skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wanted to see how a database management system (DBMS) stores an index in both disk and memory, and how it searches through an Index...I chose SQLite for my experiments

SQLite is a bit of an outlier in how it handles...everything, but even more so in query processing. SQLite tends to favor simplicity over performance, which causes it to implement things differently than every other DB I've worked with. You have to understand - SQLite isn't competing with other databases. It's competing with JSON and XML files for persistent storage. This means that how it implements anything tells you practically nothing about how a real database would do something.
> From my experience there are relatively few women who really get in the trenches.

have you ever heard of the word "bias"?

> Staring at logs in a terminal and sifting through endless YAML not so much.

i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true.

and yes, you sound like a reactionary. coward ass throwaway account.
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
> I always acknowledge ChatGPT in my writing and never cite it.

These are not the uses with which I am familiar—as Fomite says in a sibling comment, I am used to referring to citing personal communications; but, if you are using "cite" to mean only "produce as a reproducible testament to truth," and "source" only as "something that reproducibly demonstrates truth," which is a distinction whose value I can acknowledge making even if it's not the one I am used to, then your argument makes more sense to me.
Thank you for Keras! Working with Tensorflow before Keras was so painful. When I first read the news I was just thinking you would make a great lead for the tools infra at a place like Anthropic, but working on your own thing is even more exciting. Good luck!
Actually, the word “voice” makes one think of mouth and throat associations, so “DeepL Voice” makes a lot of Americans think dirty thoughts for a second as they try to make sense of what the L stands for.

I am sure the branding people have considered this?
To your first point: I've seen accounts not being banned for years doing exactly that intentionally.
He would have to care about the case to bother doing so…
Most of the advice seems to be designed to amplify social anxiety, not ameliorate it.

I mean, most of the "questions" he suggests you ask to keep a conversation going would probably result in trying to stop yourself from stabbing yourself in the hand with a fork to distract yourself from how blisteringly spectacularly boring the answers are going to be, while trying to feign some kind of polite interest in their dismal hobby.

"So you collect stamps? What is your favourite stamp?"

That cracks me up. How is the answer to that not going to be like being chloroformed by boring-ness?
All the waste from this mass consumption is what makes "the globe" unhappy.

How do we solve the "waste" problem?
> but your heat affected zone is bound to be much larger because the only way heat leaves the part is radiation.

Which is the whole point of processes like laser and electron beam welding: minimum heat input to achieve the required penetration. Some parts can be held in your bare hand immediately after welding and they might be warm or hot to the touch. Sure there are parts that are glowing hot but those are usually big, deep welds.

> Also, laser welders (at least terrestrial ones) have a copper tip that you drag across the part which keeps the laser a consistent distance away from the weld.

You are thinking of a cutting head. Welding heads can completely omit a coaxial gas nozzle and use an air knife or nothing if the focal distance is long enough to prevent spatter from hitting the sacrificial cover glass in front of the focal lens.

> When welding thin material on Earth we use copper backing plates to suck heat out of the weld area, that could work in space.

There are methods of radiating heat into space which is likely what will be employed in the tooling and fixturing. Also, if the heat input in minimal and there is enough mass the part heat sinks itself.

I work in an e-beam and laser welding shop and I have built laser welding workstations.
Sorry I followed up to this point - how can this be done?
I didn't know Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to this song. Man, that's gotta sting.

But if I was making a list of Awful, Terrible Songs, I'm not sure I would have even included this one, mostly because I wouldn't remember it existed. Maybe that's what makes it bad--it was in constant rotation in the 80s, but as soon as they stopped playing it regularly I just... forgot it existed.

Looking at various lists of "Worst Songs" always confuses me. A lot of them are just really popular songs that got overplayed. Wikipedia's page says the Spandau Ballet's "True" is one, which is just nuts.
This sounds like an Onion headline.

And to add extra spice, they're actually doing it for a good cause, educating about gun safety in cooperation with nonprofits and the families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Obligatory fuck Alex Jones with a bat with rusty barbed wire. He profited off the misery of murdered kids, this is beyond low.
There isn't really any RISC-V hardware that is fast enough that you'd want to run those big IDEs yet.
>Pascal. Would Steve had went along with that?

I don't see why he couldn't have. It's a far more elegant language and it and other Wirth languages like Oberon have inspired several current programming languages. The standard programming language of the Lisa and Mac was Pascal, and Apple even added object oriented features to it as Clascal (earlier than Wirth's Oberon and not compatible with it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal
Thank you. I'm actually thinking on trying different things that are completely unrelated...
I feel compelled to plug a sculptor I've been a fan of since college: https://www.bathsheba.com/

They have a lot of more or less mathematically inspired metal sculptures for sale, for instance a functioning Klein bottle opener: https://www.bathsheba.com/math/klein/
Ladybird is indeed very interesting. But it's too soon to tell whether it will be successful, and how, if it is, it will get the money to maintain its development in the long term.
Thank you. Solid advice!
It's interesting how much stereotyping is happening in these replies.

