skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only the FTC/DOJ would say yes...
> If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case.

Users will contact the author for support, but users are getting the software indirectly via a packager, which means a) there might be changes from the packager b) they might be getting an older version that appears to be the "latest" and c) they don't have a way to install a modified version provided by the author to test out a fix in the same way that they installed their current version.

(It's true that with nixpkgs these problems are much more solvable than in basically any other distro, but the risk is stil there.)
My mistake, but would it change the calculus if they were a strict majority?
Leet code is neither sufficient or necessary to writing brilliant software. Your statement is true but Google, being mostly people cut from the same cloth, has group think about these issues. On the other hand, that monolithic culture is probably what has limited their success and kept them from being a more harmful monopoly.
That cracks me up every time
I just tried looking up 5/3/1 and although I believe you when you say it’s “easy to follow” I’m not sure if it’s beginner friendly or not. I don’t know most of this DSL. I still don’t even know what the numbers 5 3 and 1 are for sure in reference to, although my guess is reps (ie repetitions). And apparently it’s supposed to have a corresponding percentage of Max Single Rep, but what is it?

What is a core lift? Parallel squat? Standing shoulder press? Do I need equipment for this stuff? If I do require gear what do I need to get, how do I choose, what’s minimal? What is a safe way to find my “max lift”?

Etc.

I would find it useful if these kinds of workouts were prefaced with their end-goal in mind: general wellness? To bulk specific areas? To maximize real strength? To have trim and endurance strength? To increase resting metabolic burn?

Personally, I want to lose body fat, decrease body aches/pains, and make my brain sharper with minimal investment of time. I know strength training is a key component of this goal. But that’s about it. When I look into strength training, it often seems the advice is focused on strength enthusiasts, which is not me.

Older newbie dripping my toe into the water, I’ll listen!
Is there greater context here that helps explain what's going on? Reading the comments in the thread didn't clarify much for me as someone unfamiliar with NixOS, their apparently unique Python packaging scheme, and Home Assistant.
> Comparing a 12 TB tape with an 18 TB 3.5" HDD, the volume of the cartridge is about a half or less, so the tape still has better density.

The volume of a tape is very close to 60% of a hard drive. So 12TB tape and 20TB drive are very close. If we use 18TB then it's still close.

But I wasn't even making an argument about the current tech. I was talking about if things were nudged just a bit. If we go back to imagining the world where the huge areal density gap is made slightly larger, then hard drives would crush tapes in both price and density. Despite tapes having a far bigger working area.

So the analysis is not "simply" that tapes have a far bigger working area. If it was, we'd have hundreds of terabytes in a tape right now.

> Moreover the tape cartridge is many times lighter, if you carry in your pocket a tape cartridge vs a 3.5" HDD, the difference is very significant. You would not notice the tape cartridge, while the HDD would be like having a stone in your pocket.

That's such a niche use it would barely affect sales. Effectively nobody carries around pocket tapes, because if you can afford a drive then you have stacks and stacks of tapes.

> Experimental tapes have already been demonstrated at volumic densities much better than what HDDs hope to achieve in the future.

That's cool but I'll wait to see when/if they're practical to make into a product, and whether something else has come along to make both of them blush.
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Just use a privacy.com card and cancel the card when you're done with the subscription. I agree that it's trash to have to do something like that, but it's a pretty easy solution.
It's not accurate for all topics. Can you make a passionate argument for a flat Earth? One that isn't rooted in ignorance or denial of something basic?

So obviously there are some topics in which you can understand the issue well, but still not be able to make a credible defense of the other side.

Now, the point of the exercise is valid. We should always be approaching an issue from the perspective of "What am I missing?" or "How am I wrong?"

Of course, bad faith debaters will ask this of you while not doing it themselves. Or they will do so only superficially. They won't actually try to disprove themselves.

