skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't clauses like this just a clear cut sign of corruption?

It doesn't even make a lot of sense as an incentive to have workers unionize, since why would workers care what price what they're selling cars for. The law would only exist to benefit existing unions.
Anyone tried tilting pixels at same angle isometric view is ?
Twitter definitely took measures to prevent network outages. I can go through my timeline within 10 minutes; after that, I'm seeing posts from the day before. This was impossible pre-Musk; the timeline just went on forever.

AFAIK, most of the people I follow are still tweeting; I just don't see as many now.
One gig, we'd be punished for a job well done with regular trips to Las Vegas. New hire me skipped my first such event. Big political faux pas.

I hate company parties. I especially hate Las Vegas (The Strip, gambling, drinking, etc). Just give me cash.
I mean that's literally yield maximization - you don't need to capture all the demand for a given good or service. You just need to capture the right mix of it. I would broadly say that I don't think anyone who goes to a typical Arena concert is making their buying decision on the audio quality.

The bar for good enough is pretty low.
For every person who spends 2 hours of their year dealing with US bureaucracy there are loads more that spend untold hours. I myself spent almost two days figuring out my taxes because they're just more complicated. And people dealing with unemployment, health insurance via COBRA/medicaid/medicare, food stamps, registering to vote, applying for various licenses, etc. It's ungodly amounts of time when you add it all up.

I AM convinced it's a major problem. Maybe not for white-collar people on Hacker News who have paid sick leave, random leave times and no expectations of certain hours, and high pay. But for many working class people in the US dealing with bureaucratic nonsense IS a big deal.
A Grammar Notation for Tree Languages (2017) [pdf]
Try not to think about it.
Currently it is not, but we are closely tracking the Component Model to see how we can best utilize it. There are a few places we know we can leverage it, namely in the HTTP interfaces and other imports we provide to plug-ins. But, we also want to contribute to the language support on the codegen side. In order to get the language support we have already, we couldn't invest the time up front to build all the codegen in wit that would have been necessary. Over time want to get there though!
Sublime Text, I assume
I've probably written 10x more than I ever published. The benefits, to me, of the published vs unpublished works are about the same. I could argue that publishing things was net negative, when I'm feeling cynical.

However, just because that writing was only of moderate value, and only to me, doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile. It may well mean I was right not to publish anymore than I did.

So I say to Drew (and others): Thanks for sharing what you have shared, and do not worry about whether someone else derived value from it. Judge those efforts by what they did for you.
How to Fight Covid with Light
There is a whole segment of the web that is now gone, things have become boring and uniform, and while that's fine for all sorts of sites, it's sad that we have just thrown all that out.
Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought
Twitter is still OK for users that have been there for a while and built up a network of good accounts to follow. It's probably a much worse experience for brand-new users.
Your time. That's it.
I agree, but sadly, we inevitably end up with folks who are here to point fingers and call for heads when his name comes up. And while I think there's a very valid criticism of him as a person in that context, I find that context tends to drown out the actual conversation if you're not particularly careful to avoid it.

I think the basic "how is he crazy" question was fine, and I happily answered it within the context of the discussion (he doesn't compromise easily. I see it as the same flaw in Bernie Sanders, with mostly the same results - lack of effective action because working with others always requires compromise. Basically - he's difficult to work with to his own detriment.).

But I think the pointed focus on his sexual behavior is pretty off-topic. Further - I think it's clear that most of the folks making those comments aren't here to talk about his opinion on software - they're here to delegitimize him because they have a personal grievance (real or perceived) with him outside the context of the discussion. There's certainly space for that discussion - but go start a new thread for it.

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so... long story short. "he is crazy" is both true in the context of this discussion, and an attempt to immunize the conversation from the irrelevant aspects of his social life.

Although given the thread afterwards... I'd say the result was bad reaction to the vaccine. But who knows - it may have been even worse without it...
Weren’t these almost as expensive as the Amiga?
I don't care if i'am not using every feature in Vim. I gave up on NVIM, because i was completely done with configuring plugins with bad documentation, no good defaults. For every plugin i needed to learn more and more shortcuts. After an update some plugins were broken etc. I just now stick with VSCode with the NVIM plugin.
Can you please further describe what an internet company is? I haven't heard the term internet company since the late 90s (for all tech) except recently when referring to Comcast, AT&T which I don't think is what you are referring to.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/IDEA-A-156/Main-chan...
I don't think anyone would make that decision; the bar for good enough is pretty low, and if you won't get any incremental revenue (no one is selling or advertising on the various parameters of audio quality), why would you spend that money?
Love this style. Can anyone recommend some modern games done this way?
There are some examples, but the announcement is focused on the project itself - we will follow up over the next week+ with some end-to-end examples. Stay tuned!
I prefer the term 'FU' instead 'six months from now'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit
> Roboto's Latin subset contains Old English characters like þ (Thorn) and Ð (Eth). Are obsolete characters used only in mediaeval text really more important to include than the currency for a billion people?

