skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually a link to a humorous YT video would be inappropriately uninteresting on HN, but this classic and brief satire of microservices is actually quite on point about precisely what is so dangerous about a microservices architecture run amok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Summary: really trivial sounding feature requests like displaying a single new field on a page can become extremely difficult to implement and worse, hard to explain to stakeholders why.
How exactly does this workaround degrade service for DeVault's Go users? I'm not saying it doesn't; I'm saying nobody has given a simple explanation of what the impact would actually be, except for some people who have given clearly false explanations.

It's OK to just not know, but if you don't know, it's weird to have strong opinions about it.
There's no need to fight about it. Those who are not interested in Web3 can just ignore it, and those who are excited can keep developing the technologies. Future will show what comes of it.
> I'd still only talk to them through a lawyer or with one present.

Yes, I think hiring a lawyer would also increase your chances if they can push the police towards continuing to investigate all possibilities (such as interviewing witnesses or testing all the samples as they failed to do in this case) or make them less likely to lie to you (as they did in this case about the lie detector test results).
And improved negation power by continuing to unionize.
Her job is to prevent deaths- it's literally why they hired her. By focusing on her side hustle she has neglicted her own job, which has lead to a statistically large increase in deaths. This has been brought up to the administration and they've ignored it. That sounds like the administration is "playing a role"- by not addressing the problem they are letting it grow.
They mean there was only one possible configuration of matter, like a die that could only ever roll to "1".

I like to think of entropy as "the universe prefers to have the greatest degrees of freedom available to it and there is a cost to reducing degrees of freedom". For example, to make a perfect crystal you have to cool to absolute zero (and even then there can be residual entropy!). Effectively, entropy = the logarithm of the number of ways a thing can be ordered.

If a thing can only be ordered in one way, then its entropy is minimized.
A Rust web server / front end setup like it's 2022 (with axum and yew)
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
Was it him?
I would also point to the effects of lipid peroxidation, of which it sounds like the “toxic proteins” at the root of the matter may be a product of. In any case, I’ve gone back to using normal deodorant.
This restriction that push notifications must only come from the developer’s server is a restriction imposed by Apple and their App Store.
> They don't need you to help find her.

In what way, in a case like this, is your eyewitness testimony not a crucial part of finding your girlfriend while she is still alive?
> In the non-crypto real world, nothing lasts forever.

Gold does.

> You can have a stablecoin pegged to a basket of assets, a consumer price index, or some arbitrarily complex formula ("a quantity of value sufficient to buy {global average CO2 concentration minus 375} hectares of land in the forests of Yakutia"). As long as you can find an oracle to prove the index, and people to participate on all sides of the market, you can make such a stablecoin work.

Why would I want any of that?

I can buy real assets rather than assume that these oracles, "Smart" Contracts, code dependencies, blockchain (network), and developers will remain stable in extreme conditions.

If you need stablecoin, that's because cryptocurrencies are useless to denominate prices. We may as well use a Central Bankster-backed coin (which no one invested in crypto wants to admit).

It may be harder to remain anonymous, but at least there's much less to fail (mostly just the currency itself, which is why buying real-world assets represented by tokens is a much better approach).

(The charts and formulas made me laugh - seriously? Who wants to take Cryptocurrencies 101, read some "white paper" and do "research" before they decide to park savings in a "stable" coin??? Give up, it's ridiculous!)
I feel like the biggest problem from a business strategy perspective is all we have are these personal opinions and gut feels. Even this article mentions having done 20 code audits, but presents nothing but qualitative findings. Ideally, some business school out there would be embedding researchers in randomly selected startups to know for sure how often you fail because of tech debt versus failing because of worrying too much about tech debt. That's an empirical question, yet all we get are informed expert opinions, but no auditable, reproducible research evidence. It's all so unscientific.

Not to say you're wrong, but we have no real way of even deciding. All I can do is lean on my own experience, but I've seen nowhere near every product team out there and the ones I have seen are nothing close to randomly sampled or blinded.
I don't remember suggesting a law be passed. The government can do a lot without outright banning information, which I'm certainly against. As you point out, codes of conduct have formed without such, and a little pressure would probably go a long way to doing similar things here.

We don't need information to be unobtainable, just not plastered on every possible medium.
IPv4 flag day (in 2030-02-01)
Overall love your list! Definitely adding some of these companies on my mental list to pursue should the current work dry up, and would suggest perhaps adding the Electronic Frontier Foundation for similar accessibility / digital advocacy work.

However would personally remove Adobe as the single black eye to the entire list -- I cannot think of a more morally bankrupt company short of FAANG, and possibly surpassing FAANG -- due to its habits of dark patterns, subscription shenaniganry, and jacking up prices way beyond what most hobbyists/students can afford let alone professionals who are not part of an enterprise platform.
> Can you elaborate on what those may be?

