit

If you delve into ACM, IEEE, SIGPLAN and related stuff, there will be similar projects, LLVM ended up getting the spotlight thanks to Apple and Google's sponsorship, followed by others in the industry.

I still hope that GraalVM (nee MaximeVM at Sun Research Labs) will keep going, as it is yet another approach for compiler toolkits, with a safer language.
HFSP :-D
I agree on the RCD part. An "off the shelf" one would be cheaper and more safe IMHO. Appart from that, good job ! :-)
Do you have any pointers to such fineprint?
I can't find it nor did I notice it when I just very recently began using Backblaze.
>Reliability: unless you’re multi-bilion customer nobody cares, Google can simply ban your account and they won’t assign a human intern to perhaps reconsider dropping all your data because the effort would never pay

Because of course it just has to be Google that you use for your cloud storage? We can't consider any of the dozens and dozens of cloud alternatives also available with much better customer service involving real humans?
> "For centuries, builders tried to cut costs by limiting how much cement they used and incorporating recycled waste materials into their concrete," says Salvatore Aprea, head of the Acm research group. "The challenge now is to revive these old methods—not for financial reasons but for the sake of our planet."

I put it to you that if it was financially viable and simple ("ancient methods"), it would already be done.

Good luck to them
I was thinking, "This is a strange thing to get pissy about," but then realised you're in the middle of winter, so probably not in a great mood.

Living in the southern hemisphere it's hot here at the moment and were keeping an eye on the bushfire reports.
It sounds like you would appreciate Vue3 and its <script setup> mode, the compiler does a lot of ref() and data flow analysis to make the code for components very readable.
Joe Rogan isn't an insightful, active listener like Charlie Rose was and with actual interesting guests at a higher signal level.
Eh -- most home offices tend to end up in bedrooms, which in the US are obligated to have a window that a person could fit through (or to have some other secondary exit aside from a door).

One problem is where the window faces. A north-facing window, or a window facing into a hillside or into a courtyard, does not allow sufficient sunlight. In London, my flat is in a Victorian terraced house, and the bedroom I'd use as a home office has a window which only has views of the house next door, and very little natural light. (That said, probably still more natural light than I got in my office, where I'm essentially in a corridor.)
What do you think the employees do?

I imagine there's a big team dedicated to getting inventory on the service through negotiations with music producers around the world. You'd need to keep them to continue expanding, adding newly produced music, and re-negotiating expiring deals.

There will be a large editorial team producing playlists, curation, tuning the algorithm with expertise, etc. That all needs to be localised and to cover lots of niche music tastes. That's also not evergreen content or work, it needs constant updates to remain relevant.

Then there's international expansion and enabling the tech to work for more countries, more languages, more payment methods, more types of music publishing.

Honestly, where do you get "80%"?
Another option: jless.

You can then copy the path and use in jq with "yq".
Vibe Logging: The Value in Tracking Emotions Through Time
> government prints and gives everyone a million dollars

I think you might be conflating unrelated economic boogeymen.

UBI is not at all about the government "printing" money. It's a redistribution of taxes, such that the net government taxation income remains the same.

The total money supply remains constant.
It's still pretty negligible. Take public transport once instead of driving and you've more than offset a lifetime of downloading OS updates.

There are so many low hanging enormous fruit to pick that it makes almost no sense to start with the very difficult and insignificant ones.
Without much consequence?

Only if you hide behind the shield of anonymity. Which you can't really do in the real world.
Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
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- TensorFlow
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- OpenCV
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- Pandas
- Wordpress
- Scikit-learn
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Spotify itself is not sustainable and going for the podcast crowed...

I still think it was not a smart move...

Its like that blue haired streamer going from twitch to what ever the msft clone of it was.

Yes Spotify is super popular but I hear more and more people moving away from it to for example apple music or other services.

They don't focus on the core anymore that much.

For example they are super late on the lossless audio train.

Yes you can hear a difference from spotify and apple music.
I tested it with all my colleagues in the office. You can clearly hear that apple music or tidal sounds better then the spotify versions.
Bitcoin's Growing Water Footprint
the sadder and more impactful legacy of a dye is Indigo - which is not lost or forgotten. It was in such great demand that Europe funded explorers like Vasco Da Gama specifically to discover the source of Indigo.

