skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure if this is the elephant in the room but might this eventually lead to renaming most of the United States either to a neutral name or back to the names that Native Americans gave them? [1] Many websites also still refer to Native Americans as Indians. Louis C.K. has a bit about that one but I shall refrain from linking to it, because language. I support renaming the states.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Native_...
Wolfram alpha is super useful for crazy unit conversions, I would love ChatGPT to be able to answer how many bananas of solar radiation are required to kill all the bacteria on an acre of concrete.
When a human recalls something from memory, the process of remembering itself alters the memory. It's an analog process. So a human creating art, code etc. based on their knowledge and memory is an inherently flawed analog copying process at best. Digital copies and processes are perfect and reproducible unless you alter their algorithm or data. These models are more like an applied form of lossy digital compression. We already treat analog copies and digital copies differently for copyright and many other purposes. At least that's how I'm thinking of it right now.
How to detect grooming in chat data?
Hello there!

Here is the first blog post of a series I wrote about grooming detection in text. It exposes the main strategies of groomers to approach underage online. If you want to handle this problem in your data, this blog post presents some SOTA information, datasets, features and models to help you with it!

Hoping this blog post will raise attention around this important topic.
This isn't an actual survey of people though. Cornell is saying "The living wage for this county is $xx,000, and xx% of people make less than $xx,000 in this county." They're comparing a range of incomes against essentially the fixed median cost of living.
Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2022-46176)
I've seen a large non-tech company (you probably know them) increase dev time by like 50% (plus increase defect rates) across several projects because someone inside had built an identity as "the [niche database] guy" and successfully sold [niche database] to the org (with the help of [niche database]'s marketing material) as the solution for all problems, when it was actually a pretty terrible fit for almost everything they were doing.

This dude cost them millions, for no benefit whatsoever, by causing morale-crushing slowdowns on every project. It was crazy. Wouldn't be surprised if he's running the tech-side of that whole place by now, either. They seemed to love the guy.
on the other hand, there's a strong incentive for group-organizations, specially profit-driven and "the show MUST go on" kinds of organizations to never depend on a single (or a small sub-group) of people to keep things going; lest somebody important gets hit by the proverbial bus.

IMO, this is also part of the challenges that come with dealing in software (understood as some sort of novel "substance"); in great part we (as a culture/civilization) haven't figured out how to deal with software (and in general, with digital artifacts) in the best way.
I like the joke "If exercise were a pill, every doctor would prescribe to everyone."
nodejs do this and actually Go fiber uses prefork to do this too
Show HN: Use ChatGPT to investigate Kubernetes issues, using webhooks and a bot
> Your post just reads like the equivalent of "I just need some nerd to do my app for like 50 bucks and then I'll be rich".

I didn't get that at all. Seems like they're just looking for someone to partner with on a new idea, to me.
The Boeing engineer CEO who replaced the accountant CEO (one of the first in Boeing history) under which most of the preliminary design of the deadly product was performed.
He has an MBA like I have a suit.

Sure I have one, a few even. Yet I'm not "a suit".
Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Layoffs are in very large part about mimicking what other companies are doing. I have no doubt that most CEOs are honestly trying to make the right decision, but (just like in pop culture!) the mere fact of what everyone else is doing has a substantial impact on the right business decision for you. If layoffs are a big trend this year, that substantially reduces both the reputational cost of doing your own layoff and the number of high performers you can expect to jump ship afterwards.
Our metabolism doesn't change in the technical sense, but in the popular sense of the word "metabolism" people absolutely slow down. At 20, missing a night's sleep wasn't even that big a deal. At 50 it is essentially impossible. I don't know what the underlying mechanisms are, but that's what people mean when they (incorrectly, it seems) say "metabolism".
Really true, ownership is a huge part of microservices. I have been on teams that have adopted orphaned services, then been called into meetings to advise on use of a service I am barely aware of.

It is a really easy way to make your employees overwhelmed, but you can always hire someone else to take ownership once they quit.
In my comment MBA is a state of being, not a conferred degree.

Jamie Dimon comes from financial services, which is a very different industry. Engineering minded firms in financial services were sponsored by finance folks that believed engineering / science / math / computer techniques towards finance would make them more competitive. Internally at JPMC Dimon invests heavily in tech and gives tech engineering leadership autonomy. So as CEO he has delegated a lot to the engineering culture and shielded it from the accountants and MBAs. (Again, MBA the state of being which can not be attributed solely to spending two years in a program)
Doing nothing would have been better than the something they did. Fet is laced into these drugs because you can't get any on a clean, regulated market.
Precisely, thank you.

