skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can sympathize but it's odd that the article is calling for a federal law. . Shows a complete lack of research and understanding of the "United States" and the roles of the federal and state governments, or just a clear a bias toward federalizing everything. The law that governs the bank safe deposit boxes is state law. This is pure personal proprety law of bailment and has nothing to do with interstate commerce or banking. I mean you can't get much more local than keeping your personal items in a box. There's no reason to have federal law apply. Federal government does interstate commerce, national security, and a few other things relating to the country as a whole and that's it. Having federal law govern safe deposit for boxes is like saying the federal government should be policing whether parking attendendanta bang up or rob the car you leave them or restaurants should be federally liable for hat and coat checks. State law has always governed the responsibilities of the person who takes care of something you leave them. it's property law 101. The federal government has no business and no jurisdiction being involved in enforcing bailment responsibiliies or rewriting contracts. It's not lack of interest by the feds it's lack of jurisdiction. There's no interstate commerce going on in a safe deposit box. If the feds need to step in here we might as well get rid of state laws and states entirely.
Ideological battle pejoratives are markers of ideological battle, which is not what this site is for.

Meta comments going on about what got downvoted or what got flagged are also off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is an odd obit. So much talk about "scaling", "assembly line", "factory", etc just to sell 10 units over four years!!

I would have thought a company like this would start out maybe with 1 unit a quarter, then 1 unit a month, then 2 units/month, etc. while seeking product/market fit. Use a general contractor who's good at assembling teams. Keep the core staff minimal.
I agree that there is not consensus in the scientific/medical community about this. You can find MDs who will advise avoiding linoleic acid as a top health prioty (i.e Paul Saladino) and other scientists who do not agree there is sufficient evidence to indict seed oils (i.e Andrew Huberman). Likewise, you can find all sorts of studies.

To address your point about the study I linked -- I think you're mistaken. The LA group did have a significant increase in 8-iso-PGF2alpha urine metabolites, and decrease in nitric oxide metabolites. From the study:

> Urinary excretion of 8-iso-PGF2alpha was significantly increased after the LA diet (170 vs 241 ng/mmol creatinine, P=0.04), whereas the urinary concentration of nitric oxide metabolites decreased (4.2 vs 2.6 mg/mmol creatinine, P=0.03).

also

> In conclusion, the high-LA diet increased oxidative stress and affected endothelial function in a way which may in the long-term predispose to endothelial dysfunction.
> While crises precipitated by different catalysts don’t make for apples-to-apples comparisons, spreads increased much less during the pandemic than in the two previous sell-offs.

well, the other crises were about market bottoms falling out. the pandemic crisis was nothing but manipulation waiting exactly for the central banks to dump free money
This is related to my interest in customizing my workflow to the point where any marginal customization only makes my life slightly ever so easier. Vim is a good example. My config files are hundreds of lines of code, but I always have the urge to make it even better and modify some settings.

I do think that 80% of my productivity boost with Vim is achieved by only 20% of the plugins and configs, but the perfectionist within me always wants that extra 20% productivity even at the cost of reducing my productivity!
I don't get why there was such an emphasis on building a factory/assembly line from the very beginning. An experienced general contractor can get 650sf dwellings built pretty easily, especially in the confines of a wharehouse.
The politicians may have used a very wet year to justify dividing more water than existed normally, but I believe the scientific community back then knew that the numbers were too high and was ignored.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by “one sided culture of professional responsibility”?
> There are civilizations in South America which are unknown to official archaeological science. Even I know of one not discovered by archaeologists yet: this despite my having never even visited South America.

What is the author referring to? It seems like the author might be full of shit himself.
> Good luck running a jar built with JDK19 on JRE8, or an executable linked against glibc2.36 on Ubuntu 18, or a Python file written for Python 3.10 on a system that comes with Python 3.6.

Yes, you are starting to see the problem. This is why I recommend statically compiled binaries as a solution to this scenario, and do not recommend any of the above.

Here's a real scenario I've had in my career, when deploying a script to 350k systems. I know I have Python 3.x, but I cannot count on the fact that every (or most) clients will have even a functioning Python interpreter. So what's the solution? Ship a docker container to everyone? There are multiple ways to solve it, but I complied a statically linked binary instead of writing a Python script...and had no issues.

> If you need dependencies, specify and install them.

Here be dragons, and this is the entire reason I avoid Python when I need my code to 100% work on another machine I can't fully control. I choose statically compiled languages in these instances. In a server deployment...sure it's fine because I can control that.

> Python 3 is completely backwards compatible in my experience

I do not agree. If you write a script that uses any of the following features and try to run on $version -1 (or more), your script will fail.

* 3.6, F-strings were introduced
* 3.7, Dataclasses and introduced
* 3.8, Walrus operator (:=)
* 3.9, merge (|) and update (|=) operators added to the built-in dict class
* 3.10, structural pattern matching
* 3.11, exception Groups and except*¶

All use of these will fail to function in a previous release.

