skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By not capping salaries with reasonable caps we just completely broke the market

I am very interested in your definition of the word “market”.
Use it for power generation, trials have been run using the osmotic pressure to run turbines.

Of course, the salty brine is still there.
> I think the big problem though is that for every scam investor, there is at least one visionary who might actually pull it off

The mistake is to think that the public investor has equal access to both the visionary entrepreneur and the scam investors.

They don’t. Professional investors have already evaluated and sorted these investors very effectively. It’s literally their job. The good entrepreneurs can collect all the money they need from investment firms. They’d rather take VC from 5 firms than public money from 500 unsophisticated investors who require handholding, so that’s what they do.

That leaves a very adverse selection of remaining entrepreneurs to pitch the public. There might be a legitimate misunderstood entrepreneur in there, but they’re mixed in with 100 completely unqualified or scammy entrepreneurs who were already vetted and passed on by professional investors.

That’s why by the time an investment gets shipped to the public, it’s usually confirmed to be a bad deal.
That'd make googling for tips that bit more difficult!
And while ICE cars are generally in use when this happens, EVs seem to love this doing stuff while not in use and in your home. You can never quite turn off an EV.

I'd love to see what the actuarial tables look like in a few years for home insurance. "Do you have an EV?" might become a factor, and not in the good while.
Yes, I’ve had it happen personally. It damaged a garage it was parked near — thankfully it was parked outside. It was a blackened ruin after, tires had gotten so hot they popped, etc.
Python and the console. One of the easiest most straightforward ways to learn programming.
>>Who has chemistry in elementary school?

Uhm, I'd hope everone? Here in Poland you take chemistry in elementary school, starting in year 4(so at 10-11 years of age).
This is just mean! The documentation definitely reads like the library is meant for use, but the author forbids all use in the license.
I've had this idea for years and always wanted to try building it. Glad you did so I didn't have to :D

Well done!
Interesting to hear this personal experience.

If you're interested in some research behind this:

"Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss" - [1] and [2] are both interesting papers on this. With the summary being that weight loss results in prolonged changes in your hormones associated with increased appetite and thus weight regain. This results in a strong negative feedback cycle.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22029981/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193/

tldr: our bodies make it v difficult for folks!
Yes. It would have to be everybody in. All of Seattle pays in, no exceptions.

You say "the problem with that". Pitched another way, we could say "the benefit of that"...

when it's an extra cost

Would it necessarily be an extra cost? I understand that the amount typically paid in the US on health insurance, by the individual and employers, compares badly with the amount paid in many other systems that provide better healthcare for less money.
Status, reputation building through citation, etc.
Yeah, looks like it's the actual software that's undermined the case against him. A loud bang which coincides - perhaps pretty loosely - with some footage, some supposed audio expert contractor's human employee - possibly knowing other details of the case - thinks it's consistent with a gunshot but the case collapses when records reveal the AI program they ran originally classified the loud bang as a distant firework.
Intellectual Property Will Become Irrelevant
If you want a career with stability for the next 20 years in which your current knowledge will remain forever useful, I doubt web tech is the place to be. Even Javascript itself isn't enough, in spite of its stability for decades as a top of the Tiobe rankings juggernaut, thanks to framework churn. Mastering the core language barely helps you when there's a paradigm shift every few years in DSLs built on top of it that everyone expects you to use.

If you want backend stability, master Java. It may be boring, and I don't like it either, but it's been the dominant server-side application programming language for 25 years and has tremendous inertia and is not likely to go anywhere.

If you want to work in container runtime and orchestration technologies, then Go is probably a safe bet as it's taken such a lead as an implementation language in every container engine out there that it probably isn't going anywhere, either.

I love Rust, but it isn't currently dominant at anything unless you count "rewrite a critical service that can't afford garbage collection but still requires memory safety" as a meaningful category of software.

It sounds like you're trying to exist at the bleeding edge but still have some level of assurance that what you choose to master now will remain relevant decades from now. I don't think you can have both. If you'd have asked this question 20 years ago, you'd have been asking if you should master Perl or PHP. 10 years ago, maybe Scala or Python. Why should we think this decade will be any different from every other decade and that Go and Rust will achieve staying power when nothing else except Java did in the past?

To be clear, I think Go absolutely will keep its staying power for container engines, just as Python kept its staying power for scientific computing and systems scripting. But if you're asking specifically about cloud-based microservices, I wouldn't place a bet on anything specific at all. Master the domain itself and get good at learning new languages because they will very likely keep coming. Or master Java, because like it or not, it isn't going anywhere.
One common thread to frauds like these: often the first person the conman cons is himself. It’s all too often that some ambitious tech entrepreneur embarks on their journey, but as the road gets rough they begin making ethical compromises. Every one of them is justified in their minds by “the mission,” and that all will be made whole in the end when the Big Product finally changes the world. Then one day, police are slapping on cuffs, and they cannot figure out where it all went so wrong.

