skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, lots and lots of unused ISBNs. As an example, O’reilly has the 978-0-596 series. That’s a hundred thousand editions.
Thanks for this tool! I found it when Apple started enforcing stricter requirements for certificates, and the commands I was using to create certificates at the time had become inadequate. I have since used mkcert to generate dozen of certificates for my local network, which work on any service and device.

The only drawback of mkcert is that it makes you forget the steps needed to make a certificate!
Practically speaking, that's still basically an SDK. It's all over XPC, but the interface still needs to be defined.
Ok, Google says 2,000 protesters have been killed in Myanmar, just 498,000 more until we reach mass media levels of death.

Lies by governments amplified by mass media are always going to be way more damaging than lies by crackpots on social media.
Moderation is marxist, that's it. At least this forum doesn't delete content like the platforms. Talk about burning libraries!
They can't afford the costs because the landlords have inflated the costs. It's a cycle that doesn't need to exist.
We just had a baby this month, and I was shocked by how much time the medical staff was spending entering data into Epic. So much that they couldn’t actually fully concentrate on giving medical care.

Everyone was very busy but it was very hard to get actual care.
From WP: "Layoffs are expected to begin ahead of Nov. 1, when Twitter employees are slated to receive additional compensation related to stock grants."

I think this might be the confusing part, because he's trying to claw back as much compensation as possible, maybe he's trying to avoid paying severance as well
I think the argument is, the landlord is not contributing anything productive and is attempting to freeload off of other’s productivity. Most businesses both agree to pay rent and make improvements to the property. When a landlord is demanding both, they are not contributing anything but still seek payment. It is a form of “rent seeking” in the economic sense: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp#toc-wha...

And so what would be the incentive then to own property? Well if you cannot be productive with it, or otherwise enjoy it for personal reasons, then you wouldn’t have any reason to… which would let people who can do something productive with it the opportunity to do so.

Can a landlord contribute something productive? Sure, but that’s probably more akin to a property management company’s value proposition than a landlord’s.
Not even in the completely insane property market downturn in 2008 did rents go down, so no, this basically never happens.
Please look up "air rights".
>Everything still runs at McDonalds if there are half as many cashiers, but it will take a lot longer to get your Big Mac.

With the McDs i've went into recently it appears everything still runs even if there are zero cashiers being that you can click your order in a big touchscreen.

Turns out that cooks seem more important that cashiers. Course we'll see see how much of that can be replaced by robots in the next few decades.
Elon Musk Begs Bots Not to Quit Twitter
Do you really want to turn SourceHut into an instrument of US foreign policy, even if it keeps Iranians from buying groceries? US foreign policy doesn't have a great track record on human rights or diminishing global inequality, you know. It's killed and imprisoned a hell of a lot more people than North Korea.
Nations generally do claim dominion over their waterways, coastlines, and airspace, and maintain military forces which can enforce such things.
US Worker productivity is 0.7 standard deviations below its average over the last 3 years. It is 3.6% below all time high. It is higher now than at any point before July of 2020. YOY Productivity growth has dipped negative and then went back to positive 20 times in the past 22 years.

To be concerned about the current level of productivity requires either the attention span or the intelligence of a goldfish.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity
There are many, many scientists who are attempting to warn us that isn’t nothing. The literature is piling up.

Paper: Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-021-01113-x

Paper: “Excess risk for acute myocardial infarction mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic” — https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.28187

Paper: “p53/NF-kB Balance in SARS-CoV-2 Infection: From OMICs, Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Insights to Tailored Therapeutic Perspectives (COVIDomics)” — https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.871583

SARS-CoV-2 directly and indirectly interferes with p53 expression and balance.

On p53: “p53, cellular tumor antigen p53 (UniProt name); p53 proteins are crucial in vertebrates, where they prevent cancer formation. As such, p53 has been described as "the guardian of the genome" because of its role in conserving stability by preventing genome mutation. Hence TP53 is classified as a tumor suppressor gene.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P53

The literature goes on and on and on. People really are not okay after contracting this virus. I know plenty of people who simply are not recovering after COVID illness. Friends. Close family. Kids.

We are being warned.

And crucially: We can clean this crap out of the air. Nobody has to breathe in SARS-CoV-2. We absolutely must demand that something is done. There’s lots and lots that can be done.
US Court rulings do not automatically apply worldwide, and not everything it would apply to exists within its jurisdiction.
An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation (except reprintings) of a publication. For example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book will each have a different ISBN.

