skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having largely moved out of the UK to Germany, I can see that the UK has a care for human life and safety that is unrivalled so far. (Despite the literal shitshow of the last few years as water companies dump sewage)

The UK has so much good design in all the systems where humans are concerned, from clear signage to walking surfaces, plus checks and balances to provide for redundancy, that you start taking it all for granted.

India on the other hand - I'm of Indian heritage - is a chaotic hellscape where life is cheap. I have an apartment there and recently smooke started pouring out a water pump, somebody mentioned it on the Whatsapp group and eventually someone went to investigate and found it burnt out. You can see so many problems here:

1) Response time slow
2) Problem not treated urgently
3) No electrical cut out
4) No temperature cut out

Basically the sort of thing that you would find sixty years ago in the UK, a malfunctioning device can simply carry on malfunctioning to the extent that it could cause a fire in an entire apartment block. The UK is not immune from this - see Grenfell fire where bad cladding caused many deaths - but we have a full-scale public inquiry and legislation and a lot of very pissed-off people in comparison.
The most important part of this feeling is not giving in to being intimidated. By realising there is a dragon, you’ve already made a big step! Others could fight the dragon because they made the same first step at some point, not because they are so much smarter than you.
> If Palestine didn't want war they shouldn't have let Hamas initiate acts of war

We should avoid collectivizing the motives and capabilities of heterogeneous individuals, many of them children, and many of them adults who do not support Hamas's atrocities but had no ability to stop them without being killed themselves.

It's one thing to say that the civilian deaths in this war are unfortunate collateral damage, it's another thing to do away with the concept of collateral damage entirely and pretend that every single individual bears moral culpability for Hamas's actions, just for the crime of being born on the wrong side of the fence.
I have had personal conversations with people who went through involved security clearance processes in the 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's. Between those times I can tell you that everyone but the FBI got more lax about pot (but not cocaine) and homosexuality (even the FBI didn't care about that by the mid 2000's) but not more lax about gambling - even in states where it was already legal. They aren't on the lookout for straight arrows to hire, they're on the lookout for people who can be blackmailed to steal information. Once things like simple weed possession became nothing more than a small civil penalty, there wasn't any way to use the threat of exposure as a way of blackmailing someone. Once people knew they couldn't generally be fired / blackballed for homosexuality, that lever disappeared.
Dogmatism and sectarianism are rife in political theory and in my view help explain why there hasn't been a successful way to challenge the excessive accumulation of wealth and political power that seems to insist on prevailing over any power structure designed to moderate it.
I never meant to imply that the Houthis could build it themselves, just that the technical capabilities are sufficiently distributed that most interested parties can find someone who will provide them given enough incentive. The Houthis don’t need to figure it out themselves if the Iranian government is happy to provide the hardware.
I listen to his podcast, and I’m definitely partial to the many worlds interpretation, so I end up taking in a lot of his explanations of it.

The work he’s doing in that area is super interesting, and sounds promising (of course, I’m getting primarily Carroll’s take on it when I hear about it, so it makes sense that it sounds promising!), but the math itself is above my head.

I am super interested to see if it ends up moving the ball forward on resolving the GR/QM conflicts.
That's a completely different set of authors, published in the same journal - just clarifying for others because I interpreted you as saying that the same authors had published a reversal, which sounded intriguing.
Are they losing the RTO battle though? Amazon don't seem to be too bothered if you quit rather than go back to the office at the moment - there again Amazon might be just looking to reduce headcount on the cheap too.

There's a glut of office space where I live, something like 35% of new offices are unoccupied, so maybe that's due to over-supply or failing RTO policies?
Recent governments in Malta have been moving in this direction so maybe there's a playbook :).

The issue we face is that given how tiny and few we are (approx 500k Maltese, excluding what are referred to ad TCNs or third country nationals), is that its hard for the government to do anything without looking like someone favoured their cousin's wife's uncle's nephew.
Not so recent, about 6 years ago, I had to communicate with many instruments (PS, Oscilloscope, SMU, etc) to test a new ASIC we developed. There where hundreds of tests to be done. We wanted to automate the measurement and evaluation of results, because they were so many. Also there where 5 fabs and 2 suppliers with different design, but “pin compatible”.
I did the whole framework in emacs lisp, I had to implement ONC RPC and LXI on top to speak to the instruments…
The whole thing took me 2 weeks. At the time I had no idea of Elisp; only a little vit of scheme. I was proficient in C, and I would say it had taken me at least 6 Months to do the same
Mitigating capacity loss by crossover transport in vanadium redox flow battery
>The Third Barbary War seems to be upon us.

No- you need to go further back before you see the big picture. Much as in the ancient world (which the modern world order consists of in large part), this is a Romans vs. Parthians vs. Chinese thing.

