skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone aware of any news or magazines subscriptions that distribute their issues with EPUB as an option? I like to do my reading on a Kobo, and EPUB is supposed to be the standard for such things, even though it seems like 95% of magazines use a Kindle format or a PDF for their digital stuff.

The only publication I'm aware of was Linux Journal back in the day, but it's gone now.
At first I thought those were people fighting for better working conditions. After reading the comments I've realized that most are activists trying to enforce cancel culture within the company.
There's something like 200k homeless people in California - all those failed policies have put a dent in the labor pool.
It is, but it still shows that tether invested multiple billions in digital assets and other bullcrap. I hope those were not margin loans for leveraged positions.
I mean, you started with "Boris Johnson is our only hope", so I assumed HN etiquette was out of the window at that point.

> 2 years better options will be available, but that's in 2 years time

You assume the Tories can produce a majority after the current "Brexit coalition", held together by Johnson, collapses. That's not a given. It's also not a given that whichever cabinet a new PM could produce, will be strong enough to enact big policies.

> but they don't seek to actively antagonise others.

Policies like Rwanda deportations and the return of imperial measures are absolutely designed to produce outrage, and I challenge you to prove otherwise.

The basic Johnson strategies are directly copied from the US playbook: they deliberately provoke the left in order to consolidate the right by defensive reaction, playing the victim and distracting from failures and scandals. And it works, for a while at least.

Is the entire party like that? No, but the people who are, are currently running the show.

> they're a centre-right party that seeks a wide base

They were. They stopped being that when absolute power went to the likes of Reese-Mogg. They attracted radical Northern votes by acting extremist on issues where the Labour party refuses to do. This is not your dad's Tory party.
> the remaining 49% didnt budge much
I recommend Axios - the have a number of free, topic-specific daily newsletters. They're quick reads and well put together, and they usually link out to more detailed reporting on stuff that merits further reading.
How does it compare to kissat in terms of speed?
Ask HN: How to protect your nose from nasty smell?
What are different methods to protect your nose from smell?
I would be curious to learn more about the range of solutions. E.g. how do people cope who work in very smelly environments?
I like The Information.

https://www.theinformation.com

I have been intrigued by Axios.
I don't think that's fair. I just went to a random pizza joint. There were two teenagers hanging around behind shooting the breeze. They were polite, fast, and professional when a customer would draft in, but for the most part, it looked like a pretty chill job. I can almost guarantee they were making minimum wage. There are plenty of jobs like that everywhere. There aren't many jobs like that much above minimum wage, or anywhere close to Amazon's wage.

If I were a teenager, I'd take that job over Amazon's nightmarish warehouses.

That calculus changes with rent and family. 30k per year is probably the minimum needed to raise a family for a homeowner in a lower cost-of-living part of the country, which translates to around $15/hour. Someone with rent / mortgage needs a bit more.
This went somewhere interesting - in a rambling and repetitive way.

Then I realised it's basically a pitch for the Wolfram Language.

So I looked at that and found what is essentially a modern LispLang with an unusually comprehensive set of libraries. Like Mathematica, with support for other domains.

And a high price tag.

WL could definitely be a timesaver for some, but it is a long way from being the kind of universal language for exploring the Ruliad it's being pitched as.

Suggesting that we might be able to explore other forms of computation under other rules is - of course - an interesting idea.

But if Wolfram wants to do more than blog about that, he's going to have come up with a much more credible and surprising example of what it might mean in practice.
That could be very valuable. In many ways it’s like material science and parts of chemistry are skimping along on the fumes of basic science done in the 1950’s up to the 70’s at national labs. Good experimentalists made solid careers doing core research without chasing endless grants or the latest fads. Seems pretty much all publicity available chemical and material databases comes from that era. Some specialty areas have progressed way beyond that but it’s rarely systematically collected, unless you’re willing and able to pay lots of money for private databases. Those private databases of course largely build from publicly funded research.

I hope this pans out.
Freedom of speech does not mean being free of consequences. Much like you're free to offend, the other side is free to be offended and employment goes both ways. Firing someone because they fundamentally disagree on how the company should be run is not censorship, it's keeping only people who align with the direction you're headed.
Maybe not what OP is looking for, but for folks who can't afford news subscriptions I would recommend (https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome).
A similar camera was present on the old DC-10. AFAIK, it was removed after an pretty big crash in Chicago. Nothing to do with forthrightness, iirc (outside of the usual flying coffin perception of the DC-10).

EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191

Looks like it was a cockpit camera, not an external camera.
That seems reasonable. It's alarming to me that they seem to have hit a wall. What were the conditions that facilitated their hyper growth phase? Is the introduction of numerous, highly advertised competitors the difference? Are we moving to a place where people are trading less and holding more?

