skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not (necessarily) a chat bot. I worked at a company that used Intercom, there were actually customer support reps responding to inquiries. It was actually a nice platform for triaging inquiries and support requests. You could even have side-conversations among employees in it, e.g. when one of our models gave weird predictions they would tag me in the conversation so I could tell them how to respond to the customer.

That said, having your website break when it's not loaded is bad.
Has that changed in the current generation? On the XBox 360, you could physically stick any standard IDE drive in the drive bay, but the console wouldn't mount it unless it had a hidden file verifying that it was purchased from Microsoft, which charged well over market value.
Totally agree - The volume of batteries required for even modest EV production is so much larger than any other sector.

I also think the idea that EV batteries are just around the corner from commoditization may be a bit premature. Getting the most out of the batteries (think efficiently, power, and especially reliability) currently means a pretty significant engineering integration effort in power electronics, packaging, and thermal management. Having your own vertically integrated production capacity is huge - you get to precisely control (and also pay the risk for) exactly the batteries that fit your design. It’s exactly the same kind of advantage legacy automakers are defending with ICE engines. In 5 years, perhaps there will be contract battery manufacturers who can churn out massive quantities of high quality batteries at a price similar to building your own factory. I bet that timeframe may actually be closer to 10 years. Clearly Tesla isn’t sitting still... where will they be a decade from now.
Thanks for the article! We have a tiny hosted ELK cluster for our app logging, but we don't have much expertise in good cluster design. We recently implemented monthly rolling indices, and currently have a single 'archive' index for the old data (from the past two years) sharded into 25GB chunks. Would it make sense from a query performance perspective to add extra replicas to the 'archive' shards, to help spread the load between the nodes? Thanks for any thoughts!
> If I decided to pack it in tomorrow, I'd still do a lot of the same things I do today

Same here. The problem is not the core of the job, I love writing software. What kills me is meetings, having to sit in an office surrounded by humans (the sound of people talking especially easily causes sensory overload), having to work during the day (I'm a night person by nature and bright light is problematic for me), having to stay in the office for 8 hours even though I'm spent after 5, bullshit social events (I usually skip them, but you can't skip all of them), having to work with others (sometimes I spend more time convincing others of how I want things done than actually doing them).

Programming is great, having a job isn't.
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Bit of an unrelated question, but do you have an overview / idea of how Jitsi SFU compares in terms of features and performance to well-known cloud providers like Tokbox.
And it's a very good idea to get a rabies vaccine shot if you find an unknown dog in your bed at night. Like a very very good idea
Outside of the HN comment bubble, nobody uses Bootstrap. And it doesn't explain the examples in TFA.
I'll be honest, I don't have any answers for you—but this is a really interesting question, and I'm looking forward to reading what other HN readers suggest.
Data from 'almost all' Pakistani #banks stolen
MacID works better it also locks more reliably when you step away from your desk.
I believe it’s also associated with severe health consequences and the only survivor has stated regretting the protocol...

EDIT: Seems I'm misinformed. Thanks for clarifying, commenters below.
Agreed. Hopefully it is only something you'd do once per device. I'd hate to work somewhere where they spend all day performing all those steps.
Convenient. You refute something, as if you have data to back it, and when asked for evidence, you weasel out on technicality.

Please, go play partial judge elsewhere. Oh BTW, your friend just implied I was a fascist, (see quote).

> The logical conclusion of your arguments basically Fascism - putting profit above people, which isn’t remotely close to common sense.

1. When everyone's fascist, no one is.

2. Name-calling is just an absolute no no on HN.

3. Your friend doesn't know the definition of fascism.
I would like to learn Kotlin, but I've no prior knowledge about Java... That's a real impediment?

If it isn't, do you know (by chance) about some resource(s) for a total newbie/newcomer to the language?

thanks in advance.
Well, x mod 1 is just x minus a series of Heaviside step functions, each of which are non-constructive. The core problem is determining if your real number x is equal to an integer. You might be able to prove that x is close to a particular n, but there may not be a constructive proof of either x<n, x=n, or x>n. Hence you don't know if x mod 1 should be x-(n-1) or x-n.
Fake state-controlled news at scale

American statists must be salivating at the prospect of having an army of those bots...
Yes and when a bat has a 10% chance of carrying rabies you get a rabies shot it you come into contact with one.

Yes, the odds of you getting it are small, but the downside is that if you do get it you’re almost guaranteed to die.
DeX open the (back)door to (a big cucumber, sorry for being vulgar) port free software to proprietary jail and let users think they are free.

