skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in the long run (which is your early 30s and that's coming sooner than you think), you'd want stability.

So main thing to watch out for US is to have a stable path forward that does not kick you out in your mid to late twenties making you start from scratch from elsewhere.

US immigration policy it seems is pretty restrictive at the moment [0]

And as for German language, it is difficult in some ways but easier in some. Learning a language certainly takes time but it is not something that has not ever done by any human.

Good luck!

[0]. https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-03/2023-bier-...
For people who live on boat-access islands in cold climates, hovercraft are a common way to get to school in the early winter and spring when the water isn’t navigable by either boat or snowmobile. Obviously kind of niche though.
The International Fixed Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Agile was always about two things: selling agile consulting and controlling developers.

It was never for the developers.
Perhaps the implication is not

"extra vigilant ... [compared to my level of vigilance on the happy path]",

but rather

"extra vigilant ... [compared to other people I work or have worked with]"

The latter is how I read it, because I have definitely worked on teams where the happy path was heavily scrutinised, but error handling was treated as an afterthought, and rarely inspected too closely, leading to anything from error strings copied from another part of the application with names not updated to match the new location to throwing XException but only handling YException, so the XException bubbles up to a much less useful handler.
> Maybe it's true but if penalties can be challenged and a higher penalty will in practice cost more to defend then maybe not.

That ascribes a level of foresight that you don't see anywhere else in government. Very unlikely, corruption more probable explanation.
How do you think the bodies holes get smaller and larger?

And do you know what bronchioles and alveoli are? If not, they’re what start closing up.
> Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life.

Every single modern device with a CPU does this dynamically. You are mixing up what batterygate was about.

Apple released an update that would permanently throttle a handset if it rebooted (browned out) due to a degraded battery. Replacing the battery would bring it back to full speed. The feature still exists today. It’s a bit like the “limp home” mode in your car.
Whenever trains come up it's impossible not to think of Francis Bourgeois

https://www.instagram.com/francis_bourgeois43/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bourgeois_(trainspotte...
Commenting on your edit, the founding principle of the United States is that government (particularly Federal) is untrustworthy and should be as small and as hamstrung as possible.

Americans lost the battle for small government, but not the distrust.
> e.g. to convert from seconds to meters you need to use conversion factor c, which is very much not 1.

SI cannot "convert from seconds to meters", since it treats length and duration as separate dimensions. Any multiplier which turns a duration into a length must have dimension of length/duration (and hence SI units of meters/seconds); something with those units is a speed, not a conversion factor (which is dimensionless). That's not specific to any particular speed, whether c or otherwise.
"I'm deciding between X and Y, here are some of my specific concerns, anyone chime in?"

"You might die, you're not in control of the future, do what you want"

Neat list of platitudes, not really helpful here.
It's not about saying you directly caused the specific increase in revenue, it's more about highlighting the value you can bring to a future organization – at least so you can talk about it in an interview. Remember, this game is not about determining if that increase was purely attributable to your work, it's about convincing an employer that you can add value.

For example: you coded and launched a new feature, and that feature brought in 20% more users over the following year. Sure, there were probably other factors that helped, but when you can point at specific things and back them up with metrics, it's 100% better than just listing a bunch of skills and jobs.
First sentence of the article: "We live in the age of the short attention span"

Followed by "TO READ THIS STORY, SIGN IN OR START A FREE TRIAL."

No, thank you!
Yes, I think the current state of technology (just starting) is a technology that complements developers.

Although my personal belief is this is more likely going to be an improvement similar to Assembly -> C (even if the LLM component doesn't improve, but assuming that the tooling does improve).

Personally I think there is going to be a new 'higher, higher level' of programming paradigms that are about to be invented that are supported by the ability of LLM's to write code - still augmenting humans, but making them many times more productive.
Code as a Lifeline
I was struck on a visit to Tel Aviv how absolutely every economic class had a form of powered transportation.

The low rung was the scooter/bicycle and the expense and convenience went up from there.

The streets are absolutely clogged with every level of transportation and everyone was busy and going fast.

Quite a contrast to rural New England but obviously the future. I see a college professor riding a one wheel about 2 miles from campus going up an incline that stretches for 2 miles. The road turns to dirt as it crosses state lines to Vermont. I dislike the ride on my bicycle. I stopped him once and I think he said he had 40 mile range!?
Designing a Multi-CI Terraform Orchestration Tool in Go
Building Containers from Scratch: Layers
Wow. Just... wow.
Tutorial showing how to do faster and more deterministic function calling using the open source Semantic Router library
On one hand I want to be outraged, but on the other I realize that corporate lobbying does this every day in other industries to try to lock out potential competitors and protect their territory.

I don’t like it, but it’s pretty standard.
nVidia, I would guess?

