skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I understand your pain. I once worked on a team building a product for a multi billion silicon valley company only to have to project cancelled on the very evening before launch.

It sucked and I felt cheated. It took a long time for me to realize that I had been paid to do what I did and they choose to throw the work away, but it was theirs to discard.

With respect to Real ID, it is a stupid program and should be scrapped. It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to stick a scarlet letter on immigrants.

Here's the thing though, every legal immigrant and likely many illegal immigrants already have documents like green cards and passports they can use rather to fly.

In the end, this program places the overwhelming burden on US citizens who dont already have a passport (the poorest 66% of us), doing very little to actually make air travel safer.

RealID is the expensive side asymmetric response to an imagined problem that we cant possibly spend our way out of. In fact, throwing money away like this is exactly what the bad guys want.
Cars didn’t really start getting wireless CarPlay until around 2021. It would take a while for those cars to age out. My guess is that if Apple makes a portless iPhone, they will also make a wireless to wired CarPlay bridge.
How could junk science end up being implemented? Who oversees this stuff?
I think the ultimate combo will be heat pumps + wood pellet stove as supplemental heat.

Then you can cutoff the gas grid connection and its associated standby/account/blah blah charges. It’s a big sunk cost in a lot of places that messes with the economics of switching to heat pump as primary heat.

Pellet stoves are semi-automated. Around 90% efficient. If you already have central heat pumps, you can install one and let your HVAC circulate the heat around. Can stockpile as much fuel as you want. Cheaper than oil or propane and not much more expensive than firewood once accounting for improved burn efficiency. Just need to empty the ash gray once a week or so, and dump a nice smelling bag in for every ~24h of operation.

Relatively straightforward install: just need a wall to punch through and a standard power outlet. Minimal clearance requirements. Fun to watch the fire tornado.

Big downside is they need some electricity (mainly for for the powered vent). Hit or miss when it comes to insurance companies that think explosive gas systems or high current electric devices are safer.
This and other forensic "science" doesn't need to be good science. That's literally not the purpose at all. The purpose is to convince a jury of the guilt of the defendant that the police and prosecution have already decided is guilty. That's where the incentives are, and that's what happens in practice (as is explicitly clear in this case). CSI probably didn't help matters here.
One of the best books I've ever read.
In theory, there are two penalties that already exist: The state not getting a conviction because the defense excludes the evidence based on the Daubert standard, or, if that craps out, the defense planting a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury by pointing out that the prosecution's case is built on nothing.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/daubert_standard

> Under the Daubert standard, the factors that may be considered in determining whether the methodology is valid are: (1) whether the theory or technique in question can be and has been tested; (2) whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication; (3) its known or potential error rate; (4)the existence and maintenance of standards controlling its operation; and (5) whether it has attracted widespread acceptance within a relevant scientific community.
The thing is that the most imporant commands are shown at the bottom and just editing a file and the exiting will prompt for a save. This is good UX. No surprises, the most likely thing the user intended is the default and doesn't require any app-sepcific knowledge.

I recall the very first time I was thrown into emacs because it was the default at university terminals (around 1993, I think).
And I recall the first time I was thrown into nano (I think it was on Gentoo, maybe around 1999).

The difference in UX couldn't have been more stark.
I do the swipe typing but I really like the intentionality and physical feedback from the keyboard
Those things are the best pens ever for the modern world. Occasionally pen users don't notice when all their cheap ballpoints stop working, because it might be a month between uses. And when you do need one it's always when you're on the phone.

Uniball now has disposable pressurized pens(Power tank) which is awesome.
An ide provides very little that vim doesn't. If you think it does you're just ignorant about what vim can do. Nano is basically featureless though
And those that did in reality make such pacts? Whether Satan exists is irrelevant. There have been many witches throughout history who knowingly made pacts and believed themselves to have powers. Alison Device is the classic. She cursed a man. That man heard her curse and almost immediately had what we today would call a stroke, likely in part induced by the panic/fear of that curse. She believed she had powers. He believed she had powers. She exercised those powers and a man died. Call it a placebo effect if you want, but she was a witch who proved able to kill a man with a curse.
It's always a trade-off between the values of a society and the degree to which something like cigarettes causes harm. Even the most authoritarian government isn't able to ban everything that it wants to ban. There are also hidden costs and economic incentives created by doing a complete ban that need to be considered, which might make a ban less effective and less appealing than other solutions.
agree with the other replies but also one thing to add: the gaming market in PCs is still mostly in the big screen world. They couldn't go too small or risk making the games too small for what they were designed for. The magnifier feature is not something you want to perform all the time. I imagine they did some AB testing and I firmly believe they landed on a good compromise.
The point was that you don't need any luck to become an extremely well paid and well regarded specialist, just dedication and time.