I say all this with empathy for them. Driven people often have that extreme tunnel vision, and it has the potential to cost them everything. Sayers deserves to be prosecuted and likely punished, but it may be a while before he even understands that he did anything wrong.

Alternate possibility, Sayers is fundamentally crooked and I’m hopelessly naive.
IANAL but these specific circumstances of ‘use’ typically include copyrighted music and drama, which cannot be performed in a public or commercial setting without permission or compensation. The Beatles may own Yesterday but they can’t stop me from whistling it.

Where I think this case gets murky is that the item in question is not distributed or used by users of the software, but is part of the production process for it.
C24 Review and Application Process
Some departments deploy dogs that alert on all vehicles when they want an excuse to search. In at least one department, this was referred to as “probable cause on four legs”.

If judges continue to allow this quality of evidence, the police will continue to abuse the legal environment that creates.
> The PR is nothing more than a request to discuss the changeset.

This makes no sense. Why does the subject of a PR have to be a specific version of a specific changeset? Why can't the discussion be the subject, with the supplied code changes be considered a supporting "attachment" for the discussion? PRs allow for commentary and discussions.

In fact, PRs let you do everything an "issue" let's you do, but not vice versa. You can't "attach" code changes to issues. Not without creating a PR anyway.

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Let's not forget what GH-style "issues" and "pull requests" were supposed to emulate and replace: email threads. While GH's UI elements are better at most things than emails, they're not better at everything. Emails are a lot more flexible and powerful, even if not as "pretty". PRs? They can't even let me suggest code changes (when reviewing someone's PR) using my IDE/editor. Or even suggest a code change that's not contiguous. Diff-of-diffs is a concept that GH has barely understood, but one that's just obvious with plain emails.
You might not want to be locked in. I've used VirtualBox to build systems meant to eventually run elsewhere.
Southwest Flight Auto Check in Using Python
What was the cause? That seems unlikely without external cause.
I can't tell if this is a satire.
As others have pointed out it might be used for flight/boats.

In general though saying it isn’t useful for cars is kind of missing the point of new sources of energy. New sources of energy (and the associated prime movers) allow new forms of transportation.

For example you couldn’t really make a car using steam power. That was only possible with gasoline and an IC engine.

Looking at it another way: what new forms of transportation would be possible with hydrogen? Personal flight maybe?

We do a lot of really inefficient things if there is a market for it.
Have you checked how many projects depend on Monkey? It seems the blog post has been translated and reposted many times. Satire does not translate well.
Wouldn't it be easier for carbon capture to occur when producing hydrogen and just let hydrogen consuming sources output water?
Yes, something only available for two years qualifies as starting to. In the realm of transmitting video 2 years is definitely early stages.
I've considered making a license that is basically MIT/BSD, but requires that anyone using an automated license checking/compliance system (any corporate users) to pay a fee to use the software.
AMD’s Q2 revenue for enterprise, semi-custom and embedded is $1.6B, Intel’s datacenter revenue for Q2 was $6.5B. Intel still outsells AMD by at least 3 to 1 in datacenter and perhaps even a bit more in terms of volume since AMD has almost no entry level systems unlike Intel.
I hope you're doing ok now.

Which country did this happen in? If the USA, what sort of insurance was it under?
You mean like any of the Mercedes 300de/300de powertrains?

31kWh battery mated to a 2.0L diesel:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mercedes/gle/107851/new-merced...

Like any diesel, this one could run on biodiesel with some adjustments.
>We desperately need some kind of government intervention against this in the US. I'm convinced that single payer would fix this in a fucking jiffy.

The majority of healthcare spending in the US is by the government, and the government is the one negotiating the prices.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10830

The "insurers" (better referred to as managed care organizations - MCOs) are simply hired to implement the government's pricing and reimbursement policies, and to take the heat from vendors and the public.
In addition, my understanding is that most healthcare expenses are incurred trying to prolong life in its last few weeks/months. It’s difficult to not “try everything possible “ for a loved one, when the end is near. However, I feel that often such sentiments are taken advantage of in the name of profit.
Doctor’s salary only accounts for a small fraction of healthcare spending, so it certainly isn’t the cause.

However my wife is a doctor who is fellowship trained, so she didn’t start making real money until she was 32. But she made a good bit above the median salary for many years before that. She also doesn’t feel like she sacrificed her 20s. She had plenty of fun, although she says med school was much harder than her engineering degree.

And now she makes much more than I do as a principal engineer, and she works less than 30 hours a week.

She doesn’t have to worry about interview prep or job hopping. She has absolute job security in any economy. She gets paid for continuing education. She is highly respected (people are much more impressed that I married a doctor than that I’m a principal engineer lol).

There is a legal framework protecting her autonomy and decision making at work. Not even the CEO of the hospital can overrule her.

