skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
g4zj, you are doing the most important thing of your life. Keep doing, I'm pretty sure you are doing great! Keep healthy.

I was actually in a situation similar to you. Lost of interest in learning new stuff, every thing feeling the same as something that I already know, and obviously I was wrong, but it took sometime before I was hocked over a new subject I know little about. Lately, I'm studying Computer Related skills like soundness, proof assistant and automatic proof/solver. It will not have any impact on my IT career, but I never learned anything for my career.

I keep working on myself too.
Right. How many hours do I have to work for this food is the real question.
Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
> it will be forced to go through local servers to operate legally.

Not having to operate legally is the whole point here. The hope is that Russia / China will have no way of preventing Starling from existing (maybe except shooting down satellites and causing a major international diplomatic incident).

There's still the question of how to make this profitable, if Starling is illegal in Russia / China, it will be difficult for them to interface with their financial infrastructure to receive payments. This could be solved either with cryptocurrencies or support from other governments and human rights organizations. It's also possible that Starlink will allow certain activity free of charge, particularly during protests and internet blackouts.

This moves the global nature of the internet one step further. Until now, it was generally possible for law enforcement to force ISPs to censor content and give up activity logs, something that made catching criminals a lot easier. Satellite networks make that much harder, especially if your government isn't very friendly with the jurisdiction the ISP is incorporated in. It's not unimaginable to me that, in ten years, most black hat US hackers will use a Russian satellite network as an additional layer of protection. Even if all else fails, all their devices get compromised and their IP address leaks, the Russians won't give up the customer info for that address anyway.
No idea - just did a quick scan of the source

https://asm32.info/fossil/asmbb/dir
Well Al Gore famously invented the internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/01/11/al-gore-inv...

But more usually, companies want politicians on the board because they have political connections which they can tap to the company’s advantage.
It will not.

Don't know about China, but Russian citizens already have almost unfiltered access to information. The only major western media outlet currently blocked in Russia is BBC. Anyone can read pretty much anything else - Reuters, Newsweek, CNN, whatever - right from their phones.

Access to information is not the problem (at least for now). It is trivial to get access to uncensored news for anyone with a modicum of desire to do so.
For anyone coming across this, a new page has been set up at https://sourcehut.org/ since the other one doesn't seem to load.
I was in a similar introspective state of my life when someone recommended "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl. To anyone reading the comment wanting more, I'd recommend the book. The audiobook is only 4h 45m.
In our younger years, we are primarily driven by economic necessity and social validation. Sure, programming genuinely interests me from my teenage years, but if it wasn't for attaining some level of financial independence, there's no way I could have spent most of my 20s in front of a screen, solving someone else's problems. I could have been doing it as a leisurely recreational hobby instead.

Now I'm in my late 30s, with a 5-year-old child and a well-furnished 2-bedroom flat that was paid for in cash. I don't feel like having to prove anything to anyone. I've not fallen prey to any kind of excessive material consumption. My best idea of spending quality time is assisting my son with playing with Lego, and then taking a walk in the park with a classic philosophical book from Plato or Hegel or Hume.
We will need to upload ourselves and/or have robots grow us when we get to our destination. We will get there. It sounds crazy until it doesn’t.
Make private financing of campaigns illegal. Require same day primary elections. Outlaw professional lobbying.
You're 40, not 90.

Just take some lessons.
My point was that the condition of not knowing how to grade performance will not change when you bring people back into an office. It will just reinforce the belief that butt-in-seat is productivity for the companies that already believe that.
I watched yesterday talk from PostgresML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8YMMOhAeBs and found it very practical and to the point on how you could use Postgres to build vector database.
The patronising disposition of unaccountable power – learnings from Hillsborough [pdf]
Reminder that "peer review" used to mean sending a letter to your friend to see what they think of your work.

The formalized system of opaque and unaccountable criticism that gatekeeps science had to have been invented in the 20th century.
Proof for "we're fucked."

