skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The letters/comments thread is predicable. Distinctly lacking sympathy!

Some comments go to "if you're providing this service and blab to the media you're doing neither yourself nor your clients a favour"

Overall putting to one side the narcissistic and fatuous elements, there's no doubt trust issues and happiness issues are a problem for many super wealthy people. But as many pundits and comedians have said being rich makes being unhappy a hell of a lot easier.

I've read a thread either here or on reddit about high net worth (HNW) peoples approaches to life problems. Being able to angst about which helicopter to take and simply buying a replacement for anything (friends included?) You lose. But also some stunningly unexpected "don't know how" outcomes, for kids who have never had to cope without money thrust into situations where doing it, not buying it is the whole point. And of course, distrust in others is fuelled by people who exploit the asymmetry in wealth.

I've never met a modern super-HNW but I've met some in times past when $26m was a lot of money and they were perfectly civil, civilised individuals who did what they wanted with low impact on other people (artists, scotland) I suspect I was young enough to miss nuances of trust and belief on their part regarding what I wanted from them or brought to the table.

The ordinary HNW FAANG I meet are fine. When it's only about owning two Teslas and a share in a private island it's easier to relate to their problems and since most of them (the ones I meet anyway) continue to work out of the pleasure of things done, it's possible to have a mutuality which transcends the wealth gap.

I have met quite a few poor landed gentry. They are weird, but it's less about cash-money conspicuous consumption and more about an eternal battle with the drains, rising damp, and farm issues. Being cash poor in a freezing cold 25 room listed mansion you can't use except for the kitchen and one grotty loo is surprisingly common. It's no wonder they want to flog their Rubens sketch to the highest bidder, national treasure or not.
> there isn't a single piece of code that I ever put together that worked longer than a few years out of the box without some breaking change

The best practice, which prevents this issue, is to use envs, (as well as pinning your dependencies for any given project in a committable artifact).

(Seems like a lot of people are using system Python, which isn't really recommended.)
And with that every single house around also increases in price, because house prices are often dictated by what comparable houses recently sold for. As if they weren't already expensive enough. Besides, I don't think lack of profit prospects is currently a bottleneck for house building. There seems to be tons of regulations and control to what is allowable to be built. And from, there it doesn't matter that building a house would be 20% profit, if it's illegal to do so.
Are there any books regarding the history of programming? Going from Visual Basic to Vim to all the fancy languages we have today. Or anything on how what we write as code gets translated into binary and what happens to our computers when the code processes?
As mentioned by several people already, the migration process from 2 to 3 was really painful.

It will be easier for the Python core maintainers, but introducing a breaking change with the intent that that version 2 will be deprecated has probably caused more distress overall, especially maintainers of other open source projects which rely on a specific python version.

Let's never have the same kind of breaking change again, please.
This is a fascinating change to the arc of the cannabis industry that I did not expect to see. We make the distinction between legal and illegal sales but the market does not care. With decriminalization happening all over I wonder if the existing culture of illegal trade will continue to thrive and always exist to undercut legal sales.
This is the correct answer to any question such as the above. The law is an instrument of power. At the most basic level, its purpose is to uphold the power of a select group of individuals and institutions. The law's purpose is not to bend to logical arguments. If it did, those with the most complete grasp of logic would have the most power, undermining what the law is ultimately designed to do.
Yes, I should have mentioned I have only worked in Japan and Germany so far.

Labor law supersedes the contract freedom guaranteed by the civil code here in JP. And the conditions for demotion are strict here, e.g. maximum ~40 % reduction of salary, new role must be related to previous role, etc.

The burden of evidence lies with the employer, but some try to construct a fictitious narrative. Nothing that holds up in a court of law if you remember to CYA.

It’s especially frustrating if your visa is tied to doing a certain type of job and having a certain amount of salary!

The word unlawful I am using here is 不法 (fuhō) in Japanese which I believe is used a lot in tort law.

