skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries, mate. It's always good to take a step back and challenge our assumptions about the person on the other side of the monitor. When you are the majority in a given situation, it's easy to have that mentally become the "default".

I'm actually a multi-generational mixed person. Both my parents and all four of my grandparents are "multi-racial" -- based on the current definitions of race. But that's a whole different conversation. Don't want to give out any more details than that for privacy reasons.
Have you ever tried dipyrone? Never had issues with kidneys with Ibuprofen, mostly noticed it with the stomach, but dipyrone was very noticeably affecting my kidneys.
Did Moitessier have less trouble than Knox-Johnston, due to more money to build a better ship and stock up on equipment, a better approach to maintenance, or better luck?
>wise and humble...you need to poke holes in your ideas...

But where does critical thinking come in? Seens there should be a heuristic or generalized approach for deciding what to believe. Epistemology, I suppose.

And this should all preface the formation of our ideas in the first place.
What’s your read on the average New Zealander’s opinion of ongoing lockdowns? Are they generally in favor, or is the gov’t out of touch?
I agree. Especially given the recent development of consiousness theory bestowing the likelihood of consiousness upon all animals and even perhaps inanimate objects. I.e., if you can answer the question “what would it be like to exist as...” a tree, a dog, a river, a GAN? Then the case may be made that existence as such a thing must involve consiousness. If consiousness is a product of (or a phenomena within) material reality, why not say computers and computer programs are conscious?

Perhaps the question here is whether it’s conscious in a similar way to the experince of human consciousness, and that would explain why the issue is contentious.
I've stopped shopping on Amazon because of the hundreds of Chinese brands for the exact same product.
That thing is like 70% of the performance of my 2014 Thinkpad which cost ~20x as much in today's money.

The only metrics where it does really badly is the small amount of RAM and storage.
My decision to at least exclude family law, beyond the divorce of my parents when I was a teenager being fairly ugly (although now with a larger sample size I've observed, relatively tame), was cemented by sitting through a whole session where the only property that needed to be split were a pair of season tickets to my school's men's college basketball team. While the school's team is quite good, we've never won a championship, at the time of the proceedings we've only been AP #1 for a week and then was almost knocked out of the tourney by a 16 seed, and in open court both parties acknowledged that they don't go to all of the home games and are seeing other season ticket holders, meaning that neither party needed to have both sets of tickets just to go watch the games live. The only advantage is that the seats would be together, but I've been to a lot of games of just about every North American professional sport (yes, including Arena Football) and seat swapping is ubiquitous whether the place is sold out or a quarter full. I've litigated my own case in small claims court and can honestly say that there were cases far more consequential there than the acrimonious splitting of a pair of basketball season tickets. It's not exactly kafkaesque - the criminal justice system fits the bill better - but it's at least... Dadaist in an un-self-aware way? I've appeared in undergraduate musicals written by my classmates that were less cringeworthy than that.

And I've practiced administrative law which, since they are not established under Article III of the Constitution, can be pretty cowboy and roughshod. I've also appeared in tribal court which seem to frequently take cues from TV courts. But they are not frivolous, not at all. Administrative hearings can and do determine the liberty of people every day. Same for tribal courts. There's something farcical about all 3 types of proceedings but family court just hits the perfect note of "legitimate", "important", and "farcical" to me, even though they are undoubtedly important. I can assure you that no immigration or NLRB hearings, the administrative courts in this country with teeth, sink into farce at a similar rate.

At one point there were some half-joking talks about finding an agreeable local tribe to partner with us to open a startup that allow same-day in-app divorces. Sadly even with introductions and approaching tribes in several states they all ended up saying no. There's a free idea for y'all, business-wise, if you can pull it off.
Honest question, what dynamics make you think China would give advance notice?
Yes. "run away" from the market euphoria of November 2021.
This is just full of ontological and epistemological assumptions which have been mainstream for a few decades but are very controversial among philosophers. Philosophers don’t sit in bubbles—and use all the evidence they can find—and make great contributions to knowledge, even though what they do is not science. There’s a reason there are other subjects besides chemistry and physics.
I got lucky. I did no research before hand. There was a gym near me offering a deal for personal training and I signed up with an instructor who had a similar body style to what I wanted to achieve tbh.
Meh? Maybe the customs should stop caring.
Does this handle potential alimony? That’s the thing that scares me about getting divorced. A friend of mine confided in me that their partner hasn’t worked since they been married and is afraid that ending the relationship would put them in a deep alimony situation. Unfortunate side effect of living in a high cost are sure but I understand their frustration
Yes. You get tenure track debunking things that have mind share in the community and adding support for theories that become foundational.
Ibuprofen is not addictive, it's in the same class as Tylenol, really. It's just not a problem. It doesn't make you high either.
It raised his profile a lot, maybe that was the point for him.
That one was a cool design
i don't think it's enough to just say "provide transactions" -- that's way too general.