Also Marxist notions of "Global revolution" are exponentially more fucked up than exponential growth. So, no thank you.
It's less complicated than you might think. You call into SQLite C library functions using C calling conventions. Here's the relevant code: https://asm32.info/fossil/asmbb/file?name=source/sqlite3.asm...
> I don't know if this has been announced before...

When they announced the original deal with T-Mobile, they said that T-Mobile would handle the (spectrum) license for the US and they're looking for a partner in other countries with the appropriate spectrum licensing. US T-Mobile customers would have access to this SpaceX service in any country where there is a partner with the spectrum license.

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-takes-cove...

If you have an iPhone 14 or above, Apple offers similar capabilities to all iPhone users in about a dozen countries (so far) regardless of which mobile network you subscribe to at home.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426
I've never understood seemingly successful people who feel the need to brag. I think it must be some kind of Midwest modesty
I'm a manager. What should I be doing to help elevate my under performing team member?

(There is of course a lot of nuance in my specific situation but would love to hear general thoughts on what makes a manager good.)
I found WFH terrible for onboarding new hires. They don’t have the work network and miss out on conversations, both work and water-cooler social stuff. It’s taking much longer to get them up to speed and as productive as their co-workers than it did when we were all in the office.

And yeah completely agree on working on the right things. Programmers (me included) pine for “focus time”, but we need a lot of talking to know if we’re overengineering or underengineering. I’ve watched a lot of people get their way with too much focus time and implement the wrong things, wasting weeks or months at a time.
I think it's also the case that management is less willing to accept that they are the problem, and that they need to change. And since they're the ones who call the shots, they force their employees back into a working arrangement that makes them more comfortable and more effective at management.
It's a smaller company now, so that's obvious.
I would include Command and Control on a list of essential nuclear history reading. Specifically US and post WWII but fascinating and enlightening.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)
Ancient Simian Proverb

That's how it's attributed in Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and it stuck with me too.
There are attempts to combine those...

a cool example is April (Array Programming Re-Imagined in Lisp), which runs on top of Common Lisp...

https://github.com/phantomics/april

One can see that the Lisp macro APRIL-F compiles APL-like code to Lisp.

APRIL> (macroexpand '(april-f "3r4J9r5×⍳4"))
(LET ((OUTPUT-STREAM *STANDARD-OUTPUT*))
(DECLARE (IGNORABLE OUTPUT-STREAM))
(SYMBOL-MACROLET ((INDEX-ORIGIN APRIL-WORKSPACE-COMMON::*INDEX-ORIGIN*)
(PRINT-PRECISION APRIL-WORKSPACE-COMMON::*PRINT-PRECISION*)
(COMPARISON-TOLERANCE
APRIL-WORKSPACE-COMMON::*COMPARISON-TOLERANCE*)
(DIVISION-METHOD APRIL-WORKSPACE-COMMON::*DIVISION-METHOD*)
(RNGS APRIL-WORKSPACE-COMMON::*RNGS*))
(A-OUT (A-CALL (APL-FN-S ×) (A-CALL (APL-FN ⍳ INDEX-ORIGIN) 4) #C(3/4 9/5))
:PRINT-PRECISION PRINT-PRECISION :PRINT-TO OUTPUT-STREAM)))
T

we can run that:

APRIL> (april-f "3r4J9r5×⍳4")
3r4J9r5 3r2J18r5 9r4J27r5 3J36r5
#(#C(3/4 9/5) #C(3/2 18/5) #C(9/4 27/5) #C(3 36/5))

It has created a Lisp vector of complex numbers.

