skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, using arithmetic to set a budget is bad methodology. Might want to rethink your statement.
The Curious Gems of the River Thames
"Gutted" sure, but yes it's absolutely possible to go from functional staffing to totally non-functional with a 2% budget reduction depending on the org's structure and where the budget cuts come from.
Note that Getty Villa != Getty Museum. The Villa is near Malibu, the Museum is miles away near the 405.
That depends on the specifics of the environment, trail, and your pants.

Indeed, going "pantsless" for short periods can be less risky if your pants are already soaked-through, it's very humid, there's ice build-up, and there's little to no risk of skin abrasion from terrain traversal.
I don't think there's a way to make it criminal, any more than publishing a vulnerability that got you code execution on their servers could be. Actually exploiting it, of course, would be.
Sounds like you are being blackmailed into working for them for free
As someone who lived in China for a decade I can say affirmatively you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Chinese companies do not have to play by the same rules in China, and Chinese companies are de facto and legally arms of the Chinese government.
> Their engineers and scientists have invented digital cocaine

They bought Instagram and WhatsApp because they couldn't figure anything out.
> by a skeleton crew of remaining fire fighters and volunteers.

I think you're missing a major contributor which is California's prison population [0]. Prisoners getting paid around $3-$5 a day make up ~1/3 of California's wildfire fighting service. Maybe you consider them to be "volunteers" but that seems to be missing some important context.

0. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-califo...
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Perhaps not, to a first approximation.
I saw the sign in screen and immediately closed. Limitlesstcg exists and can be used without an account.
This is exactly it. Don't view conversations as a zero sum game where you come out in top.

Talk with the person, talk to the person. Don't talk at the other person.
What I'm saying is that the "crooked politician" use case you're talking about for DKIM is a way in which you're pleased that a messaging system is insecure, because that insecurity works in your favor (because you're not the user; you just want to violate that user's privacy). But no rational user would want that property for themself; they can only lose from it.
You can buy a spool of 100km of "OTDR launch fiber" which is quite compact as it's just raw fiber terminated by two connectors. 100km sells for only $1400:
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006978999338.html which is well within his budget as it seems he spent over $1000 on this hobby project.

He could have bought two spools for 200km, laid that on his bench, and call it a day, instead of driving around data centers only to achieve 160km :-) But that's just the lazy side of me talking. Heck he could even return the spools for a refund when he's done :-)
Of course, dividing search space into K pieces is not guaranteed to give you a speed-up _in the worst case_: you might pick an unlucky division where K-1 pieces are easily UNSAT but the last remaining piece is as hard as the original (so the wall clock time is unchanged). However, in practice variable-fixing can and often does give an _expected time_ speed-up, especially if the SAT instance has some inherent parallel search structure (e.g., key or midstate bits for ciphers) and such heuristic tactics are still useful.
South Texas? We lived in San Antonio for last 5 years, and the weather does not really get extreme. Well you get consecutive weeks of 105-110 highs in summer. But it is far enough from the gulf coast so no hurricanes, and apart from the 2021 snowpocalypse, we didn't get any extreme weather. Austin is also okay. If you get too far north up to Dallas you start to get the snowstorms and tornadoes though.
They supposedly accounted for sleep differences already.
Able to talk like execs with those bombastic meaningless words get you more and faster result than what you describe here. You assume ratchet is always grinding thru within a company. Study mba then move out of the company after a few years then boomerang back still will achieve higher status than say your ratcheting. Stephen Elop was a good example. I doubt anyone will comment he was strong engineer. You need luck and significant talking skill. Strong or not strong technical skill, you can use chatgpt.
I love his videos. It's really enlightening walking through stuff with him in real time as he speaks what he's thinking. My favorite way to learn.
As far as "semi-dynamic" goes, C# has an interesting take coming from the other direction - i.e. a fully statically typed language originally bolting dynamic duck typing later on.

It's done in a way that allows for a lot of subtlety, too. Basically you can use "dynamic" in lieu of most type annotations, and what this does is make any dispatch (in a broad sense - this includes stuff like e.g. overload resolution, not just member dispatch) on that particular value dynamic, but without affecting other values involved in the expression.
This wouldn't be an issue if I locked my computer in a safe, but the rest of the system is changing underneath me: I may have a new laptop, a new CMake version, a new Qt install location, etc. Having everything managed through Cargo does a great job of isolating me from those kind of changes.
And AI but it's too new but maybe it will kill the Internet (social media with it) as nothing you see starts to be truly believable.
not a laywer, but this sounds like you are being dicked.
Huston regularly gets battered by hurricanes.
Don't mention a lawyer casually. Just have the lawyer send a letter. Don't give them the option to call your bluff. People casually mention a lawyer so frequently it means nothing. Receiving a letter from an actual lawyer means everything.
You need to do fuel reduction burns during winter (when it's wet) so you can reduce the load.
They do this near my house in Australia every few years, it's somewhat terrifying to have a slow roll bushfire roll around the house, but it can be managed with care.
There are people who bring headphones on hikes?!!