Which makes discussing things with such people exhausting.
Ask HN: Just Founder Things, Right?
Since HN won't let me share the url in the url field, here you go: https://twitter.com/unidenob/status/1404318548059508737

I genuinely want to know, do all founders are like these? Because I personally have a few founder friends, and the way they talk and what they talk, all seem manipulative, deceitful, toxic, etc. Is this some common trait, that you need to have to so called "change the world"?
How would you construct a secure zero knowledge proof to do this kind of thing over an API?
yes, and that's what I normally do as well. I also bookmark docs that I know I am gonna access in the future. I just don't trust I will be able to find it again.
How are you supposed to argue against something if you don't even understand why someone supports what they support? All you will end up doing is strawmaning their views which won't convince anybody to change their views.
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If you were a little more curious, maybe you wouldn't dismiss large swathes of the population as psychotic.
> even while christianity and white folks are the majority in the US, it makes sense numerically to have these other aspects of humanity well represented, in addition to white and/or christian.

I’m not white, Christian, or Jewish, and this sentence does not make sense to me. Making entertaining is a business, and it has nothing to do with what percent of people worldwide have what skin color or tribal affiliations.

If people making entertainment predict that they will earn the most money by targeting white, Christian, or Jewish populations, then they should if making the most money is their goal. Have you noticed how every big movie of the last 10+ years has a Chinese character? And a scene in Hong Kong or Shanghai? Many have Latin American characters as well, and Indian, and so on.
Sorry for the offtopicness but we don't have your email. I just saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721647. Since your comments have mostly been fine since we banned you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26649016), I'd be happy to reinstate your account. However, I think the username is a bit too trollish. It's not extreme of course, but the audience here is large enough that even minor trollishness can cause major weirdness. If you want to pick a different username, we can change it for you and unban the account.

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>I have to use Teams at work and can't fucking stand opening Word/Excel docs in Teams.

If you open Word or Excel directly, does the main page show you a list of appropriate documents to open? I have found the amount of times where the workflow requires navigating to a document through teams first to be extremely minimal. If the document isnt on the list, typing a couple characters into the Word/Excel search bar does the trick.
Are you renting from owner operators, or from a corporate owner?

Because my experience with renting apartments was that rates will go up at every renewal - don't like it? Move.

I could rent a new construction 2 bedroom luxury apartment in midtown Atlanta and pay about 1250/month in 2011 (I did this several times with buddies) - usually between 1200 and 1400 sqft. Now you can only rent much older units (constructed 70s to 90s) usually 1 bedroom or a loft for that price - usually around 900sqft.

I just searched the area I used to live for anything with 2 bedroom for 1250 and below. There is one result, and it's old student housing.

If I wanted a comparable apartment to something I could rent 10 years ago for 1250, most options now start at 2500.

Now - home prices have also spiked in my area, but the population growth doesn't seem to be slowing at all, and if I buy I'm no longer subject to yearly increases, and the perils of the rental market continuing to heat up.

Basically - owning means I get to still live where I am after the gentrification occurs. Because as a renter I'll likely be pushed out of the area (even if renting still is cheaper somewhere else in the city)
Edit: Totally wrong

You need to buy from apple/google if you want battery efficiency, as you want to be included in the one persistent channel the OS manages.

Even without that your own servers cost money.
I highly suggest going the consultancy route. You will get exposed to a large breadth of technology and projects very quickly. In my first year, I wrote JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Golang and a little Python.

Just stay thirsty and keep going. Once you get a foot in the door, you are going to be a rising star. The work ethic and discipline of the service industry is like a super power in the tech world.
Law is more than just Criminal law.
That's nice, but I'm not here to argue for one viewpoint or another, I'm just trying to explore the complaint that originated this thread.
Bots are officially sanctioned as such and have an application ID in the developer console as well as a label in the client.
Alternatively, nothing's stopping someone from taking a user account's authentication token and making the same calls, but that's against TOS (Discord calls them selfbots). The KYC they use won't protect against this kind of abuse.
While FAANG may not care so much so long as you know how to code, in the majority of industries or Fortune 500 companies will. They will see you don't have a BS and say no. My lead worked at a company, they got bought out, and then they told him he needs to get a degree or they could not keep him on (paid for by them of course).