Read rurban's comment below.
Assuming that Amazon's executive compensation continues to function as it has for the last decade-plus, no.
Reminds me of https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/05/want-a-small-affordable...
As an old sendmail hacker, it amuses me to see SMTP called simple. I suppose it is though, at it's most basic level. It's the extra layers added over the years (MIME, text encodings, security, ...) and sendmail itself that make it complicated.

Email address routing used to be ugly too, but the consolidation on the <user>@<host> standard really helped there.
What is the charger network like for non-Teslas in the US, and how do the ranges realistically compare?
The in and out shallow seas in N. America provide a lot of beachfront ... under water ... beach front and on and off again activity.

Amazing how much a few hundred million years will change things.
TF Research Cloud. Especially if multiple people could use it with eg model checkpoints:

> 5 on-demand Cloud TPU v3 devices, 5 on-demand Cloud TPU v2 devices, and 100 preemptible Cloud TPU v2 devices for free for 30 days

So up to 7k hours on demand and 70k pre-emptible
I think it more has to do with the fact that HN is not typically a place for propaganda or petitions.
That logic doesn’t make sense: “This person isn’t rich because he keeps spending millions.”

If the soil wasn’t “rich” how did it become such a forest in the first place? Maybe reword it as “forests are not suitable for farmland”.
They had IRC gateways that you could use to connect your IRC client into slack, but I don't think their architecture started like the IRC protocol. It appears to have at one time just been a webapp, with databases for storage for messages. Not anything like IRC's protocol/architecture.

https://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/how-slack-works

It may have subsequently turned into something more like how IRC servers work, but early on it doesn't appear to have been.
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered from the Air
4 day week is simply a PR effort. I have been following the company on LinkedIn and even the current CEO put out "words of wisdom" and he likes them himself.. weird
To summarize the argument that the blog post makes:

The multiverse interpretation accounts for cases where the probabilities of each distinct observable outcome are equal according to the Born rule. But it cannot account for cases where the Born rule says there are non-equal probabilities for the possible outcomes.

This is a fairly common problem which critics of the multiverse interpretation raise. See [1] for another example where a critic raises that problem in more detail (with examples).

Deutsch and others have responded. In short, the reply is that the mathematics of the Schrodinger equation describes a density of universes in the continuum which is the multiverse, not a finite set of distinct, interacting single universes. This undercuts the critics' argument. See [2] for an example of this kind of response.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.2657.pdf
[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1324238111
We have two adult drivers and two cars. That’s fairly typical, I think.
Wasn’t Facebook Chat a big one?
Seconded on refresh rates. The higher the refresh rate the easier it is on your eyes. For me anything under 60hz kills me, which isn’t a problem any more but back in the CGA / EGA monitor days it was a serious issue. Take breaks to stretch the eyes as was suggested above.

If the window is behind you it may be decreasing the contrast which also leads to eye strain. I would suggest trying with the shades drawn for a few days to see if that helps.

I doubt the monitor is contributing to skin issues. Depending on your age they also just develop naturally and suddenly. I’ve got a few myself :-(
co-founder and CTO of Stream here. I did not write the article but I was very involved with the decision process.

Your assumption is wrong, we did not pick a different language just for fun or because we wanted to learn something new :)

Python was just not the language we needed for our APIs, we tried hard to make it work but eventually we looked at alternatives that would allow us to keep things simple and performant. End result was better latencies, a much simpler architecture (less async/MQ work) and processes that would eat a fraction of RAM and CPU compared to Python.
I Sold My Company and Didn't Tell Anyone for a Year (2015)
The author is talking about their own experiences. They aren't attempting to be journalists- they are documenting what they went through, and all of the associated facts around it. The author is the one who filed the ethics complaints, and the author was directly retaliated against by the university and the dean herself. He is now telling everyone about the situation.

Claiming that the person is "everything that's wrong with journalism today" is just bad faith garbage that shouldn't be allowed on this site.
And does he still get the 2021 package if he doesn't continue working in that role for the following nine years?
The Everett FAQ
> "don’t let your views blind you to the truth....correctable but only when people understand the dynamics involved."

indeed.

those sunk costs don't matter in this context, which is why they were originally, and should continue to be, excluded. it's extraneous, obfuscating, and most damningly, apologetic.
This is exactly the reason. Some of us went off the beaten path and proved that you can actually put many users on a carefully-tuned SQLite instance (despite their official docs at the time). In many cases, you are able to exceed the capabilities of a one-node hosted DB solution due to latency reduction of in-process happiness.
The opposite is more plausible: it is rare when your performance issues are distributed evenly through the code.

