skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what kind of bubble people are in if they think Russia is about to surrender soon.

According to the Western media they were running out of ammo in March, April, May and June. Meanwhile, with an incompetent army running out of supplies, they were apparently able to occupy 20% of Ukraine's territory.
> No one who advocates against hate speech laws doesn't want you to have that freedom

I've recently heard a number of "free speech" advocates try to expand that to be a right to be heard, i.e. a right to a captured audience & other people's attention.

These same advocates also additionally argued that their rights were being trampled upon when certain communities rejected them due to disagreements on the contents of their speech.
I don't get it. It seems that some context is missing. Is this parody? Why is this the top story on HN?

Why do I see SQL at the bottom of the highly-touted wet/dry search page?

> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT vacid) FROM vac ;

http://wet-dry-vac.com
As I remember it, the term "XT class" was used back in the day to distinguish between "AT class" PCs and those prior - i.e. to mean an IBM PC, XT or comparable machine. So (weirdly enough) the 5150 was considered XT class despite predating the XT (they're almost identical as far as software is concerned anyway). The term "PC class" wasn't a thing because PC came to be shorthand for any IBM PC/XT/AT or later x86 machine. Some more powerful machines like the Amstrad PC1512 (with an 8MHz 8086) were also considered XT class - these machines could run games like Bruce Lee and Digger which were designed for the PC/XT (and which were too fast on AT and later machines), though the gameplay was quicker than they were designed for so were extra-challenging.
100% this. The clearest basis on which to measure productivity is product, and Google's scattershot approach is obviously not efficient.
My simple non-blogpost answer to the headline is: they lack wisdom.

Being smart and knowing how to make smart decisions are different.

Being smart is the sword. Wisdom is swordmanship.
My guess is that they want it to be on their main website so you might remember to checkout your cart or buy something new.

They kept their shopping search, cart, and popular shopping categories in the header.

Pretty smart.
I agree. We are probably still 3-5 years away from getting solid support within large multi-family dwellings.

The need will become obvious to them once market share approaches 20%.
>> If you think "religious zealots" are the only authoritarians, boy do I have news for you!

> There are plenty of other ones, but religious ones are the only people who truly obsess over the actions of others.

Sorry, no. I don't know how anyone could come to believe something so incorrect. For instance, the Chinese Communist Party is 1) authoritarian, 2) atheist, and 3) very obsessed over the actions of others (as shown by the massive surveillance and control apparatus it's built).
IMO dewalt is a mod tier tool brand with stuff like festool, powermatic, laguna and others being more premium high end
Google’s 144 Tbps undersea cable lands in South Africa
Beautifully done! Really amazing tool.
> I thought it was a widely-known-secret that at least part of the insane hiring of engineers without clear teams, projects, etc for them to work on initially was to prevent individuals working for current-or-potential competitors.

Wow, I've suspected this for many years and people told me it was nutty.
I think to most reasonable people, it's not fair to call it a "drop." It's a smaller increase than last month, but it's still a very meaningful increase in the cost of goods. Yes, my house is not burning as quickly, but make no mistake, it's still burning.
Why don't you look at something other than gas? Believe it or not but people need to eat food for example.

Also, the gas prices are still significantly higher than they were a few years ago so dropping isn't really a big deal until it becomes affordable again.

Lastly, one reason the price is dropping is due to releasing the reserves. When that stops (and it will have to eventually) the price will increase again.
> So the Hyperloop, for example, [Musk] admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding.

This should be headline news. Long a speculation. This a staggering admission.
Well, not too many errors in that article. The section of "Going Multiuser" is a bit confused.

After referring to CDOS-286 (aka FlexOS-286) it says:
"DR adapted this to create Concurrent DOS-386 Concurrent DOS-386, [...] : a full 32-bit OS"

Concurrent DOS-386 (which became Real/32 and friends) was derived from the original MP/M (multi user CP/M code, which spawned DR-DOS). That became Multiuser DOS.

That line was not derived from FlexOS-286 (aka CDOS-286), which already had multi-user capabilities (each process had an 8 bit user-id and an 8 bit group-id).

I'm not sure if that is suggesting FlexOS-386 was a full 32-bit OS, as it was not, however that is not obvious without the SBK. FlexOS-386 was most of FlexOS-286 (hence 16-bit) but with some parts (e.g. memory manager) being 32-bit.

As to Concurrent DOS-386, I guess that was as "full 32-bit" as windows 95 was, i.e. not fully, but sort of, depending upon what drivers were present, and which APIs were used.
We have seen unemployment fall slightly below 2019 levels, but the more significant result of greater demand stimulation would have been reaching those levels of unemployment much faster, rather than taking a decade to recover from the great recession.
>I thought it was a widely-known-secret that at least part of the insane hiring of engineers without clear teams, projects, etc for them to work on initially was to prevent individuals working for current-or-potential competitors.

