skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually pretty curious how Acxiom's identity verification let this through. It would have been trivially easy to see that the match rate against real human beings was close to 0%. None of the name + city pairs would match except through random chance... this would have stuck out like a sore thumb against any consumer database.

I'm a little surprised JPMC isn't publicly pushing Acxiom hard on this...
I'm pretty sure I (speaking metaphorically) could take some of Brin's wealth, while still leaving him fabulously wealthy, and make some poor people less poor. This is a not uncommon thing for governments to do, and in most of the developed world it works relatively well.

Sociologically speaking, we have decent evidence that eliminating privation can break generational cycles of poverty. Our own (broadly successful!) attempt at it is still within living memory, as is its dismantling[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society
It’s very hard to make money from, you know, a freeware browser without earning them somewhere else, i.e., in targeted advertising.
I concur. I would use an `Option`, `Result`, or enum for all of those scenarios, depending on the details.
Long Covid is extremely similar to ME/CFS, but affecting far more people. On the plus side for those of us living with ME/CFS, we can now explain to people "it's basically Long Covid." On the downside, this can be an extremely debilitating illness that lasts indefinitely. I am on year 14 and while I have seen improvement, I am still partially disabled.

My condolences to everyone dealing with Long Covid, which includes both the actual disease and the social consequences. It is already exhausting, but even more so when you need to convince people it's real, struggle to deal with skeptical or poorly informed doctors, and politely deal with the continuous unprompted medical advice from well-meaning friends, family, and internet strangers.
> As usual, no consideration given to the costs/downsides.

Just to be clear here not only are costs considered, but they are considered to an absurd degree considering the upsides. The parent just didn't bother to click two links.
I used this a lot on 9x and 2K. Loved it. Forgot about it until you made this post. Thanks m8!
The "budget advantage" doesn't matter in the top half of the industry; directing a human voice talent is not going away anytime soon.

Budget clients are suspicious of AI voices and feel "cheated" if they think someone they hired are using one. This will change fastest.
You know which one of these I really dislike? Donuts. Time was a man could buy a good, regular-ass chocolate long john or cruller at any place that had Donut in the name.

Nowadays it's all Rosewater Fritters and Fruity Pebbles sprinkled into the icing and all manner of other bullshit. Just gimme a goddamn donut, I don't need it to be an expression of your personal creative journey.

Mostly just ranting for fun, there's actually a few nearby "old school" donut shops in my area with really great offerings. But I do chuckle when I see the $4 hipster donuts at some of the other places in town.
Now they are starting to use Dns over Https to get around those restrictions. Super scummy
The sad thing about clickbait is that it works wonders, and you'll never guess what happens next!
Apologies I'm late to reply to this, but yes. The way each compiler/optimizer handles CTEs can be dramatically different from RDBMS to RDBMS.

For this specific use case though, my comment was made because CASE statements tend to just be bad in comparison to CTEs. Probably dependent on engine though, I don't know them all by heart.
Yes, but these things are the big electric consumers so adding a new class of high load appliances on a mass scale is a big deal.
Yup. It’s a piece that can move anywhere a knight or a rook could move. Invented (I think?) by /r/AnarchyChess
> They are. Heavily. In California, right now with gas at $3.59 (Costco), gas taxes are adding around 50% to the price of gas. ($1.15 of fixed fees, plus sales tax)

Now look at how that still doesn’t come anywhere near paying just for the roads, much less the other subsidies like parking or the cost of all of the extra healthcare needed.
Solvitur ambulando, as St. Augustine and/or Lewis Carroll would say.
I’m with you. Everything gets scribbled out on paper before I touch the keyboard. And I’ve documented most of the solution before finishing half the code. It’s niche that we can find a niche at least :)
Could something like epitalon reverse this effect?
Such a good book.
Here in the US, government is of the people, by the people, for the people. The municipal, state, and federal governments build and maintain public roads at and for our pleasure.