APRIL> (describe *)
#(#C(3/4 9/5) #C(3/2 18/5) #C(9/4 27/5) #C(3 36/5))
[simple-vector]

Element-type: T
Length: 4
; No value
I wonder if this is a practical project to distribute as an APE: https://justine.lol/ape.html
Be someone to people you care about and are close to. Don't worry about trying to be a person that has a wikipedia page.
If the probability of the camera being damaged, destroyed, vandalized, or stolen in any given day is one in a million, then this thing only has a 70% chance of surviving a thousand years. (And I think that's high...)
Lynch hates the extended TV cut with a passion and had no control over it whatsoever. He even went so far as to demand that his credit being removed (he is credited as Alan Smithee/Judas Booth for director/writer). The prologue might make more sense in the TV edit, but I think the execution is pretty bad and ugly. As I've written, while the prologue from the theatrical edit might not make much sense, it's absolutely beautiful to watch.
Yes it absolutely is and it spoils it for everyone, but it's super hard to filter that out. One can be a super performer with a great resume and still just not work at all when it's from home.
Is that how Argentines speak?
> "learn an array language, they're easy to write on paper" everyone would think they were insane... but there is something to it, in certain cases.

Indeed, and sometimes not needing a computer to quickly splash out an idea you're thinking/talking about is extremely useful!

Over Christmas, I showed my brother {+⌿⍤2(∘.≤)⍤1⍨⍵} as a small expression to explore attribute to pick playing Top-Trumps admist a discussion. Not something you'd be able to do in many other languages!
My strategy in WFH onboarding is a ton of 1:1 meetings
This is me. I've been working on my hardware design and engineering skills for 20 years, in the last I stopped trying to focus on progressing that and just focus on progressing me, my relationships (including with myself), and learning to market myself better and more genuinely. In learning about marketing I've learned a lot about human nature, and manipulation of such, and I've learned to recognize how marketing and soceity in general manipulates us in ways I was previously unaware of. Learning this alternate skillset really opened my eyes up to the broader world and has really broadened my horizons.
Btw I always felt that laser on shield == nuclear explosion idea was rather bad, as it has immense exploitable military potential which somehow wasn't utilized at all in the books. I understand that it was made to explain why they suddenly fight with knives and swords instead of projectiles and lasers, and while the explanation works for projectiles, the laser explanation fails.
This is a wild oversimplification. And very dangerous if you try to apply to people in more complex situations.
> Some scenes were direct adaptations from the book, like Gom Jabbar scene, Shadout Mapes scene

if it weren't loyal to the source material we'd have pitchforks as well. there is no winning with book adaptations
Scanning through my old datasheets I have one from the MSM65512 which probably means I considered that but it's been a while. I should have kept a devlog.

I found an old email to someone that suggests I thought it was an nX/4.

This is a lower-res version of the decapped chip.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Oki_m628...
"disobedient"
Musk being reliant on his business in China is one thing, but I also think that the US government may not want to upset China by having an American company serving people in China without approval of the Chinese government? Starlink works (or worked?) in Iran, but International Telecommunication Union ordered Starlink to stop it[0]. I'm not sure if it changed anything because US government doesn't mind it.

[0] https://amwaj.media/media-monitor/will-starlink-comply-with-...
I found it strange that one of the stated reasons behind the verdict was that the court believed that Nature and Youth's alternate proposal [1] of storing the waste in underground depots would not be any more environmentally friendly than the alternative [2]:

> "Viktigst er likevel at tingretten ikke finner mest sannsynlig at et driftsalternativ med lagring av avgangsmasser i dedikerte bergrom vil være miljømessig vesentlig bedre enn sjødeponi – alle miljøvirkninger tatt i betraktning." ("The most important fact is that the court does not find it likely that mining operations with storage of mining waste in dedicated subterranean depots would be a substantial improvement environmentally on storing it at sea - with all environmental consequences factored in.")

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/10bcrk0Iyvn8eouBshKcNGxe35fc...

[2] https://www.tu.no/artikler/nederlag-for-miljobevegelsen-ting...
Your credit card expired and you didn't pay your last month of service and to update your credit card details you need access to your email account to confirm ID you but your phone is a new replacement phone and you don't have your 2FA codes for your email account.
As if you would know what the percentage of English-language proficiency is . Ever had friends in RU and CN?

