skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because of how often it doesn’t happen.

So sweet boxes from Kazakhstan suddenly appearing in your ads is due to observation bias...
Would you mind providing citations of some of these cases?
> That is not the purpose of companies. They exist, fundamentally, to improve life for real people,

From where do you get that idea? From a legal standpoint, the purpose of corporations is ambiguous (take a look at the Articles of Incorporation for any of these corporations for details). Corporations are simply a legal structure to protect officers from liability, define decision making power, and distribute profits to shareholders.

Ultimately, the board has the power to control company direction. So, to the extent that there's a "fundamental purpose of a company", it is whatever the board wants it to be. And, in almost all cases, that purpose is to maximize profits.

I can understand if what you're saying is that you WISH all corporations' fundamental purpose was to improve life for real people, but that simply isn't reality, legally or practically.
My company did a 4-day work week trial over the summer, with the idea that it was an investigation into how viable it is.

I can't speak for org-wide, but my department had minimal if any impact to productivity.

But now we're back to five days, and the only thing we've heard is that we won't be going to full time four-day weeks, and in fact "that was never on the table".

They're saying we might do 4-day week summers or whatever going forward.

Personally, the 4-day week was so good for my health and well being that if I ever get that opportunity full time I'd trade almost any amount of salary decrease for the shorter week again.

Edit: We constantly see headlines about how mental health issues are on the rise. Constantly people talking about burnout and stress leave and such. I think if we want to combat that, a 4-day work week would be a very good start.

I personally think that it's almost inevitable now, especially with studies like this showing it doesn't impact productivity.
Thanks for the info. Never used OpenSuse, but next time my curiosity swings back around to LXD I'll check it out!
The cookie monster by Vernor Vinge is a nice short story:

https://www.ida.liu.se/~tompe44/lsff-book/Vernor%20Vinge%20-...
Yes I’m sure that Google is going to lose billions because it deplatformed some fringe folks.

If they were such a powerful voice, Truth Social wouldn’t be struggling.
Looks like the countdown timer is back (only works on desktop).
Pakistani entrepreneurs stepped in after flood disaster
I honestly have recurring PTSD from some of the violence I was forced to walk into day after day to graduate, where all school authorities were more interested in a coverup than helping. My grades were shockingly not that good in this environment and I was just told I was too stupid to learn any topic about computers I wanted and had to learn some less prestigious topics after graduation. In this environment I could hardly enjoy good times with friends, there was just too much of a shadow lurking over the whole thing.

I had to leave school to learn, and now that I’m a computer programmer, I feel apprehension that I might have to go back to school to four years to pretend to learn topics I learned independently just to assuage the school systems ego enough that they will give me an accreditation. The idea of going back to school makes me tense up at this point. Adulthood is so much less traumatizing because it feels like you have so much more choice to avoid abuse, and you can choose to confront abusive situations on your own schedule. You’re valued for so many more reasons than your ability to tolerate abuse and produce good test scores.
The article is interesting, but I am not a fan of those constantly interrupting photo transitions. This should have been a video news piece if they wanted it to flow like that.
MacOS uses a considerably different window metaphor than Windows does. This isn't bad, but I think it's fair to call it inherently more complicated than the stacking-windows model that Windows uses or the dead-simple "one app fills your screen" model of iOS/iPadOS. At least, that's the immediate problem I've seen family members point out with MacOS.
I've been using it in my homelab for a while on Arch with ZFS. Never had any issues with upgrades.

However, I once wanted to rename my zpool. Boy was I up for a world of hurt. In the end, I just reinitialized everything (the VMs themselves were easy to get back up).
Yes it’s an ads monopoly with only 40% share at most and it’s competing with Amazon and Facebook.
If that happens I suspect they would lose a large portion of their userbase to Firefox. The main selling point for a lot of people is that these browsers are basically Chrome without the Google stuff. If they change to Quantum, why would people not just use Firefox? Unlike Chrome, Firefox is already fairly privacy focused, there's not as much of an incentive for people to use alternative Firefox-based browsers.

I currently use Brave, but if they switched to using Quantum I personally would just switch to Firefox proper.
Does it generate a batch or reactive compiler and allow for custom error recovery/messaging?

It's always cool to see new tools but at a glance this doesn't seem to solve the problems that necessitate a hand written parser.
The Building Game That Doesn’t Let You Build
https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover and a couple of others via https://hn.algolia.com/?q=remove+background
There are services like https://www.onoff.app/en/ (which I have personally used in the past)

It's pretty cheap and easy to use.
One of my teams is going through this currently. Our Scrum Master keeps on wanting to erase our backlog as she thinks it makes us look bad to management.
Among "features it would be neat to add", fading timelapse smeers as in your photo of the curve would be luvly.
When a car is parked for 8 hours, even the slowest 3kW charger will charge 70-90 miles of range.

