skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing a lot of comments about human lifespan, projects shouldn't take more than 5 years etc

The Florence Cathedral took over 140 years to build. There is clear precedent that humans can design, plan and then execute a project that spans multiple lifetimes.

Even better, they didn't have a final design when they started:

> While the main structure of the nave was completed by 1380, a solution to constructing a dome to top it was not determined until 1418. [0]

This also reminds me of a personal story when visiting Florence:

Florentine Tour Guide: "It took 140 years to build the Cathedral. How do you think they were able to do this given that it took so long?"

Me: "I would think they needed a committee since that can last longer than a lifetime if the current members add in new people as the old members die"

Tour Guide: "Yes! Exactly! So few people realize that is what happened."

0 - https://editions.covecollective.org/chronologies/constructio...
Could be Fun with Electronics or Introduction to Electronics both published by Usborne.
Well, you’re in the US, except Customs & Immigration agents can stop you and demand proof of residence or citizenship.
> I can understand the sentiment. It's not necessarily something against independent developers, it's anger about a problem that shouldn't happen in the first place to a device this expensive.

Especially considering how much people harp on about Apple's amazing UX and quality and how that makes the absurd prices worth it. The notch problem, as well as other UX bugs (like scroll direction having two separate toggles in mouse/touchpad settings, that toggle each other) really don't look all that polished to me.
Scaling up and down aircraft is usually done by changing their length since that's both structurally very straight forward, and it can usually be done with relatively benign aerodynamic impacts.

The 787 is significantly larger than the 737. It's not just built to have more passengers, but also to carry way more fuel so it can go more than twice as far. While you can always take off with less fuel to stave off the worst of the penalty when making shorter flights, a penalty remains.

Scaling down a 787 to hit the 737's operating niche likely means:

* Reducing the body diameter/width
* Shrinking the wings (the 787 wing has 3x the area of the 737 wing)
* Reducing the length

The first two operations are really non-trivial. Certainly not impossible, but challenging enough that calling it a "787 redesign/miniaturization" vs "clean sheet model with 787 heritage" gets really blurry.
I went to check on the service, thinking about the 1.50€ a coffee might cost here :) but 6€ (+ taxes!) feels too steep for the value I'd get from it. Bitwarden is my frame of reference at 1€/month, and it is the most valuable tool I pay for, so it's difficult to justify 6 times that just for a social network.

I think this underlines the impression I had that Mastodon software is quite bad in terms of server resources consumption, feels like a very heavy service to host. Probably lots of performance improvements are still achievable, and hopefully hosting it becomes cheaper over time.
> A bartender in Orlando, Florida who requested to remain anonymous because they still work in the industry, said they started a new bartending job in May and pushed back when they found out their hourly wage was just a daily rate of $30, despite working eight-hour shifts.

> “I reminded my manager that paying less than minimum wage was illegal, and added a link to a law firm’s page about it. He fired me,” the worker said. “Getting fired for not wanting to be paid below the already insanely low minimum wage after working in the industry for over 20 years was pretty rough.”

> The worker attempted to file a complaint with the US Department of Labor and the Florida attorney general’s office but was told they only prioritize higher wage violations and never heard back after being told someone would follow up.
I'd argue that it's very useful for making contacts.

The talks are online, but FOSDEM is full of interesting people. Some of those people aren't very available online. Some you don't even know they exist. Some organize an after-FOSDEM dinner like the Perl people do. You can ask around questions like "Is anyone from X here?" and probably get a positive answer even if they don't have anything in the schedule.

FOSDEM also has BOF (Birds of a Feather, basically a bunch of people in a room having a chat about something) that can be set up on an improvised manner. And of course you can just agree to eat or drink something with them.

So it can be extremely useful to attend in person especially if you come with a plan.

I've gone to dinner with people, had a KDE member help debug stuff on my laptop, and done experimentation on Open Source VR with another project's members, for instance.

That can be extremely useful, and for the price of travel and hotel (FOSDEM itself is free), that's an extremely good deal.
India and Ukraine are NOT the best to hire remote engineers
Best country to hire remote engineers from?

India?
Nope.
Ukraine?
Nope.
USA?
Nope.
Pakistan?
Nope.
Vietnam?
Nope.

It's the Philippines

I was shocked as well.

Here are the reasons:
1) They have amazing technical talent.
2) The talent supply is one of the highest, which makes it easy to find and convert talent.
3) They have a very good English speaking level.
4) They are culturally connected to the West, making many of them have a high cultural fit.
5) An average engineer earns around $22,000 a year, which is one of the lowest in the world.

Check out the list of the top 10 countries to hire engineers from.
Rock climbing isn't the new golf. There's no country club, it involves problem solving, there's nobody coming up to you to offer you drinks and snacks during the activity, you don't weight train for golf, CEOs don't take each other to a rad whipper to discuss a merger, there's no insane conspicuous wealth on display.