Either way, long story short, there is no at-will employment in Japan.
Sorry but this is an ill informed comment. Most of the stuff you are talking about is not bad, just legacy. And what are you saying about java? How is that bad?

Also poeple dont like to change shit that runs well, thats why we have so much legacy stuff around.

In the real world, it doesnt matter if your whole damn business is still running their warehouse system on a DOS program running in a god damn DOS emulator on a Win xp VM running on some linux box. What matters is that it works.
Seems that I can’t access it without a gradescope account. I can’t create such account because I’m not a student anymore. What a pity, I would love to do those assignments and see their results.
Use the Spine
The Apple before being reverse acquired by NeXT was at the edge of bankruptcy, so Macs hardly sustained them back them to the point that they even got Microsoft's money to keep going.
If mastodon is fully private then how will they get money from their application? Social Media networks can only get money by ads or by selling the user's data, and ads could potentially track the user's data.

Which companies just say NO to getting more profits, every company wants to expand so I don't see why mastodon should promise private access to content when it's really not.
Forgive my ignorance, but what should have been done instead of the way the Python 2 to 3 migration happened?

I know that Python 2 has stuck around for far longer than anyone wanted and that people were (are?) hesitant to migrate from 2 to 3, but I'm not sure what decisions contributed to that.
>My Wife and I were flying business back to the US for our honeymoon on a US carrier. Requests to the flight attendants were met with annoyance. On the few times I've been fortunate enough to fly business with international carriers, you're genuinely appreciated and treated well.

Are you and your wife by any chance not white?
My mom is white and my dad is Asian. The difference how they are treated in upscale environments like for example business class at American carriers can very disturbing at times to say the least.
AFAIK WSL doesn't need the store. Preconfigured WSL Linux images are distributed through it but that's it. Since I wasn't a fan of ubuntu, I exported a fedora docker image as tar file and imported it with wsl --import on my company's windows laptop.

This is documented in numerous blogs and on the microsoft documentation website.

Having said that, I still haven't found any good incentive to use WSL over say, a Linux VM. It is not like the integration is so much better done, I'd rather hide the terrible windows UI and use an X11 or wayland window manager in full screen.
Sure. This is an article about US employment law. In US employment law, absent a contract, employers can (with very few restrictions) be fired at will, which means their salaries, duties, and working conditions are subject to change.
More than 20 years ago, there was another C-like compiler for Flat Real Mode[0] called BFlat[1][2]. I want to say there are other tools called BFlat or some near variant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

[1] http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/misclang-pre.html

[2] http://www.lanet.lv/ftp/simtelnet/msdos/misclang/bflat050.zi...
Let's say, for the sake of argument, there is some city called Fan Sanfrisco.

In this city, all the people that own houses are worth at least a million dollars, because they have a house that's worth that.

Now, a bunch of uppity kids want to build a TON of housing. What's that going to do to your property values based on supply and demand?

Oh right, it's going to drop.

Doesn't matter if you are a republican or democrat, if you're a home owner you defend your home values. When they say "all politics is local" THIS is what it means.

A property value drop means:

1) you are underwater in your mortgage (for newer buyers)

2) you are losing a lot of your retirement savings (for older voters, and boy howdy do they like to vote and protest)
> This is then exploited by the commercial supply chain in a way which proves Goodhart’s Law.

That's a very interesting example of Goodhart's Law in action, and one that broadens the circumstances when I think about it applying. Thanks.
No, they were not the crooks, weirdly software-copyright-friendly substack author.

This seems weirdly relevant still and should be taught to people (maybe without any overly Franklin-specific technicalities).
I don't use Xposed, and Magisk has always worked as expected in my experience. No bootloops whatsoever.
It's low tax but insanely expensive.

There's barely any public transport (if it exists at all) so you'll have to spend money to get anywhere.

