skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if, get this, instead of all this vague shit about doing better you just had a support team you could talk to without blowing up on twitter/hn?

If I wanted to charge people on the internet right now I would go with Authorize, even though I've used Stripe in the past and had good experiences. Now my understanding is that I pay for the convenience of the better API etc. with the inconvenience of being unable to talk to a human that can make decisions if something goes wrong, unless I get sufficient upvotes/retweets.
In the UK for example:

> Legislation states that children of the opposite sex over the age of 10 should not share rooms - and that this can be considered overcrowding.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/in-the-home/s...
Sounds like the typical Stripe thing people write about here. Hopefully one of the staff will read this and help you. Seriously stripe would it kill you to not have these incompetent processes in place?
Google has right by way of ToS not to host said files of the same name. User must agree with ToS & abide by ToS to access Google server.
Absolutely not. Buffer overruns aren’t something that only idiots introduce.
Solitary confinement is already a human rights violation. It isn't close to the line, it's well over it.
Your supposedly “extreme” opinion sounds like a very mainstream American opinion. If you’re implying that many people really think your opinion is extreme, I think you’re making a straw man argument.
> Forced labor as a proportionate punishment for a crime you were found guilty of by a fair trial is not a problem in my book

Let’s see all of the things wrong packed in that statement:

1. Most people in jail aren’t “found guilty” of a crime by a trial at all. Most are pressured by both the DAs and the state funded Public defender to accept a plea deal. 95% take a plea deal.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/04/the-truth-abou...

2. Trials are rarely “fair”. All of the statistics show that minorities get harsher sentences for the same arrest.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-d...

3. The state has unlimited resources. They rarely give enough funding to the public defenders office

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/if-you-care-ab...
Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

Interlisp: https://interlisp.org
If they want to do it, it isn't unfree.

> you can certainly incentivize it without resorting to torture.

How?
(Render CEO) Very curious about the performance issue. Would you mind sharing details over email? (address in profile)
well that's the thing with threads, you shouldn't be "spinning them up on the fly", you should have a fixed pool of threads. That then involves some architectural work up front (like 5 lines of code, ugh) and that's where everyone (under age 40) yawns and goes off to use asyncio instead (which oddly enough has a worker thread running in the form of the event loop, it's just all been presented nicely).
I have a better experience than that on mobile (iOS), but the PDF is still infinitely better for me.
This reminds me a lot of the Conflict vs Mistake framing[0] which is expanded on by his Tragedy of Legible Technique article[1]. It also reminds me a lot of the Steve Jobs Product vs Marketing clip[2].

> When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power. If she doesn't optimize for the second, she gets replaced as CDC Director by someone who does. That means she's trying to solve a harder problem than Zvi is, and it makes sense that sometimes, despite having more resources than Zvi, she does worse at it.

It seems to me like the issue is actually in rent-seeking, where the more rent-seeking you have available, the more the marginal mistake person converts into a conflict person. In a world of perfect competition there would be no room for conflicts, and only once you have freely available rents does the land-grabbing phase begin. When your rules are written by the conflicters, for the conflicters benefit, it's already to late. They'll certainly never compromise on the simple correct path.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
True. You need to understand something to explain it. You don’t need to understand something to observe and describe it. Obvious example is how birds fly, which was mostly explained recently only.
This is untrue. You aren’t thinking about the effects of sediment, usage, and erosion. When you build a dam and allow the riverbeds to dry, it changes the entire water table of the region.
Anyone knows when the limit of 5 free users on Gitlab.com (SaaS) will be implemented / effective ? https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...

It was supposed to be out on the 19th but it's the 22th and I still don't see any difference
A good podcast about his story

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/l...
Less aquarium, more a DVD you’re loaning to friends or inviting the over to watch.
> Email notification when two-factor OTP attempt is wrong

Sounds like they read HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911299
Since they were reported missing to the police, I would assume that you’re right and these kids were trying to survive on their own for one reason or another.
I never got into laptops, the portability is not important to me, and before it becomes comfortable, it's docked and has real big monitors and mouse/keyboard and a comfortable chair and good table.. At that point, it's just an expensive desktop.

That said, I had a T520 about 8 years ago, that was an okay machine, it had a real docking station and reasonable performance.
The Vegetable Gardener to Hollywood’s A-List
Content Fatigue and How to Avoid It
Working in a family business is protected. Even working as a 13-16 year old in some jobs is allowed as long as it’s outside of school hours. We allow for a gradual introduction into working for children instead of a hard line at 18.

What is not protected is working in an industrial factory all day. Hell I had a job at target when I was 17 and I was allowed to do anything other than operate the trash compactor as that was heavy machinery. A sweep of factories and other heavy industry for child labor is not going to exacerbate child poverty
Capitalism is the problem, then?

