skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33314868.
Rishi Sunak to become first British PM of colour and also first Hindu at No 10
Imagine cooking your face from the inside!

I have some laser pointers capable of lighting matches. They get hot.
GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
I have tried everything under the sun, including user-dirs.dir:

% cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME"

Yet still:

% ls -ld ~/Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 mt mt 4096 Oct 22 18:04 /home/mt/Desktop/

Sometimes there's a ~/Downloads directory too. But not today.

I have no idea what keeps creating these. It's pretty annoying as I have a lot of intentionally short-named things in my ~ for easy shell usage, and it really sticks out.

inotify doesn't support reporting the PID of the process that triggered the event, but it seems fanotify does. Maybe I should set up a watcher for this.
I'm sure you could get someone to rubberstamp it. But, in practice, this is more difficult than you may think. If you are a licensed civil engineer and I show up to your office and ask you rubberstamp my bridge design, most would not because that creates a large legal liability for them. By stamping it, you are saying it meets the necessary design standards. If something goes wrong, the regulators are going to come after the person who certifies it for use.

That is also why it gives engineers more leverage. If a manager needs some to certify it, that licensed engineer has much more ability to push back on the design. The liability the stamp conveys is also why they tend to get paid more than unlicensed counterparts.
John Oliver (just the presenter, ha!) on Last Week Tonight also did an episode about easy it is for a scam to get a fawning advertorial piece on local TV news segments.
I am working on some blogs / videos that will hopefully help clarify the differences. I'm working on a Delta Lake vs Parquet blog post right now and gave a 5 Reasons Parquet files are better than CSV talk last year: https://youtu.be/9LYYOdIwQXg

Most of the content that I've seen in this area is really high-level. I'm trying to write posts that are a bit more concrete with some code snippets / high level benchmarks, etc. Hopefully this will help.
It’s race baiting (and demeaning) to reduce someone to their skin color in a headline like this. It would have been fine to note the fact somewhere.

The term “person of color” is race baiting. It’s a recently created term that erases people’s real identities and replaces them with an identity that serves simply to stand in juxtaposition to white people. Sunak isnt a “person of color.” He’s a British national of Indian ethnicity.
My understanding is that btrfs uses a B+tree to locate the data, so the block being hashed would contain keys not physical locations. That is, there's an indirection.
Is there a team for Russia in the Olympics?

This sounds like a rather arbitrary measurement.
Unless you count the Colorado River itself as a water system. :)

I would guess that almost none of the water that California gets from the Colorado falls in California. Coloradans sure feel that the down river states don't have the natural right to water that falls on their land.
Pharmageddon – a demoscene demo for pharmacy sign
Probably, unless you could maybe prove that the private companies were acting as agents of the government.if that was the case then I guess it would be the government's responsibility.

I think I remember seeing on the internet that was a thing that could happen. And the internet never lies, of course.
Recent and related:

Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224502 - Oct 2022 (279 comments)

I think there were other threads also?
nextjs is crap but IMO doing react ssr on most requests with hydration is faster, more robust and less complex than going full csr/spa.
> If in fact the mind relies on a continuum for its cognitive functions, this would explain why cognitive functions cannot be inherited and why our minds can deal with real numbers, despite the paradoxes.

I disagree with the assertion that "our minds can deal with real numbers". AFAIK there's no way to distinguish an uncomputable number from a computable one, using a finite set of computations (i.e. there's always some computable model which gives the same answers as our uncomputable number, even if it's highly convoluted); so we're still only learning about the countable, computable sub-set.
A bit of indentation would help a lot. I tend to do this by hand, but there are automatic tools also, e.g. https://www.excelformulabeautifier.com/
I just want the regular Windows Movie Maker to come back. It’s crazy how good that thing was for making basic movies. Simple non-linear editing that just worked.

Then they got rid of it and replaced it with… nothing?
Oh, even if you enjoy it *in general( people will try to dump the most unenjoyable part of it on you.

I feel like only people that I want to know that I'm good at something is prospective employer/recruiter, and whoever will give me promotion at work.
British nation and Great British Empire is not a same thing. Italians and Holy Roman Empire is not a same thing. Erzyas, Finns, Mokshas, Tartars nations, etc. and Russian Empire is not a same thing.
I think most people are largely unaware of the geography of the Colorado. There is a general lack of understanding of the fundamentals of the water crisis out west. Most don't have a clear picture even of how different states draw from the Colorado for instance. And how those different methods impact watersheds and downstream infrastructure.

The lack of information actually exacerbates the entire problem out west, as people give undue concern to, say, Los Angeles. While, say, Scottsdale sits oblivious to the precarious nature of it's situation vis-a-vis water.
Check out the new LET function.
Ask HN: Why not build a web browser using TeXmacs code for higher quality text?
TeXmacs has a real-time typesetter with quality comparable to LaTeX.