Aren't these characters used in today's standard Icelandic?
The lines are often blurry because they are quite interlacing and all where purpose build for each other.

> python310.withPackages and python311.withPackages

I think that should be solvable by supplying them the same function.

env = ps: with ps; [ numpy toolz ]
python39.withPackages(env)
python310.withPackages(env)
The idea that "well-being" is a metric that can be measured in order to influence behaviours like this is utterly absurd.

I'm not religious, but I often feel like this is a huge hole in the modern landscape, there's no sense of whether anything can be good or bad outside of "outcomes". It's like, if it doesn't cause some sort of obvious malady, that's just fine then.

Quality surely exists as a concept regardless of how much philosophical warbling we could do on the subject.

Imagine the theoretical study that shows that "having/not having children by age 40 is not linked to female well-being". For the sake of argument let's say this is factual, that happiness, rates of mental illness, physical illness etc are the same in both childless and mothering groups.

So should someone who wants to have children ignore their desires because "science" told them that they'll be fine either way? Should someone who doesn't want to have children ignore their desires?

I'm ranting now, but I guess my point is that this isn't really actionable in any way.
Yes, these types of stories are incredibly common unfortunately. The advice here should be taken on board by any repair shop.
This is an absolutely fantastic post.
If I understand it, this is more about the plumbing of calling the Rust wasm execution engine from various languages. And probably the secondary problem of how do you package wasm-hosted code such that it can interface with multiple calling languages. Rust can build a shared object with C linkage. All the languages have ways to call "native" code (code with C linkage). This is the sauce to connect those dots in a multi-language, batteries-included way. Hopefully I got that right.

It's all in-process so not more like OLE than Corba ;)
ARM came out of europe. With the right industrial policy, chip manufacturing could be onsourced. The dutch already make most of the equipment that makes the fabs/chips.

It's not necessarily about supply and demand. These past few years have shown what shortages of chips can do to the supply chain. It's a strategic vulnerability if Europe does not at least think about this.
If you don’t fix the membrane it could cause you to be born earlier so it’s in your best interest to keep it sealed as long as possible. Lazy fetuses could mean why there’s so many premature births these days though.
Exactly. I use mine to alert users of my poker site about tournaments. Many would lose money without these timely alerts
Exactly, Flash's editors primary UI was a drawing program with an animation timeline, you can get started without knowing anything more - it was amazingly freeing.
I recommend dtrt-indent and ws-butler for your whitespace concerns
The phone app is the only one which I allow to have "push notifications".
And they can be disabled.
It's also the only one that I can think of that allows me to selectively enable based upon the sender (iOS user here).
Into the Breach immediately comes to mind.
Just like making all popups disabled by default, so should these user harassing notification prompts.
I want to use the expensive hardware I own and from the few examples I have seen guix is incredible verbose often requiring two to three times the code to express the same thing as nixpkgs.
I'm thinking companies that don't really have physical presence like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Roblox, Spotify, etc.

Companies that if kicked off the App store would face an existential crisis.
He also built the company, not the rockets. In a different thread here on HN, some of the SpaceX guys were commenting how he actually had very little understanding of rockets, understandably. But the credit goes to him regardless.
Except Singapore is beautiful and clean

While NYC is covered in fecal matter and aggressive homeless.

I’ve watched NYC degrade slowly then rapidly. the more expensive it gets the worse living conditions become.

Of course, you can’t actually bring this up to the administration because complaining about living conditions, crime, or the kleptocratic bureaucracy is considered racist so it’s easier to just move away.
At that cost, seems like the only way to win is not to play? Unless you build your service from the ground up as a paying service, you are doomed to fail at some point.
There will be opening theory soon, and it will be essential in many cases.

For instance after 1.e3 e6 2.Qh5, White threatens Qxf7+ which would force black to play the top engine move. Then 2...g6 3.Qxg6 is one idea -- but there are two recaptures, fxg6 and hxg6, and only one of them can be the top engine move (hxg6, I'm guessing). So 3...fxg6 probably refutes this idea. But are you sure enough as white to try to claim a win if black goes hxg6?

And after say 1.e3 e6 2.Qh5 g6 3.Qxh7 (avoiding that line and going for material), not only does black not have to care about their rook (white can't take it, it would be the best move), black actually has 3...Qh4 winning -- he threatens 4...Qxf2+, white can't play 4.Qxh4 as that's the best engine move, and white's queen is threatened twice, so black will be able to take it -- provided he checked this line before the game to know which piece to take with.

Edit: it doesn't actually win, white has 4.Qf5 to defend f2... what a strange game.

