skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nonsense. Your typical developer had to deal with all those things in the past maybe, but is no more than specialization knowledge.

You don't care about how many ticks you need to MOV with indirect addressing when you are developing Django.

Feels like complaining because someone that is not a Django developer doesn't know how proxy model inheritance works.
Yeah, the fact that they don't have a clear indication of impact means one of two things:

- Cookies weren't doing a whole lot for them to begin with, and removing their use had negligible impact.

- The other work their marketing department did to try and compensate for discontinuation of cookie usage interfered with the test, making the results useless for evaluating the value of cookies.

I'm leaning towards the second one based on the response above you.
I agree that for many use cases, standbys and in particular time-delayed standbys are a better option than backups. That said, having off-line backups in tamper-proof storage is a good call, too.
They have always had a strong slant on investigative journalism. The whole back section (and quite a lot of the front tbh too) fall into that. The writing can still be acerbic but the journalism is hard hitting.

They continue to honour one of their very earliest columnists with "The Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism". It's a big part of the magazine.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award
I think there could be a combined approach where you use the fast neural net and the slow CFD as you state, but then every result you get from the CFD you add to the training data of the neural net and do a few more steps of training.

That way, the neural net gets more accurate specifically in the area of your design.

You could imagine a developers workstation where a GUI tool is letting them design stuff, and the neural net is giving them instant answers (and/or showing gradients to show how to improve stuff), and slow CFD runs are running in the background so whenever they go to lunch and another cfd run completes the results all get more accurate and detailled.

Kinda similar to the way many graphics packages have 'draft' quality 3d rendering, but then when idle for a bit will improve the render quality.
Completely agree. I would happily disable my Adblock (on YouTube only, general internet is still unusable without it) if I could pay a lower price just for this feature. I strongly suspect this is also the case for the overwhelming majority of current/potential premium customers.
Clueless manager's idol named Elon said it's time for "fat trimming".
Or see subscription-only publishers thrive?
I read it as clever irony.
> Why should this be obvious?

This is very natural, and consistent with standard mathematical notation. It's an abuse of notation so common that is barely ever mentioned in elementary mathematics. For example, when you work with functions f:R→R, like f:x↦3x², it is common to denote constants by their value. Thus you write 7 instead of x↦7. Then you can write simply f+7, where f is a function and 7 is a value, and everybody understands what you mean. No need to write ridiculously correct stuff like f+(x↦7) .

Broadcasting with arrays is very natural if you interpret an array as a function of its indices. It is exactly the same thing as above!

I second that we should be using APL anyways.
https://archive.ph/Kx0xv
Correct. I've lived both in US (Cali) and EU (Sweden) with a Tesla. And apart from that's is a different plug there's virtually no difference at all. 250kW DC charging. No problems.
sure, i can `git send-email` to the particular developers i've collaborated with before, but by default my send-email goes to just the list-serve at `~user/project@lists.sr.ht`. pulling out `nc lists.sr.ht 25` seems to show that it's also offline.

so, yes for really important stuff i could get patches through to projects i care about. but in practice the handful of projects i'm involved in on sr.ht seem to be mostly stalled.
They've "invested 5 million engineering hours" which is impressive, but are the design changes impossible for Apache Kafka to adopt?
Nah, not true by any means
<Senior Post Office managers briefed the BBC that neither their staff nor Fujitsu - the company which built and maintained the Horizon system - could remotely access sub-postmasters' accounts, even though Post Office directors had been warned four years earlier that such remote access was possible.>

Jeez, as I'm betting almost all readers of HN know, if it's connected to the internet, it's not always secure. I'd suggest this is a blatant lie, the truth of which could have easily been verified by asking their in-house tech. After being told by Fujitsu about remote access possibilities, they didn't want believe them?
That's Paula Vennells and she was awarded a CBE for her role in running the Post Office. However, there's just been a petition that garnered over 1.2 million signatures for her to be stripped of her CBE and in response, she has "promised" to return it.