I realise it doesn't help now, but in the future you may want to avoid hardware that's specifically hostile to Linux.

there's a reason I chose my latest laptop specifically because it was Ryzen.
You can still use standard stuff like Kubernetes, even if you go microservices. I don't think it's that bad.

I'd say Cloud lets you do a few things, but the way I think of it ultimately is it lets you spend opex instead of capex. If that means though that your opex will end up higher than your capex, then it would be silly to go with it.

The other thing is in theory your reliability should be higher, but, again, that will depend on your individual situation, and how much reliability matters to you.
Show HN: Kitchengpt.io – AI-Driven Kitchen Makeovers
I'm excited to share my latest project: KitchenGPT.io. This tool is designed for anyone looking to update their kitchen with a modern twist. Simply upload a photo of your current kitchen, select your preferred theme and type, and let AI do the rest! KitchenGPT.io generates a refreshed kitchen design based on your choices, making it easier than ever to envision and plan your dream kitchen. Looking forward to your feedback and ideas!
Concerns are just illusions of egoic mind who believe death is not real. There are no concerns in reality. Reality is binary. Either you are alive or not alive.
Show HN: A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game
"Game" is a stretch, but I put together this repo containing a pure Rust app which uses SDL2 and compiles to WASM (and can be run in a browser). Older resources were a bit out of date and a bit too verbose for my purposes, so here's a minimal working example.
I really would love to see an effort, perhaps best spearheaded by Boring Company themselves, to do a very thorough "feature matrix" of pros and cons and real-life current costs of things depending on the area, e.g. snow removal costs, how much building "huge animal bridges" that allows ecosystem to not be too disrupted, etc.

It's such a complex issue that a fully "complete" overview is necessary, that can be then dove into over weeks or months of time to first study its thoroughness to then be able to decide how accurate or credible it is, and add to or correct it if an incongruence or error or incomplete aspect found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentCharts/comments/xldke8/wha...
> can be privately own too?

Maybe they shouldn't be.
MIT MicroMasters
It's really only because "we don't care enough" - when the rubber hits the road (literally) things like that get steamrolled and nationalized quite quickly.

But we're "so rich" that a few billionaire parasites doesn't amount to much, and so we let the legal fiction continue.
Its typical flamebait The Register is very fond of. I have seen entirely unnecessary references to everything from Brexit to religion on The Register.

it works too. Lots of comments both on their own site and here purely in response to mentioning Linux in the subheading.
This may be arguably nitpicking, but the following statement from TFA isn’t exactly the case:

> Moreover, uploading to S3 - in any storage class - is also free!

Depending upon how much data you’re transferring in terms of storage class, number of API calls your software makes to do so, and the capacity used, you may incur charges. This is very easy to inadvertently do when uploading large volumes of archival data directly to the S3 Glacier tiers. You absolutely will pay if you end up using millions of API calls to upload tens of millions of objects comprising tens of terabytes or more.
Didn't Bill Gates "kill the command line" in a infamous video when Windows 95 came out?
> I don't pay for ChatGPT Plus, I only have a paid API key so I used instead a command line client, chatgpt-cli and manually ran the output programs.

But this is much different, and likely much worse, than paid ChatGPT. Code Interpreter does its own debugging-and-revising loop.

It's bizarre to me that this author wouldn't pay $20 one time to evaluate the higher quality product, the one most people would use if they cared about code quality, am I missing something?
Actually, it was envisioned that you'd use the D channel for packet switched data traffic (not IP, more like X.25). Why would a private person use more than 16 kbit/s for a home computer? Much more important to have two high-quality voice lines! And we are busily working on ATM-based Broadband-ISDN to even make high quality video calls and TV available! Just you wait!
Moving to the US is a much better deal than moving to Europe. Much higher salaries and you'll encounter way less racism in the US. However, undergrad in the US will not give you an automatic path to residency. So you might get kicked out of the country after you graduate.

But it's still the better deal. Europe should be your plan B.
The code which outputs the error message is probably getting it from GetLastError() or similar (the Windows equivalent to POSIX's errno). But meanwhile, some error handling code has called some library functions (probably to restore the system to a sane state), and one of these library functions accidentally overwrote the global per-thread "last error" variable. That is, the error in the error handling routine would simply be a lack of doing a "saved = GetLastError()" at the start and then a "SetLastError(saved)" at the end.