I've heard this claimed but not sourced, and it doesn't really make sense - there are millions of software engineers out there and Google or Meta only employ a tiny fraction of them.
Woha! didn't knew that one!

So that in 1985?

Why this feature didn't got supported further in today's architectures?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
Friendly suggestion to all future "Launch HN's"... I think you may get better engagement with the link to your product right at the top of the announcement comment.

I'm sure lots of people are more interested in immediately checking out your cool thing and not necessarily having to read (or skim) a wall of text first :)

As a side note; I've noticed that Launch HN posts are typically very verbose as a rule. Maybe this reflects more on me, but I almost never read them, but still am often interested in the products/services themselves and will hunt down the link to just go and check it out.

It's great to have the backstory and detail there, but to those writing them, it's worth bearing in mind that a large % of people (possibly a majority?) will skim read at best. So link upfront and maybe a TLDR sentence would always be a good opener IMHO.

Edit: Also... congrats on the launch :-)
Very well written introduction to some of the problems with semantic web dev.

Personally I think the reason it died was there were no obvious commercial applications. There are of course commercial applications, but not in a way that people realize what they're using is semantic web. Of all the 'note keepers' and 'knowledge bases' out there, none of them are semantic web. Thus it has languished in academia and a few niche industries in backend products, or as hidden layers, ex. Wikipedia. Because there wasn't something we could stare at and go "I am using the semantic web right now", there was no hype, and no hype means no development.
Plastic is showing similar trends. $0.45 prior to Covid, peaked at $1.35/lb, and is now back down to 0.75-0.80/lb. This drives a lot of consumer inflation because of packaging.

International freight, also. Ningbo-LA ran from $3,500 pre-Covid up to $22k last August/September, now down to around $9k.

Overall, still up a lot compared to 2019, but substantial drops in many commodities compared to peak.
Please give a very specific explanation of what would be "sensible".
Of course, maintenance goes up over time as well--as do utilities. Not part of the mortgage but certainly part of the cost of living in a house over time. Value often increases over time as well but this isn't cash in hand over the course of living in a house.
Most farmland that has been abandoned (at least in the US) has been abandoned due to some other imposed restriction (usually water, but in some more marginal land, it could be fertilizer or pesticide).

Having a new use for soya isn't going to move that needle -- but if construction will pay more for soya than food manufacturers will for whatever the most-marginal current crop is, some currently-available food crop will go to road building instead.
I have no science to back up my claim but my knee jerk hunch is that people who weren't supported by their peers during the learning process go on to develop imposter syndrome.

Y'know like the classic story of being outcast unless you hide being into learning "You read books?! What a nerd!", "Teacher's pet!", "Why don't you go invent a gravity, Einstein"

Without early peer support there's no foundational confidence in your abilities and without that comes imposter syndrome later

Again I have no data other than my own experience, n=1 and barely at that. You'd definitely want to ask around a bit to see if this even matches up with other peoples experiences before accepting it as any sort of truth

E: It might not be that specific, any sort of educational trauma (for lack of a better way to describe it. Learning disorders, dyslexia, a lack of school experience entirely, having to take care of someone during your school years) would probably do it if the foundational skill confidence theory is in any way plausible
I like the scheduled sit and stand, and I like the power and cable management.

The display concept... As someone in physical therapy for neck strain, I have my doubts about putting a bunch of information in the plane of the desk itself. Also, I put stuff on my desk.

One thing that might make me excited is if the desk were to have a handwriting system that rivaled paper. Just dreaming here but if it could easily be trained to recognize my handwriting so that all my handwritten notes became searchable.... well that would be futuristic indeed.

P.S. definitely going to purchase the webcam!
They helped people do acid, too. Not sure what the relevance is though.
The experts thought it would be transitory, but they were wrong, and most admitted that they were wrong.

It is ok to be wrong. Especially when predicting the future. Cut the malarkey.

As for it not being real, who said that? No one I know.

Unrelated to government spending? Well, inflation is multi-causal. Europe didn't go on a spending splurge, and yet they have inflation too. Most economists believe that government spending is at least partially responsible for the inflation. However, when the government was deciding to respond to the pandemic recession, economists advised them that the downside risks of over-compensating were smaller than not doing enough. And you know what? they were right. 8% inflation is certainly high, but this is no depression.
> The USA only has such extreme freedom of speech because of a 1969 Supreme Court decision, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

This really highlights the creeping cancerous nature of 'speech as violence'. It was Bradenburg v. Ohio that partially overturned Schenck v. United States, in which protesting the draft was considered a sort of violence against the state (creating a "clear and present danger" to the government.) The premise of 'speech as violence' always starts out with examples most people find reasonable, but its way too easy for authoritarians to expand the scope of what speech constitutes violence inch by inch until one day you can no longer protest your own government forcing young men into a meat grinder.

