skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Moving people" OTOH sounds violent.
Diverging a little, but still related, I'm thinking a bit about dynamics in orgs where perhaps _many_ employees don't really need the job. E.g. my understanding is there are some academic fields where a large percentage of scholars have family wealth. In some non-profits, highly qualified staff know that they're earning much less than they would in industry.

In cases where passion for an organization's mission or interest in the work or perceived prestige is the most important consideration for many employees at an organization, does that change how they work overall?
Is there any way of shorting a currency other than the "traditional" way of borrowing it via a loan? I imagine liquidity issues might turn attempts to short the AF$ into a ticking time bomb of sorts.
> Why not a type for even numbers? Odd, prime, not-prime, etc?

Those are not mathematical entities in the same way as are the sets W (whole numbers) or N (natural numbers, indices). It is reasonable to specify your domain closely, otherwise you end up with sqlite.

"Why not a type for datetimes or complex numbers?" would be a better question, as those are different kinds of things but not quite so frequently used in programming.
Biden’s Most Heartless Betrayal
Scientific management and its consequences, etc.
Nice catch. One of many instances where C/C++ compilers rely on integer wraparound being UB.
If you're actually employing 5 people then $100 is nothing for service which is central to your work. If it's 5 people not making money, then maybe you don't need a proprietary service.
> It's a new kind of exploitation we haven't really faced before.

Sure we have, serfdom. Serfs were not only expected to provide labour to their “employers”, but to fight for them, believe what they believe, and pledge their fealty.

Like serfs, and unlike the period from the industrial revolution to the postwar years, it’s becoming less common for people to change careers, an occupation being more than a job and becoming an identity. Sure we might change employers frequently, but it is not often (and is in fact a spectacle) when someone makes a drastic change of occupation.
This particular instance isn't one of the most troubling examples of the "ratchet effect" in political economy(described by Peacock and Wiseman and then further illustrated by Higgs), but it's definitely an example of the pattern. For the uninitiated, virtually any crisis funding, bureaucratic apparatus, or set of emergency powers obtained by governments is all-but-guaranteed never to recede to pre-crisis levels.
There is always a price at which people (myself included) will happily clean toilets. The problem is right now the "choice" for the people doing it is – do the job or your family goes hungry. Have you ever noticed it's always the refugees or undocumented immigrants doing it?
We linkify text submissions for Show HNs and other interesting text posts where it's clear that the feature isn't being misused. I did that on the OP.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

Q: How do I make a link in a text submission?

A: You can't. This is to prevent people from submitting a link with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit it, then add a regular comment.
> One needn’t exist for my claim to be true.

Which explains everything.
Russia is another foreign power whose interests often run counter to those of the US and which often acts accordingly. That does not make it a “hostile” power, at least in the sense the term has been used for decades; there is not even saber-rattling. Sure, its government is a bag of dicks and its people seem to like strongmen and authoritarianism and persecuting gays, but that’s not hostility.

The evidence of collusion - whose existence you assert without naming, not that there isn’t any - wasn’t as persuasive to me as it was to you.
> People with credit cards shop at Walmart too

If people spend next months wages, that only temporarily increases sales.

Long term I would expect that non-Walmart credit would decrease sales, since shopper’s income remains constant but they pay more on interest so less remaining for other goods.
> But some cancers are caused by viruses.

Note that mRNA technology is not limited to viruses. The cancer vaccine is actually a misnomer as it is actually a personalized treatment for people who already have cancer [1]:

> The cells from the patient's tumor are analyzed, and genetic sequencing is used to identify twenty neoantigen epitopes that may elicit the strongest immune response in the patient. The sequences encoding the twenty patient-specific epitopes are transcribed and loaded onto a single mRNA molecule. [...] This leads to an induction of both cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL)- and memory T-cell-dependent immune responses that specifically target and destroy the patient's cancer cells that express these neoantigens.

BioNTech has actually started Phase 2 trials for a mRNA-based cancer therapy [2].

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-drug...

[2] https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/first-patient-dosed...
How about advancing the frontiers of science? That alone is worth it, it is not?

You seem to want to halt all further research into alternative energy and settle with the current state of our solar/wind capabilities, which is strange.

We can do both.
There's an awful lot of Apple fans out there over this in the "bargaining" phase of grief with posts like this.

