skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a language, and thus the language has may expressions that result in the same outcome.

First it's a distribution and a package manager, and the guidance regarding these is sub-par. Especially with what there is of documentation being split between the old and new UIs, then being told about flakes but that they're experimental so it's not clear whether you should or should not use them.

I just went to the nix website, clicked "first steps with nix" and I get https://nixos.org/guides/ad-hoc-developer-environments.html

Is that useful? I'm sure to somebody who already knows what they want out of nix it is, but the first thing I'm told is that shell environments exist and are useful to "use the tool without having to install the software.". Ok, but what if I want to install the software? Then there's listing of what's essentially a magical invocation out of nowhere:

$ nix-shell -p 'python38.withPackages (packages: [ packages.django ])'

I can understand that (or at least reach what I assume is an understanding), but there's no real explanation to give me knowledge to expand upon, if anything the explanations are worse than useless:

> We create an ad hoc environment with $PYTHONPATH set and python available, along with the django package.

thank you very much, that confirms I'd about interpreted the line correctly, but you've not told me what `withPackages` is or where `packages.django` comes out of so I'm not really helped.

And apparently the next step is "declarative and reproducible developer environments", or possibly "towards reproducibility: pinning Nixpkgs"? Or even better, "To quickly setup a Nix project read through Getting started Nix template", I have no clue what a nix project is or why I'd want one.

There's not just a step missing here, there's an entire floor, possibly building. It's like the nix community saw how git is taught and went "we can do worse".
Expect varying degrees of racism and colorism in pockets across Europe. It's not uncommon.

I would recommend giving your hard earned money to people that appreciate it. In my experience the non-racists offer tastier cuisine.
>"Income inequality increased from 1910 to 1930, for example, then declined for forty years before beginning its most recent ascent"

The reason is for that is simple, we lack wars. Ian Morris wrote a somewhat provocative book a few years ago called *War, What is it good for?", talking about the productive nature of war in increasing the capacity of states and populations. To take a very contemporary example, you can almost be certain Ukraine will come out of their current conflict less oligopolistic, more equal and more functional and capable than they were before. A little bit more like Israel, which also does not lack in the conflict department.

That's problematic as a normative theory but evolutionary kind of obvious. If you want dynamism, you need to wipe the slate clean from time to time. That's usually a fairly violent process. Oligopoly is what happens in the abscence of that kind of disruption.
Sway 1.8
None of the bullets are true...
It's not even remotely logical...
Why would it? I see no way that a chat-bot can replace a human audience, with a diverse set of real-world reputations, motivations and consequences.
China’s economy is slowing down long-term. This means that there is likely no longer sufficient constant increase in standards of living to keep the populace happy with the Party. A natural alternative for authoritarian regimes to keep their people in check is to nurture strong nationalism. This nationalism eventually tends to eat its own creators by pushing the leaders to declare war.
https://wiby.me - search for old websites (and new websites in old style. I think the index is updated manually).
> virus to force specific neurons to express the inhibitory hM4Di receptor which will modify the behavior of the desired target circuits with exogenous pharmacological manipulation when they introduce the agonist clozapine-N-oxide (CNO)

Wow reads like 22 century science.
There's no meaningful evidence of remaining staff being overworked or burning out
I would forgive him if he were merely bloviating, but there’s fairly good evidence now that his early legal speeches weren’t as trenchant in their criticism of Sulla as he liked to make out, and his voting record is often him upholding Sullan constitutional reforms. So it’s hard to buy him as the fierce opponent of despots that he clearly wanted to be seen as. And I find it almost impossible to to swallow his account (and let’s be clear it’s his account alone) of the Catiline conspiracy, and even if you do, again here the arch defender of the Roman constitution has it suspended so he can commit extra judicial murders. He did real harm to the Republic at a time he could have had huge influence. I’ve always felt there were strong parallels with Pompey. They both just wanted to be loved and accepted by the aristocracy and so were easily captured for their very obvious talents. But he just spent so long blowing in the wind that I’m baffled by the popular historical perception of him. Cato, who I think is by far a bigger bastard, was at least consistent in his own self interest.

Anyway, fascinating period to study.
Right, but this is an assertion that the game harms education, which must be precipitated by unengaged students. Rather than ask, "why are students not engaged?" We instead gate their lack of engagement with boredom, which creates more problems.
This is fantastic - can’t wait to try it out!
I'm subscribed to Matt Levine's Money Stuff[0] about finance, computers are bad[1] about retrotechnology, and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry[2] about history. The common theme through all of these is their focus on big picture systems, which I enjoy. I'm also subscribed to the Orbital Index[3] which is about space, and is more focused on small scale current events than the others.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff

[1] https://computer.rip, run by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrawfordor

[2] https://acoup.blog

[3] https://orbitalindex.com/
cars are great until someone deliberately runs into me
The red flags were fairly evident 2 years ago, even to someone like me who's not very observant; if I recall correctly, their android app was found to have tracking mechanism purely used for marketing purposes etc. Really? Trackers in a password manager, something that should be quite private. Combined with a few data breaches they had over around 2 years ago, I couldn't recommend them to anyone in good conscience.
When I look at the link, it seems to contain a spreadsheet with no information, but let's say $150k is true.