what sort of semantics would you want out of the transaction? atomicity? isolation? durability? how should concurrency behave? should there be a mvcc implementation?

linux provides atomic writes up to 4k. moves on the same fs are also atomic.

fsync ensures writes are durable and written to disk (allegedly[0])

file advisory locks can be used to ensure mutual exclusion. or memory mapping in the file to shared memory and allocating a mutex in it (libapr provides a few options for interprocess mutual exclusion)

...but in reality, if you need transactional semantics, you're really just better off using a database. because the database developers will have a much better idea of the nuances that applications need from transactional semantics than the kernel devs will.

and if you want your program that requires transactional semantics to be portable, major database vendors have already dealt with inconsistencies across multiple major operating systems. because of that the database gives one system to handle transactions, versus pushing the portability concerns onto each individual application.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119991
I vouched for your post, I had a questions and a comment!

1) games on Windows frequently use DirectInput[a], it would be a nice addition to your application. Is it possible with autoit ?

2) Your application is simple enough (without direct input) that you could write it in 32bit assembly. It would be a great learning experience to rewrite it in the lowest level language. If you want to go that way I recommend those tutorials [b]. Don't be scared, assembly is one of the easiest way to explore the win32 api.

a) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

b) https://www.winasm.org/iczelion-tutorials.html
This seems a bit icky as you move away from the origin. There’s no promises for how fast the series converges and how well it does yea far out and so on and so forth. This reminds me a bit of harmonic balance which is a great, well behaved spectral technique
Sure, and once again it is up to voters to hold their party accountable. The DNC chair has already resigned. The political fallout depressed turnout and Hillary Clinton ultimately lost. Primary favoritism, whatever form that takes, is not a legal matter, it is a democratic one. At a certain level legal protection doesn't make sense, you said yourself that the closest thing to legality in the DNC, which are party rules, were changed by the party anyway.

Senator Murkowski of Alaska lost her party's primary but ended up winning from write-in votes.

San Francisco's "mainstream media" could fill their front pages with as much praise and justification for the District Attorney as they want, it didn't stop him from being recalled with historic turnout. Getting the media to favor you doesn't mean squat if voters disagree.

The voters are always the biggest factor. Party leaders can pick bad candidates as much as their bosses - the voters - allow them to.
Yep it calculates alimony payments (called spousal maintenance in NY). It's based on income, length of relationship etc. In NY, you can actually negotiate out of alimony (eg trade it for some more assets).
At the one in SF they have two (poorly marked) lines.
> I have no comment on the absurdity of your last sentence, btw.

The only absurdity here is that instead of attempting to interpret my questions hospitably, you immediately went on the defensive and then refused again to address my question with a lovely touch of asking me to ponder deeply why I would mistakenly think you were white. I'm not sure what fantasy land you live in, but the people I talk too aren't just sitting at their keyboards hoping everyone on the other end is white.

It's pretty gross that I replied with the most sincere curiosity and ended up with some not-so-veiled racism implications.
Feedback about your web site: there are still plenty of people out there using browsers that don't support WebP. None of your images load for me (Safari 15.5 on macOS Catalina). You should use (or at least fall back to) wider-supported formats.
Ask HN: How can an employee get started being a software contractor?
I've worked as an engineer for a few years now at large companies. I'm interested in learning more about being a software contractor and seeing if that'd be a good avenue to start my own business in. How can I go from being a W2 employee to a contractor? How does one find contracts?
Heard a good interview with a developer advocate the other day that said that devrel folks should explicitly not be used as salespeople.

https://www.theengineeringleader.com/1946930/10857263-marcos...
You're right up to the point where the context is fraud.

the bank is not required to process transactions for an impersonator. the opposite in fact, it's supposed to filter out the fraudster's transaction! even if his password leaked, none of that matters. the transaction is valid only between the bank and the individual, any failure in communication between those two is the bank's problem, it just depends on how loud the scammed consumer is willing to be.

in China today there are people in Henan province that had their money completely stolen from their accounts... by the bank owner! and who's responsible? the central bank of course, and they will all be repaid, and very fast now because they protested very very loudly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/china-to-...

people should not have to protest for fairness, the money should have never left their accounts, the system should have been perfect

src: software engineer designing fintech systems
If they make it profitable to get carbon out of the air which this suggests it will get a lot of private investments. This will also make carbon worth something so instead of letting it out in the atmosphere there will be effort to capture and sell it to the solar methane generators.
Now Roku uploads what you're watching to a central server to analyze
> How the hell did Google hire this clown? Even a dishonorable discharge is usually radioactive and this guy was not only dishonorably discharged, he served time.

