skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t 5th amendment self-incrimination protections be in place even if the compelled questioning is purely part of a public safety investigation? Those protections are not about whether the particular kind of questioning is itself a criminal investigation but instead about whether the person is being compelled by the government to give answers that could tend to incriminate them.

For example, maybe your concern is just how fast and recklessly a boat was going with the goal of figuring out if they are a threat to fresh into another boat, but maybe the person doesn’t want to open themselves up for Boating Under the Influence or Controlled Substances Act criminal charges (whether or not they are legally guilty).

5th amendment self-incrimination protections apply even in compelled congressional testimony and routine tax return filing obligations, which are definitely not criminal investigations.

4th amendment protections also apply well beyond the criminal context, although I can well believe that your public safety investigations may have fallen into a judicially recognized exception. For a legally very clear example, no law can constitutionally authorize an LEO to nonconsensually conduct a warrantless suspicionless search of someone’s home to see if they might have failed to pay any applicable taxes or duties on any imported cigarettes which they may happen to have present there.

(Emphasis on suspicionless - the legal answer would probably be very different if the LEO sees someone transporting a pallet of imported cigarettes from the home into a truck in their driveway following having received a tip from the FedEx customs clearance people, even if there’s no time for a warrant. But there’s no constitutional reason for any investigation like this, whether about criminally intentional tax evasion or merely noncriminal accidental tax underpayment, to be occurring without suspicion.)
Austrian government launches repair scheme for electronic goods
That page reads like a blog or a murder novel, not a wikipedia article
It was overestimated. Latest narration is that currently they are more prepared to taking on NATO and whoever than they were for decades. Because they painfully but successfully adapted despite the pressure from Western hardware.
That is around 158,000. How many of them able to get new job ?
I'll try this out. Currently I use PipePipe (NewPipe fork) and have subscription groups I use to pull the latest videos for a specific set of channels.
DocuSign IS NOT A TECH COMPANY. DocuSign is a marketing and sales company.

Once you internalize this, their employee numbers make sense.

DocuSign makes their money by setting up the network effect of "DocuSign is the de facto standard so you, too, should sign up for DocuSign". This requires legions of salespeople to bribe the representatives of large businesses, governments (national, state, and local), legal associations, etc. to use DocuSign.

The fact that DocuSign has a tiny amount of extremely shitty tech to make stuff happen is irrelevant to their business structure.
I agree. gRPC shouldn't be at fault. From my understanding, it's browsers (Javascript, rather) that are at fault as they don't implement specific http2 features that gRPC requires when it comes to web, which is why an envoy proxy is required (but also comes with limitations). As a result, when it comes to web comm, gRPC isn't given a chance.

https://yuku.takahashi.coffee/blog/2019/01/grpc-proxy-for-gr...
Ask HN: Offsetting Carbon Emissions?
I've been flying a lot lately and would like to spend some money on offsetting my emissions.
Is this a bad idea? What providers should I use? The industry seems scammy - any positive examples?

(This is money I'd otherwise spend on consumption, e.g. more flights. I'm talking about consumer-level money, so on the order of hundreds to thousands USD.)
Modern war is about equipment not people. Especially in case of a conflict where one side is successfuly prevented from deploying any soldiers. War is about making the other side behave how you want them to behave. US is failing hard at that.
We're So Back
Connect the led strip data pin to an available Io pin on the pi, connect the strips and to pi gnd pin and to a 5V power supply gnd pin, and connect the strips + to the 5V power supply.

Then use a library on the pi, for example this: https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x
The history of MSX computers [video]
this content was written 3 years ago :-D
There is no free lunch in technology. Strict reference counting is always more expensive than GC. Theoretically, compiled languages with extensive lifetime analysis and reference counting elision could produce better performance (think Rust borrow checker and lifetime annotations but you don't do the heavy lifting) but this is yet to be done and no language has this today (Swift is slower than top tier GC languages at this).
I think you're being way more harsh than necessary. While I can certainly see were you're coming from, their choices make a certain amount of sense. Plus, it's about limiting your stack, not choosing dusty tech.

