skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a robot vacuum cleaner is a great idea. What I don't understand is why the profit is tied to data collection. Shouldn't there be a profit in simply selling vacuum cleaner?

In this case iRobot didn't exactly lie about collecting data, but how greedy/stupid do you have to be as a company to not ensure that the data collect NEVER EVER leave the servers of your AI/QA/Process-improvement lab? The company know that people are already critical of their data collection, that should have trigged the creation of a process that would ensure that once data has been collected will never leave the department that develops their AI. You know this data is sensitive, and yet you outsource handling of if it, to poorly trained freelancers, who knows nothing of data security, privacy laws or apparently common decency.
Just follow that town and buy the biggest parking lots you can find
I think that's overloading the meaning of the word.
[Author of the review here]

It absolutely is, yes. That is how I captured the screenshot for that article.

But the thing is that that doesn't let you get any real feel for how it works with the hardware.

One big aspect, of course, is the performance. That's why I used one of the oldest slowest laptops in my testing fleet for the writeup.

On a 15YO C2D with spinning rust, Haiku b4 starts about as quickly as Ubuntu from NVMe SSD on my day-to-day Core i7. It is impressive.

Secondly the wifi support is impressive too. FreeBSD only supports some old wifi standards and the connection is not all that fast. Haiku talks -n and -ac standards and it's quick, as quick as this old machine's wifi card can do. It saw both my 2.5GHz and 5GHz WLANs, too, separately.

Regular readers of my reviews of alternative and niche OSes will see that I usually try in VirtualBox first, and then if that is successful, I move on to bare metal. Depending on the sophistication of the OS, I may use an "easy" machine, such as a laptop with only integrated graphics, or a "tough" machine, such as one with two GPUs and switching support.

Quite a few OSes never make it out of a VM in testing. Frankly, if something can't support the well-standardised virtual hardware of a VM, it is likely to fair badly on bare metal.
- No parentheses is needed

- No forced order of select, order, having,... Want from before select ? Fine.

- Composability

- Extensibility.

- Security: Prevent SQL injection when sent from browser.
You nitpicked an outlier. Most countries that undergone the IMF process have not been successful to put it lightly. Also, the passage does not prove that the growth was a consequence of implementing IMF policies. It might have happened in spite of that.
>isn't it reasonable...

Not at all. This is a category error - you can't place simulated realities on the same 'level' even among themselves, much less with the realities 'above' them.*

Let me put it this way: Most of our 'simulations' involve 'realities' with laws which have at best a weak relation to our reality and little relation between themselves. You can't deduce the situation of a higher reality - or even correct laws of logic - from a simulated reality. You can't know from a simulation n levels deep, how many simulations the n-1 level supports, so you can't assume there are many other possible simulations of same complexity level (which is critical for the statistical argument). You may not be able to even make a logical argument in the first place. For all we know, the 'true' reality is 1+1=5. The simulation argument is ergo incoherent.

* Aside, this argument fails statistically even if we do accept the category error. As Sean Caroll pointed out, most simulations will simulate below them, and therefore most simulations will not be able to support life. Our situation must be atypical in any event.
For that, you'd need a set of commonly accepted data structures.

Alternatively, you can describe and send arbitrary data structures. Although that begs the question of how to process arbitrary data structures. (JSON and XML aren't arbitrary, for that matter)
What if writing tests were* a joyful experience
i think that propper schema and autocompleate would save the day. even i would say make things easier. talking about XML
Or like churning butter, or hand washing dishes!
Adults bully, too, so you do need to learn to handle it. Delaying that learning experience likely has both costs and benefits.
Do heat pumps work in cold climates?
Not as exciting as many others, but I always have a soft spot for the old centralised/decentralised/distributed systems diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Ehmke-2/pub...

It was my first introduction into actually thinking about and working with distributed systems at University, a field I've been in love with since, so it seems quite formative. Plus I always thought aesthetically it looks lovely, like it'd make a good tattoo.
it's more often that they don't understand what simple means for most people

For example they might think that in a mixed-paradigmatic language the "pure
functional approach" is more simple even if it introduces more indirection and
requires a deep understanding of various more advanced language constructs(*).

Or that the simplest explanation of monad is the one based on PL-theory instead of an explanation based on terms people without an scientific-PL background are more familiar with.

Or people which think that writing down things in predicate logic is just way simpler then writing them down in English (well, I guess thats somewhat me).

