skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember constant discussions in the last few years that went like this: "If you don't like Twitter, why don't you start your own?" And many people tried, but no one is succeeding so far. I think the reason for that is that Twitter really has no functionality, except for (and that's a BIG one) the Network Effect itself. This Network Effect works the other way as well: if you don't have it, you can't compete with Twitter. The new "microblogging services" will not have network effect by definition, and they can't get traction.

Now that Elon Musk is making changes, we are again into the "If you hate Twitter, please you start your own." But I think these new efforts will go the same way as the old ones. You simply do not have the network effect to compete effectively.
That sucks, but to be fair that's not usually intentional, but simply a cached price that hasn't updated. You see this especially with flights for some reason due to the complexity -- airlines change prices incredibly frequently but aggregator sites can't refresh them all instantly. I'd forgive a site if I only saw this happen once/occasionally, but I'd report it to regulators if I saw it happen as a pattern.
In this context; someone who can't afford bail makes someone a danger to the community?
Is there any evidence at all of him giving “similar” money to republicans, other than his own word (which is garbage)?
This is cool! Just added my local course.
Or 'just' have a mini roomba on each panel?
Also true that one has to give up their 20s and possibly low 30s somewhere they do not want to be, but in general, a doctor can pick up and go anytime after that compared to someone in finance who generally has to stick around the finance hubs.
I truly wish Trump would have been able to actually ban TikTok (or at least force a sale).

The recent twitter files show that the bond between Government and social media companies is a little too close... but it would be foolish to suggest that the lesser of the two evils here is China.

It is actually insane that we let China do whatever they want here while US companies are effectively prevented from gaining a foothold in China.
The point of the comparison was to argue that one would expect a system which involved vastly more human labor to be much more expensive, yet the author had figures which suggested it would be less expensive.

The implication presumably being that Lyft must be overspending somewhere.
I work on a _large_ C++ codebase on Linux. If I'm on my main (Linux) machine, things are fine, bind mounts are okay. If I'm stuck on my MacBook then compilation performance is...bad. I suspect it's due to heavy filesystem access from the compiler (reading source, writing object files, etc). At some point I need to confirm this by copying in my source directory.
If you like the picoSYNTH aesthetics I've also made a 3D modeller with similar looks that might be interesting to check out: https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

Nothing I've made has ended up on Hacker News before so I'll also take the opportunity to shamelessly plug my Patreon if someone want to support my work. :D https://www.patreon.com/johanpeitz
There are tons of valid criticism for the US intelligence community, but when it isn't agenda driven they can be right about a lot of things, for example knowing that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine.
Hey nradov after sleeping on it, I agree with you, I don't like the tone of my original comment. Probably every engineering team at NASA who was part of Insight had a say in whether to invest an ounce in a dust cleaner or another sensor, and they went with the sensor. Who are we armchair warriors to dismiss that process?

That said, I also realized that a motorcycle helmet tear off plastic film and some rubber bands held stretched by fusible links would solve the problem just fine and at least double the life of the mission for negligible weight. It may not be glamorous or even guaranteed to be environmentally friendly, but it would work. Kind of like the old joke about NASA spending millions to design a space pen when the Soviets just used a pencil.

So I'm afraid that there's still no way I can accept that the engineering isn't feasible. It just sets off my code smell detector too much. Planned obsolescence is perhaps a bit too strong of an accusation though, so I'm sorry for saying that.
Creating a Book Summary AI for Amazon Using Airtable, OpenAI and Simplescraper
Cynical, but probably true.
MacBook Keyboard Litigation Settlement
It is grossly unfair to the poor and the not-so-poor. It's a two-tiered justice system where the politically connected have different rules applied to them than the rest of us.
I wonder how many of these are intentionally randomizing the form you get during checkout, in an effort to thwart automated purchases by bot accounts. I don't know anything about this space, but I've definitely noticed that my bank does this with its login flow. There's at least a dozen variations and domains I might get redirected to on any given day. Does anyone who works in this space know of a similar practice for online checkout?
If you are looking for "generic" workflows (HR, CRM..) plus "work management" (projects, collaboration...), then Monday is indeed the popular all-in-one solution.

If you want to augment it with more "specific" internal data-based tools, look at low-code platforms like retool [1]. They are used to build custom business processes on top of Airtable or any DB.

Otherwise, A favourite of mine is https://fibery.io/. It is a fresh take on modular business software.

Or you can go the classic OSS ERP route. https://www.odoo.com/ maybe?

[1] https://uibakery.io/retool-alternatives
I watched a show in the 80s about expert systems essentially playing 20 questions with a patient (via a human typing assistant) and the computer was already more accurate than doctors in a study. The fucking 80s.