False. He did serve time, but his discharge was bad conduct not dishonorable. Both BCD and DD usually come with time served, but DD is generally for offenses equivalent to civilian felonies, while BCD is for lesser offenses and carries less post-service consequences. While it's usually looked up on negatively by emoloyers, it's not as radioactive as a DD.

> It takes a really special kind of stupid to not figure out you're a conscientious objector until years after you've voluntarily signed up for service.

It's actually not that uncommon for service members to develop moral objections to military service only after deployment to a war zone, whether not in a combat capacity. Most, of course, will continue to serve anyway, because they have a fairly literal gun to their head, but it's a well-known pattern.
FBI investigation determined Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear comms
Can anyone comment on external displays? The last time I tried this was about 5 years ago. I had a Samsung chromebook which was a great little device, but the font rendering connected to an external display was too terrible.
> national park

I've been trying to keep track of park locations near me that have

- restrooms

- tables with shade, if shade comes from tree there must not be lots of birds shitting from tree

- 4G/5G signal

- not hot mid-day

It's hard to actually get work done without all of the above.

Separately, an EV makes an excellent mobile office. You can use the car's power and air conditioning all day without "idling" an engine. Just pack a lunch, drive to a scenic vista point that has a restroom and cell signal and you're all set.
Didn't even think of that. Thank you! I'll get that fixed
We encounter this all the time at work. New customer, so new integration. What's your unique shipment reference? This one? Ok fine. Go into production, and after a few months we get missing shipments. Support check, missing shipments have same reference as old shipments. "Oh, yeah we reuse the references after about 90 days... And, no, we don't have any globally unique references."

This is fun when so much of the flow is based on these references, think goods arrival scanning, and sometimes shipping does take a long time so 90 days or whatever is cutting it close.
Another mid-2000s Lisp moment: Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but was soon rewritten in Python.
'm not going to lie -- this screen really is quite hard on the eyes. It's a step down if your normal laptop costs 25X AS MUCH

what does he mean. is is blurry or too bright?

Yes, computers get way cheaper when you exclude windows and name brand parts.
I worked at a small "automall" of several dealerships. Our system operated inventory numbers based on the last 6 digits of the vin#.
Sounds like with 1 million options, you'd be fine.
It didn't take long for duplicates to start coming up when you have hundreds of cars in stock, and sell hundreds a month.
Let alone the problem with a car being sold new, and then being traded back in. That was fine, because we had a different leading digit for new vs used. But you'd be surprised how often a used car gets sold, and then traded in again at the same place. Now what number does it get? The same one. Fine, atleast they're not both in stock at the same time. Great. Sell it again. Then when a customer calls six months later, try and lookup the deal your most common way... Oh ya.. now I've got 4 possible deals for this car.
> Couldn't this pretty easily be solved at the file system level?

It will not solve a problem that does not even exist in the first place, but will rather badly break the semantics of the UNIX file system precisely at the file system level.

> Just store a back pointer from a file to each of its names.

UNIX file systems do not have files in the conventional sense. They have disk block allocations referenced to by an inode and one or more directory entries pointing back to a specific block allocation via the associated inode. This makes hard links easily possible and very cheap. It is a one to many relationship (one block allocation to many directory entries), and turning it into a many to many relationship, with each directory entry pointing to every single possible permutation of other directory entries across the entire file system a nightmare in every imaginable way.

It is even possible to zero directory entries pointing to an inode (if you poke around with the file system debugger, you can manually delete the last remaining directory entry without releasing allocated blocks into the disk block pool but the next fsck run will reclaim them anyway).
I remember when the Commodore 64 came out. "64K RAM?", I thought, "What could anyone do with so much RAM?" Power to do something new always generates new things to do with it.
Anyone looking to start their own maker space might contact this nonprofit maker space, since they have done a number of boot camps on staring them:

https://www.maker-works.com/operations-bootcamp

Appears it was pricey though at $2000 per person.

Here’s an old course outline:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2b3cad8a02c7aa57ce3...

If anyone has seen blueprints, guides, etc for starting maker spaces, I would be curious to see them.
FWIW GCP is most pleasant out of the big 3, but only because they have Firebase
Are you sure? We've been redesigning everything for years because is car wrecks. Cars are safer today because of it. For both passengers and pedestrians. Roads have been rebuilt.
Deaths, pretty million, has been decreasing for the last fifty years thanks to changes being made.