It’s not about Kibana, or telemetry, or telemetry being opt-out. It’s about exactly what I copied from the page for lack of a deep link: the opt-out setting is deceitfully named opt-in.
Ask HN: Anyone experiencing degraded GitHub fetch times?
Every single operation that hits GitHub right now is slow to a crawl (<40KiB/s) on multiple internet connections for me (PNW, US).

GitHub status is reporting green: https://www.githubstatus.com/
i think that's perfectly said, and i'm 55.

in short, that assignment sounds de-motivating, so you're predisposed to notice momentum is hard to establish.

and getting coherent blocks of time, to get in a flow as they say, is the challenge that hits me all the time, and which i didn't have when going to an office 20-35 years earlier (including in college i mean).
"$bigcompany uses it so we must use it as well" is modern-day cargo cult programming and i've seen it in lots of places.
If your source is 96 YouTube videos sure, if it's 96 CCTV cameras it's different.
> With full control of the domain, we can create a new API based on what the sign is expecting and revive all of the signs that are out in the field.

Once the new server was up, did any signs from the field connect to it?
Brian Behlendorf does say[1] that the origin wasn't that, though apparently the "a patchy" pun was almost-immediately picked up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server#Name
Quick guide on making game assets with AI: Magical Runes and Gems [video]
Oh, I have a pretty fresh news for you.

https://github.com/python/peps/pull/2955
It's pretty easy to hold a mirror up to this question and ask, would you like to be told how sensitive you are allowed to be?
Those are terrible results. None of them are in (and most of them aren't even near) Gastown, one doesn't exist, one isn't a restaurant or vegetarian.

- The Acorn: Not in Gastown. In South Main.

- The Naam: Not in Gastown. In Kitsilano.

- Chau Veggie Express: Not in Gastown. In Granville Island.

- The Essential: Doesn't exist.

- The Wilder Snail: Not a restaurant, not vegetarian, not in Gastown. In Japantown, which is at least walkable from Gastown.
My favorite ASF project name: https://geronimo.apache.org/

(Disclosure: i'm an asf member)
A computer keyboard allows a person to type the contents of a pro-democracy speech even if you're in China and the government wouldn't want you to be able to, a telephone would have allowed the famously gay, famously chemically castrated Alan Turing to make a phone call to make proclamations of love to another man he loved despite the British government frowning upon such a thing, a ship would take the passengers of a ship of fleeing Jews to leave Europe and go elsewhere prior to the Holocaust even if Hitler would have liked to see them all in Auschwitz.

When we suddenly decide to give our tools the power to refuse us, based on some whim of those with power in society, we'd best be prepared for when it turns out we signed off on some great evils.
That's a great essay, thank you. I have been thinking this exact same thing for over a year now, it's nice to see it written out so clearly.
Hate it break it to you, but the funding for the IRS consistently fell through Obama's entire tenure and was at least 20% lower when he left office than when he started, including the years that dems controlled both house and senate. Conservatives suck but don't buy into the narrative that they're the only shitty people.
Depends on what models we're talking about. I've heard reproducing ChatGPT would require on the order of ten million dollars' of compute.
The associations with the name are neutral or beneficial to the software foundation, but is not a chosen association of the actual people who are apaches. They have their own culture and ideas of themselves, and this isn't part of it.

It's not easy to explain because there really isn't an analog if you've never been part of an exploited or erased group in some way. You just have to put yourself in their shoes I guess. What would it be like to be part of a culture that was very nearly successfully genocided, and is now treated as a mythologized part of the past that people are free to use as inspiration for their names and logos. Meanwhile you still exist, have your own traditions, history, names for yourself, religion maybe. It's not some deeply sophisticated academic argument it's just a shitty way to treat people and we should try not to do it.
Then explain the over hiring during easy money after pandemic stimulus. Poor decision making, even if consistent, isn't 'right decision' making.
> More than 140,000 people die from excessive alcohol use in the U.S. each year.

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...
I mostly agree, although from a user side it’s sometimes confusing to encounter random identifiers barely mentioned anywhere.
> The direction we're heading is to provide POSIX compatibility as an emulation layer on top of a cleaner foundation, rather than just doing POSIX at the base layer.

What's that "cleaner foundation"?

Next thing is: POSIX is the legacy stuff. If it's there nothing will change.

And not even to mention that the stack is going to look something like:

Hardware >> Hardware emulating some ISA (e.g. x86) >> C abstract machine >> POSIX >> VM emulating some ISA >> "container" emulating POSIX >> WASM VM >> emulation of POSIX APIs >> legacy applications written for some ISA & POSIX

I call this construct "layers of madness"… ;-)
> Curious on your take here - whenever I am very hungry I notice that my sense are acutely aware of any smell and are generally sharper (outside of the hunger part). Wouldn't that similarity translate to after a post fasted run that your brain is also much more acutely aware since it has been starved of food and is now trying to (in a historical sense) forage or hunt for food on a short term need?

