skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They were the kind of people that would have still been using child labor if it weren't outlawed.

Allow me to remind you the manner in which child labor was outlawed:

Industrialization progressed to a point where it was no longer economically viable except in a few tiny niches. It was then outlawed, to much back patting.

Sure, some people would probably use it if it was viable, but don't pretend like it was some great accomplishment to outlaw it. It was basically a case of writing law after the market had made a decision.
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>They’ve been estimating some place or another would be underwater for years. And it still hasn’t happened.

Because most of those predictions weren't claimed to be happening within the next few years. This would still be some decades off, at least.

>What did Al Gore say in 2009 about the ice caps in “5-7 years?” Gore wasn’t even close to correct.

[sigh] Here, give me your hand, I'll hold it for you...

>"These figures are fresh,” Gore said on Dec. 14, 2009, during the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen.

>He added: “Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

>Gore cited findings from climatologist Dr Wieslav Maslowski, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.

>However, it appears he mis-stated the forecast, according to reporting at the time.

>In an interview with The Times published on Dec. 15, 2009, Dr Maslowski said: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-climate-change-idU...

I would also hope that I don't need to point out to you that just because Gore didn't know how to communicate data he was seeing, that that means climate change isn't a thing. I feel like I do, though, because your comment so obviously feels like you're willfully not paying attention.
The neat thing about company towns was company stores, which were the only kind of stores in town. They were happy to sell you anything you wanted, on credit. The problem being that at the end of the month you owed more to the company store than what you got in your paycheck.

You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store
I click them more often than not.

My favorite part of HN is that the comments are usually collectively better than the article.
It's probably for people who are smart enough to know DSP, but only know JavaScript and refuse to learn anything else. If you squint it looks like an empty set.
Why are you doing this? Is it to save money on the vet bill?
This reminds me of the cartoon diagram of a computer posted in our university's IBM 7044 computer room circa 1968. I've forgotten most of it, but I still remember the snake swimming in a little pool of water, subtitled “Floating-point adder”.
The article gives some examples, but here's another one: consider what happens when you run "git status" on a large repository. In order to determine the status of every file, git needs to check each subdirectory for a ".gitignore" file, even though the vast majority of the time there's only one at the root. All of those nonexistent files can become negative dentries.

In theory, git could do its own caching, or it could be refactored so as to move the .gitignore scanning inline with the main directory traversal. In practice, it doesn't do so (at least as of 2.30.2, which is the version I just tested). And I don't think it's reasonable to expect every program to contort itself to minimize the number of times it looks for nonexistent files, when that's something that can reasonably be delegated to the OS.
There's a company based in Switzerland doing this sort of thing. Unfortunately I've forgotten the name, was spun out of some academic research.
> if a train has a delay of over 30 minutes, the train will often just stop at some station

I've seen that happen in London, sadly, although it's less of a problem given the general frequency and other alternatives (bus, etc.) Also the "if the train is going to be delayed enough to cause payouts, just take it out of service before the deadline" trick.
Yeah, but who's going to buy them in an opened package and at what discount (loss for the store)?
Thank you for the kind words! I feel the same.
We have the same buses as you these days. Megabus exists to connect many larger metropolitan areas. More or less the same vehicles as you'd find for similar services in Europe. Sadly, none of the "sleeper bus" variety that have existed (from time to time) in Europe.
Startup Bolt’s valuation tanks after founder slams Silicon Valley ‘mob bosses’
In most European countries, even if the financing is organized differently than in Germany, the long-distance trains bring in the most money and would be profitable if run entirely commercially.
From an employee's standpoint it's simple: You should do every possible thing to put your interests and those of your family or dependents first and foremost above all else, especially your job. Once you've done this to the best of your abilities, you politely give the company or companies you work for what you can based on how reasonably they're compensating you, while never being ashamed of taking a mercenary option as soon as it seems necessary.

Taking all questions of labor law fairness aside (you won't solve them alone in a workplace anyway), reality is what it is and while it's still imperfect, hedge yourself against those imperfections to your own benefit as well as you can, legally.

Secondly, companies that vomit platitudes about "we're all a family here" and "we look out for each other" are by default spewing lying, superficial PR bullshit. They should never be trusted for a second on such nonsense unless you've secured a written contract of provisions for how you'll be treated, have your healthcare taken care of or be compensated if dismissed for any reason. If you can't secure those things, then tread carefully and keep hedging.

edit: couple extra words.
Ok, so you can actually do this but the keyboard sequence is a bit bonkers.

