skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing clean sheet designs to legacy bug-patched, security-focused implementations is pretty common for early-days Rustaceans. Most of the touted simplicity and compile speed is lost now that all the easy problems have been solved by an over-general crate that solves way more than you need it to. The language isn't going to save you from ecosystem bloat, and it isn't going to magically handle all security problems, especially those that occur at design time not compile or runtime.

But for those who want to get a handle on how rust might be used for something other than yet another crypto project or a toy webasm app, TFA is exactly what the doctor ordered.
“Proactively” scheduling 1:1s with juniors is, frankly, the bare minimum. It’s just doing your job. If you think that this solves the problem, you are bad at your job.
That’s a shockingly high latency for a major city! Getting 3ms to google.com here, big city in the Netherlands. Probably close to a data center.
Is this the same argument you proffer every time clickbait language is used?
This would extrapolate to it being a shit situation in general. Attributing WFH as a causal factor is hard, given your description.
What is "a crime linked to money laundering"? Was she convicted just of money laundering or had additional charges?

She claimed that she mined the Bitcoin. Did the prosecution find that she obtained it another way? If so which way?
that might very well be happening though
The accusations are all about money laundering, but is there any information about where the money/bitcoin actually came from?
When I was younger I spent a lot of time oscillating between various hobbies, and trying out new things. I got a lot of joy from exploring new experiences and following my passions.

As I've aged, I've become much more interested in doing a few things well. This has necessarily meant reducing the number of hobbies I engage with.

I believe that finding balance is the single hardest task in life, and I don't think you're alone in struggling to find balance. I would encourage you to follow as many interests as is feasible without compromising your health or wellbeing, until (and if) you decide to narrow your interests in the future.
Is the advantage of 'close collaboration' worth the disadvantage of working in a glorified sweatshop? Give me an office and I'll come to the office.
I'll take the controversial position and say that RTO (with a semi-flexible hybrid option for sudden appointments) is the best outcome.

Some context; during the pandemic, everyone suddenly had to do WFH, including uni studies. In my case, I did both an internship and my studies, so my main exposure to WFH is through this lens. WFH as a mandate policy ended when I got an actual job.

The main concerns when it comes to WFH I experienced are as follows:

1. Lack of commute means no hard checks on work-life separation. Commute sucks. It's also a period for your brain to turn off any association you still have with work, a period in which you're unreachable by anyone and in general helps you vent off the day's stress. It's also way too easy to overwork yourself without commute when you don't have to go home on time. With commute, there's a clear endpoint because the next bus is otherwise in an hour.

2. Complete collapse of social interactions. "Get friends" isn't so easy when most third spaces are unavailable (amped up by COVID as a "worst scenario" since they had to close, but they're declining on the whole), you've got introverted tendencies and in general your culture is becoming much more distant in terms of the barrier between "acquainted" and "friend" with casual interactions. Most people get their social interactions in a day from work and unless you're either living with family or friends, WFH won't change that. It just makes people depressed from what I can tell, something which statistics back up (although people who are hard on WFH usually try to blame this on other worldly ills, post-COVID measured a notable spike in mental issues and one that's somewhat settling now that RTO is a thing).

3. Productivity collapse and lack of oversight. Lack of oversight if you have a job with clear requirements, clear goals and clear means to achieve it is great. It completely fucking sucks if you're a junior or need to actively test and check up with other people in the office to see if something fits to desired spec/need to talk about why something doesn't logically fit spec. Email, Slack and Teams have a degree of formality in them that a simple "hey, can you look at this for a sec" when someone walks past your desk doesn't have. Especially during my internship, I noticed this problem as the lack of oversight kinda started to spin out of control after a while due to changing bosses and mediocre rapport with other employees at the company. Never unsolvable, but absolutely not good and I do have concerns with how well training up juniors into seniors (a basic part of career growth as you become experienced with the ins and outs of your job and learn what works) is going to go when direct interactions with seniors (who can rapidly answer institutional knowledge questions or know the "core tools" from the back of their head) are as low as they are with WFH.
I am saying most extremely powerful people (CEO of OpenAI is what top 0.0001%) are assholes; qualifying it with "a bit of" is a win.
Why do you discount Gaudi 3? It looks like a very strong offering.
That intersection should be an overhead pass.
> Interesting strategy. As employee leave is used, this won't cost the union a dime in strike payouts.

> Is it really a strike at that point?

IMHO, yes. A strike is about coordinated employee action to to disrupt employer operations. How strikers get paid while doing it is totally irrelevant.

> The company can just revoke leave in the future and call the bluff. Then they'll have to take unpaid leave and risk their jobs for real.