We haven't gotten into private and toll roads yet, either; the freedom for a landowner to decide what cars go where on his land.

So yes, cars in the US are exemplars of pure freedom one way or the other.
Maybe I'm late to the party -- but this [1] graphic is great in the linked article.

Could the designer share a little about how it was made? Does it represent one of the generated voices, or is it just 'artistic'? (both are cool, I think).

[1] https://blog.elevenlabs.io/content/images/2023/01/Sequence-0...
Treesitter extention would allow for object oriented creation based on language(s) in buffer.
> This is such a strange virus.

This effect was previously known as post-viral fatigue. It's not unique to covid.
The article is 'art' in the wider sense, artifices, the mechanistic rearrangement of natural things into objects and if this is "production" or not. It's a debate about nominalism and realism in deep time, contemporary voices.

In a pre industrial world, natural goods are closer to their raw forms, little or nothing was a higher derivative in most peoples experience. In arguing that goods are just rearrangements of things that exist, they drive a long way to "rubbing things together makes friction heat which didn't exist before" as a philosophical creation of a new thing (the heat) ironic given what the laws of thermodynamics say, but that's anachronistic.

A modern question might well be if art as we understand it, veblen goods, are productive against other forms of production. An NFT for instance. There is no "there" in an NFT. What's been made? Rearrangement of the platonic one and zero in patterns?
True, so if you’re a planning type of person, you need to have realistic expectations about your unknown unknowns. Humility helps. But the people who go straight to the keyboard to figure it out as they go can spin their wheels just as bad.
There is a queue that will prevent further writes when full. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
Wow, I came to say the same thing; surprised to see this as the first comment!

As far as I know, this keyboard was pioneered by Apple; I wonder if they were inspired by or reused the “blob” experiment? It’s not necessarily that novel though; seems to a a natural evolution of the Japanese syllabary and the old multi-tap physical “10-key” keyboards.
The value of a human life in engineering calculations is about $8M. Seems barbaric, but if you don't do it you have no way to stop adding safety measures to anything and thus cannot do anything.
I honestly can't even guess what part of the rest of the article you're calling nonsense. Why don't you try improving your reading comprehension instead of throwing loony and completely inaccurate accusations at people doing their job to improve the lives of others?
With a bad case of burnout I withdrew from Stanford in 1968 after one course in FORTRAN programming for geologists. Worked for 4 years at NASA-Ames as a low-paid contractor (programmer and computer operator). Last tech job until 1980 when I went to work for the USGS. Taught myself PL1 and BASIC. Took a night course in Objective Pascal. Worked my way up. Eventually wrote award-winning s/w for interactive map uses. Lost my job in a reduction of force in 1995. Built spec houses. Went to work for the University of Arizona doing web work. Retired in 2005. Learned Objective-C on-line. Wrote iOS apps and macOS apps in hopes of making some money. Didn't.

I really envy you folks with CS degrees. There is so much I don't know. So many things I could have done. Still, I'm now writing innovative application s/w on my own behalf, and I enjoy it.

There is a reason that the words career and careen are so similar. A career is often an unpredictable path bouncing from one dissimilar opportunity to the next.
> You might have read some nice sounding theory around risk profiles

I read no such thing, but I have practical real world experience speaking to and reviewing investment decks for institutional investors, ranging from pension funds to insurance companies, banks and funds of funds.

And these are what we call "non sophisticated investors". Yet even at that level, none of them would just "do anything" or "just look at returns".
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit a budget request to Congress and defines how the overall budgeting process works.
LOL. I forgot all about that ozone hole and the mass frog-death (from fungal disease) that they tried blaming on the o-hole. I think before that their was the acid-rain and the "advancing sahara desert". At one point DDT was going to give the entire planet instant cancer... Will be interesting to see what other alarmist nonsense they can come up with next.
Can you expand on this? I am not sure how to interpret it. I agree my work is trivial in the grand scheme of things.
It's kinda close already. I've gotten several pdfs of books by cloning repos.
I’m in adtech, and it always frustrates me that the product managers make all of their projects around how can we squeeze out more demand out of existing listeners/viewers. One would think it would be a better experience for all to see fewer, but higher quality/higher CPM ads.