These actions are just the Parthians making access to the Silk Road harder, in the hopes that Consul Biden and the Senate and People of Rome (and the provinces they control) will stop supporting the king of Judea and his recent military invasion of the Parthian-allied settlements on his border.

>Those shipping lanes are vital, and there is only so much disruption the international order will accept before putting a decisive end to the interference.

I'll believe that as soon as the Chinese Emperor Xi commands his warships to sail out and fire their first salvos at the Parthian-supplied forces. The "international order" you think exists is literally just Rome and its provinces, and those provinces are currently busy supplying a civil war in the European Borderland (one the Romans were a major factor in creating the conditions for it to occur) and they barely contribute anything to their obligations in the North Adriatic Treaty Organization to begin with. They don't even have any legions to deploy (not that they could raise any in the first place) and won't be anywhere near decisive in a proper fight.

So that just leaves the Romans themselves... who have been engaging in proxy military action (with the king of Arabia) to remove the Parthian proxies for the past 10 years or so with very little success.

To be fair to Parthia, their main goal has always been to pull nearby provinces out of Roman orbit and into Parthia's- while Judea and Arabia might never enter the Parthian orbit unless physically conquered (organization of the Parthian-sympathetic states surrounding Judea has been a long goal of the Parthians; unfortunately for Parthia, their armies keep losing) the vassal states that depend heavily on goods traveling through the Silk Road might start to view the actions of the Judeans with disfavor.

And sure, the Romans could always just attack the Parthian proxies directly- but the entire reason that Parthia can get away with this is because the Senate and People of Rome aren't actually interested in yet another desert war that costs quadrillions of denarii, and by committing to assisting the King of Arabia secure his southern flank they lock themselves out of defending a breakaway Chinese province (whose unique products Rome arguably values even more than the loyalty of its own provinces) should the Chinese attempt to capture it, as they've long been threatening to do.
I had undiagnosed ADHD for 35 years and I suffered a lot. When my future girlfriend came to visit my place for the first time, I feard that we would not have electricity because I did not pay the bills. Not a money issue, but between all the daunting daily tasks I just was not able to accomplish that task for MONTHs.
I was working on my PhD in CS and didn't get anything done at all. I was in constant fear of getting a task related to Excel, because all these little cells have always made me nervous and furious. I would invest 2-3 hours working around a repetitive task of maybe 20 minutes, because doing it was unbearable. I had always been socially anxious, because for being socially active you need that type of attention that is just hard to maintain. I love being in nature, but going for a walk through the woods? Not possible, because it's "not exciting" enough.

Then a friend gave me some of his pills. I took them for a few days and for the first day of my life I understood how everybody else was feeling, how everybody else could be so confident, behaving confident, just being and feeling normal. I knew that feeling from rare occasions, the absence of all that struggle you are constantly feeling in your body. I had my first normal workday ever. Just going to work, doing work, having a break, later going home. I had never experienced that ever before. And still I didn't believe I had ADHD, never slipped my mind, lol. But then COVID hit and we went into lockdown and homeoffice and I could not work at all and I suffered immensly. I knew that feeling of "I want to do it SO hard, but I just CAN'T" very well, but this time it hit me very hard, for weeks. She convinced me to get diagnosed and here I am, it feels like a distant past already. It was like an instant switch, even though it's a journey to retrain my brain after for decades it had to come up with mechanics to deal with the disorder.

I know there many out there that are/were like me and I know there are many out there that had a quite different experience with their ADHD. Please don't walk around saying society is the problem. Society is not the problem when it comes to depression and it's not the problem when it comes to ADHD. A lot of people would benefit from a different society for sure, but for me and many others it's nothing more than a disorder. It was a miracle I could start a PhD to begin with (and of course getting my Master's was a constant struggle, just as my whole life had been miserable and a struggle). Many others end up drug addicted, dropping out ot school, having a clinical depression, and other nasty stuff. As all mental disorders, we do not know too much about it, but as a matter of fact the medication helps greatly and I am so glad I got finally diagnosed. Some that have ADHD do not suffer that much as I did, but a lot of do. I only wish that my disorder does not get misrepresented as "wouldn't be a big deal in a more open society".
They do, otherwise it won’t be in that repo
You are making an account an account by entering an email address, which is not an identifiable personal information. For the payment option, they are many of them which you can choose of and can be as private as you want to make it. The definition of privacy is : someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret, which hold 100% true with our service.
Polars does this too!
Indeed. It looks as if it could have been written in Rust and Spark.

> doesn't leak data

This requirement was translated into "zero a rectangle" without considering every format. Careful analysis is clearly possible, it was done by the author of that code, but understanding the full implications of code is hard.
Ex-chairman of TATA group died in a traffic accident. Look at Steve Jobs. Sometimes shit happens. Life goes on. First rule of risk management is to be able to accept that or you are not fit to manage Risk.
Precisely my view. Just showing people that the default story taught in schools and echoed in documentaries and popular non fiction is arbitrary and full of holes is very useful. A lot of political manipulation found in the wild rests on using these archaic narratives. Even the idea that "civilization started in Mesopotamia" seems to be a gross oversimplification that needs to be revised.

Too much of Western world politics rests on obsolete Enlightenment narratives and questioning them seems to elicit strong reactions.
I dunno how people are missing the point so much.

Traditionally memory is considered "leaked" if it is still allocated but nothing point to it; i.e. there's no way to navigate to the allocation anymore.

He has made a joke "solution" by simply permanently storing a second pointer to all allocations so that by this definition they never technically leak. You can still always navigate to ever allocation so no allocation has leaked.

Of course it's not a real solution because it doesn't actually change the memory characteristics of a leaky program; it just hides the leak. In other words the technical description of the leak above isn't really the thing we care about.

Seems like almost nobody here got that.
I once took a cable car in Haridwar, which had a large poster outside assuring riders that they were fully insured and in the event of death, their relatives would be compensated by the grand sum of Rs. 10,000. Even at the time, it was less than US$500, and I'm sure that even getting that amount would involve an epic decades-long battle with bureaucracy.
The History of SQL
obviously it is the belief of upper management that low level workers cannot be trusted to behave and work to their maximum if they're on drugs, while the "elites" require such drugs to reach their maximum potential.
Note that this book talks about static collision detection.

In games you'll be better off calculating the function of distance between the two objects over time and registering a hit if it reaches zero.

For instance, the square of distance between two circles moving at a constant speed is a parabola, so it's enough to sample it at three points in time to get its coefficients.
Brute-forcing ECDSA seeds using OpenAI
Solving a true cryptographic mystery
A look under GHC's hood: desugaring linear types
It looks like a bombe from WWII -- one of the machines they used to crack Enigma codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe
This is super cool, but can you fix bun -i so that it actually auto installs missing libs? That would really help with having self-contained scripts. Then I can finally start replacing my shell scripts with bun.
László Polgár – Chess Teacher
This timeline is getting quite similar to the second season of Pantheon.
That is not how artists learn. This is a false equivalence used to justify the imitation and copying of artists’ work.
Artists’ work isn’t derivative in the same way that AI work is. Artists create work based on other sources of inspiration, some of them almost or completely to the disregard of other art.

Many artists don’t even go to art school. And those that do, do not spend most (all) of that time learning how to copy or imitate other artists.

I’m not expressing an opinion of whether GenAI is unethical or illegal - I think that’s a really difficult issue to wrestle with - just that this argument is a post-hoc rationalisation made in ignorance of how good artists work (not to say ignorance of the difference between illustration and art, conceptual art training vs say a foundation course etc).
Yes it really seems like most criticism comes from people merely reacting to some ideas in the book.
Speedrunners will not appreciate it. ;)

Also, in my experience, right from the beginning you should be aware of performance issues and should be familiar with a quad tree.

I build shooters for Android mobile in 2016 and heavy action and lots of screen fun was impossible without quad trees.
thx, so it went from unknown unknown to known unknown
If memory serves, a well known rock band used to demand a candy but not of one specific color somewhere deep in their agreement with the equipment company. Their thinking was that if they find those specific candies in their dressing rooms, it means the riggers haven’t read the specs properly.

I guess more people should start making these out of band requests to catch poorly managed events before a tragedy happens.
mc sets $MC_SID in the subshell, so you can query that in your prompt to mark prompts running under mc.

Another option might be to bind F10 to start mc, so that it acts as a toggle whether in mc or in a non-mc shell. You'd need to wrap a zle widget in zsh, or add a '$if Bash' guard to your inputrc with bash.
We're sorry, due to circumstances beyond our control, the script to the rest of the episode was lost on its way overseas. Luckily, the episode was finished by the Korean animators. We hope you enjoy the new ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReoBPl4mM
Minor tangent, but plucked from that article, why is ‘rimraf’ downloaded 60m+ time a week?! Why is that a thing that need a library? (Asking as a systems guy, not a programmer)
I would not consider them developed and I honestly doubt they will ever be, they are not going in this direction that's for sure.
I have tried to use a generic usb CH341A previously, and ended up seemingly frying the chip. By chance, would you happen to know the pin out on the ch341a, or something else that may be useful? I’ve stayed away from using it since, out of fear of frying a more expensive/important device.
How much economic surplus do you think that cable car generates? How much of that could/should be spent on insurance premiums? What payoffs would those premiums entail? What is the right balance between spending on better safety tech (structural integrity, etc) vs premiums?