Also it being a huge mall in the desert doesn't really help, so having taxes would absolutely decimate any reason for being there.
Financial insecurity is one of the effects of this, everyone's so insecure about their job because they think that the employer's going to have to fire all the employees that are overpaid.

As a result all the employees who get fired have to look for jobs in which they get paid less, and other factors such as a recession or a crashed market just worsen the situation.
Paris is definitely not a place where you can point to an example of abundant, affordable housing. Are you kidding me? Adjusted for wages, Paris purchase prices are more unaffordable than London or New York.
We solved the N+1 queries problem where I work by raising the level of abstraction from "queries plus serialisation" to "what shape data is required". We open sourced the solution at https://www.django-readers.org/.
Sawyer [0] filters are better, I've been using them for a while on hiking and kayaking trips. Most filters advertise a membrane diameter of 0.2 microns, while Sawyer products have 0.1 microns, paired with a long enough lifetime to compensate for the residual waste produced (the filter itself). 0.1 microns is 100 nanometers, so it's capable of filtering microplastics, protozoa, all bacteria, and some viruses [1]. But not toxins, heavy metals and most viruses. Most of these hazardous materials could be eliminated by filters having very high surface area, like activated carbon, nano foam in Sawyer S1 and S3 products and the thing this post is about.

[0] https://www.sawyer.com/product-categories/water-filtration

[1] http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-are-viruses/
Oh, I meant that in the spirit of encouraging a reworked text!
It should be obvious that they're not all doctors and nurses - there's nothing in the medical education of a doctor that would prepare them to be eg an accountant or a buyer.

"The NHS is over-managed" is a tired, boring, argument that is easily debunked with a simple search.

The NHS has fewer managers than similarly sized organisations. That's not a sign of an out of control bureaucracy.
I feel like this is why people should be aware of the laws in their area no matter what profession they're in.
And as we speak, I upgrade to 3.10 only to see my dependencies break and wonder if they have learnt anything at all.
Depends how you define "bad". High-functioning people with abusive childhoods tend to perform quite well under capitalism. Low-functioning victims of childhood abuse end up in prison.
Same, all just conjectures.
There are 2 kinds of businesses...one extremely profitable and another on dying path. If the company you're dealing with not dime nickel you sooner or later they will be the on the dying path. You can readup Nokia outrageous expenditure in Europe. Heck if they are dying or extremely profitable, just take advantage of it. It is business. Nothing personal.
Sadly that secret sauce has become fairly poor. Recommendation issues is the biggest problem with YouTube right now.

I can open YouTube on any given day and will be given recommendations for things I've never shown the slightest bit of interest in.

For example, right now I've got:

- A clip for the big bang theory - Never watched anything on that show on youtube

- "Why does italy have 6000 ghost towns (Hidden Italy)" - Absolutely no idea why it thinks that would interest me, never been to Italy or watched any kind of travel based videos.

- "I hitchhiked Onto A Private Jet To Werever It's Going" - Again, I couldn't give a damn

- "The Legendary World of Spyro Games - Caddicarus" - I have no idea what that is, or why it thinks it interests me.

- "Singapore welcomes 2023 with New Year fireworks at Marina Bay" - Ok, and? Never been there, never watched any content about the place.

- "I called every U.S. Representative in the country. Here were the responses I got." - I'm not American, and give absolutely zero f's about US politics.

- "I've Been Living In A Ghost Town for Almost 3 YEARS!" - Good for you, I don't care.

- "Dark Secrets of the World’s Most Isolated Island" - Nope.

It has improved slightly from the looks of things. Usually I get videos about minecraft, or some twat gorping with their mouth wide open trying to make a mundane and uninteresting topic seem like something I should be interested in whilst remembering to smash the like button and click the bell.

The platform has so many problems.
while I agree part of the decision was based on that in that specific cases the "reduced" salary was still more then most people do earn and it was overturned in apeals curt.

