skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who wants to see what I'm talking about, here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBssIIRGkOw) is a good video of a 1970s minicomputer (which is not a mainframe, yes, but generally built and maintained by the same vendors with the same repair strategies) being disassembled/reassembled. You can see plenty of bodge wires!

You can also see the 1970s evolution of the "breadboard blackplane" into "pseudo-ball-grid-array backplane, with arbitrary collections of bodge wires loosely mated to it via hand-crimped proto-Molex connectors." (The only difference in practice being that you could now plug/unplug a "group" of wires, rather than one at a time. There was still no screen-printed indication of where on the BGA grid to re-attach anything, since the grid wasn't customized to its purpose, but rather was still fundamentally a "generic routing board" in the same vein as a breadboard.)
I think a fair benchmark is https://haskellbook.com/.

It's $60 and the absolute most I'll consider and have spent on a book of this nature, outside of botique ancient stuff....and is really well written as well as has a pretty ambitious goal (teach Haskell and programming more generally from the ground up).
Hold Up – What Are JavaScript Generators?
Judging by how quickly I get downvoted around here, it looks like the population density is rather high...
if the set of all selection algorithms is infinite you need the axiom of choice to guarantee that you can even select an algorithm from it.
I know. Catskill and Croton are both on Hudson river. Imagine that the upstream has dried up, and the Delaware sources gone totally insufficient.

My idea is that a real need makes people reconsider their opinions which they held dear as long as they did not have a skin in the game.
Most women spend only a tiny fraction of their lives pregnant, but they still identify as women the entire time. Pregnancy is not the only thing that makes a woman feel like a woman. And not-getting-pregnant not the only thing that makes a man feel like a man.

They identify as men because they feel like men. They often have beards, dress in men's clothes, participate in men's sports, relate to other men and women as men do.

Most of the trans men I've met are better guys than I am. That is, I don't do a lot of the things classically associated with men.

So it doesn't surprise me that a few of these men also want to have children of their own and go about it in the way that their bodies allow. I wouldn't want to, but then, I don't particularly want children either, so in some ways I find the urge to get pregnant at all more baffling than the urge to do so as a man.

I think it's great that they can just make up their own gender roles as they go along. I feel very cis and very straight, but I have no idea who I would have been if I were growing up today rather than in the 70s and 80s.
Or just a few turns, depending on your difficulty setting. (-;
Nor sure if you are kidding or what but western US forests current have all-time-low fuel moisture content. This is a consequence of climate change.
https://www.wfas.net/data/firedanger/graphs/NC/NC04_ERCg.png
Nice, but I was thinking ahead, for a real check that would block the commit, but using the actual secrets.
It is a completely novel design for a space telescope though. On top of that there's no capability [0] to go patch up a sloppy job like we did with Hubble.

[0] Currently at least. Starship could I guess but it was planned way ahead of Starship even being a glimmer in Musk's eye. Do they have any grapple points on it as insurance? I would at this point, just put one of the posts they use on the ISS for Canada Arm to grapple.
-nursing

-teachers

-police

-firefighters

-professional athletes

-engineers

How would you have even know these people were "Unions" if it wasn't already a mindset going in.
Satellites Map Floods in Western Europe
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This is absolutely bonkers
I understand the idea that real numbers are uncountable infinite. (there's an infinite number of real numbers between any two random real numbers).

My question is: why is it problematic only when you have to choose?

I mean, what's wrong with choosing a random element from every set? Why do you need a rule?

Where is the "problem"?
Imo, all of the major issues related to the US justice system could be resolved if your employer could only fire you with a conviction, the government had to pay for holding people not guilty, and if your held without trial for x amount of days, you must be released. All of these incentives protect working class people and requires prosecutors to have the literal smoking gun to prosecute.
> 14 admitted out of population size of how many IVM users please?

Completely agree. That's the correct question. Is the number higher or lower than the people that is not taking IVM, proportionally? The problem is that to have the correct answer you must do a randomized controlled trial (double blind to avoid other differences in the treatment and bias) (large to avoid flukes).
There were in fact 4 large observatories, of which Hubble was one. Hubble captures light in the visible wavelegnths, the others captured light in other wavelenghts. Their pictures aren't as pretty so they get less attention. There's also JWST, as mentioned elsewhere.

Hubble - Visible / NIR, 1990 - Present

Compton - Gamma Ray / Xray, 1991 - 2000

Chandra - Xray, 1999 - Present

Spitzer - Infrared, 2003 - 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Observatories_program
Apologies for comment thread hijacking, but I have a related question I hope someone could help me understand.

I have worked on many teams that did continuous integration, but never continuous deployment. With continuous deployment, say I branch off trunk and start to implement FeatureA. Just after that, someone else branches off trunk, implements a smaller FeatureB, and merges it back in to trunk. The next day I finish FeatureA and open a pull request back to trunk.

