skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the haters that parrot this old, barnacle-ridden trope: it's too powerful! Macros! Nobody can understand it but gods and strange people on the Internet! You will have to listen to these people constantly invade every forum, discussion group, and chat room on the Internet to tell you how you shouldn't be learning CL.

These people are actually the reason I went and learned CL. I couldn't understand why some programmers would hate a programming language so much. Now it's one of my favourite languages.
This ended up being the last straw for one of my friends who was a nurse.

He kept getting vacation requests denied due to lack of staffing, yet if he asked if they were looking to hire, the answer was always No.

He was super lucky and had some early cryptocurrency investments pay off big, so he decided he was done with it retired. He said that he loved helping people as a nurse, but not at the cost of his own physical and mental health, having to work 60-80 hours/week. If he ever gets back into it, he would establish at the interview phase that he works 50 hours/week tops, and that vacation "requests" are not requests, but notices.
Ironically, considering all the angst about Twitter's purchase, that's a viewpoint that liberalism (the philosophy originating in the Enlightenment, not the casual label) would support. If Musk live up to his words, and granted maybe he won't, it should be considered a great victory for liberals.
iPad only: If you are trying to read this on an iPad, use portrait. Landscape is utterly bokred (anyone here from Scylla, maybe mention to your site developer that the article doesn’t show at all, presumably same fault throughout site!?). Edit: or use reader mode. For some reason that option was greyed out when I first loaded the page.
The case of the UAC that Just Wouldn’t (2015)
Ask HN: What's the Worst Content on Substack?
I heard many people say something along the lines of Substack being a "wasteland" of content, a jungle of weird opinions. I haven't seen any of that, but I haven't done much research. I'm interested in finding out specific examples if anyone has.
Is the pathology for the human variant the same as in other mammals? [1]

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
Thanks! I wasn't planning it, but can't hurt to ask.

When I looked the Lambda API looked uncomplicated to implement (I saw an example somewhere) and it felt like you could just write a few controllers and gain the ability to run a subset of functionality in Lambda, especially if your app could be kept warm.

(to your cron comment, I thought that the reserved capacity would mean the container would be forcibly kept warm?)
As nurses quit, nurse compensation will increase and the number considering leaving will start to fall
Executive hospital pay is ridiculous AND the executives are often times just some MBA type without any real value add. How about you chop up their comp between the nurses - would be a start. Nurses are the lifeblood of the hospitals for anyone who has had the unfortunate circumstances of having to spend any time there.
The fact that this isn't common is mind-boggling to me. If a student can prove that they know the subject well enough that them sitting in that class would be a waste, then why does anyone think it's a good idea to make them continue sitting in that class?

My first guess is "there are some pushy parents who will want their kid to be in a higher class even when their kid isn't qualified for it". The answer to this is, have a rigorous test and a high standard for skipping a class.

My second guess is "teachers have a general stance of not wanting to make any 'concessions' to parents, otherwise that will attract more pushy parents". (I did once have a math teacher who said "If I let you ... then I'd have 100 parents wanting the same for their kids.") So... keeping a strong negotiating position for the teachers is more important than doing right by individual students.

I think the answer is that, ultimately, the people making decisions about children's education don't have strong incentives to make it go well. If the kid sits in class bored but not causing trouble, that doesn't create a problem for the teacher or the principal; if the kid is enthusiastically learning in the next-level class, that might be nice for that teacher, but on average likely won't make a huge difference—and actually the teacher whose class the kid came from will get a replacement student who might need help, so that teacher may be genuinely disincentivized to recommend the kid's advancement, even aside from the "negotiating position" aspect.
Did CGI allow you to have your individual CGI scripts in separate containers?
Bitfields make for much more readable code when accessing individual fields of hardware registers, although there are some caveats if the registers are poorly-designed. The main one is that bitfield writes are usually read-modify-writes, so if reading the register or writing back its current value causes something to happen, bitfields are a no-go. But when they work, you get code like:

old_divider = SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG.bit.CLK_DIVIDER;
SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG.bit.CLK_DIVIDER = new_divider;

instead of:

old_divider = (SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG & SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_MASK) >> SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_POS;
SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG = (SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG & ~SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_MASK) | (new_divider << SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_POS);

or the slightly nicer but even longer:

config = SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG;
old_divider = (config & SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_MASK) >> SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_POS;
config &= ~SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_MASK;
config |= new_divider << SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_POS;
SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG = config;

For anything other than hardware registers, I agree that they're not portable enough to rely on.
Taking over two weeks to fix their GH integration is not "doing fine.". I've been a huge Heroku booster for years, but you can't ignore this. The GH breakage is a huge red flag.
The Security guy has no responsibility without authority.... his role exists because some regulation/best practice says it needs to exist and therefore it is created. Security is almost always relegated to an afterthought and as a result you end up receiving an e-mail.
Thanks for your comment. May I ask what your aiming for by knowing your shower time? To save water?
Ransomware incidents are rampant and PII breaches are quite common. Remember Equifax, who lost the PII of basically all adult US citizens?

