skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit off topic, but does anyone know how "EU" only features/changes are determined? I'm Canadian by citizenship but live in Europe. My Apple account is still tied to Canada mainly due to having my Canadian bank/credit cards tied to that account. Would I need to officially change countries? Start a new Apple account? Does it matter that my phone was purchased in Canada? I'm hoping that it might be tied to the SIM card somehow, since I have a European carrier, obviously.
You're right -- the default is 2, not 3.

I find 1 is a reasonable compromise in practice. I think of it as simulating a little paper ink bleed.
It's just as likely that there may not be funding to do that. Remember, all that requires diverting funding and justifying putting funds into a project that is literally DECADES past its useful life.

Plus, just how much would you be able to simulate? Conditions we don't know much about until, ironically, voyager tells us about.
That's what GTK used to do. The result looks much worse than fractional scaling, is much less crisp, uses a lot more battery, and means games run a lot slower.
Taleb's modus operandi is to be condescending towards others, read his Twitter account.
The US constitution isn't a holy relic handed down by Zeus; it's an extremely compromised document based on the political needs, concerns, and compromises of 1787, helpfully but inadequately amended over the last 200-some years. The worst parts are the anti-democratic features originally put in place to protect the interests of the sparsely-populated slaver states. Inasmuch as we have a functional government today, it's because the functions we need have been taken up by agencies neither required nor forbidden by the constitution, but generally created by enabling laws for the executive branch. You can't just throw those things away unless you are willing to adopt a completely new constitution written to meet modern needs.
Add some faith (belief without proof, we all do it, and can't recognize it in ourselves or other ingroup members) and you are good to go...provided current planetary results are okay in your books I suppose.
Interesting, I've never had any issues specific to Linux (MATE Xorg though, not GNOME or Wayland) when using teams. over the past two years.

The software is pretty bad overall, like very slow and clumsy UX, but it's not any better on Windows…
Survivorship bias in action? The only ones we hear about are the ones who are sloppy enough to get caught. The people who know how to not get caught, doesn't get caught so we never hear about them.
We need bubbles aswell !!
This is the book that helped me really understand JavaScript. Really great content and I can't thank Marjin enough for putting this out there for free.

Also how this person is so productive? I really would love to read on how he manages his time and priorities.
The problem I see is that the things that I'm most proud of (that had the most value for the company) aren't necessarily the things that are likely to get me a job. E.g. by far the biggest impact that I've had at my current company is not any of the code that I've written; it's having interviewed and recommended for hiring several developers who have become top performers. The second biggest impact has been reforming processes that didn't bring value and killed moral. In fact, actually coding has been one of the smallest areas where I've contributed to my company.

However, saying all that isn't going to get me a coding job. It's all about how many tickets you completed or at best features you implemented.
How does the amount of energy necessary to recharge the vehicles compare to the amount of energy required to run the additional industry?
I don't think Google has ever had rigor, in anything except possible things which directly affect uptime. It seems to be a systematic problem - look at their history with chat apps for example. Great for hackers - both ones working for Google and ones working for other governments, apparently.
Blackmagic raw is actually debayered in the camera, which would avoid RED’s “compress raw video by color plane” patent.

> A drawback of Blackmagic RAW over other RAW formats is that it does a partial de-bayer within the camera. This means that you are not actually working with fully raw data from the camera sensor. According to the Blackmagic website the “noise management, sensor profiling and new edge reconstruction algorithms” are part of the partial de-mosaic.
Thank you! The name was there prior to the acquisition but Cloudflare were cool enough to let us keep it.
Maybe a stupid question. Why isn’t there any gatekeeper from the EU region? They are quite industrialized and have a strong economy.
We don't know the specific process failure. While I appreciate your anger, it's a bit premature.
Beautiful. And what exactly led you to that insightful psychoanalysis?

Especially since I’m not saying it isn’t serious. Just pointing out that 0 < 2 < 189.

Which is quite literally true, is it not?
'Agile' has built-in ways of shirking management responsibility. When a developer is asked to solve some eldritch problem, it often goes:

- How long will this take?

- I don't know. This is very complex and I'm not familiar with the code.

- You HAVE to know, we HAVE to plan for it.

- Okay, then 5 days.

- Hey 5 days has passed, why isn't this done yet?

- I underestimated the complexity of the task.

- Ah, so YOU estimated wrong, so it's YOUR fault!

Hard problems exist. They can only be solved by hard-work and expertise and even then solve times are unpredictable and draining to the individual and are thankless endeavors. Management tries to paper over that, but this is a fundamental invariant of life.
The fact that management makes solving these problems feel like punishment, only makes people try to avoid these problems more.
Speaking for lighting: all of it. ARRI stuff is expensive AF but worth every penny if you have the need for it.
True, but from a mathematician's point of view, the theory quickly becomes complicated (and in some sense limited) if you really want to do things rigorously when working with continuous systems, something that does not happen with finite dimensional systems as the parent comment probably alludes to.
What's the value proposition for bitnami container images? I mean, why would I choose bitnami/postgresql over the "Docker Official Image" postgres?