It's way too easy. "Your words offend me, causing a stress reaction which shortens my life. Anything that offends me is ipso facto violence." There needs to be a line drawn in the sand to prevent this escalating madness. Brandenburg v. Ohio does that fairly well.
Looks amazing ! Can't wait to use it as my new home workstation !
Yes, you start treating racial slurs as a mild form of sexual abuse

...what?
Good luck, and seems like a nicely executed product. There's certainly demand in the prosumer home office market – lots of money being spent there.

Personally, I'm surprised that showing more information is frequently correlated with an _increase_ in productivity. I see many 'inspiration' setups with multiple screens, often taken up by a single app like Twitter or Spotify, and they feel like distractions, not productivity boosts.

It seems like this would be used as a more embedded version of a second screen, which I gave up on because its main purpose was to take my attention away from what was on my main screen (I recognize there are times when side-by-side screens are helpful, just not that often for me).
I think I'm accidentally good at this by having speech therapy in school a million years ago because I spoke way to fast as a child. Also they gave me a starter book on rhetoric which helped a lot.

Key things I'd say are:

- Prep what you're going to say in your mind before you say it.

- Where to load infomation in a sentance and then paragraphs is crucial. Like if it's a joke keep the key piece of info at the end, that is like how jokes work. If it's a story, pepper info throughout to keep interest. If it's work and you're trying to communicate big ideas, cover key topics at the start and build on them.

- Smile, be what you imagine a charming person to be like, and then act like that and you'll be a charming person, sounds silly but that's the way to do it. I wave my hands about a lot too, which seems to help.

- Taylor your vocabulary to your audience. I love using big words, but they're pointless if the person your talking to doesn't know them or more importantly may feel alienated by not knowing the words. Unless of course this is work and you need to teach key terms to people to understand the concept you're on about.

- It's difficult to say "be funny", that's so subjective. What I would say on that is do what makes you laugh, make yourself laugh at your own jokes, and if people enjoy them than that's good. Don't try and make other people laugh. If you view their laughter as an accidental by-product of making yourself giggle then that's great.

Most important thing of all - practice. Just keep chatting away to everyone and try and be better and better at it, it's one of those things that takes time to refine.
I would say not a waste, but not as effective past a certain scale when applied to company building, as compared to a network of intelligence. Of course my tone in my blog is more anecdotal/story-telling/journalesque, so if I’ve painted my argument as being scientific or conclusive then surely my fault :)
In this chapter, we will discuss about some of the Graphical User Interface(GUI) tools that will helps us in connecting and interacting with MySQL databases very easily.
Responding to myself: documentation clearly seems to come from two different areas, one when everything was either client side or build time and another after astro introduced server side dynamism.

Apparently there has been quite a watershed moment, with the announcement merely a few months ago: https://astro.build/blog/experimental-server-side-rendering/
> with minimal external dependencies: Python, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes

What a time to be alive.

All jokes aside, this is really awesome and i'm glad to see more and more tools to make ML more developer friendly and accessible. Out of curiosity do you guys come from a TF, pytorch, jax, etc background?
All of China's Dynasties in One Video (24min)
You are mistaken.

100,000 of the best out of a pool of approximately 10 million professional software engineers worldwide is a sizeable portion. Additionally, not all 10 million are even close to being up to BigCorps peculiar standards (perhaps the standard is "someone competent enough that they could potentially build a competing product line").

Goog, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Oracle.. all have huge rosters and it adds up to a significant portion of the market. There is also a huge amount of medium sized whales such as SAP and PayPal who in total end up also consuming a lot of the talent.
FWIW, I read somewhere that increased enforcement is expected to be revenue-positive, with something like a 4x multiplier: the IRS is currently leaving lots of owed money on the table for want of someone to collect it.
Slightly off topic but I've found as someone who is constantly trying to get people to engage with my products and services that mastodon (fosstodon) to be highly value.

I'll cross-post to twitter and fosstodon and I get much better engagement on average from mastodon.

I'm sure if you have a huge following on twitter it's totally different, but for someone who only has 100+ followers, it's no contest which is better for me.
Porter Cable actually used to be great and dewalt was iffy, ive never heard anyone consider Dewalt to be premium though... Either way they sell the same tools now in just different colors, like their mid-size trim router is exactly the same but in Dewalt, PC or (i forget the third brand i saw, same router though) colors

I usually use the AK-47 as an example for Dewalt -- they use such sloppy bearings and construction there isnt much to wear out that it doesnt work. Its not well built, just sloppy enough to take a beating
I'm not 100% sure they did this but with the SPR you can actually smooth out the price curve for oil.

