skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a dishwasher “was the first time I went home proud of myself after a day's work.”

I can relate, I spent a high-school summer dishwashing at a hotel, pretty much my first full-time job, and learned what hard work and long hours actually meant - 6:00 (breakfast) - 24:00 or sometimes later, albeit with breaks between serving times.

Any reasonably-sized restaurant needs a dishwashing machine of some kind though, eg a conveyor - I don't see anything in those photos.
What standard of housing, food, etc? The linked MIT project uses a bunch of median- or near-median costs; it's obviously not reasonable to call 40th-percentile housing costs the basic standard of living, when 40% of the population in fact manage to get by paying less. There are similar objections for other components of their index, such as transportation costs and "civic participation", which appear to take median expenditure in these categories.
Have you tried schemaspy?
Kinda interesting. But the actual research result is seems to be:

There are two sub-varieties of human beige fat cells, both of which convert body fat into heat. The newly-discovered sub-variety uses a different biochemical pathway for that conversion. Both sub-varieties seem quite beneficial for those humans who are at higher risk from obesity-related disorders than from starvation.

The "could lead to better health" part is pure SciFi. Maybe some good drugs could be developed to fire up this new sub-variety's activity. But more likely not.
A third party vendor for the Kotlin language? Kotlin has replaced Java as C#'s largest competitor, so that's what we should be comparing against.
The "standard Canadian accent" is pretty close to the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota dialects -- sometimes called North-Central American English. Nowhere else in America really talks like that, though, and no one would call it the standard accent. I would say less than 4% of Americans speak with that accent.

Midland American English is what we would call the standard American accent. Most of Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and parts of surrounding states speak in this.
By 'all accidents' I was referring to industrial accident. I should have specified, please excuse me.

May 'Act of God' qualify an industrial accident?

Even in such a case (asteroid falling on a nuclear plant?) there is a pertinent comparison: if the very same cause (asteroid?) falls on a field of wind turbines or solar panels the net effect will no be a disaster. Therefore the cause for a major nuclear accident is the sheer human decision to build a nuclear plant instead of wind turbines or solar panels.

> the powerplant was designed to withstand a certain height of tsunami

Human error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant#20...

> the tsunami also killed 20,000 people
> no one talks about it

'Act of God'...

The evacuation triggered by the nuclear accident made more than 2,200 victims.

> This entire hand-wringing about how no-one should die from nuclear feel disingenuous

This is a way (granted: inelegant) to state that the effect of the worst possible accident triggered by renewable sources is less daunting than its nuclear counterpart, underlining a reason to prefer renewable sources.

> We could have had zero-carbon grid 50 years ago, in the 70’s

Nope. Nuclear never produced (worldwide) more than ~17% of the electricity and now produces about 9% of it ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source ) and there is just enough known exploitable (at current conditions) uranium to feed existing reactors for approximately 130 years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Peak_uranium ). With ~10 times more reactors about 40 years ago we would be in a severe crisis or even stuck. At the time experts knew it (since the 1950's) and planned to industrialize breeder reactors (dividing the need for uranium by about 2 orders of magnitude), but it failed.

> just like France

Nope. France never enjoyed a zero-carbon grid: each year between 6% and 12% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuel ( https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?Metric=Share+of+... ) because exploiting enough reactors to cope with the mandatory load-following and also with the peak load would be way to expensive.

> Now millions of people will be displaced or dead by climate change and that could have been prevented

Nope. You are confusing 'electricity' with 'energy consumed'.

Even in France about fossil fuels produce ~48% ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?c... ).

Right now nuclear produces less than 4% ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub ).
Decade? I regret staying in my first job for two years instead of one.
Anyone have reliable numbers on the file sizes here? Doom.exe from my searches was around 715k, and with all assets somewhere around 10MB. It looks like the SD 1.4 files are over 2GB, so it's likely we're looking at a 200-2000x increase in file size depending on if you think of this as an 'engine' or the full game.
>>What's wrong with the current approach of posting a link to the duplicate?

Simple. The user's problem is not solved. The whole point of StackOverflow was to help people get answers to their questions.

If you fail at this, you lose your relevance.

>>Users with 3000+ reputations (so not only what many people percieve as sort of barons on stackoverflow) can vote to reopen. And three votes are enough to reopen a question.

You don't have to under go these rituals in front of LLMs just to get your problem solved.

