skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We weren't talking about mandates, but I'll bite. The difference is you don't have to trust the government to know seat belts save lives; the law on seat belts is common sense to anyone of sound mind. On the other hand, show me anyone who can see that getting an injection of some vaccine of unknown (to the average recipient) content and function is common sense. Note that I'm NOT making ANY claims about the vaccine efficacy or danger of lack thereof, simply that a typical individual can't look at the clear liquid in the syringe and innately know that it saves lives. It necessarily requires faith in government or medical institutions or doctors who tell us they are safe. Seat belts don't require such faith, so such mandates can't be compared like for like.
> Weird. It was verifiably not about slavery - at least not from the beginning. It was not an issue until well into the war.

The civil war was verifiably about slavery from the beginning[0]. South Carolina explicitly mentioned slavery as part of its rationale for secession[1], as did numerous other states[2]. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, declared slavery to be its very cornerstone[3]:

"our new government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

Even the "states rights'" arguments around the Civil War boil down to specifically the Southern states defending their right to continue slavery without interference from the North. That's what they were seceding over.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_...

[1]https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

[2]https://www.historynet.com/which-states-referred-to-slavery-...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
> That is partly what Graeber exposes: How many CEOs will keep around people they don’t need because what is the point of being a boss of you got nobody to boss around?

i've literally seen this in action: managers jockeying for promotion hire as many workers or contractors as they can get, bloating their teams to prove who can "manage more people" best...

the result? you guessed it: bullshit jobs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
> is so low level that differences between AMD and nVidia GPUs are exposed.

I interpreted it quite differently, the author writes:

> there's just less knobs in general. Almost all the magic you want to do is done with shaders. Since these GPU APIs have a little programming language of their own, the GPU API itself doesn't have to be super powerful. It can be small, designed to exactly how one would control the hardware efficiently, and the programmer has tons of freedom, because they can get buck-wild in a shader with almost no limits.

Which to me implies the Vulkan API is so simple, and close to metal, that it doesn't differ between implementations.
The US has a single federal fiscal policy and regulatory oversight.

The surpluses generally are divided and Alabama etc. are subsidized directly, or with things like military bases.

Most US states are too small to have their own currency.

US Monetary Policy also not in the pocket of Cali or NY i.e. the important players, like Euro is in the pocket of Germans.

This is essentially because in order for a currency union to work with different countries, you need a 'hard currency' - not a lot of funny money being printed. Germans are 'extremely scared' of France/Italy/Spain pumping the printing press and filling their economies full of dollars. So the Euro is a fairly hard currency, and when they do more speculative things, Germany has to be ok with it. It just so happens that Germany's economy is more naturally suited to this, while the others are not. So they win big.

The US Fed has been printing a lot of stimulus, which ideally should help the places that need it more, a little more, but in practice that might not be true.

I would argue in the age of digitization, it might be possible for European countries to go back to sovereign currencies and facilitate efficient transfer through exchanges with 0 fees, that kind of stuff.

Sweden and Denmark (Finland/UK/Switzerland) have their own currencies and they do just fine. You could still have the Euro for business transactions.

Nations that have gone bankrupt generally do so because they have to issue debt in a currency they don't control. Portugal does not really control the Euro, which means if there's a crisis, they have to beg France/Germany to help or change Euro policies. Not good.
Only used Clickhouse, although not through their Cloud offering.

It's an impressive piece of engineering. The best column-oriented DB in the open source space, I would say.
OpenBSD defaults to turning SMT off these days because the core team is of the same opinion. Theo actually expressed a similar opinion over 15 years ago.
Show HN: Nhi – capture every information about each executed command [video]
Hey HN!
I created a tool which automatically captures every potentially useful information about each executed command inside bash/zsh, and delivers powerful querying mechanism.

These features allow retrievement of commands (with outputs) executed in the past and whole shell sessions, as well as every other useful information in a convenient way.

nhi github: https://github.com/strang1ato/nhi
Past related threads:

Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21099344 - Sept 2019 (36 comments)