Btw, not everyone on Earth seems Western faux democracy as a suitable / wanted direction to move to.
This logic is absurd.

The people responsible for the opioid crisis also donated a lot of money to philanthropy. If people told us “no shady opioid practices, no philanthropy” we would all assume they were being absurd. Because that statement is absurd as the one you made saying that without Meta’s shady practices we wouldn’t have those open source projects.

Also Meta’s open source projects do have a benefit to Meta. If they didn’t, Meta would never open source them. It’s part of Meta’s business strategy.
>QoL nosedived in NJ

A better question may be, has QoL nosedived in the rust belt because the tech industry is dominated by CA?
I was thinking more of tectonically active ice giants with large oceans under the ice shield. To explore space, you will have to drill your way out first.
The fact that the stats that drive this could be weighted in any arbitrary way makes the overall rankings pretty worthless in my eyes. And looking at the top 10 vs bottom 10 kind of validates these thoughts.
I would much rather live in most of the bottom ten than in the top ten, if we're talking long term.
The Hillsborough football disaster killed 96 people, but resulted in a decades long "gaslighting" by the police and those in power as to what happened.

What can we learn from the Bishop whose report this is: The Right Reverend James Jones KBE
Counterpoint : what makes you think we will?
TIL David Lynch films with scripts.
Same. And I don't think we'll have to wait long - perhaps a year.
I’ve been adjusting to a new chronic illness and have found that I need to save my “health days” for work, exercise, and friends/family.

I still sometimes find myself feeling good during time off without any plans, but I have learned that I can’t really pick up projects that I know will take more than a couple days of focus to complete.

If I find myself longing for more work or bigger projects, it usually means I’ve been in a long span of feeling well, which means I should just go outside or be with people anyway. Work usually fills that void very quickly, too…
There are a bunch of people who take blackberry keyboards and making LoRa texting devices. One example:

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-lora-messenger-is-perfect-...

It would be cool if they extended this to use satellites where LoRa is not available.
The Quaker Oats Recall: Ensuring Safety Amidst Salmonella Concerns
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I take care of it by largely ignoring it.
Worth noting that most doctors think very low testosterone levels are "fine" because they're "in range", which basically means you're not going to, like, die tomorrow from it. Research what healthy levels actually are where you feel good and healthy. It's significantly higher than the lowest acceptable test range.
This is a problem of your expectations. Things don't need to be perfect to qualify as AI.
Ask HN: Cons of Using .io Domain?
The photographer Michael Weseley did a number of long exposures (>12mths iirc) of Berlin during the 1990s as it was being transformed after the fall of the Wall and subsequent reunification.
Viewed as huge prints in a gallery they were impressively detailed, as layers of various rebuilding and urban planning projects were revealed in varying degrees of transparency, depending on how long they took and how recent they were:

eg https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/14374185
I've never really had an issue with that last point when working remotely. Ultimately there isn't that much difference between 8 people sitting in a conference room together and 8 people on a video call.

Sure, communication isn't as fluid, and you lose some context cues, but we're not talking about things that need intense physical interaction.

I did enjoy going into the office from time to time for group meetings (I lived close enough to the office for that to be easy to do), but never felt like the meeting was significantly more productive in-person.
>This isn't bad -- it drives storytelling innovation

to me it feels like it just drives filmmakers to make more period pieces.

'the wedding singer' comes to mind.
FWIW, I see 9.20 for Chipotle in Maryland (and one of the more expensive parts of that expensive state, at that) for the chicken burrito/bowl, no add-ons. I don't deny the disappearance of formerly free hacks and add-ons, or that price has gone up, but the nearly 2.5x probably has some local craziness thrown in.

Edit: ouch, just saw it jumped to 10.10 since my last monthly Chipotle order.
I was mostly thinking of large companies also creating their own AI, like Google, Microsoft, etc.
I also find that communication/sync overhead is less efficient in remote teams (I have been working in globally distributed teams, since the early 1990s).