None of the "I find this is simpler" points I mentioned are bad, but not realizing/accepting that what is simpler for you isn't simpler for others is the problem.
Socializing children requires you to be around other children to play with, or get into conflict with. That's part of socializing. When you're homeschooling, it's much less likely you have a broad spectrum of other children to interact with, as when you go to an actual school.
[Author of the review here]

Gosh. Thank you.

(I mean, I hope that's not being sarcastic...?)
> Thinking that JSON is a suitable replacement, imagine writing Ansible or k8s stuff in it; that would be fun ;)

k8s via helm is often templated via go template strings; which works by creating an unreadable and unhighightable mess, introducing lots of its own bugs.
105 comment thread 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34214244

And the same article yesterday ago with its proper title, couple of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34346096
> Great way to frame mining as eco-friendly

What's the alternative? If we want to electrify, it means more resource discovery and mining than we're already doing, plus likely mining more non-renewable fuels to power the intermediate infrastructure we will need to mine or recycle metals for renewables or EVs.
Secret fact: Hackernews data is stored as a huge YAML file on disk.
Can't believe you've been downvoted. HN isn't homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it's done by a technology company.
I know nothing about the business of making movies, but I have to say the quality of films/TV produced in the west has been in steady decline for quite some time. Sure there are odd creations that are really good (like Dune), but then the average is horrible. Same stories rehashed over an over with lots of clishe's, sex scenes squeezed in just because etc. But the worst is the dumbed down stories. It seems as if Western producers think the story has to be horribly simplified or there is no chance of "world success".

To see how it should be done look at South Korean(and some Japanese) dramas on Netflix. Not all are great, but the average is way better. It came to a point I think I just saw one western TV production last year I liked and there were probably 5 or more Korean ones. Why is it that they can make interesting and surprising stories into TV/films in places like Korea?. Similar for Japan, but I found many Japanese dramas seem to be too focused on picturing "internal struggles" of characters in a way that seems a bit overdone for a western audiences. For examples of what I mean see "Alice in Borderlands" (Japanese - suffers some previously mentioned issues, but overall very good). "Glory" (Korean - when you read the brief it sounds like something that would be horrible to watch, but they pulled it off great), "Train to Busan" (Korean film about freaking zombies that is actually good), D. P.(Korean,again brief seems completely cheesy "Military police searches for escaped draftees" in actuality it has great story, it shows some really hard realities of military draft, like abuse etc in a way that is really believable a normal person could end up in such situation etc.) And many more. The only western TV drama that was good was "1899" (German/UK production). This was really good too.

So why is it there is so much bad quality tv/films produced in the west? Such great opportunities wasted? I had great hopes for the Mandalorian. I couldn't watch more than 2 episodes because the story was written for 10 year old. Etc.
If domestic relationships aren't good quality then social skills may be impaired regardless.
As an argentinian, I believe the IMF is not pushy enough with us.

"Here, have this big pile of money to pay for your more urgent and higher-interest-rate debts, and here are some policies for you to implement so you stop having inflation once and for all. But it's ok if you cook the books, or don't comply with the policies, you're a big economy anyways so we have to keep you going and not catastrophically fail anyways".
How many people do you thing will get fired due to the grounding of airplanes?

versus: how many people would get fired if NYSE went down due to "we didn't think we needed backups".

incentives matter. In political systems the main goal is to be able to point the finger at somebody else, not to ensure things run well.
This is an interesting approach and I have read that this is more closer to how our brains works.

We extract learning, while we are imbibing the data and there seems to be no mechanism in the brain that favors backprop like learning process.
It is not incorrect in general, but it is kind of hack that may be incorrect in some situations (as it does not reflect change in system timezone), so it is not suitable for default behavior.

Default behavior - use current system timezone

Explicit TZ - use specific timezone defined by TZ variable, defined either directly (e.g. TZ="NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0"), or indirectly from file (e.g. TZ=":/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels"). As this defines specific timezone, it is not supposed to change.
Not exactly news.

A HN worthy comment might expand on why they're called 'rare' and why they're hard (in the sense of effort and resources) to extract and deliver in a ready to use state.

Any ideas?
Quite "surprising" indeed for something critical. It's not just simply coal or so after all ...

I'd be curious to compare with China, how long it took them to exploit their rare earths mines.
Guinness World Records: Elon Musk has lost more money than anyone in history
People who need to solve problems.

Operations research, optimizations, routing, all the classical AI problems.
> Because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed. This means they are not often found in concentrated enough clusters to make them viable to mine. It was the scarcity of these minerals that led to them being called rare earths.

https://lynasrareearths.com/products/what-are-rare-earths/
use a dedicated ebook reader.
So if I'm a passenger in a car and the driver hits someone - I'm morally responsible?
You are aware we're talking about a large scale mining operation here?

