skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of people, not being reachable by voice is not really an option in the case of emergencies, medical offices, business, etc. I do more texting than leaving voice messages but, for example, my dad essentially will not text or email.
A Senate proposal would give CFTC responsibility for policing Bitcoin, Ethereum
The US made a breakthrough battery discovery – then gave the technology to China
It was one of the only ways I as a middleschooler had to make money (which I needed, so I could get a passable computer). (What a slow way to make money though.)

Few memories endure like sitting on the sofa by the window, still mostly asleep. I'd crack a window to breath the crisp outdoor air, & sit there for 3 minutes, before venturing out into the dark chill early morning. Sometimes I'd nibble at a bagel with butter, wrapped in a paper-towel for the trip.

I don't know how we found the job. Ayup, there was a local guy who'd drive around in a car & deliver to a huge area, back in the mid 90's. I think we'd gone to him for the job. It was him dropping off the thigh-high stack of papers every morning. It seemed absurd then & now, having this small route for a paperboy. It felt like a preservation of an old ritual, done not because it made sense, but because otherwise we'd forget.
It's good that the laboring wealthy are higher status these days than the idle aristocracy but we may have taken it too far
Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions of consumers
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How stabile is your "biological age" stat? Is this more like blood glucose (can change dramatically in minutes) or A1C (takes weeks to move significantly) or is it even more stable than that? Said another way: In the extreme case where you had a subject that was chrono_age = 60yrs and bio_age = 70yrs and they were perfectly compliant to your recommended interventions, how fast could you get the bio_age measure down to 50yrs?
Just what we need, machine learning phrenology to give people diagnoses that effect them for life that are largely arbitrary and porous categories
Allowing social robots to learn relations between users' routines and their mood
It's also unfortunate that robocalling isn't bannable across the board because politicians want to continue to have the ability to spam call constituents. It's really unfortunate that all sorts of automatic calls need to continue being permitted just so we can have the delightful luxury of getting spam fundraising calls from politicians.

This has real world consequences, last year a lost hiker ended up declining calls from search and rescue[1] since they assumed they were spam.

There is a really easy and extremely effective solution to this problem - charge calls on both ends. Make the caller pay a few cents for every call placed instead of placing the full charge on the receiver.

1. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049252333/lost-hiker-mount-e...
> As an extreme example, consider Olympic athletes. Often for little-to-no pay

I was under the impression these athletes get lucrative sponsorships from private companies, at least for the more high-profile sports.
GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative
Heavily depends. I've seen CTOs with 4 devs and CTOs with 100 devs who don't even know what programming languages they use. Which frankly is a bit of a red flag.

There are probably only 500 CTOs globally who operate at the level of just "budgets and choosing platforms" with another ~100k CTOs who really are de facto system architect. All depends on scale, size of biz, etc.
I'm approaching one thousand hours of play time on lichess. I love lichess. Much respect for it's benevolent dictator, ornicar. Looking forward to another thousand.
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Those who fear or do not know Kafka are doomed to work around its absence. Like I just cannot understand this mindset of "just educate people" when the system doesn't meet the requirements of its users. If your users want event ordering just give them event ordering.

You can even keep your existing webhook code by providing a synchronous bridge to Kafka so "just send them in order but wait for the 200 before sending the next one." Boom, now you are guaranteed the events are recorded and processed in order.
Recent and related:

TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32273083 - July 2022 (441 comments)
The HNLAUNCH promo code is showing as invalid for me.
The reason there are a lot of videos copied from YouTube is Odysee has a feature for importing all of the videos you created on YouTube.

This plugin will tell you when you are watching a YT video that also exists on Odysee: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odys...
VCs are naturally risk takers, there is a lot of VC money out there seeking novel projects. Maybe if textual can land some companies like Dell/IBM/AMD/Oracle/AWS who want snappier textual frontends for sysadmins rather than slow/clunky web interfaces for sysadmins/app admins to do stuff like board management controllers and textual dashboards for app/status monitoring stuff. Lower bandwidth/more dependable than web interfaces over slow/spotty interconnections with something like mosh. Seems like an option. Projects like this that add color, etc add a 3rd dimension to a 2 dimensional text landscape and I think that counts for a lot.
And yet, I show up at a company as a consultant and in two weeks I singlehandedly take care of something ten people have been struggling with for a year
(1) I'd love to (2) don't have the time right now (3) would have to be very non-specific due to NDA.
Being high maintenance sounds like a poor job search tactic.
Why isn't it fair for the government to tax income?

