skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a bit hyperbolic language.

It's not 'cruel' for any administration to indicate basic realities without some arbitrary historical and legal context.

While we should be eternally vigilant and skeptical, the lack of very specific context in this case is nowhere near a blatant manipulation.

In fact, I would say the 'problem' is maybe the opposite - I am somewhat more skeptical that this is a 'Musk led personal intervention' to draw arbitrary cynicism towards a political entity he does not like - playing 'moral equivalence' games with people who say "The economy is doing good!" (without nuanced context) and "I won the election!" (without the obvious 'context' that the statement is literally false, or blatantly misleading).

That said, it's just skepticism, I really can't say one way or the other obviously.

There's clearly a grey threshold in what we can tolerate from government and political statements, and it's very hard to fathom where that line is - but this one is not near that line.

If any administration wants to claim "Lowest unemployment ever!" in a Tweet, well then that's fine. They can say that as long as it's true, a history lesson is not needed in this case.

In any case, if they are going to do this, they need a set of publicly stated criteria for it, and they need to apply the criteria objectively and consistently.
Solid is probably not going to happen and it does give TimBL the appearance of a conflict of interest, but if you can put that aside his point stands.
Yeah, I wasnt calling out YT content - specifically calling out the platform team internally...
Most strikes tend to be around :

- More money

- Better job security

Like the one taking place here right now

"On October 30, 2022, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), issued a strike notice, after the Government of Ontario refused their demands for an 11.7% salary increase alongside other requests for improved working conditions."

They are not after any "change" to how things are done, just a massive 11.7% pay hike every year for the next 4 years.

Again, any example of a strike which was to force the replacement of a C-Level?
If 10,000 people say this but there is little overlap in the channel preferences, suddenly 40,000 channels seems a reasonable number. Point being that there are a wide ranging number of interests, just because it isn't in your niche, doesn't mean it shouldn't be there at all.
Silly question, but how do you budget given floating interest rates?

Let's say that you buy an $800,000 place at 3% interest with a 20% down-payment ($640,000 borrowed). Your payments are $2,698/mo. Fast-forward a couple years and you're now at 7.3% and your payments are up to $4,388/mo. That's a 63% increase in your housing budget. That's an extra $20,280/year in housing costs.

Yes, rent can increase crazy amounts which makes budgeting hard as well and we've seen rent go up 20% from pre-pandemic levels in many markets (though that seems to be rapidly falling as the market changes). However, you're not committed to that rent. Yes, it might be bad to downsize to something smaller that you're renting or to a less desirable location, but it's theoretically possible. In this case, you now have to pay 63% more money without a possibility of alleviating that burden.

As rates go up, the amount you can sell a property for likely goes down (since it's now a more expensive property). In the US, at least you can continue living there at your low interest rate and fixed monthly payment. In NZ, your $800,000 place is now worth $700,000 and your payments have gone up 63% and you can't really sell it because you owe more than it's worth and you also can't afford the payments...?

I feel like I might be missing something, but your answer might just be "yea, that's how it is here."
Do tech companies hire for engineers who write good code, but completely ignore their entrepreneur skills? (And does this depend on company size)

Why the heavy emphasis on leet code; why no also add a "leet entrepreneur" aspect to it as well?
That's good. It was very bad for the price, and only getting worse. The first season was very fun and intriguing. After that, it went nowhere insightful, and all of the cowboys and indians disappeared. It became a bunch of bores arguing in conference rooms between superspy missions.
Counterpoint from a quick DDG search: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/yes-some-republican-senato...

Tl;Dr: cuts, not elimination
This is an interesting take. I had the impression Unix devs often see the Linux kernel as a bad example for "taste".
The word "seems" is kinda the crux of the issue here. Singal has the tone of a curious, thoughtful jouralist who enters into research with no pre-established biases, and Hobbes has the tone of a guy who gets into Twitter arguments. The problem is that tone is not important, what's true is important. You can't determinte the truth just through the tone of the person communicating with you. A tone of thoughtful neutrality doesn't make something true, and a tone of belligerence doesn't indicate a lie.

I discussed the example I was referencing in my response to ggreer. Here's a link to the twitter thread, for clarification: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/15820924737360076...

I'd like to see an example of what you mean regarding Hobbes. I think that'd help me a lot to understand your position.
Mathematics: you don’t have to assume a shape
Mathematician: you could have a spherical fridge
Is it really shocking?
What would you regulate? I'm not sure what exactly can be regulated here
You sound like someone that hasn't used Twitter or has a short memory span, because they did direct fact checks. This was also an official government account vs a personal account (which is what Trump was using.) Twitter also evolved their system because of Trump's ramblings.
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Little-known trick:

You can add an `xml-stylesheet` processing instruction at the top of your XML-based feed format to transform it via XSLT into HTML. When viewed in a Web browser, it will look like an ordinary Web page, but in reality it's actually RSS/Atom consumable by anyone's feed reader. Nobody has to hunt for the URL to the RSS/Atom feed, because the URL of the top-level post index for your blog is the URL to the RSS/Atom feed. You also don't have to set up your static site generator to generate a separate feed file. Neat!