Complete lunacy and absurd but a lot of companies that aren't top of the line do care about that piece of paper. I was told at one point in my internship, the IT department doesn't hire anybody in a programming position without a degree in CS. Full stop. They will auto reject the resume or not proceed with an internal candidate (aside from in school interns).

Also, if you look at the actual data from the study the article is linking, the average alumni employed at FAANG is ~6%. That's 6% of people who were likely wizzes, not average joes like the rest of us. That leads to 94% unaccounted for. So what about the full picture? Where are those 94% who didn't get into FAANG? What is their unemployment rate compared to their Bachelor Degree counterparts?
I don’t think Gmail advertisers could track you unless you actually clicked on an ad? By today’s standards that’s actually pretty good.
Better to pay attention to what politicians are doing rather than what they are saying. Take a look at who donates to their campaigns, how they vote, and who they hang out with on a regular basis.
Yep, makes sense. A little nitpick: I wouldn’t call it a Black Swan because multiple people called out the potential for such a global event to happen (Gates, Taleb, etc.), but to your point it certainly further accelerated the move to online commerce, mainstream remote work, etc. Cloudflare and Stripe are/were both well positioned for that type of world.
Reading through all the comments that was my take as well.
that frenck guy actually just comes off as an a-hole. especially with their passive aggressive responses. why are so many software people like this? maybe he should change his license
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Gary Gygax on Christmas not being Christian:

https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/gygax-xmas-s.jpg?w=97...
That is a wonderful guilty until proven innocent law...
100% agree, but the problem I have with the economist is that it requires serious mental commitment to engage with their articles. The meat of the story is buried deep. The only times I find myself capable of reading are when I'm traveling or commuting.

The issues come weekly with really interesting topical stories, so I always add them to my reading todo list, but they just pile up so fast.

This past year and 1/2 of WFH life meant, I now have about 50 issues to go through LOL.
Good luck loading your email into... what, Outlook? Thunderbird, god forbid? And having it use less...

(In fairness, I suppose Mutt's resource usage is probably lower.)
Fox New's actual news coverage is mostly truthful. But a huge amount of their airtime is opinion pieces and media personalities who spout BS all day. Tucker Carlson is probably the most notorious. Plus they have Republican politicians calling in and showing up constantly, and they're allowed to say whatever they want.
> The fact that you incorrectly think that the "vast majority of people on the planet are also Christian" proves my point.

No, it means that I confused the terms "majority" and "plurality". If 75% of the world were Christian, it wouldn't make "being human" a Christian institution.
IME 3-6 months is not uncommon but a full year is.
I don’t think its as simple as respect the authors wishes. You are participating in a large OS ecosystem as soon as you become a dependency of another project. Most people don’t care about the package in this case and just want the package that is using it.

The author is additionally being intentionally dense and inflammatory. They are unlikely to get their way acting like this instead of trying to find a compromise as others are trying to do.
I lived in Europe in de-jure religious nations. The fact that you find these comparable is exactly my point.

For other readers, you can model America as parent comment or you can model America as I have described it. I think you will get more accurate predictions from my model but if you don’t believe that, ask other outsiders who have moved to America (and made it their home, as I have). Or come here yourself.

Unfortunately, American identity is tied up in these things. The so-called separation of church and state is held up on as much of a pedestal as “freedom” with predictable effects: evidence contra these principles is ignored or considered a threat. But come here and see for yourself.
> so there’s some obligation for them to respect that.

There is ZERO obligation for an OSS author. Nothing, zilch. It is NICE to respect requests or help with issues you don't care about, but clearly not required when you are working on something FOR FREE.
>Considering that Stripe's original selling point was that it let websites accept credit card payments without seeing your credit card number

I thought that Stripe's original selling point was that you could easily accept payments online without having to integrate with complicated bank and payment processor tech.
It's not even written in React!
I think this is unfair. You can try to have empathy and understanding for someone without knowing the intricacies of their beliefs.
If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...
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You might want to take a serious look at your nutrition. Nutritional deficiencies or imbalances can cause all sorts of very serious issues, including mental issues.

