skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last I checked there were two companies offering insurance to individuals in my state—yes, two, yes, I'm serious, no, not just on the marketplace, there were no other providers who will take individual customers period, yes, I checked a lot and was repeatedly told, explicitly, by people who ought to know, that those were the only two options and other insurers had pulled out entirely from offering individual plans in this state.

Both would only cover one of the four nearest major hospitals to me (though they did differ in which one it was) and only one of the two covered the huge local children's hospital that's also bought up nearly all the independent pediatrician's offices and pediatric urgent cares in the entire city, so if you have kids you actually only have one "option".

So much for the bounty of choice we preserved by not just going single-payer.
There are restaurant employees that expect a tip because they prepared your food then packaged it up. This is an insane concept to me. In that case these same employees should tip the grocery store clerk that rang up and bagged their groceries, or to their amazon delivery driver, or to the dental assistant that cleaned their teeth. It's absurd to me that the burder of closing the pay gap is on the customer. I'm not opposed to tipping for service but lets taper those expecations a bit. If you already get paid for doing the job, don't expect the customer to foot the rest because the owner doesn't want to participate in profit sharing (the business does good, so do you, hence bigger effort in making sure the business succeeds)
Nitter doesn't appear to be locked out, at least for now. Here's the list of instances:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
If my memory is correct, the content on svnhub.com used to look different back then, was it related to the April Fool's Day joke?

https://svnhub.com/
Is this an AI generated text? It reads very strange to me though I can't exactly put my finger onto why. For example statements like climate change related sea level rise alone could extinct all of humanity doesn't seem like something a reasonable human would write. Is there any credible climate scientist in the world who thinks this is a real possibility? Hint lots of people would just move away from the rising sea and survive. Anything short of catastrophic impact induced sea level rise of thousands of feet aren't going to extinct all of humanity.
I help teams run transformers in their production systems on CPU, using my product based on ONNX Runtime.

This is a great article, but if you’re using something based on BERT or RoBERTa, you don’t need to do much. Distillation is usually the only step you need to take if you’re really picky, or if your scale is millions of requests per day and you’re not making enough money to support the infrastructure.

I have had mixed results with quantization and sparsification, but IMO it’s just not worth it as they can be unstable.
Core Git is not the greatest at large binaries, so for that you indeed probably want an addon like git-annex or Git LFS or an alternative such as dvc, but in recent versions it absolutely can[1] only give you only part of the history or part of the objects: the former is known as “shallow clones”, the latter as “partial clones” (there are also “sparse checkouts”[2], but those only concern the working tree IIUC).

[1] https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-...

[2] https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-s...
IIRC, FB was originally public-first before (lawsuits). Not API, just default privacy settings.
Especially when most people currently view gonorrhea as "not a big deal, go to the doctor and get a shot". People will be caught off guard by this development.
Thanks! A pause button is on the list. I am still thinking about how to remind people to unpause or stop. I might build opt-in notifications for this.
> You really shouldn't be getting downvoted.

Eh, it's not the first time. I've found that as long as my approach is informative rather than accusational, it ends up a net positive.

> Anyone that wants to instinctively downvote the parent comment, please reconsider

Nah - just comment why you felt that way. Maybe we'll all learn something in the process.
The problem is the incredibly low wages employers are allowed to pay at tipped establishments.

Federally that wage is $2.13 per hour.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
Reminds me of Linus Torvald's Google Tech Talk on Git. https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8

> I see Subversion as being the most pointless project ever started, because the slogan for Subversion for a while was "CVS done right" or something like that and if you start with that kind of slogan, there's nowhere you can go. There is no way to do CVS right.
Anecdotally, a large number of experienced engineers I know at big tech companies have been secretly hoping to be included in an upcoming layoff round.

So many people have mentally checked out of their current jobs but are too lazy to grind leetcode and go through interview loops. Unless you are in a financial crunch or have other issues like visa sponsorship, getting paid for 6+ months to fully focus on the next step of your career sounds like a dream.

Microsoft/Google/Meta/Amazon/Salesforce and the like are spending many billions of dollars and unknowingly setting up the largest startup incubators in the world right now (and getting nothing out of it in return).
Why does anyone think first-party trade-in programs are ever in good faith? There's zero incentive for them to be. They say, plainly and directly on the trade-in site, that they estimate offering "up to $670" for a MBP.

If that's a bad deal, don't sell it back to the company that'll make the highest margin off it?
Those places where I have to carry my food also ask for tips when I checkout.
> If you want revenge, stop visiting the place.

This is certainly one possible long-term outcome too. Restaurants seem to be going for the triple whammy of raising prices+adding opaque fees, and also soliciting tips more frequently and expecting to receive them in higher amounts, and also automating/paring down more and more of the restaurant's processes. This is all very exhausting and irritating to experience as a consumer especially knowing I could eat about just as well for 1/8th the price at home, so I limit eating out as much as I can.
With respect to Europe, in the UK it's pretty common to see a "voluntary" 10% added to the bill for table service these days.