That is what that is. Establish ownership (of capital), exploit that ownership.

Capitalism in a nutshell.
I agree in principle. However, as a piece of empirical evidence, you can peruse the comments in this HN post. Compare comments that express outrage for child labor and outrage for forced prison labor. Some HN readers are clearly picking to not be outraged at the latter.
Moose test (ISO 3888-2) (a.k.a. Evasive Manoeuvre Test)
Back of the envelope, you could use this with a kilometer of fiber optic cable for almost gigabyte of ultra-volatile delay line memory. Excellent for criminal masterminds who don't want to leave a trace when their compound is inevitably breached.
> Infrastructure is a distraction to what Heroku users actually care about: sharing their thing online. AWS takes us in the wrong direction in terms of minimizing that distraction

Isn’t that what AWS Elastic Beanstalk is about? AWS supports a wide variety of different approaches.
This is a robot neck design I made early in my career. I still to this day, use the fundamental concepts I learned from doing this project.
I was replying to the general question,

>>>>> Why is HN so negative about amazing things?

And as that is my experience also, I shared my theory and supported it. Further, NPD is diagnosed through observation of behavior or reports of behavior, and regardless of NPD diagnosis, any symptom of NPD is necessarily narcissistic. My slim hope is that narcissists will become more mindful of their behavior, recognize that they spread misery, get evaluated, treated, and either be cured or mitigate their disorder below detectability, and narcissism will become extinct, because there are few things in this world that completely and utterly suck as much as narcissism, and it is everywhere.

I'm not sure who made pride popular and decided that it can be harmed, because it is an indulgence. The virtue is the opposite of pride, namely, humility, and in general, virtues are the antitheses of narcissism, beyond humility including charity, modesty, gratitude, temperance, patience, courage, accountability, commitment, courtesy, cooperation, empathy, forgiveness, respect, reliability, sacrifice, sincerity, and so on and so forth. Rather than the Golden Rule, narcissists subscribe to egoism to act only selfishly and in self-interest, as their ego is central to the motivation and goal of their own actions. By and large the political ideology of narcissism is conservatism and libertarianism, focusing on exclusivity and their wealth and their interests and their rights against and in contest to those of all others, in contrast to liberalism, which is an ideology of tolerance, liberty, equality, and promoting general welfare.
> I've also heard they fill urinals with ice? But pretty sure that can't be true, that's just too strange and wasteful.

It IS true, but only really occurs in a specific context: old buildings with large icemaking capacity and trough-style urinals that are only plumbed into the sewer (i.e. no water flush capability.)

It's basically optimization for a very specific local minima of "I have to run my icemaker anyway, which always has a surplus of ice at the beginning of the day, and it would cost $XXXXX to change my urinals because it would require me to bring the toilets up to code - and my customers are going to complain about losing the atmosphere..."'

Admittedly, I've also occasionally seen this in places trying to fake an "old roadhouse" vibe, but those places don't tend to last. Not because they're bankrupted by the cost of ice, but because of a deeper inherent wackness.
Archimedes – C++ reflection via code generation
It’s a photonic integrated circuit. It doesn’t follow Moore law. Light is used for the computation not electron.

The field has seen major development in the last two decades. It’s extremely promising for fibre-optic communication.
It's like that sometimes, this shit ridiculous
Hmm, I don't think that's it says (unless they edited it since your post?). It mentions socketpair explicitly as something that is epoll-friendly, and which you can use to communicate with another thread, in the case where you must create a thread to perform some blocking task but still want to get completion notification in the main thread via epoll.
I have a medical condition (highly comorbid with MS) for which I've tried, probably 1,000 or more approaches over decades. About ten of them worked (better together.) Three or four were key. Would recommend.

Some of the things that worked best would have sounded too ridiculous for any Mexican clinic to try to sell to anybody. In my position, I think you would have been glad for any new (and safe-ish) ideas to try out, too. I just wasn't interested in paying the fly-by-night clinics, I don't advise that. Openness (not of the wallet but the mind) worked very well for me. Just really, really slowly.

So I'm more of the "don't sit still" and "bring out the ideas," sort. 1/99 odds sounds damn good next to what I went through. So I don't mind people posting ideas here, it's an adult forum. Ish.
Less of a "controversial opinion" and more of a delusional rant with no basis in fact, and no supporting evidence to back any of these statements
So which society are you living in? Every statistic shows that minorities get much harsher sentences, are represented by an underfunded public defenders office, are coerced to plea bargain (95%) are harassed more by police etc. The entire criminal Justice system is corrupt to the core.