I have no words.
If you are going to use infinitesimals, though, it requires some additional doing for notation. The standard notation for higher-order derivatives (and partial derivatives) needs to be modified in order for them to work (but they do work great once you do this).

Instead of the second derivative being "d^2y/dx^2" it is "(d^2y/dx^2) - (dy/dx)(d^2x/dx^2)" and the differentials can be manipulated just like any other entity. Additionally, you can infer this notation by simply applying the quotient rule to the first derivative (which is a quotient of infinitesimals).

See more:

"Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials" ( 10.48550/arXiv.1801.09553 )

"Total and Partial Differentials as Algebraically Manipulable Entities" (
10.48550/arXiv.2210.07958 )
It's CFAA (computer fraud and abuse, aka hacking/cracking) not DMCA/anti-DRM
After a decade plus in top tech:

Be the same ethnicity as engineering leadership in your org
Personally I think it's deeper than that. In God's geometry I think there is no way to say "faster than light".

During the pandemic Steve Wolfram went off on a vainglorious scheme to unify physics (kinda doomed) but I appreciated his approach to "superspace" (the configurations of space/time that one might want to write a wavefunction over) in that causal networks must exist: e.g. two points have a spacelike relation or one is in the future of the other)
Google pays Apple ~$20B to be default search engine in Safari/Webkit though
There are some idiotic banks now using "voice verification" such that capturing your voice may be of value to fraudsters.

Unfortunately it's generally impossible to get your bank to stop using insecure authentication mechanisms except by changing banks, and good luck with that because it sure seems like practically all banks can eventually be convinced to give away your funds to someone with your personal information and the ability to sim swap you.
The best festivals are co-creative experiences.
Map: https://app.watchduty.org/i/40335
I imagine governments tend to be the same way, though my only direct experience here is that I don't report anything and nothing bad happens. The funny thing to me is that the discovery of these issues is not what triggers retaliation, but the audacity of reporting them.

Were I personally impacted, I would just submit information to the media as an anonymous whistleblower to get it fixed.
What if the private key were accidentally exposed via public API, behind ROT13?

Also, I don't think DKIM is used for encryption, just signatures.
The goal is to avoid having the working poor subsiding the property values of the rich. One reason some property is more "desirable" than others is its proximity to amenities. I'm pointing out an inefficiency in the market, and that the amenities shouldn't exist at subsidized rates.
Hell yeah. I just wish I knew that 10 years ago!
Small discussion (17 points, 10 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633985
(Very interesting info you found!)

It seems to be a great way to reengage in the community and feel useful as a human being (and see people being grateful to you).

Not so sure the $5 are the driver here.

Better than watching a cellmate all day.
Either there's some very long queue or that signup page for slack invite doesn't work.
The city of Los Angeles and the Mayor have been requesting volunteers from the public, due to lack of manpower. According to their website [1] the salary for firefighters in Los Angeles is $85,000 to $125,000 (rounded). Assuming the average ($105,000), that amount of funding could have paid 161 firefighters salaries for the entire year, not including benefits (unsure how that is priced in), and much more than that if they were part-time which most of the force are.

https://www.joinlafd.org/salary-and-benefits
As an ex Salesforce employee with lots of friends still there, I'm going to call bullshit on this one.

The engineering org's productivity pain points aren't ever going to be solved by AI magic, or at least certainly not on the core CRM product.
Trying to decide if having a slashdot link as a reference implies anything about your age or if I'm just a jaded old fart
this is disinformation. CalFIRE at the State of California had a 10x budget increase in the 2020 time frame under Gov Newsom. LA County has budgets larger than small countries. Fire suppression is a priority.

These fires have spread quickly and it is true that fire fighters are spread thin.
> Starting Firefox or Chrome is pretty bad: five to ten seconds

Thank you for this, It'll help people make up their mind.
PL/SQL is an abomination of a language. It’s easily the worst example you could have given.
I would ask why you believe $1,000 was charged in exchange for a promise to turn FaceTime into an open industry standard -- which would be usable by all, by definition, regardless of whether they were even customers -- but you appear more interested in put-downs. "There is no conceivable expiation for that," so I'm done; good luck!
Writing to seek ofset N of /dev/port puts the written byte out on port N. There are 256 possible IO ports in x86 which afaik can be mapped arbitrarily by manufacturers. The hex encoding (using bash math eval syntax) is just for their convenience, so they can write `./outb 80 X` instead of `./outb 0x80 X`, as dd takes decimal parameters, not hex.
Which other fat targets should local governments cut? Please be specific and quantitative.
By the massively higher amount of spam and scams on Facebook, compared to IRL.