A jail's a jail, no matter how big, decorated and comfortable seems to be.
> deacade old

> apple got halfway in 2015 and google started to roll over it in 2017

> samsung still show a permanent "calls over wifi" notification

I think "over a decade" may be a stretch for non-google/apple, unfortunately.
The problem with American TV is you're blatantly being force fed opinions on everything. Being told what to think. Opinions are spewed at you with such a level of emotion and passion that you can't avoid feeling anything. Much as you try to brush it off, it affects how you perceive life.

The British approach to TV is "This is what's going on. Do with that as you will." It's presented as if it are objective facts, calmly and with a distinct lack of emotion. The only time you ever seem to be force fed emotional opinions are by sports commentators and Band Aid concerts.
"[...] physically angry to have to write back to this"
Since the vaccine is pretty harmless and saves you from certain death if you got infected. It's a very very good idea to get a rabies shot after any close contact with any mammal with unknown vaccination status.
The trade-off isn't height--an M.2 slot takes up a relatively large amount of floor space on the motherboard. There's nowhere to put it: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ZLFbiRsOdiemeWLA.h....
I am not sure what the parent meant specifically, but yes, there is quite a lot of work on quantum physics and logic, with regular conferences (https://arxiv.org/html/1701.00242) and some truly fascinating models for intuitionistic logics (https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3468).

Not being a physicist I have no idea whether this is "the way forward" for quantum physics or anything, but the results that I do understand are non-trivial so there seems to be something there...
A Chilling Warning UFOs Are Just the Tip of the ICEBERG
Another possibility is simply that they've got wildly more resources than we can imagine. It's ferociously expensive to run the universe on a classical simulation of QM, but finite. We have no particular reason to believe this "higher reality" doesn't have this level of resources. I've often pondered our universe as the moral equivalent of an elementary school demonstration; what if we're some metaphorical elementary kid's homework, because our physics is relatively simple (assuming some ToE that may actually be simpler than meets the current eye) and produces interesting results?

We can reasonably discuss the feasibility of simulating our universe using our universe. We can do some reasonable discussion of "universes that run something like ours but with some differences". We are profoundly ignorant about everything else.
Probably a more of a statement about my sense of humor than anything else, but this is, by not even close, the funniest thing I have ever read on Hacker News!
patient 0
That's a fascinating report, thank you for sharing. Especially the detailed data visualizations of the patient course, I don't normally see those on case reports.
> Refuse to work on systems that profit from digital addictions.

> Refuse to work on systems that centralize control of media.

> Refuse to work on systems that prop up an unjust status quo.

> Refuse to work on systems that require unsustainable tradeoffs.

> Refuse to work on systems that weaponize the fabric of society.

Rich people can afford to turn their nose up at any kind of work apparently. Also noteworthy that the internet was invented as a result of "weaponizing"...so put that phone down.

Oddly enough all of this also invalidates working on most open source code, since the OSI says a license should not discriminate against intended use
Given how hot the market is for software developers right now, there's really no excuse to be working on ethically questionable products.
Mathoverflow!
https://mathoverflow.net/
Also:

1) Why are all buildings the same? Light switches are often in similar places and the space between the floor and ceiling is pretty standard.

2) Why are all vehicles the same? Mirrors are always in the same spots and seat belts all work the same.

3) Why are all laptops the same? Keyboard center on the bottom with a trackpad or nub near the center. Screen on top, ports and stuff on the sides.

There are components that are common in all facets of our lives that when different can cause problems or surprise which could be good or bad. We need to join two floors of a building. Use stairs! People understand stairs. We need to showcase a collection of clickable images. Use a grid! People understand link grids.

If you want to make your website usable you have to lean on expectations and those are pretty well defined nowadays. Imagine walking into a room and turning on the lights using a switch in the middle of the floor or plugging in your laptop's power cord at the top/back of the screen.

Most companies spending money on a website want them to feel fresh and creative and engaging but they also have to temper that with usability and expectations. That's why all websites "look the same" or at least why the author thinks they do.

Just because certain elements are in the same spot(s) or behave similarly doesn't mean things are the same. Or, at least, to me they aren't.
You can easily do so (usually not that specific representation) but there "are" more reals in the classical construction than you can represent with computations. Constructive mathematics just lets you say "No, this is all of them."
There's something mildly "ranty" about this, to its own detriment. I believe what it is is that it seems to try to connect ideas that have no logical connection, but simply an emotional association.

For example, what is the connection between "Beautiful code gets rewritten" and "Refuse to work on systems that profit from digital addictions." ?

It comes across as though the author is just vaguely angry at the loose concept of software.

