skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those police unions are exactly why in many cases, an officer gets to see ALL evidence and video about a situation, with a required rep or lawyer, before making an official statement in many jurisdictions. Something you and I certainly don't get. In fact, they often try to trick suspects.
There are plenty of stories of executives and boards of directors who mess up big time, cost the company big money and get rewarded with multi million dollar severance packages. Is management and board of directors an anachronism too?
Breaking up tech is a pretty bipartisan sentiment, I'm not sure that people feel like it's because FB didn't pay enough to play.

In my mind there are a bunch of political reasons to choose FB first.

1. Older generations are familiar with what a central role FB plays in their lives, and regardless of what side you find yourself on the political divide, you either think they are pushing radicalizing ads or have silenced e.g. antivax rhetoric which you might agree with.

2. Many people don't really know Alphabet exists. Google is a search company in many people's minds, maybe an email/calendar one too. Outside of HN and maybe some frustrated Q-tubers, I'm not sure people have much hatred for Google.

3. Breaking up Amazon can pretty quickly be spun as a worker's rights/union issue, and I can see how Republicans might have a hard time being seen as promoting unions.

At least that's my armchair analysis
> In other words: gas compression storage suffers from temperature losses.

Yes, and you can also compress air further when it's cooled (this is why there is an intercooler on turbocharged cars, as an example), this means your density per volume of storage is higher at a given pressure.

The reality though is that this is likely less efficient than many other storage mechanisms. Additionally, this may require some sort of additional energy input for reheating if the heat storage is not capable of holding long enough to fully reheat the air on release to get the highest turbine efficiency.
Yes: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8...
If someone was to design a good small set of opcodes we could go back to rolling machine code by hand. While at it we might as well fill the atx box with cute tiny isolated computers that talk over ip addresses. They have to be small enough as to not leave space for an OS. Some ROM is fine ofc.
The many imagined lives of Fernando Pessoa
not a lot of places have enough terrain to create a lake, plus in some places there's already shortage of water so removing it from usage would be pretty bad
The point of masks is not necessarily protecting the wearer from other people but other people from the wearer of the mask. It's kind of an unselfish and considerate thing to be wearing a mask: you might be infected without knowing and exposing others around you. A mask reduces that risk.

If everybody wears a mask, you effectively have two layers of protection. A potentially infected person wearing a mask would mostly not be spreading the virus very effectively. Their mask would catch most of their droplets. Your own mask then reduces the risk further. If either of you doesn't wear a mask, the risk is much higher. If nobody wears a mask, higher still. It's not rocket science.
I have a project that will be fueled by scraping. We should chat. :)
The screen actors guild doesn't limit it's members ability to make money.
Oh so you are worried about what a union could do at google, but what google does is not a problem?
Very useful. Right now I am getting about 10 messages a day from recruiters, but maybe 1/25 of them are worth a second look. They are either geographically not ideal, things I don't want to do, or things I don't really have experience with (and my LinkedIn profile doesn't even mention)

It's more useful for applying directly to companies. I was getting jobs from Indeed but it seems like 3 of the last 4 were from LinkedIn.
I was wondering the same. Although they can somewhat mitigate that by adding some antifreeze additives to the water perhaps?
They don't believe in having technology in the home. Most Amish are perfectly willing to work with modern equipment for their shops and businesses. Go by an Amish milking shed anywhere in the country--as my dad would say 'they're lit up like a shit house in the fog'. Electric lights from one end to the other with modern milkers inside.
Pre-industrial holes may collapse long before you reach -100 meters. Even -5 meters is a challenge in certain places.

Also, digging (or rather drilling) in bedrock is hard without motorized equipment and good steel.

Also, supplying fresh air down there is a problem.

Also, preventing the mine from flooding is usually a huge problem.

Mining is hard and a lot of people lost their lives doing that. That said, if your only intent is to get a bit warmer, you may basically try a good cave. Caves tend to have temperatures above freezing for the whole year.
Google is just jealous they’re not able to read the messages and show ads, Remember Google Allo the shameless app that reads every message and “suggests” businesses automatically?
The house number locations in the UK irks me. I submitted corrections for my neighbourhood for all house numbers. A year later, they all get moved back to roughly where they were.

It took me a while to figure out it's detecting the house numbers from Street View pictures and overriding my corrections.
Fabrication First: A Plague of Choices (2021)
> To be clear, this can be done today with $20 ESP32 WiFi devices + custom firmware, i.e. any motivated attacker can already see through the walls of homes and businesses. The Wi-Fi 7 Sensing draft standard is proposing to make this available to everyone.