The fact is that there's nothing unique about any age group, and the only difference between them is their birth dates. Intragenerational differences are always larger than intergenerational differences. In any age group, there are varying degrees of competence, varying degrees of attitude, varying degrees of personal circumstances (e.g., home, family).

Ageism is treating a person solely as member of a group rather than as an individual. You simply can't accurately generalize based on a job candidate's age. Anyone who claims, "In my experience [members of age group] are mostly like this..." is putting forth weak anecdotal data that is practically useless and totally unscientific.
Reposted later with more luck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135520
That EMs and the C-suite think solving their engineering needs is to add "headcount" is the bigger problem.
Wonderful news. I'm glad their CEO recognizes the great value of CEOs. My only worry is that this acquisition makes Global Tetraeder so large that it attracts the attention of those pesky EU bureaucrats, who will want to split it up into multiple imperfect solids.
The onion has not yet bought the times.
Your perceived truth maybe. The truth you’re looking for to fit your world view.
If you get your two surfaces very very close, sure. The problem is most non-ground metal is going to have a surface finish that is too rough for this to work.

You could squeeze things together, but this depends on part geometry.
Yep. That frequently trips me up.
> This thread is a good reminder not to try to become a Haskell programmer

Many people say the same when they see pro players in their game at the NFL's Super Bowl. Others get excited and pursuit the career.
Or they convict you for money laundry because you developed a crypto phone they can't crack and don't have any legal means to destroy you. ( Dutch example, and yes - the guy payed taxes everything, they made him hang because of a single client of a client his client his client being involved with shady things. )
State-Spite, Repression and such is rising globally. The rule of law is gone.
Yeah, what I wanted to know is how come that Apple has not solved this issue yet, or how their decision-making goes with regarding to adding X and Y instead of fixing this absurd issue.
AI spam
> How many percent is "most" people? What about enterprise users with complex setups/requirements, will they be supported or out-of-luck? Typically you'll have print servers with centralized authentication, possibly logging/auditing/billing, any this might depend on "the" component they'll leave out in the new product because, well, most people don't care about it...

But the old, complex cups doesn't go away if a new, sandboxed version is developed, so the people who want the complexities can evaluate whether the security trade-off is worth it, and use it anyway if so.
God I wish I could contribute to that.
That's actually tied with Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)". Listen carefully and you can hear Yoko Ono screeching incredibly far out of tune as the piece climaxes. It's not in the forefront of the song, but it's there, and it's stuck out so much to me ever since I first noticed it.
Oh absolutely, I've spent hours explaining AI to teachers and most of them do seem to understand, but it takes some high-level elaboration about how it works before it "clicks." Prior to that, they are just humans like the rest of us. They don't read fine print or blogs, they just poke at the tool and when it confidently gives them answers, they tend to anthropomorphize the machine and believe what it is saying. It certainly doesn't help that we've trained generations of people to believe that the computer is always right.

> That detracts from any credibility the teachers have about AI usage!

I love teachers, but they shouldn't have any credibility about AI usage in the first place unless they have gained that in the same way the rest of us do. As authority figures, IMHO they should be held to an even higher standard than the average person because decisions they make have an out-sized impact on another person.
You could add context to DeepL as well as easily, with the "context" parameter of the translation.
Sure but the surfaces have to be perfectly flat to where you measure the roughness in angstroms. Not something you can perform by hand or with mechanical polishing.
Not personally, my company was. Why?
> Ive also heard that China has many more people living in it than the US. Ive also heard that Chinese higher education system is state funded

So? It kinds sounds like you're making an excuse, but excuses don't do anything to address the capability difference caused by the larger number of personnel.
I did coding freelancing for some time now. But i'm thinking on doing consulting working in a completely unrelated thing. At the end of the day, what gives me pleasure is adding value to other folks.
what does 128mb on package dram help with? That seems like it's way to small to suspend to ram or anything.
I was surprised Unreal Tournament didn't get a mention in the article — it's famous for its music! I fondly remember several of its tracks falling within this genre.
When they do I hope it's Infowars that first reports the deal.
I’m in the middle of reading the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. You might find it worth a try.
Pop hit APT too distracting for S Korea's exam-stressed students
Thanks for sharing your insights
PyPI now supports digital attestations
All I can do now is hope and prey that this ends up being the literal dictionary definition of “Poe’s Law”. #goodspeed
daddy cuban's everywhere
It is kind of amazing where the build process is[0][1].