Which would be a massively shitty move on the company's part, and likely to motivate more employees to join the union. After all, getting all your leave canceled is a pretty material reduction in working conditions. Literally, "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
> I can advise until I am blue in the face but the reality is that at least 90% of all my clients want the quickest and cheapest option, resulting in me barely even scratching the surface of my technical abilities.

Until more client gets burned with a cheap option that becomes expensive to maintain they won't care. Many clients (across the whole industry, I don't know your clients which could be very different from average) will not get burned as most problems will never get that complex. However most clients have a lot of small problems that are quick to solve meaning that most developers spend their time on the small minority of clients that have complex problems where this matters.
> So much simping for neofeudalism

Nothing could be less true of my philsophies and my hoped outcomes for the work I've utterly exhausted myself doing for over a decade.

> the rich are showered with cash

This is the giveaway of your own ideological animus. What does this even mean in any real context?

Even if anybody's true priority was for the rich to be as enriched as possible, any half-sentient politician, economist or rich person knows that the rich can only become richer if ordinary people have enough money to buy stuff from them, so, nobody benefits from impoverishment of the masses. Without that recognition, there's no hope of a sensible discussion about the topic of what economic approach will actually deliver outcomes that are the most efficient and fair.
Samsung has 0.1 million employees in SK out of a population of 52 million. It’s big, but that also makes it more difficult for them to replace people who quit.
Just a warning, that the very latest edition of this book is a complete rewrite for WinRT and Windows 8. It’s still a great book, but you’ll probably want the previous edition to learn how to code traditional Win32 programs.
Student wins top MIT prize for smart walker in bid to help his great-grandmother
Even putting 50db of sound in the opposite direction might help take something from the volume of a nightclub to the volume of a refrigerator [1]. Not perfectly muting it, but perhaps good enough for many scenarios.

Disclaimer - I also have no technical experience of sound

[1] Going by the sounds levels in this post: https://lexiehearing.com/us/library/decibel-examples-noise-l...
> for those who happen to live in an environment that allows them to commute by foot or by bicycle, working in the office is already much more appealing than for others

I take the bus, but otherwise yeah, agreed. I hate WFH, so I choose to go in every day even though my company doesn't require any office time. I love my time on the bus, gives me a short walk to & from the bus stop, and 45 minutes each way to be offline and read books.

On the other hand, if I had to drive, I'd go insane. Driving for a commute is awful.
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Show HN: Simple and affordable AI video generation
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And the irony is that, in developed nations, almost all of the air pollution in a city comes from cars.
Cool. So for you the smell of hops brewing might bring a sense of nostalgia connected to school.
> Linux with HiDPI, is such a chore

There's a simple broad-spectrum fix for that. For the odd occasion I want to view high definition photos in Linux I just switch screen mode temporarily, for the rest it is sooo not worth the hassle
Just click on the 'regenerate result' button a few times and see what happens before you change the prompt. That's all it takes.

It's an easy adjustment to workflows that people often either forget to do or don't realise they should be doing.

Sorry; I'm not trying to criticize; I'm just telling you that's how it works.
OP said they didn't want tricks from their LLM. Using a calculator, like we do, is technically a trick.
How a Sea of Nodes Compiler Works [video]
Seems simply stated and correct to me. Nigel Tao expresses the same idea this way

> Software has a Peter Principle. If a piece of code is comprehensible, someone will extend it, so they can apply it to their own problem. If it’s incomprehensible, they’ll write their own code instead. Code tends to be extended to its level of incomprehensibility.
MuckRock SCOTUS Amicus Brief: Requesting information is not a crime
This is the best answer.

Windows Internals is a great book/reference for understanding how Windows work, but it won't teach you how to actually program Windows.

The Fifth Edition of Petzold's book will actually take you through the Win32 API, which is still usable even on modern Windows platforms.
Ghidra is a monster from the Godzilla movies. I don't know if it's some Japanese version of "Hydra".
> You can't just go "QM has many surprising aspects" to "this other theory also has surprising aspects, it's probably true".

I didn't say it's probably true because of this argument, you're saying it's probably false because it seems magical, and that's the implication I'm disputing with that analogy.

I do think it's plausible that noise could be correlated for the reasons I specified, but not because of the "magical" analogy.
It also creates new opportunities for employees who enjoy or don't mind working from an office that may not have otherwise been available.
(Nothing here is to cast aspersions to France or the French whom Im rather fond of)

Again, English words for dirt, e.g. land, can be used for the exact same meaning. The word terroir is not elusive; rather this is just another case of upper class English speakers fetishizing French culture mixed with French cultural conceit all too eager to oblige.

