skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common among scientists who write low-level code. Also, the author of the library we are talking about is a physicist, and the library probably exists for a reason.
>If by diplomacy you mean kowtowing to everything Russia does, I'm not sure that's much better.

Trump and Stoltenberg argue on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k>). Who turned out to be right? Who turned out to completely, totally, 100% wrong?
First company that needs to be broken up?? What about all the other monopolies that were busted?
So the workers can't unionize across locations because they all technically work for different companies
Is that all you need to do? Because many overclockers permanently disable Turbo boost anyways so that they can run a higher clock ratio all the time (cant have turbo occidentally crashing your system once you have really overclocked it a lot). This does not of course disable the low power states for idle or low low load. I probably have Turbo disabled right now!
Babies get upset when you hurt them, and they communicate it bluntly. Conversely, they are unable to demonstrate “complex” communication. Behold, I have placed the babies ;)
> The future looks strange.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45885120-the-warehouse
This is mostly just scaremongering, but even if I had a noticeable drop in intelligence from taking medication over multiple years, gaining the ability to actually schedule appointments in a calendar, to do focused research on topics that I'm interested in, and to build productive habits like eating regularly, exercising daily, and daily practicing skills I wanted to improve at -- would more than offset the downside.

It's one thing to be worried about subtle effects from medication, but I already know what the long term health and brain effects are from constant insomnia and regularly forgetting to eat. Neither of those are good for brain function.

So yeah, seems like a pretty reasonable risk to take, particularly given the fact that I have a psychiatrist, therapist, and multiple friends and family monitoring me.

Let me flip the question back to you. Would you notice if D3 or iron or protein intake was subtly harming you over the course of multiple years? Is that something that terrifies you?
> You are NEVER going to get that money until you sell it, and when you do you are going to pay a whopping amount of capital gain tax.

Ignoring the hyperpreferential tax treatment of capital gains, I assume? (LTCG are taxed far less than generic income, which in turn is taxed less than labor income.)

> You never got the income

It's not an income tax, so who cares?

Assets deliver utility while held; income isn't the only utility they deliver.

That's literally the point of wealth taxes.
Well, sure. I think they were going with the wave of success and simply didn't stop. I've seen companies grow very self-indulgent because of their success many times over.

The fun bit is that in the USA, you can (almost everywhere) whimsically fire anyone without cause and without any transition pay. So what's to stop a company from just hiring a bunch of people while they're growing, and just kicking them out whenever?

I think they already realised it was out of proportions, but you look really (REALLY!) bad if you fire 1000+ people when business is going well.

You only look slightly less really bad if you do so with an implied reason that you then simply don't communicate to anyone.
I’m not sure all the attention on caffeine vs caffeine free is deserved, I suspect that a ton of other chemicals are involved. It took me months to get over drinking diet sodas with a ton of withdrawal symptoms along the way, but it was worth it - addiction is terrible.
If you can help it, JAK inhibitors aren’t worth it. Side effects are super serious, like cancer. It’s a key part of your immune system.

I’d rather have no hair than cancer.
It’s not just realizability (did the package get form a to b). But the consistency. 2 day shipping seems to always be exactly 2 days. Same goes for their one day shipping.
Is that the guy who posted a Twitter rant response to some leaked grievance last week? That fucking guy has a $110m house!? Seems like an injustice to me, holy shit
I remember a fake FUD "anonymous letter from FSB officer" which surfaced on HN in early March, for which Bellingcat was quick to issue a "seems legit". Needless to say, in a week most sources deleted the letter as its non-authenticity became too apparent.

So basically, they're reposting/legitimizing war propaganda.
UK antitrust regulators continue to block Meta's $400M Giphy acquisition
Except that the set of things you are allowed to do after vfork() and before exec() is extremely small. I agree that things should use vfork or posix_spawn when possible, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if there's a similar list of cases when a vfork() path wouldn't be possible.
A number in a computer has no intrinsic worth. Any value to you will come from the generosity of strangers.
> Their analysis of the Beirut fertilizer explosion was spot on.

The modelling and presentation (seemingly done in Blender?) was very
impressive.
CUE is more readable than XSD, works with several common formats, and addresses problems beyond just validating a config / data format
The article notes that online sales growth has slowed, but honestly I don't think that matters. Amazon is building out their own logistics and that'll be useful to them even if online sales were flat. Even beyond their own deliveries, there could be an AWS-style business there.
It's not clear to me that Amazon is yet bad for consumers - but it seems inevitable that they will ridiculously abuse their dominance in the future.
Huh? 4k requires only 32Mbps. Most people can stream that on their phones
There’s a huge difference in brainpower between an octopus and a lobster.

