skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most journalists are just propogandists and misinformed people stating option as fact. I don't understand why anyone holds them in high regard. Like yeah, there are many great individual journalists who take their job seriously and get real information out to people, but for the most part, no.
And yet it is normal. Have you ever been around people?
I agree in general but don't fully trust recruiters who say you should go ahead anyway - it will depend on your previous experience with that recruiter.
I'm curious if you have some references about this, if you have read good blog posts or something ! I can think of Rust that does not have exception, but it's not because they didn't address the problem of error handling: exception are replaced by `Result`, if I'm not wrong. In Oberon there's simply no error handling mechanism.
That seems a little unfair to me. In many cases an original idea, regardless of ability to execute, is priceless.

I agree that execution is everything in terms of winning, though.
Which nowadays you can replicate on top of WebAssembly.

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For me it depends on what I'm doing. During working hours I have Soma FM playing at a low volume. Otherwise I'll probably have cooking videos or history documentaries playing as the background noise.
Depends if you are after full-time or contract work.
Therac-25 meets the Station Nightclub fire.

Will people ever learn?
Domestic terrorists tried to firebomb Tim Lutze's home but they only got his car.
Software which allows robocalls is ~10 lines of code these days. You can't ban that idea. You can create your own in under an hour if you've dealt with VoIP systems before.
I don't disagree with everything here but some statements deserve scrutiny:

> it's way behind on schedule in taking control of the Strip

Whose schedule ? Many, including in the U.S, didn't think Israel was even capable of reaching the point it has (which is partial or complete control of the entire strip besides Rafah in the South and the dismantling of big parts of Hamas' fighting power). We've been reading over and over (by both Israeli and American analysts) that Israel would suffer thousands of dead soldiers and still wouldn't be able to do it , so far this is proving to be false. Officials in Israel said it would take a long time right from the start.

> it's running out of both manpower and ammunition as the war drags on and reservists have to be recalled

I don't really this is happening yet, any numbers to back it up ? War with Iran aside, in the current situation it looks like Israel can continue for months on end. The economy so far has been surprisingly resilient, mandatory conscription is going to be brought back to 3 years from 2 years 8 months. Solutions will be found - especially considering Gaza now doesn't require a full invasion but smaller counter terror campaigns.

> and now Egypt, by far the country whose stability is the most important for Israel's security, is on the verge of economic collapse

This seems like hyperbole to me. Also, the stability of Egypt is important not just for Israel but for basically everyone in the region - I don't think the U.S will let Egypt fail so quickly.

> Indeed, one can only admire the strategic genius of the Israeli government for bringing about such a brilliant situation

Israel never wanted this war. It tried to reach a state of non War with Hamas for years - and failed. Now that Israel is fighting Hamas hard, its getting blamed for all the years it tried not to fight Hamas and also getting blamed for fighting Hamas (so damn if you do, damn if you don't).
It makes me sad he can’t be here to try out something like Vision Pro and see the evolution of this concept 50 years on. I imagine you’d struggle to wipe the smile off his face.
If I say to you "die slow", would you read it as me threatening to murder you?
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Wow. Gary Tan sounds like a fucking idiot
If they could switch from making one kind of vehicle to another they can also switch back again.
There are way too many people here that can’t pass the opportunity to exercise selective outrage.

And yes, the culture of decency died a long time ago.
I actually have some of these kicking around in a parts drawer for the last couple of years! I picked them up as a curiosity, need to get around to trying one out on camera, see how strong the joints are, if they are still viable, etc
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the data to support this is extensive. ex: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720388/
Ask HN: Why most companies don't accept they made a mistake? A PayPal tale
I uploaded my ID to Paypal and they apparently mistook my birth date and got my account permanently limited.

I sent several messages to support until someone told me my birth date and it was wrong by 20 years, which makes me underage. I sent a message stating that that date was wrong and they deleted all messages and never answered again.

Why didn't they just apologized and fixed the mistake?

It happened to me before with another payment company (MercadoPago), I had to get in touch with someone on linkedin to get my account back.

The fact that they deleted the previous messages makes me think that that person shouldn't have told me the birth date they got in the system.

On the other side, on several occasions I got in touch with Amazon's support and they were super helpful and fixed the mistake or got me in touch with someone that could.

