skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no law mandating a different process was ever voted

No. During Bolsonaro's mandate, there was an attempt to add an auditable paper trail to the voting machines. It was voted unconstitutional by the same judges who would go on to declare the election results "unquestionable".

I don't blame them for using violence. Censorship is unconstitutional, especially political censorship, yet that's exactly what the judges who interpret the constitution did. How can you speak of "rule of law"? Clearly, "rule of law" is a joke here.
To conceal what?
Oh sure! I believe you 100%. I should have been clearer: I'm disagreeing with people you are describing, not with your description of people of such belief.
You will admit though that they are deliberately conflated in the public discourse.
While true, it can still cause resentment if $subpopulation appears to be able to get away with "cheating" — scare quotes because it's not well-defined, and the resentment still happens even when the "cheating" is necessary to maintain existence rather than comfort, e.g. "Why do disabled single mothers get paid to look after their kids?" and "Why do we pay to house these people who fled a war and don't know if their families are still alive?" etc.

I don't have any solution here. Lots of resentful people claim to follow a specific dude that told rich people to pay their taxes, to give all their money to the poor, etc., and if a lifetime of religious practices don't persuade them what on earth can a random internet stranger like me do?
I'd highly recommend Memoir '44. It's a hybrid board war game and card game, in that you have units moving on aboard, but you also draw command cards and use them to play combinations of moves.

https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44/en/
Another explanation that I saw [0] was that it was for people to pop the back panel out. I think this is the most likely explanation but it didn't occur to me while working with the sign. I feel like a little notch would have been more appropriate for an actual product.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2023/01/09/iot-archaeology-leads-to-api...
> lifting weights.

In this recent survey of nootropics [1], weightlifting was better than dozens of chemicals. In fact, it was third only to Dexedrine and Adderall. It scored better than Ritalin! And its variance is tighter than most substances, meaning it's one of the most likely means to improve results for anyone who takes it on.

Personally, I agree. After covid sapped some of my energy, it took about 2-3 months to get back to my average gym sessions and now I feel so much better. Happier, tougher, etc. When I am in shape, the geometry of the world around me changes. A distance or effort I might consider looks, feels, and is more in reach after a few weeks of rows, lunges, pushups, hanging, swinging, light cardio, biking, etc.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/link-troof-on-nootropi...
> The problem isn't that people aren't being paid enough

> The problem that housing and healthcare costs are too high

Why can't these both be problems? Low skill labor could be exploited to pad corporate bottom lines and housing and healthcare costs could be unreasonably high due to governmental policy. These two things can both be true.
> I don't think you can really separate nutrition from flavor/texture.

You shouldn't, but you most certainly can. Cake and cookies exist.

Also, you're just hand-waving away the fact that most adults in the US don't suffer from malnutrition, and the one that do often eat lots of meat. A healthy diet is just as much about what you aren't eating.
Diagrams that show LDA, STA, cycles, etc. Like this one -> https://iitestudent.blogspot.com/2011/06/timing-diagram-for-...
Raspberry Shake Seismograph
Raspberry Shake seismograph
Some Business Graphs for 2022
> Jill Notini, a vice president with the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers [...] added [...] “We may need some behavior change, we may need [people] to turn on their hoods when cooking.”

Last time I was using a gas stove, it was in a rental property. The hood vented right back into the kitchen, and there was no other exhaust fan / window / whatever that was reasonably close to the (otherwise very nice, FWIW) gas stove.
Show HN: iMessage-exporter, a full-featured CLI app and library
I've spent a long time reverse engineering nearly every aspect of Apple's iMessage SQLite tables to build this program. As far as I know, there are no other tools that support the full corpus of iMessage features, including edited messages, app messages, reactions, and threads.

I built this software to preserve some conversations with loved ones; I hope others find it useful as well.

For the curious, here are some of the more interesting aspects of the database I came across:

- Dates are stored as Unix timestamp with an epoch of 1/1/2001 00:00:00

- Messages can have multiple parts, denoted by some special invisible characters

- Reactions are stored by prefixing the GUID of the reacted message with the index of the message part [0].

- URL messages cache data in the table, which we can parse and display [1].

- Edited messages store the history message edits [2] (I wanted to try out DDD here, which was fun!).

[0]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/m...

[1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/m...

