skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, no and no.

I also don't approve of Western warmongers interfering in other nations for the sake of immense profit, while couching the justification for their crimes in terms of human rights, when those Western nations involved in arms trafficking are easily among the absolute worst violators of human rights in the modern zeitgeist...

For as long as there are 1,000 secret CIA torture sites across the globe in the worlds most repressive nations, and for as long as Pine Gap still operates, the moral imperative to 'do something' about Iran doesn't exist. They're not the bigger fire. WE are.
Ask HN: Ex-Googlers, why do you write "Ex-Google" on your profile?
To naive me it sounds like "I got fired from a company once". Or "I used to sleep with Kate Moss". Kind of icky.
And then wonder why you can't turn it off.
Are there (m)any countries where they can't pay off an employee to resign?
> This is true, but cavemen also regularly murdered other humans, a practice that we rightfully abandoned.

CNN would politely want to disagree. /s
Pixel is not officially sold and supported in a substantial number of countries. It results in many issues, such as 5G not working when traveling from country to country. Or in case of Chromecast dongle, 5GHz Wi-Fi not working. Which makes my head explode, considering that they employ only "top talent" and has considerable resources to properly catalogue and implement all radio frequencies of the world.

Google cannot release any product worldwide. Their knowledge doesn't go too far beyond US market. You can call it Americentrism or just lack of competence of the ones in charge.
How's that economic and efficient?
FCC's Carr says 'huge miss' if US doesn't ban or divest TikTok in 2024
Maybe it was a Supabase or Firebase credentials ?
Microsoft was once on the decline and it's now bouncing back. Having billions and captive markets (by network effect) seems to help.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
eh don't worry about it. The way you asked it the first thing I would do is google it. Or chatgpt it. Which defeats the purpose of your question.

That's literally my only route. For example, if I asked you, how do you fix a refrigerator without a broken refrigerator in front of you... what would you do? Likely google it too.

It's hard to frame the question in a way that's actually educational in the sense that it triggers problem solving. Right now the question is framed in a way where I can only look up the answer. You see what am saying? I can't actually help you here either because I don't know how to frame it correctly.
Still ongoing:

"We are preparing a migration. We do not see a near-term resolution being possible with our upstream network provider and we are preparing to restore service from backups in a new installation. It will take a while, but we are all-hands to address the issue."
Bitcoin equalises this. USD is going to hyper-inflate to 0 relative to bitcoin, and bitcoin will ultimately be the world reserve asset.
Show HN: Pico W powered Munich public transportation departures LED panel
Micropython code for Pimoroni's Interstate 75w RP2040 board to display departure times of Munich public transport. It uses MVG API to fetch departure information for a predetermined set of stations
tiktok is fine.
> Making a private copy of a copyrighted material is legal in many jurisdictions, it is however illegal to circumvent DRM.

I believe that Europe developers are the most prolific in matters related to multimedia, including DRM. And well, European Union does protect the research against DRM. It's "only" for interoperability reason, but since DRMs are never universal, that should be fine.
Many years ago, I wrote up a post on doing this kind of thing in plain DOS .com files: https://imrannazar.com/articles/x86-printable-opcodes

It's good to see the principle can be expanded to EXEs, I'll have to dig into this some more.
it's a bit more complex than that; ironman was already written in january 01977, for example https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057816 §5.3.4 p.197 (25/60)

i'm not sure if ironman listed generators as a requirement or not; i suspect they were added later

this paper doesn't mention clu, modula-2, or icon as influences, for whatever that's worth
> This feels like a personal statement

Because it is. And is a statement I agree 100% being a +20-years C developer with a hardwired C parser in my brain: Rust, Zig and some (most?) newer C++ syntax is contorted at minimum (to my eyes).

I wish the only difference were about just new operators, but just the fact that the type has to come after the variable declaration is awful to me (also for returning types in functions declarations). One can tell me 100 reasons why Rust does it this way and they'll probably be all true and right, and you can call me all sort of things but this kind of new syntax puts me off right away.
So let's do it realistically. You take out a loan for 100 USD, it gets printed by some bank, let's say Chase. You buy a washing machine from China, they put it in their central bank. (And they don't but bonds, let's assume.)

What if they want to buy oil, which happens to be sold by the Saudis, who want 100 USD for it. They can do it, or they can print more yuan, and use that to buy more USD on some exchange. (And they did it a lot, to keep the yuan artificially low. That's basically half of how they ended up with this huge reserve.)

And since their inflation was around 2 percent since 2010, and currently even negative unfortunately, they can print a lot.

And this is how economic development and exchange rates connect. One man's trade deficit is another's reserve basically. As long as there's some slack in economies (mostly some unemployment metric is used as a proxy for this) it makes sense to spend. (Otherwise it'll just push up prices more, ie. lead to inflation. Hence the very technical sounding name of NAIRU, Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment, I think hands down the worst name for any concept over many fields.)