Doctors have a very powerful Union. They don’t call it a union, but it’s a union.
Did you throw a fit about there not being a valedictorian your year?

This story has fuck all to do with testing or test scores. The same test was administered. The same rankings were applied.
I do this as well. The easiest solution I found is to unplug my modem when I am working from home.
Maybe it’s used differently at Google, for us experiments are something you roll out to a (sticky) subset of users matching certain criteria. So it cannot be merely data (flag or config), but a library function of user ID and whatever other metadata.
They are making interest payments on 250 million USD? Wow! How much do these people earn?
Your comment only makes sense since you are an american. The entire premise of your argument completely false a part when you have actually experienced what the "goodness" of america, say in the middle east, means.
Innocent until proven guilty, presumption of innocence and so on. The system is insane, but not for the reasons you seem to think. It is unfair to the poor.
Wow, I feel like I buy a lot of stuff online but I don't think I've ever come across that. It sounds super bad.

Is there a particular site or commerce platform that is known for implementing this?
Many businesses are absent of value :)
This is hilarious either way, but I'm thinking that the guy who was "offended" by his picture being posted might have submitted the complaint for the sake of humor, with the hopes that it would further enforce the point of the article in question
So basically what you are pointing out is that a bunch of people believe this, people who are high up in the government and the best they came up with is this:

"So somehow there is very definitely an opportunity here for the nation to grasp in terms of building up its nuclear skills."

Must be sad to have to base claims on so little evidence.
May I ask what model you are using?
> I can't think of a union negotiation where the union ever offered something in exchange for increased benefits.

Its relatively uncommon if your baseline is status quo ante (though I’ve seen it in repeatedly in public sector unions in downturns, and I’ve heard of it happening in private sector unions when the employer is in particularly dire straits), but not at all uncommon if your baseline is the employer’s offer.

> Like, for more benefits, we'll improve productivity to more than pay for it.

Unions don't control productivity, so they can’t promise that. Of course, if employers want to give labor a stake in productivity by offering equity, they are free to do so.
The adopted system is indeed holistic. The proposed merit lottery was not and purely considered gpa and math enrollment. But that was also deemed racist. So it is clear that the “holistic” elements aren’t what piss Asra off.

And the adopted system does still deeply consider grades, which you claim are being discounted.
Okay fine, the image of someone's eyeballs are unique and we take some checksum, store it in Worldcoin block chain, and each individual gets some coins. This particular data is owned by the private key of each individual and can be used as some form of decentralized identity. Ignoring possible privacy concerns, how does this produce any money aside from people buying coins due to hype?
Parameterising works for individual fields in a statement. However for complex queries (the reason for the meta-programmimg comment) you can’t always parameterise the additional subqueries/tables/fields. You can use stored procedures, but that just shifts the necessary code from one language to SQL, and the SQL doesn’t have a robust library you can just use.
You might find this useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34060692
"Look beyond meaning for worth and value."

Well said.
Ask HN: Is the industry saturated with data scientists already?
I'm still pretty early in my career, which I started as a software developer. I transitioned into a data scientist role about a year ago, then moved to the USA for a Master's degree in AI/DS.

Here I'm seeing a trend of software developers being paid better than data scientists in general, and I was wondering if I've made a mistake transitioning away from software development. The number of opportunities also seem to be dwindling (or maybe I'm not looking well enough, please feel free to correct me).

My question is this: Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause the market to become saturated, or is it still a viable career path?
On the MCU (device) side, you can command the poll in a data-received interrupt. Does it not work that way on the PC side? Ie, you never have to really block on the MCU.
The FBI and CIA have both good and bad effects on a US resident whereas China's national security establishment has only bad effects (if it has any significant effects).

There is no disadvantage to a US resident from stopping them from spying on US residents. Both the law-and-order type of US voter and the don't-tread-on-me type agree on that.
Zoom's native client uses Qt WebEngine, so not Electron garbage but still Blink garbage.
I am not defending the bail system but is it not set to be "much" given the crime and your wealth?
I generally agree, but that's no reason why we shouldn't push for a law banning use of private data like this now. It seems like a first step towards that culture shift we want. And even if enforcement of this new law is lacking, I bet in the TikTok situation the US gov we be happy to enforce it.
Show HN: Speak to your phone to query a database
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And then what happens when ChatGPT produces an explanation that's clear, well-structured, logical, and completely wrong? This is plain bad advice.
Does anyone have recommendations on papers on current definitions of interpretability and explainability?
For larger purchases or specialized items I use a reputable review site (americas test kitchen, wire cutter, etc.) and sometimes cross-reference a couple sites to see if there are common recs. For smaller ones, I usually just get the one that most closely matches what I need and has overall good reviews figuring I can just return it if it doesn't work out.
> "Democracy" is more or less an delusion those in power perpetuate to ensure the cattle think they have a choice

I had a much larger post, but I'm going to only respond to this one now, because it sums up basically off the disagreements and no further discussion is going to resolve anything.