It's like you could make a magic flashlight that sees though walls, vs. flipping a switch that turns every wall to glass. It's not a perfect metaphor, sure, but the point is that it's kind of a big step to flip that switch, throw open those floodgates, and to do it with so little fanfare.
>> For some reason we hold unions to an incredibly high standard of "no problems, ever"

Because they are democratic institutions. They can be held to a no-problems standard because every time a problem occurs then those involved can be sacked and replaced. The level of acceptable corruption is set by the membership. Rules should therefore focus on openness and member participation in leadership selection. Everyone who hates unions because of X or Y, to them I say join the leadership and run the union the way you think it should be run. Tearing down the system doesn't fix anything.
It is deprecated:

> You should also be aware that the utf8mb3 character set is deprecated and you should expect it to be removed in a future MySQL release. Please use utf8mb4 instead.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8...
A stopped clock is right twice a day, as they say.

RCS isn't a replacement for Signal or iMessage, not really, but it's a hell of a lot better than the current least-common-denominator, cross-platform approach of SMS/MMS.

Apple, with its desire for vendor lock-in, has every incentive to keep the "least-common-denominator" messaging standard as crappy as possible, to make iMessage's own experience between Apple users more compelling. They have no incentive to improve this and of course will drag their feet as long as possible.

Whatever you think of Google, and whatever you think of Apple, I hope you can agree that the carriers dragging their feet on RCS does nobody any good. There's no reason that RCS cannot co-exist with iMessage on IOS, except that Apple wants you in its walled garden.
At initial glance I also think it would be much cheaper to give out adjustments like this than have like 10% of your staff leave. Some napkin math indicates otherwise: if you have a staff of 10 that each make 100k on average, a 5% COLA costs you $50k vs. 1 person leaving (10%) and costing you maybe $25k in recruitment. That $50k is year over year too, not just a one-time deal, your avg salary is now $105k.

So in this fictional, theoretical employer scenario it would take 3 people leaving (30%) in order for it to have been less costly to just have given out 5% to everyone.

Even with my napkin math I still think its better to take care of your people reasonably vs. use a spreadsheet to drive decisions and hope people don't leave.
Emulating old terminals is fun.
sure, but what do seat belts have to do with viruses.
Why do you prefer these things to be controlled by management and HR?

To be clear - I absolutely agree that these are all important and these powers need to be exercised wisely. But without democratically controlling them, every single one of them is controlled by management/HR. Why do you feel that management/HR is going to do a better job of controlling those things?
There also used to be "central turbines" whereby there was a central spinning rod that one could attach belts to in order to spin a thing to get work out of it...

called line and shaft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qt5tltnvF8
> In practice, they often lead to abuse, stagnation and corruption.

In practice, that's what power often does in any situation. So the question often boils down to "who do you want to benefit from the 'abuse, stagnation and corruption'?" because someone will.

> I've personally witnessed union employees who contributed nothing for years, get perpetually shifted from team to team to team and even promoted because it was too complex and costly to fire them.

And there are tons of examples of hardworking non-union employees getting shafted, so the do-nothing shareholders can collect more profits.

In almost all settings, shareholders are the group that contributes the absolute least to an organization (e.g. most didn't really even invest anything, they just bought a share that's long circulated in the stock market), yet their interests are the ones that are prioritized. A lot of people who are strongly against the mythically-large do-nothing union employee seem to have no problem with do-nothing shareholders.
If somebody is going to be paying you more than $1000, they'll contact you about it. You don't need to automate the license payments; you just need to check your email.
This is basically how most indistrial setups was before engines and motors became a commodity. You had water wheels as your main power source, from which other tools was driven via belts and gears.