Sure, there are extremely sophisticated, targeted hacks. But those are the minority. There are also hacks where hacker groups accidentally (!) shut down an oil pipeline. The reason the internet hasn't completely burned down is three-fold:

- We accepted breaches as something "that just happens" and that "nothing is 100% secure" - which is true, yes, but applied very broadly.

- Our operating systems are generally well secured and most exploits are very situational.

- The hacker groups (at least most of them) don't put in too much effort either, since they make a very good living of the lowest common denominator.
> Hence it also increases the cost for the taxpayers

Isn't that just a short-term problem? Mid to long term, it should decrease costs dramatically.
Yes, you're right, and there are some reasonable arguments for it. But I'm not convinced that it's the optimal solution for all situations.

I my mom's case, she was mostly doing paperwork, so many of the arguments weren't as applicable. She had done 8 or 10 hour shifts for a while and found that she really preferred it (and was staying on top of her work), but then a different manager was brought in that forced everyone back onto the "standard" 12 hour shifts.
> is vanishingly small.

Ladies and gentlemen, this thought is why we now consider 8GB of ram to be a "weak device".

No, no no no no, 1000 times no. Every situation is a low ram situation. Every!
> Isn't a big part of Arrival that the aliens don't experience time the same way we do? Or something along those lines.

Yes, but an important detail in the plot (possibly a spoiler) is that they experience time differently _because_ of the structure of their language, sort of an extreme outcome of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. A human learning their language will eventually experience time in the same way. Notably this is the pattern used by most of the stories in the collection that Arrival was derived from (Stories of your life and others). The author takes a phrase, hypothesis, etc and creates a story out of an extreme and concretized outcome from it. All of the stories in the collection are well worth reading IMO.
Anyone got a non paywall link for this?
How does an over-heated pot of glass and plastic catch fire? If coffee-making machine are fire hazard, most homes in the world must be regularly burning.

Given that the overwhelming evidence, for example the fact that no house has burned in a large radius around my home, I'd say your and IBM's assessment is wildly off-target.
Never seen any yet
It's a country being ravaged by locals and foreigners alike at every single level, I'm saying that any decision made is more likely to be for looting the country than helping it.
> 'leave nursing' and then what

When we got married, my wife (Physicians Assistant) made handily more than I did. $140k to my $82k midwest, software development job.

10 years later, she makes $130k (after cutting hours back) and I make $4-500k as a software engineer in the midwest. The two markets crossed drastically

Where are they going?

For us, home.
Beside the obvious point, being "that which matches the law" is not what any free speech advocate means when they talk about the principal of free speech... it's a definition with no basis in theory or literature... I'm interested to see how this works multinationally.

How do you moderate to the "that which matches the law" standard for users in the United States and the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia, simultaneously? For example, how will Musk-Twitter implement this as a guideline for moderators?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law

Will moderation algorithms be applied to the region users set in their profile, or will it be based on IP range? Can I switch my profile settings to indicate I'm in the United States and benefit from looser restrictions? Can others set their profile settings to indicate they're in the U.K. and see a more filtered experience?

Or perhaps Musk is just going to pick one country's legal regime and base moderation on their speech framework. If that's the route he takes though, he could just pick an arbitrary country with no speech codes. Given the resources he's investing in Twitter, maybe he can pick a tiny country like Kiribati, give each resident $1,000 in exchange for passing laws declaring that no speech codes apply to Twitter. Or for that matter, to enshrine in the law the fundamental principle that criticizing billionaires is lèse-majesté. It'd only cost $10 million and would, by Musk's definition, be Free Speech.

Ultimately, I just hope that this doesn't distract Musk from his other goals, like making humanity a multi-planetary species. This whole Twitter thing seems like a silly side-quest.
Meanwhile, the only working device (ie: not physically broken) of that sort I still have unused is my iPad2. It's been in a crate of unused electronics for the past several years because it's quite old and unable to be flashed with anything else other than a very old version of iOS. It barely functions, it's so slow. Meanwhile, I've got old HTC, Samsung, and Pixel devices still being used. They typically run some stripped down Android build without a SIM and LAN-only WiFi and make fine media players and "fancy" remotes for lights and such.