(genuine question)
See Table 1 on Page 6 in this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02462.pdf
A non-exhaustive list:

- They don't allow repair shops to freely order parts, each part must be ordered on-demand, requiring repair shops to pass their customers' personal information to Apple. This adds significant delay to repairs which makes 3rd parties an unappealing option

- They implement digital pairing between parts that require Apple's authorization, which is inaccessible to third party repair shops. In practice this means that you could buy 2 identical brand new iPhones from the Apple store, and they wouldn't work when you swapped their screens.

- They restrict Apple authorized repair shops from performing many useful repairs, I'm not completely up to date on the exact list, but you can watch videos from Louis Rossmann or read materials from other educators on the topic

- They gaslight users asking about data recovery options on their own forum, claiming that any repair shop which offers to recover data is scamming them, and ban actual experts who correct them to say that data recovery is possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4_mLw2BGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrILfIE9IB4
I learned from Dr. Knuth that you can put a tombstone on something, without burying it, and save yourself the hassle. It's very effective! Especially if you're just going to plow that area and move all the live ones eventually anyway.
If US prevented Chinese people for working on US AI, US would be in a far worse position in AI. Half of AI contributors in US are Chinese.
The model of the plane is what they are currently producing at scale. What do you want to bet if that changed (and on other models) they have similar problems with those too?

Notably, this type of ops issue (managers pushing for high velocity - paperwork and quality of work be damned) is inevitable when output numbers must go up or stay the same even in the face of other pressures increasing.

We’ve all been there for sure - too many bugs coming in, so mark them ‘can’t reproduce’ the first pass through, or if we can’t figure out what is going on in the first couple
minutes. Or put a hack into production to fix it now, with an actual real fix ‘on the backlog’ indefinitely. Or playing whack a mole with problems instead of investigating root causes.

It’s a burnout/realism problem.

Very tempting in ops/QA for the business - and then when something breaks, or a customer gets angry because they’re getting blown off, blame the engineer/tech/QA person and fire them instead of fix the actual cause, which is unrealistic workloads, or bad process, or management prioritization failures, etc.
They do in fact put those out. That said the pricing is not at all Pi like. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 board goes for north of a thousand dollars.

https://www.lantronix.com/products/snapdragon-8-gen-2-mobile...
Fair enough with identity theft but I think that applies to any company you have an identiy with - facebook, booking.com, banks etc. They could claim to be you in theory.

Also my id, I think, is just an optimism crypto address 0x93bf030f706e81197856e76c8a3b326640... with no name attached. You'll have a job stealing my identity with that, any more than it's easy to steal Satoshi's because you know his public bitcoin addresses.

I mean if you go to a credit card company and say I'd like to get a card in the name of some guy I don't know the name and address of but here's one of his public keys, I don't think you'll get far. Certainly not compared to getting my real name and address which is fairly exposed on the internet via phone directories and the like.

I don't think if say the photo of my iris's leaked online it would be much of a problem in the same way that the rest of my face is online and it's not much of a problem because no one accepts some photo off the web as proof of id.

One thing I think may be flawed is if I say hi I'm Tim, send me some money to the above address, then you can see all my other transactions to that address on the blockchain which breaks anonymity/privacy a bit. I'm not sure if they are going to fix that by say issuing disposable addresses but I haven't seen that so far.
I do something similar.

We use a minified version of the production DB (baseline). People create numbered sql scripts. A helper script will restore the baseline DB on their local laptop, then apply the new sql files against it.

You develop a deployment script explicitly rather than have it generated. Automatic diff-based generation is full of holes. Making a deployment script directly works flawlessly for all all cases: renames, external data imports, flat files, etc.

Feature branches? no problem.

git fetch
git rebase origin/master.

If someone adds a new script you just bump your script number and continue. Scripts are often order-independent, so even if you both make claim to 04_foo.sql it may not matter, and if it does you just bump your script to 05_foo.sql.

I've been using plain old sql scripts for many years with exactly 0 deployment issues. The fact everyone is constantly testing/validating a "deployment" on their local box is a huge win.

With a minified DB the full restore and script deployment can be done in under 10 seconds usually. With big data imports it may take longer, but those scripts can simply be renamed from 80_import.sql to 80_import.sql.SKIP for a faster iteration.
GB Renewables Map
Because the behavior "worked" (i.e., solved a sufficient number of problems) in the past? Maybe because it is easier than other approaches?
Ask HN: Short shallow dives for presentation to developers?
I'm trying to find (or write) a good set of 5 to 15 minute shallow dive introductions to various technical subjects for developers.