This kind of mistake is very common when dealing with GetLastError() or errno, since most library functions you might call while handling an error do not overwrite these values... until something in one of them fails (sometimes even a non-fatal error which is handled internally by them) and overwrites that per-thread variable.
I think the lifestyle part depends a lot on where in the US OP would end up. Places like Boston and NYC are not car-dependent at all and most people you will meet are a normal weight and have a decent diet. There is also a ton of cultural diversity within NYC and lots of amazing food (especially if you have disposable income). Boston has many students and postdocs coming from all over, so in an academic circle you will easily have a young diverse friend group. It's definitely a different lifestyle than living in some other parts of the US, which probably are more of a negative compared to EU - though if you're into nature there are some really beautiful sights in parts of the US that make for relatively cheap vacations. There's also something to be said for the US college experience, like I wouldn't want to live in a smaller college town as an adult but some of them are super fun while you're an undergrad.
Go study!!!!

Either you really learn a lot in your current Berlin company so that other companies will ignore your education or you will have problems.

And 20 is nothing just because it feels nice to earn money, long term it is much riskier.
Yea, it gets tougher for sure.

Everybody who participated seemed to enjoy solving the problems. Many of them have said they plan to solve the rest over the next couple of months, just not on the contest timeline.
It legitimately feels like a super power.

I run a small D2C brand on the side that's been lagging behind because I need to create fresh creative collateral for it and I've never had to time to get new set of pictures taken.

The Midjourney V6 > Magnific pipeline helped me create enough pictures in 3-4 hours of prompting to keep the marketing pipeline filled for the next year. And the quality is so, so good that most of my agency friends say only a handful of people in the state can create anything remotely similar.

People will be shocked at the quality of creatives even small brands will be able to put out in the next couple of years. You can have Versace-quality luxury product shots for $20/month in subscriptions.
Study in the EU (free) and take a job in the US ($$$).
Discord is, or at least can be indexed and searchable. Same as IRC chats become indexed and searchable.

https://www.answeroverflow.com/
Seems like it would be a good test for a theoretical "hyperloop" thing, or a maglev. Hyperloop shouldn't be tested first with humans.
This is the only reason why I can still support a windows app, thanks for this MS.
it might be the hardest Princess Anne and Margaret have ever worked ;)
Power Pivot Excel add-inshould be able to manage million of rows.

See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/data-model-specif... and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-memory-e...
I think the problem isn’t private ownership nor the tolls; we have lots of private infrastructure including roads and rail, and historically we also had roads, bridges, barges, etc. The problem is the company lobbying against competition (a parallel bridge).
Sandstorm Now Belongs to Sandstorm.org
Meanwhile, in an effort to control traffic congestion, certain US states are building privately owned toll roads, which siphon away maintenance taxes that could benefit local road repair.
> No one is gonna watch all that on your "trust me bro".

I see you've never met the UFO/UAP community.
YouTube also provides the graph to creators.
When I started out (80s), we would work closely with the real users and they got what the wanted. Back then development was text screens.

Around 10 years later, some methodology came along and working with the users ended. This methodology was suppose to give the programmers more time to work. We ended up with frustrated users who started moving to Lotus 123 or Excel. Back then I developed (on the side) many processes where my users could get the data from the mainframe for use on their PCs.

Agile came along later with prepackaged software, AMAPs(?), SAP, Oracle and many others that I have forgotten. Now we have many many users spending at least 50% of their time (some much more) testing upgrades instead of analyzing their data. End result, users are just doing what they can to get by whatever GUI screen is presented to them, not caring at all what data they are entering in. And most real work occurs in excel to the point where users are downloading gigs of data to their PC to get away from the canned, hard to use Enterprise Systems.
Good question. There is quite a lot of boilerplate in graphics, which is basically copy paste/book textbook lookup and ChatGPT is fantastic for this sort of thing. I wouldn't be able to deduce this, it would be a copy paste from github/stackoverflow/physics book/whatever. ChatGPT though is like a magic copy paste that takes the formula from github or the pbrt book and pastes it with my variable names. So you don't do paste and then update the names.

// convert color from linear to sRGB

let srgb = [some formula]

// calculate wavelength dependent index of refraction

let nw = [something]

But yes, obviously somewhere between this and just saying "Create all the code I need" All the fun would disappear too. For the most part, that wouldn't work either. It would shit out 200 lines of code that doesn't work, and now it instead of taking the boring job of googling a formula from an optics reference replacing the variable names, it's now taking the role of shitty developer and made me the code reviewer. But see that's my day job and it's not what anyone wants.
Don't believe what you read in the press, that Apple avoided layoffs for its FTE
Knowing more than me is not difficult.

The porcelain dogs would vibrate and create an easy to hear extra noise.
Unless as I pointed out they were modified.
Perhaps by making them heavy and letting them sit on a robber mat or some such.

Noise from a good bass makes all manner of things vibrate.
Some of which is noticeable.

About the fireplace.
An open fireplace would be noticeable.
Perhaps he has filled it in. even with some absorbing material.

I am not convinced about his skill level on matters like acoustics.
I dont think he could sit down and the do all the math.
What he could do was to try things out, and incrementally make
improvements.

