skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New research shows e-cigarettes cause cardiac arrhythmias
Check my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33332991
Full list of primers from Jeremy Kun (of which the submitted page is one):

https://jeremykun.com/primers/
Hate to say it since it seems so cliché, but survivorship bias.
Surprisingly enough, you're wrong with nearly every single assumption you made in your comment, starting as far back as with me not even using any dating apps.
Genuine question that isn't answered in the article: what is it that Faire is doing that suggests they're maintaining engineering velocity as they scale in a way that is equal or better to anyone else out there? Alternatively, what are the engineering challenges of running Faire's storefront/marketplace makes them more qualified to write about their experiences scaling vs. other organizations?

This article opens with an unsupported assumption, "we are really good at this", and doesn't really elaborate on what that means. I'd genuinely like to know what great engineering at scale looks like, not just some suggested ways to do it.
I live in NYC now, but thank you.

(Funny enough I am a data platform engineer)
> HDR is just a marketing term for software that increases the colour and black saturation of content beyond the actual input. For photography that means more saturation than what you see in real life, for video that means tweaking it after you receive the signal.

Not even remotely correct. It is definitely not a marketing term. HDR is set of specifications and formats for capturing, storing and displaying visual data with a higher than "Standard" dynamic range. It basically carries more data and it requires proper color management. It has to be supported by relevant drivers and the display server. Right now there is no way to view HDR content (video, photos or games) under Linux.

If you are interested; there is some effort going on to enable this but it will probably take a couple more years.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr
> Don't get me wrong, I think MS SQL Server is a highly capable DB, I just don't see enough of a value add here to justify the price tag, in general.

I suspect it uses what was called MSDE (MS SQL desktop engine), which is free to use and redistribute on Windows. It is essentially headless SQL Server with most high-end features stripped out and resource governor enabled. With all those limitations it is still very capable (probably too capable for the use case) database.
Are they still mentioning their location based pay scheme or have they swept it under the rug completely?
Users will not understand why there are two back buttons. That'd be like working around pastebin issues by including a different "copy selection" button.
> in person

But didn't you say virtual?

I really think YC has nailed demo days with their latest iteration. Short 15 minutes update from the leaders, then you watched the 60 second pitches from their companies at your leisure online.
Same thought. We can only speculate but I'm guessing the compile time is much worse.
I see the acknowledgements of the bugs in the old compiler, but what bugs in the new compiler are you talking about? Also, a recurring theme in zig has been the advantages of their simple language design.
> Amou Haji finally succumbed to pressure and washed a few months ago.

> According to Iran's IRNA news agency, he became ill shortly afterwards and died on Sunday.

I don't think evolution prepared us to 3 showers a day. I also don't think it prepared us to instantly available unhealthy all-food-you-can-eat. We have to consider how much of our sedentary behavior is unnatural and how much of it is really improving our lives. I mean, there are probably many accepted habits that people hope your have that are not healthy; 3 showers a day is probably one of them.
What are the countries where this is practiced?
Removing features like this is just plain stupid. Preview was one of the most valuable apps for viewing files preinstalled on every Mac. While I can understand that raw PostScript files are rarely seen nowadays, Encapsulated-PostScript is still used, i.e. for graphs in scientific software and publications.

To add an insult to injury, the Monterey era trick still works. Change the file extension from .eps or .ps to .ai (Adobe Illustrator) and QuickLook will happily display the file. It will even offer you to "Open in Preview" which then fails.
For Super Bowl ads this is plausible; for ads run on Facebook and Youtube it will never happen until it can be automated. Those platforms don't have the staff or inclination to evaluate all of the ads submitted.
First impression is dirty in bed, turns out she is just getting filthy and needs to bath a lot
I haven't been brave enough to try it, but: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/i-stopped...
The quote from the article in Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
is awash in undefined terminology sometimes about peripheral issues.

Clean, logical, all terms well defined and explained, with plenty of advanced content, is in
(with some markup using TeX)

Erhan \c Cinlar,
{\it Introduction to Stochastic Processes,\/}
ISBN 0-13-498089-1,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
1975.\ \

The author was long at Princeton. He is a high quality guy.

As I was working my way through grad school in a company working on US national security, a question came up about the survivability of the US SSBN fleet under a special scenario of global nuclear war but limited to sea. Results were wanted in two weeks. So, I drew from Çinlar's book, postulated a Markov process subordinated to a Poisson process, typed some code into a text editor, called a random number generator I'd written in assembler based on the recurrence

X(n+1) = X(n) 5^15 + 1 mod 2^47

and was done on time.