Official support is definitely a huge deal and I enjoyed the iPad for several years. But these days, the best way I've found for me to avoid waste is to stick with devices that allow me to install something lightweight of my choice after they are EOL.
I didn't dismiss all of those concerns. In the high microwave/mm wave RF case, where this would happen, you also wouldn't wiggle around at 45 degree angles either, to match up with some pretty grid, you would have as straight of a shot as possible, or a large radius arc. RF circuits rarely follow aesthetically driven norms, and already have unusual looking PCBs, because the geometry of the trace eventually becomes the component.
We bought it last year. I think it is a model from 2019 or so. Perhaps something is keeping it awake indeed (it is connected to WiFi, and that is also how we use it: it is not connected by any cable). But there is not much to set up, unfortunately.
These are all things people do constantly in their own homes, and are willing to accept the risk. It seems inefficient that people go to work and accept all these risk-averse mandates (no consumer coffee machines -- they might burst into flames!) then go home and fall asleep to their 1500W space heater plugged into the same power strip as the 50" poorly mounted TV they fell asleep watching.
"Wow, who is this Ralph Manheim guy I've never heard of and why is NYRB obsessed with him?" Oh, apparently he's a translator.
Would I be right in thinking because you're twiddling a single pin you wouldn't be able to do amplitude modulation?

Could you do amplitude modulation at RF frequencies with a resistor ladder DAC using the pi?
Yes we do, but we also give DAs discretion over when to enforce it. Given the extenuating circumstances, I don’t think it should have been enforced here.

Her employer, by not creating a culture of safety, set her up for failure.

I just don't see how in the long term this prosecution reduces medical errors and generally disagree with criminalizing mistakes; even ones such as this.
That's a good question!

Accelerating cold starts with checkpoint and restore is a good idea. There's been a lot of research in academia around it, and some progress in industry too. It's one of those things, though, that works really well for specific use-cases or at small scale, but take a lot of work to generalize and scale up.

For example, one challenge is making sure that random number generators (RNGs) don't ever return the same values ever after cloning (because that completely breaks GCM mode, for example). More details here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12892

As for CRIU specifically, it turned out not to be the right fit for Lambda, because Lambda lets you create multiple processes, interact with the OS in various ways, store local state, and other things that CRIU doesn't model in the way we needed. It's cool stuff, though, and likely a good fit for other use-cases.
The answer, as always, is "Once you know why you're asking the question, you'll know the answer."

People use the word "woman" to mean different things in different contexts. That's not surprising, because women are human beings, and human beings are complex. The only people who demand simple answers to complex questions are those who imagine that they benefit from the simple answer.

Should Person X be entitled to wear a dress? Sure, what the fuck do I care.

Should Person X be entitled to use she/her pronouns? Again, what the fuck does it matter to me?

Should Person X receive medical care for their uterus? Absolutely. I don't care what pronouns that person prefers. If they have a uterus, it's a medical reality.

Should Person X be eligible a scholarship originally intended for people who have been systematically excluded from a lot of other scholarships? I dunno. Probably. Trans women undergo lots of other kinds of discrimination, and so the intent is there. But I can see why you'd argue the other way.

Should Person X compete in sports with people whose performances are substantially difference because of a lifetime of lower testosterone? Again, I dunno. I think it's probably a much less big deal than most people want it to be. I think they argue about it mostly because they can't score any points on all of the other ones. They might actually be right about it, but I don't really think the question is anywhere near as important as the others.

Once you stop imagining that categories are the real things of the universe, and that we discover them rather than invent them, you can ask questions that matter instead of arguing semantics.
"Doctors and hospitals" are not nurses and do not seem themselves as akin to nurses.

It's like asking why most software devs don't go to bat for technical support people.
'For situations that are life threatening, I'll opt for a premium service'

1 - what does the 'non-premium', i.e. bottomn of the barrel service look like, is that incompetent people offering rock bottom prices (resulting in death?).

2 - are you sure you can identify a life threatening situation correctly? Because my father did not.

3 - how do you know the 'premium' provider in question results in better outcomes, rather than being the same rubbish well presented in fancy packaging?
I'm using kdenlive mostly.

If I wanted to automate it, I'd use ffmpeg with its filters for it, it's not super easy to get into, but it's very rewarding if you're going to do a lot of similarish videos.
1/ Political power: allowing Trump back or not give him a huge leverage. On Democrats, on Trump, on Republicans still loyal to the Constitution (therefore anti-Trump). That decision will be more influential in the 2024 election than any of Putin's pro-Trump propaganda in the last two elections.

2/ God's eye on one of the main place of discussions on Earth. He could basically monitor the evolution of the opinions in many countries. It's an huge intelligence hedge on an infinity of subjects.

3/ Being in position to say whatever he wants without risking being banned like Trump. He'll still have to respect the law, but he doesn't care paying millions in fines in a worst case scenario (except if the SEC considers it a market manipulation).