Named after India, it was one of the incentives for colonisation and indeed the Great Bengal Famine (which affected 30 million people).

It became one of the most remarkable peasant movements of Indian history against the British. It came to be called the Neel Bidroha or the Indigo Revolt.

The Indigo famine drama script that was created by the Anglican priest James Long and Indian writer Dinabandhu Mitra - Nil Darpan (Indigo Mirror) - was the root cause of the creation of the National Theatre in Kolkata. The British banned the play in England saying it "slandered British women for desiring the Indigo dye".

The National Theatre (and the Indigo play) in Kolkata kickstarted the Indian commercial performing arts industry...eventually culminating in Bollywood.
How, specifically?

What makes this worse than Colonial shutting down from a cyber attack?
But why do they have so many in the first place?

9000 employees. My gods.

What are all these people doing?!
So in other words, Google in particular has a reliability issue (big news flash there). Unless you're nitpicking for its own sake, you presumably know there are many other cloud options out there for which you can even use your own encryption system (think boxxryptor, cryptomator, reclone, etc) for maximum privacy. It's neither expensive or hard to run simultaneous, fairly simple multiple cloud backups of one's device data with different providers that each have better customer service reputations than google.
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It's not inherently ridiculous. Administration is a non-zero cost. Anything below that cost is cheaper to give rather than administer.

Hip operations are a weird counter example to refute UBI. They're obviously not universally applicable and are more expensive in cost and resources than the administration overhead. That's leaving aside the ethical issues of giving people unnecessary surgery.
Nuclear power is vastly better in terms of emissions, so I'd argue that blowing up a plant or two is worth stopping global warming. But why target plants when a dirty bomb attack would be way easier and more effective?

Additionally, most countries don't have the resources to pull off something like Stuxnet, and the ones that do have much more to gain through corporate and government espionage.
I first joined Google in 2010. Back then user data concerns were about good security and engineering. There wasn't a big bureaucracy around regulatory compliance. GDPR didn't even come into effect until 2018.

Our data wasn't actually "user data" in the sense Google usually deals with. It wasn't data collected incidentally after click-through consent from billions of random people on the internet as they use their computers in daily life. It was ~100 people, many of them employees, who voluntarily participated in a one hour in-person data collection session after signing ink-on-paper consent forms, who received monetary compensation for the use of their data, and the data was used solely for training and evaluating models and not cross-linked with any other data for any other purpose. But Google's privacy bureaucracy wanted to apply the same processes and standards as user data collected continuously from billions of internet users.

But of course ultimately it didn't matter. The privacy bureaucracy issues were not at all related to the division-wide strategy pivot that killed our team (and many others). It just made my life very frustrating for the year or so before that happened. And I understand why the bureaucracy exists. In today's climate the PR risk to Google from a hit piece headline like "Google scans your eyeballs and we have the leaked data" is much higher than the probable benefit from a small team's engineering work. So they err on the side of slowing things way down. But that doesn't make it any less frustrating for that small team. And it makes me quite pessimistic about the future development of new technology at Google. I expect that their continuing failure to deploy AI anywhere near as good as GPT-4 can be attributed to similar locally rational risk-averse bureaucracy...
"Bitcoin’s water footprint has rapidly escalated in recent years. The water footprint of Bitcoin in 2021 significantly increased by 166% compared with 2020, from 591.2 to 1,573.7 GL. The water footprint per transaction processed on the Bitcoin blockchain for those years amounted to 5,231 and 16,279 L, respectively. As of 2023, Bitcoin’s annual water footprint may equal 2,237 GL. To address this increasing water footprint, miners could apply immersion cooling and consider using power sources that do not require freshwater."

At 16,279 litres per Bitcoin transaction, you can literally fill a swimming pool with the water wasted each time some coins are moved.

POW cryptomining is simply an environmental disaster and needs to be outlawed. There's no room for "well what about all the energy spent on [unrelated thing X]" because society can do multiple things at once, you know. We can address this relatively new issue now while also trying to solve the more entrenched environmental problems separately.
how much difference does lossless make on the typical headphones in use with mobile devices?