If your objective is to become a legend, then by all means avoid specialization, and be prepared to fail with a probability of 99.9%, there can only be so many legends.
Also a good theory. I would love to have some insight into the backend of HN to see if there is more data available to paint a good picture. e.g. how many have showdead enabled for starters
This seems _pretty_ close to how Bitwarden works. In fact, unless I'm missing some requirement, it's close enough that you can do that yourself if you just manually click the "copy username" and "copy password" buttons instead of the usual "just fill crap from this login" button. Those buttons aren't any harder to reach either, they're just smaller.
No one, really, except for the judge (who has training in law, not science).
The field of law enforcement is rife with bad science and even misapplied science.

Television does not help. Copaganda shows like Bones, NCIS, CSI, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, and others give a very unrealistic portrayal of what technology and people are capable of. And it's become the standard that is expected. And gives the illusion that if there is a "process", it must be accurate. That if the answer is precise, it is accurate.
"The Guns of August" by B. Tuchman because 2022 feels a bit like 1914.
> Inmates argues that programmers tend to hijack the product design process because they can (programmers write the code after all), and that products suffer as a result.

Yikes! The typical HN post says MBAs ruin everything. Who knew programmers who have troubles interacting with people would build products which have troubles interacting with people!? (i'm not an MBA)
The article also abstracts the joins, a field list and an aggregate function too.

It also notes the potentially to do so with where clauses, window function and so on.
A nice explanation of the working of heat pumps from Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
> Real ID’s sole purpose is to punitively restrict travel for non citizens, particularly undocumented workers.

You mean like the inland border patrol checkpoints that are literally designed to restrict travel for non-citizens?

That goat’s already out to pasture…
Sure, if you are saying that you can’t see the difference that two photos of similar tides just like you can’t a photo of the curvature of the earth that would be a good argument.
Replying here, but you all got tricked by Apple’s misleading design.

In any connector of this sort, there are two pieces: the plug on the cable and the receptacle on the phone. Lightning has a very visually appealing and physically durable plug, and that’s the part that you see. But this hides several aspects of the connector that make a poor functionality tradeoff.

On a USB micro B or USB-C cable, the plug is retained in the socket by little spring-loaded clips on the plug. On micro, they’re on the outside and very obvious, and they stop working well if the plug gets a bit bent. On USB-C, they’re in the concealed portion of the plug. In both cases, they are components that can wear out, and, when they do, you replace the cable and you’re in good shape. These spring-loaded clips mate with fixed notches in the receptacle, and those notches are much longer lasting.

Lightning does this the other way around. The plug has notches, and the springs are concealed in the socket. If the springs wear out, replacing the cable doesn’t help.

Similarly, the electrical contacts are springy in the socket. They are very easy to damage with careless cleaning.

Lightning has an additional defect involving arcing. If you look at a charging cable that’s been use for a while, you’ll see that one electrical pad on each side of the plug will be burnt. Presumably this is where the connection arcs every time it’s unplugged. I’m not sure how USB mitigates this, but it seems to be less of a problem. Maybe the contacts are simply thicker and more durable.

Sure, USB-C receptacles gave a tongue, and it’s a weak point, but it’s much stronger than the 10 fragile moving parts inside a lightning receptacle.
SQLite has also measured the performance impact for storing larger BLOBs:

https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html

The verdict: storing blobs in the database is totally fine. Stable diffusion is totally compute bound, the overhead of storing a 1mb file in a sqlite db is miniscule.
I read Kurt Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_ and really enjoyed it. It's a story about a heavily computerized society, but the computers are vacuum tube based. "We ran the calculation, replaced all the tubes and ran it again, so we're confident in the result" sort of thing.

I also really enjoyed Andy Weir's _Project_Hail_Mary_, and _The_Martian_.
It would be nice if there was something like ad blocker filter lists for password managers so that every new password manager doesn't have to keep this up on its own. Maybe there is and I haven't run across it.
Excess mortality would point to covid deaths as undercounted, not flu deaths. The best data I can find shows that covid was at least 10x worse than the worst flu season on record in the UK (2008).
Coincidentally i tried to install Lazarus yesterday and hit issue after issue, two being some missing dependencies, which were items that I found in the documentation to be downloads as well. It then complained about lack of gdb, which I do understand (on an older Macos here) but it did occur to me, if you know it is needed, why not include it in the download?

Cut a long story short, Ive installed Dr Racket today and working through the tutorials.
What? Of course maternal instincts exist and are distinct. The differences in reproduction are the most fundamental basis of sex differentiation in animals.