Market prices of homes in places like Freemont tend to run from the high 6 figures through the low 7. Knock off $150k and we have maybe a 20% price reduction (probably closer to 15%). Nice to have but hard to figure out how that represents the largest portion of anything.

Land homes sit on costs more than $150k, maybe north of twice as much in Freemont-like areas (unless the lot is weird, inaccessible, or otherwise has issues that make it difficult to build on).

I'm not sure how one is going to get total materials and labor to come in less than $150k for most single family homes in CA. Maybe with small square footage and a good deal of luck with labor and materials? You tell me how to build for less than $120/sqft and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's all ears.

Seems to me to get regulatory expense to be the single largest item for building a home, we'd have ignore land, then play the game of lumping together all such expenses while splitting out building and labor, and even then I'm still not sure how it actually adds up.
> Apparently people become magically wise during those years and then quickly forget these wisdom after.

Sample size of 1, but there is a noticeable difference in my friend and family group between people with kids and without kids. Particularly around “having it together.” Children are little logistical nightmares, more so the younger they are. From scheduling around the kids schedules (I.e when they wake up, have dinner, swimming lessons, when the bedtime routine starts, etc) to being prepared to leave the house for mundane things like grocery shopping (is the diaper bag packed, do we have milk, will we be gone long enough to need to pump, etc.). There is also much less agency as a parent, a good portion of every day is on the rails dictated by your kids schedule. You are also chronically sleep deprived for a window of 6-24 months around each pregnancy and the mother has a tonne of discomfort, weight, and a new balance of hormones for a large window around the pregnancy. You’re operating in this degraded state and have to juggle the logistics of parenthood on top of the family budget because you still have bills to pay. Your kids finally go to bed, but you can’t leave them at home alone (morally or legally) so unless you pay someone to sit on your couch for the night or find a relative who can pitch in, you are literally trapped in the house and can’t leave until they wake up.

People without kids say “thank god it’s Friday!” at the office, people with large families call the weekend two days without child care. People without kids mention going to the movies, people with kids haven’t been to the movies since their first kid was born unless they scheduled it a week in advance with their grandparents, and that movie had to be weighed against every other possible option for date night because you might not get to go out together again for months.

I don’t know how this _couldn’t_ impact a human’s behavior. To conflate it with “wisdom” might be incorrect but, at least from my personal observations, parents operate VERY differently in their day to day lives than their counterparts without children.

To your point of that having a lasting impact, it’s clear grandparents to these families have forgotten a lot of what it meant to be parents. Often suggesting unreasonable things in the face of the logistics of parenthood (like staying up late for a social gathering - as if they’ve forgotten what an over tired 20 month old is like).
- Due to recent UI changes people realize that nobody reads their Tweets therefore they will stop using the app. Musk needs to sell more Tesla shares to keep the lights on. But it will be too late.

- META gets more fines. Zuckerberg steps back as CEO, becomes an Amateur MMA fighter, ends up fighting Jake Paul.

- Google and META launch chatGPT competitors.
- TikTok will launch fully AI-generated videos and people will love them.

- China will be severely impacted by Covid seeing 3-5 Million COVID death.

- The recession in the US will be mild as "main street" thrives from people traveling, going out, and living an non-digital offline life.

- The Ukraine/Russia war will continue throughout the year

- Further crackdown on fincluencers (especially crypto) by regulatory organs worldwide

- New regulations on crypto projects especially NFTs

- Disney has to realize that they lost 3B on FTX and have to sell Marvel to Sony.

- There will be a wave of delistings as unprofitable SPAC listed companies realize that they can't raise capital cheap anymore.

- 49ers will win the Superbowl against the Vikings.

