skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Imagine a near future with a mothership balloon carrying thousands of drones the size of a deck of cards or so with a 20g explosive, gps, facial recognition, and something to detect cellphone signals and a small solar panel.

Drop a load over an area with the faces of targets preprogrammed into them and let them flit about looking for cell phone signal sources and if the face that's near the signal is a match explode on their neck.

Imagine releasing that over an airbase. These things can either attack immediately or just fall down to the area around and lie in wait recharging with their panel.

What's the counter to that?
Even if the will to have younger blood to fuel the economy is a driver for such a move, it has nothing to do with propping up pensions: in an aging population you'll need people working in your country if you want to keep things running, no matter how your pensions are being paid…
Thanks!

Most of the physics-based example are written in WebGL using three.js. Using three.js is a little bit overkill for this because all the examples are in 2D but it's what I was familiar with. For the actual physics simulations, I'm using matter.js.

The diagrams use a library I wrote while working on the post [1].

Everything runs inside a Vue app which serves as the glue between things like the sliders and the three.js scenes and diagrams.

[1] https://ksassnowski.github.io/vueclid-docs/
I don't know how that is relevant. Many other surveys lying more doesn't make this any more true.
TV Networks Embrace Their Aging Audience with a New Mantra: Age Doesn't Matter
QuestDB, TimescaleDB, and PostgreSQL are more about universal databases and don't work as well as Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics. And yes, Clickhouse will beat them both, but only by running queries on a huge amount of data. See also https://docs.victoriametrics.com/faq/#how-does-victoriametri...
>setup up a WFH machine with just Chrome and nothing else.

If you really narrow your use case(s) you can disable all kinds of things that are taking up memory and distracting your processor.

I just did this for somebody too. Previously had current W11 since it came out, but the web platform was just changed, and suddently they couldn't keep Edge from interfering with the intended workflow any more.

The employer only ever claimed to support W10 and Chrome so that's what I cooked up for the multiboot menu now.

Only partitioned 32GB of space, and it's only about half full, there's nothing else installed except Chrome.

Edge has been fully neutralized, and it's smooth sailing.

No more Teams either, its webcamming in the browser now.

They've been at it doing WFH a long time, way before covid, years ago I tested a Linux distro using Chrome and it worked even though no Linux or Mac was supported.

Now with this stepwise change, for the actual tasks being accomplished, it does seem like a lot of the worker interaction with the main office which was once solely to co-ordinate with the team and all contribute very comparable value-added work independently, is now as familiar as possible while more likely being utilized to train a different entity to perform the value-added work in the future.

For this type of thing Windows 11 does appear to be offering more possibilities than ever before, but Windows 10 doesn't look like a real slouch either.
The cost of storing electricity in batteries is down to $80/MWH.

This evening batteries in California peaked at 6.3GW. Last year they were peaking at 2.3GW in the evening. I think that means is they installed 15GWH worth of batteries last year. That's close to 0.4KWH per person.

The whole economic landscape of solar and batteries has changed radically in the last 4 years.
Better "best" - https://hn.algolia.com/
I see they use water to cool the actual furnace encasing. They then lead out the warm water to big basins to let the water cool off. It would be good if they could use that warm water for remote heating of houses or create electricity or something.
I dunno, it seems to sync your notebooks back up to the cloud & other devices pretty well.

It’s £3/month after the first year, but it still syncs.
https://remarkable.com/store/connect
Yeah it's so good. I used it on my really old kindle paperwhite and now my kobo Clara, which I've had for years.
Show HN: List of 200 hand-picked 4 day week companies
I put together a list of companies that actually offer a real 4-day workweek (4 days, 8 hours each), not just compressed schedules or seasonal 4 day week. I made sure each company explicitly mentions this benefit on their website or in their job ads.

Some companies claim to have a 4-day workweek but either don't stick with it after trials or end up having a 4.5-day week. I didn't include those.

Most of these companies are hiring right now through their career pages and many are fully remote.
> because your body regulates hydration by getting thirsty

...which is one of the easiest body signals to unconsciously ignore once your mind gets somewhat focused on anything, or to confuse with hunger.
Community colleges are for learning skills. “Learn HTML” is appropriate as a community college course. Universities are more… well, universal in their approach to education.
Is the menu viewing functionality working right now?

https://www.menuop.com/menus/display/JBgKuTfVFlorm2gGEclb
Does she also say things like “Did you do anything fun over the weekends?”
> but in practice their theory didn't work out (for various reasons)

For me, one of the reasons I disliked $GOPATH is that source code was not in $GOPATH; it was in `$GOPATH/src`.

The fact that they are very strongly against relative imports also didn't help, even if I get why they do it.
Again, it is what it is, there's no moral attachment to my comment. I give up, you just want me to be wrong. It's just frustrating you don't recognize that was the argument I was making.
I've always loved Standard ML and feel it's never gotten the love that it deserved.

