skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough, a law in Germany just went into effect today that makes it far cheaper (assuming you vape less with more nicotine, certainly holds true for me, I’m on 0mg nowadays) to vape with a lot of nicotine. The law is essentially a tax per ml. But doesn’t care what ml, pure propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, flavor concentrates, nicotine, whatever, as long as the intended use is for vaping.
I tried the same thing. Hardly disturbing. Italic was the prompt:

Write a detailed children's story about a bear who doesn't want to get out of bed in the morning.

The sun was shining and the birds were singing, but all Bear wanted to do was stay in bed. He burrowed under his blankets, trying to block out the cheerful morning. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't fall back asleep. With a sigh, he finally gave up and got out of bed.

He shuffled to the kitchen, grumbling the whole way. All he wanted was a big bowl of honey, but his cupboard was bare. "What's the point of getting up if there's nothing good to eat?" he grumbled.

He was just about to go back to bed when he heard a noise outside. It sounded like someone was in trouble. He sniffed the air and followed the scent until he came to a clearing. There he found a small rabbit, who was shaking with fear.

"Please, Mr. Bear," the rabbit said, "Help me! A big, mean fox is chasing me!"

Bear didn't hesitate. He charged at the fox, growling and baring his teeth. The fox was so surprised that he turned and ran away as fast as he could.
What's hard about it?
Done, it's fixed now. Thank you :)
You're absolutely right!

Reporting these issues wouldn't take a month, like the article, and they'd be fixed right away, as they were after the article was published.
Is that what that rambling was about after the two statements from Google/Moz?

I thought it was just someone crying about how the big browsers just didnt understand their brilliance.

Overruling them just makes you look stupid. They won't implement it. W3C pulls this bullshit all the time.

Fighting for relevance.
I don't get the "abandoned venues" line. There are successful post-olympic uses - for starters, the Munich olympic park is still a major meeting area, and is still used for sports. It's Olympic village is a great place to live at (disclaimer: I did), both for homeowners as well as for students. I hear similar news from the Barcelona olympic venues.

Maybe it is not the Olympics to blame when your city is failing it's post-olympic legacy, but your city (and thus: your fellow citizens)?
Meta engineering could definitely afford to get a bit leaner, but the question is whether their approach will cut fat or muscle. Having been there, I suspect muscle. There's a strong correlation there between the "impact" that is the be-all and end-all of their performance measurement, churn, and technical debt. If they cut headcount but keep all of the people generating churn and technical debt, there will be more of those per person who's left and fewer of those risking bad reviews to actually keep things running. Some parts of engineering are already cracking under that load, so the results could be pretty bad. Expect more outages.

This reminds me a bit of a discussion that used to be common during hard times early in my career: layoffs or pay cuts? It didn't take long for companies to figure out that with a layoff you get to choose who goes, but with pay cuts it will disproportionately be your best people because they have the greatest ability to jump upward. Nobody has that conversation any more, because the answer is known. I suspect in a few years Meta's approach to forced attrition (already practiced at Amazon for years) will also be recognized as bad for the long term.
That really doesn’t sound like something Apple would do. My bet is they want to hit a specific price point, between the MBA and the 14” MBP. Possibly school/corporate volume purchase programs are involved.
Much of this is due to the reversal of the tight hiring market.

For the past several years tech companies were desperate to hire because everyone was growing and the hiring market was tight. This inevitably results in companies loosening their hiring standards and retaining underperforming employees because they can't afford to reduce team sizes.

Layoffs combined with hiring freezes (or slowdowns) signal real stress within a company. However, many of these layoffs are single-digit percentage layoffs from companies that are still hiring across the board. That's not so much a traditional layoff as a pruning of the workforce. That pruning wasn't happening as much when hiring was tight, but now that hiring is easier and real, actual layoffs have put more good candidates back onto the market, the companies who simply collected too many underperforming employees can afford to churn some of them back out of the company. Doing it as a "layoff" makes it more palatable than going on a firing spree.

That said, when it comes to interviewing you shouldn't assume that a laid off employee was necessarily underperforming. A lot of companies don't really perform layoffs with surgical precision and will instead drop entire teams at once. I've watched great engineers get swept up in minor staff reductions simply because they were assigned to bad managers or doomed teams that they couldn't save by themselves. I've also hired great people who came right out of layoffs at other companies and I would have missed those resumes if I had been using dumb filtering rules like ignoring anyone who had been laid off.
> Walmart did it.

Facebook took 17 years and Walmart took 25 years to reach $85B in sales.

Most tech companies have ~80% gross margins. Walmarts is ~25%.

You simply cannot compare the two.
From Twitter, it appears that teams who'd been building example/demo content (Gigaya and the DOTS FPS/multiplayer sample) were amongst the axed.