Tech douchebags will be tech douchebags no matter what sport they play. If you don't want to be branded a "techfuck", maybe move out of the bay area to where people don't care what you do for fun? Or stop caring if someone thinks you're a techfuck? Be yourself and let the people who don't understand you go away.
https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA - source
The "beef" is at https://engineering.fb.com/2023/10/05/developer-tools/python...
I assure you that whatever money Apple would make from this wouldn’t make a dent in even some lower-level Apple pleb’s P&L.

This sort of unbound cynicism isn’t intelligent or useful. It shouldn’t be conflated with being usefully or interestingly critical.
Destination weddings can save a lot of money by having far fewer guests, while still retaining the most-important-day-of-your-life glamour that a small scale registry office wedding might lack.

Obviously, you can have a small scale wedding in your home country. But a lot of people feel they ought to invite their second-cousin-twice-removed and their family of five, while spending £200 a head on venue and food costs.

If attending the wedding needs a £1000 flight and a week off work, your guest list will drop from 100 people to 10.
They're probably referring to cloc the counting tool. https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
I guess power output will basically be the derivative of this tidal height chart: https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Gamlagatt-Faroe-Isla...

The steeper the slope the higher the power output.

I think the real question on tidal generation is how costly is maintenance. The sea is just a very unforgiving environment. Salt water and marine life fouling everything are difficult engineering problems that just add more expense than I can imagine wind turbines having.

If they can make tidal work I guess we'll end up in a world where most of their profit comes from keeping the grid alive when it's a calm and there's no sun.

I guess this may mean these technologies aren't going to really take off until we stop using hydrocarbons to make up the shortfalls...
The Rise and Fall of GOFAI
A toggle button should show its current state. A checkbox is a good example.

Muted []

vs

Muted [x]

It's pretty obvious.

What gets tricky is when designers create UI that does not have as clear a connection between the word used and the visual design, such as:

Mute Off [---( )]

Mute On [( )---]

I have no idea what either of these mean because they include the action in the description of the state.
I really like my M1 Mac, but the notch has to be the dumbest design decision in the history of laptops :/ I would accept any design compromise for the webcam, make it grainy / low-res and put it under the display, put it at the bottom so it points up my nose, or move into a small 'corner notch' in the top-right corner so that the camera looks at me from the side ... anything really but please get rid of that stupidly oversized center notch.
The Skiff Privacy Fiasco, or How Not to Shutdown Your Startup
Mobile users shouldn't be confused about whether Auto-Rotate is on, because Auto-Rotate should always be off. /rant
"automatically paired" = waiting a random 5/10/15 seconds before all three devices agree to talk to each other. Then one of the three gets angry at the other two and I end up listening to music in my left ear as the little girl in my right ear says "pairing" and "disconnected" every few seconds.
Yes, I totally agree. I'm simply saying that you don't have to be uber religious to be a part of a church community. A good church should make you feel accepted no matter who you are.

There are perhaps exceptions, e.g. if you are intentionally trying to harm the church or members of it, but otherwise the church should accept you as you are -- "true" believer or not.

In practice you will probably find a lot of "bad" churches, so you'll probably have to shop around a little bit.
One of the unexpected effects of learning Hebrew for me, was something I didn't realize at first. Only almost thirty years since I could confidently use the language I accidentally watched a video where someone was researching the phonetics of the language (it's more or less generally agreed that nobody really knows how ancient Hebrew sounded). So, the researcher asked people from different communities (eg. Yemenite Jews, Samaritans, etc.) to read aloud a passage from Genesis.

It was very surprising to me that I could, more or less, understand what they were saying, despite the accent. Then came the realization that I could actually understand something written thousands of years ago by someone whose mind worked in a very different way, and yet I could, sort-of, communicate with that person.

---

I had to move a lot in my life. So, I don't have any childhood photos, nor do I keep in touch with my classmates from wherever I studied, I had to switch the language I use in my everyday life at least twice. I always "traveled light", so, I almost don't have any objects that are more than some ten years old. Except for the razor my grandfather brought from Germany in 1945 (now, I realize that it was probably looted, but many years back I was kind-of proud to inherit that). It says on it that it was manufactured in 1939.

I've never really met my grandfather -- he died when I was one y.o. I don't know what kind of person he was in his everyday life, in fact, I've ever only seen a single photograph of him. And yet I know that in many ways, subconsciously, I continue things he was doing. We have very different perspectives on life: he was a member of the Communist party, and I'm strongly in the Humanist camp. He liked gardening, and I hate being in the country etc. But, in a more broad sense, I keep a lot of the same culture he was part of: I'm pretty sure we learned the same multiplication table, or that we both had to read War and Peace at school, we both have the same idea about alphabet or using a dinner table for, well, dinner. And in that sense, I'm distinctly farther away from someone who sits down on a mat to eat their dinner, or, like ancient Greeks, who semi-lied down on a bench for their dinner.

