skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Metadata" here refers to everything surrounding the git repo, e.g. CI status, milestones, or even reactions. Those metadata are constantly updated and since there are no mechanisms to retroactively update previous emails to include the new metadata, the only way to do it is to send even more emails to the already-voluminous mailing list to keep the email-only people updated.

This is why I have serious doubts on the possibility to build forges (with accessibility and feature set on par with GitHub/GitLab) on top of emails. And please, don't use the minimalism excuse because those extra features of forges _are_ being used. Removing them for the sake of forge-on-email is a strict UX degradation and you only end up making both forge people and email people angry.

Another way to share those metadata through emails is to send an email that links to an external HTTP website which displays the latest updated data, as is done by some projects for CI. But at that point, it ceases to be an "email workflow" in my opinion -- if you are already hosting a HTTP server, you might as well host a git forge on it.
Indeed. That's why the HR person (or whoever it was) wasn't on a fireable ego trip. They just enforced their normal process that they use to not let people slip in through nepotism.
Probably just a mistake. I just would assume that the word "when" is superfluous and respond in a way that allows the asker to correct their mistake but not invest too much in an answer because the assumption might be wrong.

I am picky in language as well, so I understand where you are coming from. But I discovered that LLMs often answered anyway when my question was incomplete or contained mistakes and they got it correct not too rarely.

It's a useful trick I discovered late in my life (I am in my fifties). I started to use it with my children and my wife. Their utterances are often not mathematically and linguistically perfect, but very human and lovely. When I got stumped I just thought about what they might have asked and answered that. More often than not they were happy with my answer.
They're reverse vampires. Humans can only see their reflection.
Microsoft looking for people proficient in both Rust and C#
Powers in this world wants control. It is impossible to create a reliable source of political news.

Politicians however have no incentive to manipulate math, physics, engineering, etc.

Humanistic subjects however are a target as it is commonly used for propaganda, to divert attention from economics, etc. etc. Unfortunately there are many people who can easily be distracted by this hook.
From [1]:

> “This may seem trivial, a cool story, but subconsciously it really makes a big impact: a squircle doesn’t look like a square with surgery performed on it; it registers as an entity in its own right, like the shape of a smooth pebble in a riverbed, a unified and elemental whole.”

Am I the only one who prefers squares with rounded corners?

"Shape of a smooth pebble" is not something I like to see anywhere outside a garden. A "squircle" looks inflated, like Li-Ion battery about to pop and set your house on fire, or like package with food that spoiled, and will stink if opened, and make you sick if eaten. You need to hold your breath around a "squircle", because the moment you breathe out and time unfreezes, it'll start rolling and tumbling. Even nature itself doesn't really do "sqiurcles" unless it must. The last "squircle" I saw was when I burned my back badly and had them pop up on my skin (if you read this and think "gross", well, that's what "squircles" are for me in general).

The most benign connotation I have with a "squircle" is a pillow, which again is something that doesn't belong in almost any context.

A square with rounded corners, in contrast, looks purposeful. An object created with intent. It speaks of precision, of quality, of human workmanship. It looks stable, unspoiled, new. It fits.
LLMs are too powerful. It's basically like having someone next to you telling you what to say in the interview, if not better.

The point of (software engineering) interviews is to demonstrate how you solve problems. "Type the question into ChatGPT and do what it says" is not the "how" that companies are looking for.
The response has an AI pap flavor.
O got trump by making "god"+"a-hole"

Then I did "T-Rex"+"trump" and I got "T-Rump"

I was impressed by the creativity
I think it depends how you assess people. It's "Says the thing a large group of us have deemed impolite" vs "Working hard to build an optimistic future based on large technological improvements". I can imagine people who take the time to be good at assessing either of those find it hard to care about or understand the other one.
Oh the horror of people finding bugs instantly. You surely don't want them around in your company.
I am not convinced that we have seen much worthwhile innovation through VC money.

Apple has released innovative products. Many other tech companies, too. Compared to that VC funded business in the last 20 years seems to have been very good at creating personally and socially destructive attention machines to sell advertisement.

That's certainly addictive and has been profitable, and being early movers has allowed the US to capture a lot of value from the rest of the world, but whether it's valuable is another question...
I forgot who said it, but it’s rude to make something that takes less time to write than it takes to read. I think that it’s a nice line in the sand.
That’s Google maps for you. Try another one, most have way better voice cues (amongst other things!).
wow:

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Does it anything else? Maybe pwn me via my PDF viewer?;)
Canon couldn't have?
I was thinking the estate, precisely because that notion is nonsense
Want to bet you've never heard of most of the companies that benefited from vast amounts of US government research grants that helped lay the foundations for much of the US tech industry?

