skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We as a modern society have to be the most smug of all. Think about every predator in the world. We constantly pay to exercise, to burn off EXTRA calories, where as every other animal on the planet conserves them or expends a vast amount to obtain more.

Think about this. We order water and vegetables to be sent to us via the mail.

We are the only species that makes a conscious effort to negate our chances of survival.

That and we can choose diets (paleo, vegan, keto, etc...) and have choices to refuse to eat things due to all our abundance.

We’ve defined intermediate fasting into a lifestyle choice, where in other parts of the world it is called hunger, poverty and lack of food.

https://i.imgur.com/XEC6dzM.jpg
How does one decide which countries owe reparations? Poland could equally demand reparations from Russia [1], as could most of Eastern Europe, while South-Eastern Europe could demand reparations from Turkey. Yet one never sees headlines about those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_...
Starting a business ≠ writing invoices.
Prompthero: Prompt for DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney
This is not a ticket for tourists. People eligible are frequent travelers that were yet using trains full of people six days a week. The covid risk has not changed so much really. A full occupied train can't be filled with more passengers.

Everybody in Spain had the opportunity to access free Covid vaccines several times yet. If denialists keep ignoring science, is very sad, but is their choice, they will die more often. Maybe they should reduce the risk and abstain to use the train. The rest of the people needs to move on and keep with their lives.

If we discuss the solution as not valid, we should pick the correct reason to do this. The goal is to reduce our gas/car dependency exceptionally and temporarily in some big cities. Is a dumb idea? Well, promoting public transport in the middle of an energetic crisis does not seem so dumb to me, but better ideas are always welcomed.
> But I was there first, you're welcome.

With these things, I always think "but if he hadn't done it, someone else would". Therefore, what matters is the thing that got done; the person doing it isn't special (nor should they feel so).
You can relatively easily create it yourself.
Basically a for loop where in each frame you move/zoom the image slightly. each X frames you apply a different prompt. You have to play around with the weights to get a nice result.
I'd recommend Volumio - gets you Spotify connect for your raspberry pi, and if you have a NAS, it can index that too
Me too. I enjoyed weed recreationally for a long time, but I had to quit because it caused full-body muscle aches (and I experimented with many strains, CBD/THC amounts and ratios, edibles, the works). Any pain I have is more acute, muscle soreness in my back, hands, abs, shoulders and jaw that last for days after use, nasal congestion, and long-lasting anxiety and sleep problems. All regardless of strain and CBD content.

I appreciate the positives of legalization and how well it works medicinally for some people, but proponents often act like it's a no-brainer panacea that is universally applicable, and that's just not the case. In my experience, it affects a lot of people extremely differently, and for some people it's effectively not a real option.
When I read the title, I assumed they were taking on AWS, not setting themselves up to sit between a business and their customers.
Flip take : using social media to feign empathy for abstract contexts - ones that you actually have zero emotional connection to - is merely how left leaning people signal their bona fides.
Eh, the whole Omnicorp takes over the Detroit police department to clean up the slums thing isn't all that new - it was the plot of Robocop after all.
I've personally done something similar through mentorship. Learn something interesting and relevant to the company (in this case scheduling and convex optimization), build something, document, teach others how it works, move on.

You can create organizational chaos by skipping that last step, you may even achieve job security. But it's blatantly obvious to both your managers and coworkers if you fight to keep them off your turf. Don't expect respect or admiration.
Ah, interesting, I'll have to dig into it more :) I've never used OpenBSD so I've just had to watch on the sidelines. Anywhere I can read more about this?
no surprise he's on HN . /jk

I'm more talking about accountability and auditing (like an audit log of actions)
This is like saying your restaurant chain is unsuccessful because it only has 1/5 the locations as McDonalds.

That's still a _lot_ of freakin' restaurants my guy. Costco is the only counterexample that I know of to "all workplaces need unions in order to guarantee workers' quality of life", but I think they might be the exception that proves the rule. That they've grown to be that big and treated their employees that well is a testament to how good economically, long term, it is to treat your employees as the valuable assets they are.
A lot (most?) of that is contractor based now, though. At least the last mile. And from the sounds of it, most of the contractors aren't huge fans of Amazon anyways. Seems like it would not be insurmountable to leverage that market for similar delivery times.
That implies that the police overthrew the government. The police are the government, and the government has not been on the side of the people for many years.
> And this is relevant for security because attackers will do something called ROP, which effectively "reuses" bits of your already-executable code to issue system calls (you can google "return to libc" or "ret2libc").