Creating an exception for income received from the government would lead to all sorts of crazy fraud, and would necessitate long and complex codes for determining what is an exempt government agency and what isn't.

For example: is a community college a government agency for purposes of "tax exempt" income? What about a utility district? What about private-public partnerships?
I don't think so, inherently. To me, the more ways a person can choose to play a game, the better it is. I back this up with evidence from games like Minecraft, Dungeons & Dragons, and Magic the Gathering, all of which have been massively successful for many years and decades; a success I think is very much (though not exclusively) attributable to the way they all encourage differing play styles for each person to play the way they enjoy the most.

Adding scores to level-based games doesn't encourage a certain kind of gameplay; in fact, it does the opposite, allowing the player to decide whether they want their goal to be "levels cleared" or "high score" and work towards that.
silence unknown callers in iOS is a life saver

i get 2-20 spam call a day
I've heard it's an excellent city if you're single and like bar-hopping.

I'm not and don't, so... yeah, it's totally unremarkable.
Imagine if nobody knew what a phone was, and then the device manufacturers suddenly introduced the phone app: it would outrage and annoy people!

Here is an app that allows any rando person in the world to cause your device to wake up, interrupt whatever you are doing, display a notification, play a sound, vibrate, and if you push the green button, that rando person (identifiable by a spoofable string of numbers) can hear and talk to you! It would not be well received in 2022 where privacy and digital well-being is increasingly important to people. Yet for historical reasons, it’s pre-installed on every phone.
Can't all of this be done locally on the phone? Why does the phone app not have an option to simply ignore all garbage calls
In this context the Gelsinger video clip in the article is fascinating. Sometimes companies fixate on one element of their strategy that has worked in the past.

It seems that Intel had ‘always make x86 / backwards compatible’ as their fixation.
That's cool - we can wait two extra days for a call from our doctor if it's warranted. I don't need instantaneous feedback on my bloodwork.
Only a task force? Not even a blue ribbon committee for the mess that public use comms has become?
I get 4-5 a week on Bell, my SO gets 1-2 a day on Rogers.
you found the sweet spot
Obviously a lot of these assets are going to tank in value over the coming months; but has anyone considered just how much funding is going to Red Teams with these hacks? It's not like these are non-trivial attacks, either; we've seen dozens of these kinds of hacks over the past year, from a variety of different culprits. It certainly doesn't bode well for the stability of cryptocurrency, but it also makes me wonder what these black-hatters intend to spend it on. Hopefully they're the benevolent type who just gets a rush out of kicking crypto holders in the teeth, but we also can't rule out state-sponsored attacks or the possibility of an organized crypto crime syndicate.

Whole thing is a mess, really. Our domestic investments have been cleanly laundered by a domestic company, and "stolen" by someone who now has $200 million in VC meal tickets. All we can do now is look between our shoes and hope we didn't accidentally fund North Korea or an esoteric terrorist cell.
And then they front-load all of the impossibly, stupidly, comedically overoptimistic numbers in the marketing (eg. pre-tax winnings), and have a fine print from which you can barely determine the odds of success (and if you're capable of that you most likely aren't participating either way), and then the whole game is designed so that you feel like you have some sort of superstitious influence over whether you win...

Please, let's not pretend this isn't about extracting money from people who are poor at decision-making.
Before the internet killed classified ads, it was getting more difficult for kids to deliver newspapers with their bikes due to large lots sizes and declining prevalence of sidewalks.
Can confirm; I graduated '99 and the speaker led with "A graduation speaker is like the body at an Irish wake; you can't have the party without him, but nobody really expects him to say anything important" then segued into "So what should I say; should I tell you to wear sunscreen?"

Less than a decade later he won the Nobel Peace prize. Probably not for those jokes
Key quote from the woman: “Apparently, the mouse jiggler was the last straw since I had been missing standups and having ‘thunderstorms’ and ‘power outages’ since I started.”