This seems to be normal and common when fasting. It happens to me personally and I’ve read comments from other people who experience it too.
I disagree with this. Every "app idea" I've heard could be built, so going to a software developer and asking them whether it's possible is the wrong question. Someone with an app idea needs to be asking whether there is a market for their idea.

Figuring out whether an idea like OP's can be built is a difficult question for someone who doesn't know how to search for materials. In contrast, it's pretty easy for a mechanical engineer. OP is asking the right question.
I just came to say that the comments here are pure gold.
Drug overdose are caused by drugs tainted with something the user did not expect. Legalization would prevent that because you can buy the drug in a pharmacy instead of from some guy.
I am sorry that you feel I attacked you directly. That was not my intention, nor did I word my reply such that this would be implied. I was refering to a group of people, and you decided to put yourself in that group and feel attacked.

Notice that I refered to a group, while you choose to vent your feelings by naming a person specifically, resorting to personal attack.

Maybe my age-reference wasn't that much of?
Is the vinegar for the taste? I was told to cook hot for 10 mins then turn off heat and leave the lid on for 10 mins. Usually comes out pretty good. Twice as much water as rice. Rice cookers must be popular for a reason though?
Ribbon (YC S17) is hiring values-driven engineers to help patients find care
Nightingale was probably also the name of a meeting room.

I managed to avoid creating any new tools or services with bird names during my time there, though it was tempting to do so.
Yeah but those “reasons” aren’t necessarily appealing ones. My uncle and cousins moved to Queens a few years ago when they immigrated to America. It’s not because they love the nightlife and going to MoMA. It’s because that’s where the Bangladeshi community is—the folks who can help find a low paying service job with limited English skills or knowledge of America.

New York City’s population is actually declining if you exclude international migration—I.e. if you focus on the people who have realistic choices about where to live.
Similar experiences, they were amazing for the first couple years I was on a team that worked with them. They really provided amazing support and took a lot of the burden of managing infrastructure off our smaller teams. Then it changed, the writing was on the wall as public crowds grew but one of my last experience was of them wiping out one of my databases doing what should have been a non-destructive drive expansion. The kicker was they restored from backup, a backup from the previous evening and didn't bother to inform us. We found out when customers started calling asking where their previous days data was. Accidents happen but the whole cover up was unforgivable.
Yeah I agree. I’d rather hire someone who has built a business than one who studied how other people built a business.
Apparently his Mac was like an extension to Adams’ brain, and all of his work was stored on it. It might make it more brittle to changing technology, but on the other hand it was hugely productive for him.
That makes very little sense. Is absolutely anyone going to decide against buying an Apple device, because Tumblr is on the App Store?
One cool fact is that prior to running Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was COO of Delta Airlines. He could absolutely talk the talk on open source software. I always thought that was cool.
> You still think the people who produced this culture are not on par with you.

I do think they are on par with me.
I use Google regularly. It consistently answers my queries via one of the top three links it returns.

What kind of questions are you having trouble answering via Google?
> https://www.healthline.com/health/covid-respiratory-or-vascu...

Why COVID-19 is considered to be a respiratory disease

Medical professionals and researchers have been studying the link between COVID-19 and vascular symptoms since the beginning of the pandemic [..] These observations led to several hypotheses that COVID-19 was a vascular disease with respiratory symptoms and not a respiratory disease.

Studies in 2020 and 2021 supported this theory. These studies concluded that although people with mild to moderate COVID-19 only had respiratory symptoms, COVID-19 was primarily a vascular disease. However, additional studies published later in 2021 and into 2022 have contraindicated these findings. New studies indicate that COVID-19 doesn’t attack the vascular system at all.
Is that open to new customers?

Forget the car -- topping up a 20kWh battery for £1.50 a day sounds like a great deal for people paying 34p per unit at the moment, would save £150 a month.
How are so many people (including more than 20% of doctors, if the article is to be believed) surviving if they don't make a living wage? Tbh my main takeaway from the article is to wonder if their "living wage" calculation is broken or defined in a confusing way.
I noticed a stronger urge to not waste my time by reading bullshit. It got much worse now that I am closer to 40.

For pure coding, I am writing simple functions and precise data types only, and actively avoid all the clever abstractions I used to push for in the past. I won’t argue about any styling or naming conventions - configure an on-save linter and done.

And for APIs I‘ll look exclusively at the given spec/schema/whatever - and only grep through legacy implementation code if I suspect edgecase handling there.

