skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of using nuclear waste to protect pristine natural environments is a good one. It's the most effective one we have today. After a few generations I heard animals aren't affected anymore, it also depends on the kind of fallout.
Java Object Layout (JOL) Tool
Demystifying Bitcoin's Ownership Landscape
Voluntary commitment in Berlin Freifunk.
De Programmatica Ipsum on Software in Space
I have used local drives for my data for decades. I have data since 1995. Nowadays I also have a remote offline backup somewhere. It seems to work for me so far.
Early in the iOS days I wrote a car lease/loan payment app. Nothing fancy if you knew how to use a business calculator, but it quickly did all the calculations for lease/loan buying. The UI was so-so, but it worked and I had gotten some feedback it was useful. I had only built it for myself and then released it on the App Store b/c why not.

The app ended up referenced in a later interview I had and helped land a job doing mobile development. This was very early days of iOS development, so just navigating the mess of getting an app signed and uploaded was sometimes a challenge.
How difficult was it to connect to banking API to get the transaction list?
Not really. I have someone reach out every couple months because they saw something I worked on that relates to the technology that team is using. If you take a framework and do something cool with it, and the people who work on it find out about it (say, because someone spotted it on social media) they will often look to see if they can hire you. If you want to improve your chances, pick a technology few people are using and make something cool with that: there’s a lot of people who are experts on UIKit but very few who understand how AirPlay works. To get scouted for the former you have to be really, really interesting.
> you have to hold the whole data structure in RAM

Sure, but something is seriously wrong if a 15 MB JSON data structure uses more than 32 GB of RAM.
Never slept better getting older; I used to do 3-5 hour nights in my 20s because of stress for my company, sold the company and had no worries anymore so slept 8-9 hours/day. Opened another company but with far less worries (if it fails it’s sad but far from the existential stress the first company was) so now into my 50s I lay down, pass out and wake exactly 8 hours later. Usually remembering at least a few dreams.

I remember my granddad having the complete reverse; he slept well when younger (during WOII, which I would think is an actual existential threat vs monetary one) and when he was 50, he would take heavy sleeping pills and then even only get 4 hours or so.
VSCode with a code-d plugin.
I install software from credible sources. I do reuse configs from dotfiles off the Internet - just like most people do.

There are way more configs out there than there are software projects.
Is there an effort to provide formal verification features for a safe subset of the D language similar to ADA’s SPARK and related tooling?
Or maybe we could just ditch react and everything like it? Not everyone uses it now, and many large websites are built in simpler ways despite not using ‘modern JavaScript’.

Is all this pain and complexity really worth the gain? In practice it often leads to a slower experience for users due to the massive globs of js.
Most probably not. If civilians heard it, you’d expect half a dozen of semi-competent militaries would have done so as well. And some of those militaries have objectives that don’t neatly align or have less than stellar opsec.

Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
An updated ER-X with double the ports would be awesome. That's just not a market that ubnt seems to want to be in now. Cloud connected everything isn't something I want.
Vue.js is and isn't. It did ""fine grained reactivity getter setter proxy something"" before it was cool [0].

At this point I can't stop myself from pointing out that the underlying reactivity/diffing system is rarely what makes an application slow. I've heard the creator of XState and Stately [1] say that React's vdom is not fast enough for updating edges in their state chart in real time without lots of optimisations and I believe him. It's just that most people don't encounter such issues and spend adding a dozen tracking scripts that run before the actual application does.

0 - https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/reactivity-in-depth.html#conn...

1 - https://stately.ai/
Is it a brain, though? As far as I understand it it's mostly stochastic calculations based on language or image patterns whose rule sets are static and immutable. Every conceivable idea of plasticity (and with that: a form of fake consciousness) is only present during training.

Add to that the fact that a model is being trained actively and the weights are given by humans and the possible realm of outputs is being heavily moderated by an army of faceless low paid workers I don't see any semblance of a brain but a very high maintenance indexing engine sold to the marketing departments of the world as a "brain".
Yeah that's a bug, no amount of buffering can justify that amount of memory.