For example, a quick introduction to DNS, explaining what the various outputs of "dig", explaining how your home network has a DNS server and how getting on the VPN uses a different DNS server.

Other potential titles: "Regular Expressions are not that bad, honest!", "ZSH Aliases and Functions", "Useful settings for iTerm", "Docker Walkthrough", etc etc. (Our dev team are all on macOS)

Does anyone know of an existing series of short tutorials on various subjects a development team would find useful? Or if you've already held similar sessions, what pain points or other lessons did you learn?
This is my favorite book about JS, and I always recommend it to people. It occurs to me for the first time that the lack of TypeScript might be a problem, because if I’m making recommendations to someone learning, I am definitely going to recommend they write TS instead of JS. On the other hand it may actually be helpful to learn the concepts in this book without the additional syntax overhead of type annotations, plus the more webby content doesn’t really have much to do with types anyway.
Good point. Interesting that he claims all groups of people contain a certain percentage of "Morons" but then he says he only surrounds himself with brilliant people, which, by definition, makes him the moron.
> It seems the only big company in the USA is tech.

That's not true. If you look at a list of largest US companies (e.g. by revenue) this list is quite diversified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...

Spans retail, petroleum, tech, healthcare, insurance, automotive, telecommunications, financials, food, transportation, media, consumer products, etc.

> The biggest chemical and pharmaceutical industry is in Europe

Top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world:

1) Pfizer (US)

2) Merck (US)

3) AbbVie (US)

4) Janssen (US)

5) Novartis (Switzerland)

6) Roche (Switzerland)

7) Bristol Myers Squibb (US)

8) Sanofi (France)

9) AstraZeneca (UK)

10) GSK (UK)

https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/2023-pharma-50-largest-c...
Great news- if you're a fan of Nassim Taleb: "I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut."
The most important part is that this is the first time we're seeing the effects of a new law, (1) giving CBP officers discretion about who to deny, even if they have valid paperwork, (2) not requiring them to give a reason why they were denied

> A critical factor in the recent deportations may have been a directive issued in May 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. It gives CBP the authority to deny entry to Chinese graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who have been supported by Chinese institutions carrying out a 2017 government edict that endorses acquiring foreign civilian technologies that could also have military uses. However, there’s no official list of such entities or of the relevant technologies.
Even if they ship it back, i'd really doubt the environmental impact of shipping something halfway across the country is less than a few gallons of water per dishwasher load.
This figure seems relatively low as a percentage of GDP.
Me too. But the real story is way better! Now I want to do the same with my Telegram chat history.
Good idea 20 years ago. Announcing a program that'll solve the problem in 20 years won't solve today's problems.
Google engineer caught stealing AI tech secrets for Chinese firms
I think this is interesting, and not necessarily unpopular. It seems different people just think about this issue differently. I do everything I can to preserve every single chat history that I can. And I would like to have every face-to-face conversation and phone call recorded and easily accessible for that matter. I have a sense that I am the sum of my experiences and I don't want to forget those experiences - it feels like I am somehow less than myself if I don't remember them.

But I've seen that episode of Black Mirror, too. So I wrestle with the desire to perfectly remember everything that I've ever experienced vs the mental and emotional health benefits that clearly come from being able to forget things.
Many crimes require malicious intent, that exactly how most executives never spend time in jail - it’s hard to prove that Boeing executives where hiding the plane’s defects on purpose.
At the end of the day, do we care about Google trade secrets or US national security?
Losing the UK's Royal Navy, special forces, and nuke force due to Brexit was also a strategic mistake, due to peacetime conplacency. It would have made more sense to be a bit more flexible with Britain.
Highly doubt this is a good political move atm, so it’s very unlikely to happen
When I was starting out in the late 80s, DDJ was an absolute must read.
For me (Firefox; Linux; X11) right-clicking on the background when editing a visual flow causes to a menu to appear then disappear almost instantly. Everything else seems to work (clicking run, adding nodes from the menu, right-clicking on nodes and editing them that way). Does anyone else have this problem?
Committing to Windows
Shouldn’t Spotify at least be a gatekeeper? Can I publish a song on Spotify and ask listeners to donate to me directly or have a link to buy my merchandise?
I like that fedora keeps the ball moving forward. It's important that someone is always pushing. I switched to fedora for pipewire for a bit. Eventually went back to Linux Mint
ARRI has a specific look and almost perfect directly out of the camera. Compare it to Red or Sony Venice and you see that it is the most appealing. You can make other cameras look like it, but ARRI is just industry standard and produces amazing colors. Their sensor is just fantastic.
Actually I still don't know of a good way to make a path along several links and share that path with someone else later.
Something doesn't add up here. It says £43 for 90 washes, but the picture shows six cartridges which is 180 washes? On top of that, it contains rinse aid and enough deep cleaning for those 180 washes.