So this isn't applicable to most people.

still any form of unilateral contract change being legal is just absurd IMHO, and saying that because person didn't stop working completely it's like accepting the change is pretty absurd too. I mean if that wasn't a valid change wouldn't that mean that the person is still employed under the old contact and in turn had to come to work?
I don't think there are any breaking changes in Python 3.10? Sounds more like a package management issue.
Ridiculous. You're conflating human error as part of the skills in the game itself (failing to catch a pop fly) versus human error that results in inconsistencies of rules (marking a pitch as a strike when it is quantifiably outside the strike zone). One of these makes the game more interesting, the other one makes it more frustrating.

Can you guess which one is which, or should I call for a ref?
A brave explorer dying the martyr death to advance humanity. Give him a hero's funeral and give generous pensions to his relatives. Suddenly it sounds like a sales pitch. Well, to some.
It's pretty bold to pin such a specific date when the release date of Debian 12 is not yet known. Debian releases are fully supported for one year after the next release launches, and then the LTS projects keep it going for another 5~7 years.
> The quality is then higher but you really need a good prompt.

I've seen this stated but it has not been my experience. Nor have I seen solid examples of it. For 2.0 (haven't tried 2.1) I find the model very finicky and unstable. Any prompt which works well also seems to work at least as well in 1.5.
Here in Germany, most traditional banks still have branches (assuming you are in a city). Not many, but still quite some (and it depends on the bank, some have more than others). FinTech banks like N26 never had any.
Driver and YouTube star Ken Block dies in snowmobile accident
You can earn a similar deal by getting a part time tech job
and buying lottery tickets with some of that.
Glad this is finally mostly over, but... that was bad. I wonder if the energy that had to be put into this migration by everyone involved was worth what seems to be relatively small improvements.

The print-as-a-statement was ugly but convenient and didn't seem like a big deal, the integer division was something that you could live with once you knew about it (and you still need to know what the current behavior is), and the new string types make code more verbose, and the way they were handled introduced countless hard to find bugs during the migration.
To this day I'm not sure if anyone is really sure whether Epstein's "philanthropy" was just another avenue of his sexual abuse (cf the stories about his "scientific" interest in his own genetics), or a "cost" to launder his reputation allowing him to continue it, or if both were tools for an intelligence service's broader aims.

I do think it's clear he didn't have any really legitimate businesses. Even in the best case he was donating money to largely unproductive research and pop science in order to flatter himself, and the "conferences" are well attested to not be particularly intellectually rigorous.
The Billion Oyster Project [1] has great educational and volunteer opportunities. Their annual fundraiser in New York is also bomb (if you like to eat oysters).

[1] https://www.billionoysterproject.org/
Eventually everyone that can afford a laptop will own one, and only replace them when it dies, the days of upgrading hardware every three years is long gone.
How does the space reserved for jellybean stains guide the reader towards the desired problem-solving approach?
The modern equivalent of having a "sleep" button on the keyboard is only a marginal improvement. Such a time waster.
I’m working on cyber security education this year.

As for right now I’m learning more about RISC-V to see how it can be applied in a cyber security oriented teaching environment.
I define it geographically.

> Single geographical site” shall mean that the people who cause the software to be used are primarily located at the geographic location where the Software is delivered, as well as contiguous or closely located buildings of the Customer’s organization. This geographical restriction does not apply to the hardware or the physical location of the processing. The Software may be used off-site (including but not limited to cloud hosting, employee laptops, and backup media) provided that such use is not expressly prohibited by this agreement.

Then when we negotiate the license, I define the geographical location, which is typically a place like "The University of Illinois" or a city, like "San Francisco", but may be a bit larger, like "the greater Los Angeles area."
Urban DJ - A fun poll for music geniuses. Wordle for music. Dixit for music.

I'd be happy to have some people from HN joining the fun https://urbanpoll.com/dj
I live on a river, and have lived near this river my whole life.