I'd love to know more about their game plan.
I think we should create a polar bear preserve in Antarctica in an isolated area away from penguins
What constitutes a "better thing"? Anything that pays better? Is working in ad tech somehow "better" than being a musician? I think it shows the priorities of our society, and I think that's part of the problem (if you can't make money, you don't deserve to exist)
With recent donation from Microsoft, GNOME will surely fix this critical issue, right?
Rupicola: Relational Compilation for Performance-Critical Applications
IMO, it works because the button moves much less than the menu itself, which is a large block of color that slides out. My eye is drawn to the larger visual change.
I would prefer that nobody who works 40 hours a week (tops! I'd be happy if the number was less) earns less than the US poverty level for a family with 1 or 2 children (undecided over which). As a matter of law.
People keep misconstruing his opinion on free speech. His opinion on free speech isn't "freedom to say anything anywhere to anyone and have no repercussions". He specifically believes Twitter should be treated as a virtual town square, i.e. you can say what you like without fear from being removed from the town square, but it has zero bearing on what people say about you on that town square.

SpaceX is not a town square and never will be, nor is any private company. I doubt even Twitter employees will be able to say what they like on Twitter without fear of being fired from Twitter. It's only about removing you from the platform.

There's no hypocrisy, it lines up exactly with his past actions and his past words.
> banning a project that was raising money to support violence against conservatives (the actual physical kind, not words)

"A graphic artist...raising money on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter to bring a comic book, called 'Always Punch Nazis,' to life" doesn't obviously sound like a call for violence [1]. I see enough ambiguity here to hold judgement.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/10/how-debat...
Well first of all, do they? My impression of 3D printers with cameras (you do realise what a niche of a niche that is right?) is that it's primarily used for supervising the print itself (quality etc.) remotely and timelapsing.

Secondly, I don't fault your logic, I just think so extremely few people have set up cameras recording the most dangerous (and commonplace) items in their home that it's surprising one of them had such a thing occur to catch on camera, and that it went unremarked.
"Elitist" is almost always used as a pejorative. Just looking up the definition of it points to social power, wealth, class hierarchies, etc. It is rarely used to just mean "smart, capable, skilled" in a neutral sense.

The comment above was clearly using it as a pejorative.
I think it's also fair to say that "absolutist" is not a correct term for him to use to describe himself.
So difficult to pick out which part of this had what effect though.
Then Trump is free to incite an insurrection on Twitter, and Twitter is free to ban him. Which is the opposite of what Elon thinks.
His tweets are official company communications. They are every bit as relevant to workplace conditions as would be owning a cat or dog inside your office.
An internal letter sent to thousands of employees.
As much as I hate modals they are usually a product of single threaded or poor event loop design.
Was wondering about this - im just not that impressed about anyone making personal jets more efficient. Those things shouldn’t be in the sky in the first place.
For chemical reaction prediction, see the Open Reaction Database, a collaboration including the Coley lab at MIT (surprisingly not cited by OP):

Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c09820

Docs: https://docs.open-reaction-database.org/en/latest/overview.h...

It’s an incredible effort to collate and clean this data, and even then a substantial portion of it will not be reproducible due to experimental variability or outright errors.

For computational methods development it’s extremely useful, maybe even necessary, to have a substantial amount of money and one’s own lab space to collect new data and experimentally test prospective predictions under tightly controlled conditions. The historical data is certainly useful but is not a panacea.
They seem like in a "growth phase" and they went from like 1400 employees in 2021 to around 6k up until start of layoffs, and the amount of users + amount of transactions has dipped.
I did not know "collective bargaining in a capitalist wage-labour system" was actually synonymous with "proletariat uprising", but here we are.
In the end you both only get one vote.
> When the news broke that Amazon was doubling the salary of corporate employees

I'm pretty sure they just doubled the salary cap. That doesn't necessarily mean everyone's salary was doubled.
The U.S. prison system may be America's greatest modern moral catastrophe.
Peter Zeihan on the labor shortage going into the next decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXp8Z7_Y4Bw
Correct, a key goal is to have no explicit region/lifetime annotations. There have been several papers on region inference after the originals by Tofte & Taplin, all attempting to refine the original analysis by inferring shorter lifetimes. First by analyzing when a region can be safely emptied and re-used, then by abandoning the stack discipline, etc. Unfortunately, none of these are viable in a real program in my opinion. Although they each infer shorter lifetimes in a few cases the core problem of "collections will unify the lifetime variables of all elements in the collection" and "branching on a value and conditionally returning it extends its lifetime, even if the branch was not taken" remain unsolved.

