skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this idea is good in theory, but has practical problems:

- Privacy concerns

- Administrative overhead

- Potential for fraud/people losing coverage if they miss attending their gym
Some other people have responded talking about the essay in general, but I thought I'd try and respond to the specific points that you found confusing with my own interpretation. This is of course subjective. I liked this piece because it gave me food for thought like this.

> But three days into an interview she wanted she seems to have changed her mind?

There are two time periods in this line at once. "I wish I had said" is talking about what she wishes now that she had said to him at the time. The tip off is the "had said" is referring to the time period in which she responds to the dean and is in past tense, and "I wish" is present.

> After that there's an explanation of plots in fairy tales that switches jarringly again into another line I'm not totally sure how to interpret about bread. Its also the title, I expect it to be important.

"Fuck the bread" is literally something her mother said to her, but also subtextually saying "fuck academia" (and maybe even the more broad "fuck societal standards of success"). This is the chain of associations that builds up the metaphor:

1. In fairytales, the characters are given impossible tasks. <List of examples>

2. In the fairytales, completing these tasks defines their worth. Characters who do not complete the tasks drop out of the story.

3. Getting a job in academia requires her to complete a list of impossible tasks. She cannot complete it.

4. Even basic tasks in society are impossible during the pandemic, like bread making. These basic tasks are part of appearing successful.

5. "Fuck the bread" == fuck 3, fuck 4, define yourself outside of impossible tasks and do not be a bit character in a fairytale.

> This I don't really get how she goes from wheat to needing machete to cut it to questioning why they want a job

Given the rest of the piece talking about how working in academia was a useless task, I think this is about wasting her time on something so frivolous instead of her basic needs (bread?). But that does go against the title. I'm comparatively pretty unsure about this association.
Hire / Contract a BizDev person to build these relationships for you. If you start now then as you get your idea built out more you will have laid the groundwork.
> If your answer "maybe some of them?", do you think I have a point?

If your point is that some people are more rigorous in their research than others then yes, that is true.

But if your point is "Apple should have taken longer to make the the decision", then no.

Apple has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to protect the company from legal risk. The problem (from Apple's point of view) isn't whether the book taken as a whole has merit, or the subtleties of whether it's fair to fire him.

It's that a new people manager is very prominently and repeatedly on the record as holding views that will absolutely be quoted in successful lawsuits against Apple by the first female or non-white report he handles badly. These quotes will be Exhibit A. Apple will lose. It won't even be close. This is basic stuff for HR and legal.

Reaching this conclusion doesn't require "ample due process". It takes 30 seconds to read any one of the many passages the petition carefully enumerates, and then another 30 seconds to verify the quote is real. Done.

HR's job is to protect the company. They failed by allowing him to be hired. Firing him within hours is the least they could do.
If WHO can take the warning earlier (https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-vi...)..... IF.....
I guess that's why RMS don't like the idea of term "Open Source". The term "free" in English is ambiguous and it has it's problem. But the term "Open Source" is worse. It just feel like source code is available but it doesn't matter the rest of the strings attached to it.
This seems to presuppose that it is an inherently good thing to maximize tax revenue.
The Future of Dashboards Is Dashboardless
One thing to consider would be attending a popular conference for your 'primary' day-to-day programming language.

Conferences like PyCon, jsconf, Gophercon etc. can be a really great way to introduce yourself to the breadth of problems people are tackling, and can also be great opportunities to meet and network with other folks who can help you out on your journey.

Another good resource is safari books online, which has a subscription you can purchase to get access to a 'smorgasbord' of great books.
Python's object semantics are extremely different from JS. There might be _some_ ways of emulating them with JS thanks to Proxy objects nowadays, but you're looking at a pretty big uphill battle I think.
That's really cool! It looks like you're in the SFBA (or at least launched your boat from nearby), so are you familiar with Sofar and Saildrone? Do you have a way for people to follow what you're doing, or pitch in? I'd be interested in this (contact info in my profile).
You might try convincing projects to adopt the XDG spec[1] instead, might be easier.

Might be.

I've been trying something similar using Apple's framework bundle layout[2] and using XDG to point config files to ~/Library/ApplicationSupport etc, but programmers know better! Just spray whatever files you need into my home dir, developers, be my guest…

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/a...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
The report is trying to suss out how to "play better" for when the next dangerous disease comes along.

So talking about how covid-19 was preventable is meaningful because it's treating it as a case-study.
Good point. To be fair, most of the delay was my own fault, due to life events (moving internationally, starting a new job, the f*** pandemic, etc). I was the bottleneck, not them.
That smells suspiciously like the Linux desktop environment. There was X. It was a minimal desktop environment. Then there were dozens of ones built on that… there was almost no way to have a consistent experience for a really, really long time.