I don’t personally boil lobster alive, but I only place them slightly above plants and bivalves on my personal scale of how bad I feel bad for killing/eating them.
Didn’t McDonald’s do it by buying the plot of land and using that as leverage on the franchisee? As a way of controlling them.
Such as, say, Dan Gilbert and Rocket Mortgage.
Ask HN: Best place to publish a Haiku, accessible 10k years from now?
With a preference away from obscurity or privilege, i.e. gold engraved tablet buried deep within the Earth.

After some reflection: Bonus points for lesser orders of magnitude.
> apologies for all the questions

No worries at all, it's half of what we're here for :)

> did you implement this for your company?

On a couple repos, yeah.

> many of the comments prefer to have documentation in the repo

I think there's a lot of us, but I also think we're more likely to want to talk about it, so it seems like there's more of us than there are.

I should say that I think most everyone's on board with a small amount of developer facing docs in the repo, especially a README and build instructions; whereas if I had my druthers, it'd even include pamphlets the sales team takes to conferences.
> Billionaires provide value as alternate sources of power to the state

Lobbying is a thing. In the US those people can pretty much legally buy any politician they want.
Like all investors / business owners income is the resukt of actively managing something. In the case of McD franchise owners, there are at least people working for you to whom tasks can be delegated
I'm working remotely for 13 years now. It's really hard to imagine it to myself that I would get back to office.
I do have ideas. I can strengthen them by reverse-engineering the behavior using my own account. I participate in follies regularly, so that's not a strong disincentive for me.
Sounds a lot like the AMT situation for stock options where people pay taxes on the paper value of the stock when exercised, even if they don't (or even can) sell it -- the IRS can provide a way to recover taxes paid on unrealized gain if you sell the asset at a loss from where it was taxed.

But I'd recommend selling enough of your BTC to pay taxes so you're not underwater if it goes down in value.
Most people will have worked on laptops that have the software installed that allows them to completely brick the device.

It just makes me wonder what they'll be doing with 1000+ laptops and other devices. Do they expect people to send it back? Probably yes. I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."

I mean, that's what they do with the work of their employees. "I have low money and I had to fire you and 1000+ others, thanks for the work of making my company big, I'll be keeping it now."
No it wasn’t Airbnb’s main line so I don’t consider it a pivot. I always thought it was a good lesson in being scrappy.

They needed some cash, had a good random idea and did it as a side project to raise some money. In the end it became a great story of chutzpah too.

Similar to how the band Vulfpeck found a loophole in Spotify’s terms and got a tour funded by publishing a silent album and getting their fan base to stream it at work.
Making sound life decisions that bet on your continued employment at a company. It's rare that people think they'll be let go from a job amd indebt themselves as though it's impossible.
WASM, making lemonade out of lemons (JS).
Target and Walmart didn't create their own (bottom of the barrel, low quality, abusive, toxic) shipping contractor network to attack the strong labor unions of USPS, UPS, and to a lesser degree FedEx. Amazon is cheaper because of the people they screw over along the way. I boycott Amazon.
I find these solutions actually make documentation harder. They're binary and proprietary in nature, locked behind a paywall if I can no longer afford the service (and what's the exportable data going to look like? XML?), And the UI is often limited and leaves a lot to be desired.

My code is not binary, however, it's plain text. So I write my documentation in plain text too, such as Markdown. That can, should I so choose, be rendered to anything I like. It can be included alongside the code, which the developer will need a copy of anyway, and be easily reviewed (with "mkdocs serve" for example).

You're already committing code to a central repository and working in a decentralised manner. If you put your documentation in "./docs/" (I recommend MkDocs + the Material Theme) and commit it, then everyone has access to it immediately. It's free, close to the code and in context, everyone who needs access to it has it, and it's simple to use. It's also local, extremely fast and, if desired, can be easily embedded into a CI pipeline, compiled to anything you like (Markdown => *) and pushed to wherever you like.

I also don't understand the obsession with making documentation available online, 24/7, when we live in a cyber security nightmare right now (https://www.hertzbleed.com/; https://securityboulevard.com/2022/06/apple-m1-flaw-cant-be-... https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/emotet-banki... https://www.darkreading.com/edge-articles/turbulent-cyber-in....)

Just keep it within context, plain text, and easily convertible to other formats. Try not to over think things.
Absolutely. I ran into this as a new student pilot recently. Went in to get my medical thinking it would be a breeze, but my mention of going through a period of depression more than a decade ago (not diagnosed, just my layman's assessment at the time) and some more recent work-related anxiety was enough to get my medical deferred. This process will likely take me months to wade through, and this is only for a third-class medical (for a private pilot, not commercial)!