I don't agree with this sort of cynicism at all, and I very much do believe that while it is very flawed, democracy ultimately is still doing its job.
Here in Japan you can hear someone calling themselves a software engineer, fresh out of a bootcamp. The original meaning of engineering has gotten lost over the time, diluted by a sense of self-importance.

Imagine a world in which we let the bootcamp grads build our bridges and medical devices (Therac anyone?).

I don’t mean to be a gatekeeper. Keeping someone from practicing medicine if they won’t get a degree is not gatekeeping by anyone’s definition.

„Trust me, I am a software engineer“ just doesn’t have the same ring as „trust me, I’m a doctor“

The risk of criminal liability in many countries is most likely low, as long as you keep the anglicized term and not call yourself Ingenieur (engineer) in Germany or for example 工学者 (こうがくしゃ, kougakusha) in Japan, both of which imply that you have a degree in engineering.

To make things more confusing, the information technology qualification I possess in Japan called 基本情報技術者試験, loosely translated as fundamental information technician, is often translated using engineer instead of technician.

Some countries do over software or information engineering degrees, with a professional body regulating them, but I find that to be the exception.

The battle is already lost.
citation needed - and whenever I read this claim, I wonder: if a country is incapable of regulating its coal plants well enough so they don't kill people via pollution, will it be capable of regulating its nuclear plants well enough so they don't blow up?
This looks so cool!

This alone:

> picoSYNTH 1.1 (Linux)
757 kB

Is really remarkable these days.
Try training the model with free-range, locally-sourced electrons.
Sincerely, what the hell are you even talking about? You are literally commenting on a kernel RCE enabled by putting this stuff in the kernel!
I have absolutely no idea what this post is trying to say.

“This crap” refers to the publishing of merit scholars on a list, not actual achievement. That’s just achievement porn.
You can also pay the kiosk $30 for the rare privilege of early check in. Completely soulless.
Remembering Paul Somerson (2018)
This reads like propaganda about propaganda. Fitting in a way I guess.
You can turn caching off, I believe.
Broken analogy; "Facebook" still exists and their CEO is still Mark Zuckerberg; the fact that Facebook is now owned by Meta hasn't changed this; the name "Facebook" was not discontinued. "Google stock" is an anarchonism, but at least "Google" still exists.

The KGB doesn't exist anymore. They are now the FSB. The "KGB" still exists in the same sense that "The Soviets" still exist, neither call themselves that anymore, nor do they have any subsidiaries called that.
How are these people paying a minimum of 1 million a year on interest rates?
Almond milk is idiotic in many ways, especially considering how much water it takes to grow them.

Oat milk is a much better option.
You can do it with very little. Prime example: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... drawing a mouse pointer on an almost stock Apple II, flicker-free because drawing is synced to the vertical blank interval, even though the hardware cannot see when that happens (that part I don’t quite understand; I can see them detecting ‘end of screen’ on an almost blank screen and programming the timer to generate a periodic interrupt at about the screen redraw frequency, but wouldn’t the VBL and the 6522 interrupts drift away from each other over time?)
We use sqlcode as a more general solution to this:

https://github.com/vippsas/sqlcode
He could still mine crypto with a pen and paper!
You want a swing-a-way can opener. They make them like they used to.
In my experience, pretty much everyone without a record, or has always shown up for court gets ROR’d (released on own recognizance) for non violent crimes. The people that get screwed are the ones that skip court dates and then get caught again. If someone gets caught shoplifting and the cops find a gram of heroin in their pocket, it is common to be ROR’d after 24 hours in the tank if there are no outstanding warrants for skipping court. If they skip court and get caught again, the bond will be like $5000. If they are poor, they will spend a week in county jail, dry out, get on Suboxone, get assigned a parol officer, and hopefully be on a better path. Bail is meant to encourage people to show up for court and is needed for people who have a history of not doing that. It is less of a rich/poor thing, but rather a history of skipping court vs not skipping.
I tend to agree.

The amount of time and effort they would have to spend on ramp-up and context sharing... seems it would be a nightmare. Unless its just some grunt work but even then, seems much more reliable to have a contracting partner in that case.
Google has been running self driving cars on public roads since 2010. There were driver interventions back then, but I doubt they would have any trouble running those cars in a warehouse after driving 7 years on public roads.