- Manchester City will win the Champions League
I don’t think they want to oversee another 3rd world province. Might as well leave the locals in charge and just extract their resources at a deep discount
I don't think that's going to accomplish more than this HN post on Christmas, honestly

Jassy knows how easy it is for engineers who passed the Amazon bar to find new jobs. He's going to think "Welcome to The Jungle, kid" and move on

If you ask me. OP dodged a bullet here. Amazon has turned into a toxic swamp
As it does almost any artist's magic. Money/long periods of success tend to make artists less creative in my observations.
That’s terrible and it looks like you’re trying to justify this.
> wealth will never be distributed evenly

That is of course the other extreme end. Very few people want fully even distribution of wealth, just a reasonable and fair distribution. What exactly is "reasonable and fair" is a whole different discussion.
I don’t understand why would someone trust Amazon or think to work there at all. Do people just don’t believe that it’s not a good company to work at?
Thank you! The direct URL works again as I type this, and I appreciate that you posted the Wayback link in the meantime.
> finally gives a satisfying answer to the question of when two types should be considered propositionally equal

One of my fondest memories was listening to Walid Taha debate Jeremy Siek, Todd Veldhuizen, and others, over beers, about the best way to define type equivalence in nontrivial type systems. It seemed so abstract, until I had to debug a template instantiation issue in GCC.
There is some good stuff here.

I remember xantfarm, xfishtank, and xmelt / xflip very fondly.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsi...

My university in the 1990's used MIT's Project Athena setup with AFS for file sharing, Zephyr instant messaging, etc.

There was a command named "attach" to mount a really long path like /afs/university/department/servers/students/servername/j/jsmith as /university/jsmith

There was also a command named "add" that would source the .environment file within this dir. This was used to set your PATH variable etc so if you wanted to use specific commercial software the .environment would attach the dir and set some variables.

People were explicitly told not to add a user dir as the .environment in that user's dir would get sourced.

So of course I made a script that kept track of what machine I was logged into. If someone added my account the script would run xhost + opening their machine to remote X11 connections and send me a zephyr message saying "I just xhosted you"

If they were in my actual computer lab I would run xmelt or flip their screen and they would freak out. Then I'd go over and laugh and remind them not to add my account.
the best air table alternative is google sheets
yea but they still manage to get re-elected and stay rich and show their paintings on morning shows
> The best you can hope for are that they respect the law

Offer letters never provided much of a legal protection. We just treated them as if they did.

Amazon et al wouldn't rescind them by their thousands this year if that created a strong legal case against them.
Is your current post already filled? I'm in the EU and filling positions left by people resigning has taken months. Talk to your old manager and HR. They might be more desperate than they appear.
This seems unlikely.

We do have archaeological evidence of early humans and settlements, dating back to as much as 379 kya.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_human_settlement...>

What we don't see is evidence of substantial communities, complex fabricated artefacts (e.g., pottery shards, monuments, structures, and most importantly writing) prior to about 6kya, at which point those emerge near simultaneously at multiple locations: the Fertile Crescent, Indus River Valley, the Yellow River, the Nile, the Andes (not subject to sea-level rise, and in the southern hemisphere, less subject to northern glaciation), and Mesoamerica.

Artefact survival bias is a reasonable concern, but even cultures which occupied terrain inundated by later sea-level rises should have left some marks in more-protected nearby areas: mining, temples, trading-posts or traveller way-stations, and the like. And ... so far as I'm aware (not my area of expertise), there is none.

Hancock doesn't seem generally credible FWIW.
Now this page is also broken (iOS Safari). The sidebar menu is open all the way and blocking most of the page. No way to close it. Nice work, Google!
Expunged by whom?

It’s a UX problem not a conspiracy
I agree, there's workflows they could've built to solve this problem. I wasn't defending them in the slightest.
> 2. Canvas based web frameworks become viable as an alternative to the DOM.

I would further add that a lot of companies will jump on this bandwagon until they realize they actually need SEO and accessibility and then move back to something similar to SSR.
> Sadly, that's the US for you.

Eat crow, mate.
>Russia has spent years financially divorcing itself from the West.

Pretending to.
This just makes average user's lives harder in signing up for sites.
These kind of stories really puts in perspective the whole “woah we software engineers at FAANG are so privileged”.
High quality media hasn't stopped being produced, but the sure bets are performing better.

Sure, the risky subversive stuff doesn't have multi-million dollar marketing budgets, but why should it, it's risky and subversive.

The current media environment is the product of what people give attention to.
Using these viruses is currently pretty common for things like optogenetics and tract tracing, it's some pretty neat stuff because they can be so selective in outlining specific circuits
In the UK - no. My current salary is fine. A larger salary implies more work/responsibility/hours, a larger percentage will be taxed, and if I don't like it I can't easily go back. I can also be fired more easily in the first six months of employment.
Show HN: Statistically Correct Python Interpreter
This feels like it assigns too much competence and control to the CIA and not enough to the unnammed "NATO ally" country or countries with the means and motification to make a whole bunch of Russian military infrastructure go kaboom. A lot of the US reporting on the war between Russia and Ukraine is very US-centric, and there's a few European countrise which really want to wreck the Russian military, have the historic ties and connections that they could probably carry out a good sabotage campaign, and that now have a justificaton to make it happen.
> Stupid I know, but it helps drastically to see it on paper.

