skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in a specific place having a specific taboo can tell us a lot about how likely they are to engage in the tabooed behavior. The argument was that people in China would have noted the bad taste of their raw water. In order to do that, they would have had to drink it, which I find unlikely.
So - like other private vehicles?

Right now, if you take the two-seat Aeronca Chief you bought for $15K and go for a trip, anyone can go to a few free websites to track where you are every moment of the flight, and click a link on the website to get your name and home address.

Let's do the same for cars, because there are plenty of rich people in cars as well.
> I want to start an honest discussion here and see 1st if I am alone feeling this way? and 2nd how can we solve this weird situation?

I have been job hunting for over 6 months. It has been extremely difficult, but I should be getting a solid offer within the next few weeks.

My short term career goals are to slightly increase my zero-interest rate era salary era, and find an intellectually exciting project.

In the EU, most "exciting" companies are either wannabe FAANGs with a minuscule fraction of the operational ability and success, or middling startups that took way too much VC money in the zero interest era, and are now micromanaged by those VCs because they want their money back. I've worked for those people already, and it sucks.

When the economy isn't good, HR people suffer from some psychosis that makes them ask you all kinds of random or creepy questions that are tangential to software engineering. My guess is that they are looking for people who are as burnt out and soulless as they are. It can be exhausting.

My advice is to trust your gut and run away from recruiters and interviews that give you even the slightest red flags. It almost never pays off to be patient, and chances are that you will find dozens of equivalent job ads in the next few days. To make progress in the software industry, you have to learn to navigate the sea of crap.
The antiquated Registered Jack standard is RJ45S, which always gets butchered to RJ45 in common parlance [and this sans-S version has never actually existed].

For RJ standards, an S suffix signifies that it is a "single line" circuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack#Types

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack#RJ45S
The active ingredient in Compound W liquid is Salicylic Acid.
> The AST type represents the syntax of the language.

Agreed, but was not mentioned by the text in question, note.

Thing != Thing's type.
and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.
I've been in a unique position this year to have been recruiting, and then looking for a new role myself, within the span of a few months, so had experienced the market from both ends. I'm observing a number of trends, some more concerning than others.

1. An explosion in international applicants due to the shift to remote since Covid. This means job posting that used to get an overwhelming number of applicants (100+) are now getting so many applicants (5000+) it's literally impossible to properly evaluate.

2. It has become trivial to apply for a job. Aggregator sites like Otta and Cord send you alerts as soon as they've scraped a new job posting. As such, applicants are spraying their CV to every single job they get notified about.

3. ATS usage has skyrocketed (the ATS startup space has exploded as a result), because of 1. and 2., forcing even early-stage startups to use an ATS just to be able to screen the candidates. As an applicant, if you don't hit the keywords, your CV wont even be seen by human eyes.

4. Because of 3., applicants are polluting their CVs with keywords and resorting to ChatGPT to build their CVs. As a hiring manager, you use the ATS to narrow down a list of candidates, then look at the CVs, and they're useless for actually evaluating the candidate. (Keyword chasing has always been the case, but it's gotten to ridiculous levels at the moment)

5. Fake jobs. There is not a company on this planet that would not want to speak with an ex-Googler if one was interested. As such, in the hopes someone exceptional applies, they keep job posts up even if they're not recruiting, and fewer companies are labeling them appropriately (open role/wildcard/other).

6. Hyper-specialization of companies. We're seeing fewer and fewer companies willing to embrace a multi-product mindset, who are pigeonholing themselves into a very tight niche.

7. So, so much of the work you would need a dev for in the past, has now been delegated to SaaS driven by a non-dev in the company. Think Rudderstack, Mixpanel, Customer.io, Squarespace, etc.

8. The ROI of hiring software engineers specifically has gone through the roof. A single dev is able to provide immense value given the SaaS tools they have access to now. You would think this means companies would want more devs, but 6. and 7. means companies have less and less dev work required to reach PMF and profitability.

9. There is a massive segment of the software engineering talent pool that can only build integrations and simple CRUD applications. Because of 7., demand for them is diminishing. A lot of these devs have been doing integration work for a decade, and are now finding themselves competing for the same jobs with actual computer scientists, leading to very confusing outcomes (someone with 20 years of experience unable to land a job, someone with 2 years of experience doing better at a technical interview than someone with 10).
With the exception of patients who are immunosupressed, all warts will resolve spontaneously with time, however it can take years in some cases.

This was a small study and not replicated by this controlled trial: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abs...

Usual order of treatments is topical salicyclic acid +/- occlusion with tape -> cryotherapy / topical imiquimod -> curettage / CO2 laser / pulsed dye laser / DCP immunotherapy

(Dermatologist)
Full destruction of information is critical.