* Hold down Command and press Tab until the application icon representing the minimised window is highlighted.

* Release Tab but DONT let go of Command.

* Now press Option too so you are holding down Command + Option

* Now release Command so you are just holding down Option

* Finally release Option

Amazingly this will then maximise the window whose application icon you selected in the first place.

Sounds crazy but it works. Try it!
Use Route 53 with Certificate Manager.
Certs in use automatically renewed. No need to monitor.
Everyone hates cookiebanners.
Noone except devs know that browsers use cookies and noone cares.

Cookiebanners are no restricted to cookies, it's about tracking, storing and sharing the information with third parties.

If you use cookies for login you don't need a cookiebanner, because it's necessary.

If you use cookie for tracking you need a cookiebanner, if you track the user with another technology you still need a cookiebanner.
Congress should be directing monthly increases to SS to match inflation numbers. Instead they'll wait and see which party can promise they'll do just that better than the other party if they get the votes.
The stimulus was implemented by the same people who will implement the UBI. It is obvious they don't understand the UBI theory, or they'd have implemented the stimulus differently.

They also aren't even admitting that their policies are the cause. In the linked article, the white house has incorrectly identified policy failures as evidence of Putin's influence US economy. Which is kinda off, Russia is a global minnow compared to the inflation that is going on. Doesn't sound like someone learning the theory correctly based on their mistakes.

There is evidence that while what you want != stimulus, what is most likely to get implemented just got nailed in a coffin in the minds of people who like evidence.
Great observation and exactly how we've envisioned this new Realtime.
>>>> I don't think his murders invalidate his manifesto.

- colinmhayes (the original post I responded to).

And, for your point to be relevant to this discussion, you would have to claim that what the Unabomber did was "killing" rather than "murder". If you claim that, I'd like to see your definitions and where you think the line between killing and murder is.

And if that isn't your claim, it looks like you're just arguing in order to argue.
When I was in school I read fiction novels for escapism.

I'd read any chance I got, especially at school.

Oftentimes (particularly reading while sitting in one place or lying in bed) I'd forget I was reading a book and I'd lose all concept of time

I'd just be mechanically turing the pages and stuff and I'd get lost in the book

if you just wanna start reading and don't have an agenda for what you need to read, I recommend reading novels or books you enjoy and/or can get lost in

It should be almost like watching movies or tv, but not just random stuff, I mean stuff you actually enjoy watching
> Wow, this is something that has been a floater-in-mind for decades

Have you literally never come across the "you're not Google!!!" trope before now, during the whole ~decade leading up to this very day? Gosh I envy you.

(Also, I am reaaally struggling to understand that story. Who is speaking? It sounds like a story within a story within a story. I can just about piece together the gist, but I'm very confused by all the formatting and nested quotes.)
Or, looking at it another way, you're trading a person who has the ability to go against group consensus for the betterment of the community to a person who is highly incentivized to follow group consensus to maintain their power (in the ideal circumstances, of course; I'm ignoring the obvious failure case of corruption or other manipulations). When that group consensus aligns with your values, that could be good. When it does not - such as living as a political minority, or when the group consensus is harmful to you (take, for example, NIMBYism), that can be very bad. In both cases you will have no meaningful political representation. A Democrat voter in a very Republican county has no real voice in government affairs unless they expend an inordinate and frankly unreasonable amount of effort campaigning - and will likely suffer some social repercussions for doing so. The reason people keep coming back to the idea of autocracy - why companies are often so much more efficient than governments - is that a central decision-maker can (not always will!) more effectively direct group efforts and establish priorities.

Democracy, as has been said, is the worst political system, except for all the others, but let's not lie to ourselves and ignore that in some contexts it is, in fact, strictly worse. The classic example, of course, is an army led by direct democracy. When a thing must get done, and damn the consequences, then there really is no substitute for autocracy. It's just unfortunate that the people who eventually end up as autocrats are rarely there to benefit the community. Building systems of accountability and responsibility through culture and non-systemic factors may better this (see, for example, the 85 terms of Roman dictators who did not try to seize any more power than they had been given by the Senate and in fact often returned their powers before their term was over), but culture-crafting to accomplish that is unfortunately beyond us at the moment.
Garbage data in. Garbage data out.
Epic raises $2B at a $31.5B valuation to build a family friendly metaverse
No packages or repositiories deserves trust, at least not in the current state of affairs. There is no magic fix that will enable you to trust packages just by adding a new framework or anything similar, and what the linked article is addressing is only half the problem.

