skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After so many incidents with Wells Fargo, doesn't this point to something deeply ingrained in that company's culture? Such that even executives cannot change something about the system at the company that they have created?

There must be some bad, little, everyday incentives permeating working at WF that causes the people there to produce these bad behaviors year after year. You can blame and change the execs, but they're not even in control of (or maybe even aware of?) the systems that are making people behave the way they do?
The comeback has been happening for at least a decade, depending on the region you might aswell say 2 or even 3.

Sadly enough only alarmist messages hit the news these days, which really should be the headline here.
IMO, your right to deny people entry to your private property should end once you take their money for tickets to enter. After all, it's not like she bought her ticket under a fake name.
No. Anything that increases in value at least with inflation is a profitable investment.
Why should the payment piece show a preview or gallery or anything? When I buy something using paypal, that info isn't on PayPal - it's on the vendor site.
It never is truly an exponential in the limit, but exponential growth for surprisingly long times is very common.
Whoa. I only knew of Bahco as a maker of saws and assorted woodworking tools. You just opened my eyes to the range of things they make. I'm going to have to get one of those if I don't go the Knipex route. Thank you!
NetBSD 10.0 Beta Available
I personally would appreciate a more expansive and less opinionated (forgoing the value judgments about the ultimate good or bad about AI being applied to something) version of this, as a way of tracking AI progress month to month. Maybe crowdsourcing a rating system from 1-10 in each category for how well AI can complete each category of task.
Guessing their on-site security stack must not be integrated with their transaction platform. Or someone else could have paid for the tickets.
Git chooses to pack them into much fewer files when there are lots of loose files.

Actually, these days many filesystems perform surprisingly well with lots of little files. What don't work with huge directories is basic utilities like ls, or anything that likes to collect file list in memory & sort it. I have some directories that essentially hang ls, where find is still happy listing the files (because it just streams the output).
> "If you think it's only useful for building software, you've completely missed the point"

I clicked on your link with 16 pages of just contents links to find what the point is, and found "the make utility automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues commands to recompile them".

What's the point you see?
I get what you mean, but what's the alternative? How should you behave if you're exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face?

Seems to me it's better to try and be kind, and treat others right despite your horrible situation. The person you're treating cruelly because of your personal trauma could easily be going through a trauma worse than yours.

Apologies if I misunderstood what you were getting at, though. I wasn't clear on which social boundaries you'd propose to exempt people from.
Exactly, I read it right around when I was finishing university. Because of a large theatre studies department, mysterious black-clad, chain-smoking girls stamped from the Donna Tartt mould were constantly wafting around the place. So this book came along at the right time.

Like a lot of things I enjoyed at that age, I've been hesitant to revisit it because I'm afraid it's actually a pretentious and self-absorbed product of its time, not unlike those theatre students. I have no idea what it would be like to experience a book like that as an actual adult.
> The founders knew times will surely change and made provisions about how to change the constitution.

They also made it really, really hard to do so.

And also didn’t expect the federal government to be all up in everyone’s business through the commerce clause. It used to take a constitutional amendment to outlaw a thing (prohibition) but now it’s a simple majority vote.
Things last longer at <100 degrees kelvin, which is what you'd be talking about in interstellar space unless you are running a hot reactor.
How (not) to market an open source library
Any self-hosted sync options? i.e. Run my own service in docker container, and provide my own database, be it a blob storage like S3, R2, Backblaze or SQLite?
For anyone as confused as I was, this seems to be a fork of the original database at https://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Home/ The Sourceforge page now includes a link to this new repository.
> It's an effort to add diversity to the immigrant population.

There are many categories of green card applications: family, employment based, diversity, etc. It might make sense to consider "diversity" in family based immigration, but doesn't really make sense in the context of "employment based".

Historically, when US just wanted more people, the diversity might have made sense. But today, if a country wants better skilled immigrants, who are a net positive to the economy and don't put a strain on benefits, then it needs to select for such immigrants.
Huh? I get it, you are a tech bro. Me too. But there are no rules like only posts on tech are allowed here.

People posting on various topics and diverse discussions emerging out of them via different point of views are what makes HN interesting. If a topic doesn't interest you, just move on.
Thanks for your reply Overrun11, appreciate this!
I had to search what a 'palindrome' is, didn't know this was the word for it!

>What exactly is your level of programming knowledge?