Can't do that with JSON.
I thought they canceled it years ago. They certainly should have.
Their jobs are at stake. Layoffs are coming. No word whether this is going to be enough to save their jobs, or whether they're going to be laid off anyway. No word whether this is a short-time panic, or the "new normal"...

Right. I'd tell Must to lump it. He can lay me off if he wants. I literally do not have time in my life for this kind of nonsense.

Easy for me to say when #1 I don't work there, #2 I'm in a position where I could take a period out of work, and #3 I'm already looking for my next thing anyway. Easy for me to talk big under those circumstances. But I think it would be the same answer anyway. 84-hour week? 7 days a week? No promise that I won't be laid off, and that it's not temporary? No. In fact, to steal a line from the "Zits" comic strip, there are not enough letters in the word "no" to adequately express the no-ness of my answer.
The entire argument rests on a calculation that a third grader can see is absurd.
> His new startup aims to address this through three ways: A global “single sign-on” feature that lets anyone log in from anywhere. Login IDs that allow users to share their data with others. A “common universal API,” or application programming interface, that lets apps pull data from any source.

Cool to see his project is centered around these goals, but also funny because these are some of the few aspects that I find interesting about Ethereum. Much more interested in the identity/SSO potential vs the financial stuff.
It stands either way.

One can have a conflict of interest, or even be a hypocrite, and still be correct.
It doesn't. At least nothing in the post has any relation.

Btw. if you are thinking about curvature, you should be thinking about pi and circles. Not the solution to a basic ODE.
This article is crazy.

Basically, big tech is a god, a fairy tale, a delusion, pushing unnecessary technology on all of us, and praying on poor tech workers by dangling stocks in front of them, and having big problems with racism and sexism. And now that there are layoffs, everything should be clear now that Silicon Valley is all a giant lie.

This guy is unhinged from reality.
That's the exact plot of Jurrasic Park.

I'm not saying that's what's going to happen. I'm just pointing out that's how the scientists were supposedly containing the dinos. 'Can't produce the amino acid lysene.'

Again, I'm not saying it's not feasible to prevent 'that' molecule from synthesizing a certain molecule, but observation tells us that life really does find a way...
> Plenty of middle-managers could do as well as the average CEO.

I’ve worked with several CEOs and countless senior executives, both at very large companies and small, who had varying degrees of competency. I don’t think this is generally true. Being successful at that job entails a specialized skill set that is rarely evident in middle management. What you are “managing” at the most senior levels of large organizations is very different than as a middle manager, it becomes an entirely different kind of role. The vast majority of people aren’t even able to competently run a small company or startup, never mind a large enterprise.

I think very few people are really cut out for that role. It is a case where demand exceeds supply, which drives up prices. There are many mediocre people in those roles because supply is so scarce.
Did they even really do anything with ARMs? I thought they were just flushed out with all the foreclosures that happened after '08. And then they just fell out of favor.
> its our fault for not making a union

Surely a union would help avoid this exactly kind of things, I can assure you. Once I kept my job thanks to a union when there were mass layoffs at a company I worked for. Also, a union would probably have negotiated something better than an "at will" contract, which I assume Twitter employees are bound to.
The US Paypal terms also allow you to take the case to small claims.

Mandatory arbitration can be enforceable if certain requirements are met. The big difference between the EU and US is the American rule, each side bears their own costs. Lawyers might be $300 an hour, so arbitration can be a lot less expensive for everyone
It's almost like different folks have different opinions right?
Eating a gallon of motor oil a day is great for your digestive system. Now let me tell you about my other nutritional insights.
They could take a 20 year old that has never played fps's and perform similar tests. Coordination, twitch muscle reflexes, peripheral vision and other variables will never exist with AI. GLHF as they say.

Hopefully not too off-topic, but AI playing chess, doing this or that "better than humans" is not a 1st world problem.

I never followed the chess scene and was intrigued with the Han Niemann angle, but noticed the chess engines being overblown with a lot of it (play ping pong against a wall type of stuff).

The 1st thing I thought was a chess format called "turn the tables" where chess players perform the 1st 3-5 moves, then "turn the board" and compete with the oposing players setup (did not research and this may already exist).

A Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov rematch using "turn the tables" gameplay would be cool.