It's been my experience, that everyone (from the lowliest IC to the CEO) fails to understand the cost of team synchronization. That's a [set of] topic[s] that would fill an entire bookshelf, and anyone that gets it right, could live in opulence.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it needs to be planned for, by managers and architects.

Architects need to design systems that allow ICs to have more personal agency, while encouraging synchronization (an approach that I use, is blackbox implementations, and whitebox APIs). The more an IC can work on their own, the better, but we still need that transparency.

Managers need to know when it's OK to send work to remote agents, and when work is required in-office. They need to know their teams well enough to be able to choose wisely. Human nature is a big deal. Until the entire workforce is AI, you'll always have those pesky humans in the mix, with their annoying emotions and personal lives.

Also, and this is almost never talked about, is that different people work differently. Some folks are almost superhuman, when left alone, while others just screw the pooch.

They may both be incredible employees, but they need to be handled differently.

Unfortunately, modern HR practice, is to treat every employee exactly the same as every other one (and there are actually valid reasons for this).

TL;DR, it's not simple, there's no "one policy to rule them all," and good managers are hard to find.
That's kind of strange, I only was peripherally reading the discussion and saw they were doing random/entropic strategies, which IMO you do if the problem space is so large that you can't wrap around it using normal exploration techniques.
I disagreed emphatically with claiming "it's never been easier for children to have access to ideas."

Most children online consume media and follow recommendations, ads and friend feeds, rather than intentionally searching for topics in a structured and coherent way. Doomscrolling, bingeing, mindless zombie mode, whatever. We may not like it but you're aware that's the way it actually is.

As for legal considerations, it does matter: they define/limit the ability of YT, FB, TT et al. to build a profile and blend recommendations, ads and organic content. More so for under-18s and under-13s, more so where there are privacy laws (GDPR). If the US actually passed meaningful privacy laws this would have more effect.
In the light of the current UK Post Office software Horizon scandal - this seems very relevant.
IMO this is seriously flawed.

Any index like this where Berlin or Barcelona or Switzerland or any other city/country with a mature tech ecosystem (or a very nice weathe, why not?) are missing from the top spots is basically useless.

For example: nobody in Europe ever talks about Luxembourg and AFAIK even less when talking about working remotely.

It might be attractive in principle, as the richest country in Europe with the highest average salary or for being at the center of continental Europe, but it's hardly a destination people dream about.

Reykjavik too, been there a few times, it's not the place you want to go spend a long time working remotely, unless you are Icelandic.

It's simply too small and isolated.

I would not bring.my family to live there just to work remotely.
That's much more elegant than my hacky hand-written systemd unit (one-shot, remain after exit) to start podman containers.
Yeah, that's a huge issue.

Like, just look at Playit.gg, they have issues with both ip blacklists and domain blacklists (+ safe browsing warnings)

T-Mobile is a big one that apparently blocks their ip ranges.
I guess you wanted to say forgettable, but just to expand on that:

I recently read the book and I couldn’t even remember the character now and had to look up who was meant. Maybe that is more a testament to how bad I am at remembering stuff I read in books than how important the character is but there you go.
Did you read that article? The conclusion is shoplifting is just one of many kinds of theft (return fraud, employee theft). This is absolutely an issue with degrading trust, not business fundamentals.
I think the advent of Chat GPT makes this announcement that much more significant.

Until recently, always-available, extremely-low-bandwidth, text-only communication was interesting, but not that interesting. You could use it in emergency situations or to talk to friends, depending on how low-bandwidth we're talking about, but that's about it. You couldn't use it for internet browsing or to look up information you might need on the go, you basically needed to text a friend to do it for you.

If the other side of that communication has access to an LLM with internet browsing capabilities, the situation changes dramatically. If there's something you need to know on the go, you can just ask Chat GPT to do the searching for you and respond like it was writing a Telegram (in the most concise way possible).
Starlink works in Iran and is crucial to the Ukrainian army, but as other commenter pointed out, Musk has business in China, so China would be off the table.