I filled out the form assuming the doctor would be free to exercise discretion and that it wouldn't be an issue, but it turns out the FAA wants all these kinds of responses referred to a small team in Oklahoma City who will eventually get through the backlog and review them.

It's not a very big deal for me; I just wanted to fly for fun, and can wait a few months. But for someone for whom this is a career, I can't help but imagine that there are lots of pilots out there that avoid seeking help so as not to jeopardize their career.
That set was made artificially small by the Open Group, but is not actually that small.
But I am making a choice? I am those deterministic processes. Whatever I decide is my choice. I feel that I am making a choice because I am making a choice, because those deterministic processes which make the choice are all that I am.
NPR has just aired a short interview with a former Coinbase PM. She is a founder of a crypto fund now and has never been that optimistic like now with crypto expanding, NFT, many more developers coming into crypto, etc.
You appear to be confusing abortions and inductions. Both procedures end a pregnancy, but the former by definition involves the intent to kill the unborn child.

In the case of a dead child, the procedure is an induction that results in a stillbirth. Or, if necessary, a caesarean section. Regardless an abortion is impossible on account of there no longer being an unborn baby in that case.
Maybe older dads are just more socially awkward due to self imposed isolation as they age?
EV-Truck Startup Electric Last Mile Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Coinbase mocks crypto pessimists in NBA Finals ad, lays off 1,100 next day
If Elon runs for the republican nomination I'll take him over Trump. Or Bloomberg will do, yes. Or a small and friendly but fiscally conservative billionaire turtle.
Thanks! At the moment it feels much too small to productize; virtually all of the complexity is the CI integration, and even that is small.
> Many women in the US are about to lose their rights to end a pregnancy EVEN WHEN THE FETUS IS DEAD.

No they are not. This is simply misinformation. Before Roe v Wade, women regularly had D&Cs for stillbirths or late miscarriages. No one is trying to stop that. This idea only prevails because a large portion of the populace cannot differentiate between a living fetus and a dead one, and assigns the same moral weight to each.
I think you didn't get to the end. There is a plot twist.
> Same with shipping and logistics. The USPS, with a guaranteed nationwide monopoly on certain services struggles to get me stuff on time. Fedex is even worse for some reason. Amazon is an absolute machine where I am. We have same day, next day and two day delivery that is HIGHLY reliable and efficient. We can drop stuff off back at Kohls etc without even packing it. We can pickup from Amazon lockers, or have them deliver inside our house if we want.

Why does amazon still use freight companies like USPS and FedEX? At this point, I feel like amazon should open up physical locations where people can pick up/drop off packages (this includes returns). Perhaps even maintain inventory and have a showroom for people who want to walk in and purchase something.

The return flow varies. Amazon knows what type of package your item(s) were sent it. If it didn't come in a box, you'll be forced to buy one at USPS. If you are lucky enough to have Kohls as a dropoff option, then this isn't an issue. I'm not sure what determines USPS or Kohls as the return location when you print the waybill.
We need a #badstatistics tag or something.

The turnover problems saying that relative wage advantage declines? Their chart on a log scale shows that the wages are still really high compared to non-CS jobs. A more likely interpretation is that junior programmers are for whatever reason highly paid in their sample. Those error bars are suspiciously tight, so there's a good chance their sample is biased.

The selection problem data? First, they're missing a plot that shows that the same correlation (higher AFQT scoring individuals are slightly more likely to leave the field) doesn't hold for other majors/fields as well. Second, is the AFQT psychometrically valid when compared across different age groups? Third, is their sample valid here at all? It wouldn't take much bias to make these correlations disappear. The super bright principle engineer is probably not going to take the time to sit an AFQT and be part of this.

Then we have weird assertions without citation like "Some workers, endowed with superior ability, learn faster than others, picking up skills at a quicker pace. Those workers will tend to sort into high-skilled, fast-changing professions initially, maximizing their early career earnings. Less impressive workers will sort into low-skilled, slower-changing professions."

A quick glance through the original paper the data is from does not fill me with confidence. The idea that maybe conventions for job postings in different fields might be different and thus mess up their data doesn't seem to have occurred to them to start with. The NLSY data they work from for AFQT scores can't be used naively. People drop out steadily after the initial tracking period.

So: bad academic research, bad interpretation of it by a layman.
My first thought is that there could easily be a malicious actor within the not yet laid off employees who could now be actually incentivized to do their bad deed seeing clearly that they may get no notice when fired.
Absolutely.