An ideal solution to me needs to solve these problems. Since there is already a large body of research trying to address this on the static side and failing, I believe it needs to be solved with runtime checks. The specifics of which I'm still exploring but its worth mentioning these would only be necessary to tighten existing lifetimes so one can envision annotations or compiler options to elide these if desired.
Lifetime inference in MLKit (and I believe ante as well) tends to speed things up by turning more dynamic allocations into stack allocations, so there is some room there for runtime checks without making the result more expensive than the version with dynamic allocation I believe.
Wouldn't a flying wing design be more efficient? I'm suspicious this comes down to engineering a big-enough pressure vessel into the wing design.
Apple sets prices based on what they think will maximize their profitability. If iPhone cost $1M dollars, there are still people who would buy it. Demand is a curve, not a fixed value.
Pretty sure that was settled? Also I have an NFT of a bridge I am trying to sell, interested?
i installed a new debian box for work and i forgot to choose xfce4 so went with the default. gnome 3. i tried. i tried so hard to get used to it. for 2 horrible months i tried.

i only need a terminal, emacs, browser, thunderbird, the occasional screenshot and it was still horrific.

to be clear it was only the usability that was a nightmare. i experienced no bugs. it's solid. but wow it is unusable.

please, please, please someone at gnome headquarters ... can you make it usable? look at win10, win11, macos, kde, chromeos they all work fine. can't you do something like that? i believe you have the best software stack out there, and you're throwing it away with that frightful design.

this is tragic.
Editors are expensive and publishers don't really provide that service to authors, anymore. You're expected to have that all taken care of before you submit, even to publications that barely pay (or even some that don't pay at all).
The zoning and other regulations around solar are onerous in the U.S.: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/opinion/environment/defen...
> Sure a union could try to take that profit and feed it into wages instead, but that's worse for society in the end.

Yeah, that's the whole assumption I'm challenging with real world data.

Your ideas sound great on paper or in a vacuum, though. This conversation is way asymmetric, where I'm the only person pointing to facts you can look at with your eyes, so I'm gonna leave and wish you luck with your theories.

PS:
> Chinese manufacturing. Manufacturing that is not unionized, by the way.

Unintentional comedy? Natural language model trained on Econ podcasts? Arguing from opposite day? Or the most embarrassing gaffe you could have possibly made in this convo? Not that their unions are good. Just a funny thing to write, caveat-free.
Gag me with a spoon. Philosophically naive to the max. At a bare minimum (though I'm not a fan of either) you have to cite and answer Wittgenstein and Chompsky's pre-published rebuttals, not to mention Kolmogorov's definition of complexity and the list just goes on and on.
I dont have struggle, they reach out to me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn helps them to find you, unless you are just hoping they would just guess your email, etc... lol
Should they all have made Twitter posts rather than signing a piece of paper, or would Musk just claim they were bots and not real?
It's absolutely right for a man who built a company to be able to fire whoever he wishes, especially for cause like in this case.
> how can it not be an option

Because there is no central government, no central decisor. It's a game theory context of actors spread all over.
IntelliJ Rust
See also: Taste for Makers: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html (under section 'Good design is often slightly funny')
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Selective enforcement and executive orders are replacing rule of law. This is impossible to decipher and interpret consistently. It goes the other way too, in that these platforms have a monopoly on de facto immunity from other regulatory action like illegal user content, hate speech, and accessibility. You are looking at the intractability and obsolescence of centralized governance in a digital world.
In Dawn, part of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler describes an earth woman taken to an alien "spacecraft" orbiting earth. All of the devices on the craft activated by chemicals the aliens can choose to naturally secrete so none of the technology is remotely usable by humans in raw form.

The aliens then genetically alter the woman to allow her to use the devices. Moreover, the aliens are circling earth with the aim of trading whatever useful genetic material humans have in exchange for the improvements the aliens offer to humans.

So in this conception, the technologically constructed and the evolutionarily created quality merge into a single category.
If one wants to keep the tunnels small, then probably. But I assume that due to safety concerns that wouldn't be possible. Maybe with a closed cabin?
> JSON is a file and interchange format - more technically a protocol.

> It is not a data type.

Although me, and I'm sure many others, have abused JSON and used it as a data type, I totally agree with you. However, GP was using JSON as an example of a more general idea. I needed to aggregate similar data across many different tables holding information collected from web scraping - typically one table corresponds to a particular service, and each service has it's own spider. My approach was to define a data model that contains all the information that I care about then write classes per service to convert its data to the format of the aforementioned data model. While the model can be serialized as JSON, it's composed of standard Python data types/classes and I don't constrain its design to be more amicable to serialization. Point being, while JSON is an intuitive example and can be a good go-to if your data matches it well, there's many ways to solve the N*M problem in this particular context.
what makes Ante low level? Just from a cursory look over the website seems pretty high level to me.
I tried running vale with the good-writing plugin on one of my blog posts. I won’t claim I produce great literary works, but a fair bit of warnings it output were false positives. Even conjugates such as “write-only” would trigger its weasel word trigger for “only”.