I really don’t want to do that again.
Writing or using an existing custom allocator is common enough. Networking developer Jesper Dangaard Brouer must have looked into that approach and found it wanting for what the article describes as “The networking code could then grab a pile of memory, and quickly hand out pages as needed.”

What does the improvement described in the “Batch page allocation” section add that a custom allocator would be unable to? Or is it a widely-used pattern that many custom allocators can take advantage of? In that case, why put it in the kernel?

Etc.
This is bullshit regardless, but especially funny coming from a remote coworking space company
Large cargo ships are displacement hulls (because they are 10x more efficient than planing hulls) but are limited to a top speed proportional to the square root of the length, so they will not be "much faster".
Imma make my big money for years without being engaged for shit, much to the big bad "important" CEOs' chagrin. All in my underwear.
I think one of the reason is that you have the leverage when negotiating the salary that you expect because you can always walk away and continue with your current job.
Oh come on, let's be honest. Open up Instagram and look at what people "create", most of it is memes and image macros. Not even comparable to, as an example, the first years of Deviantart (not what it has become today).
Well ok. But my limited understanding of material science says no. For now at least.

Material strength doesn't scale well to go "properly big big" in the sci-fi sense.

OTOH, I am constantly amazed by what material science keeps managing to do, so I have hopes that maybe one day your dream will be true.
Most countries already levy VAT/sales tax. But almost everybody believes that those are all paid by consumers while corporate taxes are all paid by business owners (mental picture: Bezos/Gates/top hat wearing Monopoly dude, not poor old lady drawing on small pension).
Hmm, according to wikipedia, the pressure in Hellas can sometimes get up to 12.4 mbar, and it looks like there are some significant glaciers. Interesting.
Tunneling into the ice could be a plausible way to build a Mars habitat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_Planitia
This reminds me of a saying I once heard:

"In it's grand equality the law forbids both the rich and the poor alike from sleeping under bridges"

I mean, sure the lobbying system is "open" to all, but not everyone can actually participate in it or utilize it, even if they're technically allowed to.
I'll also add the the federal US government makes extensive use of personal TLS certificates, and they store the private key material on a smartcard embedded inside your ID.

Your cert is used from everything from signing and decrypting emails to gaining access to sites to signing attestations that something happened.
Apple fires ex-Facebook hire after becoming aware of misogynistic viewpoints
The main argument here seems to be that we shouldn’t use LFS because Git will have large file support at some unspecified point in the future?
Similarly you could argue that we shouldn't use a Covid vaccine because we'll develop a cure in the future..why vaccinate billions of people when we can just treat the 1% of people who get ill?
Clearly that argument doesn't work. People need a solution now. Ironically we had to stop using mercurial because it didn't have an LFS alternative even though I prefer it. LFS is definitely not ideal but as a solution to a real world problem, it works. There may be issues around cloning repos and losing history in the future, but those are one off issues where you have to accept the pain, rather than living in pain every day.
> Wikipedia says Callan was founded by Dave Callan. That’s only partially correct.

I think we know just the guy to edit the page.
> From what I understand, HIV is fairly difficult to transmit, requiring an exchange of infected body fluids.

Fauci didn't think so in 1983.

"But if ''nonsexual, non-blood-borne transmission is possible, the scope of the syndrome may be enormous,'' writes Dr. Fauci of the National Institutes of Health in an editorial to be published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/06/us/family-contact-studied...
And let me add: I have been reading all my life and while I can skim through even a long text to decide if it's worthy of a longer read, this process is way harder with video.
Yes. Today's "digital natives" just mean they know how to open Netflix on their phones and make a tiktok video.

Not dissing those activities, but it's not technical knowledge per se. Ask them what's an IP address, how would they go about replacing a hard drive, etc, and get empty stares.

I've been hearing from some companies/hiring managers that candidates in entry level jobs have difficulty with basic Word/Excel usage.
Big list of HTTP static server one-liners
The difference between 42% (1954) and 36% (2016) is massive, and we lowered their taxes even more since then!
>Congress is corrupt (via lobbyists)

The most a single company spent on lobbying last year was Facebook at $19.7 million, which is a whopping .17% of their marketing expenses. At the same time, they shelled out $130 million, forming a irrevocable trust to fund a supreme court of moderation decisions. If lobbying were really effective, Facebook would have given money to any Congressperson willing to make any decisions at all, regardless of whether they are pro or anti-censorship. Either way, it's a win for Facebook because they can deflect all blame to the new regulations. The less Zuck has to think about moderation, the more he can focus on making money. The problem is that no representative was ever willing to do so. During the hearings about Section 230, Congress loved to grill Facebook on why they shouldn't have censored this and should censor this other thing. However, none of them attempted meaningful questioning that would aid them in writing a bill to achieve their supposed goals.

The real reason Congress is so ineffective is much more mundane: they have no incentive to do otherwise. Voters love hearing spicy soundbytes, so that's where all Congresspeople's effort goes into. People just want a simple problem that they can point their fingers at and knock down, but the real world doesn't work that way. When you blamed "lobbying", did you bother to look up the myriad existing regulations and their shortcomings? The result of all this is that an increasing number of real decisions are being made by unelected officials, from the SCOTUS effectively legislating Google v. Oracle or the Federal Reserve's increasingly aggressive monetary policy.
Even with a 100% energy efficiency to create hydrogen you use a huge amount of energy to compress it.
Of course, you are welcome!
If you need to look up the salt for every user on every verify, you're wasting any caching advantage. If you cache the salt, you're reintroducing the cache clearing headaches.
> I do not see any detrimental mental health, at least in terms of people are willingness to go back to work from office.

Mind giving me a source for this? I personally feel much worse during the pandemic and most people I know do as well. If your doing better I’m happy for you but not everyone is the same.
You should probably do some reading on discrimination and hostile work environment laws and case history before speaking so confidently. Men are definitely a protected class, as are white people. Veterans are a protected class with regard to government contractors which Apple is.

You should also probably read up on the difference between private and public speech because it’s also applicable here. A derogatory remark does not open a company up to the same legal risk as the same words published in a best selling book.
Two of the last paragraphs:

> All of this is technically possible, and as we have seen, it would produce less in emissions than the present alternatives. However, it’s more likely that a switch to sailing ships is accompanied by a decrease in cargo and passenger traffic, and this has everything to do with scale and speed. A lot of freight and passengers would not be travelling if it were not for the high speeds and low costs of today’s airplanes and container ships.

> It would make little sense to transport iPhones parts, Amazon wares, sweatshop clothes, or citytrippers with sailing ships. A sailing ship is more than a technical means of transportation: it implies another view on consumption, production, time, space, leisure, and travel. For example, a lot of freight now travels in different directions for each next processing stage before it is delivered as a final product. In contrast, all sail cargo companies mentioned in this article only take cargo that cannot be produced locally, and which is one trip from producer to consumer.

This speaks to me. I see much more conversation around "how can we use technology to remove the negative environmental impacts from our lifestyles?" than I do around "how can we change our lifestyles to cause fewer negative impacts?"
This resonates with me. A heuristic that often leads to success is learning the rules of our systems, both written and unwritten. Over-reliance on this heuristic shackles one to imagined limits. Many of the perceived "rules" can be broken.

As an example, many people assume you need to go to a top school to get a top job. But after several years working, that perceived boundary that so many are so hung up on seems like a joke to me.
It not only can be done, it routinely is.

Especially with the Chinese watches, they often come from the factory with less-than-perfect attunement. Watch repairmen will take a watch like this, clean everything, maybe replace a bearing or two, use high quality lubricant, possibly even swap a gear or so if it needs it.

They can also take an older mechanical in pretty bad shape and restore it to health. There's a point of no return for any mechanical device, of course.
The feelings are abstract, not the ideas.

I did say meant to invoke relatable feelings. It's not objective or guaranteed that they would in all.
"I need some Belgian fries. Right now!"
They merely ventured too close to the forbidden plateau of Leh.
Another one: refusing to close schools because they served as daycare for higher-priority constituencies.
I am a non-technical founder.

I spent approx 18 months developing a B2B SaaS app involving 4-5 separate developers (2 individuals, and 3 separate devs at one agency). Post-launch we grew to about $13k MRR in 8 months.

We haven't added any new features in 4+ months, we've been focused on stabilizing. I can say without a doubt, stability has impacted free to paid conversions, retention and word of mouth recommendations .

It's unclear when we will ever be done stabilizing. As a non-tech founder it appears to me that little nuances across our tech stack are consuming 100% of our developers time (schema?). It also seems like devs spend a very significant percentage of their time re-inventing CRUD.

I'm launching another B2B SaaS, and going to use a Bubble.io and one of their recommended agencies.

Here is what I like:

- MVP cost of ~25k

- MVP launch time frame of 2-3 months

- Almost all of the Bubble agencies I've engaged seem a lot more process and systems oriented than sole developers and dev agency I've engaged with in the last 24+ months.

- Bubble provides a solid CRUD framework, so most of our time is not spent re-inventing CRUD and instead of core features.

Based on the goals of the MVP, it does not appear we have to make any trade offs to using Bubble in terms of functionality - Bubble can be extended w/ code & easily integrates with 3rd party services, e.g. Stripe & SendGrid.

Will check back in 12 months from today to let you know if the product was more successful than the previous one due to choosing a low code platform.
Complete and utter hell. What drives the explosive growth of the industry now is the lack of pointless restriction. Wages are high because more people are allowed to compete as opposed to just those who were lucky or privileged enough to be in the right life circumstance to get some credential.

Tools and processes can be improved, but not by fiat. There is no board of microbial directors guiding cell planning.

I feel I have no succinctly adequate description for you now, but take building codes and healthcare: many laws exist to "protect" people but often what benefits people most directly is more money. Forcing them to spend that money on supporting multiple levels of hierarchy takes their life from them in a very real way (c.f. housing shortage and healthcare shortage).
I too noticed that the author didn’t connect the first man at the South Pole with Amundsen
Where would you say the Pfizer COVID vaccine was developed?
Did you just call civil rights legislation evil?

Because forcing companies to not allow discriminatory practices or hostile work environments for protected classes is kind of the entire point (of the business oriented portions of those laws).

I’m having difficulty interpreting a more charitable reading of your post.

Edit: just noticed "one of". I’m morbidly curious, what are the other evil ramifications of civil rights laws.
If he wrote a book on how to embezzle from companies, would that be 'wrong' enough for you?

Do you realize that the Civil Rights Act is also a law that companies have an interest in their employees not breaking?
This explains last month of BTC downward move.
He wrote one of the most quoted passages as a comparison to the mother of his kids. Most SV women don’t live up to this woman, whom he was lucky to get with, according to him. You need more than mere ‘hours’ to get the context.
COVID-19 has convinced me 100% that the end of humanity won’t be a freak accident, nuclear war, or a space alien invasion. It will be an entirely preventable catastrophe that could be avoided by coordinated, collective, cooperative activity. Activity that people simply won’t do, for stupid reasons. That’s how we’re eventually going extinct. The last person on earth will deny and downplay the problem, while drawing his last breath.
Sure, but that’s independent from the session_id, which has no place in the JWT.
The US tried this concept at one point with the nuclear powered NS Savannah, which was a cargo/passenger ship. Unfortunately it was already outdated by the time it was built, unable to accommodate the modular containers taking over the shipping industry. It was mostly a novelty at the time and was expensive to run.

Still though it seems nuclear would be a good fit for shipping. Most large ships use electric motors for their propellers anyways, and the US Navy has extensive experience deploying reactors in submarines. Theoretically you would only need to refuel such a ship every 10 years or so. Fears about terrorism or contamination will probably prevent such a ship from being made any time soon, not to mention the lack of infrastructure.
python has a lot of features. But people use a small subset of it. So instead of supporting all of python, why not stick to the small subset that people actually want to use to solve a problem?
Former ST user here: out of curiosity, what was that text editor and company?
Thick tires have a lot of “meat”.

Meat does not just mean the muscle fiber of an animal.

I wonder how opposed Texas was to what people call “American cheese”, now just called “American” because of the FDA.

What about negations? Is it now illegal to call something “fake meat”?

What about “I can’t believe it’s not butter”? Is that legal in Texas?

The lengths to which Texas politicians will go to protect their masters is crazy.
any of them good?
Is dart your preferred alternative?
I see that H.P. Lovecraft is mentioned but not his work on the topic: "At the Mountains of Madness". I recently discovered a great adaptation of his book by the Japanese Artist Gou Tanabe. If you are into B&W ink drawings you should really check out Tanabe's books.
A common feature of older people. Time gives perspective. That, and not having to work I guess.
Because the poor and working class spend all their money on necessities and in doing so incur higher effective transaction taxes relative to their income.
Ask HN: a Postman but to simulate bad network conditions?
Hi HNers,

I'm building a web app to simulate HTTP failures, such as incomplete requests and timeout because of idle socket. It's similar to a very basic Postman, but instead of to test API functionality, it tests how the backend handles bad requests.

Here is the current prototype https://networkbusted.web.app/ - it's not working at all, but wanted to share the idea here to get some opinions. Would you find such an app useful? How would you use it? Feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks!
Prisoners Literature Project
Nuclear may be part of our energy future, but security concerns and operating costs make it impractical to put reactors onboard civilian merchant ships. They can't afford to pay multiple armed security guards and trained reactor operators. Plus some countries don't even allow nuclear vessels into their ports.

A more realistic solution would be to use land based reactors to manufacture carbon neutral synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Then burn that fuel in the ships as an alternative to fossil fuels.