skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting and good to know. I imagined Western Europe was much more advanced computer-wise, since PCs were out from 1982 onwards and by the time I started high school, 486s were available and Pentium would appear soon.

I started high school in Romania in 1992 and in the beginning we only had two PCs, one AT with VGA color monitor and one XT with monochrome Hercules, and the rest were Romanian made CP/M machines with 8 inch floppies and horrible keyboards that would either fail to get the input or get stuck. PC keyboard was like walking on the Moon compared to early keyboards.

We had Junior: https://retroit.ro/product/junior/

And CUB-Z: https://retroit.ro/product/cub-z/

After about a year the CP/M machines were decommissioned and 386 PCs brought in as replacements.
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I fell like the sentiment of "if you're 50 and not retired then you failed" is very much a startup mentality. I'm not sure that's a "thing" outside the startup community. Or at least outside the startup/fang community.
The public companies also suffer from corruption and such. I guess there just must be some law of a universe where if you have a sufficient sized captive base of income, people who might be inclined to abuse their position to take advantage of the situation will strive to take advantage of the situation. Then it becomes not a matter of if there is any corruption, but when will you end up with a corruptible individual in a position that can be corrupted.

Maybe these organizations or government bodies can be organized like a RAID away. Mirror these positions of power and use redundant pools. Identify corrupt bits by comparing results between these mirrors and hot swap the corrupted positions for a new candidate. Incrementally replace your array on schedule to avoid chance of future corruption and to mitigate batch effect.
wasn't this debunked by NNT?
Most people were from EU, you don't get kicked out if you lose your job.

So he was pivoting to hiring more non EU people.
If somebody with a criminal history gets caught red-handed, and their response is "no, you're actually the criminal," justice is not giving equal time to both claims. (Nonetheless, the issue was indeed investigated, and there were even a few recounts, but no effect on the election was found. Of course, getting an answer was never the point. The point was FUD.)
PG&E has also done everything they can to stop San Francisco from providing its own power. But hopefully that's finally coming to an end:

San Francisco is taking the biggest steps in history toward creating a full public-power system.

In filings with the California Public Utilities Commission, the city has established that PG&E’s local property is worth about $2.3 billion—and if the commission agrees, the city can move to seize those assets under the power of eminent domain.

https://48hills.org/2024/03/after-111-years-sf-is-finally-mo...
2300 utopia is bringing closure to all the positive excesses of the past.

2100 utopia is the dream that we can all be united under the one system.

The start to rising positivity is causing people to chase dreams off a cliff. I'd be careful about what ideas you give people.

People follow dreams well past the point where they should logically conclude, even to death.
> 5. Don’t relate.

I see this recommendation all the time, but I know I do it all the time, and personally I often _like_ it when other people do it to me. Sometimes it's nice to commiserate or share a connection on a similar experience, and maybe even learn from what the other person already went through.

Does anyone else question this common piece of advice? Can't relating be useful if it's not being used to steer the focus over to the "relater"?
Rest in peace David. He was a great human being who helped a lot of others.
> The funny thing is that being quickly opinionated is highly valued in tech

I don’t really agree with this in the context you seem to put it. It’s not that it’s completely wrong, it’s just that engineers who rub non-engineers the wrong way are most certainly also rubbing engineers the wrong way. That being said, tech teams are often rather “quiet” and having that crude loudmouth is often better than having nobody speak their opinions at all.

I wouldn’t say it’s valued though. At least not in my experience. What is valued is engineers who can voice their opinions in an assertive and friendly manner. This is because that unlike the crude loudmouth, these people lead to the quiet people joining in. Which can lead to actual discussion and at the very least put forward more opinions from the team, without you having to be the elementary school teacher picking the quiet student in order to hear what they have to contribute.

I guess being a crude loudmouth can lead to promotions, but it’s probably also a quick way to become one of those managers/architects which are called hot-air balloons or the emperors new clothes behind their backs.
Here are a couple ideas:

1. Dividing some amount of text into pages on a computer screen is unnecessary and annoying.

2. Adobe has a stranglehold on the format and is constantly dicking around with it. Lately I encountered a fillable PDF that Acrobat Reader refused to fill. I could fill it with Firefox but after saving it was no longer a fillable form for any Acrobat user. What's the point of a fillable form that disallows filling it out?!

3. Adobe increasingly supports JavaScript for form validation, etc. I can only imagine what a nightmare mess that is. If we're going to shoehorn in a browser, might as well just use a browser.
No, most of my experience was something like 2004 Dells.

If it was running off USB, then plugging in a mouse after boot would have worked. But it didn't. Only re-plugging worked.
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Higher suicide rates in themselves might not be an evolutionary handicap.