Compared to dishwasher tablets from the supermarket it looks like 180 would cost from about £15 for supermarket own brand, all the way up to about £32 for the most expensive. Then on top of that you have the rinse aid, deep cleaner and salt, which seems to account for the other £10.

Obviously this thing is significantly smaller but I think the assumption is you'd be running the big dishwasher half empty every day anyway so the cost would be the same. So it doesn't seem to be that far off price wise?

I find dishwashers in general to be an example of convenience addiction. The amount of dishes this thing can hold I could wash up by hand in about 5 minutes and, unlike the dishwasher, I can guarantee I'll do it properly. People forget that washing up is a skill like anything else that you can get good at. It only takes a bit of practice. But once you use a dishwasher and forget how to do it yourself you get addicted and think you can't live without it.
Isn't the logical extension of this supportive of complete genocide? I don't care about either side in this conflict, but I fail to see how anything short of genocide stops this.

This is what I see:

P: Hamas attacks civilians

I: Responds by saying that this is will never happen again, and they will put their youth into urban combat to ensure it never happens again by eradicating Hamas

P: Engages in urban combat via insurgency, including using civilians as human shields

I: Continues to try and eradicate Hamas. Civilian shields are murdered.

H: If you keep killing civilians, you'll only make more of us!

I: Then come out and fight!

H: No! Keep killing our children.

At some point you have to place the safety of your population over the safety of another population that is currently murdering your civilians and actively stating they want to continue doing so. Plus to my knowledge P still has hostages that they refuse to release.
The post you're replying to was humor, likening Apple to a crime-fighting, thankless hero like Batman, when it is clearly a very greedy profit seeking mega-corp, serving its own interests at the costs of everyone else.

The objectionable content are other app stores and apps not subject to Apple's draconian controls due to the European regulations.
Thank you for the explanation, praise, and social lesson! I wasn't looking forward to researching a different language to answer Solvency's question.

One of my challenges when it comes to autism is I accidentally ask interrogatory or aggressive questions when I'm genuinely curious about someone else's reasoning and trust they know what they're doing. Would "I'm wondering why you made design choice x because I thought design choice y would be a better option because I thought y is better for these reasons" be a good way to ask what the reasoning is?
> Fwiw icc once had a reputation for being fast but I never thought high of their software.

Aside from some GUI scaling issues on Linux, I was really impressed by Intel Vtune.

Also, some of their low level libraries like Xed and Pin Tools are pretty cool, and seemed (last I looked) well-maintained.
Crypto delivering on its mission of ease of access and transfer across borders
BLE 5.0 Extended Advertising Backscatter with Commodity Devices for Passive IoT
I don't assume those are private or ephemeral.

It tells a story and its the zeitgeist of our generation.

People haven't thought about too much how to preserve something like this.

I personally like the idea and i can imagine exporting this with all / few messages of my mother and having a memory of that time.
what should Italian people do?
“ use their "local police" forces stationed in most western countries to harass”

Totally under appreciated point. It’s not “over there” anymore, the CCP have a strong and growing presence in the Bay Area now. Penetration into the FBI will take longer than google or local law enforcement but it is inevitable.
It’s not a secret. It’s called the “Thousand Talents recruitment plan”
I very much concur that it is better NOT to introduce TS when explaining JS fundamentals. I've seen smart engineers with a C++ background get tripped up on and very confused working with TS, because it's not clear to them what concepts are "language fundamentals" and what concepts are "the TS transpiler".

(Like expecting that just because you declared something as type X, that it guarantees at runtime it will always be type X, but it won't. You may get data from an API that _says_ it returns type X but the contents don't match. That can be valid code that compiles and has weird runtime behavior)
That’s all very true, but just a casual opinion, I think Boeing's process problem is more one driven by prioritization of profits with management corroding the safety culture vs nasa procedural breakdown missing risks because of routine complacency of many previous launches.
Oddly your mechanic is much more tightly regulated maintaining your plane than he would be if he got a job at an airplane factory.
Any source on that number (75%)? Looking up ethnicity stats at Google/Amazon, neither has more than 50% Asians and only a subset of those will be non-citizens.
I always wonder if other life in the universe has "seen" Voyager 1 and what they think of it.

Maybe it's extremely complex and impressive to them or looks like an amateur made it.
I feel the need to add a very important point to your third paragraph. Most times these interviews persist even if you have all of those. And what is worse, they are performed by HR people. And I'm sorry, but... wtf does a socials major in HR know about a highly technical and specialized engineering job? Nothing.

I have a PhD on Embedded device security and last time I went through 3 interviews with HR people before I ever got to speak to an engineer. 90% bullshit questions.
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