You are right in that car accidents don't elicit quite the same reaction as a single mass death, but they aren't being ignored and aren't quite considered a fact of life.
Airbnb isn't great anyway
Dangerous may be an overstatement, but maybe not: I think what I was really trying to say was something along the lines of:

In my opinion, right now in IT, "laypeople" don't have a good understanding of how bad things are in many respects, and how much better they could be in others. Moreover, there are a lot of effective "salespeople" in this space, and all this adds up to what I believe is a huge gap in perception and reality here. So the last thing I want is more belief that great IT comes along and saves us?
As someone considering leaving the bay, how do you get your fix? Or do you just network less?
Which side is Scott Aaranson on? Just curious.
According to A.W. Brian Simpson, "Contracts for Cotton to Arrive: The Case of the Two Ships Peerless", Contracts Stories, p43,

> A contract for cotton "to arrive" was a contract for forward delivery, or, as it is sometimes called, a "time contract". One might expect that such a contract would normally specify a time for delivery. For it is the moment when the goods become available in the market that is of paramount importance to the purchaser, particularly if the purchaser wants the goods for use. But the world in which such contracts originated was one in which this was not really possible. Although one could discover, after an interval, when a sailing ship had left or, more approximately, proposed to leave its port of departure, it was very uncertain when, if ever, it would arrive at its destination. Even when it did arrive, there were uncertain delays in finding a berth to unload its cargo. Hence such contracts did not originally specify the time of arrival, much less delivery, even within some fixed period. All they did was to identify which shipment of cotton was being sold; presumably the rationale of this was that the buyer, so long as he knew which shipment was being sold, would be able to form his own estimate of the probable time of arrival. This would not, of course, be a point in time but a period. It is said that originally such contracts were made only when arrival was imminent, the ship typically having been reported off Point Lynas, which is on the north coast of Anglesey, some fifty miles from Liverpool. Presumably there was a signal station there. No doubt also cotton was sometimes sold as the ship lay in the river, waiting to berth. In such cases the date of delivery could be guessed with some precision, though a square-rigged vessel, if it did not employ a steam tug, could take a long and unpredictable time to cover even fifty miles.

The author also provides the broader context, which is that this was likely a form contract in the nascent commodity futures market. Additionally, this occurred during a period of particularly overheated speculation in cotton. In other words, just as is common today, financial speculators were pushing the legal and technological envelope of the instruments available to them. (Futures markets go back much further, but the mid-19th century is in many respects when modern futures markets began to take on their current shape. He cites another source pointing out that in "'in certain offices in Liverpool today the futures department is still called the Arrivals Department.'")
The major part of hangovers is dehydration, try hydrating up, with electrolytes, before going to bed, maybe pop an aspirin if you already feeling the headache come on.
eBay doesn’t let sellers do this either so report them. You’ll probably get refunded and the seller hit with whatever punishment eBay does these days.
>I wonder how much damage a burning blade does to the environment?

>Less than a coal fired power plant does every minute.
Actually, a 65-qubit quantum computer has been created.

"IBM's current largest quantum computer, revealed this month, contains 65 qubits."

https://www.science.org/content/article/ibm-promises-1000-qu...
Mostly because it gets it installed.

I’m vaguely attached to a utility scale deal trying to happen. The land owners are interested, the utility is interested, and there isn’t much around the site. Still the details might kill the deal- they can’t agree where the HV lines will run, the utility wants a bit more land than the owners want to lease, access details and liability concerns are coming up, etc…

Utility scale solar is the future but rooftop solar gets installed NOW because each deal is simpler.

Now why my utility isn’t building out solar fields in the massive amounts of land they own around their coal and oil fired plants…
Yes, in air travel alone it has given us the war on liquid volumes above 3.4oz and the war on shoes. Luckily by 2009 the fervor & public willingness to go along had died down a bit so we all go to keep our underwear after NWA Flight 253.
Congratulations on launching and great choice of nickname ;)

I don't live in New York and wish to never have to use a similar service but Goodluck nonetheless!
My first sentence is good advice. I assume they are already following it.

But, they sound entitled. There is no reason that the general public has to make unusual accommodations for their condition. It’s up to them to restrict their activities and provide protective gear as their situation requires.

Like many others, I’m a cancer survivor too. I’m not expecting special treatment or sympathy.
The terminal doesn't always know the destination. Why would it? And anyway, intended destinations can change.
I believe if you earned during the marriage that’s marital property unless otherwise agreed in a prenup (maybe some states are weird but I think that’s the norm). The scenario is more like owning the house you live in before the marriage, then using marital proceeds for stuff like maintenance and taxes. The increase in value since the marriage might be considered shared, because you both contributed towards it.
I think there is a world market for about five quantum computers.
The government should provide the model for this: enter data, here you go and here are the justifications for it. Want to pay, you can see a judge at your own cost. You walk into the lawyers office, they just sign off.