They probably get far more stuff done relative to the ones that are emotionally closer to females and live longer. Just spit balling here.
Actually, before 1972 they would run the radio time signals several parts per million fast or slow to keep in step with the earth's rotation.
Should I move from jupyter notebooks to Observable? Or is that the wrong dichotomy?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144052if_/https://www.ny...
Good luck surviving the 5 minute bike ride to a restaurant in the suburbs.
It was noted early in the development of cinema that the required framerate would probably be much lower, if (IIRC) the shutter could be somehow replaced by blending the neighboring frames together, that is the exposure would gradually shift from the first frame to the next.
> If your employer is buying you an office, then that comes right out of your take-home pay.

That's not really how this works. At all.

If it was the case, big tech wouldn't push for return to office.
Dog chefs might disagree. :)

There are million lot of people (all the way down the food chain) that benefit from what you call "frivolous".

Indeed there are whole industries that could be categorised as "frivolous" depending on your point of view.

Flowers for example. Loads of people are employed growing, transporting, storing, selling, arranging them, yet nevertheless we have them, and people buy them.

Is me buying flowers any different to a billionaire buying a yacht?
Beethoven's 9th.

> Kees Immink, Philips' chief engineer, who developed the CD, recalls that a commercial tug-of-war between the development partners, Sony and Philips, led to a settlement in a neutral 12-cm diameter format. The 1951 performance of the Ninth Symphony conducted by Furtwängler was brought forward as the perfect excuse for the change,[76][77] and was put forth in a Philips news release celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc as the reason for the 74-minute length.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)#Com...
https://web.archive.org/web/20240303140350if_/https://www.ny...
You continue ignore that money was illegally taken from safety funds to pay executive bonuses.

This is not an engineering tradeoff decision. That's not even relevant, and it's weird that you would invent such a situation.
I frequented a ton of forums in the mid 00s and most of them were right leaning. The left leaning slant of the internet is fairly new, I think that came with larger advertisers and their demands on sites to clean out all the extreme right wing opinions and when they did that they also banned a all adjacent opinions as well to be sure.

But before then it was mostly meritocracy, individualism, you get what you work for, drugs is the individuals responsibility, criminals deserves to be punished etc everywhere. There was always a smaller number of voices against that in discussions, but the liberal atheist right wing dominated every forum I saw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri
So much rain flowed straight into the sea that I will have no sympathy for anyone who complains about the drought when the next one hits.
California should have built more reservoirs to accommodate for longer droughts if 4-6 year is the new normal.
Because “AI” easier to pronounce and everybody knows what it stands for. And what
LLMs are capable of is magic enough to be called “AI” for most people.
It's an interesting metaphor. Electron shells are sometimes described as a cloud of probabilistic density, as in the shade is an indication of the probability of finding an electron at that point if one were to freeze time. Obviously it gets weirder the deeper you get.
I think what they meant was that you can build home offices which can sort of be “folded” away once you’re done with them. I have an office space in the living room which is what you wouldn’t want, we’ve sort of hidden it with some book shelves and some walk decorations and plants, but still, I don’t think you would want it.

Anyway, my daughter has a “gaming” setup at the wall next to it and it’s build into a bookcase with a folding table. When she’s not using it you genuinely can’t tell it’s there. It did require some woodworking and some creative furniture “hacking”, but neither my spouse or I are great craftspeople and I think most people would be able to do it. We found our inspiration on YouTube and some actual woodworking help for how to integrate a folding table into a bookshelf on DIY web sites.

It’s not for everyone, but you can do it.

I don’t work from home more than maybe once a week myself. I don’t really want to. I use it ti work shorter days and then do the rest of my hours at nights/weekends.
I believe the better road movement was started by Rome, long before cycles were even a dream.
Obviously I believe that governments should support people suffering from natural disasters, and that even huge amounts of money given directly to victims are an appropriate way to deal with disasters.

> Natural disasters happen literally everywhere on earth

Taxes also happen literally everywhere on Earth. This is an article about rate increases, not natural disaster policies. But like natural disasters not all taxes are the same.

My neighbors have voted themselves a tax benefit where they've been paying property taxes as though their homes are worth 0.01-0.05x what they are, for years. Read all about it here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 - it's the single most important law in this state, if you live in California you ought to understand what it is.

So if I bought a home in San Francisco, I would pay normal taxes like "everywhere else on Earth." But not these folks.

Let's say there's an earthquake in San Francisco and a bunch of crumbling 100y old Victorians valued at $1.5m but whose owners have been paying taxes for decades on as though they were valued $40k-300k - those crumbling houses fall apart. Should we pay every resident in a crumbling Victorian they haven't maintained at all, in communities whose schools and roads and institutions they have not been paying for, yet simultaneously benefitting from their land values rise as a consequence of the human capital arriving every year and sort of have nothing to do with, and they also haven't been paying any meaningful taxes: should we give them a giant check as though they sold their home, at market prices when only 1-5% of home inventory moves a month, in that no longer existing city that wasn't earthquaked?