Sounds like she's been skiving off in general. She's lucky she's still employed at all.
That's 100% correct.
I want the ability to block all overseas calls, and I want that ability in a way that is easy enough to opt into that most people choose to. This would resolve the overseas helpdesk problem by forcing domestic companies to use domestic call centers to succeed in reaching people.

I have never received a legitimate phonecall from overseas, and I don't expect I ever will. In every case that I've had a legitimate reason to talk to somebody overseas, we used voip-to-voip, never telephones.
> but saying that a physical keyboard is a more "powerful" way to enter text seems reasonable to me

No. It's faster and that's all. So call it by that word which is very precise.

If you say 'power' = 'speed' then you've destroyed the meaning of one of those words, just for the modern habit of co-opting a fancier word for a simpler one. I'd prefer people didn't do that, and differentiated 'speed' from a thing you call power which indicates "I can't do that at all, at any speed".

If you don't like bullshit marketing and PR, don't follow it.
It sends your code to the cloud though.
》We have a special document that describes bug classes that need special attention

Sounds like manual testing that should be automated.
Write for non-techies because they are the ones who give you money, investment or sales. Techies may choose the products they use, but they don't typically write the check for it.

The best way around nitpicking of words is to show them growth in users / revenue. Best if you cannot keep up with inbound demand.

Also, do not fault the investors for not understanding your product. If they don't get it, you haven't explained it right and you need to make changes. You need to be able to explain it to all stakeholders.

One of the best ways to do this is to go to a bar or business meetup and explain it to non-techies. Iterate and learn what words works.
Just want to say thanks for SQLAlchemy work! Love the package and use it in every one of my work and personal projects
This song has a special place in my memory, very specifically we used to listen to that exact CD in the first years when we came to America. I remember feeling something very deep and profound from the words, even when I didn't at first understand the words or what the song was really saying- I could tell from how it sounded, even as a child, that it came from a place of sincere caring. In contrast with much of everything else in music before and since, it really stands out. Knowing the story behind it is really nice, it's whimsical, heartwarming, and unlike most things inspired by internet culture... genuinely wholesome.
Thanks for sharing this!
You can stop reading here:

> a group of 20 participants

That is unscientific and the results are anecdotal at best.
It's hard to "test" the accuracy of the SQL after generation, but it is provided to you in its raw form for you to double check.
> "In certain cases the errors were significant enough — the differential was at least 25 points for around 300,000 consumers — that some would-be borrowers may have been wrongfully denied credit, the company said in a statement."

And this is why there will be a class-action lawsuit. Credit reporting bureaus aren't the most popular outfits to begin with, and Equifax in particular has already leaked data on hundreds of MILLIONS of consumers. While they deserve to sued out of existence I suspect they are going to merely pay a few million dollars fine and go on with business as usual.
Who said it ever was a badge of honor?

I've never heard it described as such.
I would bet the payout and the odds would be better...

What is organized crime but another alternate government(small g government), no no wait, hear me out. You pay them and they make sure your business operates without trouble, exactly the same set of services the government offers, organized crime is illegal because the government(big G government) hates the competition.

Joking aside, organized crime sucks for the same reason that all dictatorships suck.

The other point to note, where private owned gambling exist(nevada etc) it regulates(self and government oversight) to make about the same profit margin as the insurance industry. The margin on the lottery is unethical.
If I would have continued my original approach, I probably would have been able to get something like that working pretty well, but since it is pretty hard to beat Virtual DOM types of approaches, I had no need to try anything else when rendering full screens of text could keep up with key repeat rate.

But of course, the idea of developing a terminal using a standard DOM-centric approach is usually not going to turn out very well... though Google is an exception here with the hterm js library that underlies the terminal output for Chromebooks: https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter.... Most Chromebook users will never have the opportunity to put this to use, though people like me who put their Chromebooks in developer mode the first chance they get use it all the time.
Back in the day, this was called feeping creatures.
That's very clever honestly. All those 1's and 0's in there makes the wordmark looks "very computers," but it's also a meme, and it's also about longevity. A lot packed in there.
I appreciate what you are trying to say (I think) but the way this is presented seems to contradict previous statement.

> The resulting data is then securely sent over to us (we’re HIPAA compliant)

So the material is considered and under the protection of HIPAA.