I don't step outside on any random day and get immediately blasted in the face by dozens of One Weird Tricks and AI-generated images of Jesus crossed with shrimp.
I guess apparently the 2004 version did take after Tony Montana.
It beggars belief
I am working on BEXT https://github.com/bhu1st/bext

Wrote a basic parser for this and using it I get the records in JSON which I use to show simple progress bars and dashboard.

Parser: https://github.com/bhu1st/bext-php
> in a broad sense - this includes stuff like e.g. overload resolution, not just member dispatch

It specifically allows for multiple dispatch that is not even available in most dynamic languages not called lisp!
>Well, as far as industrial workers, they definitely aren't a super-majority, given all the people working in service, creative, and white collar jobs. But I don't know why that would matter.

The Marxian theory, as such, concerned specifically industrial workers, because they were, by their own occupation, brought together in organized thousands at single sites of production.
> Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025

https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/?page=1&team=Software...

It seems they are still "hiring"

If you're seeing software engineering job results in Salesforce, then we can only assume the software engineering jobs listed there are either:

1. Posted last year by Salesforce (can go at any time)

2. Fake Ghost Jobs (more likely)

If you work as an engineer at Salesforce, start to look elsewhere before they intentionally lay you off.
I asked both Claude and ChatGPT o3 to "generate svg of mainland USA with black outline".

Tried various models and they got it hopelessly wrong. Claude does an okay job at "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"
But everything in that view hierarchy is still drawn using HTML and CSS, and all the logic is implemented in JS, no? If that's the case, then that's not "native".
> Having a "shadow lead" can be one of the best situations for your growth,

In a successful company with high retention, many senior engineers who would fill these roles as shadow lead, often have their ego turned down, less to prove, and will encourage you to succeed. In companies with a lot of churn, or always on the brink of disaster, you don't get that support.

overall though, I do agree with the article. orgs run on reputation, and it's slow to change, and snap judgements sadly matter.
Beautifully written and worth the read. And the screensaver nerd snipe is epic.
I laughed out loud. Thanks!
Transistor is a portmanteau of "transfer" (from the Latin transferre) and resistor (from the Latin resistere), I think it still works. ;)

(I think even resistor may be OK Latin according to the etymology I'm looking at, but I don't have enough faith in my Latin grammar to say so.)
Lambda The Ultimate Loop!
I wonder if they have favorable consideration when applying to fire departments after they get out.
Dude just try.

Stop talking yourself out of everything!
Why do we post on Instagram?
Done. I also deleted Instagram. Meta is awful.
I would be more concerned about Climate Change. No amount of money will help.
Maybe stop torturing yourself for a bit. Sounds miserable.
> Not so sure the $5 are the driver here.

There aren't a lot of opportunities to earn money in prison. Having money in prison is important. Although having work time credits are more important as those earn you an early release.

> Better than watching a cellmate all day.

No one is doing that anyways.
Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died
I always see these videos [1] about helical movement of the bodies, which intuitively make more sense to me rather than assuming that the Sun itself is static and the bodies moving in a static circle around it. Is that really true?

https://youtube.com/shorts/HDSKuln-5qU?si=c8Uzw4zCQ22t5MyO
Why is C the safest language? [pdf]
Pharaoh must signal, to shareholders, to a board, and to their peers. There will be no consequences for failure to adhere to this proclamation.
Much better now, to make you feel helpless, depressed, lacking just to keep you consuming anything

Ethical standards are exactly the same, it’s regulation that is very different, let’s not give credit to corporations that they absolutely not deserve
I'm a university professor, and this is batshit crazy.

Who? As in not "they" or "the university", but who within the university? Can you tell where the directive is coming from?

If this comes from, say, the Provost's Office then this probably can't be handled internally. (The position of Provost is the #2 position at a university, and the provost usually runs the show while the President or Chancellor goes schmoozing with donors.)

But if it's coming from the Registrar's Office, then the Registrar doesn't have that much power internally, and you might be able to fight this decision within the university. What they did is not only brazenly immoral, it is also a tremendous legal liability for UW, and it should and might be a firing offense for whoever is responsible. And quite frankly no matter what happens I would seriously consider hiring an attorney (you might find one who will work on contingency).

You might speak with any professors in the department you have a good relationship with; I would be very surprised if they were sympathetic to this decision.

You might also talk with the university ombudsman, Dean of Students, etc. -- although I would be a little bit cautious and polite here. Just calmly describe the situation and ask what you should do in this situation. Hopefully (but this is very far from certain), they will calmly offer to intervene on your behalf, and then they will go ballistic behind closed doors and absolutely rake the Registrar over the coals. In any case, be poker faced, don't fully trust them, and avoid committing to a particular course of action if you don't have to.