Listen this would affect me, I mean I know I would love a check that lets me hit the "reset" button the event of a natural disaster, but there was actually no universe in which I live here and benefitted from not paying taxes for decades. That was never given to me as a literal constitutional right it was to people who basically won the lottery.

So who is the antagonist? This is what I am asking you. It's so easy to come from a place like whatever community you live in, where things follow normal rules and you can be pretty confident that your neighbors deserve full and just rescue. But my neighbors have given themselves an entitlement that yielded all sorts of crappy disfunction and I'm not the only person who is sick of that bullshit.

The fire prone areas in California just synthesized their bullshit into some weird ass rigamarole where other Californians pay for that bullshit through the utility company.
It's only wildfire prone due to the incompetence (corruption?) of PG&E and public forest management. Your argument only works if people aren't the cause of a significant amount of the risk.
"AI" is horribly inefficient. That's why OpenAI says it desperately needs trillions of dollars.

The human brain is more energy-efficient than "AI".

(There is also the comparative environmental impact of "AI" versus the human brain.)
> We have submarines, mostly for the military, a bit of scientific exploration, etc...

There's a special mention that deserves to be featured: submarines used for logistics in intercontinental trade routes: the infamous narco subs from south America cartels.

Also, tourism subs exist, including those used in deep sea trips.
At least until wherever the current sweatshops are decide to unionize.
I'm not sure that the existing reservoirs are being managed optimally. As I recall, perhaps incorrectly, there are mandatory outflows for maintaining endangered smelt populations.
Of Hexagons and Hilbert Curves – The Headaches of Scaling Geospatial Stuff
Programmers who don't know lisp are dead or dying. But keep calm, they can still be the little-seatwarmer-that-could as team leaders or agile-change-managers. There are lots of unnecessary titels out there in dire need of warm bodies.
"Fiduciary duty" is probably the single most damaging policy/legislative decision that was made in US history. Even though it technically doesn't force companies to chase short term gains above all else, it still creates enough perverse incentives to create a lot of harm.
Humans can't eat just anything though, and there's a tremendous amount of energy embodied in human food, including growing, storing, transporting and cookihg it.
Honestly I blame my generation for absolutely ruining computing in good faith in the classroom. They gave us big desktop workstations without any sort of internet content filtering or even much of a need to use one with our schoolwork. It was an absurd amount of trust placed into 12 year olds hands. We would just web browse stupid sites, watch videos, play games, anything but schoolwork. Of course there was one IT worker in the school, and after what was in hindsight a very surprising amount of time they must have started checking logs and trying to route around what we were doing. It was like an arms race. Eventually it got to a point where they would reimage all the workstations nightly and made a big announcement about it. I'm sure they loved us.
Recensione del Tablet DOOGEE U9: Una Scelta Popolare su Amazon

Il Tablet DOOGEE U9 sta rapidamente guadagnando popolarità tra gli acquirenti su Amazon, e non è difficile capire il motivo.

Con una serie di funzionalità all'avanguardia, prestazioni affidabili e un prezzo accessibile, questo tablet si sta distinguendo nel mercato dei dispositivi mobili del 2024.
Prestazioni Potenti e Connessione Avanzata

Una delle caratteristiche più impressionanti di questo tablet è il suo supporto per il WiFi 6, garantendo segnali più stabili e trasmissioni più veloci.

Con la connettività Bluetooth 5.0, è possibile godersi un'esperienza audio wireless coinvolgente e a basso consumo energetico. Inoltre, il supporto per Widevine L1 permette di guardare i video su piattaforme popolari come Disney+, Amazon Prime Video e Hulu con una qualità eccellente.
Sistema Operativo Avanzato e Ampia Capacità di Archiviazione

Dotato del sistema operativo Android 13, il tablet offre un maggiore controllo della privacy e dei dati, oltre a una migliore protezione per gli utenti.

Con una frequenza principale fino a 2,0 GHz, le prestazioni di streaming sono fluide e efficienti.

La combinazione di 7GB di RAM e 64GB di ROM garantisce un funzionamento regolare del sistema e una vasta capacità di archiviazione per applicazioni e contenuti multimediali. Inoltre, la possibilità di espandere la memoria fino a 1TB con una scheda TF aggiuntiva rende questo tablet estremamente versatile.
Display Vivido e Controllo Genitori Integrato

Il tablet presenta uno schermo IPS da 10,1 pollici con una risoluzione di 1280x800 pixel, che offre colori vivaci e un'esperienza visiva coinvolgente.

