skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate? People explained that we weren’t in a recession because the loosely defined definition of 2 consecutive quarters still had low unemployment.

Now GDP is positive again and unemployment is still low.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-gdp-growth-unexpectedly...

I mean it’s not like we didn’t beg people to discuss the economy in more detail.

We could all learn something.
Ask HN: What software do you use to buy real estate?
> How big is really the problem we are paying all this worldwide complexity tax for ?

How big is the problem we're paying the complexity tax of envelopes for letters for?

Certain things should be expected, culturally, and it should be a big deal if that expectation is breached. It should not be breached casually, and there should be a distinct boundary which must be penetrated in order to breach that expectation. Privacy in communication is one of those things.

Only encrypting the "sensitive" stuff marks you out as someone who we should keep an eye on, since you do things you encrypt, you're more "sensitive" than normal, upstanding people, eh? What are you hiding? How long will we have to keep you at the station to get the real answer out of you?

Also, if most traffic isn't encrypted, it's easier for ISPs to get various ideas. It's also easier for the courts to get ideas about expectations of privacy, which is an important concept under the law: Is unencrypted traffic in plain view? Why not? It isn't encrypted. Is it prima facie evidence of wrongdoing to encrypt traffic, if most traffic isn't encrypted? Why not? Why do you go to the trouble?

Finally:

> I remember of only one case of some operator in the US injecting some html, which promptly caused a massive shitstorm and they stopped. In my ~30 years of internet use, I have never seen the ISP messing up my internet connection, other than the captive portals (which now simply block me when they expire).

Given the massive uptake of HTTPS, I think I can come up with an explanation of why this is, and a prediction of what would change were HTTPS to be dropped.
SalesForce is business - leaking business data is not that problematic. This, is about storing extremely delicate information about people. It better has top notch protection against data breach massive fines will be coming soon.
Serif'd fonts are easier to read.
You can even turn off responsive design in the settings. I should have checked earlier.
Which languages do you support? My main work is in Elixir, where Copilot is incredibly weak. It’s completely understandable that less training data for less popular languages means worse performance, but it’d be interesting to hear whether you’re trying to alleviate that limitation for more niche languages somehow.
This basically seems to line up with what another tech community (outside of AI / ML) seem to agree on: that Apple hardware is not that great for 3D modeling or animation work. Their M1 and M2 chips rank terribly on the open-source Blender benchmark: https://opendata.blender.org/

Despite Apple engineers contributing hardware support to Blender: https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/09/blender-3-1-update-adds-metal...

So looks like NVidia (and AMD to some extent) are winning the 3D usage war as well for now.
Tracking elusive and shifting identities of the global fishing fleet
Does this use GPT-3 or something else on the background? If not, what is the source of the training data?
Conservative ‘Freedom Phone’ Backers Turn on Each Other
sucks to have vested interests in the subject I suppose. And shilling for some no-good lawsuit across hackernews
> You do both.

Do both what? My question is, if it's daytime, the sun is shining, and there's a solar provider selling power cheaper than nuclear, why would a rational person buy any nuclear power at all at that point in time?

> Energy companies can get secured loans for low rates.

Not for nuclear, or there'd be more of it!

Think of it, you're a bank and considering the case of a USD $9B loan that nuclear plant's owner will pay off in 20-30 years if everything goes well. And if it doesn't? 30 years is a very long time, especially with renewables now quickly being built.

If you have $9B to work with there's a lot of alternative business plans that don't involve putting all of it into a single piece of infrastructure that may not ever make a profit.
Not sure what you mean by dependencies disappearing.

> This might be a language that it takes more than that time for me to be proficient enough to use async code in.

Yes, it does take more time to learn the language, but once you do, it's pretty straightforward. Rust is a different way of thinking (a Meta Language dialect in C clothing, as I like to call it; it looks like C but it's definitely not the same semantically) while Go is similar enough to C-based languages and web based languages like Javascript that it's relatively easy to get started with.

It's much the same as learning Haskell or APL, the entire paradigm will be different and can't be picked up in a few hours. However, if you already have functional or array programming experience, Haskell and APL will seem straightforward. It is because you have a lot of C-language or JS based experience that Go was easy for you.
No. Mobile screenshots are a horrendous way to pass information around.

My father would send me screenshots of Amazon product listings and suggest I buy the item. There was never a visible URL, and typically no or only a small fraction of the product name. If he'd just sent a link, I could just click it, instead it became an investigation/research project.

Better yet was when the listing was obviously not Amazon, and not a site I could identify, or had ever seen before. I'd get zero context clues. Perhaps an AI could figure it out, but again, I'd rather he just sent a link.

