skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The philosophy of technology behind this is fascinating. The need is
the clearest case of non-functional requirements I have ever
seen. When a process owner brazenly does not care about the outcome,
but cares only about forcing people to go through their arbitrary
steps, it is to stamp their seal of authority and control upon the
other.

As Bill Hicks says "Hey, pretend like you're working!"

Everything else is post-facto rationalisation. In other words, they'll
dream up anything as a way to explain why you have to conform to
their process, variously invoking "standard practice", "regulation",
"security", with total disregard for the truth. It is the process
with which they identify vicariously, are attached to, and are obliged
to defend. The process owns them.

As for the solution. Funny as it is, it's an example of tragic new
realm of digital technology whose purpose is to fake human agency, and
create desired appearance over any actual reality.

I'm not just talking about spambots, or automated essay mills for
students to buy their way to a degree one cheat at a time. These are
what Douglas Adams called "Electric Monks". They believe in make-work
bullshit so that real people don't have to. This is the future of AI,
the adversarial workplace, a technological arms race around make-work
wage-slavery which creates no tangible economic value; avatars that
stand in for people remote working so they can sunbathe in the
garden... like that little pecking bird that Homer Simpson gets to run
the nuclear plant by pecking on the Y key.

Whoever can afford the best Electric Monks wins the game, because they
will be able to free their attention for real life.

edit: italics
"We have no evidence that humans and chimps can have children, and it has probably been tried. "
Indeed Ilya Ivanov spent a lot of time and money trying to do just that, with no success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ivanov
The network equipment is compromised worse than the phones (network operators have the same issue smartphone users do where they can't actually get shells on their own equipment) and it already knows enough about you to be an issue. Anything that connects to the cell network is always a problem.
I think a lot of people don't realize that the impact of sodium and other "bad stuff for you" varies from person to person. Only 25% of the population is subject to high blood pressure as a result of high sodium intake.

So, if you create an experiment that can subtly select for the 75% of the population doesn't experience high blood pressure, then you can show that sodium doesn't raise it. I don't if that's what's going on here but a lot interested parties will try to go this route in order to show that salt is harmless.
Because the content marketers have not discovered it yet. Kinda like Medium around 2016ish. Let’s see how long this one lasts.
Sensing some sarcasm, but I agree there is some wisdom is "keeping your place." Not very popular to say that these days, but boy I wish I took that advice more as a junior dev. Still need to do that more.

However there is a spectrum, and if it turns from "listen rather than speak" in a respectful, learning sort of mentality to "shut up and do as I say, no questions", then requirements tools are not going to address the real problems.

In my experience, having requirements and processes and tools being used in a mindful way can be wonderful, but all that pales in comparison with the effectiveness of a well-working team. But that's the human factor and the difficult part.

Source: also been working a while. Seen good teams that were very democratic and also good teams that were very top-heavy militaristic (happy people all around in both scenarios).
Do you have examples of stories where the facts were "exceedingly, horrendously, tragically bad" and were published without any retraction?
It's been more than a month since the war started, it's become very clear that the war is popular in Russia and pretending that XYZ company could maybe be the sole exception isn't worth considering. Also, the comparison between the Russian government arresting people for holding up blank pieces of paper and the US government asking media to not broadcast coffins is laughable.
>you've found a clever way to do something

Dont use GPL licensing if you want to turn a trade secret into profit.
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This is called market segmentation, and in competitive markets (like, say, flying or hotels) it’s a good thing: it allows the carrier to sell early tickets at very low prices, often well below the actual marginal cost of the last seat, because these losses will be made up by people who have urgent need for travel right now, and so are much less price sensitive. That’s how, for example, RyanAir is able to offer those 20 EUR cross Europe fares, which is well below even just the fuel cost, much less other costs.
This is certainly a prototype, there is a lot that can be added (both option and UI-wise). If you could find the time to report the issues you found (either here or per mail), I would be glad to try and fix them.
Yes, absolutely. It's how we cross distances and learn more about each other. It's how we become more than the sum of our parts.
Lab leak hasn't been proven true, but hasn't been proven false. People were told they were spreading misinformation and xenophobia / racism if they talked about it.