[2]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/m...
Aside from integration in bing and whatnot the article states:

"It is reported that Microsoft’s investment includes a rather peculiar agreement. The organization would receive 75% of OpenAI’s income until it has recovered its initial investment."
I have definitely received larger than 3-4% discounts (5% is pretty common, I've even seen 10%). At the time I had a pretty long discussion about reasons with my friends, but there's a lot of illegal and legal reasons to prefer cash: (a) you can pay employees quicker since credit cards don't disburse funds immediately, (b) you can pay employees "under the table" i.e. ignoring income taxes, (c) you can pay off your suppliers faster (as above), which is really useful for businesses with poorly documented credit (i.e. receiving net 30 or no credit). Depending on the use of the cash, I could see it being economically valuable to offer even a 15% discount (for illegal use) or 5% (for legal, CC processing + credit reasons).
Well, I think I can write about what I did by now.

A few years back, there was a sort of internal competition to see who could get the most LinkedIn exposure. I decided to take it as a challenge, so I wrote a set of JavaScript snippets that would go over my timeline and give me a break down of the correlation between keywords/hashtags and "likes" or reactions, and set to work.

Since I blog regularly (on a personal level, with a disclaimer), wrote Marketing copy in my deep dark past, worked in a place that did online advertising and happen to track a lot of tech/industry RSS feeds, I had zero issues with coming up with relevant, informative and _technical_ posts on a daily basis - posts that very seldom had anything at all to do with my employer at the time, although they did follow a theme around what we provided.

But I eventually limited myself to two/three a week, and used my scripts to figure out what hashtags and wording got the most reactions/views. I'd post, wait a couple of days, let Chrome scroll through the timeline, "train" the system on my previous post, save a .csv file, rinse, repeat.

In less than a month, I was already "winning" the thing by any stretch of the imagination, although in the end they awarded the "prize" to a sales guy who, despite a lot of pure Marketing content, was obviously picked to win due to local politics (I can't be more specific than that).

In the process, I learned a fair bit about how effective Bayesian classifiers can be and how to combine them for ranking stuff, although to be honest I still dislike JavaScript.

So keep in mind that you _can_ do this, have fun, and... not win anything, really. I wouldn't do it again, because in the end what matters is what you deliver and what kind of reputation you have by it, and that's not reinforced by any kind of social network _except_ the one where you have people who actually know you.
I'm surprised this isn't on the front page.
That is a great way to phrase it.
PEP 703: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional
I am happy to share screenshots or recorded video if that makes you feel at ease
Tech Protectionism’s Incentives Undermine Global Market Goals
"When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm. It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money." - Harry Stonecipher, Boeing executive and CEO until 2005

https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0402290256feb29-story.htm...
Not sure why this isn't triggering any discussion?

I recall reading a QuantaMagazine issue about combining a Cyc-like (old school AI database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc ) with GPT-2:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/common-sense-comes-to-compute...
they had some success improving "common sense" in AI.

Combining Mathematica with ChatGPT would be similar and could improve these new AI reliability.
Observation: If Lawyers (Bar Association members) can be AI automated -- then so can Judges (Magistrates) (who are also usually Bar Association members and ex-lawyers themselves...)
then you'll be pleased to read that @digikar is advancing on fast Python FFI, or to discover numerical and scientific libraries.

> This will take a while to read through!

but much less than to write or to google, so lay back and enjoy each line ;)
The problem with rPi is storage and filesystem. You need to issue a shutdown command and wait for it to complete before removing power in order to help ensure that it will come up without problems. This will literally never happen with a consumer IoT device. Also, SD media is extremely prone to failure.

It's fine for prototype at a very early stage, absolutely not fine for something you ship to a user.
I think most people know that filesystems make for poor databases.

However, most people don't seem to realize that Excel spreadsheets are rather poor databases... they're the _real_ issue.
> Inversely, You can write an interpreter for C++, but features like `consteval` and `constexpr` are meaningless without ahead-of-time compilation.

No they're not, `constexpr` and `consteval` indicate where you can use an expression, not when in the compilation/interpretation pipeline they need to be evaluated. The spec does not say that C++ has to be compiled, nor does the spec say "A compiler must execute `constexpr` expressions prior to entering `main()`".

If you think this is just being pedantic, well, that's kind of the point of a spec.
I think using language-provided async calls everywhere will be the next mistake. Instead of callback hell, you get callback hell along with weird async race conditions and a contagion of async functions.
Props for making such a beautiful and useful website! I was surprised to see how well it works on both mobile and desktop. What did you use for the search feature at the top?
The eye-popping numbers of "homeless" in NYC are not comparable to the situation in California.

Many of the "homeless" in NYC are immigrant families in shelters. As NYC is a portal for immigrants coming to the US and some of them end up in difficulty, this is how it is.

This is different from the situation in California where the "homeless" really are sleeping outside.
It seems to me that something like this is really what the iPad is missing. Instead of each application being in its own sandbox, imagine if they were all scriptable, and the scripting language was as accessible as HyperCard was.