Clojure is functional(valuable for correctness), based on lisp(a proven language), compatible with the JVM ecosystem, and attracts high quality programmers. Janestreet uses Ocaml for similar reasons.

I'm less familiar with Diatomic, but a quick look around seems to suggest that companies like Facebook and Netflix are paying customers, and Nubank are the owners. Plus it's written in Clojure. If it works well for them, seems like it's probably a fine investment.

Flutter might get canned, but also Flutter apps are cheap and high quality. It was probably a good choice, and can easily be replaced if the project dies.
Making plans for the future is incredibly hard. People are not naturally cooperative so actually affecting positive change is always met with illogical resistance. This creates an environment which punishes any attempt to rationally discuss plans which are actually going ahead. The Saudi line city makes the dynamic obvious to anyone, without taking a stand on the merits of the project.

It's the strawman and steelman argument on a societal scale.

We also have a lot of skeletons in the closet. In some cases the tech is just exposing an underlying problem and not introducing anything new. Good tech also enables society do something about its foundation of sand.
“Widespread impact of AI” I know it’s helping people a lot already but is it actually causing layoffs?
Genericide is the funniest myth copyright enforcement agencies ever invented. Common use has not "genericided" anything after the 50s except for intentionally litigious naming ("flip phone") or things comprised of hypergeneric terms like videotape. Kleenex and Hoover have not lost their trademarks despite widespread generic use by millions.
Sir this is a base employment number for an American cookie cutter business corporation with executive board members flying circles in private jets between private islands.
Answer to the first one, written on pastebin to avoid anyone seeing it as a spoiler:

https://pastebin.com/A7RQjNdd
I was just joking about this today. For years I have heard all kinds of dismissive attitude to this concept yet the last few months tech Twitter has been full of people buying really expensive CO2 meters, presumably because they were unaware of CO2 in rooms?

When you buy a Window here, or you rent a flat it usually comes with a manual that asks you to ventilate regularly and how.

If you ventilate properly, a CO2 meter is entirely pointless. CO2 levels are very predictable and you can also usually tell when the air quality drops through your senses.
Piece by piece, we reinvent Perl, then the new Perl turns into a monstrosity, we abandon it, and the cycle begins anew.
In Germany as a tenant it is usually your duty to ventilate properly. If you do not do that and this results in mold you as a tenant are responsible, not the landlord. This is of course much more complex in practice, as mold is often not caused by poor ventilation but by bad construction. So the blame can lie with the landlord, or the tenant or both depending on the specific case.
For lots of workloads it is basically true, though. Not something exclusive to Apple laptops of course, others have also been capable programming workhorses for quite some years. It's just weird to say that no compiling should be done on a laptop - that might've been true 10 years ago.
Really looks like the Russian Z. I thought that's why it was posted at first. Interesting nonetheless.
High Performance Voxel Engine (2021)
A showcase of the techniques explained in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUj53VwYvU

https://douglasdwyer.github.io/octo-release/ (online demo)

Lately I've been addicted to watching (micro) voxel engine videos on youtube. I need to resist my urge to write one (not that I think I would do a particularly good job). I've also found the voxel engine by John Lin to be particularly impressive.
Anecdotal, but I’ve talked to some physicists working in the field of quantum computing, and some of them think that it’s possible that advancements in AI will provide somewhat efficient solutions to some computational problems (namely in the NP class), and the solutions will be “good enough” for actual businesses (e.g. in logistics) and researchers (e.g. in chemistry), to a degree that it might negatively affect future funding for quantum computing research. And the pace of advancement in AI will continue to accelerate, while the pace of advancements in quantum computing is notoriously slow.
If the target word contains two E and my guess only contains one E it should say 1 vowel correct, not 2. Isn't that obvious? What am I missing? I presume you made it this way for a reason.
Still smiling here at the slogan "Causing Seitanic Panic since 2018".
We are talking about Firefox.
Maybe it's an accent thing (mine is typical British) but the 'm' in 'rhythm' doesn't act like a vowel in my mind, not the way 'y' does in 'sky'.