I, for one, don't believe her.
>Fair enough, but Microsoft would be equally dead without Office and Azure revenue.

They were already on a bit of a shaky nail for a while when they relied only on Office and Windows, but their shift to the cloud (and resultant cuddly Embrace of Linux) has paid off well for them, so overall a smart move on their part.
I don't know this for a fact, but I doubt that's true. I'm in the Netherlands right now, and I strongly suspect that like the poster says; the field of fucks given would be baron.
Well, there have been campaigns and articles for years attacking wind energy on the basis of protecting birds.
England's legal system is still riddled with the legacy of feudalism. The private prosecution mechanism used by the Post Office was first used in the 17th Century.

Note that Scotland has its own legal system and it is generally saner. Not sure if any sub-postmasters were prosecuted in Scotland.
Was it the post office itself that was dealing out charges? Like a post office inspector or whatever it's called? Or was it a normal police referral type thing?
b2b lead time is usually 6-12 months, so it is very surprising that she was let go in 4.5 for achieving "no sales" UNLESS she did absolutely nothing (no new accounts, no account activity or advancements, etc), which is unlikely.
I know fitbit is going down hill. A lot of paid features aren't working for a lot of people. My wife can't get the sleep stats to work anymore.
The next post in the author's blog addresses the comments by the authors of the article [0].

Also, I don't think the arguments written in the post are "unserious", you might not like them but the author of the blog makes some interesting points against the original paper.

[0]: https://www.argmin.net/p/arbitrage-in-data-exchange-rates
The Last Frontier of Machine Translation
Haha not really, only as BAs or manager's maybe...
My AI Timelines Have Sped Up (Again)
You're right, but they were already planning it, so why not?

Maybe they have another plans under that, a better server or set of servers, some hand-rolled mitigations, etc. I have no idea. I'm a user as everybody else.
> At will employment is a thing. You can terminate people with absolutely no reason if you want, most of the time.

In which case fire them with no reason. If however you waive that choice and offer a specific reason then you probably should make the chosen reason true unless you want to be sued for wrongful dismissal.
User delays of 100-300 ms is perceptible to the user. This is the exact issue we want to avoid.
Some bright spark at CCHQ realised it could be weaponised against both Ed Davey (Leader of the Liberal Democrats, and former Post Office minister 2010-2012) and Keir Starmer (Leader of the Labour Party, and former Director of Public Prosecutions 2008-2013).
May I introduce you to our lord and saviour nuclear energy.
I agree with the sentiment, but it's important to add that this should only happen if it's proven to the criminal standard of proof, in a court room, that she was complicit.
It sounds like this article tells only part of the story. Why would Unity ban VLC? I wonder if they have given any official comments about this.
Ask your VB veteran about the same topics ))
Thanks, that was very informative, and depressing.
Congratulations on your marriage Sam. May you have a wonderful and beautiful life.
I wish a proper study on this could get some real funding. The cited study is certainly better than nothing but it's based on a volunteer reported survey with significant response bias (eg. maybe the drop in bird sightings near oil and gas drilling is because people don't want to go birdwatching near an oil field).
"Tinkering neutral" is a terrific phrase.

I feel like the world of software can probably be divided into the same moral classes as D&D, with M$ as Chaotic Evil (sorry M$!), Google as Chaotic Good (or would it be Lawful Evil? Probably lawful evil) and GNU as Lawful Good. All have their merits, flaws and compromises.

But, tinkering neutral is a great addition to that framework.
Well, there is https://github.com/WolframResearch/codeparser
This is tempered by everyone's financial situation.
Even in tech a large group of people don't have the resources to sit on the shelf for a few months unpaid. Even if they know a severance package is included the amount is unknown and there are not a ton of animation studios that can probably compete with Pixar on salary, a few but not a lot.