That would really be something.
> You can’t cost manage your way to growth.

Likewise, no family has ever moved up the economic ladder by penny-pinching. The best that penny-pinching can do is to stave off bankruptcy.
That's correct. It's like arguing that food is too expensive when you only eat premium take-out. For most people it's something you do maybe once a month.
Ok, to me it's very different.

Free market is from the liberal ideology, and is like "well separated market with rationnal actors will take the most appropriate decision according to available information automatically". Basically.

Capitalism however: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit." And this is the Oxfor dictionnary definition because i don't want to misconstrue or be accused of bias.

I don't see how one replace another, in any situation. Sorry. You can very well have free market in a socialist country. More than that: in an anarchist country (which doesn't and would never exist, this is more than highly hypotetical), free market is the default and would need fewer regulation, as power in a market couldn't be leveraged to gain advantages in others.
Not only that, but half of those services would become acronyms very quickly.

Would this be easier if you needed to integrate with UPS, TCS, ISS (which also stores videos these days, though HEIFF and h.265 has obviously been moved to iOS-ISS so customers can be billed for the special software that requires patents) to upload a signed SAP file to IESM so that it can be included in the AD next time RM decides to update its endpoints?
Egret/Acre: Regular Expression Test Generation and Automatic Checking
It’s politics. The term was synthetically created to push a political agenda. The term was chosen to be as emotionally-charged as possible: “How can you be against paying people a Living Wage?”

We can and should talk about problems like this, but I hate that it is being done in such a nakedly political and disingenuous way.
> I think everyone was completely caught off-guard by the ferocity and pace of the crypto drawdown.

You have to believe. Especially if you claim to be a leader.
> In the parlance, they do not provide a living wage, but their employees are still able to live due to government largesse.

I really, really, really hate this framing. The whole point of these programs was to help people regardless of their employment status. The alternative is saying that only people without jobs should ever use a social service.

No one in their right mind would say that a single-payer health plan would "subsidize corporations" by making employees cheaper. So it seems wrong to accuse SNAP or Title IX of doing the same.
Yeah, Microsoft doesnt even make something like Google's TPU, where's the moat? Datacenter design? Involuntary Bing users?
Agree...nothing cool being done over there.
If the companies didn't matter, why would you put them on your CV?
I’m not sure there’s a specific number. For me personally, it would feel fairer if the city and state weren’t flagrantly, openly, unapologetically inefficient and wasteful.
Somewhat cheaper than a personal jetpack.
Same here, UWS
Just curious what made you come up with at least $30 per LED panel, as these should run you about $10 in bulk.
That was wild.
I think I actually made a comment to this effect recently (although perhaps not on HN? Can't recall now). I think your idea of phrase overloading is an interesting one; often it seems that words lose their severity / intended effect, so new words are adopted. To the point of a sibling comment, homeless has now become "unhoused," to infer a different connotation or slight nuance over what is traditionally or stereotypically thought of the homeless population, perhaps. "Dire" and "manipulative" drive attention, and that is indeed the goal for better (to drive change) or worse (to profit from attention).
Threema - Messenger billed as better than Signal is riddled with vulnerabilities
Whoa whoa whoa. Regarding "layoffs are never 'mimicking' what other companies are doing" layoffs are getting hyped like other trends in tech. Tech management is very trend-driven. Over-hiring to lock down talent, swinging to lean to the point of dysfunction, is characteristic of the tech industry. Entrepreneurs managing on the basis of pop management books and gurus is rife in tech.
At least the private-equity folks Apollo Management Group got their pound of flesh, though, eh?
Yes, and especially for people above a certain age, an MBA--whether a regular two-year program or an executive program--was often treated as table-stakes for a lot of roles at companies that weren't hands-on engineering roles. And, yes, in many cases, MBA grads who were looking to work at companies in computer-related fields had some sort of engineering undergrad degree.
For me, flow is disrupted when I try to learn and program at the same time.

Programming is bliss when I restrict myself to tools and domains that I deeply understand.
Microsoft gets blamed when updates are applied because it makes the system less responsive.

Microsoft gets blamed when users don't install updates and their systems get owned.

In either case, Microsoft gets blamed.
Bing It ;)
Whoops, typo. "(1) it is a sex change operation ..." should be: "(1) it is not a sex change operation"
The costs in this article do not apply to using the Tesla network in Oregon and Washington of the United States. Using the supercharger network frequently in 2022, charging costs were still significantly lower than gasoline.
The general counter-point is, why would you want someone who doesn't understand the work done by the company to run that company.