You’ve just described why system call integrity is useless without strong CFI :)
I can't imagine it'll move the timetable up faster than it was already moving. I couldn't speak to the options workers will have. Historically, the answer is "not many", right?
Do people replace opioids with cannabis?
We've got a doctors' appointment we've waited six months for, and they're not checking their texts reminding them to head home from a friend's.
Incidentally this is why I see no problem with phrases like 'PIN number', despite others apparently being very bothered by them. English does not use a macro preprocessor to expand acronyms.
It's not surprising, actually. The problem with very smart people is that they're often very smart in their particular domains of expertise, but socially they will be treated as just very smart in general. This often leads to an emotional overconfidence in assessing fields outside their domains of expertise, and that extreme cleverness becomes more of a tool to create complex rationalizations of uninformed biases rather than being used humbly, empirically, and diligently as should be the case for a beginner in any topic.

And yes, I'm aware that's essentially a paraphrase of the Dunning-Kruger concept. We're all probably making similar assumptions about domains of knowledge we don't know much about, because that's what the brain does. Just like human vision appears solid and complete but is actually a stitched together amalgamation of the small, receptor-dense fovea in the center darting around constantly, and the rest being filled in by the brain instead of direct perception, so is our impression of the world, and we won't know things for sure unless we take time to study them up close.
Exactly. When we're talking about US auto unions, the market for those vehicles pretty much is the US market. The rest of the global sales are made with global (typically non-unionized) workers. If Ford can't make competitive cars for the US market, it doesn't speak well to the union vs. non-union competitiveness.
For certain things I will measure/compare harmfulness relative to potential outcomes because sometimes doing enforcement is suboptimal. In this case, however, we're talking about someone co-opting the governments monopoly on violence, which is more of an issue of principle. Once you let people co-opt that, it's a fairly run-away train. That's a long way of saying, for me this situation is very binary. There's no degrees of vigilantism.
No, you are confused and I had it right the first time. Read the AMA document again. Physicians have an ethical responsibility to give patients accurate medical information, but that is not among their fiduciary obligations. Medical ethics rules stem from multiple sources and only a few of them are fiduciary in nature.
I'm so very over people tying their identity to their takes on covid and the vaccines. It's unoriginal thought at best, at worst it's primitive and thoughtless tribalism.
and voter turnouts are something like 20-30ish percent last I checked...
> as the internet is not so accommodating to those who lean right.

Keep an eye on https://twitter.com/facebookstop10 and you may change your mind.
This is akin to filing a bug report, and then taking responsibility for the fix committed by someone else.
If the SSGs are broken, that's hardly markdown's fault.
No government has willingly given up power
Tell HN: Citus is 100% open source now
https://github.com/citusdata/citus

I just realized this now, looks like Microsoft did it after they bought Citus? Good job!

Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into a distributed database.

-- before adding the first worker node, tell future worker nodes how to reach the coordinator
SELECT citus_set_coordinator_host('10.0.0.1', 5432);

-- add worker nodes
SELECT citus_add_node('10.0.0.2', 5432);
SELECT citus_add_node('10.0.0.3', 5432);

-- rebalance the shards over the new worker nodes
SELECT rebalance_table_shards();

I am not affiliated with them, I just want to share this awesome OSS project.
Some animals do expend calories strictly for signaling like we do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle
From a European perspective, it is simply crazy that 1.6M workers [0] failed to unionize so far.

Not that Unions are simply great and effective - unions bring their own set of problems. But a company this large shouldn't have been able to fight unionization for so long.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...
It's not 50%, it's actually far higher. Governments hide taxes from workers by taxing the employer. Individuals might think their taxes are low, but that money comes from somewhere, and it manifests in lower wages, less competition, and offshoring.

The true tax is called the "Tax Wedge". That's one of the reasons someone in Spain who makes 60k a year would be making 100k in the USA.
> Do you expect ordinary people to have that?

I expect people not to make factual claims when they have no facts. If you want to say, "I have no proof but I believe in my heart it was a coverup", that's fine. If you want, feel free to build your worldview around vibes or whatever. Just don't pretend otherwise.
I installed nix on my Mac but quickly backed out due to the complexity. I assumed the nix store would just be an ordinary directory with a tool for managing it, similar to brew. I discovered it creates a new Unix group, adds a separate APFS volume, installs a daemon. This was too invasive for a tool I was unsure if I even wanted to use, so I uninstalled it.

What is the reason for all this machinery? I went with the recommended multi-user install, should I have just used the single user mode instead?
People didn't used to be like this. There was more tolerance for people you didn't agree with.
I see engine re-use quite alot in game development, though, so there's always the chance that if you make a really bang-up engine, it might eventually see the light of day in another project, even if the original one was canned.

In the context of Eidos, for example, I seem to recall that Gex 3's game engine (which was a mediocre game at best) ended up being re-used/tweaked for Soul Reaver (which was an amazing game).
Sorry, don't mean to be mean here, but this is exactly what I'm talking about.