The very words such as bottleneck/hotspot indicate that it is common to get the most benefit by optimizing small parts of the code.
Finally there's Program Manager... a 'program' being a continuously running project. Think, a government program for...
NES QA packing and shipping video
Pretty unlikely since Rust isn't a bubble and it's used in way more places than just crypto. Those places just don't advertise heavily on jobs boards.
Here's my million dollar take:

The linter/typechecker should add in the inferred types explicitly. If you want to refactor, it's up to you to delete the types. Then a re-run of the linter/typechecker can re-check and add them back in.

For bonus credit, we should also automate the removal of unnecessary explicit types. A de-expliciter program should be able to go delete all explicit types which are inferable.

Personally I really like the spot readability of explicit types. I'd rather it be in the code, see the ripple out of changes to the codebase.
I once found a compiler bug in C#/.NET , this must have been ten years ago by now. I was a junior dev debugging some weird problem with a desktop app.

The code was something like:

if (foo.bar < 5) {
a()
} else {
b()
}

But `b()` would never get called. I stepped through with a debugger, checking the relevant values,and the `else` branch would never execute.

I remember inspecting the IR and seeing that yes, in fact, the `else` branch was simply missing. It would come back if I made a trivial change like deleting a blank line before the conditional block, which lead me to believe the compiler must be getting into a weird state somehow.

I showed my work to the senior engineers and they confirmed that yes this was a compiler bug. We submitted a bug report to MS but never heard back from them. I wonder if it ever got fixed?
I recall reading that XMPP also wasn't always fully implemented / federated between services.

E.G. wasn't advertising basic client online / busy / etc janky between different siloed implementations?
It seems like a manifestation of the old adage that when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Seedless Fruit Is the Sweetest: Random Number Generation, Revisited (2019)
> Once again we have irrefutable evidence that the police, as a whole, are incompetent and concerned only with making the "facts" fit their preconceived notions.

I think your point is made stronger without the hyperbole.
I like that, I'll be borrowing it myself should I get to have children. If they make a commitment, finish it out to a specific time frame, a year of lessons will go by before you know it! A year of sports, a full season of soccer, make it to the end of the thing you're attempting before you decide to give up on it.
It's not "a scientific fact". There's almost nothing in medicine that you can reduce to a strict binary, it's always more complicated than that. It's always fascinatingly and amazingly complicated.

In medical school a lecturer once began to ask me "Is it possible for..." - to which I already knew the answer was "Yes".
I think maxis like Saylor think that the L1 bitcoin network will become one where fewer big blocks are traded (like gold transactions) rather than where daily payments are running. The tx fees will become bigger too.

And L2s like lightning or the various wrapped BTCs will be quicker and more commonplace for smaller sizes.
I don't think they're just implying it. They say in the post that it seems that Caldera's side hustle is getting in the way of doing her actual job.
If we start with those numbers and a null hyp that both the control and the "experimental" group have a mean of 10, then the chance that of finding 4 or more extra killings than in the "experimental" group is about 21%. So even assuming no p-hacking, your p-value is meaningless.

R-code:

sum( (rpois(10000,10) - rpois(10000,10) ) > 3)
Looks great!

What does it offer in the way of text classification? I'm interested in training some models based on HN post titles and comments. (I've used NLTK[0] before but otherwise am mostly a beginner at NLP.)

[0] https://www.nltk.org/book/
Vast majority of them once per year.
Sure, if you want to misrepresent the situation you could definitely call that a "rejection".
You can still buy music on CDs, especially if you're a metalhead. The artists don't get paid as much as they should, but their cut on a CD sale is still better than what they get from Spotify. Once you have the CD it's yours to use as you please; you can rip your own digital copies and put them on your phone to for convenient listening (and most bands provided printed lyrics, too.)

Being "addicted" to streaming is a self-inflicted First World Problem. Stop renting your media and start buying your own copies.

Also, if you buy physical copies, you're not subject to having your music censored. For example, if you listen to "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits on Spotify and compare it with the version on an old CD version of Brothers in Arms, you can hear the difference, since several uses of an anti-gay slur have been replaced with silence. I don't agree with that sort of censorship myself, especially if it was done by Spotify or the record label without the consent of songwriters Gordon Sumner and Mark Knopfler, but the decision doesn't affect me because I can listen to the original from the 1980s any time I want.

Also, if you're a fan of a band like Iced Earth but think Jon Schaffer is a fucking traitor, you can buy secondhand copies of their albums. That way you get to enjoy the music, and Jon Schaffer doesn't get a dime.
There being recalls kinda feels like it lends credence to the 'Tesla but with adults in the room' sentiment.