We also need a way to make packages auditable. Package signing by the publisher and the repository needs to be mandatory. Having an actual link between the package and the commit it was built on and a way to reproduce the build[1] also needs to be possible. This would allow for proper code reviews, not just of your own code but also audits of whatever extra components you are using.

Organizations need to define sensible thresholds for when you can use a package and when you implement the code yourself, to avoid adding a library only to use one function. They also need to define trust; what is needed to trust a package or a maintainer.

And we need a system and proper best practice to guide us on what to trust; do we really want to add a package with 100 direct or transitive dependencies, where some hasn't been updated for the past two years, some are maintained by solo developers and some are just implementing already existing functionality?

All of these are hard to implement and justify, when the current situation seem to work for a lot of people.

[1] - https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
JetBrains IDEs (some/all?) have a menu option Tools->Deployment->Configuration where you can specify remotes via ssh and sync via rsync.

I only use one-way sync from local to remote though 2-way is also supported. I simply git fetch/checkout on remote first, then git fetch/checkout the same branch on local. You can set up a local script to do both together.

Once in that state, any locally changed files get sent to remote faster than I can switch focus to the terminal and enter a command/enter.

There's also a Remote Development (beta) feature that essentially runs the JetBrains IDE headless on the remote and a local 'display server'. Performance largely depends on the performance of remote and network bandwidth much more than the Deployment Configuration rsync method.
Oh yeah a sign would work… (I was thinking continuing the train to the stated destination.)
Static gets injected because tech employees and to a slightly lesser extent engineering types in general like to think they are experts in everything.

Say what you want about lawyers, they will say "not my area of expertise immma shut my mouth" at the drop of a hat.
"Closed; Won't Fix"
You're assuming the store would accept the return and even if they did, they might not do it for the same price; a (restocking) fee might be charged.
They’re still offering on-prem for airgapped usecases afaik. It’s just become a “contact us” pricing plan
Yes clearly once you have a key logger installed you have been compromised and have to assume the worst. But it would still be really useful to know that your keystrokes are being observed and recorded. I wonder if you could make a little dongle that would encrypt your keystrokes as they leave your keyboard and have them decrypted via some “Secure Enclave” on your device’s CPU, which can only be accessed by the lowest level (signed) kernel code.
That's fine, the idea isn't to get rid of employer provided healthcare to make salaries go up, the idea is to get rid of employer provided healthcare because of the problems that come with it.
> a large majority of the commenters here are either currently business owners, or founders, or trying to be either of those

I'm pretty sure they are really a minority.
Can try the native Mac app until it’s discontinued. Surprising how fast it is.
Zurich to Paris (489km) is shorter than San Francisco to Los Angeles (559km).

Europeans think that 100km is a long way while Americans think that 100 years is a long time.
One could make the same argument about illegal immigrants, or guns, or white privilege, or anything you could want to see changed.
Thank you! My hope was to make it accessible to non-technical readers while still being fun for people who are familiar with HTTP innards.
Airports, especially smaller ones, are heavily subsidized in Europe.
I've had some interesting experiences with exit interviews but generally agree with the canned politically friendly response strategy, "I'm just moving on; need to make the best decision for me and my family" etc. If you have some angry criticism about why, personally I think it's one of those situations where you should write a letter expressing those feelings but not send it.

One I did with BigCo I was leaving was all just box checking yes/no questions like, Are you leaving because you felt discriminated against, are you leaving because you were harassed, etc.

During another one the HR person asks me, "At what point did you realize you had no future here?"

And at my most recent one I was asked if the client I was assigned to had anything to do with it, and I said yes. They were actually working on ending the relationship as far as I know.
There's also intense competition among airlines which cuts costs to the bone. That doesnt happen for rail.
This is nice, but how about a way to connect modern computers to old displays? I have several really nice displays (mostly in old laptops, but also an SGI 1600SW) that it would be great to have a DVI or similar input for in one way or another.
Childish Font Sizes
Samba as Ad and Domain Controller
Because it's a comic. Comics involve both illustrations of characters and those characters speaking, so he draws characters instead of just text.

If you follow SMBC this is a pretty normal setup for him, and many of the comics are the same panels with different text. This happens constantly, with the most notable example being two girls hiking up a snowy mountain. He's not quite as egregious about it as Dinosaur Comics, where literally every strip is the same with different text.