Some portions of Hunter Biden laptop have been proven true (the emails on the laptop are legit) but people were banned for spreading hacked content (deapite it not being hacked) and spreading Russian disinformation.
too bad -> too big, typo
Netlify Edge Functions on Deno Deploy
Yeah, blockchain is more of an attention and hype sink than where the majority of VC funding is going.
I have Lutron Caseta switches. They can be controlled entirely locally. You can't reflash them, AFAIK, but they work with Home Assistant just fine, and it's all local (it doesn't need to talk to a web service)
>It's unpopular with left-leaning mainstream audiences

It is truly wild how HN often frames censorship as something coming purely from the left while ignoring the laws coming out of conservative state legislatures across the country. There is a wide spectrum of people both pushing for censorship and pushing against it.
In Dubai, like America, the companies should be forced to treat domestic workers fairly. It'd be really swell if those companies treated workers fairly in India as well and the population of Dubai could put pressure on India to improve working conditions but that's a sovereignty and economic question. I think it'd be really swell if standards of living across the globe were a lot more equalized, but that's not the world we live in. We can fix our own back yard but other nations are blocked by different base standards of living - we can influence that by, for instance, preferring to buy products from companies that treat overseas labour more fairly which will slowly transfer wealth and raise up those well off or, if you're bezos rich, I guess you could just try and wave a magic wand... but there just isn't enough domestic GDP to support higher wages in some countries.
There is another phenomena as well. The odds of a piece of research going viral are directly tied to how surprising it is. Water is wet does not go viral. But it does go viral that trying to exercise self-control tires your brain and makes an impulse buy of a candy more likely.

Therefore the science we encounter goes through a selection bias that picks out the most surprising results. But far too often, "surprising" translates into "unlikely to be true". And so we get a constant stream of intellectual junk food wrapped up in the language of science.

Take this result. It is surprising that low sodium would not help with cardiovascular problems. Why is it surprising? It is because we know two facts:

1. High sodium intake increases blood pressure: https://www.cdc.gov/salt/research_reviews/sodium_potassium_b...

2. High blood pressure is bad for your cardiovascular system: https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm

And therefore we EXPECT that high sodium intake is bad for your cardiovascular system. Which is why we constantly tell people to reduce salt.

Now we see this research that has a variety of limitations in what it could detect, saying that it found no correlations. We're surprised because we expect a correlation. But now people will walk around saying that science says that salt doesn't matter, ignore salt, and they're probably causing a problem for themselves.

And this brings us to another problem with the research. The known mechanism by which salt is bad for you involves blood pressure. However if you've had a heart attack, your blood pressure is going to be monitored and medications adjusted until your blood pressure is under control. The benefit of less salt will be that you need less medication and will have less side effects. It won't be lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of heart attack! So the primary outcome that should be measured isn't adverse events, it is how much medicine was required!
My only experience in the financial sector indicates the opposite. The firm held its trading history for tens of thousands of accounts going back 60 years in a SQL Server. Anyone who wanted a question answered had to submit it for overnight analysis and get the answer the next day. But in an optimal non-RDMS representation, said trading history could be condensed to a single 200MB flat file that could be queried interactively, in microseconds. Dumping the RDBMS for most use cases pretty much revolutionized the daily experience for the people at that firm.
SF renters unionize against Big Landlords as frustrations reach boiling point
> Either way, I would just drop the resulting binary in /usr/bin and it's done. With Nix... I'm totally stumped.

If you don't care about Nixpkgs conventions ("build phases", etc.) then you can use `runCommand` to run arbitrary bash code. It's a function which takes three arguments: a name for the output, a key/value mapping for the environment variables (plus a few some special names), and a string of bash code (usually written between ''two single quotes'').

with import <nixpkgs> {};
runCommand
"my-favourite-program" # A name for the output
{
# A key/value mapping of env vars
myVar = "myValue";

# The 'buildInputs' name is special: for each element 'x', the directory '${x}/bin'
# will be appended to the PATH env var
buildInputs = [ jq gcc ];
}
''
# This is a multi-line string containing arbitrary bash code.
# The output path will be provided via the env var $out so we
# just need to create a file or folder with that path
mkdir -p "$out/bin"
echo "$myVar" > "$out/bin/my-executable"
chmod +x "$out/bin/my-executable"
''

One complication is that (by default) the script will be run in a sandbox, with no network access. We should fetch anything it depends on up-front, using e.g. fetchurl, fetchGit, etc. Here's a more realistic example:

with import <nixpkgs> {};
runCommand "foo"
{
release = fetchurl {
url = "http://example.com/foo/foo-1.0.zip";
hash = "sha256-iqZDwWkQA9XMTICEMCt5xDlmfmiIwzpeE3HJLbgbDXs=";
};
buildInputs = [ unzip ];
}
''
unzip "$release"
mkdir -p "$out/bin"
mv foo-1.0/binary "$out/bin/foo"
''
>> So million and billion are close because they are spelled similarly and they deal with the same conceptual "thing.

Citation needed. Is this based on any sort of formal linguistic/anthropological reasoning or just like, your opinion?

Also, the article's whole point is "people are bad at numbers" and your argument that "linguistically, all numbers close" isn't really true. Why don't rhyming words in English feel "close"? Also, "duck" and "fuck" are both verbs involving a thing you would do with your body, so why isn't that closeness?