> At no time shall your Personal Information, including blood or metabolomic data collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy be deemed to be an electronic health record or an electronic medical record for any purpose, including without limitation for the purpose of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

This reads like 'because we do not consider your data to be PHI, therefore it is not under HIPAA.' ergo, lose all HIPAA protection.

Might want to re-write this if that is not what you meant.
top-left, as it most naturally corresponds to left-to-right/top-to-bottom reading and is the most used in 2D afaik. Avoids negative numbers and corresponds directly with the number line that we learn in elementary
Politicians exempted themselves from the do not call list: https://www.khou.com/article/news/verify/verify-yes-robocall...
Is there a non-paywalled version of this story somewhere?
My spouse is cancer patient, and it helped her a lot to go through the times of intense stress with only microdosing liberty cap psilocybin mushrooms. It also helped myself as well, the only regret I have - why we haven't discovered it earlier.
I'd love to see a change where the federal government was no longer allowed to tax individual citizens (or companies?). Taxation should be done by their State of residence/employment, and the Federal government can tax the State.

I'm not sure what else could be abstracted this way so that the citizen wouldn't interact so directly with the federal government. Things like the DoE, and HUD, could probably be eliminated while things like the FDA and EPA really should have federal reach to execute their missions properly (not that they're really doing that).
I’m sad that Python is so slow it needs an LRU cache for trivial math operations like computing the overlap between a pair of 2D rects.
The zerodha post is ... hard to believe. Self managed _everything_ and one devops engineer, no SREs? Who's managing the self-hosted PostgreSQL instances with the hundreds of billions or rows of _financial_ data?
You run into all sorts of bugs you'd never even conceive of when things scale up, even basic frontend code

Some problem that would hit one customer every few years and go away on refresh for a local mom & pop website will irritate thousands of people a day on Google.com, and those people will band together on Facebook into a support group, and that support group will get media coverage

You try to look into the issue and you can't reproduce it at all, you just have to figure it out from tiny wisps of clues
Without that federal government, most of the black folks in the US might still be slaves. We probably shouldn’t forget all the history that got us to where we are today.
Author here.

You obviously CAN guarantee ordering, it's just that you can't guarantee it as the sender, you need cooperation from the receiver. Additionally, putting them in a receive queue on the receiver doesn't solve the issue unless the receiver takes extra care to also read from the queue in strict (non-overlapping) order which is rarely the case, and even then has significant throughput implications. So it really is all on the receiver. This piece was written from the context of the sender.

Timestamps definitely don't solve the issue, I explicitly said to use a centralized sequence number if you must (not a great idea in most cases). Thin payloads: the idea behind that is essentially to use the webhooks as a "please update" kind of notification and then you get the most recent data from the server. Essentially what you called a "pull system", it's a combination of both a push (webhook) to know when to pull, and the pull to get the data. This also doesn't work as nicely in many scenarios (because oftentimes, receivers want the data immediately without having to fetch), but it's good in others.

Please take a look at the content of the article (rather than just the title), I've addressed most of it there too.
Running Cockroach DB in Production with Nomad
You been to SF recently?
I've been happily using Forklift for years. https://binarynights.com/
Tons of people seem proud of their massive workload, as a signal that you are important.
Perhaps the author was confused by her white hair?
Anecdotes do not constitute data. My family in Canada gets tons of robocalls and spam calls, to the point that nobody answers unrecognized numbers unless they're expecting a call...
> There is no monopoly or requirement to sell a car through a dealer.

This is incorrect. It's required, by law, in most states:

> In the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in almost every state by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by dealers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealerships_in_the_United_...
Yes and the parent comment’s point, as I interpret it, was that not even the brand power of Marvel and Star Wars could save the company from itself as it moved to the Woke Side with its content generally
Because it was atypical behavior that any institution would have the same problems with.
The brain already benefits from moderate physical activity
In general I don't believe that being an engineer is necessary to run a technology business (some of my best leaders were not), but I have come around to believing that Intel and Boeing are exceptions: the nature of their business requires new massive bets- not quite 'bet the company' but definitely 'bet the next 10 years of company performance' every so often (new fabs and new planes), and that one decision really needs to be made by an experienced engineer, due to the nature of the underlying evaluation. If not, then people who think they can bafflegab mother nature the same way they can auditors will make the decisions.