Maybe you'll say to just install a new version of Python. All that is overhead and requires more management. Ok, that's fair.

The problem is when you want to run that script on a bastion host, or a prod server, 350k machines, or a server you don't have ability to download and install external binaries? (all of these are real scenario's I've experienced).

My experience has taught me that if I can't control the machine the script runs on, I save headaches by using statically compiled languages. As always, YMMV.
Salesforce CEO says losing employees to layoffs like mourning people who died
No problem. If you visit there, you can still see some of the rail lines in the streets.
Athens (open-source Roam Research) is no longer being actively maintained
This app is provided you to best 3D virtual Music mixer and you can mix, remix, scratch, loop or pitch your music anytime and anywhere in the palm of your hands.
In DJ Mixer Studio - DJ Mix Musicapp a large variety of current samples and loops as well as a sound effects pack is available that is a powerful music mixing tool.
Take a deep breath, or just don't live in cities if you can't handle it. These are momentary distractions; just go on with your day.

The second person is very easy to avoid; I've done it many times (maybe the same person!). The first you just keep going.

I do have empathy for these people, who have noplace else to go. Maybe build some public bathrooms - I know when I'm out in the city, it can be hard to find a bathroom, and I don't get stereotyped and rejected by most places (just stereotyped and accepted!).

However, I spend lots and lots of time in cities and hardly ever see these situations, though critics love to describe them. What smells isn't urine (people love to give examples including human waste - the well-used 'human feces' now gets a laugh from a few of us - how could you tell what kind of feces? Did you examine it closely? Take a sample? Tell us your technique!).
What brand did you buy?
Yeah this is true
Fernanda
> Personally, I doubt we'll ever see the worst of climate change whether it gets "solved" or not.

I’m inclined to say that we’re already seeing quite a lot bad about climate change right now. Maybe not in your area, but we have almost two times as many natural disasters as before.
> Such an accident is classified as survivable even if some or all occupants were fatally injured.
"In 2017 she got canceled for saying women don't have penises"

If only she were wiling to say women can have penises! It's the price of admission into the post-truth era.
In the media you don't get to "just" call someone or a company out. It inevitably makes the readers imagine comparisons in their mind. It is a status play: by lowering the status of one player in an industry, you implicitly raise the the status of the others.

Everyone who works in the media industry knows that will happen -- and I know some people who work in that industry. Even teenagers do this on social media all the time, based on an instinctive understanding of social status.

Take it or leave it, or even better, provide a rebuttal with real evidence rather than a childish emotional response!
Yeah, but the whole point of Bell Labs was to be an engineering driven wild west. They had so much money, they could afford throw money at PhDs and let them do cool stuff.

Tech tends to suffer from employees getting bored and wanting to do cool stuff that is totally disconnected from the business.
This is anecdotal, but I’ve heard from a regional manager in a non-shoplifty area that Walgreens isn’t happy with the profitability of the retail side in many of their full-sized stores.
Because GDPR puts restrictions on how inactive or deprecated account data can be kept - to prevent mining of forgotten accounts I suspect was the intention
One would think the limit for pie is closer to 3.14159265359
I’m gonna second the streamdeck.

Contrary to (seemingly) everyone I liked the Touch Bar MacBooks. I barely ever used the function row, but the software that came by default wasn’t the best. But pock.app was perfect. It put alt-tab visually on my keyboard.

My daily driver is now a Mac mini, and Touch Bar MacBooks time has passed.

The stream deck replaces that functionality really well.

If you don’t have one, but think it could be helpful—it’s probably worth a shot. There’s nothing like a dedicated for a specific action.
Giving Away Your Mind to Technology
Banks were invented to facilitate money exchanges. By definition paper money is as valuable as what you left at the bank.
https://5am.is

I usually blog/link to; about user experience and privacy.

Want to do the 100 days to offload challenge this year. To force myself a bit to write and learn how to write better.

WIP.. still looking through my archives of old blogs and post on other websites (forums that are long gone, social bookmarking services etc) to add to my website retrospectively.

Using Hugo as static site generator and hosted on Netlify.
Kīlauea Volcano Live Stream – Halemaʻumaʻu Crater
I had never seen that cartoon about the "dream job" before, but it's something I've thought about so many times as I've listened to people talk about their dream job or dream employer. It always struck me as strange to dream of labor / dream of being an employee - must be a cultural thing.
I asked ChatGPT about why I should use NetBSD instead of Linux, and for me the reasons of performance and portability don't hold up because Linux is more performant and more compatible with my hardware.

I can see why some might appreciate the simplicity of the base system and the design of pkgsrc but the former seems to be more in line with OpenBSD than NetBSD and its legacy cruft.
Whoever wrote this hit the enterprise koolaid a bit too much, you're meant to sip not swallow.

