skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those businesses have a right to exist because... ?

Note that I do draw a distinction between activities which produce high positive externalities (and hence whose revenues strongly underrepresent net social gain), and those which produce high negative externalities, often contributing net harm.

The first type of enterprise should be supported (tax breaks, subsidies, wage credits). The latter should be penalised (inverse). The pragmatics of money, power, and influence frequently invert that relationship, a tendency noted as far back as Adam Smith and before.

That said, it's not clear to me what types of activity are having the greatest hiring challenges, though in some cases (e.g., healthcare), I'd class them among the former.
Your original comment was “That is sadness, not depression.”. Saying they are not depressed is a diagnosis, which you have no right to do, probably no training to do, and would be wildly unprofessional to do if you were a specialist. For all we know they could have been diagnosed with depression and treated - you lack context to be able to say either way - so take them at their word. You have experience as a sufferer but that gives you no right to make sweeping statements about anyone’s mental health - I am sure you would dislike anyone jumping to conclusions about you based on this conversation?

Then you said “COVID lockdown made you sad, not depressed”, which appears to be your own imagination, since they didn’t even mention COVID.

I responded strongly to your original comment, because I feel it breaks multiple guidelines of this site, and I feel a community should moderate itself for the most part.

Perhaps you are 100% correct, but your delivery needs to be a lot more caring and considerate, especially when somebody is revealing something so intimate and personal.

> I’m having a discussion about them

Your original comment was not a discussion: you wrote as though your opinions are facts, which came across to me as though you were denying their own reality. You then proceeded to do the same thing to me, which I am reacting poorly to.

Edit: also, the original comment implied the commenter has high social, emotional and mental capabilities. Stressful personal life and still teaching children at inner-city schools: passing that proof implies high ability. Teachers absorb a massive amount of practical psychology by caring about their students, and interacting with problem students all the time.
Shanghai to Oakland is about 10,000 km: https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=PVG-OAK

Adding a stop in Anchorage adds about 200 km:
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=PVG-ANC-OAK

The plane is probably limited by takeoff weight: body plus fuel plus cargo. By adding a stop in the middle, the plane can take off with less fuel from Shanghai. Since it has 45000 kg less fuel, it can instead carry 45000 kg more cargo. Total fuel consumption for the trip ends up slightly higher, but fuel per kg of useful cargo is much less.
Community Metrics Calculator
This is the first iteration of the Community Metrics Calculator, and many things should be improved, but I'm confident having all these metrics in a single document may be a game-changer for many community entrepreneurs (it would've been for me, lol).

I'm looking forward to knowing your comments and feedback, so I can improve the calculator and deliver 'something people really want' ;)

Hope you find this useful!
Hopefully the space force gets abolished just as other commenters want so that no one is left to enforce this international law.
What do you mean "obfuscated"? This is the cleanest C code I've ever read in quite a while.
I generally listen to ambient music of all kinds while working. There's an artist on YouTube who has a really good handle on Dune ambient soundscapes (spacewave cosmic relaxation) that I've been listening to lately. Sometimes I'll listen to Hans Zimmer, but these derivatives are pretty damn good!
It was not a trick, it was a deep understanding that changed me permanently.
People can't handle change. It's pretty sad. I'm not saying we need change, or that FF should be investing in changing the UI (I really think the colorways are just a terrible use of resources), but I think all the UI updates these past few years—regardless of why they were made, for good or for senseless reasons—are fine if not highly enjoyable.
This is very true. They make the lowest common denominator parts "open source" but control all of the commits. Also the query engine used for this benchmark is proprietary, closed source (Photon)
If one of the largest software companies around can't get memory safety right, it does make a guy start to think that maybe most people should avoid having to handle it if they can.
Not always. Markets are not in fact efficient.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29235395
Isn't it 10x that?