If China starts using its reserves to buy US assets, that leads to a lot of USD getting back into the US economy, it's like a stimulus. It would push up prices of course, the Fed would increase interest rates, maybe it would even start fiddling with some other knobs (it could increase the fractional reserve ratio, it could increase interest paid on reserves, or interest paid on excess reserves).

> If they are afraid of US sanctions, China will be less inclined to buy assets that could be seized and so the currency is less useful to them.

Yes, and one read of the belt and road initiative is basically this, instead of giving it to citizens to spend, they tried to use it for geopolitical/colonialist/mercantilist projects.

All in all, my understanding is that using their huge reserve to cause some crisis would be a zero-trick pony (because after 2008 and the recent bank crisis, and the Russian sanctions implementations the West seems capable of handling speedbumps), and a slow decoupling would be good anyway. (As it would help the non-finance sectors of the US.)
The more important question is not why no multicast, but why no torrent style stream where the viewers themselves share with other viewers.
I already pointed out there's going to be legacy work for a while, especially in certain specialisations.

Everything else "AI powered developers are going to startup all the things!!!" is just hype by some poster literally calling themselves (ironically I hope) ChatGPT.
What's the actual energy output on those?

I know nothing about the physics, but from this picture (https://citylabs.net/nanotritium-betavoltaic-p200-series-pac...), they get 100uW from 100Ci.

Assuming the glow phosphors are 25 times more efficient than their conversion process(Google says 4% for beta batteries as the first result I can find) that's 625uW of light energy. I would imagine the phosphor is not 100% efficient so it's probably less.

Assuming 20% efficiency for a green LED, that's 3.125mW of electrical input to replace it with an LED. Are they really that dim???

Over 15 years, that's around 200-400Wh of electricity one would need.

I wonder what's better for the environment, the tritium or the batteries one could probably use instead for similar cost, since those signs seem to be $300.

I suppose the tritium is not an issue on the production side because it's a byproduct? Unless the processing has nasty effects?
(recklessly simplified ramblings of an semi-old man below)

Remembering the "21 lessons for the 21st century" and how Harari described the arm-wrestling between the various ideologies/worlds, I see the the world is split in 3 (3.5) pieces.

1) The West (US-EU-satellites - writing first coz I'm in it)

2) The anti-west: Russia and satellites, Iran, NK, etc.)(they broke SO MANY EGGS but still - no omelette - well apart from the very few who rule via death)

3) The indifferent giants (they are planning their own world domination - soon)(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8)(China is next, then perhaps India(?))

0.5) The remaining 0.5 (e.g. some African countries that will just follow whoever gives them goodies/is the next global overlord).

In IT I use the phrase: the more you do, the more you need to do.
I.e. you have 10 systems, you need to do 100 things (backups, encryption, training, etc.). When you go to 20 systems and 5 are talking to each other you also need job schedulers, and you add in the connected dots and complexity (thus more assets produce more effort)

You got a wikipedia? There is a new attack/manipulation opportunity (available to all the players). The more you got, the more you need to do.

Now, why I care.. (this is not about politics/religion)

I got some stocks and mutual funds. If the "West" is going "down", I want to make sure that my/the next generations will not receive a bunch of SP500 that is worth $0, so do I start NOW to buy "China", "India"? Also, should we be telling our kids to start learning Chinese? (as we were told to learn English)

What should we start doing NOW to be better positioned in the Future?
(my favorite Future related drawing: https://puzzledpagan.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/doomfuture....)
A lot of tutorials/books that say they are about "music theory" are really just about "music notation". Actual music theory (why is the major scale arranged the way it is? Why do chords often have neat frequency ratios? Why are there 12 semitones in an octave?) you have to dig a bit deeper, these are quite good:

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

https://www.lightnote.co/
Navigating the New Era of Angular: Zoneless Change Detection Unveiled
Some years ago I ran a department that did a lot of prototyping and research. One of the things we experimented with was CO2 sensors. Not hugely expensive sensors, but mostly cheap ones since we were mostly interested in relative changes (rather than absolute values) - and seeing what kind of performance you could get out of relatively inexpensive sensors[1].

(This is from memory)

We got a lot of interesting results placing sensors in a bunch of commercial buildings. Most rooms in all buildings we measured couldn't keep the CO2 levels below 1000ppm. In fact, most meeting rooms we measured would struggle to keep below 1200-1300ppm when in use and we regularly saw much worse numbers. In one building all meeting rooms we measured would quickly blow past 1200ppm when in use -- except the meeting room management used. Which tended to hover between 600ppm when not in use and about 800ppm when used (though it was big and rarely more than at 1/4 capacity). I guess that explains why complaints about low air quality fell on deaf ears.

We also discovered why the meeting rooms in the basement were so awful for late meetings. At around 1800 hours or so in the evening, the HVAC shuts down. From what I gather, in a tall building, there are supposed to be mechanisms to prevent air from moving back and CO2 dropping down the HVAC system and pooling in the basement. This one didn't. (In fact, ALL the buildings on the campus had the same problem since they were all built at the same time by the same company). So over a few hours CO2 levels would rise to a level where the sensors max out their range and get saturated. They would stay that way until a couple of hours after the HVAC got switched on in the morning.

People would sometimes use those meeting rooms until late in the evening.

If you use consumer air quality measurement devices, beware that they're not terribly good. CO2 sensors tend to have cross sensitivity to lots of other gases. And cheap (eg less than $400 for just the sensor component) particle sensors tend to be fairly crap.

A lot of sensors we found in HVAC systems are even lower quality than consumer grade stuff I've seen in products.

[1] The sensors we used are often found in premium consumer air quality measurement products. So they aren't dirt cheap, but they also aren't that great.
> They don't want the theoretical advantages of permissionless blockchains and private keys

Because none of these theoretical advantages make any sense for the absolute vast majority of people, and don't make sense for about 99.99999999999% of things for which the advantage is claimed.
I love you, Emil
Well, hopefully there's a silver lining to all this: Talented and underappreciated engineers (or those just caught in the crossfire of shitty policies) will go on and start new, more exciting companies.
Pissed me off when I realised you could use not Nest cameras nor doorbell if you have a Google Workspace account. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
And then there is EDSFF's E1.S 30110 (30112 really).
Alcohols are VOC's and many deodorants contain them. They are probably among the less harmful VOC's.
I don't think it's a hugely strategic location for them right now; closest is India, to a degree, as I understand they use a lot of Russian tech as part of their defense - but SEA seems to be a fading / non-acute geopolitical area for Russia
What exactly do you want to be doing except driving the vehicle?

I live in a country where the public transport is excellent (Switzerland). The US sounds like a nightmare to me.
What do you imagine the US could do with its weapons cache to demand global compliance? Even extremely authoritarian governments that have tried to stamp out crypto usage internally have been unsuccessful, so it's not like the USG could just lean on other governments to demand compliance.
I may be a rare bird starting with R dataframes (still newbie+ level), then python polars (intermediate- ?). Frankly whenever I have to use pandas or df's in R I am not convinced that these are more intuitive/easier to master. I.e. I do not like the concept of row names.

Polars can be an overkill for small/medium dataset, but since I have been bitten by corrupted/badly formatted CSVs/TSVs I love the fact that Polars will throw the towel & complain about types/column number mismatches etc.
And the fact that it can scale up to millions of rows on a modest workstation compensates the fact that sometimes one can spend hours finding a proper way to manipulate a dataset.
Just to add for anyone looking at that link - this guy seems to be an artist who combines technology and nature and senses. He has a ton of really interesting stuff to click through on this website.
I highly recommend this article from the MacroFactor team on this: https://macrofactorapp.com/refeeds-diet-breaks/

Basically their view is that refeeding (aka cycling) probably doesn't do much physiologically speaking, but there may be advantages to adherence when people use diet breaks (typically longer than a cycle or refeed).
It’s a great source of first party training data in a variety of diverse scenarios
And you know what happens with the money that you take, save and invest?

They go in to public companies, they hire MBA's, and they try to improve profitability of company by letting engineers go.

Your money have come a full cycle :)
Hmm, that'll not work very well for my use-case then. I've not got a great nose, and I would like to keep smells at bay for visitors. Not planning on replacing a filter monthly "just in case" though.

Thanks for the info!
I see very little evidence for it coming back. The economy in aggregate may be healthy (depending where you live) but that doesn't mean software developers will be in much demand.
The page title is “ChatGPT
for teams”
I have a theory that this, like fear of heights, claustrophobia, agoraphobia etc. are actually "extremely natural" because they're all good for survival ie. instincts unlearned somehow culturally, but would be the baseline if you teleported a Palaeolithic, Sumerian, Viking or whatever into our modern complex and somewhat claustrophobic technological life.
Both threads out of the first page even though having 211 and 166 votes this early. Positions 58 and 86.

There are dumb stories on the first page even with 3 and 4 votes. HN ranking is seriously broken.

I don't buy the "it's users flagging, bro" excuses anymore...
Wasn't that on Ethereum? My impression is that it has very different governance/promises.
I don’t think you can generalize from one manager or even a team of management to all managers in every company.

But still your point about the absurd uncertainty of big company roles, even under glowing performance gauntlets as you so aptly say is well taken.

you highlight a paradox between the values the company espouses, and the ones they actually keep. In where it appears that, no loyalty is returned to the employee from the company in which the employee invested their loyalty so heavily.

Indeed, folks may quibble with this characterization, or even strongly disagree, but when cuts are made like this, even when valuable people could afford to be kept, that’s what it really comes down to.

Poor Google. The pain! What have they done to deserve this, oh heavens?
And maybe enough deceleration at the other end to drop into a large eccentric orbit ?
I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and follow the advise. It works.
Took me a while to fill it all. Nothing exciting happens. If ideas for developing it further are welcome: Make them bees fly to flowers, spiders web their nets, rabbits hunt down carrots etc, sun flowers turning and pointing towards the sun...
Shaders to make flowers sway in the wind and why not randomly turn the mouse pointer into a water can? An "ouch" sound effect when you hit a cactus.
AI has increased the perception of productivity to unwitting managers, which is a dangerous pit to be falling into.

It's like a lot of those fabled 10x engineers that I've run into over the years; they may seem like they're incredibly productive and managers love them, but in reality their work is so riddled with issues and rushed half-baked ideas, that they end up costing the other engineers on the team 10x the amount of their time to review and fix it all. And it's those other engineers who do all of the invaluable but underappreciated cleanup work who are getting the boot right now.
Problem is, that approach forces the committee to roll in stuff from the C++ spec -- stuff that would have been shot in flame if you had hinted about that sort of things as a proposal C extension..

For example the [[keywords]] that had was rolled in because it was already out there -- imagine proposing that out of the blue and see a people self-propel into orbit...

On other hand the Case A ... B: syntax that has been out there for 30+ years, well there's a proposal for it but it won't be THAT because well it hasn't been invented here really, we'll make up a different syntax for it instead...
Decentralised exchanges provide a solution, but if a country tries to stifle bitcoin like this, then the bitcoiners can just leave and live somewhere else, taking their wealth with them as 12 words in their head.

History shows that societies with the hardest money win.
> weird that people don't just call them talk shows

Talk show to me feels like it describes the content and not the format. And the dictionaries I have checked agree: “a radio or television programme on which famous guests are asked questions about themselves, or members of the public discuss a particular subject” (cambridge dictionary)

Some podcasts are documentaries content wise, some podcasts are newsreels, some are actual play ttrpg, some are radio drama. And yeah, many are indeed talk shows, but that doesn’t mean it is one and the same.

It kind of like how many TV shows are sitcoms, but not all TV shows are sitcom.
Yes I should have clarified: I think the BMI levels (underweight, normal etc.), that is the "wording" cannot necessarily be applied to athletes (edit: and could be misleading for people and their self-concept when their weight is perfectly fine). You are right of course that the top runners in a competition likely stand out BMI-wise from the rest.
> [...] global warming [...] either cannot be generalized globally or did not start in 2010

I guess global warming _can_ be generalized globally?

It sure didn't started in 2010 but neither did social networks.

Facebook opened public access in 2006 which about the same period when Twitter was launched.

_An Inconvenient Truth_ was released in 2006 and it seemed like the start of a global discussion about global warming.
And behind _global warming_, there's actually the overall destruction of our environment by mankind.

I agree that social media is a cause, but the given arguments cannot exclude _global warming_. Quite the opposite.
Even so - I don't have a moral objection to profit motive, I just think they're going about it wrong.

There is one large shift happening now in the industry, to AI. Google will need tons of talent to rise to the challenge. There have been other such shifts before (social, mobile). In the past, Google handled these shifts very differently, by retraining and reorganizing engineering staff, which had for the most part been hired for its generalist ability and could therefore jump to other areas. The theory was that there wasn't a need to know the domain too much, since you were going to reinvent it anyways. It worked exceptionally well for a lot of things. People there didn't build data centers using techniques from the field, they didn't build maps like ESRI or Navteq, etc.

Now it seems to handle it differently, through layoffs that give their employees clear signals that the company will look outside for talent first. Employees are no longer valued as adaptable generalist hires but as narrow-function cogs.

That's a strategic mistake, because the AI field is still so nascent and full of hacks that generalists able to handle novel challenges in innovative ways are so sorely needed. It isn't a mature space at all and outside hires - at the scale that will be needed - will almost certainly be of lower quality and productivity.

What would make sense if they wanted to increase profits: routinely cut low performers to keep people motivated to do their best, and completely drop entire business lines that are losses for the company. It doesn't seem like either thing is happening. By their own admission, it's not the lowest performers that get cut ("role eliminations"), and businesses that cause losses are expected to continue operating with less staff. Staff cuts don't fix structurally lossy businesses, they just make them limp longer. It seems like it's setting up these businesses for a long and painful agony.
Companies have started to understand that tech workers are overpaid and now that it’s no longer a workers market, they can lay off people in large numbers, rehire later at far lower prices.
You can never delete an atrocity, you can only set visibility to zero.