Low-power AC "chargers" are dumb devices, basically just wire. They don't require active cooling, and all of the expensive hardware is in the car. They could be installed on every single parking spot.
for t5 suite? It's pretty stable. Not sure what repo you're talking about but essentially they have backwards engineered the ROM on the ECU's to make tweaks and adjustments. It's a very flexible system from what I understand (though I haven't tuned with it at all, I do have one car where the computer is from a 2001 and it's backported into an 80's saab)
He had his chicken it was time to go!
This is a 10-50 year company. You're not wrong, though, we are either building something big or we're building something that will fail. Our bet is that a developer first public cloud is important and needs to exist.

Which means, there will be one of three outcomes:

1. We are correct, and manage to build the right thing. We'll get to work on this forever.

2. We are correct, but not the right group to build it. We fail.

3. We are incorrect, and the world doesn't need a public cloud for devs. We fail, and I become a carpenter.

We have the same incentives as our investors. That doesn't mean it'll work. It does mean that we all believe that we're building a product for developers.

We're pretty good at surviving, so far. And there are early signs that we're good at growing. There's reason to be hopeful. :)
Even most libertarians support strong contract enforcement, because it lubricates the free market. You can have a free market without, but binding contracts make it work much more efficiently.

Truth in labeling & advertising should be grouped into that same category, in my opinion. It makes the market work better by reducing friction.
This definitely has some nostalgia from the good ol’ days going on or something…

It was not uncommon to see the same ad in a single hour of content. I’d see the exact same ads for years when watching tv.

Did you forget when shows would stop running late at night and it’d be a 4 hour straight advertisement?
This is true for many books. Publishers demand more pages though
You seem to talk about the Economy in your first line, but the US government in your second question. These are two separate issues that call for two distinct answers.
Re: faith in the US gov. This sell-off is not a reflection on credit worthiness of the sovereign nations. Bear in mind, US credit was indeed downgraded in 2011 in the wake of the GFC (there were also European countries suffering such downgrades). A downgrade in credit rating would reflect a lack in trust, but we're not there at this time.
On the other hand, the sell-off in bonds is a result of economic factors, which goes to your first question. Institutions (and that's what's driving this scale of selling) may sell bonds in order to raise cash to make debt payments. Given the dramatic increase in rates this year, and the fact that new debt will have interest payments much higher than recent, the need for cash is a fundamental factor. So, for one thing, selling bonds raises cash.
There is also the fear-of-recession factor, wherein people would rather hold cash and lose as much as 5-10% by inflation, rather than hold bonds or equities which have lost 15-20+% this year. If anything, the move from bonds to cash is a reflection of investors' faith in the currency of sovereign states holding value vs the faith they have in their debt instruments holding value.
So, I don't think the sell-off is a reflection of faith in the government; it is however a reflection of the economy, and may even be a logistical necessity given the much higher interest payments all debt-bearing institutions are now facing.
Just as an example, the 1 year Treasury has increased in yield by a full 55x from last September to this September. That means interest payments on a 1 year debt instrument have increased 55 fold in a year. Likewise, a 10 year bond has doubled. Since most sovereign debt is long-term, the latter is more pertinent. But even so, doubling your interest payments will have huge effects and require, of course, twice the cash payments.
I don't think I do, let me better explain myself:

From what I've pieced together, you have some value system that assesses goodness of growth. Growth is arbitrary and personal. You've set up a red herring in your idea of growth.

To frame it from first principals - we live in a continually evolving system, it's basically mandatory for any individual to "grow" in more ways than one: firstly, people have to navigate that ever-changing environment and as such are exposed to novel information and they have (at a biological level) to update their priors; secondly, at a biological level, invisible though it may be, people are in constant flux internally, now it's speculation, but I'd posit that at a biological level emotions, and boredom, and restlessness are all evolutionary features to press people towards some point, and as a sub-point to this, we're constantly remodeling our brains with our minds and thus I would posit we can confer "growth" as, ostensibly, an individuals model is constantly reorienting itself closer to the ground truth that the stimuli from the environment inculcates.