I did laugh at Magnus Carlsen winning in 1 move when the opponent resigned after a crappy knight move by Magnus at the recent tournament. TtT chess takes a lot of the memorization strategies out of play for the natural GM's.

With much of this AI stuff, nobody is chasing AI because of its severe limitations, impediments and attribute deficiencies. Just play ping-pong against a wall.
"Pray". "Prey" is the kind of thing you are in their perspective.
There are a couple of Western countries that have combined a decade of terrible housing policy, banking policy, immigration policy, and every other government lever you could imagine; in order to generate an absolutely generation-crushing property bubble.

New Zealand, Canada, and Australia will all be catastrophic lessons in the future.

So when you see -25 sentiment in housing by Kiwis, it's much more severe than -35 in the US, because over 50% of the Kiwi economy is based on housing and associated services: https://figure.nz/chart/WRpSmBftC60lEu2q

Canada and Australia are similar stories.

Canada is probably the worst in that it intentionally is using immigrants to try to prop its rental market and suppress wages. This works well if you are intent on starting a golden era for slumlords, but it's also going to absolutely demolish quality of life and send food/energy costs screaming.

It's very likely we're at the apex of a golden era of incompetence in these three countries in particular, but the West broadly.
It is quite similar, the most widespread usage historically would likely be the 18th century trading companies such as the British East India Company which used this method along with others to operate with a relatively tiny managerial workforce by modern standards.

There was another post on HN a few weeks back with an article that looked into it and the numbers were really staggering.
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We do have ARMs in the US, but fixed mortgages are a lot more popular - presumably because they allow someone to know how much it's going to cost.
I understand the hesitance to rely on oil and gas, but what’s wrong with mining?
It may be obvious, but just in case it isn't: Everyone think they are fighting the good fight. Nobody sets out to be evil. Liberals thinks they are fighting for positive change. Conservatives wants to preserve what they think is good.

Ofcourse the people burning the city down and looting think they are doing the right thing, or at least doing it for the right reasons. Ofcourse the black people "taking the streets back" feel entitled to it, after whatever backstory there was.

But during the Antifa and BLM riots, actual businesses, owned by innocents bystanders got ruined. Innocent people got murdered. There were real tragedies to real people, mostly white.

When that gets cheered on at social media-sites like twitter (or live on CNN!), it's hard to frame it as anything except hate against white people.

Maybe they thought they were fighting oppression. But at the same time they were oppressing. They became what they claimed to fight.

Who are to say they are better than the people they claimed to be fighting, which didn't burn down cities, didn't kill innocent civilians?

The ends does not justify the means. Not in a lawful society at least. These were hateful acts. EOT.
Ask HN: How does hobby programming and pure math degree compare with CS degree?
Which would prepare you better for a programming job?
Didn’t podcasting start out with self-publishing links via your own website and end up a “platform” owned by various aggregators, and the links are tracked and redirected with maybe a little CDN baked in?
It still requires wind and/or daylight.

You may be aware that large swaths of Finland, Norway and Sweden sees the sun set and not rise again for weeks or months. And during this period it’s also not uncommon to see -20 C or colder. Even worse/ the colder it is, it’s also typical with very little wind inside large stationary high pressures.

Then it’s months when the sun barely sets, as well as windy periods in spring and fall.
Using wind/sun only requires storage not just between night and day but between seasons. Luckily in these particular regions there is plenty of hydro so aren’t reliant on wind and sun only to be 100% renewable.
It tells you that the crowd don't want to read unsubstantiated cynicaler-than-thou hot takes on HN.

Downvoting "It's raining because Soros and his globalist Jewish cabal control the weather" does not mean I disagree that it's raining but the edit always comes in [downvoters can't handle the TRUTH, stay classy HN] or similar.

e.g. how is scanning for vulnerabilities "spying on us"? How is scanning for vulerabilities "forcibly extracting wealth"? How is informing people of vulernabilities "not here to help"? It's a thinly disguised flamewar comment, not a comment on the topic.
Also, I’ve got an email about any freshly imaged Mac Mini from Hetzner. Turns out macOS runs with legacy netbios ports open to the wide world by default, but to disable that service, you have to unload a service via Terminal. There’s no prefpane for that.
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It's beyond even the economy. Surely voters realize gas can't cost $4 forever? Even if we continue never increasing the taxes on it to match inflation, or road spending?

The discussions just around this one commodity, where the average person has major influence on their own consumption, are mind boggling.
It's true that heat pumps become less efficient at higher temperature differences. That's why these systems use lower storage temperatures. It's also true that, even then, the storage temperature has to by higher than the typical evaporator condensor for a heat pump, leading them to be less efficient (think 175% efficient vs. 300% efficient).