That tech probably wouldn't be economical to use in a warehouse though.
32GB + swap off really does help for sure. I do have updates disabled but I admit I am sloppy with not picking through what I update. It doesn’t help that there’s new updates basically daily.
Funny thing is that I switched from virtualbox for Vagrant on OSX over to Docker because vbox file operations were so incredibly slow.
kNN with k=1 is a more complex model than a neural network, not a simpler one. If we had more data it would scale and if we reach a point where we have a labeled image for every possible pixel combination in MNIST it would be unbeatable.
Belarusian intelligence is still the KGB
Oh yes, just like you can never find anything in Google because it's case insensitive.
It's not that hard to infer that you know very little about the topic at hand, but you think you know, because reasons. Your comments remind me of the other time I had to engage with complete nonsense from someone who was oddly confident about their position, despite clearly having no idea they are talking about (to be fair, you're not nearly as bad as the other person, who was unironically arguing for freezing the entire global credit market to avoid the coming COVID apocalypse of small business failures) - just because you can put together some words that appear to make sense if you don't think deeply enough or have no context, doesn't mean the resulting output makes any sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680687
Nuclear disasters are not localized. Geographically the radioactive release travels large distances with the wind and causes severe radiation effects hundreds of miles away. Chernobyl was basically a prevented disaster (the worst we have seen but nowhere near a worst-case scenario) and the effects are still costing money to deal with today hundreds of miles from the site.

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cloud-of-ra...

But the main problem is that it's not localized in time. Chernobyl is a problem for several countries still to this day, and the actual site itself will continue to be a problem for generations to come.
They updated the fifth paragraph down to mention that encrypted passwords and unencrypted metadata has been stolen - in my mind that practically qualifies as a new incident
> but because they have done an unprecedented cleaning project

That is nonsense. Most of that cleaning prevents nothing. Its mostly political posturing to show that they are doing something.

> Hundreds of people died during the evacuation

Evacuations that were mostly unnecessary.
I recently came across this book cover again and immediately thought that’s More Joel on Software. Which made me appreciate it even more.
Arranged marriages aren't picked randomly.

Also divorce rates can only be meaningfully be compared within the same culture. The pressures to stay married or get divorced vary widely between cultures, separately from whether marriages are arranged or not.
> Oh go join Greenpeace already

Funny, because it's Greenpeace who is against nuclear power and thus pro-fossil fuels.
I didn't post this as a "show hn," as I wasn't sure it counted for that. I'd be delighted to know if anything I did wrong in this. Was fun, regardless.
> Is there any evidence at all of him giving “similar” money to republicans, other than his own word (which is garbage)?

The indictment (which required providing evidence to a grand jury for each count to establish probable cause) includes charges of illegal concealed-identity political donations. While it doesn't specify the recipients, this is consistent with his description of how he donated to Republicans to avoid criticism for such donations.
Still a few more tools in the toolbox. Keep the interest rate at 0% and delay payments indefinitely. That seems to be allowed?
It’s usually more about flight risk. “Have nothing to lose” is the phrase that’d be associated with people who can’t afford bail.

It’s a tough situation because optimally no one who’s not a flight risk or dangerous should be in jail. They’re all innocent, after all, until they have trial. A financial hostage is just the easiest to implement.
> FSD reliably and repeatedly tries to stop at green lights on a 50 mph road near me

I believe that's a "feature". I had it on a loaner too and it wants you to give it permission to cross the intersection by pressing down on the drive stalk or briefly press the accelerator pedal.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_eu/GUID-A701F7D...
I wish Ctrl+Alt+Delete would be reliable enough to work with full-screen games. But, half the time, when you try to launch Task Manager that way to kill the offending process, it ends up under the game's output. I've learned to kill processes using keyboard navigation by looking at Task Manager's thumbnail in Alt-Tab process list, but it's ridiculous that we still need to do this kind of dance in 2023.
I noticed I did the same thing when looking for hotels - what's the possibly best hotel out there for some reasonable price? Ooh, they have breakfast, ooooooh, but this one has breakfast and a bar, and this one even has a spa and nice hardwood floor!

At some point I made the same switch you describe: what is my minimum requirement so that I do not regret booking the hotel (for me: breakfast, reasonably close to destination, no-smoking on premises, rating above 8), then simply book the cheapest one that fulfills this. Reduced FOMO and time spent, not looking back.
Ryan Salame donated multi-millions to republicans, and was given 55m loan from FTX/Alameda.
Unfortunately the airline industry is both filled with caches upon caches upon caches when it comes to prices and also deceptive dark patterns.

The dark patterns have got better over time (as meta-search like Skyscanner and Kayak drive so much traffic to sites and demand honest pricing - travel agents either have to clean up their act or forgo meta search traffic) but the many, many layers of caches remain.