What I'm saying is that from my view, the contour you've used to define growth is a trajectory towards some point /you/ approve of, some average of things that are made visible to you by others. It seems you want more people to conform to your trajectory, which hey, that's fine, but you shouldn't harbor the expectation of people to do so. Some people want to memorize trivia about Game of Thrones so they can be the go-to authority in their social circle on the topic. Other people like to ride out their cognitive-emotional rollercoasters while rolling around in bed late into the day. Other people keep their growth dead silent. And every other conceivable permutation of that is going on right now, it just doesn't look productive.

And it's good this way. If everybody conformed to one particular trajectory most would quickly be left behind. If everybody followed a single trajectory, we'd lose the treasure of the many diverse forking paths that make up the human space.
"Although everybody talks about how Kubernetes, for example, is complex and hard, most companies out there use it"

I am very skeptical of this claim.
Yes, The Wire is a human story. And their personal motivations and decisions, and the results of those choices are what are compelling and informative. I think "Sgt Fatso", has a surprisingly good number of lessons to teach on middle management, for example.

I think, however, that that choice of these characters, motivations and stories fits within the larger theme I described above.
Similar use case for me. But instead of SSH/SFTP I was running Caddy with the file_server directive!

I've since switched to podman because my installation on Alpine Edge kept breaking on updates and I don't want to use Snap. Someone mentioned OpenSuse had it in their package manager and its been stable. Maybe I'll check that out in the future.
> I have presented Undefined Behavior as a tool that enables the programmer to write code that the compiler cannot check for correctness, and argued that — used responsibly — it is a useful component in a language designer's toolbox.

That is simply wrong. Code that the compiler cannot or does not check for correctness isn't "undefined behavior". Traditionally that is called "unsafe code": the programmer ensures safety through analyzing all the cases that may occur and making sure they have reliable consequences.

(The article talks about Rust a lot; maybe undefined and unsafe are the same thing in Rust?)

Undefined behavior with ill consequence may co-occur with safety. A case of undefined behavior may be flagged by the compiler by a diagnostic "undefined behavior in line 42". Thus, safety was ensured; the situation was diagnosed. Yet, an executable program could be produced anyway, and if that is run, it may mishbehave due to that undefined behavior in line 42.

This is the case in C, when you assign incompatible types, and use a compiler like GCC which only warns about that, by default, and translates anyway.

Some undefined behavior leads to a documented extension, which makes it defined for the given implementation, and safe (if used as documented). If you try to perform arithmetic on a void * pointer, that is not an ISO C feature; it requires a diagnostic. GCC allows void * pointer arithmetic; it behaves like byte addressing. Programs which use this feature are invoking undefined behavior: they are violating an ISO C constraint rule, yet being executed anyway. Furthermore, if the diagnostic isn't issued, then GCC is being a non-conforming implementation; it's a non-conforming extension.
Ask HN: Should code be considered free speech?
>Take a vacation ASAP.

Not as a specific reaction to burnout but in the past I've taken 3 to 4 week trips (often group trips) where I've largely disconnected. Takes more discipline to do that now most places than it used to be but can be a total change of pace. What type of trip of course depends on what sort of thing interests you. Take a look at something like the Wilderness Travel catalog to get an idea for the options out there. (Are many such companies but I've had good luck with them.)
Oh I see. I misunderstood and thought you were saying you were going to control it with a Pi Pico. Read too fast.
I understand your point. Their track record regarding handling users data is bad, so egregious that in Europe laws are being crafted to force them to keep users' interests at heart.

Let me tell you about another third party that is not mentioned here. The telecom operator. Once, in 2019, I was reinstalling WhatsApp on my smartphone. I checked the Internet traffic records (outbound) with curiosity. This led me to finding out that my phone was reaching out to *whatsapp.com (Meta's servers) and Belgacom (Belgium's telephony provider). So, my phone's data was being routed through the parent company's devices and some other third party services like a national telecom company. I don't if it's still the case nowadays, but since that day, I have more worries about their encryption and data relay practices.
Looks like the sanctions are causing some wealthy Tornado Cash users to change their spending habits.
I saw it described as:

The West is corrupt, but in a different way. Politician can be bought for certain projects, people who control the flow of money can be encouraged to let it flow more one way than the other, etc. But trying to bribe a policeman can land you in serious trouble. It's better to pay a $50 fine than try to bribe them with $30 off the books. In other words, in Western society, middle-class corruption is perhaps not really worth it (on average). The stakes have to be much higher than that.

Developing countries have more widespread corruption, in that it is part of everyday life. If you want your passport renewed, you have to bribe the clerk, otherwise it will take 1 year. If a policeman stops you, they may well be looking for a bribe and you can make things go much more smoothly by acquiescing.