If you need a fool-proof process flatten everything to a 'monochrome' (black and white) image and draw over the redacted areas with a total fill.

This looses text search, but any process that has to understand which objects are being redacted is vastly more complex and thus ripe for errors. Particularly if complex formats like word processor, spreadsheet, or PDF files are involved.
I had a similar reaction. I plan on using this paper mostly for it's bibliography.
Apple themselves call the floppy connector a DB-19 (https://support.apple.com/en-me/112201). In this case, it would be better to use the "wrong" DB-19 term so that people seeking the referenced connector can find it.
I thought this was meant to be a joke or something, but judging from OPs comments here it doesn't look like it. And the people cheering this on...

It's a bleak future for anyone with even a passing interest in software security.
I meant the economic effects of using fusion as a cheap energy source to provide drinking water to ~1 billion people or so (some part of the population who live in places which currently cannot afford to provide their citizens with proper potable water). Desalination uses a ton of electricity. It's a very significant portion of the cost (~50%). But even if the energy from fusion was magically absolutely free, it would "only" reduce the cost of desalination by about 50%. This might not be enough for those who need it.

It's a parallel to how with a fusion power plant, even if the reactor only cost $50,000 (some comically small amount near zero), the electricity from the overall power plant connected to the reactor might still be fairly expensive. Like - if you have access to free steam, is turbine generation actually cheaper than solar? Even assuming absolute best-case, fusion's place might not be "lowest cost source of energy" but rather "a notably cleaner and lower-cost base load" which can provide electricity when weather causes the solar and wind farms to underproduce. In 30 years in developed nations, its competition will be batteries, pumped hydro, and other energy storage farms.
The sequencing of Anzick-1 provides pretty clear (if imperfect) evidence that some Clovis populations were ancestral to a lot of modern indigenous Americans, since it's basal to most South American groups.
Older HP scanning all of a sudden doesn't work anymore
I have experienced the HP driver spiral of death...Does anyone have anything they can share with me on this? Thanks in advance.
It's fairly straightforward -- use your fountain of money from search ads plus a huge infrastructure to support it to pay the costs rather than pass them on to users.

Operate at a loss to drive out all competition and prevent new competition from arising. Increase ad obtrusiveness to drive up revenue, and every once in a while increase creator payouts to keep creators on your platform, until hopefully the lines cross and you start to make money. Maybe. Every once in a while a competitor might make a go for it, and you'll have to reduce ads or offer more incentives to creators to drive them out. Sometimes you may have to lobby the government to help you out on this.

One bonus is you can use the goodwill from your video site to drive traffic to your search engine.

If you don't have a fountain of infinite money from your search engine (or if you don't currently operate a gigantic search engine), then you might not be able to pull this off.
why does where the ill gotten gains of these crimes ends up matter?
Wouldn't the investment funds be motivated to avoid investing in these companies, the same way they are motivated to avoid investing in companies likely to crash? So reducing funding (via share price) of a company at risk of the death penalty would select for safer/better companies.

Pushing the externalities back into the company is exactly the thing we want - and the fewer companies that conduct themselves like this, the better off we all are.
You're assuming that error handling logic should be local, but I don't think that's ideal. Most of the time, I really do just want things to bail out if something goes really wrong and log what happened. This is because what often happens is that the real error occurred a while back and so the code expected to handle the error has no idea on how to do that (like passing in a mangled URL).
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook
That’s an argument argument that human spaceflight could, at some point in the future, make sense. Though it’s also likely that automation becomes cheaper in the future. When people are claiming that automation is going to replace many tasks for humans on earth, it’s not much of a stretch to think they would continue to perform better than humans in space, where humans are at a severe disadvantage.

We also have to consider what it is that we actually want people to do up there. A lot of people say “A human could do more science on Mars than a rover!” Leaving aside the fact that we could send multiple rovers for the cost and effort of sending a human, and those rovers would be on the planet much longer - “do science” isn’t a goal. Even the current rover missions have questionable usefulness, which is why there’s always a big celebration when they land, or a discussion about how impressive the engineering is, but extremely little discussion about any of the things they’re learning.
pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
"so advanced it's a threat to humankind" and "some people might use this in a bad way" are incredibly different.
Related is Operation Vico and Christopher Neil:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39411025
What is wrong with all of you people?
The only proof that anyone will ever accept is a message signed by a private key that is publicly known to be owned by satoshi. Even then, some will be skeptical since keys can be stolen.
Do no evil does not seem so simple anymore.
hey! I'm the author of Creusot, happy to answer any questions.
My total database is maybe 400 gigs. Most of the writes overwrite existing data, so storage cost isn't a concern. With the cost of an upfront RI for the year on RDS (with basically as many iops as I can use), your solution gives me ~100 million reads. That's...like a month of usage at best.