Consumer EVs are still an emerging technology relative to combustion vehicles, and so you're bound to be an "alpha" or "beta" tester to some degree. I would hope, however, that the attitude towards defects would be to identify them as such and recall rather than slapping a #WONTFIX on it which I feel is what I hear often from Tesla owners.
So this would be a very HN thing to do, but what about building autonomous turrets that identify birds and shoot them with something that scares them away? (Note that killing them is not only distasteful, but adds another problem: those bird corpses will attract other unwanted animals, so it's a non-starter anyway).

EDIT: instead of downvoting, please comment so I can understand why you don't like this idea.
Show HN: Powerful distributed database library and ORM
I think a lot of people think "only guilty people/criminals ask for lawyers" (thanks largely TV shows and movies that show cops that never make mistakes and only criminals not cooperating) and/or think "If they just hear my side they will understand and agree with me".

In a really gross way I think that getting a lawyer might make you look less attractive to the cops (harder to pin it on you now) and force them to look elsewhere along with your other points of using your lawyer as way to push the investigation on their own. Remember, most cops are looking for the path of least resistance, not the truth.
Researchers like to talk about and show off their work outside the company. If you don't let them, they get unhappy and leave.
But SMTP also failed in a sense (and for the same reason). Big mail services may use it internally, but try to spin up your own mail server reliably.
Hustle (hustle.com) helps Democratic campaigns, progressive advocacy groups, nonprofits, schools, and other organizations mobilize their constituents via text and video messaging.

We are hiring remote US-based software engineers: https://hustle.applytojob.com/apply
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
> HN is not typically a place for propaganda

You talking about a different site? This place has a huge amount of VC Propaganda.
This is a great answer if, like you said, you don't set up computers very often. I use mostly defaults in part because I set up computers a couple times a month. Often just for a day does that physical or virtual device live, consuming my configs, but having to manually do it every time would be a pain.
In fairness, Tesla had to solve all of the hard problems from scratch. They paved the way for other EV manufacturers, so those other manufacturers should have an easier time.
This is a really handy project for low code ESP32 & ESP8266 use in Home Assistant. I recently made a 8 switch irrigation system with < $20 in parts and just a few lines of yaml.
Parents sue Apple, alleging Amber Alert on AirPods caused permanent hearing loss
I know I'm going to collect a lot of hate for what I'm going to say, especially considering English is not my main language... Anyways, here I go: I fear he was one of those actors that played always the same role, movie after movie.

I'm not saying he wasn't s good actor, I just mean I couldn't appreciate his versatility, let's say. He always played Ray Liotta, to me.

And if you don't already hate me enough, hear me out, I think the same about De Niro....
My employer, Saildrone is growing fast, currently hiring for 30+ open roles (a handful of which are remote-friendly).

https://www.saildrone.com/careers

Our many and varied missions include measuring CO2 in the ocean for global climate science, and patrolling marine protected areas to prevent illegal fishing.

https://www.saildrone.com/missions
Are you me? o_0. Shockingly similar situation.
But those people cannot make FAANG money. Apparently OP has that option, so their opportunity cost is enormous compared to your average graduate.
> Not sure we read the same article.

I read the article, I'm not sure why you aren't sure you read the article.

There are numerous, specific complaints about specific actions, conflicts of interest, and misconduct, not just a general "not pressing reforms fast enough".

Edit: I don't claim to know the truth behind these allegations, but the allegations themselves are quite clearly more the "not pressing reforms fast enough" and trying to cast them in that light does not appear to be good faith discussion.
Dalai Lama says 'Europe belongs to Europeans'
I think Haskell jobs aren't common because Haskell isn't widely used. Rust is much more widely used but it's also much newer so most uses are from people already in companies starting new projects. Most of those projects are probably still minor and haven't got to the point of needing whole new employees to work just on them.

Where I work we started a fairly big Rust project a couple of years ago and only recently put "Rust" on a job advert.
I would say a robbery is more successful if you can get into a house with guns. Turns out sometimes people leave the house unattended and the guns are pretty valuable.
Higher comp. always.
Nobody is at the mercy of news. If it bothers someone, they can stop visiting news sites, uninstall apps, discontinue their newspaper subscription or whatever. It takes more effort and restraint and some self-efficacy to do so, so it is not as convenient as occasionally complaining about the situation.
An upside-down funnel on the pole (into the ground) solves the squirrel feeder issue :)
> But any editor worth using will let you select several lines of text and hit Tab or Shift-Tab to add/remove an indentation level

...or has equivalent functionality that doesn't require the mouse ;)
> Google search devolution or a black-box account ban from a major platform

how is web3 supposed to help with this?
US is 59th in murder rate. A lot of these countries have all those things + restrictive gun laws. You can't have a theory and just arbitrarily section off over 50% of countries and test your theory on that subset

https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranking/countries-by-murder-r...
I mean, the Hummer EV is basically the Canyonero.