When I get a screenshot, I'll have to submit it to some service, of which there will be a dozen different services, each requiring an account, each building a profile and tracking me based on whatever crap my dad sent me.

No. Just no. Stop. I pre-emptively opt out.
Some topics/concepts which might interest you; links are to articles from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, which is generally a solid resource for exploring Christian theology and religion, albeit from a thoroughly Roman Catholic perspective:

Hypostatic Union: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm

The Incarnation: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm

Communicatio Idiomatum: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04169a.htm
Are they? Wikipedia has great apps for iOS and Android.

I feel like some of these changes are meant to make better use of the landscape aspect ratios typical in laptop and desktop setups (i.e. moving the ToC to the left)
In addition, it helps if you can immerse yourself in the game. Reloading feels as natural to me as actually reloading a gun with my hands. Steering a car feels like I'm moving a toy car with my hand. Visual and audio cues should be triggers to make your fingers move. You don't see the enemy as a character on the screen, the enemy is actually before you and you rotate to put him/her/it right in front of you. Racing is all about feeling, there are only two things, your speed and your trajectory, and you're adjusting to make them feel right.
same minute banking transactions between checking accounts are free in most countries?
The tax systems are national responsibility, and building a bespoke app for a given tax system is cheaper than supporting 27 widely different tax systems in a single app.
Python is not even remotely an option for the sorts of programs Rust is intended for.
They could have made a responsive multi-column layout to keep the readability of reasonable line lengths while keeping information density high.
https://openjdk.org/ There you go
The bidirectional nature of predicates is one of the cool aspects of logic programming.

It is also cool that is completely transparent whether a predicate returns a single value or multiple values. It's sort of like if every function were implicitly a generator.
Some banks don't have a way for a customer to initiate an ACH, unless maybe calling them. Nothing in their app or website for it.
Eh, better to name the free fonts something that doesn't give an "I can't afford the name brand" vibe. Nothing about freedom even needs to be in the name. To most people, all fonts are already free cause they cost nothing.
Work takes my drive to do anything after work and just crushes it. I understand that I should get up after work and play with my kids or do something but I am almost unable to. I want to I just cant. I just sit mindlessly staring at the screen. I envy people that have a job that doesn't drain them of everything. I watch the guys on the garbage truck with jealousy.
Neanderthal hunting strategies in France were unaffected by changing climate
EU is a collaboration between countries where anyone can veto anything, yet they still manage to pass laws. Open source is much easier in comparison: no need for full consensus and no way to retract code that has already been published.
The political lies that matter [video]
For elaboration, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
It's worth noting that the main people I've seen complaining about those benchmarks were people working on Deno or Node :)
I didn't like the look of it from that GIF but after visiting it I don't mind it at all
"A long-term perspective on Neanderthal environment and subsistence: Insights from the dental microwear texture analysis of hunted ungulates at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France)"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Lower-dpi screens, including the traditional ~96 dpi of classic monitors, makes serif-fonts less clear.

High-definition screens (such as the iMac retina display I'm looking at presently) and many e-ink devices hit 200+ dpi (200--300 is not uncommon for e-ink), which is the starting point for many laserprinters, though those can go to 600--1200 dpi. Monchrome vs. colour will show some distinction in clarity (monochrome effectively has about 3x greater resolution in displays given three-colour picture elements (pels).

My own experience is that I much prefer serif to sans-serif fonts for any substantial reading, though labels and titles may read better in a sans font.

State's decision here seems quite flawed.
You can, using a tool like Adobe Acrobat. But a PDF is a fixed layout, where each line of text is a positioned box. So editing text will not cause reflow across lines.
Bad arguments are bad arguments.

Cash and bank accounts are two systems in parallel. Cars and public transport (or bicycles, or walking) are systems in parallel. Good clothing and poor clothing are systems in parallel.

A physical driver license and a digital driver license are systems in parallel. Banking/services on a mobile phone and visiting a physical store are systems in parallel.

Where is the bad analogy?
is this supposed to be sarcastic? it's exactly the opposite.
China has been claiming the South China Sea since before the PRC, hence why the claims by the ROC/Taiwan are same: the PRC took over the ROC's claims. Of course this is not the 'correct' narrative to say that...