Even until now, StackOverflow had no competition, so it didn't matter. Now that there are alternatives. People won't put up with user hostile experience.
PS: careful with the FAFO factor, your appetite for adventure might force your aversion to risk into a humiliating submission. A tip for satisfying that appetite is to invest some of the time of that great work/life balance into more work by having a side project you can monetize alone or with business partners. If it fails you're safe and if it works, then you're golden.
The lineup looks lit!
sounds like you made what most ppl seek and probably grown enough as an engineer as to invest more in yourself. like pickup new 'hobbies' or meet interesting ppl
People buy dma cards and displayport/hdmi mergers to avoid hack detection. Another pc reads memory of your gaming machine through the dma card that creates your ESP overlay and then dp/hdmi is merged through a box. The dma card runs custom firmware that pretends to be some benign peripheral like an usb or soundcard.

https://captaindma.com/shop/

There's also hardware aimbot/triggerbot that reads your video output then sends input to a device connected to your mouse.

Its not what your everyday cheater has in free to play games like cs or cod but there are games where it matters more if you're banned, and when cheat subscriptions can be $100-200 a month the hardware cost isn't much.
I've been using it for quite a few years, works great. My only complaints are tiny nitpicks.
I really wanted us to pull back away from tipping culture (to just paying more fairly), but an exemption on tax income is only going to make tipping culture much more pervasive. We already don’t have a sub min here in Washington state, and then we have tips asked for at self service kiosks, when will it end? Now I’ll be expected to tip my car mechanic also?
There isn’t enough time for a random walk evolution to result in the structure we see. It’s more complicated than that.

It seems the universe in the form of humans was meant to contemplate itself.
If you have soap residue:

- Try running the dishwasher a second time with no soap, or on a rinse cycle

- If you use soap pods, try putting it not in the soap tray, but directly in with the dishes. [0]

[0] This video (starting at 11:40) explains how soap is used in a dishwasher. This guy (who has an excellent channel) gives tips to maximize soap exposure in your dishwasher, but you can do the opposite to minimize it instead. If you have a good machine, your dishes might still come out clean.

https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0?si=E1a5kRoc3o7HiVCb&t=702
I was once contacted by FinalSpark where they offered free early remote access to use their biocomputing platform. The platform is accessible remotely and allows experiments on neurospheres made from living cells, sitting in an incubator, in their lab, in Vevey, Switzerland. A neurosphere is a round structure build out of approximately 10’000 neurons, connected to electrodes in different places. The platform uses python scripts to communicate with the neuron allowing for various functionalities, such as: Stimulate living neurons, Read data from neurons, Log all the data in a database, and Display graphically the results of experiments for further analysis.

I was too busy to come up with a clear project idea that could beat alreadty existing stuff such as neurons playing Doom [0] (not related to FinalSpark). Still waiting for someone to show something cool using this platform.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
> What are some real world apps using CRDTs that have really good experiences?

Google Wave and Google Doc's use CRDTs.

There's a fun blog post or two on how an academic paper completely botched it's benchmarks on the underlying algorithms by putting together a piss-poor implementation of Google Wave's algorithm and proceeding to claim the algorithm itself sucked even though the piss-poor implementation was such a mess it outperformed everything from every angle..
Show HN: ESP32-S3 PowerFeather – low power, lipo/li-ion and solar dev board
A few months ago, I launched an ESP32 dev board I designed & developed. It's called the ESP32-S3 PowerFeather, and it's focused towards low-power, lipo/li-ion & solar powered projects.
It uses the I2C-controllable Texas Instruments BQ25628E as the charger IC, and has an on-board Onsemi LC709204F battery fuel gauge, giving users tons of power management and monitoring capabilities. I've provided an open-source helper library, called PowerFeather-SDK, to help users use these power-related capabilities. It's compatible with both Arduino and ESP-IDF:

https://github.com/PowerFeather/powerfeather-sdk

I've created a demo app for the board and SDK, and wrote about it on Hackster.io:

https://www.hackster.io/powerfeatherdev/esp32-s3-powerfeathe...

There is also further documentation on:

https://docs.powerfeather.dev/

Please do check it out and let me know what you think.
Hi, what does wine use mono for? Is it to support full fat .Net? Interesting post btw, thanks :)
Extremely difficult, but more likely than artificial meat, it isn't so much the life support system as the constant contamination and lack of immune system that kills in vitro neuron cultures.

It is much more efficient to use in vivo neurons since they come with an immune system attached and work just as well for leaning tasks.
Every next company hires you for your particular expertise that you are able to apply from day one. None of them are interested to invest in your growth. You do it on your personal time.
Not if you're serving tens of thousands of users at the same time.
Unless you’re very lucky - typically it is not a smart choice to stay longer than 2-4 years at 1 tech company. In current situation.

People who stay longer only encourage employers to keep old salaries as is while buying new workforce for the market price.
“… but I’m starting to be concerned that I’m not growing as an engineer.“

What are you looking to grow into?
What is growth to you?

What’s your general outlook around what you hope to get out of this?
> Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform.

Even political content?