Its a big risk to just wait it out and see if you are not financially secure.
Constraining Complexity in the Generics Design
This might be due to how outrageous Cloudflare’s pricing is for protecting non-HTTP services like SSH (Cloudflare Spectrum.)
Take a look at the help page. You need to press right mouse button a the given location (or long press on a touch screen) for it to pull the data.

To the author - great work! But It would be really helpful to be able to check the family/genus/species names in my native language
Yeah, I see your point about thinking in terms of dependency graphs. I actually got the idea for using a visual memory barrier from the Linux docs(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...) and the C++ concurrency in action book.

>I guess the missing bit is that beyond the hardware fences you have the hardware cache coherency protocol that makes sure that a total order of operations always exist once load and stores reach the coherence fabric.

Can you explain more about this?
They should reduce the probability for entries, that are submitted multiple times.
So, if you apply to several companies, you still have the same chance as if you apply to one company.

Or just make companies to pay to win a slot ;)
Ok, so we are still looking at some kind of power assisted mechanism if not completely automatic.
ChatGPT Inventing Case Law
Sure...

What else could be the conclusion of the... Financial Times?
And honestly, for the former type of trip, given Uber/Lyft, I'm less inclined to rent a car than I used to be--especially if work is paying--unless I'm doing short side trip(s) that aren't as amenable to just grabbing a ride from an app.
> Pretty much anyone can read Go and understand what is going on which is def. not true for Rust.

Why do you think so?

If you don't know what `defer` execution order is LIFO, you cannot read code with multiple `defer`'s. IMO, Rust just have more things like `defer`
For expressing their opinion and providing reasoning?
Seems a bit inflationary to me to use the word hero here
> I'm curious, does the LGPL state explicitly that the licensor guarantees that the licensee can excercise their granted rights in practice?

It feels like such a requirement would mean you would have to test each potential user for technical skills to determine if they are capable of doing the things that you are giving them the right to do.
It was actually intended to stop people challenging the reliability of things like speed cameras.
I assume that having worked as an academic in the field of archaeology for the past three decades, the researcher is in a considerably better position to opine on the focus of archaeological research and academic consensus about the Amazon than the average software developer angrily dismissing his views as "woke"...
This is a good idea. Why carry round all that weight 100% of the time when you can only take it when you need it.
I recall a conversation I had with a climate researcher some years ago in France that left me surprised. To paraphrase, they explained that forecasting a system as complex as the climate is difficult and naturally leads to many different outcomes.

One subset of those outcomes, is that conditions would arise such that plant development is accelerated, something like a junglification (my word, probably butchering it).

Here's an article related to this, that links to research: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/430230-accelerated-rates...
Any coil might have inductance.
So apparently in UK law, the post office carry out their own investigations before taking charges to court (effectively replacing the police for internal post office charges) which sounds mental to me.
I highly recommend reading Private Eye's special report, Justice Lost In The Post
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... [PDF]

Private Eye were one of the few people reporting on this regularly. I've been reading about it in there for close on ten years, and am still astonished that it's taken this long to really hit home what happened to these individuals. Bravo to the makers of the recent show that's brought it back into the spotlight. It's truly shocking what the Post Office and Fujitsu did, and one can only hope prosecutions arise from this.

For anyone working in IT, there are lessons to be learned here about what impact software can have on individuals' lives, and bravo to any whistleblower that came forward to speak out.
One of the biggest upsides of an EV is that you charge at home. Always start in the morning fully charged. No "Dang, need to go to the station". H2 is definitely not a step in that direction so for me it's DOA.
One of my huge frustrations is the inconsistency between various apps or even in the same app.

Sometimes it's "executable -help" or "executable --help", sometimes it's executable -h, or --h.

I also find it really annoying when running a bad/wrong/typoed command doesn't give you a "You wrote fkuc but did you mean ...." those are super helpful.

IMO, if you use --help, you also should be using -help, and -h --h, unless you're using C and c to seperate two different commands. Which I don't like AT ALL. Don't make --help show help but --HELP show something different. Use a different word/letter.