In fact, it's very easy to trace my and my grandfather's differences to a common ancestor. It's not hard for me to understand why would he think the way he did, even though he's in the opposite camp. It's much harder to understand those who cannot disagree with me because they don't even know what they can possibly disagree about.

---

We don't have an obvious structure for projects that take multiple generations to complete. Not like the cathedrals that used to be built for hundred years or more, or even the books that used to be written by generations of scribes. But we still carry out such multi-generational projects by following conventions. We read books written by the previous generation, reinterpret them and embed their discoveries in our own.

It would've been nicer if we could organize this inheritance better, but it's not fair to say that it doesn't exist.
Ireland isn't really representative of anything. It's the country in the world with second highest GDP per capita (!!!).
I've always thought math would be much easier to learn if they used descriptive variable names. Or, at least in an interactive medium like the web, add some tooltips at a bare minimum. Whenever I study math I spend 90% of the time looking up the symbols.

Also when this person says the subscript "denotes the order of the measurement" I'm trying to figure out what kind of order he's talking about. I guess that's the index? It's been a while since I did kalman filters:-p
https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
According to the popular conciousness, the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 CE in the west (i.e. 503 years), and from 27 BCE to 1453 CE including Byzantium (i.e. 1480 years).

But that's a really bad way to think about it. A Roman in 30 BCE and 20 BC probably wouldn't notice much difference. There was still a Senate, still elections, still powerful men exerting massive influence over the lives of ordinary people. Essentially someone had just written 'Augustus' in chalk at the top of all the organization charts.

Similarly, in the west a Roman in 470 CE and 480 CE wouldn't have noticed much difference. There was still a Senate, and powerful 'barbarian' generals were still exerting massive influence over the lives of ordinary people. There even was still an Emperor who was nominally in charge - he was in Constantinople, but the Emperors hadn't lived in Rome for decades.

The fall of Constantinople was probably a bit different since a whole new political regieme was imposed, but even there I believe the Ottomans actually claimed to be the inheritors of Rome and the rightful emperors (Rome was Pagan, then Christian, why couldn't it now be Muslim?)

Realistically, there were a series of political regimes which evolved into each other time:

* Aristocratic Republic,

* 'Constitutional' Monarchy,

* Absolute Monarchy,

* Military Dictatorship,

* Theocratic Dictatorship.
> Maid of honor speeches, which cost $375 if they’re written by Glantz or $35 if she gets her AI assistant to help.

In which LLMs continue to ruin everything.
You act like no one is having kids at all. The birthrate being lower on a planet with 8 billion going on 11 billion is just fine.
There are a couple of reasons I think online job applications are so spammy:
1. Sometimes the companies don't adhere to the requirements they posted. For example the job post might list skills A, B, and C with a minimum of 3+ years, but some of my friends recommended that I apply anyway. I don't track such cases but I think I got a couple of responses when I did that.
2. Some companies leave job posts up after they've been filled, or ghost candidates during the interview process, so candidates tend to spam to ensure that even if a small fraction replied, they'd get at least one offer.

I'd assume that contacting hiring managers directly might lead to better chances, but aren't 200 other people doing the same?
If the vast majority of users want it, it should work well.

If not, I suppose we'll soon discover what the anglophone equivalent of 习 <-> 小熊維尼 correspondences may be...

(I guess AI moderation could work in this case, in that one only cares about viral-going sidesteps, not any possible sidesteps, reducing the state space vastly. Come to think of it, maybe chinese mods already came to the same conclusion?)
The standard civil courts pipeline sucks as a mechanism for labor rights protection. You'll need expedited courts and a speedier process to dissuade this kind of thing. It needs to be as straightforward as child support law.
The hotel we were at arranged a free room swap with another couple on another island for a few days so we even got a "honeymoon". We went to this hotel for a few nights:

https://www.larchipel.com/
>To minimize the danger to the officers executing the search.

The trend of cops being safer every year hasn't changed in generations. Militarizing police and treating citizens as armed combatants didn't budge the overall trend.

However, when war-grade policing rolled out, the officer-safety trend became spiker than it had been.

ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070627/us-law-enforceme...

> This is a case of organized, premeditated violence motivated by opposition to law enforcement; obviously a high risk situation.

Fear-the-public mantra is super helpful to companies that sell gear to maximize civilian harm (and PDs who adore that gear). It doesn't serve the public well, however.
Aloha 2: An Enhanced Low-Cost Hardware for Bimanual Teleoperation
I once hosted a European researcher in my home (which is in flyover country America). He saw the utility poles and wiring stretching to houses in the neighborhood and remarked that his father had said a hallmark of undeveloped countries is that power lines are above ground. This was 20 years ago. Now, I do see that new neighborhoods have buried power and fiber. But that quality of fiber wasn't affordable decades ago. In retrospect, it might have been wise to delay putting infrastructure underground in urban settings because of high cost.