That doesn't just mean surveying and analysis, but may also involve such things as resettling people, planning new routes for existing rivers and other water, as well as figuring out externalities that will remain after mining is done, but still should be accounted for.
Researchers create an optical tractor beam that pulls macroscopic objects
Related but its all mechanical

Wintergatan - Marble Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
Common misconception, also seen among many of the replies. Unions are not opt-in, unless you consider "taking a union job" opt-in.

If this vote goes through (and a contract agreed), and you take a unionized job in the unionized warehouse, you will be covered by the union contract. If management violates the contract in a way that harms you, the union will be filing a grievance on your behalf. If you ask for a union rep to be in the room when discipline is discussed, they must send a rep. You will vote on a proposed contract. In short, the union has the responsibility to represent you, based on your being in a union job.

A "right to work" state is one where the union cannot sign a contract with the employer forcing you to pay union dues in order to get the representation you are entitled to. So, you have the right, in a "right to work" state, to avail yourself of the union representation without paying dues. That's exactly what "right to work" means, and no more.
> You are similarly free to disagree with me or defer to your blind fealty to a government agency.

That's a pretty absurd set of choices.
Here here. Also, if there weren’t red tape, then there would be more corruption and lack of accountability. The staff of agencies are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If one wants to critique government agencies, criticize the political appointees who are in thrall to the industries they are supposed to be regulating. The rank and file generally work hard and in good faith. They are just trying to be good stewards of public resources. I’ve seen this at the federal level and state levels (primarily in North Carolina and Louisiana).
Yield products without a banking license, "proof that a Nexo client [...] was a person officially designated as financing terrorism".

You'd think crypto exchanges would be more cautious, given the controversial nature of their business.
One of the major use-cases for YAML is as a host language for DSLs, essentially basic programming languages for specific use-cases. TOML isn't as good there, as these languages often need deep nesting of data structures. GitHub Actions is the obvious example.
There's some legal hurdles to this.

It would be unconstitutional for a Swedish government to meddle in individual decisions of its agencies (including courts), and they in turn are required to act impartially.
Apart from the flailing limbs and suddenly-rotating head with apparatus. Eliminating those, are we back to just watching a movie? That said, I'd much rather watch a movie on a plane in a VR headset than off of a seat back.
Startup is fining employees for contacting colleagues on vacation
Seriously? Do you stay in 1hr lines every morning to buy bread and milk? Do you need a year savings and connections to buy furniture or tableware? Can you visit a neighbouring city without asking permission of officials? Do you need a registration of your address at the police, do you need a permission of your employer for it, would you be detained by the first police patrol without it? Can you resign and live off your savings without being arrested? Can you go somewhere during work hours and not being detained? Does your employer uses you as free labor for gathering veggies in the fields? Are you forced to take part in marches and clean up events during your weekends? Are you forced to spend 2 years of your life in the army, can you be sent to Afganistan? Can you leave the country for a personal purpose of yours and without testifying before the commission of homeland security, do you need to pass an ideology exam for that, do you need references and impeccable biography? Can you buy a car, do you need to wait for 5-10 years for that, do you need to prove the sources of income and your __necessity__ (why you need it) to the officials? Do your dentists spend 5-15 minutes per patient, do they have to serve at least 40 people per shift? The list of qustions is endless.
I find it suprising that two posts talking about this topic are currently on the front page, although it's not the typical HN material.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, or maybe there's something worth investigating for dang.
Easily run TensorFlow models from C++
I used to think that the 40K universe was ridicolous when it states that the human empire is hamstringed, outright decaying, through 'bureaucracy' - I don't think that anymore.
I hope you are joking because this is the worst take I've seen in forever on this topic. It doesn't even address my original point. If the only profitable Starbucks outlet is the ones with bad working conditions then perhaps they shouldn't exist.
I asked my lawyer, the fine element is the deliberate and dangerous part of the action without reason. Normally you effectively have shared fault.

The question is if in this case the action can be considered as deliberate. The "software" did it, is it deliberate? Is it considered as a failure of the car like the breaking of mechanical part?

This is new and the justice will have to figure it out and I am very happy not to have to figure it out.
Ok but why is this news worthy ? Predicting industry demand in 15 years is pointless. I mean I remember 15 years ago everyone was talking about "peak oil imminent collapse". This seems irrelevant for problems of today so framing it as a solution to these is ridiculous. By the time these start producing most of Europe has already proposed ICE bans.
we have checksums; older traditions protected against channel noise with poetic stuctures.