Besides that, the polarization between management and 'the work floor' naturally leads the work floor to see someone who studied 'management' as the epitome of management, and thus as the epitome of 'the enemy'. Personally I believe the work-floor is right to be skeptical of the management style that is commonly taught. Because the style is not based on treating employees as humans but instead about extracting a much value from these human resources as possible.
HTG urgent need to fill this position!

Location: Ottawa ON Canada
The thing about churn (of developers/contributors) rings so true to me from my career, and I think is really under-appreciated. In "the industry", or just among "people who make things in teams" (including open source).

> Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is absolutely devastating. It is the death knell for a software project. Makes deadlines meaningless. It turns software into a disposable, single-use product like a paper towel. Anything that increases team member churn threatens the very viability of the project and the software it’s creating.

From an essay that is worth reading in full, "Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies": https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/

I think it's exactly right about the importance of "mental models" and "theory building", and if we could keep that in mind we could build better more maintainable software. ("More maintainable" over the long-term I think is almost synonymous with "has easy to grasp mental models that are sufficient to guide your work with the system")
what about https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT (currently trending on Github)
Do you take notes on paper? If not now's the time to start, get you a legal pad and jot down some notes like the Where, What, When, Why, and How.

We only have so much working memory, life at times can take up much of it. No need to try to force our brains to do so much when you can do your thinking on the paper.

Paper notes are also great for being able to get up and come back to a subject. You can get up at any point and come back with a save state of what you were doing, and how you got there.
Right, the only defense of inhaling hydrocarbons is some kind of trad culture war thing. Like because something bad is happening it has to continue happening because it's a part of my "civilization".
Not only is your comment needlessly snarky, but it also mis-characterizes what I said. Show me where in my comment I said that I "object to reading code and figuring out what it does in the grand scheme of things".

What I "object to" is not being able to trust that a class or method does what it says on the tin. I don't think that's unreasonable. I'm fine with reading code in order to understand how something works. I don't want to have to read code in order to verify that it does what it promises. See the difference?
I'm allergic to the skin.
If almost half of people who are living in a place arent earning a living wage, then it is the living wage calculator that is incorrect.
Even the wooden enclosure could be done for significantly less.

It's effectively a picture frame. There are plenty of standard box frame profiles they are very similar to what they have built. If it was me, I would have explored working with a picture frame company for final assembly, many are used to "assembling" products with extra components (think of stuff on Etsy). The frames are simply cut with a framing guillotine and stapled together.

My estimate would be frame (including custom cut back panel), and final assembly would be in the region of $10-$15 at a US/UK framers. (Excluding electrical BOM)
The battery is warrantied for 120,000 miles or 8 years. The stated design life is 3-500,000 miles.
There are a lot of people whose thinking fossilized (or perhaps I should say FOSS-ilized) in the '80s / '90s when Microsoft was in its growth phase and its products were a lot less stable and secure than what they evolved into (much like everything else; pre-2.0 Linux distros were riddled with problems as well) and Microsoft was aggressively throwing its weight around to defeat competitors (just like its competitors were aggressively doing to them and each other, but they never bring that up since it doesn't jibe with their narrative).

As the kids nowadays would joke, "Gates and Ballmer are living in their heads rent-free" except it's been for the past 25-30 years.
We’ll usually start with a task based on an hourly rate, not a fixed cost.
Just to clarify our process: DB migrations are part of code review, they run as a script, but we don't have that script run automatically as part of CD. We've been bit by enough migration surprises that we require someone watching and able to interrupt and cancel the migration if needed. But that's the extent of action required. Run this command, Ctrl-C if necessary. Definitely not YOLO'ing in a psql in prod.
I worked at a startup with a bird theme for a bit under 4 years. There were three separate things named Nightingale in that time. By the time I left, it was kind of a joke to suggest that as the name for random things.
Author here, as I mentioned in my post it was nothing but pure luck and building something that the community wanted but never had. I wish I had answers for you. Been an active hacker news reader for a long time and the last thing I would do is to spam a community where I get valuable tech news.

Not sure why this was flagged but I am happy to provide video evidence and even show it live on a call if that makes you feel at ease
It's not something to be sad about. It just means the model isn't trained as a lawyer and/or isn't pulling from the right knowledgebase.
Community engagement is so 2022. Obsess over these things instead
yes!! . I am in colorado for a 3 month work/ski trip hoping to ski 3 days/week. I don't use my phone on the slow ski lifts. Its amazing to be phone free for the whole day out in the mountains.
A minimum living wage should assume roomates with maybe 300 square feet per person. I lived on a fishing vessel with far less than that and we survived fine.