I write TUI apps ALL the time and it's not hard to do ANY of this. It's super easy in go and ruby. There are two big things I do - I add CLI flags that you can run directly - "executable --help" which does the same thing as opening the TUI app with a nice little TUI menu where anyone can use it and select their options and put a couple of inputs in to get what they want done. So, if you DON'T want the potentially slighty slower of uising the TUI vs a CLI command with a few flags you can just run the commands directly.

Hell, if someone puts the wrong CLI --flag in instead of letting it just bomb with a *nix error have it echo the actual command flags. Don't make me have to dig around for commands.

And don't send me to your manpage with --help. God I hate that. Manpages sometimes are absolutely awful. I want ONE command flag that you made some esoteric word for, I want a nice concise list of the flags. I do NOT want a 5 page manpage written so dry and cumbersome that it's such a pain to read that we have other cheatsheet apps.. I ONLY want the manpage if I ask for the manpage.
Huge life hack for early career if you are living condition and location independent is to work at direction of employer in some location they pay for; saves a lot of money. Might be a compound in Saudi Arabia with a villa and driver, might be a corp apartment in Mexico City, etc.
Using per-capita numbers for the first industrialized nation is highly disingenuous. There are limits to efficiency, and billions that aspire to the lifestyle of the average Brit.
That concurrent queue is only there to illustrate usage of CAS in a data structure. I think having an actual implementation of a concurrent queue along with handling the ABA problem might be an entirely separate post.

I added in a note about the ABA problem but perhaps you're seeing a cached version of the post.
> It's a huge mature company. 56% in a year is unheard of.

MSFT is up 60% yoy. To say nothing about NVDA.

Anyway, the market rebounded. GOOG and most of the market are flat from 2 years ago.
The way you rent cars isn't necessarily the way that other rental car customers rent cars. If you're going on a road trip you don't want an EV. But I rent cars about 12x a year for trips of just a few days with very little mileage, just so I don't have to depend on taxis, and EVs are a great choice for me. I don't usually drive more than 50 miles on those trips, and strongly prefer EVs because I find them to provide better driving comfort (more responsive acceleration, better handling) than most ICE cars.
Grew up when they were always switches... not sure I can change. I can't feel around in the dark for two buttons, and know what the hell they are.
So who did alter the records? Were employees at Fujitsu stealing or just fucking around?
<a few misc planes on the chopping block in the future" sounds somewhat disingenuous:>

<As for the older A319s, AA is currently looking for their replacements:>

Which is basically what I wrote.
Huh? The UX is pretty much the same as in the terminal; "Here is a command, a small snippet of help text and a bunch of options, figure it out", not sure what Discord improved upon here. Autocomplete?
> If there's [...] no market cnstraints its obvious that the product is going to be really good and really expensive.

Well sure, you literally just removed the cost optimization variable. SpaceX vs. NASA is a clear example demonstrating that engineers can do this sort of optimization when it's given to them as a constraint. NASA's rocket designs were all custom, single-use, often down to the bolts because the budget was per-project/launch, where SpaceX rockets were designed for reuse and cost minimization across multiple launches.
Someday I'd like to know what the 99 problems are. So far we've ruled out "bitches" and "exponential growth"
I couldn’t agree more. Tesla has a major problem of not following the standard interaction design of cars. If you have to Google how to do something on your rental car, the designers have failed.

Even opening the back door while inside is unorthodox. There’s not a handle to pull, instead it’s a push button that looks like it’s for the window?
That screen is seriously distracting and the worst thing is you have to look at it even to check your speed. There is absolutely 0 information displayed behind the steering wheel. I always wonder how did this get approved.
> the UK Legal system regularly releases on bail people accused of murder...yes murder.

it turns out there's consequences for jumping bail
> If you frame it properly to engineers, they can solve cost problems too.