Italians have the exact same concept of "terra" when they explain why a little village in Umbria makes the best prosciutto (it hits the best humidity level allowing for optimal drying rate). Or why not all the land in Montalcino bear the same quality wine (mostly due to the quality of the amount of sun/shade)

And the Spaniards have the same concept with their "Tierra", including to describe people's attitude from those regions (just go to Euskal Herria)

In fact, your entire message is basically the definition of the EU's DOC.

The idea that terroir is an elusive French concept is also incredibly Eurocentric. Im European (origin) so I only have European examples; but do you really think that advanced civilizations like the Chinese or Japanese don't have the exact same concept as "terroir"?
Such a tough situation to find yourself in the center of. Perhaps the first thing to acknowledge is there is no easy answer. Regardless of what you choose it may feel as if you're "giving up a bit of yourself" which sucks. However, the good news is life is long so there's always an opportunity to come back to things down the road.

Secondly however I'd suggest spending a bit of time getting crystal clear on what values drive your life right now. Identifying the top few can give you a chance to cross reference the "200 interest" and start settling in on the ones that truly satisfy your core values.

While again this might not take away the "sting" of putting interests on pause, it will allow you to feel completely fulfilled with the interests you do decide to act on. VIA character strengths is long but a great resource out of the UPENN positive psych department. Link below.

https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/resources/questionnaires-researche...
This is like the first panel on a galaxy brain meme. I can just as easily say that it’s absurd that you demand to only be communicated with through a bloody webcam that you won’t turn on half the time. Don’t play the one-sided victim card. If you can’t find it within yourself to see things from another perspective enough to get out of the mindset of you being the only one that’s hard done by, don’t bother contributing to the conversation.
What the Heck's a Game Dad?
Mick "the Dig" Worthington who was the resident excavation supervisor on Time Team, went on to become an dendrochronologist and has built a series of base chronologies for the East Coast of America stretching from Maine down to Georgia:

https://arch.umd.edu/people/michael-worthington
What format? The entire data table in one image, or a PDF for example printed off with 8 pages where the user choose to only put the header on the first page etc? Or decent formatting, font size 8+ on an image with decent resolution? With the latter you are probably fine although you will need some manual implementation for parsing the output. You get bounding boxes at word level. One thing if I started nowadays I would do is use basic columns (x coordinates) to add '|' inbetween the outputs(including detecting empty span positions), keep items with similarish y coordinates together on lines, and put it into ChatGPT to format as desired, I suspect this would avoid misreading.

I would say PaddleOCR is good in general for tables - it's much better (in terms of recall rate) at recognising numerical digits / symbols than Tesseract although I notice it often misrecognises "l" in "Lullaby/ml/million" etc as "1" sometimes.

The cloud providers have better table extraction iff you can guarantee the same format each time for the document.
> it can benefit within weeks.

But if I spend a month refactoring and only get a weeks worth a benefit before the project is scrapped it wasn't worth it. If I get a month back before the project is scrapped it wasn't worth it (I could have been working on something else instead). Unless/until we know how to quantify how much gain will be got back, and how long it will take to get that gain back and so we cannot do a proper economic analysis if it is worth it - but that is what we need.
Since you mentioned Robinhood: What impact have they had? Are their users better for using Robinhood?
Intuit's TurboTax Lost 1M Free Users This Tax Season
My guess is that Canada, like the ECB, are also influenced by the FEDs rates because, you know, FX.
The term natural right since ancient times was a religious construct that has little or nothing to do with the modern, post-Renaissance understanding of the term, so tracing a lineage here is a definitional error. In any case, what a natural right is isn't (and cannot be) a well established term, and indeed the rise in atheism is a fundamental threat to the doctrine, as most all ideas of natural law have to rely on a God to avoid the naturalistic fallacy.
> Should we surprise if the monkey types any proper one-page English essay? Yes.

You can’t exclude non English languages being you would still be surprised if it was in Spanish etc. If your test is if anything surprising happens, then you must consider every possibility that you would find surprising.

Also, this isn’t some mathematically perfect shape it’s a points in a clump that we’re classifying as a shape.

As such a monkey typing someone vaguely like a proper one-page essay in any language or encoding would still be surprising, but is probably 10^1,000 or so times more likely than any specific sequence.
> Thus price is no longer determined purely by the market supply/demand of the good, but also profit margin of the monopolist.

In fact, the price is "purely determined" by supply/demand in the scenario you gave. The monopolist is using their monopoly position to create artificial scarcity, thus driving up prices. This is consistent with the law of supply and demand.

> would that indicate the world has a water shortage?

Impossible to say without more information. What is happening around the 2L for sale? Are you rejecting the sale based on price (i.e. preventing price from rising), instead selecting who gets it using some non-priced-based mechanism, such as a lottery or first-come, first-served? If yes, then that indicates that there is a shortage. If it is sold using a price-based mechanism, then clearly not. That is a "normally functioning" market.