When I visit Reddit's Popular page it's pretty obvious which party and candidates they are pushing.
Telegram Founder Was in Russia When App's Ban Lifted
TLDR: Pavel Durov, Telegram founder, visited Russia 50+ times since 2014 "emigration". Data from leaked FSB border-crossing database reveals frequent trips, including right after Telegram's unblocking in 2020. Raises questions about his relationship with Russian authorities despite public opposition.
> Yeah I'd wait for her to specifically say that before you sell your unrealized gains in a panic and flee the country

Good luck getting it out of her anytime before the elections. If anything, she is going more socialist (more extreme left).
I don't think you have reason to be concerned. I concur with the comment about growing as an engineer as a hobby, but you're living the dream.

I stayed at a job too long but was in a different industry and making 59k in a high COL area and I was living in pest infested shithole. When I got laid off I pivoted to computer science. I don't regret staying because I am where I am now as a result - but I do regret not being able to leave on my own terms.
someone could certainly pick up https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix and finish it.
I think you misunderstand me. I don't mean a snap evaluation and deciding between two very-short competing videos which is what the participants were doing. I mean doing an actual analysis of how well the simulation matches the ground truth of the game.

What I'd posit is that it's not actually a very good replication of the game but very good a replicating short clips that almost look like the game and the short time horizons are deliberately chosen because the authors know the model lacks coherence beyond that.
This sounds amazing! Can you explain how semantic targeting works?
Reminds me of Dishwasher Pete -

Professional Dish-Washer Shares Tales From the Pit [2007]
https://www.npr.org/2007/06/12/10991537/professional-dish-wa...

Dish Out Of Water
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-two-17

Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States [book]
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060896426?ie=UTF8&tag=thi...
[EN] https://storage.googleapis.com/istories/en/news/2024/08/27/p...
The taste is usually the Rinsing Aid, aka Drying Agent, not the detergent. It's an additional chemical is sprayed on the dishes towards the end of the cycle, to aid drying without creating spots. The chemical remains on the dishes.
HN replaces the www domain with old.reddit.com automatically. I can't access the page, but https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/1f2mavh/i_made_... works
I actually came back to a place that I used to work at before taking a year long “break” to work on some freelance stuff (and moving to the city etc.), I regret it.

I got to work on some new things and met some new colleagues which was nice, but returning to a heavily abstracted monolith and a DB schema that doesn’t spark joy makes me want to do literally anything else. The people are nice and thankfully it isn’t a toxic work environment, but there are definitely disagreements and practices that I don’t agree with and that won’t change due to any changes just introducing more inconsistency into said platform.

Working on it tanks my velocity, which also tanks my morale, when trivial changes take hours and I’m never sure whether things will work the way I hope. I hate the type of project.

That said, it’s less about a particular workplace and more about greenfield vs brownfield projects, I bet some people thrive on maintenance projects, but I’d at least want to maintain a project started in the last 5 years or so, or at least something tastefully divided into multiple separate modules that don’t make my CPU hit 97C when compiling it and trying to run it locally. Oh and a DB that I can run locally in a container, ideally with data seeding from day one, being able to do that with projects that use PostgreSQL does spark joy and I can test possibly breaking migrations as much as I want.
It's an empirical question, right? But they didn't do it...
They include the entire .net framework?
There's also enemy motion, enemy attacks, shooting, and UI considerations, which make the combinatorials explode.

And Doom movement isn't tile based. The map may be, but you can be in many many places on a tile.
Speaking of Serbia, it's interesting that Macron is about to spend 2 days there, officially for the matters of selling fighter aircraft, nuclear reactors, and something about «AI»...

Now, of course that this happens just after the arrest of Durov might just be a coincidence, but you would also think that Macron might want to try to postpone that visit, especially considering the heating up political situation at home :

After Macron dissolved the assembly after very bad for his party European elections, the Left bloc won the legislative elections... but then Macron, after nearly 2 months, just declared that he refused the prime minister they selected, leading to an obviously pissed off Left bloc, most of which is calling for manifestations, and its leading party - basically starting an impeachment procedure against Macron !
UK quantum firm Oxford Ionics opens first overseas outpost in Boulder
Feedly paid-for plan. Just works in both browser and Android versions.
the overall context (yes, the question was
answered in 2009 with "use jQuery". No, that's
not the answer in 2024

This is the crux of SO's problem. At scale, it's just an impossible task for the moderators to parse out this sort of context since the problem space (the number of potential dupes) is massive and getting larger every day.

At a minimum, for that problem to be overcome, IMO there would need to be a lot of metadata associated with each question so that moderators could make faster and more accurate judgement calls regarding the question of, "is question A a dupe of question B? are question B's answers still relevant?"