The only kind-of vowel sound in the second syllable of rhythm is what you get from saying "th", but actually it just sounds like 3 consonants together without a vowel.

People say that 'y' is sometimes a vowel because it sometimes sounds like one, not because it sometimes fits in a syllable.
Japan's GDP has been stagnant since 1995.
Funny - Doing this exact thing while reading this post
My bad, it was an article the previous issue, the inaugural one:

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/01/making-sense-of-moral-chan...

> C: It doesn’t require a great deal of moral or ethical insight to see that treating a human being as a thing, not a person, is wrong. Just about every sort of spiritual, ethical or moral system has described slavery in one form or another as “against nature.”

> But historically, people also thought of slavery as a product of civilization and therefore found ways to justify it. They created ways to explain, for example, why specific groups of people should be enslaved, or why a particular system of slavery is justified, even a form of progress over a previous system.

> I’ve always thought that the best analogy is how we regard eating meat. [...] We also know that eating animals is unethical. We’re doing something cruel and unnecessary. But we do it because that’s just what we do. It wouldn’t be surprising to me if 30, 50 or 120 years from now, people look back on this time period and ask, “What was wrong with these people? They must have been like moral infants. They must not have realized this is a cruel way to treat animals.” But we know it perfectly well. It’s just what we do.

> A: I don’t eat pork or chicken for animal welfare reasons. And the line of thinking that convinced me to actually do this was that if I was alive in the 18th century, I’d want to be the kind of person who’s boycotting sugar.

That line of thinking convinced me too.
purrr::map is fine for this, I think.
These are opportunity layoffs and everyone who says otherwise is delusional.
I currently pay for Pocket but will be moving away from it because I can't stand that the Mozilla CEO is running the place like her own private fiefdom/piggy bank. A 23% pay rise is absolutely nuts considering the performance.

I genuinely think that Mozilla will have to go out of business before she will step down.
Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar 20 Min Video by Jon Kraft
You lose some digits as the bank identifier etc, so really you get 12 digits or so. The population of the world right now is a 10 digit number. It sounds like a lot of space at first glance, but it really isn't. "Just add more numbers" is what people thought when IPv4 started to run out and we all know how that is going.
Yes, to a certain degree it undermines the point of having good insulation (as in, really good - when the thermal mass of the air starts to matter). Modern "nearly zero-heating" houses have long heat exchangers in the vents to avoid the waste.
This is the first German word I taught my (American) partner and it is, to this day, likely our most used German word. Such a core concept to our entire culture!
Layoffs might be premature but everyone's LinkedIn news feed says clearly that AI is taking over everything.
If 173 keys are enough for you, there is currently a rare Hyper7 group buy running until they sell 500 units: https://mechboards.co.uk/products/hyper-7-v4?variant=4191139...
I am not a fan of the “upcoming” or scheduled videos. I wish there was a way to remove shorts and upcoming videos from my subscription page on YouTube.
Kafka is very much a boring Java technology, and one that's pretty bad as well.
Great feedback, thank you. I’ll make some tweaks today.
This quoted statement is true for the Pro chips. For the Max, yes the M3 series is a sizable upgrade.

It's worth noting they're using the binned Max and quite frankly are undercutting the actual results the Max produces, it appears to be substantial.
A big part of why this works so well in German homes is that they have a high thermal mass. Even single family homes are built with concrete floors and plastered over brick walls (brick as in square building block, I think the currently popular form is expanded concrete?).

In these buildings, you can replace all air with outside air at once, and once you close the windows the thermal mass of the building will quickly heat it up again.