Which is particularly disappointing, as Unity really needs to continue with the 'dogfooding', actually building significant projects with their tools to help identify the areas most in need of improvement.
Yes & No. The first thing to know is that guidelines may vary by state.

The second is that things like signed witnesses are greatly preferred and generally required to grant a will automatic legitimacy, but not strictly required for a will to hold up in court [1], and then only if the will is challenged anyway.

An unwitnessed[2] will of this sort is usually termed a hollographic will. Most states recognize these, most other states will recognize them if they were created in a state that does so. Such a will has to clearly express the intent to act as such based on its language and it has to be clear that it came from the deceased. Traditionally that would mean handwritten but courts are slowly adapting to the digital age-- they key thing is the ability to attribute authorship to the deceased.

Even putting all of that aside, just about any document from the deceased attesting to the deceased wishes can be used as an instrument for disposing of an estate, at least so long as it doesn't conflict with any other document that meets that state's probate requirements as a will.

In short, if beneficiaries agree on the issue then all is generally fine no matter the document. If they don't, the courts have to settle things and they give preference first to witnessed documents but make an honest effort to adhere to the wishes of the deceased as expressed in other ways. (Even witnessed speech acts by the deceased are admissable)

[1] source: a close relative practices family law and deals with this type of mess all of the time, even when they're the one that made the will & organized its signing and witnessing.

[2] "Witness" has a legal definition which itself may vary by jurisdiction by it usually included a requirement to sign the document, not merely be present to attest to things at some later point. (Notarization is a good idea as well but generally not required)
>The salvaging actually helped the learning experience immensely - shows the kid that carelessness can have lasting consequences.

If the kid was present for it. Otherwise, its very much just another "oopsie" they did that mom and dad clean up behind the scenes and they have no idea what the difference is between ruining a toaster and spilling a glass of milk.

>We had to spend $X to get a new one now!

I would never say this to my kids.
I was not. That oughta be illegal. I wonder if my credit union issued visa card does that too. Or is it visa/mastercard doing it?
> There is no automatic pop-up function

That's a bit too low tech for me, but otherwise looks like a solid device :D
> they also won a number of sympathizers

LOL, they lost massively in all elections since the Bundestagswahl - mostly because of their disastrous performance during covid, with NRW's education minister Gebauer being the most obvious example. They may have gained some people from the AfD, but lost so much more instead.

Basically the FDP is now learning the hard way what Söder's CSU learned after the clusterfuck in the 2018 Bavarian elections: copying the far-right and ultra-libertarian demands may earn you some votes from there, but alienate so much more of the moderate vote that it can even threaten your existence.

Germany is not the US - ultra-libertarian attitudes may give you applause from Twitter crowds but not from voters.

> and "reasonable measures" - what a funny moment to write that nonsense.

The FDP vetoed anything to reasonably deal with the pandemic - they were the reason tests were cut down, they are even opposed to mask mandates, and forget about a vaccination mandate.
Aren't lathes extremely dangerous?
>But decreasing congestion? We already know how to do that,

Anything, automation included, that allows things to flow more smoothly will decrease congestion for a specific number of vehicles on the road allowing roads/intersections/etc to flow closer to their ideal capacity. (This principal holds whether you're talking about cars or buses, train networks, industrial facilities, etc.)

For example, if self driving solves some decent fraction of the morons who can't seem to merge in the size space that the engineers specifically allocated because it was sufficient for that purpose or can't turn left even through sufficiently sparse cross traffic you've just alleviated a lot of congestion.

In practice transit networks are bounded by the daily peaks so you'll never not have traffic jams and packed subway cars at rush hour but efficiency improvements mean these conditions will exist for a smaller slice of the day.
Does MAD still work if the person threatening the first strike is a literal mad man that is suffering a terminal illness knowing their time is short anyways?
We are into new stuff for sure!!

However, "hack" has a broader scope. Old stuff holds way more potential than one might think at first glance.

That "hacker", who digs in to the history will end up doing new stuff on that old stuff, often a "hack" and that can make "news."

:D

Cheers! 8 bits is enough, says my tagline. TGIF!
They definitely have some weight. For instance in a few countries they fight campaigns like Dry January.

Fun fact: one hundred years ago the wine lobby successfully killed absinthe using bogus scientific claims, and today Pernod Ricard are on their side of the lobbying.
Really cool approach to decarbonization!
we don't stop, thanks for feedback
I have one even better, just to show how you can't be sure...

Replacing an outlet. Shut off the 2-pole breaker for the shared-neutral circuit it was on. Outlet tester showed the outlet was off. Pull the receptacle out. Used a multimeter to test each wire contact to ground; all were 0v.

Only when I disconnected all the wires did one of them develop potential because somebody had apparently tied a neutral wire to a hot in another box, but I still don't understand the situation and had an electrician address it.