It's true that the software ecosystem is incredibly disorganized and inefficient (100s of similar distros, dozens of similar package managers, thousands of redundant tools). But I don't think one should get bent out-of-shape about it. If you think about it objectively, if it were efficient then most of us likely wouldn't have jobs.
That’s not what necessity means. I think most users of this device will be fine with 128gb. I think you underestimate cloud usage for this machine’s target market.
And that's one of the main benefits of the Milwaukee protocol, even if it likely doesn't work, induced coma is still the best place to be once you show rabies symptoms.
I'm not sure that's wrong. Look at the (temporary) outrage whenever Facebook does a redesign, even Facebook is allowed to not look like Facebook.
As I say, I'm fortunate. (Also I'm not a programmer.) I work mostly remotely and actually don't have a huge number of meetings etc. I travel a lot but a lot of that is to conferences, etc. most of which are on my own volition and I actually enjoy.
Oh! I got rabies shots in 2014 after being bitten by a dog.

The course of treatment is injections 0day, 3day, 7day, and 14day. I went to the emergency room to get these injections, at the recommendation of my primary doctor.

Unfortunately I don't have the bills anymore, but the total cost was a bit over $20,000, which insurance adjusted down to about $500/visit.

Basically, it would have bankrupted me if I didn't have insurance. Yes, the US healthcare system is really this broken.
You don't understand. The writer of that responded in another post, saying explicitly that he did intend to switch subjects, and then complained about the English language. You're absolutely right: the sentence is clear and unambiguous as written, but it is not what the writer intended. And you're absolutely right later about how it would be changed to switch subjects.
anchor != journalist
According to a study [1] it has never been a viable treatment. The treatment has been repeated on at least 12 patients since the original case (Jeanna Giese) and has been a failure every time.

No-one know why Ms Giese survived, but the Milwaukee protocol does not seem to have been the reason. Or if it was, it is not repeatable on other patients.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...
There are massive consequences to survivors of the protocol who arguably may have been better off succumbing to the disease, iirc. There’s no point in using a protocol that keeps people alive with no quality of life. (This kind of handoff is discussed in ethics classes in healthcare, the cost/benefit analysis of a treatment on a patient.)
I think one can simply refuse to work on code that adapts the open source code towards nefarious ends. A screwdriver can build a pipebomb, but surely the person using the screwdriver is more culpable than the person who built the screwdriver.
Not bench marks, but Amazon is saying their new R5a and M5a running on Eypc will offer 10 percent savings on compute costs.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/amazon-web-services-...
Visualization of arbitrary times in different timezones
I'm not sure what you mean. There have been electric trains for nearly 100 years. I mean, ever heard of the TGV?
It provides an option to either display a long recovery key at first encryption (which you can store somewhere) or to archive it online with Apple in iCloud so that you have a second key available in the event that you lose your password.

But also: backups. make backups.
Maybe! Windows seems to be activated just fine in the VM.
Are they officially calling themselves "Czechia" these days? I saw that on Google Maps recently, I think. It certainly is shorter and simpler than "Czech Republic".
You are right, I should have say European Union, not Europe.

The areas of Spain in the European continent are declared free from the presence of rabies virus, but rare cases can occur. We had a case in 2013 from a female dog that got the virus after a travel to Morocco.
With a free/standard mobile device (that actually do not exists) you can do whatever you want without limit. Unfortunately OEMs do not want that. And "this" is another Trojan horse to let people think the can run free software hiding the details that their software run in a proprietary jail. With enough time and marketing we will have a new generation of people who find pretty natural download GNU/Linux from an OEM store, forgotten another piece of IT freedom we have till now.
Obligatory image: https://vine.co/v/Ox2O9YbFTrX
Define "nefarious end".

This is why the OSI guidelines are correct to stay out of the tarpit of value judgements.

Edit: BTW This is another reason OSI does not discriminate against intended use...to protect otherwise rational people from behaviors like you see on HN...blind downvoting and no responses

HN is becoming incredibly anti-intellectual, bordering on reddit
That's honestly quite terrifying. In Germany there was a supply chain problem for rabies vaccine a while back and even though they seem to have managed it kinda scared me.
I have a few decent-sized systems in different languages (PHP, Elixir, Go).

Six of one, half-dozen of the other if you ask me.