So why not build a web browser using the TeXmacs typesetter for higher quality web pages?
Zayo has blocked an entire service provider to censor an individual website
> Expecting individuals to think rationally at 18 is completely valid.

How do you account for my case? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33318674
The 50/50 principle always shows up in my histogram with interval of two.
They are so rich that they are retired but want to pay it forward. But it's not free because they only want to teach people who take it seriously and respect the idea.
> And yet nearly every single kid got Covid anyway. So the intended goal of the school shutdowns failed.

Proof please? Most schools reopened "properly" in our area after kids could get their vaccines, and all the adults in the school were vaccinated.

So I don't think 100% of the kids got Covid, and certainly the intended goal of the shutdowns, which was not to prevent the kids from getting Covid, but to prevent them from being carriers for the disease to a much larger percentage of the population failed.
Ask HN: Finding the license holder of images in 1M+ image library
I'm working on a project for a media company with a massive photo library. They routinely get notices about infringing on image licenses with significant fees attached. There's a process for tracking the licensing information now, but they have images from 10+ years ago without any licensing data. The dataset is too large to review manually. Is it possible to perform a reverse image search on a large dataset to identify the original license holder of images?
Passphrase word lists optimized to reduce clicks of a TV remote
The author is part of a small team (himself plus two others) who recently released a preprint of a study suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 is of synthetic origin. He has been accused of not having the requisite academic credentials to be making such an assertion, and in this post he recounts his quite-impressive scholarly achievements.

The attacks upon the preprint are the product of an epistemically polluted trust network. In this case, the network (I believe) is aligned with the political Left. If the author were being attacked for asserting that Covid vaccines are generally safe and effective, one would assume the compromised trust network was aligned with the right. We as a society need to come up with a way to both foster freedom of speech and disseminate among the general populace the skills needed to vet competing accounts of scientific phenomena. And we all need to be willing to say, when appropriate, "There is not yet enough evidence to arrive at a firm conviction -- we will have to wait and see."
Or port-knocking.
Might I recommend appropriate debugging output? It would save the mystery and back and forth. Not everyone who uses your site has access to you on HN. :)

func below(n uint64, to chan uint64) {
for ; n >= 0; n-- {
var t = n - 1
to <- n
}
close(to)
}

I've run this locally with to <- n replaced with a print statement and it works with unsigned integers.
Related: https://sts10.github.io/2022/10/24/a-good-netflix-password.h...
Bookmarked! I have some RPi 2 devices lying around somewhere that I might have to try this on.
Show HN: Open-source non-blocking NIO Java HTTP Server
And if you do well in community college, you're guaranteed admittance to any of the lesser UCs.
I'm feeling something similar. I've been on sabbatical on and off for a few years, dipping my toes into the market to see what things are like professionally and it's been eye-openingly terrible. "Title inflation" has made the "senior" level a virtually worthless designation, and it appears like even "staff" engineers are going that way.

There's no thought put into long-term stability or serviceability of software. I fully understand the business need to "ship now", but if the software isn't performing its basic needs, what are you even shipping?
PayPal Introduces More Secure Payments with Passkeys
If you use imagination you can find more:
4be9f8
1ce461
ad2022
caffee
cabba9
abbad0(n)
babe45
And foreign
deddab( grandpa oak)
bedaca
abadae
dabeda
> But somehow laundering it through an intermediate makes it legal.

It probably is illegal. This case with rents will be very interesting to watch.

In the insurance industry, a special law (McCarran-Ferguson Act) had to be passed to allow companies to pool loss data to set rates. Otherwise, it was seen as an anti-trust violation. The law was passed because the public interest in making sure insurance companies are solvent and can pay claims outweighed the anti-trust issue.

I think these tools are on very shaky legal ground.
Mark, I am losing my shirt here on your VR fantasy. Plz sell more ads, er, focus on making the world more connected or whatever.
But that is a lot of complexity and dead functionality to drag into a project for just that? Surely next.js's router is not that different from React router.
Chrome seems to me to be an example of how some users will never update regardless of how easy upgrading is. I can't count how many colleagues, when screen sharing, always have the red icon in their Chrome window showing that they need to update. It doesn't matter how easy it is - they just won't do it.

Just to be clear, this isn't an argument that as a result updates should be forced.
> The rumbling of Earth’s magnetic field is accompanied by a representation of a geomagnetic storm that resulted from a solar flare on 3 November 2011

It’s art.
I think for thinking this through it is crucial to think in “consequences”. We get these by asking “what would be the business impact of this”?