Viewers see less ads, but probably wouldn’t resort to ad blockers if they only saw one ad on a website instead of 10. Advertisers would get better click through rates because you aren’t competing with as many ads. The downside is advertisers have a higher CPM, and maybe the data shows high CPM campaigns don’t work.

Regardless, after working in it for awhile I see how we got where we are. I don’t foresee a world with no ads since the vast majority of people don’t want to subscribe to every website they visit, but maybe there will be a better model in the future.
Good point! I'll have to look into adding that.
Nope. 24bucks x 150devs x 12months = 43,200.

Which is a lot closer to reasonable if it can save you (@ $100 dev/hour) 2.88 hours of work per dev per year, then it's break even.
See. There is to point to have normal mode if you can just do it in insert mode.
I've been sitting on this idea for a while.

Monetized dating apps cost $$$ and are disincentivized to match you well. So, we build dating profiles by public Github.

We specify a protocol, you make a pull request to add your profile, the app pulls from the repo every day and automatically shows all the profiles that you've matched with.

What could possibly go wrong?
The initial version with smart-grouped keys reminds me of the MacBook Wheel[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
If OP is located in Australia as his username suggests, then he likely didn't have much of a choice.
I think 'software engineering' is a misnomer. It's basically just like any large project, lots of fuzzy knowledge, swerving constraints, human group dynamics, quality check... The coding part is .. minimal.
Bad press comes from puritanism. In continental Europe people wouldn't care so it wouldn't be any bad press from it (UK is puritan like US, don't use that as an example). They show nipples on prime time TV here and nobody cares, so the app store wouldn't be censored like that if it was made in Europe.
See also "Floating Point visually explained": https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained...
I do have a grasp on Vim. Even if I didn't the fact you used the term grasp shows that it is overcomplicated. A text editor should have such good ui that one instantly grasps it.
EPA answers to Congress because they make the laws stating who and what EPA is.

EPA answers to SCOTUS because the courts decide how laws are understood and executed.

EPA gives the finger to the White House because they are an independent agency despite being part of the Executive Branch.
> Some software companies can turn even the simplest tasks into a grueling series of processes, endless meetings, and joint work across a big number of “stakeholders”. These companies will take the joy and productivity out of programming and replace it with a series of rituals and set of language that people use to go through the motions every week so they can collect paychecks.

god - this is so true at my last company. Any attempts to decrease meetings, remove unnecessary process are met with heavy resistance. Getting shit done was nearly impossible. People had no responsibility for their work. Only wanted "stories" and "subtasks" assigned to them. Doesn't matter if the story was trash/useless/no-op, they just wanted it to pump their numbers because the quarter is ending. I shouldn't have tried so hard to make changes. They probably ended up getting reverted by the next person or manager.

Pro tip: if the company you joined tends to hire new people then retain them. Then fucking run. During the first "all hands" in that company, nearly 80% of people that worked in the organization were hired in the past 1 year or so. It ticked "red flags" at the time but I ignored it because honestly I needed the money at the time (just graduated college)
I'm surprised nobody mentions an alternative called NestedText. It only supports string type, which puts the complexity and responsibility of typing with the application. I think it's less prone to parsing errors.

https://nestedtext.org/en/stable/
I agree, it was a terrible business plan. I loved the browser though.
Is it one 3 consecutive day outage? Or a bunch of 2-3 hour outages here and there? I think the latter is not a big deal, especially if it's localized and you can just drive into town to use a charger (like you said).
Holy shit, this is cool!

I canceled my Strava membership when I learned of the price hike news. I never got an email about it and couldn’t find any information on Strava about the price increase.

So I am no longer a paying member.