In eng school there was a saying: An engineer is someone who can build something for $4 that any fool can build for $7.
I work at a FAANG, I can't speak for all companies divisions but I can pretty comfortably say that I have seen next to no evidence that AI tooling has become so productive that we "need" less engineers.

Actually it's somehow kind of the inverse, any AI related code has been subpar which has been putting a lot of stress on the core systems in terms of reviews and performance.

From my personal perspective, things overall seemed more productive pre ChatGPT for FAANG level companies.
Government authorities purchasing shady cyberweapons is a well documented issue. It would a pleasant surprise if there was any government on Earth that didn't do such things out of respect for basic human rights.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nso
We use Zarf for our airgapped deployments of k8s. It super handy, and the Defense Unicorns are a great OSS community.

Their business model is really interesting actually. Building OSS tools for government is not the typical way of doing things.
I recall the breathless praise of the wizardry of the finance departments in GE and IBM back in the 2000s, and their wunderkind revenue production.

Of course it was a house of cards, but small fry compared to the contemporaneous castle of cards that was the mortgage crisis. GE basically imploded from becoming a finance-first company, IBM kept their toes a bit more grounded.

Cue the next government bailout in about 2-3 years.
Has anyone here left tech because of the layoffs? What are you doing now?
> you can easily take pets (for us two dogs)

…if they meet the necessary requirements. https://www.gov.uk/bring-pet-to-great-britain:

“You can enter or return to Great Britain with your pet cat, dog or ferret if it:

- has been microchipped

- has a pet passport or health certificate

- has been vaccinated against rabies - it will also need a blood test if you’re travelling from an country that is not ‘listed’

You must use an approved route - unless you’re travelling within the UK or from Ireland.

You need to fill in a declaration if you are not going to sell or transfer the ownership of your pet.

Dogs must also usually have a tapeworm treatment.”
??? How is this related? Are we on facebook?
There's a micro-genre of TikTok videos of realistic or semi fantastical ai generated interior designs. Just this week I've seen those same style of images include looping animation (steam coming from a shower, plant fronds gently swaying). It's amazing how fast things are moving in this space.
Honestly, now that I look back at it having written it a couple of weeks ago, it doesn't feel that long. But, writing it felt incredibly wrong because I was encountering memory models for the first time.

I think for someone who has no exposure to it before, its quite dense (perhaps long wasn't the best choice of wording)

Also, I've been meaning to read The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. I've heard great things about it!
Seems like another good argument for why the GPL and LGPL are actually kinda shit.
"both are right" is the softest, most useless takeaway they could have.
Thanks for confirming, we've just deployed some improvements to better handle VPN traffic and penalize legit users less. I hope this improves your QoL on Brave Search.
Engineers test autophage rocket engine
I don't think it's PR. The transition to EV is comparably piss poor to anyone who is using their cars for more than short commutes.
We go skiing every year and we drive approx 1200 km to the same spot.
This year on the brand new EV with 500km range.
Well not so much 500 in -20°C. More like 200.
We had to stop every 2.5 hours and charge. And in some places wait in line for maybe 30 minutes in supercharging stations.
The trip is usually about 12 hours with regular stops.
This year was close to 20.
And it was the same during the stay at the cabin, closest supercharger was 35km away and there were only 2.

The EV is a company car and policy bans non EV, not even hybrid are allowed.
For a 4 hour trip to a customer in winter cold, if I am lucky, I charge twice. A minimum of 20 minutes per charge. And no wait times on a good day.
Waiting 30 minutes to charge for 20 minutes. Well you do the math.

In my old car Id just drive the car on full tank the 4 hours front and back.
Maybe 1 short rest stop on the way back.
Now with the charge max to 80% hysteria and battery range being non existent in cold weather and endless lines in the charging stations I am starting to hate the EV.
I do have a home charger but we do not drive only 20 minutes per day.
We live outside the main city and works as consultants.

I am seriously considering changing employer because of this.