As another commenter put it, probably in the 'tutorial hell' stage.
As much as I support USPS to upgrade their fleet, I dont think its a smart financial idea for USPS to fund Oshkosh for the development of their EVs. Partnering with already EV focused companies would be a better long term investment, because they would be funded by other companies looking for EV delivery vehicles. This would drive down cost per unit and long term support. Companies like Rivian with successful Amazon EDVs, or Canoo with their modular design (MPDV).

Military contracting companies like Oshkosh would charge USPS so much money for long-term support, and creating an expensive co-dependence with USPS. USPS wont be able to escape because they would need them to maintain 66,000 bespoke EVs.
After FTX's catastrophic collapse, crypto investors wonder if Binance is next
You can always use Mega sync.

And it has 15 GB free forever, just like Google Drive.

Mega sync has native clients in MacOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android.
Within EM, gamma rays (highest frequencies) may be able to achieve sufficient spatial directivity for interstellar communication, but we'd have to be very lucky to have a beam pointed at us. Also currently our gamma ray receivers suck, and they have to be in space because our atmosphere largely blocks it.
Profitable, but not consumer facing, advertising driven revenues may be volatile, depending on how sophisticated a thief the company is.
Ministry of Flat. http://www.quelsolaar.com/ministry_of_flat/

Automatic UV unwrapping.
If people really think nationalization is a reasonable solution, I'd rather not punish banks at all.
I was going to say the same. Before LSP it was constant effort to keep up with changing tools/scripts/hacks to keep all the code navigation/completion working, and it was still never as good as its now.

And once in a while I'd randomly have to look at some code that is not my primary work language, but everything will just work out of the box. Working with Emacs has never been better.

Huge shoutout to Magit mode, which I dearly love and definitely saved me bunch of time otherwise spent context switching to command line or another UI. 100hr = 6000min, I've been using Magit for 8 years at-least.

Assuming I'm doing some coding at-least 4 days a week, 4days * 4weeks * 12months * 8years = 1536 days of work. Let say it saves me 30 second on average by not switching window, selecting hunk individually that I love doing, doing arbitrary VCS operations (I love looking at diffs and just hitting enter to go to the source), I just need to open it 8 times per day to make it 100 hours so far. Definitely have used more than that I think. But even if this calculation is way off, and I'm not really saving time, its a very pleasant experience that is unmatched if you use Emacs IMO.
miniforge, no need to deal with conda environments anymore. https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge
Dune (https://dune.build/) is the preeminent build tool for OCaml development. I don't love its input syntax (s-expressions), and I sometimes miss the ability to write high-level functions to reduce boilerplate (especially for unit tests), but it always gets the dependencies right, and it's fast. This is in stark contrast to some of my experiences with various other build systems, and I am super happy that the default option for OCaml build systems is so good.
If it is an investment that grows in value faster than inflation why would we treat it any differently? Housing affordability issues aren’t because people treat housing as an investment. Someone owns the land the house is on whether it’s you or a landlord. The value of the land is a supply and demand issue.

Maybe the answer is to make it so employment can be had in many places and not just a few? Carry the remote work stuff further and people can work from less dense areas where land is more affordable?

The only other way I see to make housing not an investment would be nationalize all property and everyone rents from the government. We’ve tried that in parts of the world and it wasn’t awesome.
Buy Canonical.

I don't think MS actually cares if Linux exists, if most people pay a Windows license fee to run it.
Although — I’ve only seen this on, like, other online chitchats so take it with a heap of salt, but — I’m under the impression that the main thing accomplished if someone tried these sorts of antics in real life would be a reasonably pissed off judge with reason to believe that one party wasn’t engaging with the legal system in good faith.
PS: if you haven’t read that book series… do it. It is quite good!
I've heard a lot of recommendations for Knipex. I might yet break down and buy one of those even if it is a little bulky.
I'm generally bearish on AI, but I do feel that there are going to be a surprising number of applications where 'good enough' results are actually perfectly fine.

In particular, a couple of industries that I think are likely to get disrupted in the next few years are stock art, and the art-by-commission scene. The ability to use a Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth style setup to easily generate new artwork in the style of your favourite artist that's "good enough" is incredibly powerful.

Doctors and Programmers? Not so much, for now.
I'm not seeing a lot of struggle here in this thread. Did you post this on the wrong thread? At worst, I'm seeing some people have an opinion, others disagree, and most of them manage to stay above the quality of your opening sentence.
Sing cute shanties and engage in cheeky hijinks, if we completely ignore the parent comment.
The two examples you give don't disprove weak Sapir-Whorf, they disprove strong Sapir-Whorf. Almost no one who knows what they're talking about argues that language is the deciding factor in sexism or racism. Linguistic relativity is widely accepted, and that's the idea that language has an influence on your thought patterns.

