skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you're right, but I think it's more likely that Pfizer, as a business, is more willing to accept risk in the pursuit of its core business aims than in its accounting, and that's all we're seeing. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-c...
If renting is strictly financially worse than buying, why do so many fabulously wealthy corporations rent instead of own their offices and stores? When you buy a home you have to pay mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance costs, HOA dues, and you have the opportunity cost of not being able to invest your mortgage principal instead of locking it up in your house. There are pluses and minuses on both sides which people rarely rationally evaluate because they are brainwashed by society into thinking that only losers don’t own their homes.
> But for that you can also use a Nokia 3310, not spend hundos on an iPhone.

You don't have to spend anything if you already have that device. For instance, it could be a hand-me-down from a relative. In my family, we do have an older Android 2.x device which is currently being used as just a phone (for calls, SMS, and yes, an oversized clock); it has passed through the hands of three people already, and only the first of them used the smartphone functionality. After that, it was factory reset and never connected to a data network again (because it would then try to update all built-in apps... and that tiny phone simply has not enough storage for all these updates). It works perfectly as a phone.
Talk of improving something is “disingenuous” yet you talk of improving something. Got it.
With an atmospheric density 1/150th that of Earth, the engineering of a leaf blower might be tricky. Clearly the atmosphere can move dust, but you might hit speed of sound problems in your turbine.

Someone should spend a couple years doing some PhD work on Martian dust blowing turbine designs, but not burn out completely so they can write a 1000 word, interesting blog post with some pretty pictures for me to consume.
All 1,700 years were celebrated?
If toxic chemicals is the problem, legislate that.
Congresspeople don’t get to skip security lines. The number of times I’ve seen senators and reps flying from DCA on Thursday night get annoyed because the pre check is long and I blast past them in Clear is huge.

My favorite was when it was Rep Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who notably pushed hard for the sort of security theater he was then complaining about. I was already two drinks in when he stormed into the SkyClub all miffed. And then I got to sit next to him on the plane! I doubt the man could see the irony.
> when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages

This just seems crazy. People don’t pdf them first? A .doc CV is equally disgusting in my view.
I monitor my urine color and how I feel. If I feel bad I’ll grab a glass of water or even buy a plastic bottle, but that happens maybe once a year.

I really think that people aren’t that fragile and the bottled water industry has done an excellent job of making people think they need to constantly hydrate in order to not have a heat stroke.

Imo it’s enough to just pay attention to yourself and how you feel.
May be because his leaving was news? Although I can certainly see that this news doesn’t belong here.
I dislike the Twitter UX so much, it's not clear to me if the "thread" only contains 2 tweets or if I'm too dumb to navigate this shitshow of a UI. Constantly being bombarded with popups doesn't help the UX either.
The issue is that I'm a great tenant and still have to deal with the crap. I've been renting for well over 20 years at this point and I've never been late, not even once.

That crappy tenants exist is not an excuse for so much consistency in how badly landlords treat their tenants.

The single property manager that treated me well? I stayed in that house for 6 years. Do you know why I moved? The landlord switched property managers. Literally month X everything was fine, month X + 1 I was fighting with them. And what about? They wanted to charge me a processing fee for my rent and wouldn't accept a check. They were based out of state, didn't have a local office, didn't accept check, and were pushing the processing fees onto their tenants. yeah, fuck that.

And what I said above about never being late? Not totally true. That property manager had the same bank I did so I would transfer money directly to her account, send her an email and she would respond with a confirmation that she saw it. At some point she switched banks. I waited until the last day to pick up a cashiers check to run by her office, only, unbeknownst to me, my bank had shortened their hours due to covid so I couldn't. When I realized this I called her, explained the situation, told her I'd be at her office first thing monday morning (it was a friday) and nothing was ever said about a late fee.

landlords tend to be assholes for no good reason and they generally get away with it because of the power differential that exists (or is perceived to exist) between them and their tenants. There are many more laws on the books protecting tenants than landlords and the reason for that is BECAUSE they tend to be assholes. There are laws on the books stating landlords are not allowed to let themselves into others homes whenever they want because if that law didn't exist many of them would.
There is no proof that PFAS is causing large scale poisoning. Industrial workers with insufficient PPE may get increased risks of health effects if they are subject to prolonged exposure to concentrated amounts. But so does exposure to fertilizer and aspartame. The research is not anywhere near saying PFAS are causing large scale poisoning.

It reminds me of the microplastics debate too. Lots of panic about it, little scientific evidence that it is causing large scale health problems.
Ask HN: How to bear through a long commute (2h one way)?
I commute to work 3 days a week for 2.5h more or less each way, and I WFH 2 days a week.

I do not work in IT (Logistics), and this is my first job ever, shy of right about 6 months into it. I'm a 23 year old college dropout.