Let’s not even talk about the “War on drugs” that becomes “treat drug abuse as a medical condition” when it happens in “rural communities”
Using Google Drive, or any online service, without client side encryption is increasingly dumb. The gatekeepers will force the gatekeepers to gatekeep.
Which Kanye interview? What did he say now...
I felt much the same before my kid was born. I would concentrate on enjoying what time you have left as a free man to tick off any bucket lists that might be tricky being tied to your kids post code.
> Would you - or your employer - want to risk a lawsuit because you inadvertently copied code that's actually released under a license with particular terms of use?

Yes. In actuality none of the code I've seen out of copilot is likely to be an issue. This is a mostly theoretical problem that is even less likely to be litigated. If you can't use copliot at work because of this, your lawyers have too much say inside the company, or management is too risk averse.

Also fuck copyright law. It's messed up. I'm not saying get rid of copyrights, but it needs a serious overhaul that is not getting.
Well I might be out of the loop but wasn’t “punishment” proven to be ineffective in preventing (or correcting) unwanted behavior.

No matter how harsh is the punishment there appears to always be crime. What seems to work is rehabilitation as well as inevitability of capture.

So even if it sounds unjust to try to help offenders (even murderers) If we want them to not offend and not murder _more_ we need norway style prisons rather than US ones.

Regardless of what’s effective and what is just though, having prison companies benefit from forced labor is just all ways of crazy regarding incentives and screws the market soo much, normal people now need to compete against slaves, the state / companies now have incentives to there to be _more_ prisoners which would lead to actually _more_ crime in and off itself.

And to top it off, you have big entities that can lobby (bribe) the government to change laws to the detriment of society at large. It just sooo messed up.

And its not some crazy tinfoil hat thing - we can see that “experiment” play out before our eyes - the US penal system is so proven to be so ineffective its silly.
> ? Have you seen many houses for sale in the zero dollar range because of depreciation?

Yes. Plenty. It is not unknown. Not common but it definitely happens
GitLab team member here.

We intend to roll out the application of these limits gradually and impacted users will be notified in-app at least 60 days prior to the user limits being applied.

If you have not yet received a notification, you have at least 60 days until you will see any impact related to this change.
They did it so the victims would become passive.

There's nothing merciful about cold blooded murder.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215412/christian-national...

Evangelicals are key backers of the republican party.
Also discussed 3 days ago:

37signals Leaves the Cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260061

(245 points, 78 comments)
Would be nice if you could supply a none-paywalled link to download the research paper. Thanks!
They might have a long runway now, but there's still an opportunity cost for not having a good tenant.
> It will most likely end up formalised in the next standard release of RCS

Based on what evidence.

If it hasn't been added after all these years it doesn't seem likely it will be added soon.
No one would dare complain if the incoming student body went from 80% white/asian to 80% black/hispanic.
I recently sold Win95 floppies for $25 after a month on eBay. They had sat on parents shelves for the last 25 years. So undoubtedly they're being used better.
> It's ridiculously easy to influence people through propaganda.

I think not enough people understand this point. So many believe that they are immune to propaganda because they laugh at some that they see. But they do not laugh at the propaganda that does influence them. There's different propaganda for different people. This is the same underlying arguments for the privacy avocation groups, but I don't want to derail the conversation at hand.
Constants are typically uppercase and easily distinguishable. Coincidentally most other languages don't use a special character to differentiate them either. $ adds unnecessary complexity, is ugly and an impediment to typing fast.
You're suggesting this likely happens because the payment processor has reported their suspicions to a regulator who isn't getting back to them in a timely manner, and so they can't release the funds until they do? I'm a bit confused because it seems to me that the tip off is when they won't disburse your funds.

ETA: Maybe it's more that they can't give you any information because they can't allow adversaries to differentiate between glitches, random screenings, and investigations?
The Evolving Role of the Tech Recruiter
Sympathies. The way on-call is handled at most companies is a health nightmare (regular shift plus on call).
We tried to throw Puma at Rails a few times. Would not recommend. If you're trying to add threading to a Ruby I would question how safe you really think dynamic languages are. Fortunately Ruby/Puma/Rails have been out of favor for a while, but if you're stuck with them, I'd just accept your 2-4x higher AWS bill for the hardware you need for Rails rather than add dangerous threading abstractions.
If you had read the article rather than just the headline, you'd know that the tech they're talking about using is not fusion but a tool for generating beams of millimeter wave energy.

The connection to fusion is clickbait. The tool, a gyrotron, was developed by the Soviets and is a well understood way to heat up plasma.