Edit 2: once a piece is _en prise_ somewhere, the game can otherwise become somewhat normal as taking it would be the best move and so would moving it to a safe spot - so other moves can be played as usual. But would they be good?
Which is clearly documented by the banks for the benefit of all of their customers. Not to mention there is FDIC insurance, which is specifically why people who are worried about bank stability know they can more their money in multiple banks if they're over the FDIC limit.

Nevermind FTX was an exchange, and my stock brokerage certainly doesn't lend out my stocks to a related party without my consent.
You don't need to destroy the cloud providers. Missile hits on the major interconnection (interchange? peering?) nodes in each major country and most of the companies and people are offline. Or hit the power plants, see Ukraine.
I never understood the argument that people would delay their purchases. Most purchases can't wait, like you don't wait with your groceries when your fridge is empty. And even if the purchases can wait, would you wait 5 years for a 10% discount on a sweater? Lastly, even without deflation, many things do get cheaper over time and it doesn't stop anyone from buying them right away.
Enjoyed this post.

I've dabbled with regular pixel art, but never quite figured it out and haven't found much in the way of good tutorials.
Why are you working long hours? Who is telling you to do that?

If your manager expects you to work long hours, then your manager sucks, and you should start looking for a different team.

If you expect you to work long hours, then you need to change your priorities.

Decide how much work time your life can sustain. Set your hours and stick to them. If you do a reasonable amount of work at a reasonable pace, and the project falls behind anyway, that is not your problem: it is the project manager's problem. They can find more resources, change the scope, change the schedule, whatever they need to do; that's literally their job, and not yours. It's certainly not your job to magically bring an unworkable plan into reality through superhuman effort.

When your work is done, turn off your work machine, log out of email, and go do something else. Do not open your email until you are ready to start working again: dealing with work mail is work.
Occam's razor: "It is generally understood in the sense that with competing theories or explanations, the simpler one, for example a model with fewer parameters, is to be preferred."
How did you know how to do it? I assume ancient knowledge passed down from the ancestors.
You now that back in 1300BC tin to make bronze in Egypt or Greece was imported from far away Afghanistan? Do you know that in 10000BC people traded seashells in Siberia, thousands of km away from the ocean? It's a good idea to be as independent as possible, but no country was ever entirely self-sufficient. Not even North Korea.
> * "I don't want to WFH because..." Ok, sure, but nobody is trying to force you to.*

When I was last looking for a job, I clearly stated that I did not want to work from home and that I was only interested in onsite. Out of dozens of recruiters contacting me, only 1 respected that desire.

I share a house with my sister and she has terrible boundary issues (the places she socialized with others closed and went out of business from the Covid shutdowns). Her refusal to stop "visiting" during working hours cost me 2 jobs.
My example was about subscriptions, no console maker takes a cut of a subscription to a game done through the game publisher's own servers/service. No console maker takes a cut from sales of digital items done through the game's platform.

You are moving the goalposts, licencing is a well established practice and only interferes with the sale of the initial product: the game, not subsequent upsales where the console maker has absolutely no interaction with, just like royalties for IP and so on, it's another broken analogy...
A world map that’s all about oceans
What's better, let private companies have it?
> Bankman-Fried attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students. He attended high school at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California. From 2010 to 2014, Bankman-Fried attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, he lived in a coeducational group house called Epsilon Theta. In 2014, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics and a minor in mathematics.

There's no way he can plead stupidity.
> I believe it was said to be why the Russian giant launcher failed, where Saturn V succeeded by being brute force simpler to engineer

Many nozzles can actually be beneficial (engine-out capability) or neutral (Soyuz rocket family flies for 60+ years with 32 nozzles running at the start).

According to Chertok, problems were with engines quality themselves (e.g. insufficient manufacturer experience), CORD system (new electronic system to manage many engines), absence of test stands for integrated first stage (given single-start engines, could be insufficient). Number itself isn't a problem, as demonstrated by e.g. Falcon Heavy - it's the novel N-1 rocket, which both failed and had many engines, which leads to conclusion these are related a certain way.
Only time I've seen this was an IKEA in Shanghai about 5 years ago. They had a sign that said that umbrellas cost (equivalent to) $1 if it was raining outside and $3 if it wasn't. :)
I remember reading that nix unlike all other distros can install multiple version of the same package and I want this feature, but I guess programming a package config might be too much for me. Maybe I'll try nix package manager then.
That doesn’t address part two of my question, and if the answer is make the commute amount the same for everyone, than, all you are asking for is an across the board pay raise for everyone
Beans and rice, or tofu.

Buy whole chicken when it’s on sale, if you have a freezer you can stock up and break it down into pieces in advance.