Calling SWE "working in IT" is where it lost me.
Palo Alto joins the room too.

All this talk of "just relax zoning and build housing" is so simplistic that it's actually kinda cute. As if everything else just multiplies accordingly-- streets widen, schools are built, water/power/etc just magically appear whenever residential units are simply permitted.
Thank you for the tip, I had forgotten the www
In Ancient Rome blaming gods was never an excuse. For example, there an architect or a chief builder had to spent several nights under the bridge after its opening. In general they followed a rule similar to one in ancient Babylon which explicitly required to put the architect to dearth if a building collapse would kill the owner. And if the collapse would kill a son of the owner, then the son of the architect would be put to death.

That puts rather different perspective on the quality and longevity.
Thanks for the info, you've successfully dissuaded me from lighting money on fire.
> Rome wasn't after a tax base [...]. They were after a tax base.

looks like a perfectly cromulent argumentation to me.
Dream 'job' is 404 for most I'd imagine. There's always the hardcore grifters who try and signal otherwise I guess.
I don't feel that it's a technicality when the distinction is between a single aisle in the grocery store and a vast swath of foods. Bread is processed, some yogurts and cheeses (although fermentation alone might only qualify as "minimally processed"), many canned foods which add only salt to otherwise unprocessed foods (vegetables, beans, fish, chicken, etc).

By all means, focus your ire on snack foods. Or seed oils. Or whatever the latest trend says is unhealthy.

My point, every time this comes up, is that "processed" is uselessly vague, unless you really do believe that adding any amount of salt/sugar/fat is harmful to human health. I believe that many people using the term do not actually know its definition and merely use it as shorthand for some nebulous set of foods they believe are "too artificial", without seriously considering which aspects of those foods should qualify them for inclusion.
Progressives live in cities more than anywhere else, San Francisco being a center of progressivism. The critics live elsewhere, and love to tell people in cities what they really should want and do (more guns, no progressive reforms, etc. etc.). In NY, the anti-progressive vote was in the suburbs; in the city they do well. In Philadelphia, the progressive DA did best in African-American neighborhoods.
Sort of yes, sort of no. If the acquired business is operating effectively and doesn't have a bad quarter or two sometimes the acquirer is happy to let it run more or less independently for a while. Sure, the writing is on the wall, but you can go years without major impact as an IC.
> The second Salesforce bought Slack, Slack ceased to exist

I'm pretty sure it could be sold, thus it exists. Or used to exist and could exist again?
I don't know much about this domain, but what's the difference between this and a mobile home?
> I used to live around the corner from homeless services in the greater Seattle area and commute by foot after dark regularly. I never got physically assaulted but certainly would have if I didn't have my wits about me.

What would have "certainly" happened?
I like this, but what about flooding?
Lots of people have been hit by cars - far more die and are injured by them than by homeless people. Do you disagree?
Okay - but said “unrealized gain” could have dividend payments or be used as collateral for a loan.
Maybe this is interesting for you https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...
Still waiting for my fxtec to ship after 2 years and a redesign after the fact to use an even older soc than what I signed up for. If I ever get the thing it will have a 4 or 5 year old soc the day I get it. And a keyboard.
the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot
Surely he'd have a much better understanding of the bigger picture, but there would be soo much code forgotten if it were me!
I got some memory foam tips for mine and they've been amazing.
Yes (and it's certainly happening in "my area" as well), but it's not an existential threat to humanity yet. AGI will be, the moment it comes into existence, with zero advance warning and no chance to fix anything. It will simply be the end.
At least on 64 bit Linux, time_t is defined in 64 bits.

printf("%d\n",sizeof(time_t));

outputs : 8
The glibc version also only supports ASCII but instead of returning 'false' for out of range inputs, crashes your program.
On the other hand, working is what most of us spend 8 hours a day on. It makes sense to make the most of that time, and not all jobs are equally interesting/fun/rewarding.
MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes
Ah, yes, an oldie but a goodie: running a read-only query on a widely-advertised system management class causes a flurry of (potentially disruptive if the underlying app for a 'reconfigured' package is running) activity and an impressive amount of event log spam.

The workarounds listed in the linked article are solid, but this definitely remains a runner-up for "dumbest thing ever"...
You can also work during college. No reason the two have to be mutually exclusive, especially now that remote has become so much more common.

I used to work half days and whole days whenever my schedule would allow.
This is really cool, I would love to do this. Is this a particular device?
> If you want people to actually read your site

The slowest day in the past 2 weeks got over 600 readers, with the peaks many times that.

> unreadably small font size

The font size is actually larger than the NYTimes used for 100 years (https://www.amazon.com/York-Times-Complete-Front-Pages/dp/07...). I'm pretty sure the smartest publishers in the world knew what they were doing.