This comic was posted here because the text was particularly interesting this time. And it's not just talking heads, he also gives the illustration of the intersection as another visual metaphor.
This smells a lot of 1980s global recession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession

Energy crisis due to international conflicts
Inflation getting higher than 7%
Increased interest rates

I wonder how far will this get in the coming years
> the train will often just stop at some station and the passengers are told "the train ends here". They then have to figure out their journey using alternative trains.

In the Czech Republic, what would happen in that case would be that the railway company would shuttle the passengers to their destination using buses. This doesn't happen in Germany?
>Being on the science red team could also be really cool and fun.

I think it depends on what you're investigating, and how much is at stake. I doubt it would be much fun to be put on a corporate hit list.

>The court was told that James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University, wrote to the then Merck head Ray Gilmartin in October 2000 to complain about the treatment of some of his researchers who had criticised the drug.

>"Even worse were allegations of Merck damage control by intimidation," he wrote, ... "This has happened to at least eight (clinical) investigators ... I suppose I was mildly threatened myself but I never have spoken or written on these issues."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merck-created-hit-list-to-destr...
I think more precisely, the traditional definition of an orbit (stable or not) is that it's influenced by gravity. You could be in a situation where the influence of gravity was negligible (say, far beyond any galaxy) but it wouldn't be considered an orbit at that point.

I guess certain multi-body situations like Lagrange points might make it debatable about which "direction" you're falling though.
That seems wrong. New high speed lines are being built and have recently opened (e.g. Berlin-Munich, soon Stuttgart-Ulm). The number of passengers using high speed trains (ICEs) is steadily increasing: from 75 million trips in 2009 to 99 million trips in 2019. To increase the number of trips like that, lots of investment in rolling stock / signalling / lines is needed. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/162877/
Because then when there IS a variable, the help command you learned will not work.

I think anyone crying and baffled about this is fundamentally not well suited to programming. This sort of logical problem should be intuitive.

The seeming irrationality of the special case behavior is just something funny to make your mom laugh, not something that's actually illogical or inconsistent or stupid.
"...you could give your all to a company."

I believe the phrasing should be "had to give your all to a company." This is the time period when you would retire from the same company you started at, right? And if you had more than a few jobs on your resume (or the infamous missing time), you would have a hard time being hired because you were unreliable.

You have a very rose-tinted view of the historical business world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strikes#Twentieth_cent...
It's rare a single parameter maps to a human understandable concept. Occasionally someone finds one that does map fairly well, for example this case back in 2017:
https://openai.com/blog/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/#senti...
> . As far as I'm aware Facebook's ad platform is mostly backed by hundreds of thousands of Mysql instances.

Same for YouTube itself https://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=750 and they use Vitess for horizontal scaling: https://vitess.io/
Or unless you take a night train. Get in in the evening, sleep most of the way and wake up at your destination. That can actually save you time compared to a flight, or be a lot more comfortable than, e.g., getting up at 4 AM to take a flight to a meeting in the morning somewhere.
incredible almost everything you said is wrong!

> Note that if you travel from The Netherlands to Spain you might be traversing 6 different railway electrification systems that vary in critical stuff like voltages (and by more than a factor 10!) and possibly Hz, and some are AC and some are DC (not kidding). Also there will be at least 2 incompatible track gauges involved. And I bet other stuff like communications and routing systems are incompatible and safety critical too.

none of this is nearly as problematic as you seem to think it is. modern powertrains traverse various electrification schemes without difficulty. signaling systems are trending towards ETCS, trains that traverse incompatible signaling systems (eg the eurostar) simply carry a set of onboard signaling equipment for each standard. gauge changes are the most challenging technical limitation in your list, but are a solved problem. spanish talgo's regularly change gauges at speed [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiH4kt14yGw
Yeah, those guys kept kicking or pushing cats preventing them to orient themselves. Cats were surprised by the lack of gravity, but they were not given a chance to adapt to new circumstances.
Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?
DALL·E Mini
I only remembered the regional one which was so strange.
> Well to be fair, if you release something to the public you do have a certain responsibility. At least to provide a running configuration without the documentation being behind a payment.

If it's free, you have zero responsibility. People can choose to use it or not, I don't think you even have a responsibility to keep it running.

If you have a hundred thousand users and you decide tomorrow to just yank it from existence, that's absolutely fine too.

It's free, no one forces you to use, don't expect anything. The maintainer might get bored with it, delete it, accidentally break it, or change it just for shits and giggles to fuck with people.

It's fine. It's free.