I see the following things potentially happen:

#1 Business interruption: due to lack of knowledge an important breaks down and the business can’t do any business. The frequency and impact of such events will eventually trigger a response by management. Could this be have been solved cheaper and easier before? Maybe

#2 Data leaks: since system aren’t secured well enough, data will get lost. The impact of this is hard to measure.

I think both risks are manageable.

Any other consequences I am missing?
I'd buy that, given the keyboard would have an ANSI layout.
Aligns with fail fast and fail often policy.
I think it's mostly already there, but your big, enterprise houses were late getting the memo. About 12 years ago, I switched to a DE role/title and held it ever since. I worked in a variety of startups doing DE - moving data from over here to over there, with a variety of tools from orchestration frameworks to homegrown code in a variety of languages.

About six years ago, I walked into a local hospital to interview for a DE role and it was very clear that their definition of DE was different than mine. The whole dept worked in nothing but SQL. I thought I was good with SQL, but they absolutely crucified me on SQL and data architecture theories. I ended up getting kicked over to a software engineering role, doing DE in another capacity, which made more sense for me.

Only now I'm hearing that they're migrating to other tools like dbt and requiring their DEs to learn programming languages.
Eh. WaPo pushing Gary Newson for 2024...
I suspect this sort of behavior is one of the contributing factors that leads to the internal rot that brings companies down over the long run. Then a competitor comes along and runs laps around them and seals the deal. But monopolistic and scale forces take a while to overcome, so I think it takes a while for it to fully play out.
I asked for an exact phrasing, not for an explanation, because I have already written exactly that under the "Should I do this on macOS?" heading...
How can we ask to open source Visual Basic 6?
I feel like the LeetCode companies are currently the loudest about preaching to employees about having dead weight / needing more PIPs / a lot of people don't need to be here.

And yet they're still heavily dependent on that, as if they think its the best way to figure out who will push the needle
I'm a heavy R user, and I admit that it's what happens when you let statisticians design a programming language.
Sure, the headwaters of this system are indisputably outside California. Still the Colorado aqueduct has a capacity of just 1.2MAF, which is less than 2% of the state water consumption. The idea that California depends largely on imported water makes little sense.
There does seem to be this pattern of older people refusing to pass the torch until it's too late. I figure when you're in your last working decade (55~65), you ought to be focusing on finding new people to keep the train running and transferring knowledge and power on to them so you can exit the workforce and enjoy your retirement. Instead it seems many choose to hold on to every scrap of power until well after they're able to effectively pass things on, at which point there is no one prepared to pass things on to, leaving everyone involved miserable, including the owner, their employees, and their customers. I don't know if this is a generational thing, or just one of those properties of humanity.
Apple is raising the price of Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple One from today
> “Reference design” is a term of art in electrical engineering, not aspirational product marketing.

Root comment author here: I used the term mostly in mockery of the hobby-level effort Google has put into Pixel in the past. However, when it cones to Android devices the lines are blurred between "reference design" and "competitor flagship".

Consider:

* Android's roadmap is controlled by Google, which decides which features go into the next release. Once those features are in the codebase, they can be used by any OEM

* OHA OEMs get early access to upcoming Android versions and work with Google

* Android devices share the same set of suppliers for sensors/chips/SoC/modems: this is highly commoditized. Once the API & drivers for a feature are there, any OEM will have an easier time implementing it; perhaps choosing a different part number in the same product line.

So Google in not sharing its circuit diagrams & CAD files, but the OEMs don't have to reverse-engineer anything post-release either. The reality is someplace inbetween: cooperative development
Wikipedia describes two systems in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom

According to both those systems, if you look down the street from the end where number 1 is (which is always the open end of a cul-de-sac), then number 1 is the first house on your left. I'd be interested to hear about any exceptional cases in which number one is on your right.
Well yeah, absolutely. As did remote work. But certain industry has shown it's strength of influence lately to bring many of those agencies back to their office spaces (real-estate, office supply, utility, etc).

An entirely different conversation for sure, but there are entire industries that exist almost solely to serve Gov't inefficiency.
Not US but in Canada my old employer attempted to have me sign a new contract for a change of role stating I would get explicit allowance if doing any other work including volunteer work. And to note the other commenter volunteer work was specifically noted.

Needless to say I took that as a good sign to move on :)

My current employer has a much more reasonable policy that I can't work a second job when on my scheduled hours with them.
IANAL but wouldn't a judge look at that and just say it's wage fixing with extra steps?
Is you goal to get VC funding, or is your goal to sell to a client?

To get VC funding, if the market is frothy enough, you don't even need a MVP, just a power point and a fancy resume.