This seems like an issue where LLMs could actually be of some assistance. In my experience ChatGPT has been pretty good about understanding that sort of change over time and which solutions are deprecated. I wouldn't want LLMs making the decisions outright, but I could see them being a valuable assist for human moderators.
> I’m starting to be concerned that I’m not growing as an engineer

In general, to keep your mind healthy, it is recommended to continously challenge yourself and learn.

You could do this outside of work hours. Is that an option for you?
> local/decentralised energy

When it comes to gridpower working at continental-level is, and for quite a while, the best way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Network_of_Transmissi...

> relies on countries at both ends wanting the interconnection

Exactly as, right now, each and every country in the continental grid sometimes starts a production unit in order to help a neighbor in need. Everyone gains by playing according to this rule.

> taking their hydro energy

Because, right now, the system is far from being complete: not enough production units deployed on the continent, interconnections, lines, storage... This transition, a huge ordeal, is in progress.
true, the type of packet does not really matter.

my apologies if this misconstrued my point about the lacking quality of the article.
Well, there's no time like the present. What's stopping you from switching right now? If I didn't want to not have to fuss around with games I'd have already made the switch myself.
Misleading Titles Are Everywhere These Days.
Whatever tech is used, it'll need to be something really fancy (as in new, fancy laws of physics being bent in fancy ways) to make near light-speed travel feasible.

Even Alcubierre-White warp drives would create interesting problems because compressing spacetime in front of the ship would heat up whatever matter is there.

Unless something miraculous happens, I don't think we'll live to see these problems in real life, but, if we do, it'll be fun to work in solving them.
MFA Removal: Juggling Security and User Experience
Yes, stayed in the same place for 6 years, for no discernible reason other than I thought my opportunity was going to come, it never came, there were multiple changes in leadership and in the end the group i was in was dismantled and I could have been laid off (there were large layoffs just a couple weeks after I left).

So I'd definitely recommend staying sharp, looking at the market and moving when you think there isn't space for you to grow or change. Don't let your career stagnate with the business.
I mean, two people contending over one piece of state is never going to be a good experience. Thankfully this is mostly not useful in the first place.
Same!

I’m basically a sysadmin with limited programming language skills other than pretty good with ansible/chef and can just usually figure stuff out, but not a coder or SRE-level by any means.

Even the cursor/Claude free plan combo is incredibly impressive, and if you are patient and provide good and reasonable prompts, I’ve been incredibly happy, even astounded with what I’ve been able to accomplish so far with a Python Flask web app I’ve been working on. I feel like that given my current Python skill-level (quite low), it would have taken me a few weeks (at the very least), to accomplish what I’ve done in one day with my Flask side project on the Cursor/Claude free plan. It’s kind of mind-blowing actually.
love it, but it doesn't (yet) handle editing huge tables with 100+ columns where the scroll bar jumps around a ton while trying to type. 100% going to be watching this project, and building smaller things with it
LOL That's amazing! I'm stealing that for my next open source project.
That is the analogy unlike to use when people are blinded by “progress”. Sometimes you need to turn around or step on the breaks.

I have no issues with Linux for productivity, but gaming is still an issue. :-/
>If the job is unskilled (i.e. you can train the next person to do it in less than one hour) and you have several people standing in line to take it if the person doing it, quits; then the current wage is clearly enough.

Enough for whom and for what?

For a society with slavery, absolutely. Also for a GULAG.

If that's the environment you want to live in, North Korea is the best country! Everyone is getting wages that are enough.

>It is just like the price of the meal. If it costs more than people are willing to pay, then it is too expensive; regardless of what you personally think it should cost

Yes, meals that people can't afford are too expensive regardless of what you personally think it should cost.

And wages that don't support living are too low regardless of what you personally think is enough.
HN discussion on the english version of the article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368772
People who want to learn how ISP networks work can go and join DN42, a LARPing copy of the Internet.
The article was 2017 - so an inflation correction might apply. (post title should reflect)
I'll have you know my pirated Windows 10 LSTC Enterprise for Internet connected Japanese e-toilets is supported until 2032.
Figma and Code from Day 0
Thousands of different people have been speculating about this kind of thing for years.
what in the absolute geebus
All this to...train a model? Having worked with automakers that agonize over pennies on a component how does Tesla amortize this much expense, if they even achieve full self-driving at all?
Yet? It’s always awkward at the end of the school year when we are asked to prepare gifts for the teachers. Like, how do you do that without it appearing as a bribe/entitlement?
Absolutely. I wasted 6 years writing C++ and being miserable.
My advice: ride it out until something truly better/objectionable comes up. Growth is probably not best found at work, anyway.

I was in a similar position and left. I don't regret it, but I also didn't have a good balance. That place turned me entirely sour, I regret not leaving or addressing the building resentment earlier.

Now I don't have the social capital I had. I have to pass all these little interpersonal tests all over again, and I have no spoons.