New buildings tend to move away from it though, instead using automatic fans for ventilation
My (uninformed) guess would be that approximately 0 of these layoffs we because of AI. If anything the recovery in tech stocks partly due to AI hype prevented a lot more layoffs at big tech companies.
Gym is great for increasing your metabolism (muscle consume more than fat). Is good for the last 2-3 kilos, useless for the first 20s (I know, I was obese). Another solution for the last 2-3 kilos is going below necessary kcal, but this can have consequences, especially if you're not young.
> Here’s the problem: people interpret SemVer as permission to make breaking changes.

So, it isn't SemVer that is a mistake. It's the author's opinion that software should always be fully backwards-compatible, which would then require all SemVer-using software to be version 1.x.x (or 0.x.x, if we're zero-indexing.)

Or, alternatively, if SemVer didn't exist, this post would probably skip it altogether and just complain about people breaking backwards compatibility anyway.

> To say it another way: If you need to make a breaking change to your API, it means you screwed up. Don’t screw up.

If you make mistakes, please don't make mistakes instead. News at 11.
> That’s not encapsulation, that’s just an ugly hack.

Call it what you want but it works well. Declaring a variable or function as static corresponds to "private". I honestly don't understand what you mean by "locally replaced by another expression", I think you'll need to exemplify.
In other words: the are the Oracle of document signing.

There must come some tipping point where DocuSign is so much the standard (like Microsoft Windows) that they no longer need ~7000 sales people.
I meant that the median is likely arguably the more relevant statistic, that is all -- I realise that the central limit theorem exists!
Your comment embodies one of the core tenets of what makes a great programmer. Great programmers are comfortable navigating ambiguity. They make mistakes but quickly correct course. They know how to test ideas in a way that yields signals faster. They know that they need to make mistakes, and know how to keep the cost of those mistakes low.

It’s like being able to walk into a bookstore full of cookbooks, and by skimming a few pages here and there, walk out with 3 fantastic cookbooks.

In other words, good programmers have the ability to quickly understand the full problem space (including business concerns) and efficiently navigate the solution space.
I think it actually makes sense in the context of US history though.

As always it starts with the uniquely explicitly race-based slavery, and from there you can draw a direct line to non-white people being systemically "othered" and denied basic human decency one way or another (to put it mildly).

In this particular case, the history of Hollywood to deny non-white actors leading roles, but giving white actors roles where they play racist stereotypes of everyone else. Aside from the issues on an individual level that also means "non-white" cultures don't get properly represented, but depicted according to whatever racist stereotype the white actors/writers have about a culture they usually don't actually know much about.

So yeah, I am not from the US but I get it. Which again makes the fact that Peter Sellers' apparently hit a positive chord an interesting exception.
I believe the rules are more lax so higher bacterial levels are allowed.

It's one of those everyday things that is surprisingly different. It is common to keep uncooked eggs in the refrigerator at home.
The cost of my internet connection has little bearing on how much I browse Wikipedia.

Even YouTube I watch with little regard to internet cost, since on 144p it's only 100 MB for an hour of video. Obviously I do pay attention to the quality setting, because the bill can get huge fast if on HD!
It's from May, pity, it would have been really interesting if the author had discussed DeepMind's recent FunSearch paper as well: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6

But it goes to show just how fast we are currently progressing.
The soyboy insult came about particularly to criticize frail tech nerds (who are white in all the memes) who eat meal replacement diets, particularly soylent. Its not about edamame. Furthermore this meme/insult is new while soy has been grown but not consumed by most people in the west for many generations. The meme cannot explain soys status in the west because it came late.
All I can say is look very carefully if choosing "tree planting" to offset emissions.

The first caveat is that the trees are planted, but may not necessarily live, and even if they do live for a while, it may take decades before they actually cause an "offset".

The second is that trees that are planted are sometimes harvested, causing the offset to be negative, given that fossil-fuels are almost certainly used in the harvesting and processing of the wood.

The third is that the trees are likely to be plantation trees -- ie, a monoculture with little to no wild-life value. Wild-life value is important, because trees aren't things, they're normally part of an ecosystem that sustains itself, adds to soil carbon, and so on.