Not stupid at all. Myself, and every single colleague of mine that I know (pure mathematicians) have to print every non-trivial document that we really want to study deeply.
> * Russia has spent years financially divorcing itself from the West. China has no economy without the West.

True, but by the same token the West (and the rest of the East, and the world) has no economy without China. It makes everything higher stakes for everyone involved.

> * Taiwan is an island. Invading an island is a much harder task.

Also true, but supplying a small island is also much harder than supplying a country with a large contiguous land border with you/your allies. All but one of Taiwan's major ports lie on the strait. And since Taiwan is much smaller than Ukraine, it has less strategic depth than Ukraine; there's nowhere for Taiwanese troops to fall back to.

> Also very questionable if they actually have the ship capacity to transfer enough troops. You can't just trickle them in.

I'm increasingly convinced that China's first act of war won't be shipping troops to the beaches but a blockade. That then presents the US with an unenviable choice: escalate to a full on shooting war to break the blockade, or give control of Taiwan's imports/exports (which is to say, Taiwan) to China.
I'd first wish the services would be written so that they do not use too much CPU to begin with. Ruby is horrendous with CPU usage, and the concurrency/threading in Ruby runtime is nothing to brag about.

A service such as a small community Fediverse server does not need microservices and complex architecture. What I've been seeing, people are kind of struggling with Ruby and Sidekiq even when having servers that are not super big. In the past, WhatsApp was having a small group of engineers with a handful of servers, serving hundreds of millions of users with Erlang. To get people running their own Fediverse servers, it should be as easy and as cheap as possible. Akkoma is a good start, and in a few months I hope we see the first proper systems made with Rust and Go, running with the minimal amount of resources, being single process and federating everything without the user needing to do any maintenance.
I'll copy my reply to a similar "but how do outsiders know they're not cheating us?" comment:

They do what any reasonable security company does, and call in vendors who have negative incentive to lie: https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/

I was especially impressed by the Cure53 ones, where they were provided access to the source code: https://bucket.agilebits.com/security/Cure53-1PW18-report.pd...
So what's the better option? Laying off someone already employed instead?

It's not extra shitty, it's just as shitty as any other situation. It sucks for the person involved but the alternatives are not better.

At least someone that got their offer rescinded can sue for promissory estoppel.
The most virulently racist CA residents I’ve met (meet some interesting people out riding motorcycles) moved to Idaho
> Is this only whilst using Google Chrome?

No, also in Firefox and Safari.

> Cause technically most people on Chrome login to it

I don't.
You know, Phone OSs these days have a "allow location only while using the app" permission. I only need the app while I'm at my room or while checking out.

You can also reject contact and photos permissions to apps. None of the hotel apps have asked me for these.
bucks out teeth

I bet it's still fast enough for whatever you want to do. Don't even bullcrap me because I WILL get you in voice and have you share your screen and prove you need to pay for stupid hosting.
What an odd article. The author spends a lot of time defining “upgrade” in very narrow terms (a new version that reaches new audiences by offering new features is not an upgrade, apparently), then makes a semantic argument that “sequel” would be a better word.

Ok? Fine? New products are just different in ways that manufacturers hope will attract more customers? And we shouldn’t call them “upgrades” because, IDK, reasons?
Don't apply to jobs online, network with people and get referred to one

Recruiters treat job applications the same way you treat credit card offers you get in the mail. Talk to your friends, family, professors, family's friends' families, etc and you should be able to drum something up (you're within a couple of verbal hops of thousands of people)
Refusing to be extorted is now worth criticizing?
No matter what you say though, the crowd never apologizes. Only a few will try to make concessions but it will not be enough.

There's also the fact that people will optimize for certain ends, and the most common end is to be 'sucessful' or at least look like it.
The safest way to store passwords is written down on a piece of paper. Maintain physical custody of it, never let it out of your possession.

If you need backups, use a non-networked copier, or an old style stand-alone point and shoot camera. Don't ever put the SD card in your computer. Keep all copies as secure as the original.

Banks have safety deposit boxes that can offer relative security. If you really want to be safe, manually encrypt your passwords.

[Edit] As others have pointed out, phishing is an issue. Be careful where you enter your passwords.
It's unethical because of the downside asymmetry of the two scenarios. In one someone has made significant life changes and left guaranteed income. On the opposite side a business entity won't be able to best optimize profits.
Ossified oligopolies are often the result of government regulation making competition difficult. There needs to be an easy path for competition to rise alongside large companies. Large corps need to be allowed to fail when they make mistakes as well.

No bailouts. No special treatment.

The tricky part is special treatment isn't always obvious. High minimum wage, insurance requirements and regulatory compliance are all things that are easy for large corps to follow but very costly for cash strapped startups. Often it is the large corps asking for more rules which is a ladder pull of sorts. There are many businesses that just haven't started because they don't pencil out with the high cost of compliance.