Additionally, there is address fragmentation; ISMB has blocks:

ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for that country or territory regardless of the publication language. The ranges of ISBNs assigned to any particular country are based on the publishing profile of the country concerned, and so the ranges will vary depending on the number of books and the number, type, and size of publishers that are active. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture and thus may receive direct funding from the government to support their services. In other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN
How would that even work? Why would anyone own or build property if it didn't generate money?

And why aren't these small business owners buying and building their own property as it would be cheaper for them in long run.
In conservative states, people die younger
On the one hand, I believe organizations dedicated to fighting misinformation are essential.

But I am also incredibly nervous about those organizations being backed by the power of the state.

But I'm also not sure organizations without state power would be effective.

But it's the potential effectiveness of state-backed misinformation organizations that makes me nervous.
> Pollution is well defined and easy to detect precisely because we have centuries of experience studying the effects of pollution on the environment

We also have centuries (even millennia) of experience studying the truth. Yet the problem of truth is still as hard as always. I don't see how could any amount of experience solve such fundamental problems.
The supplied chart looks like noise. Maybe the supposed loss of productivity is cyclical. It does not seem too concerning, imho.
The lecture in question is not obscure, it's one of the most influential papers in Computer Science and is foundational to a lot of modern PL research. It's currently sitting at 4166 citations on Google Scholar--that's twice as many as Dijkstra's "goto considered harmful".

In general I'm all for including context, but in this case and for this audience (people on HN interested in useless programming languages) a reference to the paper is plenty.
So "everything stores" are cesspools of scammers, rent-by-the-hour desks went unrented, worker-exploiting taxi companies are being regulated, so are law-evading hotel rooms and their pervert owners, social media is recognised as socially harmful, remote work communications tools reduce productivity, the poor starving OS maker has to resort to ads in everything and to watching your every mouse move, self-driving self-stopped, the blockchain blocked up, crypto was too obscure for most, streaming media flowed into a fetid swamp, and big AIs are just unintentional comedians. Now instant delivery is taking too long.
stick to coding because you do not seem to understand basic economic and business principles
Absolutely. But I think I'm correct in saying if today I wanted to play a game shipped as a unikernel, it would be pretty difficult to have the game and spotify running. First we need a spotify unikernel, then we need people to accept having to use the new unikernel version of spotify just when they play the game(s), maybe get used to the spotify unikernel not having access to graphics hardware, etc. Or we run spotify in a traditional OS in the hypervisor and lose all the benefits we were shooting for in the first place.

Technically all manageable, but that wasn't the aspect I was focusing on, rather the reality that we couldn't just do this today, or even really all that soon.

Alternatively, PCs become games consoles when running games, and you just can't do multitasking, just like you mostly can't on a PS2, etc. Honestly, I think this would be the most likely outcome if games went down this road.
Imagine if someone claimed dominion over a chunk of the sky or an acre of water. You'd call him a fool and ignore him.

Well, governments do exactly that.
Commercial landlords are often renting triple net to big companies, and smaller businesses sublease from the larger ones (those stores you see inside Walmart are an example, but the stores stuck on the outside of larger stores are often that way, too).

It's part of the reason every valuable downtown is now coffee shops, banks, and lawyer's offices, nothing else can pay the rent (best use? probably from a money perspective, not from any other).
To clarify, the length was 4x longer. Some of the discrepancy is attributed to more keystrokes, but a lot of it is copying/auto-inserting stuff.

These automated analyses don’t capture whether the extra content is beneficial or not (it might be!).
'Planet killer' asteroid spotted hiding in the sun's glare
Owning property is a longterm commitment that limits flexibility and comes with some hefty costs. Rent solves these problems. A small company thats growing might need 2000 sq/ft today and a projected 10,000 sq/ft next year. But if you have to purchases and maintain 10,000 sq/ft for a year, that to be prohibitively expensive to the point that they can't afford to grow that much.

Why then is it ridiculous for me to own 10,000 sq/ft and parcel it out to 5 business that need 2000 sq/ft? I'm taking on the costs of owning and maintaining the property, as will as taxes and other assorted costs. It is fair for me to pass those costs on to the actual tenets of the property for as long as they choose to reside on the premises. They get flexibility and scalability, and I get money for my time and effort to provide their needs.
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Always read the comments first.
Sounds to me like this is just the free market in action. Don't like it, leave!
Is this a new form of IPC ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication

If not, what IPC is this using behind the hood ?
That awful track record has a lot to do with priorities driven by political talking points and who has the power to complain about the IRS.

The book _Perfectly Legal_ by David Cay Johnston has a good chapter on this. (The book as a whole has its ups and downs, but the history of IRS management I found particularly interesting.)
> Some of the old questions are kind of invalid, instead of the best IDE/compilers money can buy, all that stuff is generally free now.