Every country has been acting the same. Look at what the US control and ask why that is. The difference is that China has been on the receiving end of the stick over the last centuries while the US (for instance) has been on the giving end. There is no right and wrong, just being weak or being strong.
I find it absolutely incredible that at any time in the U.S, under its laws, requesting something as fundamental as blood tests about YOUR OWN body from a private lab needed doctor permission. How would such rules even be justified? A person wanting to have their blood tested is not the same as someone trying to self-dose with possibly deadly medications.
Is there any reason the blog post didn't have a link to the demo site?
You might be interested in @devongovett's `glob_match` library (written in Rust): https://github.com/devongovett/glob-match
ChatGPT help me solve a refactoring bug today. I had spent hours messing around trying to figure out what the issue was until I realized, via asking ChatGPT, that I had misunderstood a piece of the code and the docs. It was able to answer and provide examples (until it had error and crashed) in a way a senior engineer might have been able to.

The funny thing is I had tried just pasting in code and saying "find the bug" and it wasn't helpful at all, but when I posted in a portion and asked it to explain what the code was doing I was able to work backwards and solve the issue.

Its nice anecdote where the AI felt additive instead of existentially destructive which has been a overbearing anxiety for me this last month.
How did you arrive at that figure?
changelog:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/changelog.md
Also, there is no stronghold in a good map design. There is always a way for someone to come behind your back. That holds true for both you and your opponents. With your headphones, you only have to swerve left and right to “see” all around you. If you ever wonder how someone can react so fast.
I used ChatGPT for my work as a writer, and it's pretty nice.

I wouldn't let it write a whole article, but it can really save time at research. Just needs a bit of fact checking in the end.
Back in my day we used notes in contact cards!
I do the same but without writing down anything. I just keep it in my head. I always joke with how creepy I feel when I coincidentally meet someone for the second time after months, at a party or something and start to bring up details about that person into the conversation we are having. For now, everyone has been happy and kinda flattered that a pretty much unknown guy is able to remember precise details about their lives but I feel like a psycho.
TRM Is Hiring Staff Data Platform Engineers
https://www.trmlabs.com/careers-list?gh_jid=4769191004
Literally nothing in your "constrained by" list is stopping me from:

> bring an end to most world conflict, cure near every disease we have, spoof any cryptographic protocol, reinvent basically every creative pursuit

The main reason I'm not doing these things is because I'm not rich and I have to work a full time job to simply not be homeless.
We don't rely on any 3rd party APIs in order to keep serving costs down (which is necessary to keep this as a free service). We only use permissively licensed public code to train.
Well, I guess this counts as a concept I wish I learned earlier!
Back in my day we used the notes field on contact cards or in outlook.
I think the idea that the economy needs "momentum" to work is a really interesting topic. Wealth and value is generated as a result of people spending money on things they don't strictly need. That if everybody were to buy exactly only what they need and nothing else, the whole economy grinds to a halt, and we have mass unemployment, and suddenly you can't even buy those few needs that everybody has.
> secretly catch and eat some of the coconut crabs (which is verboten).

Was this out of environmental concerns / the crabs going extinct or was there something more to it?
This has got to be a parody, right? I really hope it is!
Carrying all that weight helps keep me fit.
I'm talking about you, and you're talking about yourself. You're making a big fuss about "SJWs" who offer thoughts and prayers and saying you welcome a more equitable system, but that you will continue perpetuating the feedback loop of inequality until someone else comes along and fixes it. Instead of feeding into a system that you claim nobody else making these lengthy speeches is actually working to fix, why not take steps to join the swafts of people making real efforts to fix it? You're generalizing a bunch of people as grifters who are working in the self-interest of the disenfranchised.

I'm an atheist, and I don't offer thoughts and prayers. I offer discourse, and change starts with that. I think you're trying to generalize an entire group of people because you've seen several politicians grift. There are leftists out there that genuinely want to help. But the left and the right is has been infiltrated with fallacious ideas of a self-regulating market, a concept that we've seen exploit children and poor communities across the globe over and over again. And the only thing you have to say is "well at least these poor people are getting paid more dollars than they would be?"
Is it because programming is a more limited and specific language than the ones people speak? There's less room for double-meanings, slang, meaning, or even sentence structure.
I spent probably half an hour figuring out how to make my Google Docs default to Times New Roman for any new docs after. It's a good font. Calibri is trash.

Even worse, a widely-used design doc template here uses a title-only font in the body. I was wondering why it's so hard to read, even for a sans serif font, until I noticed that.
There are a lot of procedural tools for generating HTML, lots, if modern browsers fully supported print CSS then you could use them for complex PDF generation, or direct printing, either client side or on the server headless.

If your app is a web app this is a no brainer, the users browser could simply do the print or PDF conversion as needed.

I do see a use for more direct libraries in native apps, although if every native client had a browser control with full print CSS support even then it might not be such an issue.
This would form a logical contradiction with Soft Taco sub-variants.

=)
When you enroll in COBRA, you are responsible for paying both the employer's contribution and your own contribution. This can amount to thousands of dollars per month. It may be more cost-effective to consider state insurance options or those available on healthcare.gov. I took COBRA in the past and I know about this.
Chrome does use app containers for its kernel sandbox.
Elixir is not a language we are currently confident in, but in the very near future (O(weeks)), we believe we will have a model that is better than Copilot for Elixir and other niche languages.
Only problem with this is you either has nothing to fill in, or just when it would start to matter the dates you are forgetting about are not really the ones who worth it.

I also like the "probability" field.
>When you are logged in to Wikipedia, the updated header will move with you as you scroll. You will no longer need to scroll to the top of the page to find what you are looking for, and you can focus on reading and editing instead.

How do people write things like this with a straight face
>Mechanics? Probably less likely.

Coincidentally, my partner's father was an airplane mechanic stationed in Okinawa in the 1980s... and apparently played a lot of D&D.
Slightly exaggerated numbers there, but how bad can a css selector really be to the client experience when it's likely based on today's UI dev trends that we're loading 3mb of react + other JS
Using deep neural networks to improve virtual images of people using WiFi signal
One hundred and eighty five dollars for the Tex one, ugh. I love the trackpoint to almost death but I go through thinkpad keyboards faster than average (I guess) and couldn't afford such a luxury, sadly.
Is it a hidden ad for Weaveworks? Because counter-arguments are intentionally weak and this piece seems to really promote idea that the "real" gitops require Wavefront (R)(TM) Weave Flux (R)(TM).

I don't really care who popularized term, but we needed a word for "a infra-as-a-code system where changes happen automatically on git push, and therefore git head always matches the real world", and "gitops" is great word to describe this.

Here is my first result on google search for "gitops": https://about.gitlab.com/topics/gitops/ . No mention of Weave products, and Kubernetes is mentioned as "typically used" example, no a requirement by any means.

RedHat says the same: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-gitops

For example, right now one of the projects I am working on does _NOT_ use gitops: instead, the files are stored in the repo, and it's up to developer to "terraform apply" after code review is done and code is merged. Sometimes this does not happen, causing the problems. I would like to switch to gitops setup there -- our Jenkins should auto-apply changes on merge. Note that we do not use K8s anywhere, but that'd still be called "gitops".
Haha, yeah, not a fan of that :( anecdotally, they haven't restarted for me yet (activated it ~6 months ago), but I really wish there was a permanent option.
Compiler was one thing - debugger that would let you step through the code was serious expense.

All the tooling we get nowadays for granted was insanely expensive.
Thanks to Tim for writing and sharing this awesome analysis. I stumbled upon the previously updated version this summer, and so glad to see it updated with new hardware. Really great stuff and I learned a ton.
Completely agree. Incredible audio quality for the price, and it does a good job at the basic things I would personally ever need to use a voice assistant for. Will definitely buy a v2. Conversely, totally understand people not wanting one of these if they are true audiophiles, outside of the Apple ecosystem, or expecting a more sophisticated voice assistant.
"DensePose From WiFi"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250
Executives also want to take the rolodex with them, hence they have an incentive to keep a personal CRM so that they keep their contacts after they leave.

Superhuman sold to executives for $30/month - which is a relevant (high) price point.
In the last 5 years I've moved from Data Science Manager to Principal (IC role, but basically the external facing technical lead of the team) and now Senior. When I add up all the positives and negatives at work and at home, I think I'm the most content I've been in a long time.

One piece of advice I can give is to make a list of concrete things that are making you think about becoming an IC. And by concrete I don't mean just a word like "Stress." List out the things that are causing that (e.g. Unpredictable rushed deadlines). If it's useful, create a mental Venn diagram of what overlaps and pull out some larger themes. From the list, pick the top 2 - 3 and ask yourself if you are really going to get that as an IC.

Example: For me, one thing that was causing me an immense amount of stress was a highly unpredictable schedule - last minute meetings, fires, people with no ability to prioritize, etc. At the top of my list was being able control my schedule to a reasonable degree. IME that's really hard to do as a Manager or even a Lead/Principal, so it made sense to me to move down to Senior and find a job that allowed for that.

That being said, there are plenty of IC jobs where you sit in pointless meetings all day and get called into meetings at the last minute. It's not like moving down is a guarantee of anything, so it's important to really identify if moving down is going to get you what want. HN has plenty of anecdotes of crappy IC jobs.

As far as pay, I took a small haircut from Manager -> Principal and then a slightly bigger haircut from Principal -> Senior. My spouse works so we still have more than enough to pay bills, meet retirement goals, and have something left over for other stuff. I'm not paid even close to what FAANG people are making, but I suspect lots of people I work with on the business side of things would love to be in my salary band.