A famous probabilist was assigned to review my work. His first remark was that there was no way for my software to "fathom" the enormous "state space". I responded, at each time t, the number of SSBNs left is a random variable, finite, with an expectation. So, I generate 500 sample paths, take their average, use the strong law of large numbers, and get an estimate of their expected value within a "gnat's ass" nearly all the time. "The Monte Carlo puts the effort where the action is."

The probabilist's remark was "That is a good way to think of it."

Need to do some work with Markov chains, simulation, etc.? Right, just read some Çinlar, not much in prerequisites (he omitted measure theory), get clear explanations, no undefined terminology, from first principles to some relatively advanced material, and be successful with your project.
I've been out of the IRC loop for a while. Is there still a lot of value using IRC in general?
Great question!

We have been blown away by the amount of interest, today alone, in presenting at next month's event.

We think that the most important things should be:

- you've actually built something (not just an idea on a slide deck)

- you can demo it (we want to see behind the curtain)

- what you're doing is uniquely interesting (not just another ride sharing app)

- the problem you're solving is also understandable by a non-technical audience

- and, of course: your team are passionately bursting with excitement for what you're building :)

Apart from that, we'd ideally like to find a way for anybody to speak.
We actually had an accidental back button hijack at a place I used to work at. It was an SPA, where if you navigated to / it would check if you were logged in. If so, you would be redirected (client-side) to /home, otherwise you were sent to /login. This was done with pushState() instead of replaceState(), so going back from /home would take you to / which would immediately see that you were logged in and send you back to /home.
He doesn't need to sue. If his story is correct he has a large amount of leverage in a negotiation and just needs to use it.

1. He is a high performer and is solely responsible for at least one project of consequence.

2. His productivity numbers are at the top for his colleagues.

3. There are a number of things that will fall over if he is no longer there.

Right now the company is picking and choosing how they treat him because they think they can. All he has to do is get another offer of employment and tell them about it. Either they will renegotiate the contract under more favorable terms to retain him. Or he will find employment at a better company where he is valued for what he is actually worth. The company he's at now think they don't need to take any action because they believe he isn't a flight risk. Change that perception and things will be very different.
It sounds like the first thing you need to do is to admit to yourself that you made a mistake in accepting this contract and treat it as a learning experience. This is actually good news for you because it means you now know of at least a few different ways that unscrupulous people can take advantage of you. You now have a better understanding of what to avoid and what to ask for when signing a work contract.

For what it's worth, many of us have suffered through terrible working conditions at the start of our careers, mainly because we didn't know any better. You're definitely not alone here.

The definition of an "employee" vs "contractor" varies between countries (and there are gray areas in all) but you need to know those differences before you decide to take on another contracting position. In many countries, contractors cannot be ordered by the client to work certain hours or from a certain place unless it's essential to the work being required (e.g., a security guard).

It sounds like your current contact is not salvageable and I can just about 100% guarantee that any major pushback or legal action is not going to make your client suddenly decide to treat you like an adult. Your best bet is to move on, either with full-time employment and benefits, or continue contracting/freelancing but paying extra attention to the terms of the contract this time around.

If you decide to keep contracting, remember that you are essentially in business for yourself, and that you have to juggle all of the things involved in that including setting rates that allow for the overhead of paying other professionals for business services such as tax preparation, health insurance, a lawyer for contract writing/review, etc.
Every Hackernews knows that it's the standard American diet and toxins from first-world industry that are the root cause of nearly every major health problem. Some Hackernews have also quit bathing entirely and they're in perfect health because microbiota or something.
has anyone commented on your scent?
Comcast executives are loving this consolidation and price hiking. The great re-bundling and the death of a la carte TV has begun in earnest.
Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
I wish people would abstain from that sort of insipid comments and offer instead suggestions about how to replace 40+ years of programming (that's just for C, BTW) and teralines of code in less than a century, and who's gonna pay for this. Because that's the crux.
> An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed.

I don't think that the situation is really that much different for building architects.

In cities that are experiencing rapid densification, it's not unusual to see numerous buildings from the 1950s, if not much later, being demolished to make way for newer and larger structures.

Even when structures aren't totally demolished, it's not unusual for them to be so extensively modified that the original building is virtually unrecognizable, or even completely obscured by the work of other architects.

It's also quite common for building projects to be canceled before construction starts, but after designs have been prepared, and other architectural work performed.

Many projects that do eventually get built often go through numerous revisions, with the final product being almost nothing like the earlier designs.
I skimmed through the article to see what the book is about. The parts of the article I read was just lauding the book.

Reading the article feels like going to zombo.com. It tells you it's an amazing site, but not exactly what it does...
> I'm aware about this requirement, and it makes sense.