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933765 - Sept 2018 (1 comment)
I recently sold my ST2. I could get only 30-60km on a full (1kwh) battery at max speed (46 kmh). But then why would you go below max speed om a 7k bicycle? I got rid of it because it was also very expensive in maintenance, and because cycling on the road slightly slower than cars really sucks (a few too many encounters with aggressive cars). The stromers are near impossible to ride without assist, think because of the regenerative engine. When the battery was empty or I had one of those weird error 18 things I could go abou 17kmh with a lot of effort. I got a vanmoof bike instead niwy, so much nicer. 30kmh, easy to pedal past assist speed cause of light front wheel motor. Lightweight, 500wh battery is pretty ok (also same 30-60km range). Lots of repairs (under warranty) though, build quality is subpar. My 30km commute is 65 minutes now on my vanmoof, where it was 50 minutes on a stromer.
I think the GitHub GraphQL API docs are particularly badly organized and basically show the API as a bucket of stuff, rather than as CRUD entities (which is how it's actually organized). I don't think this a GraphQL issue.
I think that’s the goal: the polygraph isn’t supposed to catch a pathological liar or mole. It’s supposed to fluster you into telling the truth, even the embarrassing truth, to ensure that you can’t be blackmailed or extorted. I’ve heard my fair share of funny(?) stories about polygraph admissions that basically ended in the interviewer shrugging and saying “well, at least you didn’t hide it.”
Nice! I also wrote my own implementation of the game of life not long ago! It’s less fleshed out, but it was a fun little project.

https://gameoflife.plonq.org/
https://github.com/Plonq/gameoflife
You definitely could, but .ch is a bit more mountainous than where I live to put it mildly so it's not the distance that I would worry about but the elevation change. If that's within bounds you likely would be fine in three seasons but winter would be problematic, if not downright dangerous.
WinSCP currently has a bug that crashes if it tries to sync a folder with a space in the name
I have the 2022 Zero S and it is a delight. Highly recommend it for anyone who would be interested to try a motorcycle but don't want to deal with clutches. First motorcycle as well. There is simply less overhead to getting started, it's more noise appopriate for neighbors, and I don't have to worry about silent operation since I try to avoid risky maneuvers with other drivers when I can. I don't plan on dealing with traditional motorcycles ever.
Ask HN: What should I do about my manager who skips on code review?
So I'm in a weird position. I'm an early employee at a startup and it's clear the CTO is a bit green. The company raised some money recently and has brought on some engineers to rebuild the product/expand.

For this first month, I noted the flaws in the codebase but having done bootstrapped projects/being the sole engineer before it was nothing unexpected, so I completely get it. Create an issue and move on. All good.

My manager is involved in programming, daily, and opens PRs every couple of days. However, as soon as he opens the PR, before the notification can finish in Slack, he merges it. At first it was a bit weird but hey everyone hotfixes, right? Well, this happens with every PR. Sometimes he'll just push directly to main. And we're not talking small, clean code. Large features filled with debug comments and console logs. Careless errors. Extraneous imports. You know, the things we ALL do.

To add insult to injury, my manager is extremely nitpicky in code review. I've been part of 'strict' engineering teams before, but was able to make it through because I learned so much from the strict practices. However, here, the code review is strict in a random, often times incorrect way. A lot of comments are incoherent, either referencing different files/code or just simply wrong/misunderstood. The most I get from code review these days is from preparing programming lessons for my manager. Which is becoming nearly every PR as the codebase has gotten more complex.

I've tried to bring up counterpoints before, as is so normal in converting between engineers, but the conversation will invariably turn awkward. The insecurity is palpable, I feel like I can't speak to my manager like an engineer otherwise he'll retreat and get cranky. I've brought up small issues before in an objective way (or at least I think, I like to think of myself as a nice programmer :)), but it's almost like talking to a child. He'll get quiet or answer with: 'yeah that's just the way we do it'. I'll press but it's clear he wants the conversation to stop. This job isn't my life, so at days end I make way for whatever gets me my paycheck.

To be clear, I'm not trying to paint a picture that I'm a genius and my manager is an idiot. I took this role to grow as an engineer. And besides, part of growing is teaching, which I'm more than eager to do. The problem is my manager can't teach me nor is he open to conversation/learning. It's very much a shutup and code culture.

Here's the kicker - I need this job. I don't want to get fired, but it feels like my manager has a very gentle ego. I love the team I'm with. The business team is super solid, the company will grow, and I'm building out some really great core tech - and I love that. Also it's worth noting that I think the money is worth dealing with this culture, but I would love some advice from someone who has dealt with this before!
It's probably because touching the outer ring of the BNC connector (which is at ground) can become dangerous, yes.