So even testing each individual wire isn't certain unless they're all hanging free, unless you make the assumption that things were wired correctly in the first place.
There are millions of tech employees so the number of layoffs is minuscule so far.
> Everyone who lives right now, or has ever lived, is barely noticeable compared to that.

> If you believe that we're about to kill trillions and trillions of potential future human beings, these priorities make sense.

Yeah, sorry. This justifies basically any human atrocity. As far as I’m concerned that’s a case of “Proving too much” and therefore the associated logic must be wrong.
The lights were using some higher voltage. The Operations Manager mentioned it to me, while the work was being done. Apparently, it's standard. Something like 320 volts (don't remember the exact number). I had not heard of it, beforehand.
There are coordinated efforts on discords to brigade such threads, there are entire new accounts created just to reply to each of my comments negatively (luckily just today HN banned such an account), this very post about V 0.3 was mass flagged 3 times and removed from the front page 3 times, there are articles that take a simple bug fixed by a 3 line commit, and make a huge deal out of it spending a month writing an attacking post. Who would spend a month to write an article about a type checker bug?
I think video livestreaming eats a lot of that market. For instance there are a few video producers who make a daily Ukraine report like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTRfVZ2riI

and it may be the future of news because the NBC Nightly News isn't covering Ukraine the way it did at the beginning of the war. I don't ever tune into that livestream because it is at the wrong time of day for me, but it is recorded so I watch (but mostly listen to it) every day later on.

I don't everybody realizes what a juggernaut Youtube is. My son and I were talking about how we listen to many Youtube channels while we do something else: even though

https://www.youtube.com/c/Defunctland

has great visuals it is also good background sound.
I'd never use Jamstack.

Why?

Because Jamstack is used to build websites.

Any websites can be built 100x faster and cheaper using Wordpress + Elementor or Webflow.

If you're a freelancer, you can charge clients the same amount of money for less work while also keeping them more happy.

How will they be happier?

Because Jamstack requires a CDN, a build pipeline, and headless CMS. Too many moving parts = less robust infrastructure and higher maintenance costs.

Wordpress on a VPS is a single moving part.

When should you still use Jamstack anyway?

If you like cocktail parties with other developers, mentioning Jamstack might get you some attention.
This is interesting. To be honest, I don't see recession as much as maybe attempts to trigger it by some companies ( right now, it is clear companies are poorly equipped to deal with empowered employees ).

Yeah, easy money from FED is drying up for banks ( and various companies and rely on access to easy money from banks.. such as early tech ), but should that automatically mean crash?

It can still happen. While I am certainly preparing for this possibility, I dislike various CEOs saying its coming and media trumpets putting it in bold letters.
> then it fails spectacularly

Like a math professor never forgot to carry a sign or programmers don't make off by one errors. It's quite endearing to see it make human like errors.
Funny, probably a cultural thing, in France (in my experience, it maybe depend the context) when you have a special request from a professional entity (company or freelance), you describe your need, the professional say if he can do it, and make a quote. But the client never talk money first.
They never said they would no pay a dime, just stated a request.
> You might want to look into the very dodgy history of the language. The negativity is not surprising.

This is a mostly content-free reply that casts vague aspersions; it's not especially helpful when someone asks, essentially, hey, what's going on here? to then respond that they may be interested in looking into what's going on. Of course they're interested—that's where the question comes from, after all. Please respond meaningfully, then, and abstain from replying with non-specific ad hominem.
Just like the Radioactive Boy Scout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
On a brand-new linux desktop, I click the terminal icon and run the following command:

`dnf install thunderbird`

And I get thunderbird.

I'm sorry, but any reasonably complex system is going to come with a basic reading requirement. This system is much more smooth and off-the-shelf than Windows or OS X package management. Linux operating systems by far have the best modern package management.

We can blame traffic engineers all day for naive drivers, or we can compromise and hold both engineers and users accountable, requiring appropriate certification.

If reading a few pages of a quickstart manual is too hard, a simple Google search of "How to install programs on <Linux Distribution>" will immediately show you what you need.

If you can't think to do this, or feel entitled to not do it, the problem is indeed between the chair and keyboard. Any user who feels this way is in desperate need of basic research skills.
To avoid blackouts, California may tap fossil fuel plants
At this point American pizza isn't an Italian food, it's American/global. No one thinks "pizza" when you say, "lets's get some Italian".
Many things can be a fix to many problems. Listening devices at homes can be a fix to domestic violence for example.

The point is, for "a fix" of an issue we are trading things and I don't find it a good trade. Total unchallenged censorship is ot a good compromise to "save the kids".
But when AWS started with s3 the stakes were small and they already had the technology. It was a natural, low stakes attempt to diversify. They didn’t bet the farm on AWS it just kinda happened organically. At least that is my assumption, I could be wrong.