See, pins for yubikeys don't make much sense to me. If you have to enter a PIN and press the button on a token, that doesn't seem very different to entering a password and pressing the button a token which U2F has offered for years.
Not particularly. The integration of iOS details into Mac OS is pretty limited. There are also Mac OS features leaking into iPad OS (windows with sidebar navigation panel).
Everybody needs to stop taking Twitter too seriously.
Unmark it? :D

In some pdf readers there is an option "respect limitations"… by disabling it you can print even when print is disallowed and so on. I guess it's the same with word documents.
Yeah, my grandma has dementia, can't walk without assistance, and basically just shits herself all the time. She lives with my mom, but she doesn't have the energy or mental fortitude to be the full-time caretaker she needs. She wants to put her in a caretaking facility, but just doesn't have the energy to research options, not to mention the money. She wants to call my uncle and ask him to pay for it (Grandma and the uncle are on my dad's side, but my dad passed 3 years ago), but has basically been avoiding making that call.

> Or just die before it becomes an issue, I guess.

If I ever get to the point where I'm no longer living, but merely surviving the way my grandma is, I'd sign a DNR and make it my solution.
Preview.js: Preview UI Components in IDEs
Probably every Airbus A350 XWB and a lot of GM, Nissan, and Suzuki cars. Maybe also a few or a lot of General Electric products. [1]

The Library of Congress also recommends it for preservation of digital content, which would be harder if Rust compilers were lost. If all C89 compilers were lost, it would be much more simple to create a new one to compile SQLite than it would be to recreate a Rust compiler.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
I just spent $15 on my lunch.
Yeah agreed on not convenient, dirty but also expensive.
> a zillion people may see it as opposed to your mom and best friend who read it on your blog.

The same zillion people will see your short summary and the link to your blog on Twitter.
Were you required to pair? I'm always curious about this kind of arrangement, and fear that it can often be a sort of crutch, especially for more Jr engineers who don't yet have the experience writing a large amount of code on their own.
I write on Twitter to engage with my audience, who voluntarily joined Twitter and voluntarily chose to engage with me. If you choose not to be part of my audience than you have absolutely zero standing to tell me how to write and where.
> not using an ad-blocker

Stop hitting yourself.
Is passkeys just a webauthn implementation? https://webauthn.io is a similar demo I think.
Also Soylent, although this Iranian guy lives on porcupine.
Finnish researchers win award for carbon-negative precast concrete
> Superintendent Dr. Monifa B. McKnight said at yesterday’s launch that when procurement of the 326 electric buses is complete, “We are going to be saving upwards of 6,500 gallons of diesel fuel per day, and immediately, this is going to cut costs by 50%.”

It would help if they include some information about the upfront costs of electrification. For example, How much does the charging infrastructure cost?
My apologies, you are completely right.

But I am not sure what VCS stands for? Venture Capitalist Sourcecode?
WhatsApp and Cloudflare on the same day?
I can confirm it works on MailInaBox. So it should probably work on any installation that uses Postfix and/or Dovecot.
https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#mcdc

This is what sqlite means by "branch" coverage, it is in fact a bit stricter.

You can see in this document how significant the sqlite testing is, the 100% MC/DC is just one component.
This is a strawman. The best Twitter threads incorporate a coherent idea into ~1 tweet, sometimes accompanied by an illustrative image or link to further reading.

It turns out that forcing conciseness and having simple embedded media can make for engaging reading. It's not the right format for all writing, and not everyone knows how to use it (see your example), but it is fantastic for commentary and analysis.
> Did they grow up in the western world?

Southern France

> how do they feel about their grocery options today?

They can barely afford them with their pension

> How do you suppose they were conveyed there? How far did they come to get there?

Yeah it's shipped from overseas, but that's no argument for using plastic, if anything it's an argument for both stopping shipping basic food from 5000km away AND stop plastic all at once. The status quo being fucked up can't be used as an argument to let it rot further
I am waiting for the next brilliant stage of this plan... where we set up a fund to compensate all the artists whose work was used to train the artists that generated the art to train the AI. Every artist that registers for the Shutterstock compensation plan will submit a list of every artist whose worked they studied, talked about, obtained inspiration from, or even viewed. When they get compensated from the fund, a portion of their compensation will be transferred to the artists or estates of the artists on their list. For artists no longer with us with no estates the funds will be donated to the EFF.

I haven't figured out how to compensate the artists that trained the artists that trained the artists that trained the AI. This gets 'meta' pretty fast.
Yeah, I want to try that now. I doubt this guy's preparation was very sophisticated, though, he also ate rotten meat.
How about: write it on your website and tweet a link to it.

Also I’m skeptical about the engagement that people think they get with Twitter. It may appear that more people are seeing your output, but they may not be actually reading or thinking about it. They won’t refer to it in one of their own articles two years from now.