Ultimately, it is the technical limitations that make the tool unusable for me. On one hand, a Github-flavoured markdown parser is used. It filters out some obscure HTML tags such as `mathp`, and I couldn’t find a way to configure the tool so it would ignore the math segments. I even tried to forgo vale’s built-in markdown converter, and run the check on the output of the static site generator instead, but that plan was quickly foiled by the soft hyphens my generator inserts. Given such an input vale considers every syllable a separate word.
I would never want to interact with this checkbox, it feels too sluggish. But i wouldnt mind if it was non-interactive in-game action status, like level accomplished or something.
"Free speech absolutist" doesn't mean "freedom from consequences outside the town square (either literal or virtual)". It just means you won't be forcibly removed from the town square. Just like you can go walk in your Nazi parades in the US, it doesn't mean you won't get fired from your job if people see you in that parade, but you can still keep doing your parades.
>"... I don't really see value there ... I can see the value."

Huh!?!
In my younger and stupider days, I made some ill considered criticisms of my boss. I was lucky I wasn't fired on the spot.
I've done this. First I did pure BSPWM, then pure i3. Frankly, it's just too light for me. I spent so much time having to handle all these one-off scenarios like, hot-plugging multiple monitors, bluetooth, audio volume (with switching output when I plug into my big monitor). I had cobbled together so many scripts and I was constantly fighting with something that had worked the prior day. Having an actual environment under the hood made it much nicer.
This is the norm for outsider art/thought and is what allows it to sometimes prove revolutionary.

His dedicated effort basically creates this vast vein of intellectual ore for others to mine and refine later.

It might never prove useful, or it might be that somebody stumbles across it with the right perspective at the right time and is able to make big mainstream innovations with it.

It’s a long view process and needn’t be rushed. It’s not like Wolfram’s at risk of giving up his efforts for being an outsider this way.
Eh. Whatever. I honestly don't care what language I work in.

I'm not sure that Pascal was ever significant enough to become obsolete. It was intended as a teaching language. It got used for a variety of things anyway, but was replaced by better languages before it got much traction.

I'll write COBOL, Fortran, or Pascal -- or Algol or Snobol or Logo. I don't mind legacy systems; I don't often get a chance to clean-sheet things.

The fact that those dead languages are running on either decrepit computers, or emulators for decrepit computers, that is less fun. Ideally, you'd be there to work on a plan to replace it with something more capable, because otherwise your project is permanently hindered by the original hardware.

But meantime, I'm perfectly fine keeping something running just because people need it to keep doing its job. If they can't afford to pay for an upgrade path, that's worrying, but only because they can't afford to pay for anything. Ya gotta spend money to make money.

Languages just don't make much difference to me. Frameworks make a bigger difference -- and yeah, for older languages, framework and language are pretty much the same thing. But all I want from a framework is to get the thing to do its job. The rest is just programming, and I'm happy to program. The fundamental problem-solving skills apply regardless of the language.
Residents say China used health tracker for crowd control
I was excited to see Nim get a little bit more love on HN for once but unfortunately that's quite a short list.

Looking forward to seeing Nim get more traction over time.

This is a great talk on what makes Nim special IMHO for those new to it:
https://youtu.be/j0fUqdYC71k
1) prices were already universally high in Switzerland

2) swiss government regulates the price of healthcare

3) Switzerland uses significantly less fossil fuels and aren't as effected by the war in Ukraine

4) Switzerland passed multiple laws over the past few years to reduce the cost of goods, including banning foreign companies from charging Swiss citizens more
The link you’re pointing to says that Shotwell is COO, not CEO.
Early 20th centruy industrialists also had to deal with the looming threat of anti-trust regulations. These days it's almost a joke. There is no trust-busting anymore. The monopolies control foreign and domestic policy through massive lobbying efforts.
Crypto Crashed So Hard It May No Longer Be Profitable to Mine Ethereum
> I've eyed KDE Plasma which could give me everything I ever wanted from a DE, but I was using Ubuntu/gnome because it was mainstream enough that everything just works OOTB

I'm curious, what do you expect won't work under KDE?
> Do you have a better term for it?

Apparently the euphemism treadmill is on low-wage labor [1]. Which is dumb, since it literally though not conceptually covers graduate students.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unskilled-labor.asp