A 4oz piece of chicken probably gives a better combination of amino acids than many servings of peanut butter.

Edit: actually I looked it up and peanuts are a decent source of protein, the issues are possibly omega6 and getting peanut butter without added sugar or oil, you should be able to find peanut butter with just peanuts and salt as ingredients.
It is one thing to pursue something out of curiosity, and another to spend hours upon hours every day for weeks on the same thing.

I think your curiosity might give way to other obligations at some point which is why you have to be somewhat goal oriented.

Worth noting that I have spent hours pursuing a hobby as a kid: programming. And I think that is probably true of many of the readers here.

I think the computer lends itself to this in a weird -- perhaps unique -- manner. The act of programming, or writing, is like a video game in that you get this reward just for the act. And it is easier to spend hours for days for weeks programming (or writing) than say mulling over other matters.

One trick for turning a task you cannot spend time on into a task you can spend time on is to turn it into an activity. This is why mathematicians have to write out their equations and diagrams when they're mulling plates.
I became addicted to Hacker News because Jason Kottke went on sabbatical. So long, suckers!
> a successful TLS handshake with satan.com tells you that you have connected to the actual satan.com and perhaps that it is operated by Satan, Inc (although it’s still on you to check whether it’s the Delaware one or the Kentucky one[1]). It does not, and is not supposed to, tell you whether it’s smart to sell your soul there, CA marketing materials (“users trust sites that ...”) notwithstanding.

In this context it’s funny that https://satan.com redirects to https://mybible.com.
>>Its Windows that's the issue for me.

That has nothing to do with build quality

>Having too many bad experiences and strong bias against Microsoft

Well at least you admit your bias, as someone that works in enterprise and manages 1000's of windows computers i can say i would never want to attempt that with Apple who does not have the enterprise tooling that MS does

before I was in enterprise I felt the same about windows and primarily used Linux, I would never use a Apple which shows my bais... If apple was the last computer on earth I would crush it...

>>Any of them are just fine and its more about the ecosystem and purchase history at this point

I agree with that, and that should change, but I value my freedom too much ever to surrender it for Apple's walled garden
Orban's far right government is a great straw man for testing public outrage levels and narrative impact for what every other government did (and worse).

I discovered that covid data is used in a similar way in Canada, where vaccination status data (name/dates/doses/addr/ph) was passed to a PR/oppo firm working for a politicians office. The data was sent to an outsourced call center to call people on behalf of a private PR firm that had the same name as an internal government department (a mere coincidence, surely). Given vaccination dates were and are a strong proxy for political leanings, this oppo research firm working for campaign offices is not only in posession of this medical information, but they shared it with call center contractors.

I had a lengthy email exchange with the privacy office about it to get assurances of the privacy protections and recourse in the contracts, and they declined to provide copies of the agreements governing the relationship between this firm and the privacy protections for this medical information, and basically bumbled and delayed until I went away, ultimately yielding nothing.

I didn't go to the press about it because the mainstream press could not be relied upon to be principled and investigate privacy breaches and other abuses during covid for fear of enabling hesitancy, and going the alternative media route would just set me up for retaliation by the government, so I let it go since as a privacy professional, I had got evidence of my suspicions about how egregiously the data has been handled. The rollout was one of the most cynical abuses of public trust in history, to the point where the Atlantic published a piece about "amnesty" for the people behind it - for what precisely, we are only learning now in trickles and spurts.

If this is something you care about, contact the agency or the privacy officer of the government department that administered your vaccinations and ask them for the list of parties your data was shared with, and for copies of the privacy impact assessments they were obligated to do, and the contracts with those parties that presumably have privacy protections and recourse for breaches written into them. I've moved on, as my opinion about these actions is set, but if you want the story of what went on, ask for the privacy impact assessments (or lack thereof) for the data sharing of vaccination data. Further, you can ask for how your consent to vaccination was collected (it wasn't, and there wasn't a way to register that you were being subject to a medical procedure under duress either), and the picture of what the response was becomes clear.

Sure, Orban's a hate figure, but he's also a test balloon for how much the Economist and its establishment colleagues want to admit about what they did, and a mirror for calibrating what your own governments almost certainly did as well.
Did I miss any programming language or relevant technology?
I am working on a cheat sheet to generate sbom in pretty much every scenarios. Did I miss anything that your are using at work ?

https://yoursky.blue/documentation/documentation-retrieve-sbom/
Elbit Systems LANIUS – racing drone based exploding munition [video]
The proper way of addressing that is to manually hoist bound checks out of "hot" loops. Not just remove them altogether.
The tabula-py Python library, a wrapper around tabula(https://tabula.technology/), can extract tables within PDFs and convert them to Pandas DataFrames. It's a great little library and this is a blog showcasing an example.
The People Cheering for Humanity&#x27;s End
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