And gron -u in theory should use less memory than gron-ifying a JSON, as you just have to fill a data structure in memory as you go.
Americans have preserved their history somewhat. https://youtu.be/aB6AUYr6Ecs great channel, fascinating especially their collapsing hierarchies. They formed temporary hierarchies to build luxurious settlements for everyone to live in, then collapsed back into being non hierarchical.
> iphone hangs while trying to match "blu" up with "bluetooth settings"

So many background tasks, much computation
You don't. Biology is a weird and wonderful thing and all these behaviours are ingrained deep. You arent changing anythibg without likely making it way worse through unforeseen outcomes. What we have to do instead is harness these emotions for financially wiping out the weak wealth inheritors mich more effectively so that it is rare to get more than 3 or 4 generations of these people with no skill growing the pot. One generation of imbecile/useless person needs to be likely to wipe out the pot.This would take the form of such things as (but not limited to) drastically limiting the controls one can keep on inheritances through time so more money ends up in inheritors hands with no restrictions sooner, finding a way to make private equity mich riskier/more evemly allocated so that the expected return for rich people is lower (but skilled rich can still earn high returns), more effectibely limiting corporate market power abuse by more effectively breaking up oligopolies (dont have to go back to prerehnquist levels of trust breaking but need to jead back in that direction some), etc.
I remember a blog post entry on HN of someone who turned their corner office/living room into some sunlight simulated thing with high candela bespoke bulbs. Maybe with the search at the bottom you will find it.
I think there are better languages to try to convert to, and as long they run on top of JVM, it should be fine.
Similar story with the startup I just joined. Not hard getting talent. Rent's dirt cheap in SF.
The Talmud specifically gave women the right to divorce their husband if they became a dye maker after marriage because of how badly they stank.
Once one gaming generation doesn't grow up on windows.. It's dead.
When they learn how to do all the things with the in game modding language.
It has no real comeback.
It can open up, become a 2nd Linux, but then why?
Yeah, hibernate is weird on linux. Even after getting it working, there are a few warts with amdgpu for example.

I really appreciate distros that add an ext4 label to your root partition, so that you can just add resume=LABEL=Root to your kernel cmdline and get hibernation ready, nothing else needed. I do a custom arch install and make sure to do that. You can do it later from a live usb as well, iirc, e2label is the command.
In Brazil's Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve
A multi-GPU FHE library build with PyTorch
¡Somos como cuatro!

Dozens of us! Dozens!
It may be possible to use the web SDK directly in a Capacitor app - it could be sufficient for initial development, but I wouldn't recommend that for production use. It would use the webview's IndexedDB as for persistence, which is not ideal for a native app. For the Capactitor SDK, we would use native SQLite, which would have better performance and more control over storage.
OpenAI Assistant Use Case: Proofreading Bot in Slack
Building custom AI using OpenAI Assistant is extremely simple. The article describes how to build one and add it to Slack.
> It is more a question as to why scholarly societies are still organized around paid journals.

That is a decision by granting agencies and administrators who distribute funding. The scholars will organize around whatever the people who pay them tell them to.
Consumer bulbs do not typically emit UVA or UVB, so you can’t simulate the sun with just one bulb.
>Most Germans I know in tech (lived in Germany for 5 years or so) would never want to move the US.

And yet GP did, and others more like him. FWIW I had two German bosses who emigrated to the US(one to California, one to Atlanta), so the US is clearly an attractive place for them and they say they loved it there just like GP.

The majority of Germans talking about how much they hate the US, have never lived there but they hate it nevertheless because it's a populat thing to hate in Germany, and also they don't work in tech, or need to rely on the welfare state, or are already from well off families where the lower local salaries make no difference. The ones working in tech who don't rely on the welfare state, are quite open to the idea of moving there for the right money.

Sure, if GP was one of those Germans from a mid-upper class background with a nice inherited Bavarian house (unaffordable at any German working wage) then immigrating to the US makes no sense as he already would have enough prosperity at home, but if you have no wealth and want to build it, then working in the US tech sector is much better than working in Germany.

So no, a blanket generalization cannot be made of "Germans wanting to move to the US", as that highly depends on their social/wealth class and career.