There definitely needs to be a culture change wrt safety, but a massive increase in economic productivity is necessary to drive investment in safety.
Van Halen and Brown M&Ms

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/02/14/146880432/...
> Neither paid well at all, and never did I get this sense of jealousy.

You might just not be one of these people. For some people, the feeling of being on your way to work is an existential dread. Or like you're leaving your life behind to live a different one that you don't generally enjoy for a while. Some of those people would likely do anything to avoid that feeling. I think for those people, working from home is epic. You get to go to work every day on what feels more like your terms and your life, whatever that life may be. Instead of molding myself into the image of my work environment every day, I can mold my workplace more into myself. Feeding me into:

> but it was far from the giant sun lit home offices people seem to imagine.

For some people, the ideal working conditions are a dimly lit basement, believe it or not.

> [The generally unhappy state of front line workers yesteryear and this one.]

Just 10 years ago, I was working front lines at a Super Target, making 15 cents above my state's minimum wage, which amounted to something like $8.50/hour. I'm in general a fairly.. well "stoic" might be the nicer word.. person, so faking a smile for the sake of a stranger's comfort would have cost me more in energy than my employer was paying me, if that makes sense. That's not to say I'm a jerk to people on purpose, by any means. But if I'm in a bad mood because I left for work at 4:30AM to make barely more than enough for a room to rent, peanut butter sandwiches, and my cell phone bill, it would have been difficult to summon the strength. This is mostly just to say that I agree with your observation, but I empathize more with the employees than the customers who feel they were under-helped.

Observations from someone who will be entering the middling ages soon.
I’m not so sure. This argument reduces to "sacrifices are required in order to industrialize." You would perhaps feel differently if you were the sacrifice. Or your spouse. Or child.

I might even agree with that argument, if it was true. I’m not above saying that it’s worthwhile for a society to sacrifice slaves in order to grow. Empirically, that was an effective strategy. But I wouldn’t want to live in a society with slaves. And that’s the level at which this argument must be reduced to, because someone who dies with no recourse due to their society’s goals is little more than a slave.

The question is, are you absolutely certain that the suffering you’re referring to is a requirement of industrialization? I’m not qualified to answer that, but it would be interesting to hear whether you feel it’s true.
I think the advice and mechanics are timeless. This is robust CS and Math stuff which stood the test of time. And this makes the book itself so valuable. I own it.
Speakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too.

Native English speakers write "hahaha" or "ha-ha-ha", but speakers of many Slavic languages write "ahahaha" or "a-ha-ha-ha", with leading "a".

Native English speakers write ":)", but speakers of many Slavic languages write just ")", because ":" is reused on keyboard for additional Cyrillic letters (like Ж) and they don't use it even when typing in English.

Georgians reuse not only ":დ" as ":D", but basically any English acronym "ლოლ" for lol, "ლმაო" for "lmao", because standard Georgian layout is based on English US layout and it feels natural. Exception is ROFL, because Georgian lacks "F" sound.
Great, it's approaching the ergonomics of what Perl has offered for decades. And Perl still does it better.
Yes, 4€/kWh, which is dynamically adjusted (if that spot price is reached).
As an organisation we’d like to drug test everyone, except those with enough leverage to tell us to get lost.
It’s quite often used in npm scripts to cleanup stuff (say, between builds), and many developers prefer that over native solutions like `rm` and `del` as it gives them a cross-platform way of cleaning up files and folders.
The OP already explained that - because people want their package.json scripts to be cross-platform, and „rm” does not exist on Windows. So instead you add rimraf to your dependencies and use that instead of rm in your scripts.
Right, locale is set to 24h but I do use US English as a language. I don’t see AM/PM anywhere, but on your site.
If you think it looks hand drawn go to nearest eye doctor as soon as possible.
No its because usually low level jobs require you to operate heavy machinery like driving a truck or operating a forklift or work on the floor of the factory, or being around those things. Or for example handling cash at registers etc. I feel like this conspiracy is the author, and apparently hn needs to touch grass a little bit
British, yes and ‘humour’
I’ve many years of experience over a variety of companies and none of my jobs were janitorial work. You’re describing SRE or intern work. Many many many Software engineers build things, especially in startups which is the focus of the discussion.
I have no idea in general, but based on error messages from my Ikea Dirigera Hub, at least its REST API is implemented in node!
The other day I phoned a service provider and the lady’s kid was babbling in the background and a children’s show was playing throughout the call.

I couldn’t get off the phone fast enough.

Either invest in voice isolation or don’t work from home.

Functionally this lady brought her kid to my home office and blasted a cartoon during our meeting.

Is this harsh of me and an unpopular opinion? Yes.

I agree that Human beings should be able to have work-life balance and kids are a natural and necessary part of that balance.

I just don’t want them in my ear.

If the lady had had gangster rap music or 8-bit video game music on in the background of the call I’d have been equally annoyed.

Work calls are for doing work.