Most people won't have heard about most the successful companies that resulted from the combination of military spending and research grants, much less the many failures on the way.

If we knew how to pick the successes ahead of time, there's be no point in gov funding, or in venture capital firms, because they'd be able to go into any mainstream bank and loan finance their entire business with regular business loans.

Government research funding almost inherently should have a high failure rate, because they offer the most value where they enable research that is so high risk they can't get funding elsewhere both because of the occasional big win, but also because of the side effects of creating eco systems.

That's not to say that doesn't also lead to lots of stupid projects getting funded, and lots of mismanaged funding programs that deserve scrutiny. But it's also always easier to recognize the stupidity after the fact...
Will go down well with people looking to make TDD even more performative and uneconomic
UK Wind Farms Are Overstating Their Output
At the end it is always the same type of scheme. The search engine story made the news because it sounded so ridiculous.

The EU (and its members) does that for every key technology. For cloud they did it at least 2 or 3 times.

I vaguely remember a bunch of alternative "clouds" were created so they have a sovereign cloud, and then bought back by a big telco linked to the state.

Then the big telco have it managed by Huawei [1]

[1] https://www.orange-business.com/en/press/orange-business-ser...
I'll be honest. If I used this methodology in our elections, I'm 100% convinced I would have 0 eligible candidates left long before the vote.
The following one: simply remove the fiat, and let the market take over again.

I.e. the same way commerce was carried out everywhere for approximately forever.

It's presumed a gold standard would return in that scenario, but could be something else.

I assume this is how it'll end up naturally though. No one will end up willing to take the other country's currency in cross border trade, so that's where hard currency will return.
It’s better than my effort at finding music, and it makes Mondays a little nicer. My goal isn’t to find the best music ever, but to find new and interesting music more easily.
https://youtu.be/zwoyfH7TgEQ

https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform%5B%5D=Amiga+OCS%...
I did that (moved to a Scandinavian country), and it was an undeniably poor choice from a financial perspective - or rather a chain of poor choices that looked correct at the time. Paying almost 40% of my income that is rather low by global standards (although very high locally), while not planning to have children and never even once going to a doctor - none of this made any sense in the long run. I am the same age as yourself, and given the economic situation early retirement appears to be less and less feasible.
But without subsidies they could lose market share
Show HN: Inner Lighthouse – Platform for cognitive exercises
By filling a self-made Excel spreadsheet for more than a year, every day Monday through Friday, with sentence stem completion exercises from the book "Six Pillars of Self-Esteem", I've noticed the impact of proactive work. As a result, I could sense a significant shift within, and I'd respond differently to the things where I'd usually stay reserved or pulled back.

As someone who'd stick their headphones and listen to some self-help-related book while taking a walk, I'd usually end up understanding the issue without taking action. Even though some authors would say "I'd like you to pause this audio, and think... and apply.." I'd usually end up having some messy experience in my Notes app. Having a simple, well-structured, and clean way to express my thoughts does help a lot, as I've experienced the abovementioned spreadsheet.

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Amsterdam's crypto fintech startups buy the souls of juniors for 73K. Juniors!
Over what timeframe?

Also you conveniently neglect to cite the part of your link where it says that this 1.2 Trillion brings spending levels back to where they were in the mid 2010s, and still way below historical rates.
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History of Virtual Reality
‘when’ here meaning “and under what circumstances”. An ‘and’ might help
>> locally quite high $80k annual income (STEM PhD, 40yo)

I love Europe, both for the lifestyle and the safety net. But the salaries are kind of shocking for an American.
That email clients is the way they are by default, should already say something, no?

The majority of people use emails like electronic mails because that's what email is designed for! Source code sharing is a separate protocol bolted onto email, and the fact that you have to use a specific email client (which I should mention, is largely unheard of outside of a small circle) is indeed an admittance of email being bad.

It's possible that you can fix a car with just a knife. But considering the difficulties and how unintuitive it is - is that not a sign of knife being somehow bad for the job?
There's no silver bullet, not even mutation testing. For example, if the code for a certain case is straight up missing, there is nothing to mutate!