In some mammals, fathers have literally no contact with their offspring while mothers care for them for years (eg, bears). In others, the mother and father both remain as part of a pack, but the mother does all of the direct care and the father is doing hunting or protection. In some, the father may have a minimal role in early life but then become more involved later as their offspring learn to hunt or fight.

The social construct of both parents having equal and identical roles in parenting at all stages of child development is very new and very culturally unique to Western, industrialized and affluent societies. Across all primates and all evidence of pre-industrial humans, maternal and paternal roles were very different.
My initial thought, having some experience with this kind of thing, is that this is basically a grab by the plaintiff's law firm to get some legal fees while they can from the corpse of FTX. It would be nice if the bankrupcy court would be able to get these dismissed to save resources to actually pay out customers.
Richard Gerald Jordan
Only a minor one but:

> It’s estimated that, at its pick, in 1929,

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Absolutely. I recognize some of this though: I wanted to learn how to play the piano. Other people might go and find a teacher, I dug around to find some software, used it for a while, found all kinds of shortcomings, designed my own software. Probably not the most efficient way of learning to play the piano, to put it mildly. But very satisfying once it works.
Heh - I didn't do great in AP with Pascal either. I remember though trying to make it worth buying CodeWarrior for Mac OS (oh how the Internet changed everything ... :D ), which had a Pascal compiler, but I got overwhelmed looking at the Mac Toolbox docs and couldn't make much sense of it. (I know there was also MPW, but I didn't know how to get my hands on it.) The school computers ran Turbo Pascal on MS-DOS. I vaguely remember having to write programs on paper without a lot of access to those computers.

But, I tried FP last year. I wrote a program to mimic a small tool in the company I worked for. It was fun actually. At the time, I sort of wanted a lot to write stuff in Emacs. There is an LSP server for FP but it's not really complete.
I'm not defending smoking, but

> costly

Cigarettes are really cheap in places that don't heavily tax them

> doesn't offer anything

Human brains like nicotine. It is mildly effective as a mood stabilizer. I think we both agree that the bad health effects are not worth it, but it's not accurate to say there's nothing on the other side of that equation.
This is a great book for sure.
This famous edict: Don't Talk to Police, now seems to include calling 911.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
In most places in the US, in normal working conditions, Heat Pumps are 30%+ cheaper than a gas furnace to run.

However, in some really cold places like Chicago, Minneapolis, etc - the days where current heat pumps are inefficient might be enough to make it cheaper to always run gas.

OP is proposing to have both systems and only run the gas furnace on extreme days - which would lead to a ~30% reduction in running costs.

I suspect the CapEx of having two heaters wouldn't make sense, though.

It'd be better to just have a hear pump that can run efficiently at colder temps.
A big part of this is that specialist can be fake, often are, and nobody can tell. They just need to know slightly more about kubernetes or whatever specialty it is, than other people around them. I often come across “experts” that aren’t really experts in anything besides self-branding. Our university system is built on this. It’s also the reason why we haven’t made much progress in the last 50 years or so. Everybody is just enough of a specialist to demand a wage, not more. What’s the saying, “they promised flying cars, but gave us Facebook.”
You realize that an illegal immigrant with a valid passport does not need a realid to fly right?
Things like this is why I've always been a fan of LINQ. Not only do you get excellent first class language support for writing and composing queries, you also get a very good typechecker to ensure that stuff are the right shape.
Yup, and the real problem is not getting geoengineering itself accepted as normal, but getting rogue geoengineering programs accepted as normal.

Once it seems sort of OK for anyone to do it, it'll become a massive free-for-all, with geoengineering schemes that overlap or compete with different goals. We could easily end up with unintended consequences — dueling programs with net near-zero result but massive new pollution, mutually reinforcing programs that massively overshoot, etc. Then a bigger program to fix that one, and another to fix that one...

I deeply feel the urgency to get started yesterday, and there's an initial feelgood rush reading this. But thinking for a few seconds on the cascading results of allowing rogue efforts and it turning into a free-for-all — sure, let's just play "move fast and break things" with the entire global climate.

No thanks.

We'd be better off choosing to play Global Thermonuclear War (it'd be over in ~48 hours and the global effects would be more brief).
Same is true for Russia, which is probably why they try to spread climate change denialism propaganda. And poor people in poor countries suffering will only create more labour to be exploited so that is also an advantage.
There's some glass half full/glass half empty in that story. So workers are still finding new jobs. But it's taking months on average (which is actually fairly normal for a lot of professional workers--though many US tech people probably consider that long). And this says nothing about what compensation packages look like.
Millions of Canadians would disagree with that assessment.
> Indeed it's rather remarkable how many of these figures like Vannevar Bush, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, etc., never actually shipped much.

Your beliefs about what a researcher ought to "ship" and what researchers are actually responsible for delivering are definitely at odds.