Much of this period, the spot price of oil was high, but oil for delivery 6-12 months out was much less expensive. The SPR could sell into the spot market but buy oil for delivery 6-12 months out. This actually could mean a much more sustained drop.
Ergonomic sensors... Yes, this would be a great feature. Not sure if I want my desk to do that, or another device, though.
>and not have kids

glad to hear that
And the Depression was the driving force that brought about massive bank regulation (notable the 1933 Banking Act), including the FDIC which is what everyone is talking about here.

Those regulations simply don't exist (yet) for crypto. They may be coming, but as of right now if you hold crypto in an exchange, it can evaporate if the exchange goes belly up.
I'm just saying that comment I replied to makes this sound as universal truth. Wanting children and being happy about having children are subjective things. There are people who don't have children and are happy about it, people who have children but are unhappy about it and everything inbetween.

People who want to have children should have them, and people who don't want to have children shoudln't have them =)
Well, smart people are wealthier and we know that income and happiness follow a logarithmic linear curve. Maybe these research are over adjusting (controlling for income) and therefore are unable to find the true effect.
This looks like a nice tool, thanks. Although worth noting it only records a screen region, so if you move the window it won't follow it.
Your concern is not reflected in the market. 2023 crop is down similarly over the same timeframe, with cash bids at only $6.80 presently. Your scenario is not unrealistic, to be sure, but current behaviour is not acting in accordance with it and inflation only tracks actual, measured, behaviour, not what could have been.

Certainly, it is possible for inflation to slow and then ramp up again. It is not a static value by any stretch. But it remains that current indicators suggest that it is slowing. Not only in the actual inflation metrics but other also in other indicators.
My $0.02, but in most cases, I have seen you don't need to emulate a browser to scrape even if it's an SPA. The data has to be coming from somewhere. You can play around devtools to reverse engineer the API requests and get the data you need. I understand companies can put roadblocks to hinder this, but my point is, browser emulation is slow and expensive resource-wise. It should be the last resort.
There are adjustable rate mortgages in the US, but far and away the norm is 15 or 30 year fixed.
Excessively loud noise in residential areas is banned because it releases hormones that make you feel bad. Although there's less room for such a ban to go wrong, obviously.

I agree that the label "violence" is manipulative. Using the label "harm" instead would be more accurate.
soooo basically there is no bias
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google for "employee monitoring software" to see how hard this is being pushed
A big factor is practice.

Typically, when someone has a crisp response / point, it is something they’ve honed, battle tested (even subconsciously), or heard from others and it resonated (memetic).

When you listen to presentations/lectures/speeches by effective orators, you’ll often hear the same phrases or concepts tuned over time. I can give lots of examples but a recent one was David Sedaris where he told a story on MasterClass in a way more compelling way than the exact same story he delivered years ago in a late note show.
I think we've built companies and cultures that are incompatible with long-term employment and happiness.

Anyone who joins a company can crank full 8+ hours a day for a while to establish themselves (and a reputation).

The "problem" is, as people establish themselves, the problem domain becomes less exciting. There's less urgency to crank indefinitely. They settle into a pattern that involves fewer hours, though those hours are more productive because they know the ropes.

There is a sweet spot where someone knows enough to be productive but isn't yet complacent. This is the spot that every employer dreams of: employees cranking, full speed, productively, for 8 hours.

It's just not sustainable. You can fire people and try and keep turning over staff such that everyone stays in that sweet spot, but you'll eventually end up with a different sort of headache when your staff has no organizational memory for why decisions were made. The people who built things and have the long-term visions have left, and those who pick up the torch try will never have the same big-picture in their head.

The challenging bit is how do you separate someone who works 3h a day because that's all they can sustain (and they're just being realistic), and those who work 3h a day, could work more, but chooses not to? I'm not sure you want to force either out, but can you incentivize the latter to produce more?
First thing that comes to mind is the big list of tech industry position descriptions from the Australian Information Industry Association [1]. Not sure how good they are since I haven't actually had a proper read of any myself.

[1] https://www.aonhumancapital.com.au/getmedia/9b5d9f13-294f-46...
Just read about the inflation trimming. It is one of the ways the government make inflation to appear lower than it is, making people happy. In US, the 31% of the goods with highest inflation are excluded, but only 24% of the goods with lowest inflation, making the inflation appear much lower than it is.
Sounds interesting, although as someone not that deeply into ML these terms don't say a lot to me. What would "bias" mean in this case? That the model would recognize a "standard German" speaker, but not someone from Bavaria? Because that happens to a lot of (non-Bavarian) Germans too.
Pretty sure they just swap to the Greek alphabet after, so the next one would be Gen alpha.
Alternative TL;DR: we’re too far away from my grandparents’ generation where they grew up in the Great Depression and Dust Bowl then WWII and really knew what a bleak future looked like.
And yet the website is still functional and apparently still taking deposits, notwithstanding the easily-ignored popup and banner saying that withdrawals are suspended.

https://celsius.network