At least I'm my case, the fundamental problem you're facing is that reads are just too expensive. Writes and reads tend to grow at the same pace in many products: there's a ratio that tends to stay the same as you scale. $20/million reads is just a _lot_. The ratio of writes to reads for your pricing needs to be 100:1 or more for it to make sense for me, but I'm more like 10-20:1.

> I guess I’m hesitant to put time into documentation and similar, if I can’t somehow find a steady stream of sales prospects.

This is part of why a database company is hard to build. You will simply not find anyone willing to give you money, because the alternative is going to be a solution your customers already know and understand and which is likely extremely mature. You're competing with Postgres and Mongo. You can't ship a database product that doesn't work: you're asking people to build on you for their storage primitive. If you fuck up, that's a business-ending event for your customer. You've either got to come to the table with an extremely compelling product ("I couldn't build my business without this") or you've got to show why someone should trust you over an established but somewhat more expensive alternative.
Now I noticed that the period at the end of the paragraph is a bit unfortunate

The value was 1. which I guess is shorthand for 1.0 and it’s technically not the same value as 1

On top of that, sometimes values like 0.961727 will be shown as 1, so sometimes you think that the value in the cell you are referring to is a 1 but instead it’s something close to it

In particular I was making a list of array positions from 1 to 32 and calculating x,y coordinates from the position using the formulas (x = (i-1) % width, y = (i-1)/width)

Some of the coordinates were wrong, and it was because the i values were not integers, which I couldn’t tell just by looking at the sheet, and only realized it when double clicked on the cells
I used to have a really big wart on my big toe, and was creeping down onto my foot. Nothing I could do would get rid of it. I'd have regular cryotherapy, tried the duct tape, lots of other stuff (including me attacking it with a knife once -- was not a good idea). One day I had a very traumatic bicycle accident that involved my ankle getting sprained and the skin being cut down to the bone in multiple places (not near the wart).

Whole foot and ankle was wrapped up in bandages for a couple months, when the bandages came off my wart was gone and never came back.

Would not recommend, but it seemed to work (or it was a coincidence)
The way this is phrased implies that PFAS materials are used as an essential ingredient in face masks which is just completely false. The reality is that things like bearings in assembly line machines are lubricated with PFAS materials. As a result detectable traces end up in the final product. This can be argued about literally any item that goes through a factory, including food, textiles, toys, medical equipment, etc. Literally everything. It makes no sense to single out masks as if they are unique unless you are pushing a specific agenda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape_occlusion_therapy
Any open source doing something similar ?
A quick glance at this next map will show that Iowa is not in WECC (although Idaho is):

https://www.wecc.org/_catalogs/masterpage/wecc/Images/WI-Map...

Also, just because 2 states are interconnected doesn't mean that the interconnects have enough capacity for electricity sources to be fungible.
8-inch floppies: when was the last time you saw an 8-inch floppy drive? Finding old computers with 3.5-inch and even 5.25-inch floppy drives is much easier

Obscure non-standard floppy formats such as 3-inch

ZIP disks, LS-120, magneto-optical

So many tape drive formats over the decades, some are very rare/obscure

IBM 3363 WORM discs (optical discs, same basic concept as CD-R but older than them and non-standard)

UDO/UDO2 optical disks

HD DVD (to BluRay what VHS was to Betamax)

LV-ROM and LD-ROM (storing computer data on LaserDiscs)
It's very common in games.

Integers are always an option, of course, but in this context it's hard to beat the convenience of just storing seconds in a floating point number.

Related: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that...
Deepities and AI: Navigating the Landscape of Pseudo-Profundity
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Ehm... HN readers are typically tech savvy people so... Let's say you have a connected computer, formally not in your hand, but practically still yours, since you deploy it, you provision it etc during it's entire life. The user have almost no control on it. It's a closed system.

Well... How many will try, even just for fun, to do something they like on that said computer?

Now imaging it's not one but a gazillion and you are a company known to someone in your country intelligence offering you a significant amount of money for some "OSINT-alike help", than there is even a law that mandate "helping" under certain not exactly strict circumstances...

The Attorney should be surprised if some snooping DO NOT happen, nor for the contrary.

A bottomline: this is why we MUST MANDATE FLOSS by law, and we MUST own our tools.