Once the water is all used up and there is no remaining water supply, where no amount of money can buy more (i.e. preventing from rising), then perhaps you might say that there is a shortage. However, in the real world, absent of some other factor (e.g. price gouging laws), price will keep rising until you are compelled to make more of that water available, so that still wouldn't be a shortage situation.
Besides the great learning resources at MSDN, the Windows Internals series is a requirement.

Then depending on which area of Windows you want to focus on, there are plenty of Microsoft Press books.
Well played…
I’m not sure what your personal situation is, but for most people in the real world, being able to be a certain degree of productive at work is a mandatory part ensuring that they can, say, pay their mortgage, or many of the other things that comprise or sustain the “life” part of work-life balance.
That's an early step that matters more when hitting chat with hidden temperature. Once you get a prompt dialed in you usually want to lower the temperature to the minimum value that still produces the desired results.
If I'm reading you correctly you're saying there's an industrial grade application with a UI that routinely shows up to 80000 attributes to a user, or at least needs that information for client-side processing. Setting aside whether that's justified for this particular use case, do you think that's a common use case in let's say consumer grade web and mobile applications?
I’ve done a similar thing with the added benefit of also living in a walkable neighborhood (can walk to my doctors, theater, cafes, bars, gym, grocery store).

I really wish these neighborhoods weren’t so expensive because they are very desirable.
Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project
Uranium isn't the issue. A long half-life means that it's only mildly radioactive. Prior to being irradiated in a reactor, fuel rods can be manually handled safely. The majority of radiation being emitted currently is coming from fission products like Sr-90 and Cs-137 that have half-lives of decades.
Sky has more background https://news.sky.com/story/bitcoin-worth-1-4bn-seized-after-...
Ghana (Chocolate Bar)
America's Best Decade, According to Data
Spoiler: It depends on when you were born.

(archive link: https://archive.ph/8uuIP)
Great, try it some day.
Google was also technically better when it released and importantly there was no way to buy ones way to the top.

Back then I think people mostly agreed that the results that ranked on top in Google generally were there because of criteria that benefited the end user.

I mean, even as crazy as Google results has been the last few years they have still managed to be better than Bing and DDG who both manages to have worse ranking and also like Google completely ignore my doublequotes.
And this was one of the hopes/goals/dreams that crypto offered that I really wish had come true.
Sweet, but long road to register "Ghana" on chocolates produced in Japan
Based on the article linked below, it seems that the money come from criminal activity:

> Wen tried to buy a string of expensive houses in London, but struggled to pass money-laundering checks and her claims she had earned millions legitimately mining Bitcoin were not believed.

> CPS chief crown prosecutor [..] said [...] cryptocurrencies "are increasingly being used by organised criminals to disguise and transfer assets [...]".

which is indeed money laundering, not tax evasion.
Did we learn anything from Microservices? [video]
There are 100 cents to a semitone - by definition. The frequency shift of a 25 to 40 cent adjustment isn't likely going to be noticed by the average listener. A lot of times you don't notice it until you try to play guitar along with the song and you notice something is a little "off."

In can drive you nuts when you're playing by ear because when trying to find the root note, i.e. the key, you'll find it between two semitones. Always go for the lower tone. For example, if it sounds like it's a little sharper than A, but it's definitely not Bb, then you know it was A and the mastering was sped up. That's another thing, in my experience it's always sped up and never slowed down.

I have a theory that one of the reasons Eb standard guitar tuning started becoming so popular in the late 60s and into the 70s was because the speed up was getting to be so common that guitar players started adjusting their tuning for it, not to mention you generally get a "heavier" sound.
I WFH in a small studio apartment where I have two separate spaces for work and for personal stuff. Shutting off from work for the weekend is as simple as turning off my work computer, covering it up and going about my day as normal.

You definitely do not need a separate office space. It helps, but what's key is properly setting your own mental boundaries.
My dad just got hearing aids (US) about 3 weeks ago. They cost him $1600 with no insurance coverage.
> You don't have to like this state of affairs,

This attitude is part of why I have given up on Java – despite having spent so much of my career on it – and nowadays avoid it as much as I can. In my own mind it is a legacy language - if I have some existing code base in Java, extending/enhancing it might be the path of least resistance, but for a greenfield project it would be far from my first choice.
With a caveat, even though most of us have stop caring about WinRT stuff, that is still how some APIs in Windows 11 are now being made available, with the difference of still being WinRT, without the UWP infrastructure around it.

Example, the new MIDI subsystem, https://github.com/microsoft/midi