Let's say I earn over the threshold, and I can now either choose to continue to try and innovate and add value to society, or retire to a private island and just become a carbon contributor, I mean, why work myself into the ground if I can no longer benefit?

Most people have assets not liquidity too, so it's like saying, if you own too much, you have to stop. Well, what if Elon stopped and we reverted back to dropping rockets into the ocean? What if Bill Gates stopped and never did any of the philanthropy that he does?

I feel like this is used by people as a cheap excuse for a problem they can't solve.
I'm a circumcised male who has decided to have all 3 male children circumcised. As a Jew, if I may weigh on this, you have my background for an conflicts or biases. Also, maybe content warning is in order for genital mutiliation.

1) It is absolutely not common practice to allow a mohel to orally suck the blood out of an infant's penis. If it's practiced at all, it is only in extremely fringe groups of Jews, not just orthodox or ultra orthodox but a very small group, truly some hundreds of people, practice it. I don't have the data, probably no one does, but saying Jewish circumcisions involve this would be like suggesting all baptisms look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFGHerqhSC8 To call metzitzah b'peh common practice, or at all part of ritual circumcision, is an anti-semitic trope. Comparing a key tenet of Judaism to a cult is both simplistic and demeaning.

2) I grappled with the decision to have brises for my sons. I don't think it's possible to know or define how traumatic such a procedure is; is it worse than giving a 6-month old pierced ears? Is it worse than travelling through the birth canal and having your umbilical cord severed? Who knows. As obvious as it may seem, the pain of a bris impossible to gauge. My sons all began crying as soon as their diaper came off, and their crying was no more intense once the cutting occurred. By the way, it's not like they make a dotted line with marker and snip around the foreskin; whatI witnessed involved a metal device (a type of clamp I suppose) that is slid between the shaft and foreskin, and like a modified cigar cutter, the mohel cuts away the foreskin in one motion. There's a lot of discomfort, maybe pain, but as a father of 3, I assure you every doctor's visit and many trips to the park involve similar levels of harm.

3) I realize mohels are not doctors, but there are mohel academies that train and certify these specialists. To say they are not doctors is one thing (and it's true), but to say they are not medically trained is another. They don't go to medical school but they learn about the biology of the procedure, proper methods, proper tools (including sterilization), post-op treatment & care, etc.

It's not an easy topic, but I don't think it should be hard to talk about. Complicated or interesting to describe, maybe hard to judge or rationalize, but let's talk about it openly, let's avoid disparagement, and most of all let's bring some nuance to this conversation.
>Variations on hash maps are used all the time

Yes, you use them. You don't build them. To torture your analogy it's like asking the surgeon to explain how their bone saw works. Why should they know? All they care is that it cuts bone.
"Bezos achieved" it's never one person that changes the world, it's the conditions being ripe for it along with some bloke having enough seed money and brutal determination to make it happen.

- Internet was just starting to be a thing in the 90's so right time to capitalize on a new easier way to sell things

- Bezos got hundreds of thousands of dollars in money from his parents to start his book empire. It's not like he was a rags to riches story, they never are.

- Amazon warehouse workers suffer nearly 2x the numbers of bodily injuries[1] and it's almost like the company expects (and wants) to burn through these workers bodies because they have a ridiculously high turnover rate[2]

If he didn't do it someone else would have and for all we know they could have broken less bodies along the way.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...

[2] https://labor411.org/411-blog/warehouse-worker-turnover-rate...
Given that successful technologies have mostly been developed by corporations which have appreciated in value from their innovation, do you favor a Luddite lifestyle, eschewing technology? Or do you think investors would rush to put their capital at risk for no return? I believe the technologies on which we are enjoying this conversation would never have emerged if a wealth tax hit silicon valley after WW II.
MacForce in Portland used to sell a MOOF! T-shirt, which sadly I have lost or it fell apart over the years.
Pretty sure poor people weren't being allowed into the most elite unit in the Greek world (since you had to buy your armor!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
It doesn't. But on the other side, if you have 3.66 million 20 years later, it doesn't mean you got it from passively investing that same money at 8% returns. Sure, for some people it could be the case, but it's just one of the possible options.
I do think 'looking painless' is about as good as we're going to get when killing someone as you can't exactly ask them afterwards.
If you’re making screenshare style instructional videos, Camtasia and Screenflow are the two that come to mind. Camtasia is probably the more polished of the two. Make sure you get a good mic if you are recording yourself (Blue Yeti is a well known low/mid tier, Shure MV7 is a good high tier)