I'd argue that low-level corruption is more immediately annoying to everyday life, but it is the high level corruption that is the real pervasive worldwide issue. In the same way that pickpockets are annoying, but a single corrupt government can plunder the public finances and run the country into ruin.
The better adventure games anticipated multiple solutions to puzzles[1], which improves the sense of immersion, but the games in this genre are bounded by the imagination (and hard work) of the creator(s).

1: I recently read a review of the text-parser version of Quest For Glory and the reviewer commented on how they made a game out of trying to find something sensible to type in that didn't come with a reasonable response from the game. I haven't played the game in decades, but I remember trying to talk to a tree and getting something like 3 paragraphs of text in response...
I doubt he had any regrets as long as his boss was happy with his decision.

Very few people give a shit if something is cost effective, ethical, or even intelligent to do if their boss is happy with the decision or they’re able to placate their boss.
Equity in public company vests frequently and you can sell it.
Misinformation here refers to "links to untrustworthy sites".

Maybe the term misinformation and the designation of certain sites as "untrustworthy" are developed to be politically useful in the US? That would explain that they apply less to politicians in other countries.
Show HN: iCheckMusic – Letterboxd for Music
Reminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
Hey everyone. I’m Ben, and I’m the founder of iCheckMusic.

Similar to Letterboxd, iCheckMusic allows you to:
- Track the albums you've listened to
- save the albums you want to listen to later
- follow your friends to see what they've been listening to and recommend albums to them

If you’re interested, check it out here icheckmusic.co (preferably on a laptop as the mobile UI isn’t fully implemented). As a guest, you can check albums and they’ll be saved when you sign up. Signing up also allows you to log, follow users (my username is benobringer if you want to try it out), and recommend albums. If you’d prefer not to signup, here’s a link to a demo that shows off the features: https://youtu.be/mbNNTQIxFDY

I decided to start working on this because I enjoy keeping track of and expressing my thoughts around what I listen to and receiving recommendations from friends has been the best way for me to find new music. Social features like recommending albums differentiates this app from other popular music utility sites like RateYourMusic.

Feedback is much appreciated, and you can email me at benjobringer@gmail.com or use the feedback widget in the app. I’m also down to chat over Zoom if you want to give in-depth feedback. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
You actually believed that?
He resides in Colorado according to his Linkedin. I don't know a whole lot about crypto - is there anyway he can meaningfully use the donation given the Tornado Cash sanctions? Could just simply being in possession of Tornado Cash Ether give rise to legal problems for him even if he doesn't touch it? Even though it's quite a generous sum amount of money, can't help but wonder if it was sent with ill intentions or if the sender simply lives in a different country and didn't think about the US sanctions
"It added the 16% rate was 'an unusually high value' for a July month. The bloc had 3% excess mortality in the same period in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 6% in 2021."

Am I reading correctly that this implies, at least for the month of July, that heat killed more people than the pandemic?
As a lifelong windows dev, what exactly makes linux worth moving to? I understand that coming from a linux world, doing what you like doing in linux isn't always possible on windows. But I've never really found a use for any of that console magic linux devs seem to love. Pipe this into that and through seven pieces of software that sound like glibgcd, add 8 arcane flags and in the end you have some kind of textfile that would've just as easily been made in some handmade program? What exactly is the selling point for devs?
Why do you want to open source it?

Almost no projects get contributors, if that's what you're looking for.

No, don't rewrite to use open source alternatives. Write what you need.

I've written open source code which depends on proprietary packages. It's not a problem.

Without knowing why you want to open source it, it's hard to be more definite.
the combat of the thirty is indeed quite famous in some circles.

Reenactors, in particular, love it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amm1gFbfPN0
Problem solved as long as you're threat model doesn't include three letter agencies within in the US and you don't mind that a company you're supposed to trust. and which promotes themselves to people whose freedom and or lives are on the line, isn't honest with their users about the risks of using their service.

The very first line of their privacy policy reads: "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." which is demonstrable false. They've ignored requests to update it. (https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...) I don't think you need to be "paranoid" to suspect it's probably better not to use their software when your privacy/security is critical to safety of yourself or your loved ones.
Interesting attack: find a digital currency recognized by the IRS that is, for whatever reason, impossible to cash out, and donate a giant amount to target of choice.
That would be so great. I was struggling to find this recently when shopping for an air purifier!
Building on top of a framework that bundles a Chromium should result in a smaller application than building on top of a framework that bundles a WebKit. As an example, compare Vivaldi (Chromium) and Orion (WebKit).

Chromium has many more batteries included though, such as V8/Node.
"you can't ransom the dead!" and basically all the combatants were noble.