To start out, my last comment not about me. It's about "loving what you do" unthinking mantra. Which I think the whole idea is a load of crap.

As far as your saying to work in a FAANG....that pretty much exemplifies my point. You prove it for me in your first sentence. You do realize that it is more difficult to get a job at Google than it is to get into an Ivy League school? And let me tell you, there's on way in heck that I, or 99.999999% of the USA is going to get into an Ivy League school, let alone Google...want to see my GPA? I graduated with a 2.01...2/100s of not graduating because of GPA. So yeah. No way in heck am I going to get into a Ivy League shool OR a FAANG company.

There are people who have to work at McDonalds or as a cashier at 7-11 their whole life. They can't do anything else. Do you think they like it, or hate it? If someone has a high school education and is not a Stanford graduate, that's what it is. Minimum wage job for so many. And no real hope of getting more.

So prattle on about having to love your job, otherwise you're not going to work at it and will fail...I've always seen this as the height of arrogance. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad if you love what you do. But if someone with all the advantages in the world (university degree, great parents, etc) is going to whine because they don't LOVE what they do, while the lowly peons have to suck it up and work two minimum wage jobs to make it...just total arrogance, and tone deaf by most of the startup community. The world is chock-o-block full of people that hate their jobs. But they go in, every day, to a job they hate, to support themselves and their family.

That's all I'm saying. And, this is not meant to be aimed at you personally, because there are SO many people that repeat this. It's aimed at the startup community's philosophy of you must love what you do or fail.
Charity Navigator does not try to measure effectivess. They measure overhead and transparency.
Propaganda and individual exceptionalism are a hell of a drug.
Actually, what you’ve noticed is a symptom of the opposite case being far to prevalent in America.

Because it’s so common that utterly specious and biased critiques are plonked down and basically screamed out by individuals or groups with vested interests the public has become jaded. And on the internet it’s doubly so.

Due to those wolf criers, people have to go above and beyond to establish their credibility and motive to show they are worth taking seriously.

It makes a lot of sense given how things are
> if the wealth concentration trend continues

Or unsustainable housing costs
I hear these arguments all the time.

If software engineering is such a cushy, desirable, lucrative job, why don't more people do it?

It's easy to forget the thousands of hours it takes to become competent in this field once you've been in it for a while. Most people simply do not care enough to take the time to learn to do it despite being fully capable. It ain't rocket surgery.
> Are you saying it’s ok to feel bad as long as you don’t inform or allow the person taking leave that you feel bad?

You are reading it wrong.

It's not just about the individual taking the leave, it's about spreading discontent throughout the entire team because someone is taking advantage of a benefit they are entitled to.

Basically, you are advocating for the idea that someone using a benefit they have is bad.

i.e. I'm allowed to spread discontent on the team and make you feel bad for taking a salary.
What is the deal with all these anonymous startups that are popping up on HN all the time?

Websites that completely conceal who made them. Posted by fresh HN accounts. Nobody on Twitter who tweeted "Hey, I build a new thing" or "I joined this startup" or whatever. And the "founders" being more or less unresponsive in the comments of their Show HNs. That doesn't make sense.

As far as I remember, none of them ever turned into a real business I heard from again.

Here is another one of this type which caught my eye a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622852
This breaks PAN on ARM due to various unfortunate choices in the spec.
I imagine it has a lot to do with the type of pain. I don't think I'd want canniboids for a sharp pain, and certainly not for anything intense. But for a chronic pain or some kind of ache where you're taking medication over a long term, a daily dose of cannabis has got to be much better than any kind of opiate.
Sure but it isn’t the generics doing any ad spend. Unless there is some hip new opioid I’m not aware of (street fentanyl?) all the opioids are generic at this point. “Bob & Dave’s Pill Company” sure as heck isn’t pimping their generic hydrocodone on TV nor are they taking doctors out to golf.
This may sound insensitive, but accessibility isn't usually the #1 concern when developing new projects. It is usually tacked on later in an update because it isn't a core feature and it affects only a small subset of users.

Rather than encourage everyone to never use WX widgets for any reason in a website, maybe you should be encouraging people (or working yourself) to add this accessibility feature.
The warrant is a pretty bad gate. Apple complies with 90% of the requests they get from American law enforcement for account access (and a startling 95% of device access requests by the CCP (!!!)), so I don't really buy the idea that they're valiantly protecting my identity tooth-and-nail. Moreover, I agree that these are two different arenas, but I don't see what the difference is. Apple cares about privacy sometimes, but the fact that they don't care about it all the time leads me to not trust them.