Taking long walks in nature (as in 2 or more hours long) can help, as can unplugging from the internet and other media, and meditation.

Many of us hyper-stimulated, and are in a pavlovian loop of jumping from one source of instant gratification to another, without taking much time to reflect one's own life and the world. Quieting one's life might help.
Studies show that "left bias" in mainstream media is much greater than it is among Americans in general. For example:

"Compared with 2002, the percentage of full-time U.S. journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped 8 percentage points in 2013 to about 28 percent, moving this figure closer to the overall population percentage of 30 percent, according to a December 12-15, 2013, ABC News/Washington Post national poll of 1,005 adults. This is the lowest percentage of journalists saying they are Democrats since 1971. An even larger drop was observed among journalists who said they were Republicans in 2013 (7.1 percent) than in 2002 (18 percent), but the 2013 figure is still notably lower than the percentage of U.S. adults who identified with the Republican Party (24 percent according to the poll mentioned above)."

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...)

"Some of the professional groups have clear liberal leanings. People who work in the news media are almost exclusively donors to liberal candidates:"

(https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bi...)
> There are Christian (and particularly protestant) cultural influences and vestiges all around us, in many of our attitudes towards things.

Sure, that doesn't contradict anything I said, which was restricted to a particular response about the modern American commercial festival of “Christmas".

> The idea that the modern American lifestyle is completely divorced from Christianity

...is not one I’ve expressed, so if you want to argue against it, go respond to someone actually making that argument.
If you look at the amount of actual chat, it's already far below Libera.

What this means is that probably most of the users left are either bouncers or lurkers that just haven't disconnected yet. However, this is speculation on my part.
The license can only be revoked ex nunc presumably?

Do you have a reference or, more preferably, casserole to share on this point?
What you are proposing doesn’t work with nix packaging
(shameless self-promotion but) We're actually building something just like this. We're calling it Formguru, here's an example of my squat in action: https://www.formguru.fitness/video/c96fa975-fd9e-4912-8f60-1....

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I don't have any experience of nix packaging, but I work on a couple of programs when Debian applied some broken patches while packaging, then "we" (upstream) get the bug reports. It's annoying as we don't have any way of fixing it, just have to tell users to uninstall the Debian version.
Gmail doesn't scan emails any more?
Doesn’t seem too hard actually, given enough example input. The parity is just a linear combination of the input so you can set up a linear system and solve for those things encoding matrix rows pretty easily. From there you may need to make some assumptions about what type of matrix was used (e.g. vandermonde is popular) and perhaps the field size being used (e.g. GF(2^8), and with those, it should be easy to determine the reducing polynomial. Some of these choices are small enough to be able to brute force (finite fields used for practical problems tend to be small, naturally). If you have a dataset, I might actually toy with it myself.. sounds fun.
TCP doesn't do forward error correction at all. It uses a retransmission scheme instead. TCP's error correction is not only to insure a consistent datastream, but also to more equitably share limited bandwidth.
I am not the author so I can only speculate. He's anticipating that they will be distributing an out-of-date package and it's simply another place that has to be synchronized. He's saying that there isn't actually a need to host it elsewhere as it can be installed via pip through pypy (his preferred host) which will have up-to-date code. He doesn't want to get bug reports for outdated code.
Apparently not, since the author couldn't/didn't want to either.
> In China, the seven day week was adopted in the late 4th Century A.D. in the Jin dynasty

I think this needs a citation. I've never seen any mention of 7-day weeks in historical Chinese texts. Systems of 7-day weeks might be known by Chinese by this time due to cultural and religious exchanges with the West, but claims that it was "adopted" is news to me. My impression is that the current 7 day week system adopted in China is a very recent phenomenon, i.e. presumably not earlier than the 19th century, and mostly due to the work of Christian missionaries. (... I could be wrong though, I haven't read that much post-Jin texts...)
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So the Dutch government is incentivizing hiring non-Dutch people??!