Or you could find a way to buy and plant and care for your own trees, and use your own labour, which would be a thoroughly honest way to go. Having planted a lot of trees, there's nothing like looking at a tree you planted 10 years ago and is used by birds and insects and shade for animals.

Lastly, if you do have thousands of USD, possibly the best carbon offset is to either fund a activist group to get in people's faces about the larger problems, or to buy political influence to pass more environmental protection legislation.
> Any Linux VM hosted under Virtualization.framework can use Apple's Rosetta 2 for Linux translation binary via binfmt_misc

FTFY

You don't need the mount, it just exposes the Linux binary stored on macOS, which you can copy over. The binary does check for it being run under virt.fw, although some folks managed to hack that away (IIRC running it on AWS whatever)
Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)
> The example with follower_count shows how to use the +1 technique to do without locking..

Without explicit pessimistic locking. There are always locks. More guarantees, more locks.

That issue example can be tackled with optimistic concurrency controls depending on the constraints. The issue can be checked out with an UPDATE .. WHERE .. RETURNING ..
How much power does this require and is it possible to reduce power consumption and run it off a battery?
It still annoys me that they had to invent another pipe instead of just recreate Magrittr’s in C to gain the speed it apparently lacks. And then missing out on one of the nicer functions of magrittr…
I agree with the post that such an operator should exist., but I think it should simply be the magrittr one.
What I've found is that low-power mode is much slower, even if this article claims it's not.

In my experience the difference of low power mode is bigger when doing something else CPU intensive such as video calling.
What other companies have the veneer of being a tech company but really aren’t?
Unsurprisingly the linked media did not answer the question posed in
the headline.

But after listening to it I think, as Jeanette Winterson says, people
are figuring out they'd rather be happy than "normal", so the
relatively recent conceit of normalcy is starting to crumble.
Probably a very good thing if we as a society are to manage the
intolerable psychological living conditions of surveillance
capitalism, consumerism and reification.
Just talked with a friend from VMWare they are to be laid off soon after the acquisition. It went like this - they prohibited usage of chatgpt, but we continue to use it at my team - because the AI won't take my job, but the programmer using AI will do.

It is a tremendous force multiplier. It will take time to run trough organization - but if you are not the steamroller you will be the asphalt. And it will destroy a lot of the white collar bullshit jobs.
(edit: we are actually agreeing, see replies)

Doesn't 3..5 mean elements 3 and 4 : the 3rd and the 4th? 0-based indexing might feel less intuitive actually (element 3 is the 4th, and element 4 is the 5th). I don't know much R, I'm assuming that in the n..m notation, n is included and m is excluded (edit: also included, see replies).

I don't now about economy, but I think mathematicians use 0-indexed and 1-indexed sequences interchangeably and they usually (have to) specify which is the first term (u0 or u1).
Are you writing this on an English keyboard ;)

I am pretty sure most modern browsers are able to display an ü so you can write "Lüften"
I would have liked if they'd given percentages as well as absolute numbers. A 33% layoff for a 15k size firm is more striking than a 5% layoff at a 100k size firm, though they are the same absolute number.
I had a lot of _ideas_ in my 20s.

I fully spec'd out "On the Way" with a buddy of mine. Picking up beer close to your destination? Gas close to your departure point? The inverse? We would have you covered.

We had a path with Google Maps API, and I was convinced that monetization was at least possible enough to get Real Life VC funding.

In any case...this looks like a couple features. Sorry... :(

It was a feature. Google Maps had it implemented to 75% of what we'd spec'd within 9-12 months.

It's not like we'd actually tried, of course. We had full time jobs, for God's sake! But it became abundantly clear to me in that timeframe that FEATURE-sized ideas weren't gonna be viable. The Big Boy Ad Companies were gonna be burning those down for the next few months/years/forevers.
Yup, companies realized they could blame nonexistent “adverse macroeconomic conditions” to ditch a bunch of staff with zero bad PR and did it.