Almost any of the big ones will do, so stop sharpening your pencils, pick one, and get to work.
The domain experts all write C#, and I don’t have strong language preferences, so it’s easier for me to switch to C# than it is for them to switch to Go. There isn’t a real technology reason, it’s just team ergonomics.
The closest I can get to describing his philosophy is that he is focused on the tension between book learning and experiential learning (particularly as manifest in the outdoors). The other theme that comes up repeatedly is the relationship between students and teachers (both those that are in the official role of teacher, and more often those that are teachers because a student, often the protagonist, chooses to follow them and learn from them).
With enough notice and time to prepare I'd drive the PanAmerica Highway from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia South America camping along the way. Only thing stopping me right now is time away from work. Might take more than 2 months though.
Some things I have seen in production:

The disk become inoperative during a write, this can be either silent or writes start to return errors. Again, how does the database look like after the problem is solved.

A large operation exceeds the capacity of the server to deal with intermediary state. It runs out of memory, disk, or in some not great DBs it loses control of some locks and gets deadlocked. Can it recover with only the partial log data?

Disks lie about data being written, what happens if one of the problems happen between the disk saying the data was written and it actually getting written?

And, of course, when you move beyond a single server things get way more complex.
The answer to this as of the last 5-10 years seems to be to simply be 'responsive design'.

Since we need to lay out a web page in several different ways as-is, it seems as though evolution has taken care of what seems to be a very 'natural' design pattern at this point.
The Size of Things: Now with Context
“Counterfeit” has everything to do with the provenance of an item. It’s not a synonym for low quality or “bad copy”.

If I stole a money printing press and began producing $100 bills on my own, I would be counterfeiting money. Even with the very same equipment that the Mint would have otherwise used to make the notes. Same atoms and same outcome, but not authorized.

It’s the same with handbags or books.
If you hate your job, you might consider having kids. You'll suddenly love the office. Seen it many times.

(Before anyone thinks I am saying you won't also love your kids: that's not how it works.)
Solus Linux Is Under New Management
Donald Norman does a good job explaining why in The Design of Everyday Things. I am sure most of you have probably read it, but if you haven't... https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/...
You beat me to this idea by five minutes!

Another bonus to this approach is that it enforces a style guide. Overly complicated and nested programs become more difficult to understand, and excessive nesting becomes literally incomprehensible as it spirals out of the human hearing range.

I wonder if you could also use different voices for different things. Code could be read in a masculine tone, code blocks in a feminine tone, inline strings with an Australian accent.
I thought it was intentional and not a bug - thanks for reporting! It's true that I don't see flash-of-unstyled-content on HTML and XHTML pages, unless the CSS file is delayed by many seconds. I noticed another bug though - the Firefox inspector tool doesn't show style rules for the XML document.
Most peoples' experience of C++ is from long before C++17 or even C++11 were usable. I'd agree that someone encountering modern C++ for the first time today, or willing to give it a second chance, might end up quite liking it, but if your first exposure was to an older code-base, that would put you off very easily.
What is your use case where ECC ram is that important?
Pre-exposure rabies vaccination is generally not included with statuatory health insurance in Germany. Still, the insurance carrier often covers it if the vaccination is indicated for a country you travel to. The three shots cost about 200-300 Euros combined, IIRC.
I've had bats slip into my house late at night several times. They're cute little fuzzballs when I see them outside flapping around far away from me, but hearing a "pittpittpittpattpatt" whirling above your head at night is terrifying. My first assumption was always rabies, because why else would a tiny animal get so close to a huge and dangerous animal like me?

A large number of stories I've heard involving people playing with small wild mammals end with rabies. When it comes to bats, raccoons, and possums, I was always taught to treat them as rabid because healthy ones won't ever get close to random humans if they can help it. That this guy was letting them lick his fingers is unimaginable to me.
SpaceX Starlink aims to put over 1000 of its comm satellites in super-low orbit
The issue of climate change is not a yes/no question. It is quantitative - what is the MAGNITUDE of the effects of human actions on the climate. Talk of "deniers" goes with a failure to understand this. It is a failure that is deeply political.
There's a big problem with building new coal and nuclear plants: the price per kwh is a moving target and it has trended down for years in clean energy projects and widely predicted to continue doing that for the foreseeable future. Coal plants are shutting down because they are getting too expensive to operate. Plans for new plants are shelved because they can't be operated cost effectively.

Clean energy is completely killing investment opportunities in this space. And that's just at the current price levels. They are predicted to go down further at around 7% annually for the next few years still.

This is the main reason investors are no longer eager to invest in either. Sure, nuclear is technically capable of delivering our power needs. It's even possible to do at vastly increased levels of safety given modern designs for plants, improved technology (relative to the 1960s era stuff used right now), etc. It's just that it will be very expensive to do it that way. It will take many billions to do the R&D, billions more to build the plants. In other words, these projects are prohibitively expensive and unlikely to be able to compete on price.