Who knows what advances in material science, computing, energy and transport will bring in coming generations? Not to mention climate changes. Therefore it can be presumptuous to think that sticking to a long term plan is the best course. To the extent that a long term plan depends on the supporting environment of the plan staying the same, a plan might be judged foolish in retrospect.
this is backwards from the perspective of digital logic circuits

physical light switches toggle between closed-circuit and open-circuit, not high and low voltage levels. 'on', where current can flow, is a closed circuit; 'off' is an open circuit

in digital logic, when there is a correspondence between closed/open and high/low, the correspondence is virtually always that closed is low and high is open. for example: ttl inputs always treat open-circuit as high; the can bus and i²c bus "recessive" states (when nobody is transmitting) are high; avrs have optional pullup resistors on their gpios but no optional pulldowns, so if you want to connect a pushbutton or toggle switch to a gpio, you have to connect it between the pin and ground, not between the pin and vcc; 8051s' 'quasi-bidirectional' i/o ports similarly feature a weak pullup and a strong pulldown, so that, again, an open circuit is a logic high level

(and normally high is 1, low is 0, though sometimes this convention is also violated)

the only exception i know of is that 60-milliamp and 20-milliamp digital current loop interfaces, as used on teletypes, treat a closed circuit (current flowing) as a logic 1 ('mark'), and an open circuit (no current flowing) as a logic 0 ('space')

incidentally, 'closed circuit' and 'open circuit' are also confusing. a closed circuit is 'closed' in the sense that a plane curve is 'closed' if it divides the plane into an inside and an outside region. on a closed curve, you can walk around the whole circuit and return to your starting point without turning around, which is in some sense what the electrical current is doing. but of course actual electrical circuits exist in three-dimensional space, where a 'closed' curve does not divide space into an inside and an outside region, because you need a surface for that. and in all other contexts, something that is 'closed' is something that does not permit flow: a closed barn door, a closed window, a closed valve, etc. nevertheless, it is far too late to eliminate this two-dimensional flatland thinking from our vocabulary
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Professional token westerners (white monkeys) are still a thing in China. The government has even started hiring them for propaganda purposes.

https://youtu.be/0HGgzK2yVX4?si=D_XIp8f2siDTo9ow
There's no voting solution to gaining that unfortunately
Agreed :). I always have to google which case applies where as I use ssh and scp heavily.
Slut-onomics: How the scarcity of sluts tears the social fabric apart
If you put a stopPropagtion in your click handlers by default that problem goes away. :)
I'm not disagreeing with that, but again, using the phrase "actions have consequences" in this context _is_ victim blaming.
I assume the theory is that most people won't want to travel to Mauritius for a wedding, so you end up with a smaller wedding.

(Of course, you could just invite fewer people, either.)
MiCA's Significance Regime for Stablecoins – A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut?
People need to vote with their wallets and stop buying MacBooks with a notch instead of complaining.
That sounds like an interface feature found on "smart" devices - I'm only familiar with TP-Link Kasa switches, but I think I remember their app UI having a similar feature where a color icon had multiple states, the most "on" of which is "confirmed with the switch it turned on".
Underwater cables has been done as in all the Network connection across continents. The same with high power electricity under seawater.

None of these are new. However they are all 1 to 1 build up. These new tidal kite requires many to one. And I am not quite sure how this could be done. At least cheaply.
Minesto CEO is quoted in local Faroese news saying 800 households:

https://kvf.fo/greinar/2024/02/09/drekin-framleidir-nu-strey...

https://kvf.fo/greinar/2024/02/09/minesto-og-drekin
You can change the resolution in System Settings->Displays, make it so the entire display is below the notch.
> Me: "I would think they needed a committee since that can last longer than a lifetime if the current members add in new people as the old members die"

> Tour Guide: "Yes! Exactly! So few people realize that is what happened."

This also implies that C++ will potentially live forever...
Yep, that's the thread the data came from, would be cool to get more up to date data some time. I'm not sure whether enough people start new blogs for it to be a monthly thing, but once or twice per year would be neat!
> How would you know?

Belief is simulated knowledge and we exist within our believed world...so we are in a simulation of some kind, but we don't know if we are also in "the" kind.
The reasoning is that you were raised by somebody but when it is your turn you are avoiding the responsibility. If everybody start to think this way the human race will stop existing.
My wife took a former employer to small claims court. It was as straight forward as it gets.
Amen to this. So many ‘smart home’ battles end up being WiFi battles. Zigbee is itself not perfect, but I’d much prefer to deal with Zigbee problems instead of propitiatory-protocol-and-app-probably-using-a-cloud-service-over-WiFi problems any day of the week.