All unit tests pass on the code I submitted, and there are no conflicts with trunk. But still, it's not going to be a fast forward merge, so the code I submitted is different than what will be actually be deployed after FeatureA is merged to trunk. And maybe after merge, certain unit tests will fail on trunk. This same truth applies regardless if my pull request is set to squash-merge or rebase.

So my question. When do unit tests automatically get run?

1. On my feature branch after the pull request is opened?
2. On trunk after my feature branch is merged?
3. Both 1 and 2?
4. Or am I, as a submitter of code required to continually update my pull requests such that they are always going to be fast forward? That is, if I am waiting on a pull request to be merged, and someone else's PR is merged do I have to rebase my code on top of trunk every time?

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* Passing unit tests in FeatureB do not guarantee passing unit tests here
Ask HN: Did you quit smoking cannabis? If so, why?
I know this is offtopic, but i figure there are many current or past pot smokers on here.

I recently had the idea to quit smoking, but somehow it does not really suit me and i started to ask why i even should. The main argument i keep finding is alike "heavy smokers are lazy and likely won't get successful in their job or life" and stuff like this, which might is true in statistics but not for me.

On the opposite i am happy to have a tool that i can use to calm down that isn't valium or alcohol, that helps my migrains as well as is able to give me creative kicks i need for my work.

I am wondering what your experience is, what changed?
That’s a non-answer though.

Do you mean they are guaranteed to discover another “realm” and move to it?

Why? It might not be possible, no matter how much physics one knows. Or do you take the Fermi paradox itself as a proof of the solution?
We're approaching the point where we'll be scrambling to deal with increasingly regular natural disasters, heat waves, etc and too busy dealing with the immediate problems (because that's what constituents are crying out for help with) to solve the underlying problem.

What kills me is An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006 and we've chosen to ignore the issue until it radically changes the planet.
In Germany, a non-compete can only be enforced for up to two years and pays 50% of the last salary (by law).
You don’t exactly need to ban them, but the employees should be compensated during the non-compete period and limit the lenght of the non-compete contract.

In Denmark my employeer can’t make non-compete contract for more that 12 month, during which I’m entitled to 60% of my salery. It’s also only valid within the same field. That is: You can’t jump from Microsoft, developing Windows, to Apple and work on macOS, but you can go to Twitter.
I want to be fiscally conservative, but it's nonsensical without addressing the elephant in the room - inflationary policy. Spending money on deliberate projects is necessary to alleviate the nasty effects of the previous trillions that were, and still are, being given away to the banks. Focusing on the few scraps that the government throws to the people is a red herring.

Also the Democrats' hands are tied, not being able to pass substantive non-financial legislation like HR1. Budget is one of the few things they can use this "reconciliation" to push through without filibuster, and so they're trying to use spending to solve everything.
You hack from the weakest point but unimportant part. You start from area not directly related …
Plus humans are extremely adaptable. Even before we invented agriculture, people had colonized the whole planet, except for Antarctica. It would be hard to kill us all off.
"If we shifted over to renewables then it would be."

How would that help soil erosion, food production/waste? How would that help with other resource use like metals, timber, fish stocks, etc? There is a lot more to sustainability than just CO2. Even looking just at that, where can we get that much lithium, copper, concrete/asphalt substitute, silicon for solar, etc? There are restrictions to the resources we use and process.

"Put more blatantly, I find that a lot of the discussion about overpopulation is an attempt to put the blame of global warming and our sustainability problems on those who emit the least per capita."

Where was that said? That's not what I'm saying. You still seem to be focused solely on fossil fuels here ("emit"). As nations develop, they will also adopt a more modern and higher consumption lifestyle. This is a global trend that also applies to developed nations continuing to get richer and indulge in having an even better life (eg parents always want more for their kids than they had for themselves, substantial numbers of people want the newest iPhone, look at house size over time, etc).
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_crisis : a very disputed election. Is the US becoming a Latin American country?
While I think unions have their own evils, it's somewhat interesting to me that the sectors you listed are some of the more promising ways to be middle-class within the U.S. without concern for outsourcing.

Anecdotally, my area of the country recently changed from government postal workers to contractors. The service has gotten much, much worse since the change. So while it may be true that it's easier to be fired in the private sector, I'm not sure that corresponds to better service.
The article specifically talks about how the hotter climate is causing fires to behave differently, it’s not about ignition source, but go on...
Indeed, in portable mode it'll be hell to type. But for some server maintenance (ssh, service start / stop, read log) and database / app designing it won't be much of a problem.