This is the same story across the US. In 2012 when I took up fishing, I had a fellow tell me he had not seen a smallmouth bass caught out of the river in 30 years! Now it is trivial. Hard not to catch one.

Just in the last 5 years the variety of birds showing up has changed. Many bald eagles and other raptors. 100+ strong flocks of pelicans. Pelicans! Apparently inland pelicans were normal 100 years go.
Development and popularization of QR code by Masahiro Hara [pdf]
That's what the venture capital involved seemed to expect anyway. There was a VC bubble for the industry, and some really crazy brands were showing up. Brands where you could buy your weed along side an order for a $15,000 dollar leather horse saddle, golden glassware, crystal ash trays or other expensive trinkets. Farm tours and taste testings emulated the wine industry to a tee. They were 100% banking on a premium clientelle. Does such a clientelle actually exist in enough quantity to support that industry though I wonder? Surely there was market research showing it might?
It’s “” as far as I know.

Huh, never mind, I guess HN doesn’t support emojis
I don't think long haul trucking is that hard to electrify. If we take the current (Pepsi) Tesla semi that can (allegedly) do 500 miles, and you also tow a trailer that is a "range extender" trailer (as in UPS already does multiple trailer towing), then you could recharge by just unhitching the depleted trailer and hitching up a precharged trailer.

Lithium-Sulfer and/or solid state will also likely come into play.

Aviation though... yeah I think that'll be synth fuel. That'll come down to how cheap solar and wind drop in LCOE in the next decade.
I think that support will come when dotnet 8 adds aot support for osx.
Yeah, I have no problem running stuff from a decade ago because of virtual env and pip freeze (even across diff oses).
Interbank withdrawals incur fees in Germany as well. Of course, a) there are groups that count each other as intrabank, and b) Some banks have limited withdrawals (My N26 account has 5 per month, new accounts only get 3) where they pay all fees for you.
Thank you. Just bought some [1].

[1] https://madebyradius.com/products/natural-biodegradable-silk...
Isn't it only possible within the first 24-48 hours?
Serious effort - as in - not reusing usernames and not posting embarassing stuff using your real name?
Hospitals should run at something like an 80% capacity. This allows safety and flexibility in the system.

UK politicians have spent the past ten years talking about "efficiency savings" (meaning real term cuts), and so now the system is running normally at 90-95% capacity. And then you have something like COVID, combined with a bad flu season, combined with a bad respiratory illness season for young people, combined with a cold snap where councils didn't de-ice pavements, combined with Brexit meaning many staff have left, combined with years of defending of social care:

All of these mean we have older, iller people in hospital, we can't get them out of acute hospital and into care / nursing homes because those don't exist anymore, we can't get them back to their own home with paid carers because all those staff left in Brexit.

That means when someone is in ED and needs a bed there isn't one, and when someone is in an ambo and needs to get into ED they can't because there's no space, and when they're on the floor at home after a fall and need an ambo there are no ambos because they're all queueing at the ED.

For years in England we've pushed risk onto ambo staff, and this year we've finally said acute hospitals have to share that risk, so we're seeing the inevitable results of over-crowding and over-full hospitals.

And this is all entirely predictable and preventable - people have been describing FOR YEARS exactly what would happen and how it would happen and even when it would happen, and now it's happening.

The blame lies squarely with a Conservative government that doesn't believe in tax funded public services and which has decided to cut as much as it can.
Ohhh, I thought you meant was still in USA.
An autoregressive system with a positive coefficient is a feedback system, yet it is not oscillatory. Any appearance of such is an illusion, like seeing faces in clouds.
Biggest con of public thinking is the time/opportunity cost. It takes time to write, even more to write something others, who don't have the same context as you, to understand.

Editing is also a pain.

Now that I said that, check out my blog at https://langsoul.com
Having only ever heard that or seen the transliteration, I honestly did not know “chitterlings” is a word.
real fun begins when random Cartesian products shits up all your RAM