There can be other influences that lead to misogyny and other biases, and language may adapt to give expression to those thought patterns. But language also can influence thought patterns. For it not to do so it would have to be the lone exception among all of the stimulae we take in, which is extremely unlikely.
An argument can be made that it would benefit the student to see the exact shape of muscles. When I study dance, it's much easier when the instructors wear either swimwear or clothing that makes seeing their muscles and joint movements easier.
A venue can dictate how you dress and behave, but can't dictate that you not carry in a cellphone?

Not clearly telling someone with anxiety that their (very common) safety blanket isn't allowed in the venue before they buy the ticket it a problem, but it's a problem with how we treat Terms-of-Service and EULAs that are too long and legalistic as binding. It's good that people can't have their cellphones at comedy shows.
>and then further blocked them from every other conceivable legal remedy

They left room for clear legal remedy, it just wasn't a pre-emptive stay.

The remedy was challenge the the law after it was actually used to deny some ones right, which would require the state to become involved.

The "loophole exploit" is one which only serves to delay the time until an unconstitutional law can be struck down, not protect it forever.
We have a tendency in our culture to soften words.

Thief has more emotional impact than “porch pirate”.
Afghanistan: Taliban closes universities to women
> Is it related how border maps can all be colored with only four colors?

Actually, that's not generally true. Michigan, for example, violates the axioms behind the four color theorem -- if regions are allowed to have multiple disconnected pieces, a map could theoretically require arbitrarily many colors. For a more pathological example, consider that US embassies are considered "US soil" in an island of their host nation. I'm rather curious about the chromatic number (that is, the smallest number of colors required) of the world map under that consideration.
Thanks mgomez, I think you're onto something. My only difficulty with this would be the concept of 'you don't know what you don't know.
Related:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08751 (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34060986)

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/openai-releases-point-e-an... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069231)

https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1605175485897625602 (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068271)

(but no meaningful comments at those other threads)
HN censors pro-crypto comments.
They don't quite lock it away. They give you a special pouch that locks, you put your phone in that pouch, lock it, and then they unlock it for you at the end of the show. Your phone doesn't leave you at any point.

Not trying to argue for or against that policy. But comparing it even remotely to the COVID situation you are describing (that is currently happening in a certain country) is about as self-aggrandizing and out of touch as it can get.
I think sites with user generated content are accurately flagged. There is a danger that infinite, free, low quality content will lower the value of their platform unless they figure something out.

I disagree with occupations getting flagged. For many professions, AI will become human augmentation. Illustrators, writers, and other forms of design will require people to adopt new tools but they will become more creative and more efficient.
Get a cheap USFF (ultra small form factor) PC. Its essentially laptop components in a small headless box. For the going price of a rpi 4 you could have an i5 or i7 with 8-16G ram and a proper SSD
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064345
> and Rails devs in denial that that's a big problem as the app continues to grow.

As someone who maintains Rails 3 apps ad infinitum, this is where things break down with Rails applications. You can create applications very quickly with Rails if you stay within the conventions. But as the app grows, that discipline breaks down and the structure starts to suffer.

This is true for a lot of web applications. But I think the problem is worse for Rails because it's so easy to get started and create apps. That ease comes back to bite you -- as a giant legacy Rails app that no one on the team understands and no one is interested in fixing or maintaining.
gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

It takes JSON input and produces flat, key-value output based on the path to the value. Usage with grep was obviously the original intention, but I've used it to help me better understand a given JSON's structure, too, which I then usually reflect back into a program that's consuming that JSON.

It also supports "ungron" too, so, for example, `gron some.json | grep -v "thing I don't want" | gron -u > filtered.json" makes for quick filtering of a JSON. I find it more user friendly than jq's language.
Doctors in general? Definitely not for a while.

Radiologists? Probably soon.
A few decades ago maybe. It is easier compared to the other majors, but easy makes it sound like a firm handshake is the only necessity. Hasn't been like that since 2008 minimum.
Credit Unions
Yes, I much prefer local and do my own backups (rclone to backblaze) on just about everything. I only drop stuff on iCloud when I need to share it and a couple of ongoing spreadsheets I use to track stuff.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/20/crypto_ponzi_scheme_c...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-estonian-citizens-arreste...

https://mashable.com/article/biggest-crypto-scams-2022

Please post some links where Crypto is beneficial to anyone other than those that speculate in it.
It's a costume people wear on Halloween and a mascot for some professional sports teams. People don't associate them with high seas cut-throat pirates with poor hygiene.
“I can’t think of a single viewpoint that is missing from my institution.“

You know when you are a bubble when…
Option<Rc<RefCell<_>>> is not the same thing as a pointer, as the semantics are different, and it uses much more memory than an actual pointer.