So on both points, your data is wrong.

You are the exception, who prefers a larger font size. Nothing wrong with that. It's one button press: cmd&+. You can even set that as your default.
How do you unit test your sql? At least with orms, the data access is tested implicitly via business logic unit tests.
These comments seem very GPT to me
> audiences respond quite well to the variety,

Variety is the fulcrum of all music. And there can be no variety without repetition. Then the variety itself must vary. You're proceeding on the knife's edge, on the other side too much repetition on the other too little. And the proportion of those must vary over time. https://youtu.be/XwIehM-x6kA :-)
Same for me wrt Rivian. Well that and the reality of charging stations. But I really wanted the suv until I saw the first video of one's cabin. It takes the idea to an utterly obnoxious level.
If I may ask, do you have any book which has solutions of some of these hard integrals so that one can get a knack of ways to solve them than just start from first principles like by-parts ? Nntaleb and his twitter followers also often discuss solutions by methods which were not taught in Calculus 2.

It would be great idea to see one such book if it doesn't exist.
It helps a bit, but isn’t perfect by any means. What is most useful is it keeps it on topic when it has a document in mind.

Relevant: I took Solr, Selenium and GPT3 and mushed ‘em together.
> universities rise and fall over time

I think it's the opposite; what changes more slowly? How has the list of elite universities changed over time, unless we are talking about centuries?

> There are many cities with great night life for younger people, or good schools for families.

People like to find others with their interests. Very smart, highly educated, intellectual, creative people gather in SF, NY, LA, Boston. It's all the people who were bored and felt limited elsewhere. You want talented people to work with, to talk to, to challenge you. All those people who wanted to get out of their small town go to these places.
What does the first year of motherhood look like?
> A company like Meraki or WebEx that’s making a lot of money and is larger or more complicated to integrate (because they have lots of their own systems and infrastructure) may get left alone, particularly if the former owners are aggressive about maintaining their existing culture.

Thanks for this, it goes a long way toward explaining how Cisco has a software list and a written offer for GPL for their products, and Meraki has an unpublished email address (open-source@meraki.com) that they ignore for months on end.

I often wondered how Cisco, who was famously sued for GPL non-compliance after the Linksys acquisition, could repeat that blunder with Meraki.
Interesting Article: Can SBF Avoid Prison via Twinkie Defense 2.0?
But how critical is it that all these systems have the correct time? Mostly, this won't be that big of a deal. So what if some ancient device thinks it's 1970? Most of these devices don't even have UIs to set the time correctly: so they might have never had a correct notion of time to begin with. And how many of these devices have an uptime of 68 years? What happens when you turn these things off and on again? Do they start out at 1970? If not, where do they get the correct time? Embedded devices don't come with internet connections so there is no ntp running on them.

Probably banks and insurers with ancient software might have to patch a few things up again. They would care about having a correct time representation. But they still have 15 years to figure that out. And at this point, you'd hope they'd be aware of this at least.
Yes, there is, the FeDerated Content (FDC) urn type. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4198.html

urn:fdc:domain-i-controlled-at-time.com:202212:resource:fred
Debugging is always overlooked. Even in blog posts.
He gives the impression that the 13th floor being omitted is an exception. I thought it was common, at least in the USA. I don't think I have seen an elevator in the US that had a 13 button. It is stupid, but it is tradition so I don't think anyone wants to be the first to stop doing it.
It doesn't, but it also can clean things that flossing can't.
> There's no culture clash between Slack and Salesforce. There's a Slack culture that once existed, and now there's Salesforce culture the company those workers now work at. You can embrace it, you can be unhappy, and you can leave.

hmm, there seems to be some misunderstanding. simplifying, there are two types of acquisitions: holding and integration. for holding a company getting acquired remains quite independent. for integration the company getting acquired is integrated into the parent. how this integration happens is up to both participants. sometimes both companies have to change, other times one company imposes their culture over the other. but from what i’ve see, IT companies (especially american) definitely prefer deep integration into the parent. in other fields (and nations) holding is more popular.
Turnout was very high in 2016 and 2020 in the US.
Tape deck got 99 problems but software update aint one of em.
Tried the following code on Linux / 64 bits.

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
printf("%d\n",sizeof(time_t));
}

$ gcc -o time time.c
$ ./time
$ 8

Therefore time_t is 8 bytes at least on 64 bit systems, even when you are using default time_t and not time64_t.

No idea when it was changed. 20 years back?
Do you have more information about GPON from AT&T? Here in Germany I have seen only authentication based on the GPON SFP serial number and not with EAP-TLS.
I think any somewhat actively maintained software should be fixed by now, except devices that aren't seen as computers by the users and don't even have update mechanisms. And old COBOL programs running on some bank's mainframe, of course. Did your dad teach you COBOL?
Looks like it’s 10 units _built_, but yeah, seems like weak sales regardless