(incidentally, the WP article claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts#Characteristic... had an influence on japanese katakana/hiragana; I wonder how much influence they had —perhaps indirectly, via phonetics?— on the varied western shorthand systems, not to mention Shavian)
This is correct. All modern corporations are extensions of the state and should be viewed no differently than government agencies. Privately owned and operated entities are a different matter, as these have existed long before the state and continue to exist today in stateless zones.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I can just nod to everything you say.

I remember that as a kid (25-20 years ago) there were winters where school busses would just not show up, because it was too cold and public service could not clear roads from snow and ice fast enough. We went out with sleds to the hills around town and ride them down all day. That was normal in my childhood from December to mid-February. The children of my friends never went to the same hills with sleds, because there's just no snow anymore. Maybe 2-5 cm that last for three days, but that's it. And not even that does happen every year. Climate is changing. Period.
Primatologists indeed rate humans as less aggressive than for example great chimpanzees. But more than bonobos. So we are not the most agressive primates or species on earth. That must count for something, doesn’t it?
Authorization in Your SvelteKit App
HN headline does not reflect the actual headline ("Why did teenage suicides decline during America’s first covid-19 lockdowns?")

It also makes a claim that the article wisely doesn't make. Compare the OP:

> The paper concludes that in-person bullying is the likeliest explanation for the rise in suicides when schools reopened.

No suggestion that any evidence was used in making that conclusion. The finding is that suicide rates dropped due to school closure.
Namespacing is the opposite of noise: it lets different domains coexist with no possible confusion about which is which.

But experience has taught me that trying to explain why XML is great and simple to read and write for humans, to someone who thinks differently, is useless. And so, I won't.

Yet, please accept that some people, like me, really liked it and didn't mind the little quirks in light of all it offered.
From the site:

"This is a toy model with a strongly simplified setup. Please read the warnings before interpreting the results. In particular: [Very long list]"

Hydrogen as storage is still very far into the future.

To take some numbers it suggest for Sweden if we remove hydrogen storage, we just need 800% wind overcapacity, 400% solar overcapacity and 100% grid capacity battery solution.
A clickable map of this with lines to the visa free travel countries would be a brilliant visualisation.

Sadly they don't have a downloadable form of the data. There is however an internal API that returns nice JSON, it looks like they built in provision for maps and coordinate, but never populated that data.
> An XML document with a well-thought-out domain-specific DTD would solve all these problems;

But then a YAML document written by disciplined and well-thinking people will also not have these problems.

Any of the complex formats work well when used in the most fitting way and go horribly wrong when people try to benefit too much from the complexity. XML was also a nightmare when put in the wrong hand, just as yaml is, and the next hyped and turing complete document syntax will be.
Lossfunctions
LKAB is 100% owned by the Swedish state. 2021 the dividend was pretty large and apparently around 1000 SEK per swede. Well if it would have been paid that way, it's going into the govt balance sheet of course.
This isn't really 2001 all over again except for crypto companies that want to centralize money on a decentralized platform and then commit fraud. Or the companies that trusted those "trust me, I'll hold the wallet" companies. Startups see the effects of the economy first because the typical path is to raise seed rounds until you are profitable. Sometimes profitable never happens or the ramp is too long and in a recession the funding may not be there for the next seed round which means they can't expand and maybe they can't make payroll.

If you look outside the world of startups there are tons of employers that need software people. You aren't going to see crazy comp or equity but you can make a career out of stable job, stable high pay (when compared to the rest of humans on the planet) and not being worked to burnout.
Consider the number 50,371,928,400
Match each digit to its place value
Imho, crust on pizza is like rice in sushi: greatness starts there.

Sauce >> crust >> cheese >> toppings
Ok so the plates have sim cards. Hmmm sounds like a fun start up to maintain forever.
I did. Extensively nested data structures.
Turns out having 2 copies of something doesn't matter if same message re-tried after sending to first node crashes another node, who could possibly predict that /s
Only reasons in my life I've had to contact someone on vacation is because they incompetently didn't hand over something before they went on vacation and now a project/deal is in jeopardy because of it.

Wouldn't ever want to work somewhere that tries to punish me for doing my job when someone else screwed up theirs.
Personally I tend to trust it and I only step in if I want to actually go faster and pass the slow vehicle (which usually happens, but sometimes I might wait 2-3 minutes "locked" to the other vehicle)
HN cares about IT and there being conditions suitable for IT.

This means an interest in metals for electronics and suitable for climate related tech.

Ergo you'll see news about copper, rare earths, battery technology advances, hydrogen, etc all hit the front page and often rise.