Rust has pointers. If you want to program like old school C++, wrap everything in unsafe and use all the pointers you want.
all adjustable wrenches are crap

save yourself a ton of frustration and buy a set of harbor freight wrenches
Everything paired with AstroGrep (or your favorite grep program) is the ultimate pair for searching on Windows. We pretty much force new devs to install these otherwise we watch them struggle for way too long.
I think it is the favorite book of a lot of people who don't read a lot. It's a transparent soap opera that flirts with incest and skullduggery and a lot of dreck. I don't intentionally not finish many books, but that's in the list.
I think we all understand what pirates did, historically, and the relevance now. You know it, I know it, the poster knows it. Pirates stole. Also pillage, murder, and rape, but that hardly fits the Disney model nor does that concern us now.

The poster is objecting to the cutesy alliterative framing of theft as "haha, porch pirates gotchya!" Porch pirate sounds much more innocuous than "Someone stole from my property."
looks a little bare bones atm has it got many active users? I've signed up all the same
There are over a hundred pyramids identified in Egypt of varying size and age, so depends on your definition of 'handful'. But to your question, there's the mastaba tomb starting from 3000bc or so, and it's flat toped and not a pyramid. Some scholars think the pyramid idea evolved from the mastaba (by stacking increasingly smaller mastabas on top of one another; see: Step Pyramid). There are lots of them.
>So don't try to become some idealized and maybe non-existent ideal engineer, but just grow yourself with this new skills and do what works for you!

I never considered this, so this is appreciated, and so is the help. I will send you an email for sure.

>You mentioned that you have done some R and Python, and your comment about math seems to suggest that the use of those might have been in data science-y fashion?

Yes, it was and I actually enjoyed it a lot.
But you can tweet the link to your files uploaded to Google drive
There's no future beyond the current quarter.
They not only make adjustable wrenches, they literally invented them (at least their modern form):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_spanner
Never seen it happen at concerts, but it happens more often than not at standup comedy shows.
Probably showing my age here, but their database:reverse feature just blew my mind.

The problem with most ORMs is that language object models are way more expressive than SQL (due to having multiple subclasses of the same superclass / interface, or even multiple inheritance, and none of those mapping to SQL foreign keys).

Targeting the less expressive data model should automatically avoid most ORM footguns. I wonder how it works in practice.
The combination of TypeScript, VSCode and GitHub Copilot is just a joy to work with.

The are valid criticisms of Coplilot around copyright but I'm not using it to generate whole algorithms. It just knows your code and what you are trying to do.
Farmers only get reparations for proven wolf kills, meaning you need to find the leftovers, and have them DNA-tested. That seems to work out for (as I've heard) less than half of the cases where lifestock is killed, usually no body is found.

There are also cases of a herd getting paniced, trampling down a fence, falling off a cliff, or ending up on a highway. In those cases proving wolf or bear involvement is even less likely.
Well, I didn't notice the bit about a "noisy period" - I took the sphere to be the surface of a volume, not a shell. I think the idea was that once you start emitting detectable information, you don't stop.

It's all hypothetical. All the stuff about probes: it doesn't matter whether the aliens are interested in talking to us. It doesn't matter whether they are interested in space and stuff. The authors define this sphere as the space wherein a hypothetical alien civilization COULD have detected our existence, and COULD have signalled or sent a probe in response.

Also, they choose to define their sphere in terms of the beginning of the radio era. That's arbitrary. There might be other signals that planets carrying life emit, that we don't know about.

SETI searches for radio signals like a drunk searches for his keys under the street-light.

Note: I only read the abstract.
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/he-had-a-bud-light-now-h...

Fired for driking Bud Light. Is that even beer I ask as a German...
Get an SD card specifically labeled "high endurance." They're a tad bit more expensive, but do work.

Corruption has always been an issue with using standard SD cards as a boot system. It's just something these cards were never meant to do. I run multiple Pis at home, one of them as a scraper/site hosting/MariaDB/Wireguard. Power outages would almost always corrupt the file system, and a few times, damage the SD card. Once I switched to high endurance cards, I haven't had a problem.
If that means "you don't get much more than what C offers", then I'll take that as a no. I18N, Unicode, Regex, built-in string manipulation functions, character set conversions and efficient data structures are table stakes at this point.