Later the waterwheel was replaced by an electric motor or a fuel powered engine - but still built around just one source of power, with elaborate setups to drive different tools. With the added benefits you could build factories and workshops outside main water sources.
Auras are great, mainly because of the nose padding. It seems to be slightly anti-slip in addition to adding some comfort. What's more shocking is that they very closely resemble a design that was made specifically for consumers around 2008 for dealing with pandemic situations, but somehow we're still debating over whether masks even work 13 years later.

https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1476673083905699849/p...
One fun thing you can do in MariaDB is define a collation based off of the Unicode confusables list. The result of this is that select * from usernames where user = 'John' would still work :)

It also avoids registering both 'John' and 'John'. (changed the o)

Hedgewars user registration does this.
How sure are we that hunting gather
societies were more common than forager-horticulture? Is it possible most societies had some component of horticulture and the hunter-gather societies only exist because of favorable environmental conditions? It seems that many human developments have been attributed to occurring earlier and earlier, such as language, tool use, and art. Is there a reason to think horticultural wouldn't be the same? It seems like it would leave little trace for anthropology or archeology to discover, so may have been happening longer than we expected. It's sort of like how we call it the "stone age" even though wooden tools were likely much more common because stone tools are more survivable, and therefore more likely to be found. Our current conception of how early humanity lived their lives is dominant by what we don't know instead of what we do know. That is, unless I am mistaken and there is evidence that early humans didn't use some form of horticulture.
This is a big coincidence for me, a few hours ago I posted a reply to someone else saying I've decided this year to plough through khan academy at least until I can do some calculus.

I'm in the same boat as you I think.

I'm 40, work as a programmer and I have a fear of being found out for not know enough maths.

I bought "math for programmers"
https://www.manning.com/books/math-for-programmers
But I realised I really need to get better at algebra first.

I'm treating this as how I treated learning the guitar on my own when I was 12, sit in my room at night and practice.

I'd be interested to hear what people think of my khan academy plan :)
A great read. I do hope that people will try to incorporate this technique.
As a huge Postgres fan working at a shop using MySQL I'll point out the first thing I saw MySQL does that Postgres doesn't:

Index hints.

If you aren't hitting an index in Postgres you have to dig in to table stats and figure out what is wrong but MySQL gives you more control.

However, I would still rather work with Postgres AND have to juggle a connection pooler than deal with MySQL. Transactions on DDL are _great_ and the ability to use foreign keys across partitioned tables is how it should be.
> Removing foreign influence operatives from the comment sections of CNN, WashingtonPost, and Fox News would do a lot to heal the national divide and quell the brewing extremism.

No one in Operation Mockingbird even so much as got a sternly written letter when they were caught implanting CIA agents within national news agencies. They got the message loud and clear though, it was only a problem if the U.S. government directly coordinated the propaganda directly. The CIA immediately privatized the whole operation and hid it behind the curtain in Allen and Co's Sun Valley conference, where they still meet every year (for 37 years now), to coordinate the national narrative.
I really enjoy bpython as my go-to python repl. Its django support and autocomplete is out of this world and the way it displays doc sections while using functions is really useful. Will take a look and compare ipython 8.0
Well said. In general there's no winning on boards like this. Most people here are ignorant of most of Africa and Africans in general, but that doesn't stop them from pontificating and being condescending know-it-alls
Past related threads (though some go kind of offtopic):

Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191843 - Aug 2021 (16 comments)

The Politics of Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768795 - July 2021 (17 comments)

A Little Fellow with a Big Head: On Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983483 - July 2020 (7 comments)

Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894466 - July 2020 (46 comments)
> I would be shocked if the US arrested scientists and journalists to conceal the origins of a viral outbreak.

The US are actively prosecuting a journalist on phony charges because he helped expose their war crimes, among other things. The UK is of course actively complicit, which contributed in making his life a living hell.

Given that precedent, I wouldn't be shocked at all.
Even in fiction there are vast differences. I tore through Murakami's 1Q84 in about 2/3 the time as Gibson's The Peripheral, despite the former being 1157 pages compared to 471 for The Peripheral.
Revenue isn't profit, of course. Can definitely be in a situation where a company increases revenue but costs escalate faster and budget cuts are needed.
MySQL "utf8" is still "utf8mb3", which is not a standard anywhere except MySQL. It cannot store the full range of 21-bit code points; I don't know why you keep repeating this. The maximum codepoint in 3-byte UTF-8 is 0xFFFF, which is 16 bits.
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Love the idea of offering unique experiences for different audience segments. I don't think that's a strategy enough brands think about when putting together their marketing efforts. Great breakdown
Calling covid "the sniffles" doesn't make you sound reasonable.
Exactly! So I end up always restarting to be sure that I don't waste time chasing already-fixed-bugs.
With all the talk about seal tightness I'm deeply surprised so few people use a fitter to tighten their masks.