If you're going to point out that language feels arbitrary by making arbitrary points, you're going to be "right" but you're not actually saying much. Language can be both specific and arbitrary (it's a means of expressing both objective and subjective concepts) so an argument in favor of doing your best when seeking to be objective seems pretty reasonable.
Good luck finding and collaring those shot-callers at this point!, they're all in New Zealand having a pint.
Exact strategy to be determined—we're looking at various data layers at the moment. I wish we could do something simple like a rotating log file, but we want to be able to query it in the app (for instance, to show recent logins).
No, not as long as they charged everyone equally for the same service during the congested times without regard for how the bits were being used.

The point of net neutrality is that ISPs should ignore the content, source, and destination of the packets they carry when it comes to prioritization and pricing. QoS is fine as long as it's under the subscriber's control (for example, via DSCP tags), but it can be an issue if it leads to the ISP one subscriber's traffic over another's based on the services being accessed. Tiered services (paying for higher bandwidth, lower latency, etc.) are also fine so long as the tiers assigned to each class of traffic are chosen by the subscriber and not tied to specific protocols or peers.

Consider the USPS as a model of neutrality: they offer various grades of service from bulk package deliveries to Priority Mail but everyone paying for the same service gets (more or less) equal treatment.
As someone who switched my newsletter to substack from mailchimp (plug: lastweekin.ai) last year, here is my take:

* It's free. Mailchimp gets surprisingly expensive pretty quick as your audience grows, with no path for revenue.

* It's easy to start. Very easy to move over to it from mailchimp and set it all up. Even after two years of additional features, it's quite streamlined.

* It's simple. The feature set is pretty minimalist in a good way, puts composing and putting out content first in a way that makes it pretty frictionless to use.

* It's monetizable. Kinda obvious, but I was surprised by how many people are willing to be paying subscribers tbh.

I do have some gripes: like Medium it provides very few options for customization, and it is very much designed with the assumption the newsletter is stand-alone (meaning no associated website for which the newsletter serves to provides updates). Still, on the whole it's quite nice.

From a reader perspective, I would assume it's popular because a lot of good writers/newsletters have been started with it lately due to the above reasons.
It's actually okay. The sanctions are a joke overhyped by Joe Biden. USD to RUB exchange value is around 81 which is almost pre-war levels. Most banks still use SWIFT just fine. Russians sign up for Visa and MasterCard in Kazakhstan via remote interviews. Kazakhstan also provided backdoor for lots of imports. Retail prices are just a bit higher than before. Restaurants are fully booked in Moscow.
People don't want to live in cool spots, people want to live in spots where there is work.

Since agriculture industrialized, rural Canada has no work.
It probably won't change your mind, but here is a pretty transparent poll on a mix of Russians at a train station in Moscow (to capture some from outside the metropolises). The multi hour poll is a continuous video to show lack of selection bias (parts with no speech are fast forwarded)
https://youtu.be/eNwe24PlPTQ

About half the Russians don't support the war. I hope the conflict ends soon.
It's a very well understood effect -- as your body absorbs salt, it also retains more water to maintain osmotic pressure. This additional fluid in your circulatory system necessarily causes your blood pressure to increase.

That's the very simple chemistry behind salt increasing blood pressure. The biology is more complex and the effect isn't necessarily long lasting or linear, but there is indeed a direct relationship between sodium intake -> blood pressure.
Haha - yeah, I'm (obviously) getting a pasting for it because this is after all HN, but I spotted it and it was a slight WTH moment, and I thought worthy of comment (somewhat justified given it's sparked a bit of discussion). I don't have an axe to grind with OP, and I don't tend to be Spotify's biggest fan (even though I'm also a premium subscriber because of the library they offer), but it simply struck me as quite an odd disconnect.
Thanks for the recommendation! What genuinely surprised me was that the stoic perspective to trust your own self felt incredibly relatable to me. That and the various opinions on Roman society expressed by both Seneca and Aurelius.

I definitely want to read Nietzsche. I'm currently trying to get a broader perspective, and it seems that Nietzsche should be next in line.

Would you care to outline what exactly was Nietzsche's criticism?
De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
okay, now do The Housing Bubble That Never Burst.
Looking at Morgan Stanley CET1, and regulations on the percentage limits, of how much a bank can lend to a single customer, I don't think they can do this deal and stay compliant. But regulation compliance was never a problem at Wall Street.

https://www.morganstanley.com/content/dam/msdotcom/en/about-...
depends.. sure the nasdaq and some companies like amazon did great after the tech bubble crash. but alot died never to be seen from again.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31081732 for a good explanation how historically Ukraine and Russia differ.
How does this compare to other projects with similar aims (such as Plausible)? Specifically I'd be interested to know if there are self-hosting instructions or if this is not really a supported configuration (not that it is supported as such by many projects, with any real promise of support, but it is at least assisted with install action instructions).