If someone pitched you a Linux kernel which did this it would forks and outrage.
This is a pretty grim outlook. It’s at best a false dichotomy between “code lovers” who write beautiful code and “money lovers” who write ugly code. An engineer who can adapt their output based on constraints and requirements deserves to be well compensated for that flexibility.
I unknowingly found myself in a similar employee situation. I had left a company to work at a startup. The startup failed. Around the same time a key person on the team I used to be on went on maternity leave. I was available so I agreed to contract employment to the end of the year. They put a clause in the contract that if I don't stay to the end of the term there would be a $10k penalty. I didn't think twice and signed it, though at the time I thought it would be better for me to give my word on it since we all knew each other.

Well anyway, during the summer there was this coding contest and I won 2nd place. The contest was a recruiting stunt, no surprise, and I was offered a job. I said yes for Jan. They really wanted me ASAP and I explained my situation. They offered to pay that out and a signing bonus, so I said yes negotiating to start in a month to hand over ongoing work. Funny thing is, if I'd given my word I would have stayed to the end of term. Putting the penalty clause in the contract actually made it so much easier to leave because the conditions were so cut-and-dry for both parties. So my take is that you shouldn't run your business on money and fear, but rather get to know who you're dealing with.

Now that I'm thinking of this, I was in another similar situation, where I had my full-time programming job but was bored and got a summer job at Sporting Life (upmarket sportswear + equipment chain). I onboarded for a week with a bunch of highschoolers off for the summer, aced the textiles knowledge. At one point they pointed out that I was far overqualified for the position, and I said that I was bored and the employee discounts are pretty good. Anyhow I ended up staying there all summer, fall, and most of the way through the winter, outlasting multiple waves of staff turnover. I gave it up because it was stressful to get there on time, finding parking, and the parking tickets were racking up. The best part of the job was when ladies trying on clothes would ask how things looked and I'd give it to them straight. I don't recall anyone being offended and many thanked me for my honesty and bought stuff. I wasn't on commission but would have done the same anyway. [I'm a bit socially autistic-like, I once declared that a friend "wasn't at all photogenic" and there was dead silence. Part of the problem might have been that I looked at a lot of photos of them before I said it. I still didn't think there was anything wrong with saying that. It seemed the same to me as saying you're not tall.]
It doesn't defenderd any corruption. Just curious why Laetitia James Cares so obsessed with shutting down NRA
Ask HN: What are the best jobs and roles for someone with ADHD?
So how we know who is the winner,in case of disputes? Are you guys going to appoint arbitrators?
It's exactly what it is, look:

"Lockdowns work!"
"Lockdowns didn't work in the West."
"Those were no true lockdowns!"

This is essentially the summary of the parent comment.
I feel you undersold pumped hydro. This proven technology is cheap, efficient and at scale.

If any grid needs energy storage and has suitable undeveloped sites available, they'd be foolish to consider any other alternative you mentioned.

The significant issue with ph is site availability.
Related to refinement-types is the concept of "parsing, not validating":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166162
Using Go Generics
> If Fusion reactors could be realized, this would solve all energy problems.

If fusion reactors could be realized, they'd likely be so Rube Goldbergish and expensive that no one would want them.

There's this tendency to conflate "getting a fusion reactor" and "getting a fusion reactor that actually makes sense to use". The former, while difficult, is likely MUCH easier than the latter.
‘The German army’s medal of valor, a rarely bestowed honor, has only ever been given to soldiers active in Afghanistan.’

It has only been given to them because the medal wasn’t established until 2008
Citation for pervasive content scanning?
Based on my local market, this doesn’t work. Builders (more likely their financiers) hold on to houses until they sell at their target price.

They don’t rent them, they don’t lower the target price.

They’ll wait for months or years for the sale to come in order to maximize their returns, and they have enough liquidity to be able to wait.
I'm wondering... people who don't have kids/commitments outside of work could - theoretically - give more effort for their work (e.g. time to commute wouldn't be seen as quite as bad). But they also probably expect more returns from work to make it worthwhile. So if the last part is not given, they will seek out alternatives (other work or other fulfilling roles outside of work).
I thought this was going to be about the team that "hacked" the Autotote system to produce winning tickets on races already run. Their downfall was winning a jackpot in the millions, on the pick-6 at the Breeders Cup, with a betting pattern that was severely un-natural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Breeders%27_Cup_betting...
I suppose either you edited it to change the text or the more likely event was that I misread it. yeah you're mostly correct and there are those second order effects too.
TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property. The free healthcare is partially true as well.

But worse is if you lose job the unemployment benefit called jobSeeker is very low and poverty level. It was temporarily boosted in pandemic and current lockdowns but you can't realistically live on that.
Thanks for the interesting writeup. I wonder if it is because glibc has a less-optimized atan2f (for floats). The double version seems quite involved in glibc anyway:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/iee...