La funzione di controllo genitori integrata risponde alle preoccupazioni dei genitori sul tempo trascorso dai loro figli sui dispositivi e sull'accesso alle applicazioni, offrendo una soluzione bilanciata tra apprendimento e intrattenimento.
Batteria Durevole e Certificazione di Sicurezza

Con una batteria da 5060 mAh, il tablet DOOGEE U9 è in grado di soddisfare le esigenze quotidiane di lavoro e intrattenimento. La porta Type-C semplifica il processo di ricarica, assicurando una maggiore comodità.

Inoltre, la certificazione TÜV Rheinland per la protezione degli occhi offre una garanzia aggiuntiva di sicurezza per gli utenti.
Conclusione

In conclusione, il Tablet DOOGEE U9 si distingue come una scelta eccellente per coloro che cercano un dispositivo mobile potente e versatile.

Con prestazioni impressionanti, un'ampia capacità di archiviazione, un display vivido e funzionalità di sicurezza avanzate, questo tablet offre un ottimo rapporto qualità-prezzo. Non sorprende che sia diventato uno dei prodotti più venduti su Amazon nei primi mesi del 2024.
We are still doing a stupid amount of low level stuff (at least in our heads) now. I thought end 70/80s, with lisp, apl and even basic that we didn’t need to worry about memory management, cycle mangement, etc, anymore, but now, half a century later, we still have to, because if you don’t, everything is laggy, leaky, OOMing, killing the browser, eating the battery, costing stupid cloud $ etc.

The abstractions often suck so much that I long for the manual stuff (and do when I am doing embedded programming for 20kb 2mhz devices); it is usually far more enjoyable as you can reason about it in a very goal oriented way.

And yes, abstracting a human problem to something logical was always the actual job of programming and that will remain for a while; LLMs are terrible at it so far. When your brain manages to cut it up in small pieces of logic, LLMs do puke out the code that fits with bizarre speed. That code often suffers from not taking into account performance and memory management though, and thus make up a terrible app in the end.
Dutch folks, what are you thoughts about the British — Dutch tables in this article?
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More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577985
Have you tried living in the dense cities like Mumbai, India or Manila, Philippines? It's quite clear that with population density, trash output also increases and is harder to manage. By experience, it's not a pleasant way to live or for the environment. It's a lot dirtier.
I would definitely call you lucky.

I'm a good tenant in general and live far below my means (I grew up extremely poor, I generally don't need a lot to be happy). Which means I have far more resources at my disposal than you would assume based upon the houses I rent and the vehicles I drive.

I cannot tell you how many times I've had to get a lawyer involved to protect myself from landlords. They always immediately back off because they're used to dealing with people who __cannot__ protect themselves.

I once had a property manager I absolutely loved and stayed in that house for 5 years. Until the owner decided to change property management companies, I was gone in 2 months. The month I was supposed to start paying them instead of the original property manager, they contacted me 3 days before the end of the month and insisted I would have to pay an extra processing fee to pay them via my card and the only way to avoid it is to mail in a check but if I do that it won't get there in time and will assess a late fee.

I tried to rent a new house from that same property manager but was unable to find something I liked in the right timeframe.
I migrated from Evernote to Joplin and didn't lost most of the features. Currently Joplin syncs via free tier Dropbox, but it has 3 device limit, so I think I will migrate to Google drive when I need fourth device to sync.
Both EMC2101 and F12 TC work with a look up table, so a normal curve as opposed to a PID.

You can verify that in the datasheet of EMC2101, and in the case of F12 TC in product descriptions (..The fan responses to the rise in temperature swiftly  within a critical 6°C range, the rpm of the ARCTIC F Pro TC fan increases from around 500 to its maximum of 2,000 rpm (the steep curve in the chart).)
The losing side agrees. That’s why they fought hard to not lose.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrofuturism
Yes, as they described: Working from Home. It solves all of these problems and has many other benefits mentioned elsewhere in this discourse.
> The Court of Cassation, which is the supreme court of France, reviewed the case and issued an order on October 5, 2022 overturning the decision of the Court of Appeal. The case was then remanded to the Court of Appeal, which issued its order this week.

I know nothing of france's legal procedures, but it seems strange that the lower court, after being ordered something, could drag its feet for so long.
How to create a sticky changelog component with Tailwind CSS and Astro.js
There was a time when I thought the same as that branch manager, but that time was long ago and it was based on absolutely no experience.

In the last open office I worked in, I could not find headphones that allowed me to focus, not even construction-grade earmuffs; if someone's chewing food within 10 ft, I'll hear it, and that's all I'll hear.

For literal constant music listening to actually help, it needs to be a choice, otherwise it just makes me tire of music and I don't get nearly as much out of my mental energy.