I wouldn't say this question is completely invalid now, it's just evolved from IDE/compilers to SaaS software. You can use open source equivalents and/or host your own, but using clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) and well-supported full-featured SaaS softwares like slack, sentry, ngrok, readme, postman, intercom, mixpanel, notion, asana, netlify, figma, zapier, etc. can save your team hundreds of hours of frustration...
Sell data?
If I was the CTO I would hire another vp with a different style and pit you against them and slowly move you out but he can't afford that so he is stuck with you for now.

Expecting the CTO to show up to standup meetings, expecting the CTO to help you do day to day tasks, and generally placing expectations on what your boss should be doing nevermind going to the CEO gently stab him in the back are things you shouldn't be doing. It is not your job to manage the CTO, why would the CEO give you that position knowing you will judge their performance at some point and go to the board the next time you feel overworked.

Tell the CEO there is too much work and you need more resources. Hire people to lighten your load. Take the new time/space to create a vision. Leverage your positive relationship with the CTO to get their support for new vision and use that to win the CEO over. Succeed with your vision and you will receive credit. When CTO moves on after you get purchased you move into that role.

Whatever you are doing now you better walk it back somehow and never share the nonsense you shared here with him/her. Think about it logically.. if the CEO fired the CTO and replaced them with you.. they lose historical knowledge plus a relationship that goes back to founding. You may or may not be able to replace them skillwise but it looks bad to investors. You would need to hire a replacement for yourself who will not be as good as you are. In the short term increased risk, less productivity and this is a startup so longterm doesn't matter because you hope to get bought out. Any CEO who would do this is foolish. Which is why you heard: "this is a concern you talk to him.." The CEO knows you are doing a great job and wants you to keep doing it but promoting you to CTO is a bad idea.. even if the CTO left chances are they go outside.

Your only strategy is to use the vacuum to do something impressive, then get people to replace your tasks and wait for an opening and you will be in a good position to land that role. Telling your boss he isn't working hard enough is not going to go well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33409558

This sounds a bit like what you are after.

“One example that I use often — the Photos app on Mac has a built-in editing interface, but also supports extensions that allow third-party apps (e.g. Affinity Photo and Pixelmator) to take over that whole UI and present their editing UI inside the Photos app.”
Suppose each new IRS agent costs $100K all-up. If they bring in just $100,001 (across direct enforcement and secondary compliance), is that a good expansion of the federal government?
A groups of substances that are useful to give plastics certain qualities. They are currently unregulated, and, due to their small size, found pretty much everywhere, including in our bloodstream.

Several of them are "forever" substances that will take a very long time to break down. It's one of the reasons off-gridders are recommending not to drink unfiltered rainwater, even in climates where it was traditionally safe, because PFAS are found in dust. Dust forms the basis for raindrops.

Scientists and the general public are starting to become concerned about these substances, and at least one preliminary study indicates they might interfere in the body's ability to react correctly to vaccines. More studies are needed, and given the potential for long-term effects, the studies might take a long time.
> there's an analogy to grammatical cases

Best exemplified by Lingua Romana Perligata:

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
The IRS also had to deal with basically all filings being on paper and very basic technology support, which is very definitely not the case today.
Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover
> Do Stories and Reels not get in your way?

I've made a pretty concerted effort to avoid clicking on them. I might click on one once every two months. Over time this seems to have resulted in modest levels of presentation.

OTOH -- this July my feed showed me an old friend's daughter had posted "Miss you mom" on friend's wall, and I thought "that's odd, they don't live far away." So I clicked on friend's profile to see that her funeral was the week before and then saw five months of posts documenting her discovery of an aggressive cancer that had killed her. Nowhere in there had FB shown me any of them.

That's an algorithm failure if there ever was one, though of course there's no way to communicate that to FB and likely no internal incentives to care, so there's really nothing to do but remember that unless you're the customer, the feed will only be about where you'd like to direct your attention to the minimum degree they have to engage you in order to keep selling their privilege to direct your attention.
>What does arranging the contact have to do with it? The government has long identified speech it disagrees with and I'm really hard pressed to believe you think this is something the government can't do?

It shows collusion. The government saying so and so said something we disagree with is fine. The government working hand in hand with a third party to prevent someone from speaking is no different than the government stopping the speech directly.
For the downvoters - google the WARN act
It’s not that useful in practical experience.
The idea behind this series of posts is to see how much of python, concretely, is syntactic sugar and how much is necessary. How much could you do with e.g. doing macro transformation on top of a minimal core?