I must say for programming or office related workstation, a non-joystick version will be better. But if we want a lite programming pc that's able to be docked that can also act as multimedia and gaming, it's suitable.

Well if the controller can be detached (maybe nintento patented them?) like switch it'll be awesome.
Yup. This is often why smaller companies are dominated by poor leaders as well. There may not be many that many other voices and the non assertive people realize they are not being valued and leave or they don't join to begin with.

The later I get in my career the more I realize I care a lot about who my manager will be.
I appreciate the gist of the article but IMO the CA/MA dichotomy (which is often mentioned--though MA significantly restricted non-competes a few years back) is facile.

It's true that a lot of the new Internet/Web companies came out of California. And Apple is of course there as well.

But the Route 128 companies mentioned in the article certainly traded employees, although in general employee tenures tended to be much longer than today. Data General, for example, was founded by a Digital engineer. Similarly there is a massive biotech/pharma cluster of companies in Kendall Square in Cambridge today.
I found this bit particularly revealing:
"Amazon’s most effective union-busting tactic was requiring employees to attend so-called captive audience meetings. The presentations were a study in psychological projection. Amazon, a publicly traded for-profit corporation that maximizes shareholder value and refers to its employees as “associates,” was presented as a “family.” Meanwhile, unions—nonprofit organizations whose members call each other “brother” and “sister” and who elect their own leaders—were framed as businesses run by “bosses.” The workers were told that the union, being a business, had come to Bessemer only to squeeze a profit out of them, whereas Amazon, being a family, had arrived to aid a struggling community."
> "It will be sad if online play becomes only enjoyable with people you already know."

Already long since passed that point for me quite a couple few years back.

Thankfully, it's not that hard to build up a little circle of gamer friends who are fun to play with these days. The messaging options alone currently available are many and featureful, making it dead easy to gather a little group and keep in contact with them to organize a game session any ol' time.
Thanks. I actually took the time to learn latex this past year. Knuth is a mad genius.
Food scarcity IS fixed/ is literally impossible to fix. Human population grew like five times in the living memory and people ignorant of this (willfully or not) are still trying to fix "food scarcity".
I wonder if desalination plant effluent could be used for this process.
Being born in Europe I always was a huge fan of unions, as agents to level the balance of power between employers and employees. The unions negotiate pay rates, safety procedures, benefits, etc, etc, and have the financial means to back the negotiations with strikes.

After coming to US I became less enthusiastic. Unions seem to frequently go overboard. For example only union workers being allowed to plug power cords into the outlets at trade-shows - at great cost - and similar shenanigans that basically seem to only increase cost and reduce productivity.

Some of the resentment against unions is self-inflicted.
Perhaps that was and is historically needed here in the US...?
That graph is only over 2021, and doesn't specify where the "average" came from. It could be the Seasons for all we know. It's not enough by itself.
I think one could make a strong argument that Stalin always knowingly acted in the best interest of Stalin.
Ah yes, the center of the universe is obviously an inaccessible real point. I actually really like this idea.

Still centerless seems like it could carry less baggage and be just as "correct", but IDK.
What state is this?
Prohibiting them from lying in no way equals requiring them to fully answer any question that is asked.
While I agree with you in spirit, I also think this is an uncharitable view of OP’s statement. While it is true that some subset of the population relies on the minimum wage to survive, it’s perfectly reasonable to question whether that’s the best tool for the job without meaning that the poor don’t deserve homes/children.

For example: federal housing subsidies could be expanded, as well as SNAP, to augment the minimum wage. In fact, that is already what happens. So a fuller portrait of this situation might include the total hourly wage when factoring in government subsidies. I will contend that even with those add-ins the minimum wage still isn’t high enough, especially in relation to the massive productivity gains realized through automation and efficiency over the past half-century.
Maybe it's just me. But if societies collapsed in 2050, you really aren't going to get a choice as to where you live unless you are the 0.1%. You will most likely have to choose a place where your race fits in with the population.

For example, I seriously doubt if Asians will live happily in Russia or Poland or Europe in general if society is collapsing.
There's so much wrong here.

> The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those protections, they’d need to pay lower salaries, and we’d all be worse off.

No. If companies couldn't coerce workers to stay with them against their will, then they would have to pay better and be better employers. And we would all be better off.

> But suppose instead that innovation is difficult. Lukas Walton has a net worth of $22 billion because his grandfather founded Walmart. If he decided he really only needs $5 billion in life and is going to plow the other $17 billion into a massive R&D effort, how much innovation will he really generate?

A huge amount. Plenty of people set up research institutes or new departments at universities that make giant leaps forward. See Paul Allen for example.

> To a considerable extent, this hinges on poaching. Silicon Valley was a good place to grow Facebook because fast-growing Facebook could poach from older tech companies.