0. https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=riscv64&...

1. https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png
> So the vi fan in my kitchen

The answer is https://www.spacemacs.org/
https://xkcd.com/1865/
Try to get a job in finance, accounting, marketing, law, or other kinds of engineering. 7+ rounds of interviews, weird pop-psych questions, even getting a reply/meeting is a problem ...
"Do They Know It's Christmas" usually makes the lists of terrible Christmas music as well.

So much Christmas music is repetitive, but coloring outside the lines is a tough thing to do with Christmas music. The Pogues nailed it with "Fairytale of New York", but it largely appeals only to GenX and younger.
FWIW, I find the font size (I am on an iPhone) way too large, particularly as there is also important text in the diagrams and that text is much smaller, so while I feel a need to shove my phone away from my face to deal with the overly large body text I then have to keep pulling it back in to feel comfortable reading the diagrams, which feel out of place.
I've read it :) Thanks for the kind suggestion though!
Beautiful.

The poet they sent couldn't have done better.
Sure, I like the C++ interop and agree that it's important. My point was that 99% of Xcode/Swift app developers will never touch it or even know it's a thing.
A lot of things have always been pretty boring. People wanting to be seen were less likely to look boring though, so there's a selection effect there.
Funny concept. Shame that The Onion's writing these days so mid.
I don't have an authoritative source, but I believe RustRover does not use rust-analyzer and has its own engine written in Kotlin instead.
Thanks, that's what I meant. a^nb^n is a standard test of learnability.

That stuff is still absolutely relevant, btw. Some DL people like to dismiss it as irrelevant but that's just because they lack the background to appreciate why it matters. Also: the arrogance of youth (hey I've already been a postdoc for a year, I'm ancient). Here's a recent paper on Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy that tests RNNs and Transformers on formal languages (I think it doesn't test on a^nb^n directly but tests similar a-b based CF languages):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02098

And btw that's a good paper. Probably one of the most satisfying DL papers I've read in recent years. You know when you read a paper and you get this feeling of satiation, like "aaah, that hit the spot"? That's the kind of paper.
There's a good chance this might be down to Apple's constantly changing foundations and the fact that a studio's worth of music software can (especially back then) cost a lot of money to upgrade on top of the new hardware requiring the upgrade in the first place. And that's not going into the case where the company that wrote the software has gone bust.

Given you mentioned G4, there's a good chance they had recent memory of having to upgrade a load of stuff to jump from OS9 to OSX. The Intel architecture change required another upgrade for a lot of software, so it probably made a lot of sense to try and eek more value out of the previous round of purchasing before going again.

Hopefully they delayed enough to not get hit rapidly by the changes in Yosemite, Mojave or Catalina which all necessitated upgrades (IIRC, one might have only been some edge cases) or finally the most recent jump to ARM—which still isn't natively supported by a surprising number of DAW or VST vendors.

On Windows I can run any DAW or VST that's been written since about 2006 natively and can even load up a 32-bit DAW if I want to dust off some ancient project with ancient VSTs that never made the jump to 64-bits.
Sounds par for the course with the Biden administration. Watch what Ben and Marc have to say about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4jWb-0nj44 They talk about how Biden has spent the last four years going beyond the law to destroy all the a16z crypto startups. So it doesn't surprise me that they'd use all their power to go after prediction markets too. I'm really glad I'm not working in upstart finance.
I really can’t imagine a better steward. Truly amazing. I doubt there’s any way to undo all the damage that has been done, but at least we’ll get some cathartic laughs out of it all.
Glad I went on HN today. My grandma has dementia and I've been leaving paper reminders around the house. Maybe I should try something like this. Wishing you and your family the best.
Dunno - X/Twitter, at least at the leadership level, has switched from neutral to MAGA. I find it quite reasonable for him to want to move somewhere more neutral.
> "however, this component in Billing is 100x more difficult than that!"

Simply claiming this does not make it true. Anyway, the original claim was simply that it is not trivial. This is what is known as moving the goalposts, look it up.

> let's be honest, there will be no possible implementation of this

Prefixing some assertion with "let's be honest" does not prove it or even support it in any way. If you don't have any actual supporting arguments, there's nothing to discuss, to be honest.
This has not been my experience. The women I've worked with in software engineering teams have all been, well, engineers. One of them worked on some kind of real-time printer operating system before becoming a Java dev, another one is currently team lead on the cluster team on a distributed software product, another one has the most in-depth knowledge of CSS of anyone in a 50+ people frontend department.

I see a lot of people online complaining about the job market and blaming all kinds of things for their inability to find a job, but I think what has changed is that there are no more defensive hires, where companies like Google hire as many people as possible just to deny their competitors those people. Lots of relatively unqualified people found very high-paying jobs that way and are now surprised that they can't land those jobs anymore.