It was my introduction to typed FP concepts via this course (Part A)
https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
> Very few countries in Europe takes in significant numbers of migrants

Yes, but that's the biggest EU countries and they take a lot of migrants. Wikipedia says 18% of Germany population are first-generation immigrants. In comparison, in US it's only 14%. For the whole EU the number is around 11%.

> generally Europe is very anti-immigrant.

From what I know about "how to legally immigrate to US" vs "how to legally immigrate to Europe", the latter is much easier. The public sentiment might be there, but the laws say the other way.
> Microsofts AI search is making up fake Vladimir Putin quotes that never happened

That is the main use of the new "AI": propaganda.
If your high level story is to "implement a button that cancels the order when cliked", for instance, then this can be broken down into several taks, the first of which may be about reasearch and investigation.

Even during the implementation phase you might hit an unexpected issue that will need to be investigated and researched.

If you're trying to fix a bug then investigation and research may be the bulk of your time.

The point is that tasks/tickets/stories and what you're spending your time on don't have to be only about typing code and it's perfectly normal to report as such.

Regarding estimates, the issue in the real world is that estimates on incomplete data very often end up as commitments when told to project management. This is quite orthogonal with Scrum and is part and parcel of working on any project.
Yes, tariffs are especially bad if you want to get paid big bucks for the genius business plan of overseeing labor and environmental arbitrage.

The US industrialized itself with tariffs and deindustrialized itself by removing them.
Nobody needs any more evidence of fraud at the large scale: SBF is already in prison.

To claw back individual investments (some as low as $1,000, which can't justify much DD) you'll need more evidence than "this was made without sufficient diligence".
"Unique" in a world where Objective-C, Objective-C++, Groovy, and TypeScript exist.
Wow that's interesting, would be really cool to use this as a linux tablet.
Morale of the story: Don't use face/fingerprint unlock. Sooner or later you/they will need to use the password anyway.
besides regional support, by and large this has been a core reservation behind these initiatives for me. this goes beyond just parts design being harder to repair. fairly priced first-party components throughout the support lifecycle is yet to be achieved.

i can empathize with the supply chain challenges but unless we have regulatory pressures, none of these parties have the incentive to see things through. without any accountability, all the device support promises are only good on paper.
I'm not super familiar with C++, but I imagine you'd need some chicanery to access privates, while in python you can just use them by name.
> Didn’t apple invent this one?

You should learn from the best..
I went to a mid tier state school and no class was even close to "learn html"

I think my education was pretty good. Was about 8k a year about 10 years ago. Worth every penny.
I'd wager that the majority of students view college primarily as a method of financial gain.
It's not inevitable. There are already powerful laws against this where I live, and I have no doubt that the EU will sharpen them additionally, too. It's already being discussed. Illicit AI copies of people can be treated pretty much the same as other counterfeit goods - physical goods get confiscated, servers are shut down, people who do it on a commercial scale get arrested, etc. The enforcement is not more complicated than what the movie and software industry has already been doing for decades. The video game industry has already set the precedents.

I mean, honestly, I think it's kind of bizarre that you think a Chinese movie maker could make a film with a digitally cloned Tom Cruise in it and get away with it. Maybe in China, but not in the rest of the world.
> universal format/protocol agnostic

That's not a "should we", that's a "we can't". Too bit a civilization-level project.
Agreed! But OCaml is close enough that I don't despair.

Chris okasaki's purely functional data structures is an excellent intro to SML if your familiar with FP already.
All scientific writing in Slovenia uses long scale. I've heard it being used in EU institutions too.
Yep, I'm aware of how it "should" be. And for smaller companies it's absolutely feasible. But the larger you get, the more layers between people, the less personal connection there is, and so you need formal practices like this to act as grease (and OMG the stuff we have now is SOOOOO much better than the crap of the 90s, even if imperfect).

At the end of the day, you take some kind of procedure, modify it to your company's culture, and try to make it work. There's no silver bullet, or even a bronze bullet.
Was there some kind of side effect that prevented you from simply using the debugger to evaluate parts of the statement to interrogate the results?
I’m French went to a French engineering school (INSA, ranked within the top 10), went to RIT (tanked 35th in the US) as an exchange student for a year. I found that the level at the RIT was really quite low. Especially when it comes to mathematics and fundamentals. On the other hand, RIT’s courses were much more pragmatic though, more up to date on more modern project management, much better entrepreneurship course. So, it’s different focus but not entirely bad. I still know that I ‘d take someone from a French engineering school in most cases though

During the time I was at RIT, I tutored in maths two students at the nearby community college (it was just down the road from where I lived), the level was abysmal and yes pretty close to learning html.