What do you really want? Twenty clicks of the heart button? Or one person actually building on your ideas?
Ok. I took it in the context of what to do for money and supporting oneself. There are plenty of other things I'd rather be doing, but I have to make money somehow.
Iran's atomic energy organization says email was hacked
I've never thought about showering 3 times a day. Is that common anywhere?
I wasn't arguing against being an IT contractor long term. Tax benefits are very much clear to me.
> And yet they also demand to know what the elites and politicians are doing to save the planet.

Because none of what they do as individuals has any significant bearing on the current trajectory of Earth's biosphere. None of it. These are systemic problems, and trying to pin the blame for systemic problems on individual participants in that system - as you're doing right now - is not just ineffective, but is deliberately ineffective: a narrative crafted by those very same elites (and the corporations they own) to deflect blame from the system they themselves architected and continue to enforce.

> I think that these elites you want to blame are as clueless and selfish as every other person you know.

Well yeah, obviously. But that brings into question why they're elites in the first place, and the answer is that they shouldn't be elites in the first place, not that they're somehow of equal blame (let alone less) as their subjects.
There are hundreds of millions of PSPs, Vitas, DSes, 3DSes, Gameboys, etc floating around in the hands (or closets) of actual users out there.

Those are consoles that are fully hacked, with high quality open source toolchains and SDKs, and emulators.

If you have a retro handheld game development itch, those will scratch it better than anything else, especially since there’s a real chance people will actually play your game.

Developing for those old consoles also means you potentially delay them going to a landfill.

Not to say the gadget in OP isn’t worth buying, but the “indie dev” value proposition isn’t that strong IMO.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned IR35?????

I am in the UK - it seems the company you are working for is in violation of the IR35 regulations (but I'm not entirely sure of what nuances there are given you are in another country). i.e. you are a contractor, but are being treated as a full time employee with none of the benefits of such. e.g. they 'should' be paying the government for National Insurance etc.

I have been contracting for 10+ years so know something of IR35 but have always made sure the contracts I sign are quite clear about me not being an employee etc - no long term contracts etc. So I'm not an expert here.

If they are violating IR35, which I really think they are, then you have quite a lot of power at your disposal if you can play things right. You can either get them to start respecting you (but it doesn't sound like that is the best idea because staying is a __bad idea__) or sue them or just turn them over to HMRC.

In any case, you should talk to a solicitor - get everything you can documented and well organized, then any good employment lawyer can tell you the cost/benefits of turning them over to HMRC / the authorities. Google IR35 and employment law / solicitors ... pick one that has a well designed website. Talking to them ought to be free for the first 1/2 hour (I would think) or you should be able to send an email with a good summary of the situation w/o incurring any costs.
Can you please elaborate on the part that Telegram is fake secure while Signal is better?
Visited both. Mary Rose is well presented with all the extracted findings in their own galleries. But visiting Vasa is much better experience, it's intact, you're so close etc.
I don't understand the whitespace handling here, it seems very underdefined?

Taking the example from github page (abbreviated):

first name [John]
last name [Smith]
address [
street address [21 2nd Street]
]

why isn't it equivalent to this json?

{
"first name ": "John",
"\nlast name ": "Smith",
"\naddress ": {
"\n street address ": "21 2nd Street"
}
}

somehow the whitespace is instead implicitly magiced away, but that isn't defined in the grammar anywhere as far as I can see?
>>The inflation number is absolutely wrong though. There obviously hasn't been nearly 25% inflation over the past 24 months.

Uhm, have you been to the grocery store of late? Inflation is damn near 40%

Certain items I buy one the regular have gone up a minimum of 25%

Look at fucking gas prices.
> you get a sequence of 280-character tweets,

except when you get someone else's comment or response sandwiched between two items of the thread?

> because the page is constantly trying to hijack the browser to show ads.

Ad-blockers are amazing. Brave's Speed Reader also give you every blog or article already formatted with a clean, js-free stylesheet.

> This style of writing is bland and simplistic but also clear.

And also appealing to the lowest common denominator. It's like the McDonalds of an informational diet.

> Twitter encourages clarity and brevity, and I like it.

Twitter encourages soundbites and shallow thinking, and I think we should do better.
Archived: https://archive.ph/9q906
> it's compute-resource-constrained

I guess the PICO-8 has some kind of CPU limit, but it's orders of magnitude over the 8-bit 6502 consoles it's broadly mimicking. That was sort of disappointing to me.
I don't see anything in the OP's statement that made it sound like their situation is one of co-employment.
If you always eat the same thing it Might work ok but I find trying to find the right item the first time infuriatingly slow and cumbersome.
Since last year's AMG case in the Supreme Court, the FTC is not authorized to seek monetary relief in these cases.

The FTC can seek monetary relief if this order is violated.
(In Ladies Man voice): Mm. Yeah. Well that is disthgustin'.