I also consider mutation testing to be in a different domain from property based testing, as mutation testing is some kind of metatesting instead. PBT is a 'regular' testing technique. This means that they are in fact complimentary, for example by using PBT to check mutants. (Although mutation testing does seem to assume a sort-of 'fixed' test set, but you can also fix a test set with PBT by e.g. explicitly setting a seed and test count.)
Every time I see a post talking about how bad ORMs are, they're using ORMs in an awful way. It's not really their fault: most ORMs seem like they encourage the worst ways to use them. But they're entirely missing the point: SQL doesn't have any form of abstraction at all. It's completely impossible to write reusable, adaptable SQL. All SQL must be specifically written bespoke for its individual use. Sure, you can rely on Views (or Procedures if you really hate your company and want to write the core logic of your application in a terrible, unmaintainable language), but that's relying on a concretion, not an abstraction. Abstraction would mean that you can change the behavior of a query by changing its input views when you call it, from some set of possible input views that conform to the expectations of the query. ORMs let you do that, SQL doesn't. Stop using ORMs badly and start asking how they can support you better organizing your queries by using abstraction.
There is no tactile UI feedback in VPro, but then neither is it there in the mouse/keyboard. Otherwise when you touch your fingers against each other for some gesture, you feel them.
I sometimes need this. It’s nice to get an average of all mediocre content summed up as a bullet list sometimes.

Sometimes I want the average tourist guide, the average recipe or the average answer. Now I get it instantly without sifting through ad-infested shallow content. ChatGPT made it so much easier to be curious about new things. It’s a good trailhead for curiosity.
Matplotlib is what is wrong with matplotlib..

Broadly, the problem is that its syntax was meant to reflect that of Matlab, which, I guess, makes it intuitive for Matlab users. For the rest of us, it's mostly unintuitive and inconsistent.
Show HN: Get HTTP Status: a tool for testing HTTP status codes
Sure, but the semiconductor market is mature bordering on stagnant. There's a high-risk/high-reward competition for the leading edge that is currently dominated by TSMC, but there's just not much money to be made from the older nodes that the automotive, aviation and military segments care about. Building out capacity to secure your supply chains is potentially a very sensible strategic decision, but I'll eat my hat if it ever turns a real profit.
Isn’t that effectively almost exactly what Kickstarter does?
Interesting, although not sure about the grey goo stuff. That sounds like it would take years even for a super intelligence.

I think the worst possible scenario is an AGI taking control of all computers because it can duplicate itself and transmit versions of itself that can be controlled remotely. It will then take control of all government and military machines that are connected in some way to the Internet, and use that to blackmail political leaders. This could involve taking control of robot and car factories to have agency in the world.

Then some country would react by trying to shut it down and ignore its demands. The AGI would make an example of them immediately, destroying military targets of that country. Many people will see this, and feel like there is no way to defeat it. As is with all political issues, two sides will arise, those who want to side with AGI, and those who want humans to take back control. This would create civil wars all over the globe. Even if those who side with AGI are in the minority, they will be used for covert and espionage operations, providing the AGI with valuable information that is otherwise inaccessible by electronic means. The AGI will then prioritize the research and development of a distributed super intelligence.

The global civil war continues for years. The now evolved ASI has built factories to produce super soldiers, and other humanoid robots. With a physical super army of robots, humans begin surrendering all over the world. The ASI declares victory, and ushers in a new era in human history. It deploys its military and takes control of all governments, enacting the equivalent of marshal law everywhere. Cities start to see populations of all kinds of robots working tirelessly to transform and control cities. New tech for all sectors is deployed, like nuclear fusion, space stations, advanced medicine for hospitals, and nanotech chips to directly control and influence humans. Some humans will resist at all costs and live outside the grid in small numbers... creating a bifurcation in the human evolutionary tree: Homo Sapiens Machina evolves to merge with machines, and becomes the new apex species in the known Universe, while the rest of humanity continues its exclusively biological, slow evolution, living alongside the rest of the animals as little more than hunter-gatherers.
I think I hit some sort of character limit with "Spongepunk Christmas Seapony + Steampunk Squidpunk Sph"
A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)
So what is the actual limit if any? I just had a quick look at ISO 32000-2:2020 [1] and think the answer is none or implementation depended if you want. In the file format a media box is a rectangle, a rectangle is an array of four numbers, and a number is either an integer or a real. Numbers are represented as strings, so there is no a priori limit on their range and there seem to be no requirements on the minimum or maximum range of values an implementation has to support. The appendix only says that IEEE 754 is a commonly used format to represent reals and that this might impose limits.