> But they are fundamentally salesmen

Even speaking colloquially that statement represents a major misunderstanding of what a researcher (or a salesman?) is responsible for.
2022 was a great year for my reading (in order of my favorites):

The Great Demographic Reversal by Charles Goodhart - this book changed my life, but now that inflation and the retirements are in full swing it might be harder to make early moves on the knowledge. The graphs are also beginning to become outdated since the book was written in the end of 2019/early 2020? Either way, it inspired my decision to move closer to family.

The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan - this book is well worth the read. Peter is a very educated and factual guy, and it's hard to disagree with the normalized vectors of change he is describing. The magnitude of these vectors however are up for much debate. Lots to think on, agree with, and disagree with.

American Icon by Bryce G. Hoffman - a book on Ford's handling of the 2008 crisis. It's got some flowery parts that idolize these men too much IMO but a great book on leadership and problem solving.

Lights Out - a book on how GE failed. If hypothetically American Icon was paid for to make Ford look good, Lights Out would have been paid for by disgruntled investors to burn that company's reputation to the ground. By some Wall Street Journal employees, this book is bonkers and a really frigid lesson about how incentives play out and a sober view of work in the real world.
There was a patent infringement case which I have heard blamed for it.
I remember playing The Darkness 2 on a GPD Win 2, another handheld PC released ~4 years ago, and remember how surprised I was at the performance at the time even with only integrated graphics. It still serves me well to this day for the kinds of games I play, so I might wait for a hardware refresh before upgrading to a Steam Deck.
Mind sharing an email address or link to postings? Have people looking and happy to send them your way.
It's not necessarily about the ends never justifying the means; some of us just have arrived at the impression that the same means of deception and authoritarianism are being justified so often by a variety of ends that perhaps their proponents don't actually believe there is a terrible lot of justification needed for them.
Sort of, but really we need both. Yes cheaper for most people. But as someone who lives in Minnesota, we definitely get below those temps. By code we require full backup resistive heaters for a heat pump at such a rating which increases the full cost and installation cost. Plus, it is much less efficient than a heat pump (though efficiency lowers as the temp gets colder due to defrost cycles).
> He should have the freedom to try

No, he absolutely should not. This is not some stupid B2C nonsense where if you "move fast and break things" you can always redeploy. If it turns out that these people are not as smart as they think they are, and that's my guess, do they have a better backup plan than saying "whoops" and walking away? I doubt it.

Hopefully, as others have pointed out, these people are not really trying to do what they say they're doing and it's just a publicity stunt to sell a variation on the old carbon offset scam.
A big criticism that I have heard from "defund the police" folks is that a lot of police departments across the country have more money than sense and accountability. If you are inclined to believe this statement, it is inevitable that they are, in best case, swindled by hucksters selling snake oil, and in worst case, are dabbling in corruption to enrich themselves.
Tell HN: People are spamming GitHub issues with ChatGPT
Over the break we got a few comments from someone we hadn't seen before.

Like everyone else we've been messing around with ChatGPT so it was immediately obvious to us that these were written with ChatGPT. Anyone else getting these?

Here are the comments:

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/453
https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/714
Why is right shift almost as big as the space bar?
I think youre being uncharitable to the Unix way. the Unix way is more about having a data standard that all programs can use, rather than a front end that does everything.

yes the everything as a stream of text model didn't really scale, but I don't think that disproves the concept. all of your examples could work as well as, if not better if you standardised a data format and/ or protocol.

The current landscape for software isn't really that monolithic. software of any size implements plugins. If you look back to monolithic software of the 80s where there wasn't any expandability, wasn't things like tool kits or shared libraries. In a sense 'small software' didn't lose. it just moved up and down the stack a bit, and arguably still lives on quite successfully on mobile phones.
I don't think the BMJ or other parts of the feral government have in-sourced the editorial process. Historically, juris claimed copyright-like protection for the consolidated text, as can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060826035858/http://www.gesetz...

I think producing consolidated text is viewed by large parts of the legal community as “just typing”, similar to early attitudes towards programming, which is why few people care. Most of the controversy around juris is about access to court decisions.
Considering it had a modem, could have an Ethernet module added, had official Web Browser Discs, had official Keyboard and Mouse accessories (I have all of these except the darn Ethernet module)… I think they were. Or at least a “web TV” -esque plan.

It had a ton of potential. The hardware is still fast enough to do basic browsing etc without issue if it had an updated browser.
Crew Dragon already has the touchscreen UI that doesn't seem intended to ever actually be used, they could do LCARS if they wanted.
To each their own, but I thought this book was at best just ok. Had some neat parts but overall I didn’t get very into it. To anyone reading this comment, it’s from 2006 btw, not that the OP specified new books in 2022.