I wish people would stop with this anti-labor language. Poaching? That's ridiculous. It starts by offering people a better place to work, with a better mission, better people, and more money. That's not "poaching".

> And Silicon Valley is a good place to launch a startup today because you can poach from Facebook.

That's funny. FB and other companies offer far more money than most startups can afford. That's not why the Valley is a good place to launch a startup.

> One of the big, overarching problems of our time is that productivity growth has slowed down sharply from where it was during the post-WWII decades.

The overarching problem of our time is that productivity no longer means higher salary and higher quality of life. Productivity keeps going up, but salaries stagnate. What's the incentive to be more productive?

> In the early days of the computer industry, Silicon Valley was rivaled by the Route 128 corridor (this is a road through the Boston suburbs) in Massachusetts as a hub of innovation. But California won out decisively here, and many people think the lack of non-compete agreements in the Golden State is part of the reason.

There's a lot of debate about this. And now we're running the decisive experiment! MA just basically killed off non-competes (1 year limit, narrow scope both in terms of work and geography). Let's see if the biotech industry stays.
I follow him on twitter. Very pushy about his "things".

I really like k8sup and openfaas and can't imagine the pressure to make a living off OSS, so I don't blame him.
Start a new career, start an unrelated company, do non profit work, do research, etc...

I imagine these people have money, so what's making potentially an extra 200k? You make that in a year.
I loved that rainbow printing screen as a kid
I certainly would have known teachers and police are unionized. Its very clear when interacting with them.
Yeah the good old garden leave. I wish.
I mean how much of the private sector, all without the input of unionized labor, isn't at least two of slow, expensive, inefficient, and unable to progress? Sometimes I feel like there's this romanticization of the agility of private enterprise when that attribute really applies to a considerably smaller number.

Just for example, any discussion of Agile SCRUM on this board illuminates startling differences in efficiency and drive between various companies
And to add the evidence we do have; in the billions of years of life on earth, there has only been <200 years where any species had the will and the way to send deliberate communications into space. Observational evidence suggests that the time span of civilizations existing is vanishingly tiny compared to the vastness of time overall
Normalize pork! It's delicious, it requires much less land, and produces less CO2 per pound than cows.
The USFS offers up every inch of its territory for logging, but nobody wants it because western mountain forests are just too difficult to harvest, compared to tree plantations in flat territory. If you want these forests better managed we have to throw out the idea that a marketplace can solve it.
> But otherwise, it’s the same rocketry.

I get that Elon is a bullshitter who occasionally delivers which makes him insanely polarizing, but this feels like a bit of a ridiculous statement.

Landing the first stage of the rocket isn’t the same rocketry.
Require companies to pay employees some percentage of their former salary (e.g. 20%) for the period of a non-compete, otherwise it is unenforceable.

That would ensure that companies only bother to enforce non-competes when the stakes are high and it's serious, and prevent them from basically IP-trolling former employees by making such a thing unprofitable.
This would mean that you can then also work in a related but not competing industry at the same time. It's not a no-work afterwords contract, but don't compete with us. that won't affect your total compensation then, or your career trajectory usually either. The idea is that a non-compete should only be used for someone it will actually matter to the business the, and not all the low level employees that don't have any impact on anything like that. right now you have tech support and call center employees with year long non-competes that prevents the, from working in another similar role at a new company, https://www.protocol.com/policy/tech-non-compete
And, like a mirror, there is also a distrust of the capitalistically disorganized crowd-of-small-traders: Taxis which were so distrustworthy and dysfunctional that everyone prefers using them through Uber; Internet small shops (people prefer the same shop through Amazon); the litany of small individual hotels (people seem to prefer the stamp of AirBnb), etc.

As a capitalism myself, I’m always dissatisfied on how everything produced in mass turns into the untrustworthy mess of dollar shops, and good capitalism seems to require a bit of concentration.
Windows barely locks anything up when you run it not activated, and it's super simple to install it without a license.
Not quite a answer: I don't smoke cannabis in the first place because it was hard enough to quit regular cigarette smoking. I don't want to do anything similar ever again.
Starting with this release you do see TCP-over-TLS in the flows view, we have a small screenshot in the blog post. Interception/modification is still something where we need to iron out the UX for, with version 7 you can at least inject messages with the `inject.tcp`/`inject.websocket` commands. This is not very well documented yet, but the technical foundations are there now. :)
What type of effect would there be on the climate from a sudden decrease in CO2?
How to build a random quote machine. If you can make it simple, do so
Twitter thread.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/Manawyrm/status/1414901574267248643
That looks soooo weird.

I've never seen it in color before.
No, it doesn't. It only mentions climate change once in a quote that contains no scientific measurements. Just the claim that climate change is doing something, and that's it.