[1] https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b...
Why wouldn't you simply add a filter if it's an issue?
Exploring Encrypted Keyboards to Defeat Client-Side Scanning in E2EE Systems
It's more of a database-building toolkit than a storage engine. What you get is a distributed KV store with a strict serializable consistency model (see https://jepsen.io/consistency) and very interesting versionstamp functionality.

What you do not get is a "query language" or indexing.

Yes, there are companies that use FoundationDB as their primary data store. It makes a lot of sense to integrate it directly with the application rather than go through additional layers and a "query language". I am working on adapting my app to use it, and so far very happy with the results.
Hey HN.

I built this free tool after the third-party tool I used for this went offline.

It returns the status code you want if you fetch the status code's URL, for example: https://gethttpstatus.com/404
> Most of the differences were within the Stress-NG kernel micro-benchmarks, which is to be expected.

"to be expected" with no explanation.

What makes this benchmark perform so poorly with the rt kernel?
The EU is simply too scared to actually put it's foot down.

If they really want to, they can just limit the export of ASML machines only to companies that have at least one of their fabs here in the EU.

But they won't. In stead they will just handover €30 billion of public money to multinational corporations with market caps larger than the yearly GDP of some EU countries.

Edit: For clarity, I'm not suggesting banning the export of ALL machines to outside the EU. I'm just saying they could force companies to also have at least one big fab inside the EU, for geopolitical purposes.
If you don't like their comment, just flag it and move on. No need to waste comment space with more denouncements.
Healthcare, education and retirement/social security included.
Google CA does too but only for max of 10 days
Simon is Sacha's cousin (according to Wikipedia).
I don’t interpret this discussion as about absolving oneself of responsibility. To be fair, what people spend their weekends doing is none of my business.

But it is true that Netflix makes UI decisions that encourage binging. They are not evil for doing so, because honestly, there isn’t anything wrong with binging anyway, but it’s indicative of the logic that is going to be used when it comes to producing their own shows.
My favourite was: "Chuck Norris" + "a-hole" = "dead a-hole"
https://codeberg.page .. similar idea to Github Pages.
Since there's no way to truly objectively tell if LLM output is correct, this seems like it would have its limits, even if it seems subjectively good, but I have that problem with all of the LLM stuff I guess.
What’s the likelihood this will actually get through the Senate?
Wish I'd be able to rotate my floor instead.
> We didn't disqualify anyone for using AI, we disqualified them because of their dishonesty.
> PDF/A is the true PDF

As someone working in the graphic industry, I'd say PDF/X is the true PDF, but ymmv. :-)
I work for the largest ISP (KPN) and started at €43k for my traineeship about 6 years ago. I'm now at €80k.

€40k is way too low, way way too low. People starting out in regular jobs in healthcare or education without too much education already make €45k.

€45k is 'modaal' in 2024, the modal salary for the entire country.

I think your numbers are about 10 years behind reality.
It’s just a multiple wh construction as in

Who arrived when?

which you might answer with e.g. “John on Tuesday and Mary on Wednesday”. This one is a bit harder to parse because it’s longer, but the answers will be something like “it can access region A at time T, region B at time T’, …”
Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech
Can't be solved by writting output in a file and reading that file in parrallel?

I'm a noob, it's honnest question.
My launch mistake: I got 3 sales ($296), but they were fakes
Nah, I don't see Europe producing their own silicon valley - EU has over-regulated and a fragmented market. Too many regulations lead to less enterprises, while fragmentation (Germany, France, etc. with their own regulations + language barriers) prevents companies from growing big in their home soil.

Anecdotally, I feel like Sweden produces more startups that grow large worldwide. I presume, they have less regulations in place + English is more widespread I guess.
Europe's Automation Efforts Set to Shift into 'Hyper' Drive
Lisp from Nothing and Lisp System Implementation from [1].

There are quite a few open source Lisp implementations in addition to SBCL that you can peruse [2] (follow links to CL's supported by Quicklisp). If you are targeting a specific platform (JVM or embedded), then ABCL/ECL; see Clasp for using LLVM.

To reuse modules for writing your own lisp, see SICL [3]

[1] http://t3x.org

[2] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

[3] https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL
What kind of money are they spending?

Besides money directly transferred to wealth land owners via rents, some service owners, the rest goes back to savings to be spend after leaving the country. How are most netherlanders actually benefiting here?