Finally, here's an amusing hack. Salaries at UW are public record. If you want to find out how important any individual person is in the hierarchy, look up how much money they make. It's a fairly accurate barometer.

https://fiscal.wa.gov/Staffing/Salaries

Universities are not monoliths, and the relationships between different power centers are usually mistrustful at best.

Best of luck to you.
Sateen (satin) vs. Percale is just the weave. Some people prefer one over the other.

Check out this wirecutter podcast for WAY more information than you ever probably wanted to know about bedsheets[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/wirecutter-show-p...
I've spent quite a bit of time in academia and was going to post something similar. Universities, no matter how great, are filled to the brim with petty bureaucrats just itching to exert whatever meager power they wield over someone whenever they get the chance.

> So be loud, but polite.

Fully agree. In academia problems don't get fixed until it's more annoying to not fix it. The more attention this gets the more likely a petty bureaucrat above the one responsible for this will realize their day just significantly more annoying and will likely squash it quickly and quietly.
Probably trying to transition from a SWE role to a ML one
You cannot have both free speech and free market. It’s one or the other.
You can also search for wildfires in Google maps, but not sure if it is the best data.
We linked to the same Catechism, just two different websites, good grief.

Actually, the one you linked to, the IntraText version on the Vatican’s website, seems to be the 1992 edition, which is out of date. The edition promulgated in 1997 is the definitive-official one, and that’s the edition that happens to be hosted by scborromeo, though the Vatican’s site might eventually get updated, after all it’s only been almost 30 years since the 1997 edition was published:

http://scborromeo.org/ccc/aposletr.htm

The 1997 edition is also available here:

https://usccb.cld.bz/Catechism-of-the-Catholic-Church

> the Jesus chips are as magic in English as they are in latin.

Characterizing the Eucharist as "Jesus chips" and "magic" is both offensive and sacrilegious, but hey, it's the Internet, so go figure.

Finally, the teachings in JP2's 1997 Catechism and the Catechism of Trent regarding the Eucharist are harmonious, in no way in contradiction with one another. Anyone who wishes can read and compare for themselves:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038914233&vi...

Comparing the 1969+ liturgical reforms with the Tridentine Missal is another matter.

This will be my last reply in this HN thread, there are more appropriate forums to discuss these matters.
Not true, they bought the growing competition -- in the case of Instagram, digital crack cocaine.
As a non-student, I received an overzealous takedown request from the University of Washington a decade ago. https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-Huffman-coding/issues/1

Also related: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/295420/how-to-cope-...
wow what a level headed nuanced political take
You're totally right, but I also wonder what you could even say in 30 seconds? Don't trust the person on the phone who sounds exactly like your grandson? There's so much nuance to explain.
A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator
I use it to convert (translate) complex sounding English text chuncks into Nepali language and it hasn't disappointed me.
I have never in 30 years of synths read subtractive synthesis called Eastcoast or waveshaping called Westcoast.

Especially to put what it is actually called in parenthesis as if everyone calls subtractive synthesis "Eastcoast".

This is certainly something very specific to the path you took with synths.
Best of luck. It sounds like you really pissed someone off by threatening some internal power structure or process they controlled. I hope you don't keep quiet about this - I know it's easy to say when I'm watching from the sidelines, but don't let them coerce you into silence!

About a decade ago, some teammates and I built an internal request system for our Ops team to replace the MS Sharepoint crap we were using. We used Bottle, BootstrapJS and SQLite to get it up and going quickly, and under the radar. Our customer IT teams loved it, and managers from elsewhere in our department were even asking half-jokingly if we could support their teams, too.

Well, the IT team that was deploying ServiceNOW was none too happy that a "non-standard" application was running... our manager was a knight and kept them from making us tear it down. We pretended to play ball, we walked through SNOW process of getting a team-specific form to build out. And then we never used it; we kept directing our customers to the self-built tool.

The moral is, people like their fiefdoms. Bureaucrats often shun innovation because it has the chance to make them obsolete, or else they are simply the kind of people who don't like disruption.

You may also have invented a tool that would have obsoleted some multimillion dollar software acquisition or internal process, who knows.
No a telescope won't help. The 'linear' alignment spans the whole sky and is best seen with the naked eye.

You can click a pic with a wide-angle lens (whether on your phone or a camera).
Yes, that was in MO. Their idiot governor threatened the journalist that discovered it with prosecution.

An investigation by the Missouri State Patrol and a MO county later determined that the executive branch screwed up and leaked the SSNs and that the reporter committed no crime.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/02/report-missouri-governor...