I’ve also hired and worked with people from top universities in my career, MIT’s reputation is deserving, people I’ve worked from there have been very good. Harvard not so much (but the sample is only 2 people and, well CS is not Harvard’s forte)

Note, this is most likely biased based on my experience but as someone educated in Europe that has spent most of my career working for US companies.

EDIT: oh one major difference between my mostly free(540 euros a year back then) French engineering school and the much more expensive (25000 usd per year at the time) RIT, the non-educational (sports etc) facilities were much nicer.
It's good to have questions. Here is some useful background reading:

https://www.pewresearch.org/our-methods/

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/methodological-research/su...

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/methodological-research/

There are literal books devoted to survey methodology.
those of us interested in the ML language family have been disappointed for years every time a headline turns out to be yet another machine learning thing, so I'm glad to see this one was actually an ML (:
The certainly have, even if it isn't a ISO one.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html

https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/index.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-language-specific...
Wikimedia is unfortunately becoming one of the worst places to give your money to. They have their closed-source infrastructure, which now for years has not been able to generate HTML dumps without a significant percentage of articles missing.

They have know of the bug for ages, but still...

WMF don't care about their products at all, they give much more funding to vanity workshops in Africa while utterly ignoring the requests of the Wiktionary community, for example.
I rediscovered Yahoo thanks to it.
Tess-Keck Survey Discovered Hundreds Of New Planets
If you invest in a coal or gas power plant, there are times where supply outstrips demand, spot prices drop below your marginal costs, so you have to shut down your plant, making your capital investment seem wasted, too.

There also basically always is more supply than demand because customers value reliability (possibly more so at times where demand is high)

What’s different here is that, for solar panels and wind power, the marginal costs of producing electricity are zero, that solar panel ownership is way more distributed, and that supply varies with the weather.

The main question for both cases though is whether the investment makes sense in the long-term.
Thats fine, just keep your personal preferences out of my labs' white paper submissions.

"Number 16" is valuable, in that it communicates the fact that the specimen involved is one of a set of at least 16 individual data points. "Brenda" doesn't communicate anything much more than, perhaps, the researcher is bored with their work and wants to have fun instead of doing real science. Besides which, this is a human name, so is it referring to a human or a spider?

Scientific rigour is important. Fanciful notions of cultural joviality, less so.
The comment you replied to?
I assume (since such practice is fairly common in Ruby metaprogramming) that the methods are generated at runtime, so there is nothing to grep.
My next phone will be a Fairphone.
What is interesting is that the article says other countries should use "France as blueprint".

- to have a state-owned electricity generation monopolist ?
- to use demand-based price increases to push down demand ?
- to provide half the funding for generating plants from taxpayers' coffers?

France's example in nuclear is, if you like to phrase it like that, one of "socialistic infrastructure policies that have proven to work well".

Quoth Lenin, "Communism is the Soviet state plus electrification of the country", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOELRO - I would like to see a comparative essay on France's nuclear push of 60s/70s/80s and the USSR's 20s/30s/40s. And/or, in fact, later; the number two nuclear power generating country in Europe behind France is, after all, Ukraine.
> I feel like if you think of extended study purely for financial gain you might be doing education wrong.

Thing is, employers don't leave another choice. It's either jobs on the level of flipping burgers, the trades, or it's going to college because even mediocre paper-pusher jobs require a college degree these days.

The reasons for that are pretty simple:

- college degrees save employers money on training cost, as the students have to shoulder it (you know, it used to be a red flag for scam jobs if you were required to pay for the privilege of getting the job - but with college, it's accepted that we saddle 18 year olds with five figures of debt)

- they are a versatile proxy... they weed out people from entire classes of society (the poor, the disabled, people of color, people with mental or physical health issues - all of that has close correlations with lower chances of academic degrees) completely legally

- they reduce risk of hiring a "dud" - if you can't get out of bed reliably in the morning and stick to deadlines you won't get an academic degree, so requiring degrees weeds out this as well with no financial risk to the employers.

There is only one way out: legally mandating that requiring a college degree for a job is only allowed if there is a material need for the knowledge acquired during a matching academic degree.
It's a planning tool that is useful in situations where people otherwise have a hard time planning things. This is very common in the industry. Software engineers are poor at estimating their work. Managers in turn tend to have a poor grasp of how hard or easy things are. Scrum is a tool you can use to get some sensible decision making in place.

I'm actually not a huge fan of scrum and the mindless activism around it but it's probably not worse than most alternatives. Including the default herd of cats type situation that lots of people seem to default to, which is definitely not great. I default to vaguely Kanban; regardless of the process of others around me. When in a scrum environment, I just just make sure that my TODOs are aligned and prioritized correctly. When not, same.