Your app look super cool, and would be great in Taiwan and Japan where it’s quite mountainous.

I’m interested in being a beta tester if you’re looking.
The last thing I'd want to see is more low end PAN clients piling into being Wi-Fi, it's already congested enough! The best part about bluetooth is it at least made attempts to minimize the impact of having a bunch of low end devices using the same air space.
I've also not been infected that I'm aware of, although there were a couple episodes that might have been Covid. I'm tempted to pay for a blood test to check for antibodies, it only costs about $60.
You'll find that with some applied math you do not need to check every single possible move of the King.
The claim I made was that “work worth doing” was worth doing because of its effect on human beings. This is not the same thing as “work worth producing”.

Ex: practicing scales on my guitar is work worth doing, because of its effect on me, not because it produces anything of value in itself or of interest to anyone. It is meaningless that my computer can do scales vastly better than I can, because the production of scales is not what makes the work worth doing.
Is the hardware limited by peak usage or just overall daily consumption? If people mostly charge at night I can't imagine it'll impact peak consumption that much
How close to the king are they covering? .0000001 units? The king can move .00000009 units. You can always make a smaller real number.
There are a lot more investors than that. There are loads of of hedge funds and PE shops (ie the people actually making the investments) who are trying to generate the highest returns they can.

The idea that "we are the smart money" at places like you mention isn't accurate. Almost every single person at an insurance company, bank, fund of funds, pension fund wishes they were at the VC, PE, Hedge fund etc who is actually doing the investing. But they can't get a job there.
I’ve been dealing with long COVID since March last year. There’s some interesting learnings I’ve had along the way:

- I was almost perfectly healthy and in my early 30’s. Long COVID isn’t that rare and can happen to anyone, even with a mild case of COVID.

- After first getting COVID, I didn’t rest much. There’s research showing this increases chances of getting long COVID. If you test positive… rest and fully recover. Don’t make the same mistake I did.

- Quite a few people I’ve met seem to have the opinion it’s all neurological. The linked study has plenty of proof it’s not, but people seem to like putting things they don’t understand in a nice bucket.

- If you’re reasonably healthy, don’t take it for granted. Health won’t always last.

Thankfully, I’m doing much better the last few months. I think I’ll be 90% back to normal within a year. Not everyone is so lucky though, so it’s encouraging to see so much research being put forward.
Cheers! When I was thinking about this originally I thought you could build it as a social network. Rather than curate the internet for yourself, you could work with others to aggregate different curated views. By following only some people and having the ability to unfollow them, you would be able to keep away from spammers. Furthermore, you might be able to fork other people's curations so that people who "sell out" and include spammers can be cut out of the loop. Wasn't sure if this was too crazy though.
This is first thing that jumped at me. I recently got emails regarding my student loans that had very similar language.

Instead of just delivering a message with information, it was borderline propaganda
> provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids

> Block specific websites, apps

> See what's happening on your devices with in-depth analytics and real-time logs.

> Custom Denylist/Allowlist

> Manually block or allow an unlimited amount of domains.

> Rewrites

> Set or override the DNS response for any domain.

In the same way that bongs are sold as "for tobacco use only" and crack pipes are sold as paper roses, stalkerware for domestic abusers is often sold as parental control software. I wish even a few companies would set themselves apart by at least putting in a token amount of effort to ensure that the "features" above aren't usable against adults.
> a lot more code is needed to have a minimum practical Lisp

Always with the moving goalposts, boss.
Recent improvements to Safari
I'm not so sure. Multiply the number of "obligatory XKCD" comments made on Hacker News by the average number of minutes wasted by unfortunate souls reading them, and I think you could probably save an FTE or two.
>> when I realized how valuable programming is

Definitely. A cheap computer can outperform a billion humans at certain types of tasks. One must merely find the right tasks for the computer in order to exact unfathomable value. AI is going to expand the problem domains that computers can compete in by several orders of magnitude. The era of SPUs (Single Person Unicorn) companies is near.
The worse place to be in any job, especially software, is all of the responsibility but none of the control. If you don't control your own code but get blamed for all the bugs, then I'd say that's an unenviable place to be. You sound talented enough to find another job.
iPod. Brings back memories of Mad TV making a parody of the iPod ad. It was for something called the "iPad".