You're looking at LCOS of $0.23 kWh-1 [1], which is higher than Li-ion. However, such a system may offer other advantages (better recyclability, no reliance on lithium, less risk of fire), or such systems may be cheaper in the future, which is why people are researching them.

Additionally, these systems work with existing district heating pipes, which is great because it mean's you don't have to expand the grid capacity. In places with district heating, that could make a lot of sense. (I don't think anyone is proposing building new district heating systems, just retrofitting old ones).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01968...

Also, Carnot efficiency increases without bound as the temperature difference decreases, so lowering the temperature of the room or increasing the temperature of the outdoors make a huge difference. The same applies vice versa for air conditioning which is why people use cooling towers.
> If he didn't want to do something and the other party in the negotiation used the legal system to make him do it he was forced by someone else to do it.

Who do you think signed the contract in the first place?

He was only "forced" by the courts once he tried to go back on his contract. Nobody forced him to buy twitter.
I can’t wait for the real life Westworld reality series the Discovery CEO green lights to replace it /s
Liked the first season a lot. The second turn me off the show. Haven't seen it since.
I imagine this mirrors the same story for a lot of people.
I'm sure each has their own reason, but it doesn't feel like an especially productive discussion. It's rehashing a lot of arguments that have been made countless times.

The question itself seems self-negating: if you've observed HN long enough to conclude that it "feels negatively about Musk", then you've also seen the reasons. It's not as if HN is filled with comments to the tune of "I hate Musk with an irrational passion I don't wish to explain just now".

I suppose if you've only been here a few days you'll see only schadenfreude about the troubles he's having with Twitter. But any longer than that and you'll have had plenty of opportunity to hear about all of the problematic things.

Given that the question asks for nothing more than a rehash of existing HN comments and old antipathies, I suspect that is why many have flagged it.
Twitter is not a profitable company and Elon must turn it into one. So, bluntly, what positive impact was that team making to the bottom line?

Some may be tempted to look for political meaning behind this decision but this is a business and I think there is no need to look beyond hard-fact business calculations here.
Ask HN: Is Source Code DLP a Thing?
Has anyone heard of interesting solutions regarding source code DLP?

I am mainly interested in the scenario where an employee downloads an organizational remote git repo onto their local machine and then tries to send it up to a personal remote git repo. Or, a situation where someone sends an organizational repo into their personal Gmail or OneDrive, etc...

How are organizations preventing this? I am not fully convinced this is an issue that is solvable by technology without severely impacting people's day-to-day work.
+1 for this: the NetNewsWire Mac and iPhone combo, which syncs state using iCloud, is exactly the right feed reader solution for me. Just works.
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There were warning signs in Season 2 when things started to get weird, and in my circle of friends, they dismissed it - still claiming how brilliant the show was. I have no idea nor do I remember what the hell happened in Season 3, and by the beginning of 4, finally even my wife admitted she had no idea what was going on. Just another show that let its early success get to its head.
I enjoyed thoroughly the first and second seasons. The third I haven't watched, yet. However, after the strong ending of the second season, I really could not imagine that there could be anything groundbreaking to add to the series.
I'm not trying to refute your point. You're allowed to be a little less aggressive.

Point being strikes typically hit C-levels indirectly, not directly. A short term loss and display of collective power which could be avoided with foresight. Individuals are more often targeted through boycotting.
All because white guys want to tweet the N word
Exactly the point individuals have made:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-in-germany-tell-customers...

> 34-year-old said, adding that he plans to use the money to buy a house before the birth of his second child this year
Now I'm busy. Thanks for sharing!
> acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management

I'm puzzled by this and wonder if you can provide some examples. The scientists I know tend to have incredibly disorganized R code, with a bunch of hard-coded paths and a single global environment in their home directory that all their R packages get installed to. Even stuff that seems critically important like reproducible science can be much harder than you'd expect in a lot of fields because questions like "what version of the libraries did you use" has to be answered (if it can be answered at all) by looking at the references in the paper.

Whereas in Python, I don't know how things could be any simpler. Creating an individualized environment for your project is one command. Installing packages that only live inside that environment is one `pip install` away. Most scientific work is not "distributed" in the sense of having users, but if you do ship a product to users, Python gives you the option of either relying on distribution provided packages (my preferred approach most of the time) or shipping a single binary created with something like PyInstaller.
This isn't eligible for Show HN - please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - so I've taken that out of the title now.
My opinion of course, but it was terrible immediately after the end of the first season. But that first season was incredible.
Whoever read XKCD #1085[1] and decided it needed to be a real thing is my hero.

Now the problem is how much it will be politicized and cherry-picked

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1085/
Assuming you are American, do you also get confused with Bank of America, or US Bank?

Most countries have a retail bank that uses the name of the country or region, even if they aren't the central bank.