If we're going to demand user privacy, we need to do it properly. Apple has zero accountability, so they have zero incentive to not sabotage your privacy.
Ohio man who suffered 20k bee-stings expected to recover, family says
I think what is most insidious about this world view is that working on solutions to the issues appear as support for the viewpoint. We're all problem solvers here and we all know that the first thing to creating something new is recognizing a problem that can be solved. It can then be broken down into many sub problems that can either be worked on individually or need to be solved in tandem. But breaking down our problems and revealing its complexities are often not seen as the first steps towards solutions, but rather seen as a larger force that we need to overcome. It ignores the momentum that we see every day in our solutions: hardest at first, but once the ball is rolling things start to fall into place (often making progress, unfortunately, difficult to measure. Especially when you're in the thick of it). That frustration and setbacks can make it hard to move forward, but we always find a way in the end. We wouldn't be problem solvers if we didn't.

I don't know about you all, but I'm not willing to say "fuck it." There's enough beauty in the world to enjoy and seek to preserve. We've clearly made changes in the past and made things better. While we stand on the shoulders of giants, they are in reality 3 dudes in a trench coat sitting on one another. Personally, I take pride in trying to build a better future for my (non-existent) children and generations to come. We're all in this together and I think a lot of us want to build that Sci-Fi utopia that we read about and dreamed of as children. We can still make that world, but not if we say "fuck it."

The reality is that our decisions determine if we live in the Cyberpunk Dystopia or the Sci-Fi Star Trek-esk Utopia. Giving up is choosing the former and actively participating in its creation.
Radiolab did a story in 2013 about the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant in New York City that talks about how the plant ended up shipping solids for fertilizer by train to the midwest for a few years

https://radiolab.org/episodes/poop-train
Remember that time Germany paid reparations after WWI? It experienced hyperinflation to combat it and elected a nationalist leader.
This is a tired old argument that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The majority of people live in cities, not rural homesteads.

Once upon a time we didn't have the interstate system, but FDR created the New Deal, and with that the federal government created the interstate highway system we have today. We can do the same for rail, but the automobile lobbyists won't allow it.

I'd argue that the interstate highway system is probably the USA's greatest accomplishment, and one of the greatest public works projects. FDR sold it by framing it as a national defense initiative.

Maybe we need to use some of that national defense budget for public transit? Sadly, I don't think we'll ever have a politician with the kind of gumption necessary to save ourselves from ourselves.
I found this tweet from Andy Grove and in the linked benchmarks DataFusion is just behind DuckDB.

https://twitter.com/andygrove_io/status/1559920848882073600?...
The person you replied to has some...interesting opinions about psychedelics...anyway...

> As world views become bleak, is encouraging people to say "fuck it" and maximize for enjoyment really the best move?

The answer to this question is obviously yes. Why wouldn't anyone maximize for life enjoyment? I hardly think that's equivalent to saying "fuck it."

Here's the thing: the video talks about the career track of semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan being limited. When we're talking careers that require education and training, people are going to look at the opportunity cost of choosing one vocation over another.

Whether people want to do this work really just depends on how much these roles are going to pay.

I also think it's incredibly realistic and mature for the youngest generation to acknowledge how their earning potential is being squandered into healthcare, housing, and education that all consistently grow faster than inflation. They are fully aware that employers make minimal investment in employees' education or training, prefer external hires for senior leadership and management rather than promoting from within, and purposefully optimize for their own employees to job hop. Every employee I know is 100% aware that any extra effort they put into their work isn't going to be rewarded with extra pay, and that promotions and pay raises that they can get are never as high as switching jobs.

I applaud every young person who sets boundaries and refuses to go above and beyond for employers who don't go above and beyond for their employees.
My comment is about how Royal City Taxi, Yellow Cab Vancouver and Benways in Burlington work - I have never been an Uber driver or involved with the company and can't comment on how they manage drivers.

Also, you're saying my comment is out of date but this out of date system effectively solves the issue that just occurred with YandexTaxi - so maybe if you're working on a more up-to-date system you should borrow from the out of date tactics.
> You are demanding I prove a negative: that it was deliberately covered up.

That is actually a positive. You're saying people did particular things. That's a positive assertion. Asking me to show that there was no conspiracy is the request to prove a negative. Which you are correct to think impossible.
Just sayin’. :-)
I got curious, but even after reload it won’t go past step 4
> "riot" is fuzzy

I think theft, property damage, violence upon innocent bystanders all clearly count as rioting.

The fuzzy part is more like what proportion of the people are rioting and how many are protesting and how to separate the former from the latter for the sake of justice.
18 hours — Or ~ 4 hours if you're in Japan.
WhatsApp Banned 2.4M Indian Accounts in July – The Highest This Year
From second hand anecdotes, I understand a lot of work involves handling dangerous chemicals, maybe enough to scare people away after a couple of years. I know one person that did exactly that, the risk wasn't worth it anymore.
Not really. Lived in the 90s in the US, people were even more tight-lipped because dissenting opinions on a lot of things were not even mentioned in the first place.