Just a small example: I bet anyone reading this comment know that banks can give their customer a {PDF/PADES,XML/XADES,JSON/JADES} signed receipt for any transaction (stocks ops, transfers etc), I'm also pretty sure NOBODY reading this have ever seen such perfectly feasible receipts EVER. All though those not to young probably remember on-paper receipts for most common operations back than. Why? Technically if all parts are fair it's simply a good practice, any party involved have a double signed proof of a transaction, every party have a copy of it, signed by both counterparts easily verifiable with their respective public keys registered in a large network of keyservers some owned and granted by the Government. Why not? It's a protection for all "no one can say to have ordered something different". Why this does not exists? Why while all the western automakers who suffer a significantly growing Chinese industry while we, once the best in the world now almost lag behind, do not decide to respond with an open design, imposing all using it remaining equally open, GPL-alike for hw, since we still rule in software and high tech stuff? Such an open design, offering FLOSS cars allowing to connect directly to them, having the car web-served by the car itself as a personal subdomain, no crapplications and crappy slow and unreliable services will be a significant incentive to buy our models. Why not teaching FLOSS desktops and model at school to form IT-literate Citizens instead of clueless users https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-usef... of modern old mainframes now renamed cloud services with dumb terminals now renamed "endpoints"?

Answer this and you'll discover the rest.
Judging by what you write, I’d leave tomorrow.
Exactly right. Financialized capitalism is essentially incapable of building big things or taking care of the big things that were built in the past.
Having access to fresh water is not the same as saying any puddle of water was 100% safe.

You bring up traveling when the vast majority of people did not travel. At all. Maybe to the next market if we talk later medieval period but that was it really. (I do use bottled water when traveling because I am only used to the local bacteria and it is easy to get sick at first when going to a new country.)

As you write most settlements especially early one were very self-sufficient. So they would have some source of water that could be safely consumed. Remember, even for beer brewing you need to start with clean water. Sure heating it up helps with bacteria but you can't brew beer with dirty swamp water. It will be gross.

The whole antisemitic conspiracy theory of Jews poisoning the well only works if people were actually drinking from the well. Not that antisemitism needs to be very rational but it shows that people had a considered safe source of water they regularly drank from.

> But if I may posit something - the average person's distaste for drinking plain water is somewhat universal across time and cultures and might very well be a human adaptation.

I don't think hunter-gatherer societies where big on beer brewing. The whole building settlements thing is a very recent innovation in evolutionary terms so probably not enough time has passed for such a trait to become relevant.

Plus I mean our brains like sugar and carbohydrates very much, we quickly learn to crave alcohol and coffee. We can already explain why people might drink something else than plain water.
Don't forget to handle the case where the document overrides the base with `<base>`.
That's exactly why a country-that-shall-not-be-named does its best to frame itself as the victim, 24/7, even though it's a provable reality that they started the conflict.

Everybody knows that nobody looks favorable at aggressors but they still want land / resources / whatever so they wage an information war to make themselves look better.
The organization still got the end result, though (to play devil's advocate). That sounds like a win for the company. They got the cost savings, plus they redirected attention back to a project that was higher priority than saving $10m 3 months earlier than they could have.
This has been true for a long time but I would suggest that it's no longer true, or at least less true. Such aptitude tests, the opaque form of IQ tests, are now increasingly and effectively being challenged on the same disparate impact that IQ tests were. Rather recently the NY Teachers aptitude test was demonstrated to have disparate impact resulting in a payout of $1.8B. Perhaps one way to get rid of leetcode would be to demonstrate that it also has a disparate impact. Though I have little hope that what would replace leetcode would be any better, especially since it would have to be even more opaque than leetcode already is.
That is true, prices were lower for some special vehicles (e.g. 7 seats), but for traditional ones the were much higher.
> That is all you have to build more complex stuff out of

By this logic you can't add type information to anything because you can only use pairs so there is nowhere to store the type. It's a silly thing to say because it assumes the compiler for the language has to be written in the language.

> So there is no place to hide any adjunct data without violating the spec

The spec is that you have cons, car, and cdr. You could have a secret third element to some pairs that is only used by the compiler without changing the interface of those functions, and hence without changing the interface of the language as a whole. This is the essence of optimising compilers, making changes to the representation of things without changing how they behave.

> PG's infatuation with McCarthy's original definition of EVAL is badly misguided

I agree wholeheartedly with this. This entire document is basically just an extended brain-fart but because it came out of a rich guy's brain-ass a bunch of people will treat it like it's serious.
Ehm, sorry I do not understand, maybe it's my limited English but I do not get what you are saying...
John here, I built this product (and currently using it for my own), to help me personally grow my Freelancing business. It's tough at the end of the day to not have the proper platform.
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Every link every hour. https://github.com/spotlightpa/linkrot