Ultimately, he created a system he thought was great and that was what mattered.

In my day I would spend endless hours moving things down to a mm here or there.
Moving acoustic treatments all around, all such stuff.
Aside from the general rules, I did not have the math, so I tried to find a solution that I loved.
> Got a near full-tuition scholarship from a T200 public university to study undergrad in the US.

US public universities give scholarships to non citizens?
Does it matter what you choose to call me?
Note that the new bridge is a Public-Private Partnership (P3) job. It's basically owned by the private companies that are building the bridge for a number of years and the toll revenue goes to them. After the set amount of years, it is transferred back to the government.
There is an industry that tries to mask and treat the symptoms without treating the cause of the symptoms.

Such sociopathically managed activity incentives the masking with long treatments for life, that gradually degrade other properly functioning systems (with over time require additional masking treatments, in loop).

So every time I read about symptoms without investigating what causes the triggering of such symptoms, I assume it is promoting that criminal but legal activity.
Tiny Elvis
It's an issue everywhere. Private property creates an incentive for people to weaponize democracy for their own zero-sum/negative-sum gain. For example, farming subsidies. That doesn't mean private property should be illegal. You need some private property for prosperity. It means the democratic system needs to be very carefully designed to minimize this corrupting influence.
The cable was connected in the test.
How to Update Your Permalink Structure Without Hurting SEO
Yeah :( To be honest, I think we got a bit overeager about this one, since none of us on the project are chemistry experts. At least for the front page, we should probably replace that with a different diagram from our registry.

I think this is actually a fairly deep issue with our approach where we try to express everything in terms of numerical optimization, pairwise energies on shapes, etc. Especially since Style is not a Turing-complete programming language and also doesn't support calling out to existing libraries written in, e.g., JavaScript, there isn't a way to do actually-correct layout of the caffeine molecule, so instead we do the "lazy" thing and just try to make the atoms not overlap. To anyone who actually knows what a caffeine molecule looks like, obviously this looks ridiculous.

In the same vein as the other HN comment about separation of substance and style, I think we could do a much better job on chemistry diagrams by actually placing the atoms where they should be in 3D space, then projecting onto a 2D SVG diagram. To illustrate what I mean, consider this other diagram in our registry, showing a methane combustion reaction: https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/try/?examples=structural-formula/...

As you can see on that example, the methane molecule looks weird because all the bonds are drawn "below" the carbon atom, and the carbon dioxide molecule is all bent out of shape. In contrast, by just writing a bit of Python code, you can make the diagram both easier to specify https://github.com/samestep/diagrams/blob/3d7fe855b3a9634d17... (compared to the 70-line Penrose Substance file) and also more correct: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samestep/diagrams/2c8fb334...

I think that a general-purpose text-based diagramming tool needs to support a variety of different layout engines.
East European here, a bit similar similar history to yours in that I've also got a scholarship in the US and I went the college route. In between the college years I've taken a few years of "leave of absence" to work in industry (back in Europe) - the US colleges (at least mine, but I suppose it's similar for most of them) do enable students to pause the education and return a bit later without any hassle, even my scholarship was still kept.

I'd never go back to change getting the degree - it's a great stepping stone in the professional world, opens doors and interviews, you can go back to industry any time later on. However the college is much "easier" when you are 20 - easier to fit in, make friends etc. With life, responsibilities will pile up and there can and will be much more friction to decide and get back to college later on.

College then led to masters (in ML) and that has become and still is a technical basis of all my professional career, so I have a deepest gratitude for all of these educational opportunities.
There are finger-counting methods for pretty much any base. Most are more efficient (capable of counting higher) than the base 10 approach of associating each finger with a digit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting
It can be searchable from a search engine.

https://www.answeroverflow.com/
In GitLab too
I develop using these on Linux for Windows. The current version (2311) is not usable on Virtualbox (see known issues towards the end) so we are still sticking to version 2210 (it's expired but slmgr /rearm works)

Reinstalling it every couple of months is not much of a problem if you have a provisioning script. I actually like to do it that way because keeps bloat to a minimum.
I've never seen an IT team that couldn't spin up a VM in minutes. I have seen a bunch of teams that weren't allowed to because of ludicrous "change control" practices. Fire the managers that create this state of affairs, not the devops folks, regardless of whether you "go cloud" or not.
This makes me laugh. Canada is the most anti competition, everything is a monopoly country in the world. That is why food prices and telecom bills are so high. The govt owns nothing. This is another major failure of Canada.
Wow, this is terrible. It's an inappropriate metaphor, it's badly executed, the examples for each category are hardly representative and often spectacularly bad (bar chart!?), and to call it "incomplete" would be a severe understatement.

This is a great example of how not to organize and display information.