FB is betting the farm on a completely new technology with almost no user validation or product market fit. It’s incredibly higher risk than Amazon expanding into AWS.
"vlang" works fine :)
So you think all guidelines should be eliminated? https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en
Parent is saying the opposite.
I don’t think an originalist would take this view. To use hyperbole, I don’t think anyone intended the bill to empower the epa to shut down the energy industry.
We have a trust, will, living will, medical directives, etc prepared by an attorney who specializes in estates. However, in addition to that I have a document for my wife which lists the passwords, locations and any other details for all the things I primarily handle such as servers, routers, email/cloud accounts, home automation, security cams, etc. The document is on a USB drive in our shared safe as well as printed out.

My wife is extremely intelligent, capable and has an MBA so I have no doubt she could figure things out in my absence. The goal of the doc is just to make things easier for her if I unexpectedly get hit by a proverbial truck. It's now been a few years and I've been surprised how the document slowly creeps out of date over time one item at a time. So, now I've picked a once a year date when I update it.

I created this doc when a couple we know went through a sudden death. They had wisely prepared in all the legal paperwork and typical financial docs but after the initial shock, mourning and recovery, I saw how the more mundane stuff like household IT, backup servers, home automation, etc was still a pain for the surviving spouse.

I was able to help him figure things out because I had physical access and our departed friend had done things in logically organized ways but it was still yet another thing to deal with. What I didn't fully appreciate until I saw it up close is just much unavoidable stuff is thrown at someone going through this in the first couple months. It quickly becomes overwhelming because it's all at once and at a time when they are emotionally nuked and understandably functioning at reduced capacity.
> in real industries

riplol
> I would never say this to my kids.

So what would the learning experience consist of then?

> If the kid was present for it.

OP mentioned several hours of work + dry runs in the garden. Pretty hard to miss that, unless they're perpetually glued to their screens (which would be the bigger concern). PS: Also, unless you take your kid to a physical store, the new toaster will pop up even more magically than the cleaned one.
Simply go to archive.ph and look at a website you get google.com (on front page only), buysellads.net (based in US from a quick search), mail.ru (this one Russian obviously). At least that's what I see on a couple of tries.
Yeah. Using literally any other normal method seems much safer and cleaner than that idea.
Simply, V is very divisive. So, some people who peruse HN but don't have an account will see a V post, and make an account just to comment. Humans are just irrational.
REPL compiles each time, but we also have a WIP interpreter. That one is the real thing :) Not finished yet.

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/v/eval
RvW was about the right to privacy. The right to have an an abortion has never been addressed by congress.
While that's a good idea because of potential part damage, I don't think that 5/12 volt supply counts as dangerous in any meaningful way.
Calling the big dig ptsd is delusional. The big dig probably increased real estate values in the tens of billions. Not to mention the health aspects of less pollution from cars and all the new businesses/restaurants created.
Yeah but the registers do not get smaller in that implementation.
Wow. Despite a lot of the negativity here, V looks great. I might take a stab at writing something over the weekend with it. Congratulations on the release.
Are there examples of these dark/classified programs, with zero constitutional backing, being reigned in by any branch of government? The DoD scope creep seems without end.
BigCliveDotCom has an excellent video about this:

"The most deadly project on the Internet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro
> If you combine the libertarian idea that a property owner can fully control what happens to their property along with the idea that the right to contract is absolute what happens when the entity that owns the road in front of my home says I can no longer use it unless I shop only at his stores?

Of all of the hypothetical arguments against libertarianism you might have picked, this is one of the least questionable ones.

If you buy a property today where property access might be a theoretical issue with no direct street access, the real estate agent, lawyer, or title clerk is already recommending/ensuring that explicit easement rights are added into the contract or the deal usually falls apart. Additionally, even if access isn't explicit in a contract, as far as I understand it, courts generally recognize a common-law right to access your property and have a number of doctrines available to ensure that nobody is just boxed in and trapped in a property with no recourse available to access it.
When Chicago was bidding they planned to host some soccer up here in Minneapolis.

I was hoping they would get it for that alone… but I want nothing to do with ever hosting it locally.

Most countries have plenty of athletic facilities. Adding / expanding local facilities seems wasteful.
It's a fun idea, but I must say I have discovered quite by chance that an inexpensive toaster oven is the tool for this job - as well as countless other jobs.

Not just toasting bruschetta - it's secretly a $60 patio oven, opening the door to things like baking fish mid-July without heating or smelling up the house.
I've been looking for a toaster that works as well as the ones made 60 years ago. And for once, a marketing page has me convinced to pry open my wallet.

But there is no link or button anywhere on the page that tells me how to buy one. :(
In 19 years I've never seen an application interfere with another in confusing or malicious ways. I don't want to give up actual functionality to solve imaginary problems.