I feel naked without my fitter - I'd feel the air leaking from where it's not supposed to.
Right, politeness is killing corporate software.
It depends on your goals and expectations. If the things you want to purchase are being bid on by others gaining 30% per year of purchasing power, then if you are not, you have lost purchasing power relative to them.

I like to use VOO as my measure of inflation, but that is only because of the things I am interested in purchasing, specifically the land I want, but also construction costs/tuition/vacations and family events/healthcare/legal services/political donations.
One thing I do while playing with people half a world away is to send just the final pattern (Share button copies that to the clipboard). Once both parties have sent their answers, you can share the screenshots :-)
Galileo Galilei?
I believe the developer was interviewed and said he/she has no plans to change the game to make money. If you go to just https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/ (maker of the game) you can see he made other games on Reddit (The Button and Place) and is listed as an artist, product manager, and engineer. I suspect the attention the game has received has resulted in many head hunters reaching out.
Think of Wordle as a loss leader for his career.
The Amish only allow technology that they think will improve their lives. Many have cell phones, but don't use Facebook for example. I'd also bet he could repair the engine if he needed to.
You likely want to use something like https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_console, or ipykernel directly to have a persistent python process. One issue is that shells are text based, so you have to do a lot of serialisation/deserialisation.

But honestly at that point I would just look into https://xon.sh/ that blends Python and Shell together. IPython and Xonsh devs are friends, so if you need anything from one into the other it's likely doable.
Yeah; "favor composition over inheritance" remains good advice. "Classical" OO inheritance is brittle and often harmful.
> There are things I do not want to be democratically controlled.
> My ability to negotiate salaries with my boss is one of them.
> The scope of my job (some unions get to decide what you are allowed to do).

If you are an at-will employee in the US, your ability to do any of that is entirely at the discretion of your employer. You have no rights to do any of the above. You might have more leverage or better treatment in specific scenarios, but again, the hard truth is that all of this is entirely at the whim of management.
> "Corporations are usually horrendously corrupt so we should abolish them all?"

People voluntarily don't work for corporations whose mission or behavior is incompatible with their values; they do not have that option with unionization.
If the union allows workers to not join the union, not charge dues for being an non-member, and not support them, then nobody would have a problem with them.
> if masks weren’t working at all, we’d see a lot of medical professionals catching covid. A lot lot more than we see now.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

"I am carrying my anti-tiger rock. I have not encountered any tigers today. Therfore, my anti-tiger rock is working."

You realize that medical professionals are almost universally vaccinated, have in large number had the virus already, and take other precautions, right?
For the places that have enforced mandatory vaccination, it seems to end up around ~1% or so of employees that are willing to go that route. And frankly, a substantial number of those are older workers that are probably at retirement age anyway. The "Great Resignation" is much more substantial.
Did they give you a Most Valuable Tester award?
Calling it "easy" is not "defending" it.

You can't think clearly about situations if you're just firing emotions off at trigger words.
Stop Using Pie-Charts
Thanks for this, I never quite thought of it that way.

I struggled with ADHD-like symptoms profoundly during the eras of my life when my beliefs didn't match the trajectory the world was on, mainly during the early 2000s and late 2010s. My beliefs have since changed, now that I'm able to set boundaries and not let the outside world influence my inner peace as much as it once did.

But I really think there is something to the connection between negative feedback loops and ADHD/CPTSD/OCD etc. Which suggests to me that our obsession with medication is only looking at half the issue. Why are so many (generally clever, effective) people so consistently feeling like their intentions don't match outcomes? If it's not them, then what's wrong with the world or our role in it? Could we change reality instead of ourselves? Is there a difference? These are the questions I wrestle with now.
Surely intending and designing for a negative outcome just makes it even worse?
flywheels storing a lot of energy are very dangerous, if something happens it's a flying thing that destroys everything on its way
The problem I’ve seen with the “rule of 3” in real life is that by the time someone is writing a similar implementation by the third time, 5 years have passed and the entire team has rotated, so the programmer doesn’t have enough context to DRY anymore, and then the failed “big refactor that breaks corner cases” happens.

I find a mentality of _striving_ for DRY by default — even if end up choosing to duplicate for pragmatic reasons — to be beneficial in keeping programmers looking around for opportunities and refining the understanding of the context, with a better chance of incremental progress.
My employer paid for mine. It was an excellent boost early in my career, but it doesn’t matter at all right now. I don’t regret getting it, but I’m more hesitant to suggest a masters to fellow software engineers.
The Cost of a Byte: do mobile app downloads contribute to climate change?