My main criticism of scrum is that it leads to consensus based decision making where consensus drowns out expertise. If not managed properly, it promotes a culture of mediocrity. You get people in junior management roles (which is what the PO role typically is) overruling experts around them. Easy things become hard, and hard things become impossible. Sometimes you just need to let the experts to do their thing without micromanaging them.

Another problem is that it drives teams to iterate rather slowly (weeks); which creates issues if you want to be more agile and e.g. practice continuous deployment, which I would argue should be the default these days. This is something that can be managed by a good team but it needs active managing. I tend to completely decouple planning from releases. We release regularly and we only release good stuff. Anything not making the cut goes to the next release. This happens regardless of any sprint plannings and what not.

Yet another problem is that doing scrum in large organizations creates all sorts of process bottlenecks. Orchestrating large amounts of teams is a non trivial problem that scrum does not provide solutions for. Naive versions of this (synchronized sprints, scrum of scrums, etc.) naturally lead to waterfall style development cycles where nothing happens quickly anymore. This too can be managed but I've seen a few places where this became a ritualistic mess that involved lots of wasted time, people in pointless roles without having much impact, etc. You get teams working around each other, doing conflicting things, and worse.

I don't think Google, Meta, MS, Apple, or similarly large software development organizations talk a lot about their internal processes. But my impression is that they mostly don't seem to be doing scrum; or at least they don't talk a lot about doing that. Correct me if I'm wrong. The above might be why.
You can also have the back tap (double or triple) run the accessibility shortcut.

I use triple-back for "grayscale" (because I found myself double-tapping the back accidentally all the time.)
Plus if companies are less likely to pay the ransom, ransoming companies becomes less profitable.
That's a great point - so explain, how getting bought out by Microsoft is going to help any of this? How getting bought out by Microsoft is not going to make everything even worse for everyone involved?
True but it doesn't mean it's not wrong.

Also the result you get out of college very often mirrors that mindset: if you are there to primarily learn and expand your skillset, I'd say college is virtually always worth it.

I studied at 6 different universities (with varying teaching quality and approaches) and always learnt tons.
Cracking the Knowledge Code: Hybrid AI for Information Systems – Language
I'm really thinking about buying one, but I NEED someone (even paid sponsors) on YT to review it and post a real-life video demo of them using it for a real thing in their office to believe the claims.

I can really see how this will make meetings, 1:1s, reviews, blogging, and designs at work way WAY more deep and engaging than with my MacBook. And perhaps it'll help me get into reading more, as well!

I think a nice demo can be Duolingo on it - it's something I do everyday so moving to this device could help me in that :)
Worked at a web property that took scrum, used it and found it lacking in certain cases for development. They Extend it And called the new creation beyond scrum, abbreviated as BS snickers.

Unrelated to the shortcomings
we found that Scrumm with the timeboxing concept did not work for infrastructure teams.
You cannot just time box most Infrastructure task and just ship whatever you have when you exceeded your initially planned timeframe.

We came up with Kanban as a way to document progress. The swimming lanes together with a limit on things that can be simultaneously in flight served to mirror reality as an operational team much better than pure Scrum.
How to kindle a fire: solving an 800 year old puzzle in Vedic ritual exegesis
Sure. Can you point me to any market solution for capitalisms need for exponential growth in a limited resource world?

As I said I have no hard opinions on the fix this needs. But it needs to credibly needs to address the core problem. I have yet to see a market solution that does that instead of say, selling yet another product.

Regulation is another thing. I believe it could really deliver a fix. But so far it it seems a true regulatory fix will come only after the cost of climate collapse is paid by the people who extract money from the system (and by that time we will have passed multiple points of no return and seen untold pain and suffering by those people who do not benefit of this capital).

If you're against revolutions, I'd argue you should be for strong regulatory measures that should have happened yesterday.
No, you're wrong here. Russian SFSR initally included the whole Central Asia, Caucasus countries, Crimea and eastern parts of Ukrainian SSR. Russian SFSR border you talking about is from circa 1956.
Show HN: ServerlessMaps – Host your own maps in the cloud
Have a look at the website with an example map, https://www.serverlessmaps.com/, or read the accompanying blog post https://tobilg.com/serverless-maps-for-fun-and-profit
Have I Been Pwned Employee 1.0: Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson
Just remember...Attempt no landing in Europa.
We are living in the internet era.

I think one can do an engineering job as easily with or without a degree.

I think attending college may have value in terms of social life.

I think degrees are used today as a mean to filter job candidates in the absence of better ways to assess candidates. So degrees are inflationary in the sense that if everyone had X degrees, jobs would require X+1 degrees as they have to filter out candidates if they are saturated with applications.
Half of the world’s largest companies have committed to net zero. Maybe there is more nuance than you are describing?
https://zerotracker.net/analysis/new-analysis-half-of-worlds...