Asking mainly as I might be bringing some bits & bobs online in the coming months, and I'm considering a local install of Plausible for analytics.
Yeah, I haven't seen any big advancements in GANs in few years. Have I missed anything big or is the research volume trending down on them?
Absolutely incredible whataboutism, your restatement of Russian propaganda needs some work though, you should focus more on Azov maybe.
Do you have any evidence that it is disproportionately coming from the right? I see a lot more coming from the left so it seems a bit anecdotal.
The study defined misinformation as links to articles that were deemed to be false by fact checkers.
I think it’s a balance. Transactions + Constraints can enforce most things but there will certainly be things that can only be verified in the app.

My goal is always to verify what I can in the database to minimize potential data cleanup. In my experience, app only verification always leads to future time investments to clean up the mess.
> We currently have a strange situation where the devices that are easy to use are the most open and the most locked down ones, and the middle-ground is punished by policy.

Yes, but that is a result of legal framework, where handling and using independent firmware requires accepting appropriate licences, while handling and using burned-in firmware does not.
>Residential REITs perhaps shouldn't exist, as residences typically aren't directly economically productive.

Residential REITs and other institutional investors finance the construction of new apartment complexes. I don't think a landlord is that much more incentivized to take care of their property any more than a property manager who gets hired by the REIT or institution. Even if small landlords are better than REITs, I don't think that people who own 2-10 homes are necessarily any more productive landowners than institutional investors. There are plenty of people in the former category besides landlords: for example, someone buys a seasonal home that does nothing for most of the year or inherited property and are just letting it sit vacant.

>I don't follow your assertion that increasing taxes on larger ownerships would result in rich people buying the biggest property they could possibly afford. People do that anyway?

The point is to disincentivize this behavior? Same reason why you would increase property taxes/LVT in the first place. I'm not saying that institutional investing in property is great. I'm saying that there are worse behaviors that should also be punished. This is a particularly big problem in vacation destinations where the housing supply gets swallowed by non-residents.
On average that may be true. But actually good software engineers will always command a massive premium.
Embedding R.framework in a Qt Mac App, and Cross Compiling for Two Architectures
I’m not sure that you’ve made the case that they are wrong strongly enough.

Does France have heavy handed zoning and historic preservation policies? Sure.

But you aren’t getting 5-6 story multi family buildings constructed at a face pace in major metro areas. In many places, such construction in prohibited entirely by also how family zoning.

And while France may protect historic monuments like an old church. “Historic preservation” in North America often implies restrictions on building in a single family residential area that was built in the 1920s.

Your post does show, however, that restrictions don’t have to be eased all that much, but unfortunately it’s a lot easier in North America to lay the blame all on foreigner and other greedy people, than regular homeowners who show up to city council and lose it over a multi story senior center from going into their neighborhood.
RSS does work, fwiw (you may know this but for others too ...): just add "/feed" to the end of the root URL, for example: https://bariweiss.substack.com/feed
Total return reinvests, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_return
I'm not a native English speaker, but I think that the words "believe" and "belief" have diverged in meaning a little bit. "Belief" means any piece of information that a person holds as true (as in justified true belief as what used to be definition of knowledge), and "believe" is a specific way to hold something as true — not through experiment or logic, but usually through submission to someone's expert authority.
If you're running a 4 TB Postgres database, but you still have to worry about this level of maintenance, what's the value proposition of using a hosted service? There's usually insane markup on any hosted Postgres instance.

If you want to pay multi-thousands dollars a month for a database server, it's WAY cheaper just to slap a server with a ton of drives in colocation.
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U.S. Detention of Child Migrants
> IANAL but GPL does state that you can relicense under any other later version of the license

No. Both the GPL and the LGPL encourage you to add the “or any later version” clause that allows the FSF to retroactively add other licensing options to your code, but they do not include that clause themselves. The standard example is that the SMB protocol implementations in the Linux kernel (GPL 2.0 only) and the Samba project (GPL 3.0 or later) cannot share code in either direction.

> LGPL states that it counts as GPL 2.1

Also no. The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 (says that it) counts as the successor of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) 2.0, not of the ordinary GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0. GPL 2+ code cannot be treated as LGPL 2.1, and from the FSF’s perspective allowing that would not make sense, as GPL 2 enforces strictly more copyleft than LGPL 2.1.

Why the confusing renaming? As far as I can see, Stallman wanted library authors to switch from LGPL to GPL, so that library users are forced into the GPL as well. The chosen solution was to play language games to redefine the “L” in “LGPL” to mean “lesser” instead of “library”. There is an official article that explicitly points out this piece of manipulation[1], but I still cannot suppress the vague feeling of revulsion at being manipulated.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
That would explain why so much of the country looks like it's been in continual decline for the past few decades.
If you're a home buyer, you also don't have to submit a bid either if you feel the price is too high.