Edit: seems I upset the apple cart with my comment. Sorry, next time I'm gonna parrot the HN accepted "Germany-Good, US-Bad" party line if that pleases the crowd.
Thanks, friend!
Well, a PSX doesn't have any speakers on its own.
Certainly. People utilize wrong words all the time.

If I were to choose a fancier word than "used" for that particular sentence, I might go with "employed".
You can't do a 'lumen' lamp. The IR rays are what help. Anecdotally it felt good to cover my hands with the old lamps, and the cfls and LED lights never "felt" good.
Docker-Like Layer Caching on VMs
It’s because Amazon is an e-commerce store. They only win if you return and buy a more expensive one from another brand on Amazon. Brands however have a brand reputation to preserve, hence the need to avoid triggering buyer’s remorse.
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> the final fall of Carthage in the second Punic war

The final (non-metaphorical) Fall happened at the end of the third Punic War about 50 years later.
In other news, Coca-Cola wants ads on every Pepsi label.
I think it depends largely on age - “new builds” (1980s onwards) often have a brick partition wall down the middle and the rest plaster/wood stud. The last couple of houses (significantly older) I’ve lived in have been pretty much all brick walls.

We’ve got 3 UniFi APs downstairs here, 2 up. There are still things on the periphery that only just cling on, and when you’ve got stuff like that it takes a lot of airtime.
Why staff loyalty is not always a good thing
Ive set that to guided access so my child can play with the phone. If anyone from Apple are reading this consider it a feature request to start this and guided access from the top right control panel. I need both.
I wonder how many of us got their life trajectories completely altered by that crisis. Mine sure was.

There's this fun question "if you could change one thing from the past...", and I don't know how to answer it truthfully, because we are the sum of everything in our past, the good and the bad, and I like where I am today... but man, that crisis was rough.
[In the comment above, they] wrote Gitlab CI.

You make it sound as if they are Gitlab CI's author.
Considering OwnCloud’s current breach following recent acquisition, you might want to check out the NextCloud fork, which seems to be actively worked on

https://nextcloud.com/blog/security-statement/
Distributive Justice
I wrote a small application for personal use to generate custom ruling sheets for calligraphy practice and put it online. I didn't get a job because of this or anything but I learnt about PDF structures, creating them, overlaying etc.

This knowledge and quick demos I was able to do because of it enabled me to get multiple client projects.
Time, presumably.
From a different direction, it was taught in one section of my university's data structures course. We were guinea pigs (https://forum.dlang.org/post/km96ho$2grm$1@digitalmars.com), but I recall the experience being fun and students largely enjoying D. Transitioning to C++/Java in later coursework and professionally was a breeze.
Yeah that made me really anxious while reading this. That's the first thing I hammer into fresh hires and interns who are "lucky" enough to end up dealing with shell scripts.
Are you young enough that most of your friends don’t have children yet?
I never used svelte, so it’s probably a weird question, but how is increment() called?
They say unformatted, and they mean it. One giant wall of text.

Edit: And completely uninspectable, un-curlable, un-requests-able. What a nasty webpage.
I wasn't here for it, but my understanding is that our previous boss really liked D.

(Once you have an internal D ecosystem, you start selecting for D developers, who then prefer to keep using D, and so it persists.)
You don't need 100% UVI 11 damage 1-2hr a day. That large fraction removed is functioning well for him and preventing him from sunburn.
Venezuela voters approve claim to oil-rich swath of Guyana
depending on the device and instruction set the swap is entirely free, e.g. where it's just a choice of a different load instructions (or the cool arches where you just make an unaligned read, the lsb triggers swapping).

If energy is your concern making arches more energy efficient for swapping is the sensible thing as there are already many protocols and file formats in network order. There is fundamentally no reason for it to have a energy cost at all.

And if you're really concerned about energy, the energy needed to communicate and store bits usually vastly dominates the energy needed to compute on them. On that basis protocols should be using varrious tightly packed / variable length encodings instead.
It's kind of amazing that this travesty of a page is a Next.js app, where the "unformatted text" is embedded in https://www.stripe.press/_next/static/chunks/pages/poor-char..., and someone bothered to write some custom CSS for it. An actual unformatted HTML page would be infinitely less hostile.
I’ve never seen this. Can you screenshot what they’re showing you?
It's amazing that, as mentioned in the interview, a question as apparently simple as "What is sleep for?" doesn't have a definitive answer in 2023.
Granted, I haven't used Gitlab CI in 5 years, but I would not praise it either. In fact, the entire Gitlab UI and UX annoyed me so much I moved our company repos to GitHub.