This was at least three years before Apple announced iPad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzhXMbOWHE
You can create a group of devices for which the DNS filtering doesn’t apply to.
Ask HN: Analog Chess Tournament?
Jumping off of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370440

I thought it'd be fun to host a tournament to see what creative strategies people can come up with. I think the code might need to be cleaned up a tad ;)

I'd be willing to put $1,000 down personally to the prize pool.

1. What do people think?
2. Does anybody have any experience hosting such a tournament? Any advice?
3. Anybody wanna help make this happen?
Sure... if we ever get there, I could potentially see that.

But we're nowhere close to that. Also, if it's being used to establish hierarchies, I could still see that proof being important.
Just quickly comparing prices, wholesale chicken is $1.01 per kilogram in the USA and $1.31 per kilogram in Australia. Much better conditions in Australia and no antibiotic use for growth (need a vet to authorize use with a sick flock). 30% wholesale price jump, but it is still cheaper than tofu.
I've heard that the high end Sony Bravia TVs are better in this regard, but haven't confirmed it myself. They are quite a bit more expensive than the other OLED TVs on the market, however.

One thing I've been feeling lately with internet-connected home devices is that I'm being pushed towards products from big tech companies like Google. Google might mine my data still, but at least they'll ostensibly do it competently and securely. Not a great feeling. Despite not really being in the Google ecosystem, maybe my next TV will be one with Android TV support. On the smart home side, I did get into self-hosting Home Assistant recently. I didn't expect much from it at first, but it's remarkable how liberating and useful it feels compared to the one-size-fits-all approach of Google Home or HomeKit. I'm actually excited to try and get some more smart home devices now, beyond just a few lightbulbs.
That's a lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
Most likely yelp, angieslist, Google maps, etc.
Why would I spend my time on Linux? Most code is platform independent. And why would most time be spend over SSH?
Horse racing is on a relatively safe enclosed track. Pigeon races are unconstrained by geography and have predators such as hawks. If horse races went through a forest or other rough terrain with significant predators such as bears it would be a better comparison.

I am not advocating for this in any way (the horses have a bad enough time with broken legs and things on traditional racing courses). Just that the two things are not like-for-like, similar to Formula 1 vs cross-country rally racing for cars.
As if we’re being protected from ourselves instead of choosing windows or Mac?
What would people think about doing a tournament for analog chess? I'd be willing to put down $1k for the prize pool. I think it'll be cool to see what creative strategies people come up for this.

I made a post to this effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377233
No offence but I don't believe that any of the times reported by lawyers, accountants etc charged to clients are anywhere close to realistic. In my interactions with lawyers, I was often charged 1-2h of work for writing a single one paragraph letter.

There's a business idea, develop a time tracking software that tracks if lawyers etc. are actually charging the correct time. Funnily enough while they are quite happy for their employees to use software like this, I seriously doubt they would agree to clients using the same software.
$4 trillion dollars. Even $100 billion.
I like all the things you don't like!
These are costs that you have determined are worth it. You don't have to pay for Postman if it's $29 a month, but it clearly saves you >$29 a month of productivity. You feel that Bonusly reduces your turnover just enough to be worth $4.5 a month.

Not saying that people couldn't make licenses a bit more friendly. But saying it's expensive to purchase tools you could just not purchase if they weren't worth it doesn't make sense.
It's 'gendered', not 'misogynist'.
There we go - where land appears, it clumps.
Agree; this was great at the time, but I feel like they’ve barely updated it since then. At least they finally added a somewhat useable swipe mode, but it’s still far behind what Google has done.