Sanity check: say 10^5 seconds/day. Then it would be

400 * 10^9 / 10^5 = 4 * 10^6

https://www.google.com/search?q=400+*+10%5E9+%2F+%2824+*+60+...
Temporal proximity. If it tripped today because it was automatic, why didn't it trip the other 10 days they used the same feeds?
I ran it under strace and after that it was never allowed to run again. I don't know exactly what it's doing, but it's nothing I want it to be doing.

If you get an AMD GPU then the web experience is a bit more performant, the Intel iGPUs are not quite potent enough.
>Either that, or it’s just the negative opinions being amplified and folks who are happy/satisfied just keep it to themselves.

I think that's it. I like this change, but not enough to post anything about how much I like it.
I am not sure why, because I don't actually remember how it used to work, but this version of Firefox is the first time I can remember where for some reason I keep getting confused about what tab is active and end up closing the wrong tab.

If I slow down and pay attention I'm OK, but it's definitely less functional for me.
This looks like an appropriate thread to post my safari rant. Here goes.

I've been trying to use safari on my laptop ever since I found out that it enables much better battery life compared to chrome (almost 2x).

But there are just so many stupid annoyances. The address bar is non-deterministic. I enter first three letters of a site I visit very often, and press enter. In chrome, it always takes me to my site. In safari it does that 9 times out of 10. But one time it will do a Google search for the entire web address of my website!? How is this even possible? I can't understand what abominable logic is running underneath that this can happen.

Another stupidity is that home and end keys either don't do anything, or they do something entirely unexpected.

I still use it because the battery usage is just so much better.
Popular Old Sayings and Their Real Meanings
XSLT too!
>It's not like there aren't a million other ways to test it without actually blowing anything up.

How do you test a system without ever using it? Every ASAT weapon in operation (from ASM-135 to the Indian one) has been tested on live targets, except for the old Soviet Kontakt which remained unproven yet still was in operation for some time (IIRC).
again its a live cast of a criminal trial. There's no one who owns that content. There's no way to make it legitimate.
Currently it actually does.
The Perils of Bad Strategy
> Instead of beating the children for being stupid, you set up schools. Instead of attacking the infirm, you develop technologies to enable them to overcome their physical limitations.

So what do we do with apparently malicious governments?
Born to be cool: The life and music of Chet Baker
Maybe if you gave your variables more meaningful names, like "meaningOfLife" instead of just "result", it would be more useful.
It is a differentiator if those things would add up to more than rent. In that case renting is literally saving money that you can e.g. put into the stock market instead of real estate.
That should be "less functional".
Name it Visual Studio Core.
> Unless the goal is Corsuscant I don't really see a reason to build up over there.

You are aware there’s a housing shortage in California. Building high density mixed use projects in basically empty places like Malibu would be a great way to help alleviate that shortage. And development will create those jobs. Fundamentally there’s a dynamic feedback loop between population density and employment opportunities. Increasing population creates the need for jobs and those jobs drive further economic growth.
That's great to hear that people are able to earn a living wage where you are.

You cannot live on $17/hr in SF. Your post-tax income wouldn't even cover the the rent of a studio apartment. Not sure how you'd pay for food and transportation on top of that. Let alone actually doing anything fun that would make it worth living here.

That's 40 hrs/wk, of course. Many people end up working twice that, or more, across several jobs, in order to make ends meet here. And at that point I wonder why they stay.
Biological Intelligence and the Limitations of Deep Neural Networks
Very odd how you think a voice that may or may not have been Kyle's saying he wanted to shoot shoplifters is "very relevant" but the criminal conviction for Rosenbaum raping a child or his history of violent behavior is irrelevant.
If you actually get significant traction on any videos, wouldn't the bandwidth costs be stupidly expensive if you're self hosting?
Bitcoin's power consumption is not absurd -- proof of work is a method of converting power to security. It uses far less energy than the legacy banking system, which is enforced by trillions of dollars of military expenditures and banking employees burning fossil fuels instead of a comparatively tiny amount of electricity.

When we finally phase out the legacy banking system completely for cryptocurrency, it will represent a drastic reduction in finance-related energy consumption worldwide.
"Big" No, not really. They use Deltalake for the security use case, sure, but that pales in comparison to how much Iceberg they use.
Title maybe a little misleading. After reading the document, the chart shows the new architecture as processing approx. 4-million events/sec…I think they are deriving the 400 billion events in real time by taking 4MM events/s x 86,400s/day. The actual number comes out to 345 billion but I’m guessing if we’re that high, might as well round it up-to 400 billion. I personally would consider 4-million events/s as the benchmark for processed events in real-time.
I’ve heard that too, but for me it registered as a way of shaking people free of their fear of writing down their true objectives, lest they find themselves on the hook for missing it. Something along the lines of ‘What would you do if you were not afraid?’

I think the analogy to a sprint plan is perhaps misplaced: the point of an objective is not to break down the work for planning purposes but to capture the strategic imperative.
I was telling my young cousins in their teens that back in the day every office and classroom had a massive projector that looked like a retro interpretation of a goose. At the beginning of a lecture the professor would wheel this massive hunk of metal to the front of the room and shut off the room lights. The metal hunk was transparent on top and shot a powerful beam of light up vertically and the goosehead would reflect the light onto the wall. The professor on transparent sheets of plastic and colorful pencils would give their lecture with writing and illustrations on the wall. This was before PowerPoint was a thing.

I can't tell you how exciting technology is sometimes that I literally can feel excitement about something like this whiteboard system while also feeling nostalgia for the past. Love this tool thank you Niko.
> Running a company "like a startup"

Based on my experience at Amazon, I believe this is something you hear at megacorps that are in denial about their current operating procedures and also don't understand how a startup operates.
Three-finger-click works fine for me using an Apple wireless trackpad on Linux, doesn't that work for you?
Oh cool! So, does that update this file, too, so it always does it this way? Or?

I'm definitely not familiar with the tricks they're doing here. Looks like an ini file!
I'm not addressing the issue of whether you receive compensation for your work or your desire to have control over who copies it.

I'm pointing out that you've stated it's "open access" without making it open access, at least for a strict interpretation of open access.
Unemployment is about where it was in 2017, which continued to drop all the way until 2020. So not as low as it was pre-pandemic, but objectively quite low, yes. Doesn't take away from your point.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
Am I missing something about how and why this made it to the HN front page?

Seems to be a fairly trite government publication that is more of interest to civil engineers.

I thought maybe there was something in the document that would provoke a few laughs but can't find anything there either.
How is it objectively incorrect, if he pretty much quoted a direct speech verbatim? At least one of them hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard, so he was armed.
If I'm not mistaken Lachowski testified that when attending Grosskreutz after being shot he found the glock on the ground and cleared it. There was one in the chamber.

The unspent ammo from the glock comes from Lachowski clearing it. Grosskreutz didn't rerack the gun, but he did have one in the chamber ready to shoot, meaning that he meant to take out Rittenhouse when he advanced before having his bicep blown off.
Ah yes, the greater fool
You still haven't answered the question. What is a better programming language?
Constant change? The fundamental UI of desktop browser tabs has been largely unchanged in all major browsers for at least 10 years. Sure, sometimes the UI changes slightly and it annoys people who are annoyed at even the slightest visible change. But complaining about "constant change" or concluding that any time you are eagle-eyed enough to spot a visual change that constitutes "software being a fashion statement" is just a bit extreme.
> Grab it with your mouse, drag it off the dock, done.

Same thing with Windows too.
"Jeannie Becomes a Mom" by Caroline Rose plays first every single time Spotify tries to generate radio for my Indie Mix playlist. This has been happening for months. You can click "Don't play this again", but since the contents of the *Mix playlists change every day, the don't play list is wiped every day.

I wish I could universally blacklist a song (at least for a couple of months), but that only works for entire artists. I've seen the exact same complaint for the exact same song on reddit, which makes me wonder if it has something to do with their program that lets artists jump ahead in the algorithm (https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-11-02/amplifying-artist-in...).
What is the best Firefox alternative today ? for mobile and desktop?
Facepalm. I noticed that too and ranted about it: https://neil.computer/notes/apple-ux-ui-is-regressing/
Well, if you made one, it would be much better than the original. We had one refrigerator-sized Symbolics machine at the aerospace company, during the false AI boom of the 1980s. I used it a few times, but it had one LISP fan who used it a lot for a specific project. It broke down a lot, and Symbolics service was very poor. The early versions had a really slow garbage collector. Minutes. With everything in one address space, you had to wait out the GC; you couldn't kill your program and start over. Many of those special-purpose buttons on the Space Cadet-derived keyboard didn't actually do anything. Unless, of course, someone rebound them in EMACS.

I did LISP work then, but mostly using Franz LISP on VAXen and Sun Workstations.
I was never really into the LISP cult, though I wrote a lot of LISP. Franz LISP could compile to .o files, but you couldn't just link them and make an executable. You had to load them back into the LISP environment. I asked the Franz people why they didn't package up the run time so that you could just link the thing and make an executable without debug break and interpreter capability. They were puzzled at the question. Delivering a finished product was totally alien to them.

Eventually, hard-compiled LISP on microprocessors became faster than custom LISP hardware, and LISP machines went away. And, eventually, other languages got enough dynamism that LISP was no longer needed.

It's one of those things which was better in retrospect.
I guess if anyone suggests "sampling" the data in meeting these days, they get their head blown off.
> I don't understand what value traditional publishers of scientific journals offer?

The best papers try to get published in the best journals. The academics get more professional credit for better journals. Then, the best journals can charge more money for access to the best papers. If you have a couple of Nobel laureates from the same subfield, they may be able to create a newly prestigious journal, but it's pretty much going to take that and time.

It's similar to MIT/CalTech/Stanford/the Ivy League. Sure, there may be a way to get similar instruction quality elsewhere, but the value they offer is based on they're elite reputation.
I can't count the number of times this has forced me to make a better interface/abstraction that the one I was making. It's too bad this idiom is going to be the 'wrong way' to do things soon, because, for some reason, every code Guru out there thinks number of characters/lines is the single defining cost function for software maintenance, and that's who the kids coming out of college are going to listen to.
Firefox used to be "the" customizable browser - where you could make it look the way you wanted.

Not anymore. Addons like that dont work anymore.
It's nothing to do with recommendations. You search a term, you look at the videos, ones with large amount of dislikes are usually crap so you choose another one.
You can link to wikipedia pages all day long but in reality there just isn't any viable defense against a collision at orbital velocities with anything that weighs more than a couple of grams. Also: whatever armor you want to put on your space ship needs to be launched first and brought up to the same speed as the rest of the vehicle, and this amount of mass will have to be accelerated again every time you want to fix your orbit.
> Like I said, I haven’t followed this

You obviously, by your posts, don't know the facts of this case, so why are you weighing in the first place?

> Do you think Kyle was unaware of the dangerous situation he created simply by virtue of carrying that weapon in that environment?

The situation was already dangerous - people were looting and setting shit on fire. Rittenhouse had already put out one of those fires. And if it's dangerous to bring weapons to these """""""protests""""""", then why did the third guy that Rittenhouse shoot have one? In fact, if the third guy had not brought a gun, he'd still have most of his bicep.

> one with a huge weapon

Stop calling it a "huge weapon". You sound ridiculous. It's a fucking AR-15. It's not a Howitzer.
> chains that need to be maintained properly and are worn out after 5000km at best

IMO this is a big industry for mainly because cheap bicycles are available at large scale.

You can buy one at any shopping mall for a very low price, and a lot of users will prefer cheap vs durable/fast/light/advanced/fancy. As a sign of this, a ton of bicycles have very crappy brakes, little to no gear management, dynamo lights that have abysmal efficiency in exchange for no battery management.

This part of the market will only be disrupted by cheaper technology, and I'm not sure it will happen anytime soon.

Enthusiast market is more open to disruption and accept better designs, though a significant slice of it does maintenance themselves and it's tougher to sell them complex and/or hard to handle parts for only marginal effects (we see that in the tubeless vs classic tires for instance)
This was my point, that like cars, luxury homes and apts turn into affordable housing over time.
yeah, the xbox game bar was useful to do some video capture as a one-off.
I personally find three-finger clicking on a tab to be more difficult than one-finger clicking on the x.
While I certainly don't disagree that many sites need selenium these days, I find it's often possible to go straight to the AJAX/xHR source and get a pre-parsed JSON with all the data you're looking for.
Everyone using FF should do themselves a favor and install Tree Style Tabs[0] and hide the top tabs in userChrome.css

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I don't know if that's just nostalgia speaking, but I think Windows 95 was the peak of UX. Everything interactable was clearly a button, everything had keyboard "accelerators", and all UIs were consistent (no Electron apps).
kind of like how you fail to admit that one of the two 'unarmed' men was armed with a skateboard that he was trying to beat kyle to death with.

Kind of a major omission to make when you're accusing your fellow commentators of lying by omission
And none of those aim to shield the ISS from an anti-satellite weapon. It probably wouldn't even slow it down. Note the title of this article and that's just the debris of the hit, not the actual hit itself.
There's no question that at least the contracting company is responsible. The issue is that if giant companies can offload liability onto contractors, you create a strong incentive to make sure all liability hits bankruptcy proceedings before ever reaching you. After all, you can always replace one one million dollar contractor with another when you're making hundreds of billions per year.

It's not even that hard a problem to fix: decrease delivery quotas by 20%, and track speed limit violations. That's all, easy to implement, and wouldn't be an insane economic burden (compared to offloading costs of eg medical care onto the general public).
That's a net win, actually, as it increases the housing supply 3x. Which is precisely what Seattle needs.

More housing comes from densification. That means more units per unit land, whether you're decreasing setbacks and clearances, building higher, or simply subdividing structures. This is in fact a classic city densification pattern.
Doesn't work for portrait screens :(
I get updates every two weeks, and I’m on the developer builds of macOS. There’s no way you’re getting weekly, mandatory macOS updates.
You nailed it. Meanwhile the rest of the world just needs a camry.
Let the USAF handle space as it was doing before. It doesn’t need to be organized as the “Space Force.” This is saber rattling. Some multilateral diplomacy could help reduce the arms race.
I feel that the trend of UI/UX regression has been going on for some time now, and it is not limited to Firefox.

I recently fished out an old laptop with windows 7 on it. I turned it on after years. Although it was pretty slow (I think it was underpowered even when it was new), the UI in windows 7 looks absolutely beautiful. Pretty icons with lots of detail, copy and move dialogs with amazing animations, pleasing translucent window borders, sensible control panel, perfect start menu. Windows 10/11 feel amateurish by comparison.
I took a look at Databricks public customer case studies[1] and haven't a clue who any of these companies are:

Atlassian?
Adobe?
ExxonMobil?
PagerDuty?
McAfee?
HSBC?
Starbucks?
AstraZeneca?
GlaxoSmithKline?
Comcast?
FINRA?
Regeneron?
Riot Games?
Nielsen?
HP?
Conde Nast?
Viacom?
McGraw-Hill?
Cisco?
NBCUniversal?

Hopefully they can scale to the enterprise soon.

[1]https://databricks.com/customers
"Vladimir Putin: 'the godfather of a mafia clan'"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/91...
>Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping

I would say ocean shipping is now as exorbitant as air cargo, or more so.