4/ Decide what is free speech and what is not. Here again, he and Twitter can be sued. But a court decision often takes time. Furthermore, Musk will use his top lawyers to make his decision to allow speech A and forbid speech B. The same for ads.
I recently moved some apps over to Render and I've been loving it so far. Ease of use with Heroku with some "infrastructure as code" style YAMLs (they're called blueprints). Performance is about the same and cost nearly halved.
Agreed. I suspect most users have been tricked into thinking they want massive, global social media platforms.

(1) People are turning their noses up at Mastodon because all of Twitter isn't already there and because you'll be cut off from instances that aren't federated with yours.

(2) People are worried about "all of Twitter" becoming more people than they would like. There are communities they'd rather be cut off from and words they'd rather not read.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Unfortunately, very influential companies that have figured out how to game our attention have tricked users into thinking they want something they don't.
>A "people actually used this" framework that had Rhino at its core (well, in one of many ways of using it) was Apache Cocoon (which was maybe more by-default based in XSL/T), only they did something almost ridiculously clever: as Rhino had full support for continuations, they didn't need "callback hell" (or async/await) and could even support pseudo-synchronous code that could block on the user (such as a function which sent the user a form and returned the user's selection, possibly hours later) by storing the continuation state in the user's session.

Wow! I'd only dabbled in Rhino back in the day so this is a neat little bit of history. Teleports me back to when this stuff felt fun...
Seems like there's scope for building local literature review communities (or book clubs lol) but that properly review local authors.. The interesting question for me would be how this system works
The problem isn't Louis, it's Apple's repair-hostile policies. Louis is just pointing out that he is physically capable of fixing a thing for $50 in an hour while the apple store would discard the whole motherboard and replace it, costing thousands and taking much more time. Repairing is fundamentally much more environmentally positive than discarding / replacing.

The guy is amazing in his advocacy for systems that can be repaired, updated etc.
If people were on Apple, then got turned off because their device broke and couldn't be repaired legally, so they switched to an android that they _can_ repair, that's not Louis' fault - it's Apple's.
Yes. It was true for our current US Vice President, Kamala Harris for example — but she's not an outlier, this happens all the time.

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-franci...

> If the conviction rate had been measured by actual cases pursued, rather than all cases referred by police, Hallinan said, his office would have had a conviction rate that was relatively similar to Los Angeles and other major cities.

> And Hallinan was getting results. Overall, crime rates were plummeting. Violent crime had gone down close to 60 percent in San Francisco since Hallinan took office.

> Still, the low conviction rate resulted in headline after headline about San Francisco’s permissive attitude toward crime, a media environment harnessed by the Harris campaign.
I do think so, yeah! I only seems a vast field and a daunting task to build stuff that I like. I can do some front-end stuff with no so much complexity all by myself, but I have to put quite a lot of work because I forget some syntax and I spend time debugging.

When I see experienced people in videos etc they do everything so much quicker. I know this is normal but it feels that it will take me a lot of time to get there.

I'm currently in a self-paced bootcamp (open-bootcamp) and so far I'm happy. I went with beginner knowledge on Git, CSS, JS and Python, and I improved a lot of my OOP understanding which was very lacking, and their full-stack path touches also Java. I plan to take some compiled languages too, purely out of interest.

They also have projects, although I'm not sure how they structure that, but I hope that takes me up to speed to be productive.
> The low interest rates amortize the costs allowing affordability

Negative real interest rates devalues income from work and up-values ownership of assets. Inflation is not in the interest of workers.

> housing prices and interest rates will back down to normal sometime soon.

Mortgage rates needs to rise until the real interest rate is positive - ie interest rate is greater or equal than housing appreciation.
Why is the South Carolina factory worse than Washington?
Which downturn do you mean? And that's certainly worth considering. Can you explain more what happened then from your experience that gave you that perspective?

Though I wouldn't say it's true it won't hurt me - the debt is certainly harmful.
It's honestly strange how no one has eaten their lunch yet. Besides the extra services they now offer (which you aren't required for hosting a simple app), you could probably have a team bang out the basics in a few months.

You could even just be a layer on top of AWS and probably make profit from not many users, as long as you're cheaper.
wouldn't it be nice if we could see the relevant part of the server logs when this happens? it would cut down on my paranoia. at least give me an ip address even though it's probably worthless.
I used Shotcut[0] once to execute on one of my worst ideas: editing an FMV game's video files into a movie. I recall that it was a little finicky, but worked well enough for the kind of thing I was doing. I've since used it a bunch of times for small things like you've described simply because I was familiar with it.

[0]https://shotcut.org/
You took it the wrong way--and I get why you did. There is definitely a lot more to university than "a piece of paper."

But there is not more to being locked out of working abroad, high-level corporate jobs, and certain fields than a piece of paper. A seriously below average traditional student has access to all of these things, while a high performing, high knowledge person doesn't, simply because they took a different life path.
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