...where the atan2f version ends up calling atan, which doesn't seem as sophisticated:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/iee...
Her negotiation power is beyond the control of the manager. Despite the contractual relationship, it is actually her hiring the company to fulfill her needs, since they are so dependent on her. The manager's job in this scenario, is not representing the company to her, but representing her to the company, i.e. adjust the company's policy to avoid losing her.
Isn't Jimmy Carter and Habit For Humanity building new homes, each in under 30 days, around the southern east coast? https://allthatsinteresting.com/jimmy-carter-houses
PhotoDNA: "is an image-identification technology used for detecting child pornography and other illegal content which is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) [...] It is used on Microsoft's own services including Bing and OneDrive, as well as by Google's Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Adobe Systems, Reddit, Discord and the NCMEC, to whom Microsoft donated the technology." [1]

I'm (almost) certain any Google service will tag CSAM for reports and will also hash content it deems illegal for the NCMEC too [2], so I wouldn't be surprised if Google Photos already did something like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

[2] https://transparencyreport.google.com/child-sexual-abuse-mat...
It doesn't have to. For example, if people are moving from Bay Area to Texas, we should think about how to accelerate that.
Since we’re here: https://www.amazon.com/Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/006162...
Further update - it turns out I'd turned off Hardware Acceleration in FF to avoid issues that Windows has when you have GPU accelerated content on two separate monitors with different refresh rates.

It's really bad with Hardware Accel turned off, but it's still a bit laggier with it on compared to chrome/edge.
I have a few ATS related posts, talking about the safety aspects of it https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/index.html
The reason some people are willing to do some jobs involves force. The idea that people have freedom of choice in what they do is a sleight of hand to obscure the fact that many jobs are taken due to threat of immediate homelessness.
Decommoditize it. Penalize investors. Make it prohibitively expensive to own a property but not live in it. Expropriate investment properties from those who do have them, as Berlin is currently considering.
Leaving as soon as somebody paying more money is just as likely to happen as somebody leaving because there are more interesting problems to solve elsewhere. (Or they just get bored of your business problems)

I'm not sure about stock options, but I agree that key employees should get rich when an owner gets rich.
> they are more educated in the medical field than the common patient and have context.

Pompous credentialism.

This is a hacker forum. Are people outside of universities unable to learn computer science, applied math, sw dev? Sure, biomed is a different field, but that’s all it is. A different knowledge base, there are more and more biomed hackers out there too, not to mention quite a few patients are PhDs and MDs themselves.

Geez, from your words patients are simply all permanently dumb as bricks and unable to ever learn, where as MDs always know more than patients, despite having never ever done any actual research in their entire training and subsequent career.

Nice set of preconceived notions and biases there, fellow researcher.
WebView2 has been out for ages, it released with the new edge browser. You can launch what you like in it from your own application.
Do we really want a bunch of armed people flying on planes? There seems to be enough assaults on flight crew as it stands today. Do we really want to add firearms and other weapons to the mix?
Much better for all mankind.
Fortunately for him, many Texans will be praying for his recovery.
How many people are not working because they suddenly no longer have a reliable place for child care? Lots of jurisdiction's protocols will shut down day cares or in-person schooling for a week or more after a single case. In that environment, who are you going to get to take care of your child that may have been exposed?
I can only think the most direct usage for this info is to feed the performance screen/tab that lives in settings showing CPU and memory usage

But some of the info its reading seems a little bit too much

cough 'telemetry' cough
that in the US i believe is mostly regulatory capture (guilds & licensing, unions, in some cases inappropriate regulations)

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...
I would question that primes are not mathematical entities.

Same for other sets like "not-primes", or the odd numbers.

Sets can be nicely approximated with types. (Some people say even that types correspond directly to sets).
The insinuation that there's a motive to say "we don't quite know what it is yet", in the comment I was responding to, is all I addressed. That assumes bad faith, all I'm doing is pointing out how ridiculous such an assumption is.
Nobody can look at the official covid numbers reported from China trended over time and believe they are true.
I really like the comparison to ORMs
You're unlikely to find an instant solution to a problem decades in the making, period.
So what happened to the hacker news page and the new font (is it something wrong with my browser, but things look a bit different last few days)
This is exactly the kind of dickery I hate zoom for. The same thing with installing a backdoor and then blatantly refusing to remove it when found out. Luckily Apple did the job for them :P

Their attitude is so wrong. I don't understand how people still use it.
On their property. Nobody is doing it on someone else's property.
I've always thought of it as a journey that we're going on together, where we may do something, expect something, find something, or conclude something - together!