So the best way to go about it is to use an isolated differential probe. Or use an isolation transformer to float your device under test, which is always a good idea.
You don't need to penetrate the wall if you have power sources on both sides of the wall.
I thought I had read that "Q" explicitly said that's where the name comes from
What is the shortest period of time possible legally to become permanent US citizen? Lets say if a Nobel prize winner decides to become permanent citizen of US. How quickly this would be possible?
You get caught speeding in a slow street here it will put you in serious trouble, and rightly so.
I'm kind of shocked that the numbers aren't themselves classified.
I'm saying these pilots want to do this innovation, not that ultralights are a large proportion of the problem, or even that GA as a whole is a significant contributor to pollution. But the reliability issue is significant: two-stroke engine failure is a frequent cause of ultralight accidents. They require careful maintenance and in-flight handling to be reliable.
RSD = Rejection-sensitive dysphoria, right? How does that factor in?
After numba’ing several nontrivial pieces of numpy code in my life, you might as well just rewrite it in nopython mode for Cython unless it’s very trivial stuff. Numba errors and partial coverage of numpy is a huge time sink in my experience.
The average speed over the TdF is completely irrelevant, they cross the alpes. Generally on a race bike riding at 40kph if you have a slight tailwind is very doable over extended periods. If you are riding in a group of riders riding along at 40 is very straight forward, you can easily go over 50 (the fastest TdF stages are around 50 average over more than 180km distance. I can easily ride 30km/h on a regular commuting bike over extended periods (and I'm currently quite unfit).
Adding back diamond price tracking for caratdrop.com

Found out it's hard to build a two sided marketplace for secondhand diamonds so back to doing what I enjoy, building data tools to save ppl money!
The Philosophical Game (1972)
LOL from reading the New York Times reporting on the DoD’s internal UAP (UFO) reports last summer me and a guy I worked with guessed which compartment it fell under. We went to our FSO and asked for access to that compartment and he was like “why do you need that?”

Us: “UFOs!”

Him: “Oh, you mean FUOU? That goes by CUI these days.”

Us: “No, UFOs like Aliens!”

Him: “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!”

So yeah, even with TS/SCI I couldn’t couldn’t get access to aliens :|
> What is most interesting about this article is that there is, at least among the quoted faculty, zero support for the administrative growth and a universal sentiment that it is harmful to the University and places undue burdens on faculty and students, and the quotes are quite vitriolic (this is not normally how professors talk in public about their schools).

What I have generally seen is that the faculty aren't seeing increases in staffing that appear to accrue to their benefit, but they also aren't as exposed to the parts of campus where the increases are happening either. Universities are much more complicated than they were 40 years ago, and they are serving a much more diverse, dynamic and broad student base. Schools aren't attended by primarily upper-class white men anymore. Many of the students really benefit from the additional resources available, whether that's mental health support, academic support, financial aid, etc. etc.

Yale also has a medical school and hospital, which always adds a huge amount of complexity to the finances of the organization.
JS from 2003 passed code review for me a few months ago... so, yes... maybe.
SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts on Crew-3 mission to space station
There's nothing racist or supremacist about observing how an old chinese story differs from western storytelling norms. I did not say it's worse. Nor do I have any reason to believe its representative of its peers. I said there's a lot of emphasis on a tangent that doesn't lead anywhere, which is particularly unusual for a short tale like this, which was presumably intended to carry a lesson to impart. I've no interest in debating whether you perceive my perception to be perceivable as racist though.
Bodley's transformation of Oxford’s library
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E-bikes in the US require pressure on the pedals to avoid being classified as vehicles (they’re cycling assist devices). That said, many people have retrofitted those assist systems with garage modifications that remove the need to push the pedals or even add a digital “throttle”.

Illegal? Sure. Are they going to get charged for it? Probably not.
> I like Pepsi. I don't like Coke. I just don't. I don't want to learn to like it in case it's the one that's on sale this week, either.

And this speaks to my actual point, demand has become less elastic than in the past, so these companies can actually demand _any_ price, up until you'll concede your taste preference.
> It is a really great quality screen, but not "the best".

I never said it was the best. The previous poster said that you can find comparable hardware at half the price. At lower price points than MacBooks/Dell XPS/Microsoft Surface, I've usually found the screen quality to be the hardest to match.
Scrypto -Programming Language for DeFi
Dow 36000
We renewed every 12 hours in the end we came to the conclusion that google might discriminate traffic from eastern european states. The sim cards were mostly from poland, belarus and the ukraine. When we tested it against german, french and italian cards captchas were way more frequent on the eastern cards and showed way earlier. I will ping you as soon as the talk is online.
Austin startup FreeWater is giving out free water
Are you talking about the `from x in y select x.z` syntax or the `y.Select(x => x.z)` syntax? Because the latter is the one I most commonly see, and it fits in fine with the rest of the language.
In Finland you get heavy fines for going faster than 25km/h with motor-assisted ebike (if using motor). If you go faster, depending on the speed, you are fined based on taxes avoided on using this kind of vehicle, plus fines based on driving unlicensed vehicle, plus fines possibly driving without driver’s license and some other fines too.
The Early History of Human Excreta
One thing I don't think you pointed out is that tracking down issues with NaNs seems hard with fast-math since, I believe, it also disables any exceptions that might be useful to being alerted to their formation?
People write exploding time complexity code in bad places all the time. I absolutely disagree with this sentiment that it won’t matter.
Very cool. But I take it this is not a strict superset of typescript. That seems like the biggest challenge and opportunity to me.
One major lumber sink before the industrial revolution (especially then!) was iron production. The "How did they make it" series posted on HN earlier has wonderful detail on that topic [1]. Apparently the supply chain even in Roman times required a staggering amount of trees to the point parts of the UK ran out.