If you're competent and personable and know your own strengths, you can still find a job relatively easily.

Coincidentally, I was fired during the tech downturn two years ago, and within a few weeks, had three job offers out of three applications. I have a good CV, I applied at local companies that matched my specific expertise, I asked how the interview would go and what was expected, and prepared specifically for each company.

Complaining about women because you can't find a job isn't just misguided, it's harmful to yourself, because it prevents you from understanding what the actual issue is, and working on it.
If Brexit taught me anything it was that the correct phrase is pesky unelected EU bureaucrats!
It doesn't mention how scrolling would work - is that supported?
Parents don't always know best. There are countries where the child's right to education is seen as higher than the parent's right to do what they think is right.
That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
Financial Ruin and Mockery seem appropriate for the peddlers of vitriolic clickbait.
In this case, the C declaration doesn't match the other two. The variable x is a function that returns a pointer to an array of 5 pointers to functions returning char. Indeed, that's what cdecl.org says:

declare x as function returning pointer to array 5 of pointer to function returning char

Using the notation you did, that would be:

var x: func() ^[5] ^func() char

There are only two arrows there now.

If you wanted a pointer to a function like this, you would need a third asterisk in the declaration:

char (*(*(*x)())[5])();
10% is a large number for a new language on a VM.
I am happy that there is already a RVA22+RVV1.0 spacemiT K1/M1 as in milk-v jupiter and banana pi bpi-f3.

Relative to having nothing.

In 2025, more options will definitely pop up.
If you like that one, a really under-hyped one that has a similar message: An Unlikely Guru by Chick Atkins
Tim Onion's (Ben Collins) statement on Bluesky: [0]

> Hi everyone.

> The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

> We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

> We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

> I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Next post: [1]

> Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law22g...

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law23r...
I think it’s more that the world is now the onion.
It's really hard to find serious journalism being done out there, and The Guardian is definitely not helping on that.
Indeed and I wish more people really understood this.

I don't really like to target JDK8 as a supported version at work. However, I have to because of large, complex dependencies (some third-party with no source available) that have no drop-in replacements that will work under JDK9 and beyond.

Finding replacements for dependencies (or rewriting them), testing, etc to move to newer versions of Java is a cost the business is not willing to absorb at this point. I expect that eventually when JDK8 has no viable support options and the cost of maintenance becomes too great the business will decide to jettison the whole stack and replace it with something else that likely won't be Java based.
Cold welding is basically galling like you get with stainless on stainless under high pressure. Uniformity and consistency is hard to achieve so besides accidentally sticking things that shouldn't be stuck and the lightest duty applications the usefulness is limited.
Ure, if you don't see yourself coding at all or doing technical work, doing consulting in an unrelated things is perfectly fine. I guess it's easier if you already got some experience in the field but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is signing clients
CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision
If I could go on a 4-day week, I think I would choose Wednesday, drop the kids off at school, head to the mountains for a hike or skiing in winter, and pick them back up in the afternoon. Now, that would be the perfect work week :)
The bar has been lowered in many respects. 14 years experience, 5 of them at a FAANG. Successful startup exit for a small company I founded, and and endless array of India-based recruiters that, for example, want me to mention “Ruby 3.2” in my resume when the resume says I have 14 years of Ruby experience including using it daily in my present job. I could literally say “I invented Ruby and have worked with it daily for 20 years,” and they’d say, “but you don’t have 3.2 listed.”

I play the game then they pass me off to another Indian who is less understandable than the first guy and then they offer $45/hour. I say yeah sure, submit me to the potential client. Then I never hear anything back.

The Indian 3rd party recruiting industry is absolutely horrible. Another anecdote was spending 10 minutes explaining how Java and JavaScript aren’t the same thing. I am convinced there is rampant discrimination happening as well against non-Indians, and especially those who aren’t H1Bs. (H1B is a trap that makes it easy to hire people at lower wages and then also makes it harder for them to switch employers.)

I’m not well articulating the problem, but anyone who has done this dance knows exactly what I’m talking about.

By the way, I used to contract at $95/hour and now I can’t get calls back for $45/hour.

The outsourcing offshoring business needs to be significantly reformed. I had a gig at Best Buy ($70/hour) and I got to spend 3 months training some Accenture H1Bs to replace me. I thought H1B was to fill “critical shortages of highly skilled workers?” Best Buy didn’t have a shortage — they fired my entire team and replaced it with Accenture. Best Buy should be heavily taxed for that and Accenture et al should have their offshore labor tariffed into oblivion. (They typically have onshore H1Bs directing offshore teams.) The Best Buy CEO talks all sorts of DEI crap, while firing people to cut costs. Not very inclusive if you ask me.