Perhaps I'm finding camaraderie where there is none. How disappointing.
> and no government would be crazy enough to permit it to be built

I can imagine China building one simply for the national prestige. "China built the world's first commercial nuclear fusion power station". The Chinese government wants to prove itself the equal of other major world powers (especially the US) and being the first country to have commercial nuclear fusion would be a good way of sending that message. Even if it is more expensive and less safe than renewable energy.

And then the US government would build one to "counter the nuclear fusion gap with China" and "ensure American supremacy in nuclear fusion technology".

That said, this isn't going to be technically feasible for a few more decades (at least), and we don't know what the geopolitical situation will be like by then. Maybe China-US competition will still be as strong, even stronger, then as now. Maybe it will be in the past and the world will have moved on to something else. Who knows.
That does not apply to the windows office suite, literally built on megatonnes of legacy & bug level compatibility. Or windows for that matter.
Coal is absolutely the worst so it may not be a fair comparison. How would fusion compare to renewables like solar or wind?
It's bullshit like this that cause people to get a local copy of the font, trace it, then release their new font as something with a different name and maybe a few minor changes that normal humans would never notice. Fonts are my least favorite thing, followed closely by printing.
Doesn't this reduce investment in real estate, hence reduce supply?
I never studied tensors, but for a very first ultra basic understanding of tensors I really liked Dan Fleisch's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5liqUk0ZTw&t=3s

He also has some great "Student's Guide" books about tensors and other subjects.
I have a meeting today today to negotiate with another audit team that my TPS reports can be proven to be accurate. I only did this 2 months ago with external audit. Shoot me now.
So does a 100 kg, 1 m diameter disk spinning at 56 Hz. I'd rather be sitting next to a donut if that disk stopped in less than a second.
Nah, unsigned ints are magical. Why check

(i < 0) || (i > n)

when you can just simplify it to

(i > n)

after verifying that n < max_uint?
I mean, follow the money. Why are those countries dumping chemicals, plastics in the ocean? Why are they cutting down forests and agriculturizing their land?

Mostly because the rich countries pay them to do it, basically. So they can build our toys and grow our beef. In other words, we export our environmental damage so we can afford to keep our environment cleaner.
In the US, yes, and it depends on what company you use. Like a lot of things in the US, people live by rules that are created by multinationals. It really doesn't matter which entity requires identity documents for a phone number, it is a bad idea in general.
And vkd3d-proton does it for DX12 so you have practically all relevant DX covered with Vulkan translation.
This is a bit of a false distinction, to me. Especially as a string, the motivating example for this thread, is also not the same.
It might help to know what work or education experience you currently have and what your interests are.

Also, here's an interesting discussion from 2019 about being a software developer with ADHD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716306
I think this is a large part. Opening in-person school should be a priority.
Can I self-host it?

The only reason we're going to move away from JIRA is that Atlassian dropped server installs and is moving everyone to their cloud or datacenter products.

Have a great conversion from JIRA and a reasonably-priced self-hosted option, we'll be looking at you in six months.
A tired response, and a false choice at that.

Deploying solar and wind does not preclude continued research and development into alternative energy production methods.
Yet to see a "Gentle Introduction to" that didn't freely and accurately translate to poorly written, impenetrable prose whose purpose is to gratify the ego of the author in demonstrating how they are unbelievably more clever than any reader who could conceivably require any kind of "introduction"

Is that bad luck on my part? (I've given up on thinking I'm particularly or especially dense - while making no claims to be some species of super-genius) Or is that the generally accepted genre?
Not changing careers is an inevitable result of specialization and the state of the art getting more and more demanding. I think it’s a net positive though as this evolution also provides many opportunities.

Occupation being an identity is a very long tradition though (going all the way to surnames). If anything, social media allowed ordinary people to express themselves outside of - and in disconnection from - their professional environment. Maybe this is part of why people are disassociating from their employers to some extent.
Manufactured housing is probably the best bet for "built cheaply yet with a randomization", but most high-cost-of-living areas lack the available land. So then you need to build up, and that opens the Pandora's box of building code compliance, labor costs and material cost.

The city of Los Angeles presumably has access to average material costs and average labor costs, but the simple apartment complex they developed to house the homeless still ended up at $746,000 a unit https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/las-homeless-ho...
I'm sure you're a big hit at all of the design meetings! How dare the devs tell the marketing/graphics people what they can and cannot do. Becareful, or they'll shove GA/AMP down at you in response!
Why would it need to be cleaned out?
It's not really worth wondering. There are a million potential reasons that you and I don't know or can't come up with, but they may have a specific reason for.

You can probably prevent it with capabilities, or selinux, or with a container. Unless you just enjoy the fashion statement of tinfoil hats, it's not worth it.