It’s not being unable, more like extremely unwilling to immerse in just another messy code pile.
The fact that Adams was the first European Mac owner and that Stephen Fry was the second warms my heart. If that was the only thing I remember from this article (very high probability), my day was still better from reading it.
On the other hand, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892009, https://www.raspberrypi.com/success-stories/korg-synthesizer... for example on how some companies use Raspberry Pi compute modules in their products.

Am assuming here that they're adopting strategies to minimize/work around the problems you mention.
From the article:

One of the founders, Brian Behlendorf, describes how he came about choosing the name Apache in the documentary “Trillions and Trillions Served”:

"I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or something on those themes and I was like we need something a little more interesting, a little more romantic, not to be a cultural appropriator or anything like that, I had just seen a documentary about Geronimo and the last days of a Native American tribe called the Apaches, right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project…"
I was a Racker from 2010 to 2014, I left shortly after Lanham did, I was also located in San Antonio near Castle until 2022. It's a very sad thing that Rackspace is dying, but I must concur with the assessment. Apollo, like most private equity firms, is a bunch of bean-counters who are focused on financializing acquisitions, using their assets as leverage to extract money, and then offloading it to bag holders in the market who ride it down into the abyss. When I left Rackspace they had no debt, a massive war chest, and a reasonably competitive product offering to AWS that could have been capitalized on. As soon as Lanham left and they put an MBA sales guy in as CEO (Taylor Rhodes), and I heard rumors they'd turned down an acquisition from a major tech company but were considering a sell-out, I left to go do startups, and so did many other top-tier Rackers.

It used to be commonplace in South Texas (San Antonio / Austin) tech scene to meet new Rackers and talk to them about the old days, and just generally see Rackers having a huge presence in startups and tech. You still see a lot of former Rackers around, but they're all so far removed from those days now that this is not how we identify when we introduce ourselves. Not much new blood. Apollo decided it would be more financially sound to get rid of the core values, end "fanatical support", delete the fanatiguy logo and branding, and then lay off every single non-management American worker to replace them with 2-3 people working overseas from India. Rackspace support has been a boiler room bottom-barrel call center since at least 2019, and the pandemic massively accelerated what was already on the horizon.

The company has been culturally dead and financially doomed far before the ransomware attack. The ransomware attack is just the final nail in the coffin. Apollo took a ~$5B company with no debt, loaded it up to do multiple acquisitions theoretically worth $2B ($7B if you're following) and made it worth less than $1B on market. Real geniuses there, who managed to completely destroy a solid American company that helped create a burgeoning tech scene outside of the Bay Area, so they could pocket the money personally as they drove the company into bankruptcy.

It's unfortunately a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the 80s. Private equity is a bunch of sharks doing leveraged buyouts to con retail investors into holding the bag. Hasn't changed since I've been alive, and isn't likely to change before I die. The moment Rackspace sold to Apollo, they were on the trajectory of death. It just took awhile for reality to set in and consequences to catch up.

I don't always agree with Yoo and I don't agree with everything he said in this article, but he's absolutely right about bean counters ruining tech companies.
Accelerated computing is the future of genomics
>Even Australia with it's $21.38 minimum wage and healthcare for all has only 3.5% unemployment [1]

I agree that the US can increase its minimum wage without significantly increasing unemployment, but it can't do so nearly as much as Australia. For one, Australia has a lower minimum wage for youth. More importantly, Australia has vast mineral resources that are in high demand, so that creates a higher demand for lower-income labor.
The Guards Counterattack, yay! I'd buy a decent computer version of the basic game whether I was ever going to play it or not.

Digital ASL? I'm out. Too hardcore. It's an insanely complicated game. Has anyone ever really played it by the actual written rules?
Indeed, but that system will report nothing unusual when there's a leak directly from the tank, or in the pipe between tank and flow sensor (which I think is usually near the engine, downstream of a fuel pump) or if the tank wasn't filled to spec.

Any sensor has a failure rate. If the probability that a sensor has failed isn't dramatically lower than the probability of a leak, then the pilots will do just what they did in the incident and assume a bad fuel sensor reading rather than a leak.

Another failure mode of fuel tank sensors is short-circuiting and blowing up the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
Filesystems already fail at step#1 of a database, which is concurrent read / concurrent writes.

Its pretty obscure and arcane for the rules of read/write ordering on Linux/Windows systems and filesystems. You've got FILE* fwrites interacting with mmap regions, and locks don't exactly do what you think in Linux.

In both Linux / Windows, you end up needing to create a Filesystem mutex of some kind (Linux flock, Windows Mutex). Then, and only then, is it really safe to read or write to a file.