To sell to a client is what I was more along the lines of.
Then what do you do with traumatizing content, just keep showing it to everyone and traumatizing more people to a lesser degree?
Not sure why putting a battery in your pocket at all time or one strapped to your wrist is that much safer.
I am a big fan of trinity! I have it for the unbeatable KDE 3 konqueror and a few other choice apps.
All of physics stands as an objection to "digital physics" which uses real numbers indispensably. Many things fall apart with discrete numbers (classical physics becomes non-deterministic, quantum mechanics becomes non-linear, etc.).

The loons on the "digital bandwagon" have yet to produce a single plausible work showing the geometrical spaces hiterto essential to physics can be replaced with anything discrete.

This is just another pipe-dream of idealist-Platonist-AI fanatics for whom the world is an abstract discrete number only because their favourite toy is so-described.
Hunt, not Sunak.

The rise in corporation tax for MNCs won't hurt competitiveness. The US had a 35% rate with no issues. We can raise ours to 25% with no issues. The only reason we reduced our rate to the level we did was because of tax havens in the EU, we have a global corporate tax deal which the EU will comply with (saying vaguely that you are right because "economists and analysists" say so is weak).

The issue with "going for growth" was that it wouldn't have boosted growth. The spending cuts were only required because of the tax cuts, the tax cuts aren't happening. When he was Chancellor, Sunak was cutting spending and this will likely continue (it has to, spending is far too high, the NHS became massively bloated during Covid). Reduction of debt will be gradual, the strategy is not austerity (as has been repeated ad nauseum, this happened after 2018 as well...some people just never stopped saying austerity was happening even when spending was rising significantly).
Oh, no, I do get why people would buy into money-making courses. I'm basically wondering why the market for money-making courses isn't a winner-take-all market, with the wealthiest course-creators spending their advertising budgets (that they earned by building their money-making-course empire when the field was more green) to outcompete upstarts in the money-making course market. Presumably, people can only be actively trying the techniques of one of these courses at a time — so why aren't most people focused on learning + putting into practice, the techniques of a few very popular courses?
Just occurred to me that half blind chess players could be the ultimate over-the-board cheaters!
It's interesting to see this framed, both here and in the comments, as if it's some transitory phenomenon and California may be expected to soon decline afterward. I'm reasonably sure that isn't true. I haven't lived in California in quite a while, but grew up there in the 80s and 90s and I at least think I remember them telling us in school back then that California was the world's 4th largest economy back then. It seems that it regressed a lot after 2008 because it was hit so much harder than most of the world by the housing market collapse, and it is now mostly recovered from that.

Back then, it was largely on the back of tourism, farming, and entertainment, too. Tech is a nice boon, but hardly necessary. California is not and has never been a single-industry economy, which is part of the reason it is so robust, and part of the reason it has recovered from the housing collapse better than most other places hit hard by it. Florida is another case there, with, at least for the US, much different tax policies and cultural traits, but also a very well diversified economy. It goes to show how little some of the things politicians and voters are always making a fuss about actually matter.
The Reddit link provides a better viewing experience and better discussion.
Wait, what kind of crime?
I am not using tik tok, i always thought its for 15 year olds.
So what kind of crime is posted there and who would be so daft to post incriminating video footage of themselves?
And even if true, if this is owned by china, and I smoke a joint in front of a camera...what are they gonna do? They do not know where I am, who I am and who has jurisdiction.
If they report me to the canadian authorities, they are sol, it is widely legal to smoke that in CAD.

If they report me to the uk government, nothing will happen.
If I never go to china, nothing will happen, so what is the basis of your thoughts on this?
What PoignardAzur said.

The machinery to instrument and calculate probabilities on branches. Maintaining state enough that speculatively executed branches can be rolled back. That sounds non-trivial and I imagine it would take a lot of real estate, energy, etc.
Thank you! I'll look into it
There are some tools available to pretty print Excel formulas, e.g. https://www.excelformulabeautifier.com/
Engineering at Meta: From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
I use it but it's typically a source of problems to the point that I have to save everything and restart my session. You can have very, very little custom neovim configuration present. My vimrc checks if it's inside of VSCode and does nothing but I still frequently encounter problems. Weekly, at the very least. I'd love to get outside of VSCode fulltime but where I work today uses Docker for development and it's a complete pain in the ass to connect text editor plugins with services running on a remote host. VSCode has this out of the box, so it wins. My next job, I'll be sure to press for this level of detail about the development experience.
Rocket Lawyer (computerized legal doc-writing services) generates thousands of words per day, for one customer, on demand, easily.

Just choose the templates and fill in your names and numbers.
Out of curiosity, could you give or point to an example of "formatting gimmicks"?

I tried searching the FAQ but only found the formatdoc guide: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc