skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a horrifying, dystopian future I'd rather not be a part of.

Everybody should be entitled to health-care no matter what their life choices.

If you drive a motorcycle and get in an accident, you should expect the same level of healthcare as someone who drives a car and gets into an accident, despite the vastly different level of injury.

If the system you're living in allows you to buy and consume cigarettes, sugar, marijuana, and you need medical assistance for your diabetes, lung problems, cancer - I'd expect the same level of care as someone who'd abstained from these vices their whole life.

To limit medical care to people based on what they choose to do to their bodies is the exact same as limiting medical care to people based on what they can afford.

It's "Just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and work harder to afford your chemotherapy, you non-smoker!" vs. "Sorry you work 16-hour days to provide for your family so you have a stress outlet of stress-eating, smoking/vaping, etc. - but you made that choice, should have 'pulled yourself up by your bootstraps' and kicked the habit!"
> I do not feel a whole lot of empathy towards lawyers that are actively suing the venue

So... first, it's important to remember that "lawyers" are advocates. Someone else is suing MSG. Their lawyers merely represent them. This is the same logic that would treat a criminal defense attorney as a criminal or shun a prosecutor because ACAB. Lawyers aren't blameless about the cases they take, and can be good or bad people, but under the constitution we're all granted the right to petition the government for redress of grievances, and lawyers are the profession that mediates that interaction.

Also: this lawyer isn't doing that. She's just an employee of a firm; she isn't working this case. Per the bit you quoted, this is absolutely isomorphic to banning someone because of who they work for. Imagine refusing to seat Walmart employees at a restaurant because they aren't unionized.
Exactly - there are cases there where it wouldn't matter too much that it isn't complete yet.
That's just magic woo though. You can't just "3D print" a clean room to build semiconductors or furnaces to smelt metal. Pretty much all heavy industry on Earth that makes all our high technology runs on petroleum products in some fashion. You can't just "3D print" lubrication and good luck building heavy industrial pieces without it.
> Vinyl is a gimmick

I'll go one further; vinyl (revival) is mostly a scam.

Sound quality from CD is unarguably "better":
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/19/5626058/vinyls-great-but-its-n...

"Better" in quotes, because what constitutes better for you is subjective. It is however objectively true that the fidelity of CDs is more accurate than vinyl.

Now having said that, you might prefer the sound of vinyl, or just the physical properties for playback, over CDs. That's all fine, and I sincerely hope you enjoy yourself. What gets my goat though, is this nonsense people are falling for regarding superior sound quality.

Buy CDs, rip them to FLAC, and you have both physical media (which I love), and also the convenience of digital copy.
And the average age of people in Yemen is 20.2.

Look, I get that old people are more vulnerable than young, and that's still true if I were to add the words "to COVID" to that statement.

But you know what? That's not helpful on either a personal, community, national, nor global level; and saying we had "all the information" on the basis of stuff like that is about as accurate as saying "answers in Genesis" as a response to anything about evolution.
> It’s not about pay back; it’s about helping those in need that once helped you.

That... is paying them back, though?

> It also sets a great example for your kids to consider if the day comes when you are old and in need.

That would be the selfish reasons I mentioned. I consider it unethical to expect this of one's children.
You could get close by having the restraining pins hold the tip at 5N + 1 seconds instead of at 5N seconds
It's better for a business to have expenses in depreciation and amortization because it lowers the tax burden on a cash cost that's typically already been paid years before.

I would love an in-depth review on why this move is smart or not.
Everyday? No, sometimes? Probably.
You’d need a mechanism at each 5 minute mark that grabbed the hand and released it at the appropriate time, then you could make the hands a s
Wobbly as you want
For me the best argument in favor of space settlement is moving industry and mining from Earth. That way we can continue to expand humanity's capabilities without it impacting the Earth's environment too much. So I think the asteroid belt is a lot more interesting than Mars as a target.
That's what the voting buttons are for.

Submission quality is in the eye of the beholder.
No you use the same frequency systems we use now, there’s a whole spectrum of gravity waves to use.
Services for developers? Good luck!
If You're Learning Back-End, Don't Start with Frameworks
I did the same thing several years ago (left my job once I had 2 clients). I was also worried, but it turned out just fine. It's true that it will take a bit of work to get clients, but it becomes easier and easier as you go. Your current clients may know others, etc.

I have two big pieces of advice:

1. What other comments here say about money and runway is definitely true. It can be common to go a bit without clients - and even once you find a new one it might take 30 days for the project to start, then maybe you bill after the first 30 days, then it takes them 30 days to pay - that's 3 months from the time you found them to when you get the first money coming in! So make sure you account for that.

2. Have something you can point to which says "this is what I do, and why I'm good at it". In my case it was an ebook, but it could be a white paper, or sample projects, etc - but you need something that "tells a story" to the clients that you can do the job.

And good luck! It's scary to take the jump, but also very rewarding :)
Yeah, I did a pretty wide variety of meetups. I did some more geeky meetups, but also did dinners, hikes, scavenger hunts, escape rooms, movie nights, karaoke, and some other things.

Out of curiosity I checked for cooking meetups just now, as I do a lot of cooking nowadays, and it seems like they're still almost entirely virtual, at least around me (there's a small local group not accepting new people right now also).
I'm going to assume it refers to "Ops" (as in "operations") and is intended as a pun ("oops" is what you typically say after making a mistake or causing an accident).
Some sort of "wobble server" technology?
I don’t think most of us are getting off this planet, not with human bodies. I do however love Greg Evans vision of the future of colonisation. Von Neumann probes and we just send the people as data.
In one of his books there are even the “retronaughts” a group of Elon musk like obsessives slowly travelling on a fusion rocket, as human civilisation expands at the speed of light ahead of them, constantly in denial about living in the past.
I think if we can start getting some basic robotics to the asteroid belt that would be the first step to having more industrial capacity off planet, which will also help us save our basket by moving energy and pollution intensive things in orbit.
The future belongs to our robots, not our human bodies.
Toptal is what made it easy for me. The most exhausting thing about running your own consultancy is networking and maintaining a funnel of new clients. Unfortunately this kept me away from freelancing for years :(

I was in a similar situation like you (FTE + consultant) where I was looking for prospects and not able to find enough. It's a full-time job in itself... I vastly expanded my opportunities by tapping into a bigger talent network with Toptal.

Please reach out and I'd be happy to share more

https://www.toptal.com/qal80m/worlds-top-talent
Western Europe has generally higher social mobility by most metrics than the US (mobility between income cohorts, education level vs parents, etc). The US probably does have more people becoming really, _really_ rich, though, and also has slightly different social norms around money and the showing-off thereof.

(That said, this is mostly differences at the margins. The mean price of a new car isn't much different between the US and the wealthier EU countries, say; the upper-middle-class are happy enough to buy cars that cost more than an average annual household income in both places. It's where you start getting past low six figures that people start getting squeamish)
not all popular opinions are popular inside the government
Same rate? Well hard to say, but micro algal reactors can get pretty efficient, albeit at high cost - but that's a moot point in this scenario.
This looks very similar to shortcat https://shortcat.app/, can you tell me what your program offers that the other one (free, but also not OS) does not?

On an unrelated note, I made the same thing (barebones), but for Linux and theoretically also Windows: https://github.com/phil294/vimium-everywhere
They say C++ is C + STL. Then C is what, C++'s printf?

Sorry
Just to explain this a bit:

> to put URLs in the descriptions [...] Phone number "verification" is nasty

Spam is a huge problem for any large platform with free accounts, and there aren't a lot of good options to prevent it. One set of mitigations is around increasing the cost of an identity. Email addresses are infinite and free, but working phone numbers are limited and usually cost money. So gating spammer-desired activities on phone numbers makes sense from their perspective. They could get a similar effect by requiring a credit card number, but people hate that even more.

If you'd like to work around this, I'd suggest getting another number for just this. Google Voice will give you one for free, and the Burner app will do it for $5/month if you sign up via web. Or in my case, my ISP gives me a free landline number with my internet service, which is great for this sort of thing.
I would really advise heavily against just separating freelance/full time as black and white, one at a time.

Really, it should be a slow transition - you work full time, you take up 1-2 freelance clients on the side. As you start to get more clients on the side, and you see a clear path to replacing your income, then you can make that jump.

If you just make the jump as a clear break, it totally can work, it does all the time. But it's just a bit riskier, and it adds a lot more weight and pressure to get deals, which can lead to a situation where you charge less than you are actually worth.

Btw, in my profile, the site I run is for freelancers to basically share their hourly rates. It's essentially levels.fyi for for consultants. May or may not be helpful to you at this stage of your journey

TLDR:
- Keep your job, start taking clients on the side
- Once you have enough clients and you see a clear path to replacing your FT income, quit and take the leap
To answer your specific question, Apple's Lisa was released on January 19, 1983. It had a waste basket. The Mac OS and its trash can debuted along with the original Macintosh computer on January 24, 1984. Windows introduced the recycle bin along with Windows 95 which was released on August 24, 1995.
Huge thanks for the very informative write up.
This is essentially what the “public option” in the original Obamacare proposal was — an opt-in publicly owned insurance company, which would compete with all the other insurers, but not have the overhead of their business models. Unfortunately, it was axed alone with much of the other important aspects of that bill.

The great irony is that the initial Obamacare proposal was a Republican policy — originally proposed in the mid-‘90s as an alternative to the proposal from the Clinton White House, and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney when he was the governor. The Republican congress and conservative media machine were so invested in seeing Obama fail that they instead branded it socialism and fought it tooth and nail. It would’ve been a fantastic opportunity for a resurgence in bipartisanship in government, and could potentially have averted the subsequent 14 years of animosity and bitter obstructionism. Ah well, so it goes.
Make science more reproducible with AI
Except their OS updates reduce their battery by 2-3 times effectively zeroing out any gains.

I have a 14" M1 MBP that was doing just dandy until Ventura came along and now my battery life is a joke. It drains a ton from just light coding sessions (I'm talking 30% in 90 mins or so).
I would agree that clueless developers are the issue, not the language. I have happily recently started a new project in C++ and amazingly it works, even without the latest faddish languages or tech stacks!
A physical implementation could use magnets to hold to the specific spots. Once enough torque is built on trying to move the hand, it would snap out of place and would then find the next magnet and 'hold' onto that spot.

As an aside, I'm not sure that doing this for the hour hand is a "good" idea. The difference between 10:00 am and 11:00 am is significant and needing to check how much the bend is doesn't "feel" right.

(late edit thought) If we're getting to the "this is controlled by some other system that doesn't need to be purely mechanical", having an electromagnet on at the right spot that then toggles off at one 5m increment and on at the next so that there's only one magnet active at a time could reduce possible issues of having the wiggle/snap attach to the wrong magnet.
What If Charles Darwin Built a Neural Network?
CMake is already obtuse, I can't imagine how the author can cope with a "CMakePresets.json" on-top.

That said, most of this seems to be Emscripten related kludge... seems kinda backward to use a portable language like C and compile to support one format (web).
There exist C and C++ projects that have zero memory safety vulns. There also exist C and C++ projects that don't operate on untrusted data and so the consequences of a memory safety error are just crashes.

I don't believe that the Chrome or Android developers are especially unique developers. I think that they are a decent proxy for a typical developer on a large project that has significant adversaries. These projects are developed by companies that use better-than-typical tooling to detect vulns.

So I believe that these projects are good examples of what you can expect from ordinary developers using the most recommended safety tools. And... they are full of vulns. If you own a project that is developed entirely by extremely skilled developers or has no significant security characteristics then that's different. But if some person is hiring a bunch of engineers to build and maintain a project that has nontrivial security implications, I think that these projects are decent proxies for the best you can hope for.

I do not believe that it is possible to train an org of developers to safely write a complex project that has nontrivial security implications in C++.

I've been writing C++ code for well over a decade and a significant portion of my career involves static analysis of C++ code. "The haters just don't use C++" is not a compelling argument, in my opinion. In fact, you can find members of the C++ committee who agree that it isn't acceptable for the long term safety of software. Surely they "use the language."

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Analogies won't ever produce meaningful argumentation here. You can say that Rust is a train and that C++ is a car. I can say that Rust is more like a car with a bunch of modern safety features like lane assist and anti-lock brakes. That's not going to get us anywhere.
> I do not feel a whole lot of empathy towards lawyers that are actively suing the venue

I don't think you need to extrapolate in order to make this an issue. Many of the lawyers mentioned in the article weren't a part of a case against MSG but rather just working for a firm that also had a case against MSG. I also don't have a lot of empathy toward rich lawyers, but I do have sympathy for their clients and large companies harassing lawyers just for working a firm that is suing them has a pretty clear chilling effect. Regardless of if this is currently legal or not, I think something should be done about it.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3918783
Very nice!

Thanks for sharing it!
As a consultant, urgently looking for a full time job: not now. Most probably not now.
i think it's actually cubic, but 'exponential' is still wrong
I didn't "got a life" for like 5 years (8 if you count my productive school years when all my friends were also devs). I tried multiple sports in those five years, doing sport camps on summer to learn new stuff (mostly water-based in the beginning, i had a 31-32 BMI). I finally found out two sports i really like, i moved in a smaller city, closer to my family, and now am pretty much fulfilled. I have enough money to offer great vacations to my family, i hiked accross Europe in the last 3 years (well, actually mostly Spain and Portugal, i'm doing Italy next autumn, so hopefully at 60yo my trip will be done)(Btw, Spain: Best outside sport infrastructure i've came across yet).

I know it's a really "just do sport bro" advice, and i know that not everybody can do it (i actually have ankle issues since i was 18, and slowly becoming obese did not help at all, but i found a nice PT and techniques that mitigate the pain in the morning). You probably have money so you can try expensive sports like sailing and parasailing (i know i did).

The pandemic helped me in regard with moving out, trying new stuff (i took a 6 month sabbatical where i tried half a dozen new activities).
> I don't have to touch a hot stove to know it hurts.

You do need to touch a hot stove to understand what a burn feels like, just as you need to actually deliver a baby to understand what that feels like. "It hurts" is not understanding in the same way that I'll never truly understand what an orgasm feels like for a woman (and vice versa for them). I've read it starts in the stomach and moves upwards through the body until it climaxes in the head, but who knows if that's actually true. Certainly for me it doesn't feel that way.

Here's the question you have to answer.

If you're walking by a drain that has a dozen chicks trapped in it but do nothing outside of recognize their plight, are you a good person for having recognized or a bad person for that recognition not being a call to action?

_THAT_ is the basic moral quandry you're up against and I'm pointing out that not only is your solution wrong, you're trying to convince others you're moral rather than just neutral.
You don't need to track every projectile, you just need to know that player 1's unit 33 started shooting at player 2's unit 45.

You can encode that very compactly. 2 bytes for each unit ID, source and destination. So 1000 units would be just around 4K, if they all start shooting at the same time.

After that, you can rely on that in most RTS games how units shoot is deterministic.
For historical reasons I use a dash. This works just fine 99+% of the time, but very rarely a site will not allow a dash in emails.
If we have the technology to terraform a planet ... we can totally clean up the Earth too ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKIOSnKX96E&t=1s

This piece by Konstantin Kisin rightfully pointed out that the only peaceful way out of the bind is with technology.
The nice thing about frontiers is that there's enough space (and lack of oversight) to try new systems of government without upsetting "the establishment", which hasn't yet had centuries to ossify into an out-of-touch bureaucracy.

When America was a frontier, this exploration yielded significant fruits...
Oh excellent, thanks! I wonder how hard it is to make an RSS-to-ActivityPub service.
Tencent fired over 100 workers on suspicion of corruption in 2022
Well, then today you (I hope) learned that by doing that you may be skipping on the likes of Bill Gates, who is very much a person who can provide really interesting insights in many topics.
Hell no, that goes beyond sarcasm and well into egregious goalpost shifting.

For reference, things known to humanity in 1940 (though not necessarily understood, that was an important difference in my comment) include the Schwarzschild (stationary black hole) and FLRW (homogeneous expanding or contracting universe) solutions to the equations of general relativity (1917 and 1924 respectively), the Darwin term for the effect of special relativity on the spectrum of hydrogen (1928), the severely non-classical exchange interaction responsible for the existence of ferromagnetism (same year), the London equations describing the (non-)penetration of the magnetic field into type-I superconductors (1935), and a way to produce superfluid helium (1937). And that only includes things I was supposed to ( :( ) know at some point. Also Gödel’s incompleteness theorems (1931) and Turing’s proof of undecidability of the halting problem (1936). I’m certainly not proposing to demand high schoolers know all of those.

The only reason I had to go as far as 1940 or so is because linear algebra came relatively late in the history of mathematics, even though it should logically serve as the foundation of multivariable calculus—and was enthusiastically adopted as such once it finally entered the collective mathematical unconscious in the late 19th century. Working out the pedagogy took a couple more decades.

If we were only talking about the “advanced” mathematics of calculus, I’d say Newton’s knowledge as of 1690 would be way overkill. (That would include the convergence speed of power series, a decent theory of ordinary differential equations, the beginnings of the calculus of variations, and even the “Newton polygons”, a theory of formal-series solutions to polynomial equations that properly belongs to algebraic geometry.) At that point J S Bach was five, the city of Philadelphia was a town founded eight years ago, and Peter Romanov (later called the Great) was still twelve years away from founding St Petersburg and thirty years away from proclaiming Russia an empire.

To be honest, I think even if school taught no mathematics beyond basic numeracy, I wouldn’t complain as much. I would still complain, mind you, but only to the extent I do about being able to grow up without knowing what a fugue or the twelve-bar blues is or who Giotto or Niccolò de' Niccoli were. Instead we torture people with years of alleged mathematics bearing no resemblance to the real thing, and thus give them license to think they are not “maths people” (whatever that means) and that whatever maths they did not hear about in school is “advanced” and obscure. At least the average high-school graduate knows he doesn’t have a clue about music history or theory.
Ask HN: Can't we just get a FOSS version of what Apple did?
Most of computer tasks can be done by a small suite of apps:

- edit text, view and edit photos, read pdf books, listen to music (all can be done by same application).

- edit and view video (could perhaps be done with same program also)

- organize files

- browse web in a container

- perhaps send messages over the net

Can't we get something that runs on ARM/x86 that does these basic things and has boot/lockscreen encryption? Why does everything have to be full linux? Something super simple and that boots fast? (I get that an OS has a lot more under the hood, but it could have less under the hood if it was just to carry out basic functions.)
Check out Winsome games, and some elaborate ones like Labyrinth.

Edit: Just noticed you had already linked to Winsome.