The last post before this was titled: "MVPy: Minimum Viable Python".

So, since python doesn't have goto, you can't replace while with an if with two gotos (without adding a goto to the language).

You can replace an `if` with a while tho, easily.
A previous employer of mine had fixed salary levels by role adjusted by region (for cost of living). Absolutely no salary negotiations, no bonuses. Despite this, they did the "offer not available in Colorado" routine as well as resisting requests for internal pay transparency. The "good reason" for not listing salary is that it makes it harder for prospective and current employees to comparison shop. Period.
Tor was created with the purpose in mind of the US spying on foreign countries, but it certainly has many legitimate uses as well.
The developers do not just eat the cost of building a property, they pass it on in the sale price. So yeah, landlords still end up having to deal with it, on top of the day to day maintenance.
There is value in pulling that subset out of the extra bullshit. I'd love a twitter alternative that I could use for publicly broadcasting short messages.

Especially if it didn't require people be logged in to scroll down.
Would it be feasible to have many modern versions of Voyager-like probes that follow the earths orbit and relay to each other and to Earth to get data for objects behind the Sun and also to have extra sensors distributed around our solar system?
I agree that famine would be a serious risk, but when I look at major famines they seem to largely be imposed by government action. Irish, China, Russia, North Korea etc.

The Irish potato famine occurred in part because of the potato blight, but it was a multi year issue that at it’s core related to growing exports (cotton, grain) in favor of local food. Russia’s industrialization created famine because so many farm workers where sent to factories. China had similar root causes, the 18year old worker in that story went home to see their family and many fields where fallow. Steal all the food or workers from a village and people starve.

That’s not to say drought etc didn’t play a role, but the American dust bowl isn’t remembered as a famine because there was feedback between the amount of food crops planted and the need for food.
That is surprisingly very similar to Jetbrains' Darcula.
The First iPhone cost was ~900$ (inflaction adjusted) and was not able to record video (many other less expensive phone coulded).
It can be dealt by creating high-paying higher rungs on career ladder and then promoting the 10x people there. So, regular SE position can have a salary range of say $120k-$150k, but principal senior staff ninja can have say $400k-$600k. That's how FAANGs do it basically.
>>the ad should reveal the position's maximum salary,

Noble goal that I feel is completely naive about human psychology.

I believe that exceedingly few of us have sufficient self-awareness and humility to see a range of e.g. "100-200k", and recognize easily that our performance and skill and history and capability is worth 120k, and will not feel scammed and underappreciated.

The prevailing wisdom on HN is empathically NOT "be happy with what you're worth", it's "ask for more more more", completely prior to any discussion of person's actual history, skillset, contribution, productivity, etc. And that's OK! We are human beings and inherently selfish and if we don't look after ourselves, who will? But it's disingenuous to then pretend that publication of a salary range will have any outcome other than all candidates expecting the top or slightly above... and I personally feel that will only result in employers pushing down the salary to match the average candidate.
htmx + AlpineJS + tailwind is becoming a popular combo.
And yet nobody seems fired up about the other grants wikimedia gives, and has for years, while some are insisting it's just the prinicple of wikimedia giving any grants that they object to, what they are actually focusing on, and their lack of concern with even mentioning those other grants while getting really fired up about this "equity" fund (a topic very likely to fire people up), makes me think that's what's going on must be primarily not secondarily about this particular thing.
‘Simply decarbonizing’ isn’t enough: Third Nature targets $35M fund
> How would family order look like

This seems like a complete non-issue.

The ones paying the check are the ones making the orders. Makes splitting the check a solved problem by default. If it is a family with kids making the order, the kids simply pick what they want (no linking required for just browsing the menu), tell the parent what they want, and the parents order from their device. I don't think it is a hard necessity for everyone ordering stuff by themselves. Whoever pays the final bill can handle actually ordering the food.
That's all true, but around here they're getting damn desperate.

Not saying it's worth doing, or a good job, but they're out there, especially in the smaller towns.
It's definitely not an idiotic approach, and companies do keep buffers. In the most advanced cases, probabilistic models are devised to estimate how big these buffers should be. Asking for companies to keep buffers for unpredictable "once in a century"-type events is unrealistic.
Not sure if people don't know the "I'm in danger" meme(1)
or just have no sense of humor :-P

1) https://imgur.com/gallery/VQWPsBS
I don't think that's what Adam Smith was getting at. He was saying that gathering food that grew freely shouldn't be taxed by people who put a fence round it and did nothing to make it grow.
Any public company can get money to fund investments. Netflix has been borrowing money for a decade until recently to fund content at junk bond rates. Intel could probably get much better deals