> The ecological impact of pre-modern iron production was also significant. We know, for instance, that Elba was almost totally deforested during the Roman period to fuel the bloomeries smelting the ore and Pliny notes in his Natural History that smelting (not always of iron) had substantially reduced forest-stocks in parts of Gaul and Campagnia. Roman iron production in the eastern High Weald of England may have deforested something like 500km2 over the course of three centuries and there is reason to believe that Roman-period iron production in this area stopped because of scarcity of fuel, rather than ore. Iron-working was hardly the only factor in the steady deforestation of Europe, but it was a major factor.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-...
Ask HN: Whats the oldest drawing of an extraterrestrial colony?
I keep coming across John Wilkins' A Discourse Concerning a New Planet as (maybe) the oldest text seriously discussing extraterrestrial colonization, but it's a little hard to find a history of actual drawings / sketches etc of plans, serious or wacky / imaginative.

In any case thought someone on HN might be able to point me in the right direction. Any help is appreciated! :^)

Not looking for anything specific beyond age, could be space stations, lunar / martian colonies or anything in-between.
very cool project, unfortunately a bit depressing!
Starlink’s new Dishy McFlatface is smaller and lighter, still costs $499
Why neural networks aren't neural networks
Sweet Potato Biscuits
I've heard stories about the polygraphs that basically boil down to: we don't care if you smoke weed. we DO care that you tell us and don't lie about it.
Cryptocurrency faces a quantum computing problem
Technically anyone that can gain enough access could be considered as having “Q clearance”
Flaw was found in s390/s390x in the Linux kernel’s memory manager
I heard about one guy who couldn’t pass the poly no matter how many times he took it. He chalked it up to Catholic guilt. He ended up going to work for a different company doing rocket stuff (I think the ULA) cause he could use his clearance but they didn’t require polys. He might even still have access to JWICS in his new job
Why modulate it at all? Just use CW.
You would only see the real value in these poolers in dire times. Screwing up apps or deploys leaking connections is really easy. If that happens you will bring down the whole DB. With these poolers you will not only be able to limit that but also enforce per user (service based if every service has it's own creds) limits. These tools are useful beyond certain scale and you will only realize there true value once you are working in distributed micro-service world specially when they are connecting to same DB.
Internet Archive also: https://web.archive.org/web/20211112214234/blog.nuclearsecre...
Precisely! California and Alabama are in a monetary and customs union AND in a fiscal a political union! That's why it works. Federal money flow is net positive into Alabama and net negative out of California, as it's only natural between regions of a country. There's no tax havens inside the US for states to steal tax revenue from one another. There's a congress and a president, elected by all (the European Parliament is a bad joke). The US Treasury emits bonds in the name of the entire country. Can you imagine if each state had to emit it's own bonds, lol! Imagine each state being on its own, and Alabama trying to get finance by selling Alabama t-bills on Alabama credit? But despite this using the same currency and having a single market. That's more or less Europe right now.
That wouldn't be practical. C math library performance really matters for numerical-intensive apps like games.
Those mega cities are a lot better for the environment than villages or suburbs.
Unfortunately looking in, politics blur things and we’re likely never to know.

Political tendencies will allow people to make attributions they agree with and then simultaneously question attributions they disagree with politically.

USB sticks seem to be weird about transfer speeds and they look like they are size dependent. Bunch of small files take longer than one monolithic large file given a total size.
Well what about mechanical waves /sound waves. I mean we are talking about rates of less than a bit per second. Just have a small hammer ping your metal container. Will go much further is much cheaper and can easily do a higher data rate.
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I mean about a cell phone that causes cancer, it's too late to patent that.
Totally. I'm just wondering if, given we know they don't currently assign costs appropriately, would they start when electric vehicles become the norm? If not, how far off would they be compared to now?
I take this approach for internal divisions within the same file. For external APIs, you're operating under a completely different set of constraints. As I recall, similar advice was in the original Clean Code: context guides which principles you apply.