I used to live in the city I currently work as, but my landlord just became impossible to live with, which left me with a very bad experience of what sharing a house is like.

At the same time, I experienced some work problems which led me to become very anxious when I'm lonely, and so, I decided to go back to live with my parents, which has helped me become more mentally stable.

However, my 2.5h commute, which consists of Driving to a Train a Station (30 min) --> Taking a train (1h) --> Taking the subway (25 min) --> Taking a tram (5 Mon) --> Walk to work (5 Mon) (in the best case scenario), is making me very mentally exhausted. I wake up to go to work at 6PM and I get back home at 7.45PM. I go to sleep at 9.45PM.

I've tried listening to podcasts, but I've found they do not quite work for me. Maybe I need better headphones, but in the train, people just talk too loudly for them to work.

I cannot leave this job because it's my sole source of income, and I'm financially stretched (salary is rather low), as well as I'm 6 months into it. Dad tells me every day how proud it is of my job and how I should never leave it.

Looking for a new place to rent is hell, absolute hell. Landlords want to know your work history + income history + shady landlords which do not want you to sign contracts leaving you with no rights + it would be a huge expense for me. Right now, I ride the aforementioned train for free thanks to a government program, so commuting costs me 1/7th vs. renting.

I also have a friend who makes as much money as I do, in IT, WFH fully, and is doing so much better than I do. I'm a CS dropout, and I'm thinking of getting back to it... But I have my doubts.

Has anyone experienced a commute like this? How did you bear through it? How long did you last at it?
It's just the "celebrity gossip" aspect of HN at work—where Elon Musk was, what Paul Graham had for lunch, etc. Truly fascinating.
Moreish is a commonly used word in the UK.
Every single comment I've posted on this topic (including the one you just replied to) I've been careful to point out that I expressly do not think such laws should exist.
Yeah agreed. This is like a post equivalent to reddit comments. I don't want a new post high on the feed every time some famous person leaves twitter.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This pretty squarely does NOT fall under "On-Topic". The only reason it's even being upvoted is because it has "PG" in the title. if it were like, Kanye West, we wouldn't even have it _submitted_, let alone upvoted here.

EDIT: formatting.
Are you planning on fixing the misleading date?
Because they're harder to enforce and accidental leaks happen.

Highjacking planes is illegal but we still don't allow guns and bombs on planes, it makes it easier to enforce.

Risk mitigation is a part of public policy.
> Is this an indication of Gitlabs new "corporate" culture?

New? GitLab has been corporate-y for a long time.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Extradition Approved by Judge
Why not just charge something like a core fee like with batteries though?

I don’t see how someone sees one thing wrong with an activity and go “yeah let’s ban the whole thing”
Intel i9-13900K has been overclocked past 9 GHz
Yeah, when I read this sentence, my thought was: how much slower does "fast" mean? :)
There are brilliant hacks and terrible kludges. This is the latter.

Yikes!
It's very difficult to go through life being treated with disdain, which is the treatment a lot of nonbinary and transgender people get. Even if you think it's justified, you don't have to be the reason their lives are difficult.
Large lots don't make all neighbor problems go away but it makes a lot of them do so. Especially in a more rural/farming-oriented community.
Don't bring ChatGPT into a pineapple / pepperoni pizza fight.
This is correct. It's because, basically definitionally, the amount of people who have deeply engaged with any topic is very low compared to the number of people who have shallowly engaged with it. This means that the amount of reference material written by people with deep understanding will be much much less than the amount of reference material written by people with shallow understanding.

"Back in the day", this problem was addressed by having significant hurdles in order to publish material on a topic. E.g., books used to be the primary way to learn about a topic, and in order to publish a book you must 1) deeply engage with the material for quite a while simply to write the book and 2) become fairly credentialed / convince a publisher you're worth their time, etc. Same thing with academic papers.

The internet has completely removed all barriers to publishing, meaning it's up to us to sort the wheat from the chaff.
That can profile the whole browser as a unit. It does try to record only active threads. There are ways to set it to record everything. https://chat.mozilla.org/?#/room/#perfteam:mozilla.org is good place to access the people who know more about the profiler than I.
Users are apparently anonymous -- this will make it non-sustainable. One plausible fix: A video camera that records faces. Otherwise the homeless will be taking a beating from the local drug dealer whenever they get in the way of urgent business.

Like this:

Q. Do Links have cameras and what happens to the footage?

There are two security cameras on each Link.

https://www.link.nyc/faq.html
Yeah absolutely correct but the article was talking about professional cycling. I’m also a cyclist (not touring oriented) and the stuff a bike is, the more I like it.

A racing bike should flex vertically but not horizontally.
That difficulty lies in the system - which can be resolved/upgraded via various means.