The company in the article was spun out of MIT to create drilling rigs which would use it to vaporize rock in places where conventional drilling is too difficult, ie super deep geothermal.
Is there a service that supports SSO?
We’ve been investigating this case for the past 24 hours, and it's not straightforward. I can’t share more publicly here, but we’re in touch directly with OP.
That's fair, I can see how KDE is busier. But if I wanted to use a DE that's "invisible", I wouldn't pick GNOME either. All the animations, for one, would be too distracting, though I suppose you can turn these off.

Like I said, I use a WM-only setup for productive work to avoid any distractions, but when I want to consume content, connect peripherals and prioritize ease of use over efficiency, then I prefer to use a more polished DE. I enjoy KDE precisely because it gives me all the options to customize it however I like, so I prefer having access to all the knobs to do so, which GNOME purposefuly hides. Other features like desktop widgets are a nice bonus.

KDE is not perfect; it sometimes freezes on me, which might be specific to my hardware or due to an unrelated driver or Xorg issue. This is why I wanted to know if there are alternatives with the same feature set. GNOME, unfortunately, isn't it.
I really enjoy fly.io so far and I got the impression that the primitives they have can take me really far, the only thing I'm missing is better documentation and more examples but I'm sure they will improve as usage grows. One thing that I can't wait to try is the machines api which has the ability to scale to zero.

Currently I have a directus app with sqlite and litestream on it but will probably move away from that to something custom as I don't have a good story regarding migration and ci/cd.
Why would you do that, is it just for learning about the internals of the language or it bothers you so much that you decided to create your own version of the language?
There has to be a first time for everything.
The debunking video actually does the opposite, it just made the original video even more impressive because they couldn't debunk it well.
Yes. Unequivocally, yes. Get out of the doom echo chambers.
Abrams X: The Army’s Newest Heavy Tank Is Unstoppable
Do you have a citation that demonstrates the effectiveness of test prep?
This is just wrong. There are lots of interesting discussions about how consent for people under the age of majority works, in which situations consent applies, and so on.

In Alabama, for example, anyone over the age too 14 can consent to medical treatment.
The delusion, perhaps, is the average person worrying about whether they are or are not, or should or should not be, a pacifist.

It doesn’t matter.

Wars are waged by powerful interests over which the average person has no control.

I suppose on a personal level — confronted with a mugger or burglar — one could implement one’s philosophy. Thankfully, though, those occasions are rare and regardless of one’s outlook, the decision in the moment is based less on philosophy and more on adrenaline, panic, fear, rage, etc. (which can lead a ‘warmonger’ to capitulate and cower in fear or a ‘pacifist’ the knock the crap out of someone… one never knows.)

If there are any dictators, emperors, prime minister, or presidents on this board, perhaps their musings on the subject would mean something. If not, it’s just navel-gazing.
Thousands of protesters in London call for Britain to rejoin European Union
> they are absolutely not even close to the same league Java’s low latency ZGC does

This is the kind of thing always offered without any serious numbers extracted from real life or even realistic test programs.

So even if technically true in very narrow sense it is more of high performance car marketing with fancy algorithm and data structure names. By the time GC are used in end user programs with tons of libraries, frameworks, design patterns and inefficient to implement business rules those GCs show little difference that fancy ads promised on TV.
No, I’m saying that the law actually reduced access for this set of lessons, and perhaps we should figure out ways to make things accessible for everyone other than putting the onus on the little guy. Maybe if you’re just one person, then there could be a program where larger companies are required to pay a small tax or donate developer time (in lieu of tax) to help you make your site accessible. That way, the larger companies who can afford to make their site accessible follow the law and do so, and then they also take some of the profits they made off of the public to do a public good.
WinClock – a tiny app with binary compatibility with Windows from 3.1 to 11
1. Makes any PC useful again.

2. Can be launched under almost any release of x86/x64 Windows (from 3.1 to 11), ReactOS and Wine.

3. Built with Borland C++ 4.5 compiler. Makefile for everything else.

4. Source is easily customizable for your needs.

5. Nuff said.
They do this often at things like sporting events, concerts, bars and stadiims where you can't count on the beer drinking masses to flush the urinals and keep things decent. Putting ice in the urinals or pee troughs that older stadoums and bars have makes it so the urinal is "self flushing"
Serious question, is on-call really that ubiquitous for devs in companies running services that not wanting to do it means "change to different role"?
This is all I want from any service that I buy from. Good, responsive support without scripted responses and black hole email addresses.

Surely that is even more important with a business critical payment provider?

I’ll forgive a lot if that is in place.
Don't bury the lede. What province is that?
He’s not wrong. The length of the reply doesn’t make it good or worthy when most of it is wishy washy we’ll do better in the future we promise without any concrete steps to make that happen or metrics to prove so. In fact I would say he’s doing a bad job by the amount of stripe fucked me posts here recently.