Are support people limited with what they can do? Are the incentives wrong?
That's amazing. Which compiler are you using?
Our minds are a form of quantum computer, they may be interlinked through entanglement (which does absolutely allow instantaneous communication at any distance), and a culture does (and always has) existed among us meddling with our minds and the affairs of the world.

As for all that other stuff, we don't all have the same amount (roughly one in six humans are very sensitive.) Though anyone can condition their minds to make use of this "technology", you just won't get anywhere without a long established network uplifting you.

It is far more likely you will be toyed with by screwballs.
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> Even if only "commercial activities" are in the scope of CRA, the Free Software community - and as a consequence, everybody - will lose a lot of small projects. CRA will force many small enterprises and most probably all self employed developers out of business because they simply cannot fulfill the requirements imposed by CRA. Debian and other Linux distributions depend on their work. If accepted as it is, CRA will undermine not only an established community but also a thriving market. CRA needs an exemption for small businesses and, at the very least, solo-entrepreneurs.
I don't understand what makes the pricing a non starter. You mean the license pricing? If so, 300€/year for something that will save you thousands doesn't seem too expensive to me. If you're talking about the instances, it is 10x cheaper than comparable GitHub runners (i.e. same as ubicloud), so not sure what's wrong here :)
From the application form:

> This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls.

> Are you strong enough to pass technical interview?

> We will pay $100 for per call whether you pass the call or not, but hope you try your best to keep working with us.

Are you paying people to take technical interviews for others? Because that is what this role sounds like, and that is not very ethical. Apologies if that's not it, in which case, could you clarify what the role involves?
Same boat. What’s better nowadays, because Siri surely isn’t? Is there any assistant that actually uses modern AI? Alexa maybe?
If it really was so easy then don’t you think every country would have their own ASML?

The economic incentives are there. They’ve BEEN there for decades. To think China doesn’t have an equivalent just because they haven’t cared enough yet is laughable.
I consider myself a generalist (not just professionally, but also in my other diverse interests).

I have a Life Science background (PhD and post-doc), and now work as a dev writing data vis toolkits in JS/TS.

I thought people would be clamouring for a scientist who is also a developer, but it turns out they really are not! They want one thing, or the other.
You really underestimate timing here, and I feel overestimate how great the first iPhone and iPad was.

They didn't take technical genius. All the elements preceded them. Most of the design preceded thrm. They didn't engineer anything particularly new. The only previously unavailable component they got made was better glass, which was great, but not where the deal breaker was for previous iterations.

I find it funny when people want to declare Apple as visionary geniuses over the tech, when the path from earlier devices to the iPhone and iPad was so clear, and given what I know about design discussions etc. in that space.

There would have been multiple devices very similar to the iPad had the components existed. The vision was there, the supportive management was there, the talent was there because frankly none of it is complicated, and people iterated for years. None of that means anything when the components just do not exist yet.
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Neural networks were 'invented' in the 1960s-70s too. We only have the hardware to get something semi useful* out of them ... now.

* actually they have been used before, but they didn't manage to generate religious like fanaticism until the past few years.
thanks for all this wonderful information!

100μm deep is amazing! by cutting steel (and even stainless!) this machine is dramatically overdelivering on its process of marking metals. 100μm to 200μm is plenty thick enough to use it to cut holes in things, and if that only takes 10 passes, you're getting 10μm or 20μm per pass, which is also amazing

that suggests you might be able to manage aluminum foil, which is typically 10μm thick, and doesn't have all that extra aluminum behind the surface to heatsink it. and that would avoid the usual problems with making things from aluminum foil, which is that you can't do anything with it without wrinkling and/or tearing it

an alternative way to engrave or cut aluminum or brass might be to anodize or paint it first, use the laser to selectively strip off that surface layer, and then etch it with acids, bases, or electrolysis where the metal has been left unprotected

the markings in the micrograph seem to be perfectly sharp, straight, and smooth down to the resolution of the microscope, though the finest lines I see are on the order of 150μm across according to the grid (15px on a 104px grid). this suggests that the positioning repeatability is in the range of the specified 10μm, even if (as you say) the messy crater the laser creates is about 150μm across. 10μm out of a 200mm range is astounding resolution, that's 20k × 20k reliably distinguishable positions

the w&m levsha video i linked elsethread https://youtu.be/PAFBkgawH3w?t=2m10s did manage to cut parts out of razor blades (600 passes to get through 100μm) without any noticeable thermal warping, but i think his laser is weaker than yours; he can only ablate the metal oxide, not the metal itself. given that, it's surprising that his can mark brass and yours can't; possibly he's using a grade of brass with less copper and therefore lower conductivity, or maybe there's a relevant reflectivity difference which in effect makes his laser more powerful on brass than it is on steel

i'm guessing the cost to run is probably dominated by either the depreciation of the machine (say, a dollar a day whether you use it or not) or, with heavy use, the lifetime of the laser (say, 20k hours would give 10¢/hour) except that if i recall correctly you're in california where retail electricity is supposedly nearly 50¢ a kilowatt hour, which would be 10¢ an hour for a couple hundred watts. but with solar panels the energy cost would be about 20× less

has anybody reverse-engineered the protocol, i wonder?
DraftKings hacker gets 18-month sentence aimed at 'deterring' similar crimes
> Does it still block ads? I happily used Vinegar before, but it lost that functionality when YouTube’s crusade against ad blockers began (I don’t recall if it just let the ads through, or if it triggered the “Ad Blocker Detected” pop-up).

It does. The experience is worse than it was a couple of months ago, though, as both YouTube and the blockers have to get creative. I think it’s engaged in the general cat-and-mouse game and occasionally I see YouTube’s anti-ad blocker screen, but usually it resolves after a day or two. Overall it’s still much better than out-of-the-box YouTube.
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I got diagnosed with sleep apnea due to “Laryngeal Apparatus- Collapse of epiglottis.”

Impression: DSL, IHT. Circumferential pharyngeal wall collapse in the Nasopharynx and Oropharynx.
Epiglottis falling backwards.

The doctor told me there is no surgery or anything else but only CPAP as the solution :( I dread of a day when there is no electricity or the machine stopping working. Posting it here to see if anyone else knows a good doctor or have a similar issue!
I've been mulling over an idea for some time: set up an answering machine on freepbx with an IVR that requires the caller to push a button before it's forwarded to a (ringing) phone, otherwise sayonara.

That should cut off most robocallers, shouldn't it?
https://archive.is/jhczR
Not to detract from your argument (which I agree with), but SVG _can_ technically solve that problem using CSS. Here's a link that demonstrates this: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2014/08/19/making-svgs-responsi...
I like how Christian Selig find big tech problematic UI/Ux products and fix that with an app.
I weep at having only one upvote to give this post.
When a system is corrupted, mostly yes.
> That's like saying that Lumiere brothers invented space travel - they too had the idea of flying to the Moon in a gun projectile ...

Just to nitpick, it was Jules Verne's idea. The Lumieres just put it on screen.
Google had it in 2015 [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05869
"Written by victors" is not really accurate, but there is bias in who it was written by (not least, for most of history, the fact that it is somewhat tautologically written by the literate). Historians are well aware of this and will generally try to account for it by looking to corroborate accounts, but of course it's very easy to project one's own biases onto any such analysis, especially when evidence is thin.
This is a very fair point. The recruiter and the company they're working with don't always have the same incentives, so it's entirely possible the former will put forward candidates that don't meet the requirements just to fill their quota too.

Add this to how the work actually being done in a company often has very little to do with the interview or application process, and well, it's no wonder applying for them is such a crapshoot now.
Isn't "fair" a socialist term? (Not judging just relating.)
>death forecasts

Sounds cool. I'd like to see that on the evening news TBH.
Modern Meritocratic Capitalism will soon have this stupid old idea of "fair" optimized away. So you should stop worrying about it, and get your nose back to the grindstone.

/s?
Maryam Jamshidi who has worked on sanctions is not optimistic at all about this EO and thinks it will do more harm than good to Palestinians: https://x.com/msjamshidi/status/1753136622991028660
If his rapper persona had tweeted the lyrics to a diss track but clarified the theatrical kayfabe by breaking the fourth wall, that arguably could be less of a threat but still demonstrate questionable judgment, so I agree with you there.

But violent rhetoric certainly increases the likelihood that others will escalate violence against the target, and so the risk (threat) of death and harm very much does increase as seen in many unfortunate cases.

That is how asymmetric information warfare has a chilling effect on democracy and infringes others’ fundamental liberties (life, pursuit of happiness), and is different from “free speech”.

It doesn’t require sophisticated thinking to discern the difference, but X is where discourse goes to die.
There was a whole "now we finally have the technology!" push for VR in the late 80s/90s. Google the Forte VFX1, for example. Jaron Lanier made one of the first ever TED Talks in 1990 and it was about how VR will revolutionize everything ( https://youtu.be/lfvOACM-vbE ). It all... "rhymes".

I have this thought that maybe the problem with VR isn't the display technology but the input. Walking forward in a straight line is more or less an unsolvable problem. Motion sickness, the need of a frickin' threadmill, it's just messy. Touch feedback is an unsolvable problem unless you introduce robot gloves that can break your fingers. And then we have the question of use cases. VR solves a very specific spatial problem with an interconnection between perspective and hand movement. Very few problems exist in that space. It sometimes seems like VR creates more problems than it solves, in fact.

I low key believe in AR (although Apple finally played its cards and the result was underwhelming). Something about infinite and freely positioned 3D monitors. But VR? Great for cockpit sims and maybe some very specific professional uses. But useless for 99% of tasks of an average person.
As is generally the case, there are official docker images readily available and it's a fantastically light, low-coupling way of adding conversion to a stack.

Recently rewrote a content stack to use Markdown (among other formats) for the source, the file system as the database, generating outputs (including HTML with embedded Mathjax LATEX) via pandoc, and it works absolutely brilliantly. Fully recommend.
All they did was put more ads in the feed.
the only way this makes sense is if you hate both elbrus and the us space program, since someone who wasn't being sarcastic about russia's military wouldn't term it 'expansionist'
Tailwind color palette generator
On a phone and without a reference handy but search for Franz and "Protocol Extension". It's a very short paper, and basically proposed a mechanism similar to vtables, but w/an extra level of indirection to allow whole interfaces to be slotted in, and to have subsequent loaded implementations addressed propagated down the class hierarchy on load.

(I use a similar mechanism of propagating vtables updates down the class hierarchy, but without the extra indirection - at cost of more memory - in my prototype Ruby compiler)
Interesting. Claudio definitely sounds like an identity Brando would choose. Any other details on this? Can you divulge roughly where the design firm was based?
"Normal" powder will clog your automatic rifle real fast. No problem if you're doing single shots with it, I guess.
That's the intro to To Live and Die in LA

Also, the name of a great song by Wang Chung. I had never heard it until asking Google to play To Live And Die in LA and it played the Wang Chung song instead of Tupac.
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The pyrotechnic compound on the outside only has to get hot enough to melt the solder and flux inside the copper fitting.

I have no idea what the composition on the outside actually is - it’s pretty slow burning at least.
There's nothing preventing you to use a Result type in Oberon. Just not as a fancy algebraic data type, but rather as a regular record/struct type.
He's an extremely smart guy, so I'm not that surprised.
The market doesn't see a full blown war with Hezbollah and Iran (if it did, oil prices would have been way higher), and sees a very real possibility of normalization with Saudi Arabia. If the war is contained to Gaza it's not a huge threat to Israel's economy - it's a hit for sure but not existential.
It doesn't seem like Iran, Hezbollah or Israel are particularly interested in going to war now so I think the market is being reasonable.
No, it’s an English term. See for example https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair
>The amount of bleeding edge innovation that is rapidly developed and deployed into production in Musks companies is incredible.

SpaceX for sure.

Hard to argue that Tesla is "bleeding edge" anymore; they maintain some advantages, but have fallen behind in other domains.
I wonder if he accepts the same conduct targeted at him for example from those on his staff e.g. "Fuck my life. The CEO came in drunk again. I wish his liver would finally give out and make space for a CEO who deserves the title instead of this useless motherfucker." Would he consider that normal social media use or would he see it in a different light when its about him or done by gasp an underling?
> /u/RagnarD

This is not Reddit, please stop doing that. Their handle is RagnarD, no need for more.
I don't think so why there is this underlying assumption that Russians were "brutal", but when USSR took their forces from Afghanistan, they actually left a secular regime there that has survived for a few years and actually significantly outlived the USSR itself.

Maybe it would hang around longer if USSR was intact and assisting.
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