But the “concept” of one’s property as investment “outranking” one’s property as a homestead is, in my mind, part of the core concern here. Maybe it’s too “meta” but we already have laws re noise, etc as well as a system in place to modify broken laws.

Appreciate your reply!
Not even that, once you fold the slice in half.
I have always liked Lisp and array languages, so I am finding my footing with April, since it is very flexible. You can write predominantly in one or the other, but I am finding it easier to do the math and array stuff in APL, and the glue in Lisp. Right now I am experimenting with creating some generative art and music with CM (Common Music, a Lisp music composition system that lends itself well to creating algorithmic music) and using APL to create the patterns for CM as arrays and composed functions. I want to add graphics and animations to the code once I get CM working with April. I just started learning April, and I am having so much fun with it, I need to stay focused on my original task!
I really don’t worry too much. I’m lucky to be surrounded by the tech seen in Israel and just see so many innovative ideas and solutions to various problems on a daily basis.

It’s more that it just doesn’t seem worth it. We use a bag for a few minutes and it’s in our environment for 1000 years. It seems like such a bad trade to me.
The other difference with birds is that males are the homogametic sex, with ZZ chromosomes, whereas females are the heterogametic sex, with ZW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system
Are you familiar with the work of Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, who won it for debunking the so-called Tragedy of the Commons in general and specifying where it applies in particular?
I don't understand your comment. Something like:

'entropy shannon machine learning differential'

will give more focused results than just 'entropy', certainly. I suppose there is some limit, is that what you mean? Even there, if I add 'literature review' the results get more focused.
That's the disease: the use of housing as one's primary source of savings and retirement funding.

There are alternatives like pensions, improving social security and medicare/medicaid, etc. The de-prioritization and gutting of these has probably contributed to housing taking their place.

But housing isn't a sustainable answer. It's basically done. Current generations can never see the kind of housing appreciation their parents did. Prices simply can't go up much more except in areas that are undervalued and never saw a run-up in previous decades. New buyers today risk the opposite: straining to buy into overvalued markets only to see them crash and leave them underwater. Housing as a source of retirement funding is a one-generation-and-done phenomenon.

Personally I would not touch real estate in overvalued metros today unless I were rich and could afford to lose 25-50% of the value of the home. If interest rates don't come back down to near-zero and/or if the trend toward telework and geographic decentralization continues, these areas could very well crash.
I think knowledge of the city is still much better than relying on GPS. The gap may have narrowed significantly but I'd still rather by driven by someone who knows the streets. One example I regularly encounter is Uber drivers following GPS down these extremely narrow (6ft I believe) bollard lined connecting roads. They are easily avoided if you know the area but every Uber driver will take them while we both hold our breath until we get through it.
Maybe we can increase your fines:
Please tell us of any laws your startup have broken
>The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They decrease trade for the working women and people of other genders in the windows. My brilliant neighbourhood pizzeria closed and was replaced by a Nutella store.

Condolences, Nutella is overrated and so does gentrification.

>... most of this is driven by the cash-only bars and the evening “supermarkets” that still sell booze under the counter. Bars that aren’t responsible for street noise, antisocial behaviour or mountains of trash on the street every day. Get the alcohol situation under control - booze only served to people indoors or seated outdoors. Booze sellers not obeying the law closed down permanently.

I agree. But also maybe cite people who piss and shit in public as well?

AMS has plenty of restrooms, people are just lazy little fucks. Part of it might be alcohol, but part of it is permissiveness -- America takes it too far in the other direction and labels you a sex offender if the only person who stumbles upon you peeing is a cop but... fining people three or four figures might help.

(Or throwing them in jail overnight)

Orrrr... raise the drinking age to 21 like in the USA? I got the sense it's mostly Americans who go buck wild, but apparently it's a thing in some places in London they set it higher and that's not the worst idea IMHO.

>The antisocial situation is not people who’ve snorted chalk dust or taken placebo drugs, or eaten a space muffin. It’s excessive drinking and a culture of impunity of the bars.

Yeah, I overdid it on the last one and people were nice -- I took some psychobillin and the peoplke in my hostel started messing with me, so I ended up in the corner of some frites shop for 3 hours, and I felt bad about it.

I think maybe it's something about alcohol? I quit the stuff, and I've noticed it makes people... meaner. Not just in the fighty sense but more willing to do things like... entitlely demand to use a toilet someplace they've never been a customer then go poop into a canal if their don't get their way.

(The best being some percentage of them apparently fall in and someone has to literally drag them out? That's another solution, though maybe too dark... just let them drown in their own urine.)