The latest redesign where they grouped all the sidebar links into even more categories just made it ludicrously worse.
95.000% to 5.000%.

They didn’t even try to make the fake election numbers seem plausible.
OP’s story is from 2014-2015.

I’m not German but French, however I do feel that this "Silicon Valley dream" upon developers was still existing in this era.

It was at that time that we started to have startups in Europe who tried to follow the SV culture. GAFAMs were still seen as cool enough to envy a well paid job at them. A lot of SV startups weren’t openly privacy hostile (or maybe the issue wasn’t took seriously enough).

But I felt that this "dream" was only upon developers at that time and it stoped sometimes after. In fact, in 2015, while on a trip to SF, I ate with a former French coworker who decided to live the dream and he was already saying to me that he wanted to come back in Europe because he couldn’t stand the ambiant culture anymore.

It wasn’t the job, he loved it, performed well, was well paid. It wasn’t even the people, he made some friends there, felt like people were genuinely nice.

But it was more the delusion about the SV-Life and the mismatch in cultural values and in the global society lifestyle in which he felt you were nothing to others / to the society without money.

Now I do feel like that this sentiment about the US is now more mainstream in Europe even amongst those who never came in USA.

ps : I urge you to not read any criticism in my comment, I’m describing a general sentiment from the other side of an ocean, probably with a big bias. But I do feel this sentiment is pretty recent and it’s probable that Trump made it way worse.
> They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss,

Aaaaaaaaand who said they paid him?

Not the OP, for sure. It seems like the disabled person set the system up in their own time to help the company communicate with him in meetings.

>or go task Emil to go do it to ... avoid 'appearances'?

They could hire Emil to live-transcribe the speech into text.

They could hire the services of a professional company that would set up speech recognition for their meetings.

They could have done a lot of things.

What they did is nothing. Gee, a software company gave their employee a laptop, how totally unheard of!

Why are people here so willing to pass this off as some act of charity?
Thank you for the quick guide!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet
Okay. First of all, you need to ignore NTFS permissions — to do that, you need to either reboot into Windows' recovery mode or use another OS that supports mounting NTFS read-write.

To disable Windows Update, delete (or move somewhere else) C:\Windows\system32\wua*

Windows Defender: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender, C:\Program Files\Windows Defender

Microsoft Edge: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate

Telemetry: C:\Windows\system32\diagtrack.dll
I just went through the Nim website and didn't see anything about no GC - except literally turning it off which means it won't free anything, ever.

See https://nim-lang.org/1.4.0/gc.html

Do you have a page that shows otherwise??
Indeed. We had proper ground fault protection breaks for that purpose, and it was really hard to get them.

That + the use of metal tubing to carry electrical power as well as the incredibly flimsy construction of various sockets and such (as well as the high amperage) translates into lots of preventable fires each year in the USA and Canada. Point a FLIR at your average distribution panel and try not to be amazed at the number of hot spots.

My biggest gripe: I don't mind inspectors, I just expect them to be really knowledgeable, not just theoretical. Grounding a structure is inherently different from grounding a circuit. He basically kept on insisting that the windmill is part of the circuit and should be bonded rather than that it had its own ground and that is just patent nonsense, more so because the windmill produced variable frequency AC that first had to be rectified, passed through a battery charger, a bunch of batteries and an inverter. The latter of course was bonded to the house ground.
I think this is cultural. I've never ever left a voice message, and never will. I've also never received one, the few I get are robocallers not understanding no one picked up.

If you want me to pick up, send an sms explaining what it's about.
>Publicly released parts of it all promises and no substance.

True, but again, there is more you can look at then that, and just because something isn't publicly released yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that you can't look at something.
Both game and the language itself have enough materials online to validate their existence on a stage much, much more advanced then 'vapor wave promise stage', even if access to it is less convenient then having an open repository