In short, she is almost completely above the rat race, and is a true professional in ways that we (software engineers ) are not.

I would 100% recommend our children become doctors.
You know you can’t have both that and stonks, right?
It's weird that the pilots had to estimate the object's size by eyeballing it. I would expect those helicopters -- let alone the military base below them -- to include all kinds of imaging devices that would beat a human eyeball.
the malthusian obsession with population growth and birth rates in the middle east, and xenophobic comments about immigration in this thread are truly disgusting.
A lot of which we can do at scale for H3 extraction. Is just the economics of it on the private sector.
Im curious why choose this over Octodns or DNSConfig? It looks a lot more verbose
As pointed out in other comments, music and drama are exceptions to this where their ‘use’ is protected by copyright. You can read a play aloud if you like, but you can’t perform it publicly without permission (or royalties).
Iranians are generally easy to integrate anywhere, as they usually are university-educated people who do not want to live in the oppressive political climate of the Islamic Republic. Iran suffers one of the worst brain drains worldwide.

This cannot be generalized to the entire Middle East, though. Environmental or military disasters result in very different migration patterns than political oppression in an otherwise stable country.

"those that manage immigration well"

The keyword is well. For contemporary Western societies, highly educated, secular migrants cause the least friction. So Hong Kong inhabitants fleeing China are likely to be welcome everywhere. That does not apply as much to inhabitants of Mirpur, Pakistan.
Why would we want the smartest kids to become doctors? Maybe the small fraction of doctors that are working on new or improved treatments, but most doctors treat one person at a time.

I’d rather have the smartest kids go into a field where they can do work that impacts millions or billions of people.
What If Afghanistan Is More Than Just a Failed War?
Yeah, I looked at your project, and immediately wondered why the fact that someone merged a patch using it at all wasn't the suspect issue...
Not sure the cartel would be testing in the US with a drone that has its lights on and is capable of novel flight movements, and hang around circling police helicopters, rather than just pick a place away from an airforce base and prioritise carrying a load without notice. I could see speed being an advantage, but not aerobatics.
Not really. Windows 11 just turned into the most elaborate linux bootloader in history. It has a Wayland compositor now, so even the graphical stuff installs and runs. Windows 11 is basically grub with its own app store.
Give them a benefit of doubt, they may have a larger context and specific experience. Usually it is not that simple.

The initial requirement may turn out wrong upon user playing with the implementation. There may be corner cases, dirty data that will need manual or automatic cleanup. Simple query that runs just fine on a small amount of data chokes up on production database and you need to debug with query planner and introduce additional indices etc etc.
It crossed my mind...

Thanks for chiming in and clear the misunderstanding.
> Opt would be a better fit if we're sticking to the FHS.

I agree on this, it's a better fit. But I think /usr/local is not a bad fit either as it's fundamentally a "local" installation of a program.

For me it always felt that /opt mainly exists for programs which don't follow the split required by the rest of the file system (bin, include, lib (, lib32, lib64), local, sbin, share, src) and I personally would prefer if /opt simply wouldn't be a think.

Either way for a single application container image placing that specific applications into /app seems fine tbh.. Through sadly as far as I can tell it mainly is that way because it's shorter to type in a Docker file then to repeat /opt/<package> all the time.
i'd love one for keepass and https://www.presslabs.com/docs/code/gitfs/ :)
Facebook’s Crypto Wallet Is Ready for Market, but Is the Market Ready for Novi?
There is no such thing as a well-functioning market (or free market). It is repeated over and over as something that could be true, but it is like communism, nobody was ever able to get that working in reality.
I'd be interested in reading about some of these real cases if you have any links handy.
That's absolutely infuriating. The pandemic has laid bare the massive dysfunction in US healthcare.
I am always amazed by how much effort has gone into Tikz. However, I always end up reaching for a manual diagramming tool (Omnigraffle on the Mac), along with cutting and pasting snippets of typeset text using LaTeXit.

I saw this tool on HN some time back and it seems to have evolved into a very promising product: LaTeX typesetting, manual drawing, programmable with Lua. The price seems excellent too ($25).

https://vexlio.com
Fully agree. Why waste words describing a code change rather than show the change itself. I'd rather use my words for describing the 'why', thank you very much, but not the 'how'.

In fact, I do this even when reviewing code: a branch that I can pull from & push to is a lot more welcome than a word vomit I have to interpret and translate to (or from) code.
You are very much right, cheers
Was there ever a free market anywhere?
As long as it isn't adding fossil carbon, it seems fine to me.
I'm looking to do something in this general area better than doctests. Looking for collaborators.

http://adsharma.github.io/pysmt
> nurses make a ton more than I think, or some assumption above is incorrect.

It could be this - plenty of nurses make well over $100k, plenty of doctors make well over $500k. It varies a lot based on location, specialty, overtime, but there are some good livings being made.
#lang is much more than shebangs. Racket #langs are implemented on top of Racket - they can be nothing more than alternative syntaxes, or they can have different semantics (written in Racket). This has the effect of rendering different Racket #langs interoperable within a project. This is wildly powerful - someone reimplemented Python entirely as a #lang, for instance, which meant that Racket could use (pure) Python libraries directly, and vice versa.

It's an entirely different philosophy, which aims to allow to use "the best tool for the job" even within a project. Need a DSL? Write one!
> Sending patches directly is a non-collaborative approach to open source.

This is the way I’ve always done it —- find a bug, figure out a fix and shoot off a patch attached to a bug report. Or, software doesn’t do what I want, hack it into submission then send a PR with a patch.

Worked well so far. Sometimes they don’t like my code for whatever reason but that’s OK, I tried.

The only real exception was when I contributed on a regular basis to one of the larger FLOSS projects where I’d usually run my changes by the module owner to get their feedback before committing since it was just good practice. Not always though.
Or testosterone, which isn’t necessarily great for weight loss, but is fabulous for body composition, which I’m sure many men would be satisfied with. Weighing 200 with 18% body fat is probably more attractive to many tall men than weighing 160 with the same body fat. Muscle also raises basal metabolic rate which is nice for fat loss.

TRT clinics are grossly overpriced, charging $300+ A month for $5 drugs, so there is almost certainly room to disrupt that market. I’d be willing to wager many obese men display hypogonadism too.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon works pretty well (with Fedora, at least).
The only people saying ShotSpotter is amazing technology are ShotSpotter's PR team.

By all other accounts, it doesn't work at all and is losing contracts.

> "...a study of Chicago police data found that over a nearly 22-month period ending in mid-April, almost 90% of ShotSpotter alerts didn’t result in officers reporting evidence of shots fired or of any gun crime."[1]

> "In four years, police have made two arrests while responding to a ShotSpotter activation. Lt. Shawn Takeuchi, an SDPD spokesman, could only confirm that one of those arrests was directly related to the activation, but declined to give more information on both."[2]

1. https://apnews.com/article/chicago-police-crime-shootings-be...

2. https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/shotspo...
This year in jail was awaiting the “speedy trial” that is supposed to be guaranteed by the US Constitution. I think that in itself is as much of an issue as the quality of the evidence. How can the government justify taking year away from the life of a man who has not been convicted of anything?
In 2015 2 million of excess population arrived with nothing to Europe. We had to feed them, give them housing, etc.

I think it's natural to worry about what comes next!

"truly disgusting!" mindset
Any source on Keller having a significant role on Gracemont?
Which they are not.
I'm really not interested in meta-level arguments. In general I find them to be tiring and unenlightening.
I think this is the way. The only way to go truly green is to install over capacity of renewables and store the excess to handle their variability. I haven't done the math but I have the impression that Li-Ion storage at that scale is not feasible or would take us too long, so I think a balance of H_2 production from excess clean production, hydroelectric storage where possible and Li-Ion will be needed.

H_2 is also the only clean solution for certain forms of transportation, e.g., cargo shipping, air transportation, substitution of diesel trains and likely even heavy duty trucks. So we will need some form of clean H_2 if we want to make a clean transition in those areas.

H_2 is not the devil, we must steer away from so called Blue Hydrogen (and worse forms of H_2 production). But Green Hydrogen is very likely part of the solution. At least I don't see other way out.
APFS (Apple Filesystem) on MacOS has some kind of file provider API too. Here's one app that uses it:

https://www.expandrive.com/strongsync/
What should that actually do? Expose passwords as files?
Dockerfiles are easy to edit and validate. Building is just as easy. A container registry saves some time in terms of spinning up a new instance but if you've got a vital service running in a container it makes sense to take the time to validate any updates and test any changes before replacing the old one.
I'm curious what behavior you'd expect from a git file system then? For devs and commits, understood, but for time machine like history of directories, etc seems useful for many folks.
God. Which country?
Rust isn't going to become a mainstream apps language, it's too complex and the memory management without GC is too hard compared to application languages.
In the specific case, you write about a «virtually nonexistent individual risk» while many¹ are yet to find such reassurance. If that statement were evidently true, one would agree with your conclusion save some details.

¹(including the brightest people I know - statement disincorporated from the above since anecdotal)
> For example you couldn’t really make a car using steam power. That was only possible with gasoline and an IC engine.

Stanley (and others) made steam cars in the early 20th century. By all accounts they were quite nice, but did have drawbacks in regards to needing pre-heating, and they were rather expensive luxury cars. Steam cars were absolutely a thing, though. Electric cars too, but the battery technology of the time was too primitive for long range.

Also, hydrogen isn't a source of energy, it is merely a storage medium.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Motor_Carriage_Compa...