But I'll shut up and defer to you since you actually live there -- I only visited :-)
This reminds me of the movie Good Night, Oppy

This was a surprisingly touching movie about the Opportunity rover. Yes, it's sentimental, and yes, the NASA crew do call it "her." And yes, the rover does remind you of Wall-E. Still, it's a good flick to watch with the family.
Yes, that is not cool. By coincidence, a few days ago, I followed a link to an SO blog article, but the link was broken, I searched the article title on Google, which led me... to the same 404 page again. So I took to the great Internet Archive which fortunately worked. Only later have I found that because the article in question was so good they chose to republish it, all original links broke in the process.
Do your low income neighbors work on their cars at their houses? Have they been busted for doing it while you haven't?
Offline Messaging Apps Using Bluetooth
I do understand the technology and paradigm. It just appears gimmicky. The shift in approach does not tangibly benefit me. It benefits Mastodon, the servers, and probably (if not now, eventually) advertisers.
"This is fascism" should automatically qualify for "advanced sarcasm", right?!
How far does this go? If you have a riding lawnmower you have to change the oil in that too. Are we forcing people to spend money to haul their mower to a shop to get the oil changed? ATVs?

I'm completely against this. You're expecting poor people to pay for things they can do themselves if they're willing just because a few people dump oil in their weeds at night. Your freon argument doesn't sway me either. Wrecks cause freon dumps all the time. Your neighbor pulling freon out of one car isn't causing that much environment damage.

Also: if you're concerned about it, report them.
Do you have that written up anywhere? That sounds amazing as I'd love to see mesh generation in Houdini.
Lots of humans are special though and don't have the same problems or weaknesses as average people. For example, some poor people manage to not get fat in USA, if you are one of those then likely many other things that applies to other poor people don't apply to you.
For security matters: you don't want many people in poverty around wealthy ones.

For freedom matters: you don't want wealthy people buying the vote/opinion of others in poverty.
Yeah, when I was a kid we had the 'oil bush' behind the garage. The bush my dad spent twenty years trying to kill by dumping old oil on it.
What I Saw at an AI Hackathon
No way! This is the creator of Hapland... As a kid playing flash games on websites all day like Addicting Games, Armor Games, etc. you don't really think much about the people behind these projects. Then time goes on and they cement themselves in your mind as a myth.

The fact that I now get to read and understand articles by this legend, and work in the same industry vertical him... what a privilege!

Thanks for your work. Hugely inspirational to my career.
Cool, knew that some people were doing it but didn't know about this project.
Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system
The only “right” answer lies in the idea that one’s home should out prioritize another’s investment.

Investment supports a class driven, divide building system.

Homes support humans.

One of the two above clearly, imho, has “right of way.”
FrodoPIR: A new privacy-preserving approach for retrieving data
Indeed a weird question. It is reminiscent of the destruction of title-deeds and charters in the French Revolution.

> They turned upon the châteaux in order to destroy the charterrooms, the lists and the title-deeds; and houses were burned down if the masters did not relinquish with a good grace the feudal rights recorded in the charters, the rolls and the rest.

> All the title-deeds held by the Abbey of the Bernardins in the neighbouring communes were carried off.

> They did them no harm but the registers and title-deeds of feudal landlordism they never spared. They burned them, after compelling the lord to swear that he would relinquish his rights.

This isn't something that government's usually do, and modern tech infrastructure and practices specifically attempt to prevent with backups, access control, and even buddy systems (in the realm of finance - though the technical name of this practice escapes me at the moment).

From Kropotkin, P. (1927). The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (N. F. Dryhurst, Trans.) New York: Vanguard Printings. (Original work published 1909)
CHAPTER XVI THE PEASANT RISING (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/fren...)
Does Freeform have a web app for iCloud users like Office 365? If not, who can you collaborate with?
runq exists, and gvisor can be used as a docker runtime, so yes docker absolutely can.
If you could buy solar panels produced by Bell Labs but not those produced by George Cove, then Bell Labs did indeed invent the first commercially available solar cells.
In a developed country being a no contract tenant is a good thing. Any landlord dumb enough to have a no contract tenant is going to get absolutely wrecked by the legal system
You're not wrong, but you also should not provide unsolicited fitness advice like that.
JVM can run apps _compiled_ for it. WASM has the _exact same_ limitation.

Someone put in the effort to get Postgres to compile for WASM. That's great :) Maybe someday every application will compile to WASM as the preferred choice over the linux interface.

Compiling apps for different targets is VERY MUCH not a simple, low effort task though. Something like a database that must have an incredible number of optimizations in the way it makes syscalls, will have to a full stream of work to keep each target running well.

It can be done. But if "one of these thigns is not like the other" with your three things- Docker is the odd duck out.
Serving four million Riffusion requests in two days
It would not surprise me to see this sort of law popping up as a way of protecting particular businesses — home repairs, computer repairs, and the like could be made to fall under similarly vague regulations.