The expectation of tipping for more and more things and the ratcheting up of default amounts in digital payment systems are somewhat annoying. But knowing that you'll be paying 20-25% more or so in a lot of situations between tipping and sales tax isn't really that much more of a mental burden. Honestly, I'm more bothered when restaurants also tack on various fees for "living wage" or health insurance or whatever.
I work in the HFT space. Jane Street in not an HFT, they are not trading in a very latency sensitive asset class.
I wanted so much to use csvkit and all the features it had, but its horrendous performance made it unscalable and therefore the more I used it, the more technical debt I accumulated.

This was one of the reasons I wrote zsv (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv). Maybe csvkit could incorporate the zsv engine and we could get the best of both worlds?

Examples (using majestic million csv):

---

csvcut -c 1,3 = 5.3 seconds

zsv select -n -- 1 3 = 0.19 seconds

28x faster

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csvsql --query "select count(*) from file" file.csv = 148 seconds

zsv sql "select count(*) from data" file.csv = 0.68 seconds

216x faster

---
> Did they SERIOUSLY offer "Google does it" as a justification for their signing the APKs?

I don't think that's a justification. It's them saying that that's how another party does it, then describing the problems with that approach in contrast what they're doing.

> unless something is actually checking that what's "reproduced" is the same as what the original developer originally produced.

As my sibling comment says, F-droid does verify it.

> And it is definitely better to trust only the developers than to trust both the developers AND the repo maintainers.

... Which this provides, by bringing us back to a point where you only have to trust the developer, and even then you have to trust them less because somebody else (F-droid) has verified that the binaries match the source code that they've provided.
I don’t really use Twitter but never seen stuff like this before. Definitely not my vibe at all. No space, no aviation, no lolcats.
> If you don't like to tip, there are plenty of restaurants where tipping isn't expected; specifically those where you carry the food yourself from the counter to your table.

Idk where your at but where I'm living in America, these kinds of places still very much encourage a tip and will still give you some dirty glances if you skip the tipping page at checkout. On principle, I won't tip these places, but there's very much still a social expectation.
Yesterday I was driving and noticed that Google Maps shows user-reported speed traps nowadays. It was fairly accurate and warned me of 2-3 speed traps during my trip. It triggered a thought for me of "wouldn't police departments fight to keep this information out of our hands?" and then I thought of the compelling reason "if the goal of enforcement is to get people to make the roads safer, then this little speed trap warning is actually much more effective at getting that behavior out of me, since I started slowing down a few miles before the trap."
Your extension looks fantastic. Is it cool if i sent you some questions?
I am a gay man and this forum is a breath of fresh air compared to every other forum I've been on.
> The worst part is that these "fake team microservices" tend to have a barely working or even a non-working development environment.

That's far from my experience. In all the projects I worked with that involved services, the very first thing that was setup was a working local test environment and at least a non-prod stage. With tools like Docker compose and any of the myriad local kubernetes clusters this is outright trivial.

If your team failed to setup a dev environment, that problem is on you, not on a type of software architecture.

Once I worked on a legacy desktop application project that didn't even had debug builds. Would it be fair to pin this failing on how awful desktop apps are?
If you scroll up for context, this thread of comments was referring specifically to sw dev salaries coming down, not all salaries in general.
comms teams are great, but how hard is it to post a simple straightforward writeup about the upcoming change? heck he even announced a bunch of other stuff from his personal account before, even promising to put stuff like this up for voting. confused
The chamber is more like a subterranean pit full of CO2 that the hogs are lowered into and back out of in a continuous conveyor fashion.
No you just (by constitution) have to swear allegiance to the crown to become a lawmaker, which makes you a perjurer if you don't acknowledge their power.

Also is the monarch not commander in chief their armed forces? I thought being under the command of the queen / monarch was part of their oath. If your soldiers are sworn to do what the queen says that seems like a lot of potential power.
What is "almost everyone"? Four people? Using it on what server?

Mastadon is more like Discord than Twitter. There is no core server. There is no core experience. It's just an instanced message board.
I believe just meta has encountered many dozens of ADA related lawsuits for everything from their use of disability information for ad targeting to web accessibility -- both government instantiated and civil cases.

I am fairly sure much of their accessibility work was instantiated by these lawsuits and settlements.

https://www.facebook.com/help/273947702950567
> Hell, just announce "you must have a Twitter Blue subscription to use a third party client" and that might have actually gone well for them.

I've been wondering too why they didn't do this. That would at least get them some quick revenue.

Could it be that they didn't want to keep supporting the API?
Comparing renewables without storage with a non-intermittent source is comparing apples to oranges. Until said storage system is developed, renewables have to be paired with a dispatchable source - usually fossil fuels. Existing batteries are nowhere near the scale required to capture and re-release intermittent energy production.

Nuclear power is cheaper when built at scale [1]. When dozens of plants were being built of the same few designs, costs were less than a quarter of what they are now. Most nuclear plant construction is first-of-a-kind in the country it's being built. These have always cost more.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
Maybe I'm groggy (just woke up from a nap) but how is a job that's so fun you need help stopping yourself from working 50-60 hours going to result in burnout? Wouldn't the burnout be a self regulating mechanism?

Maybe burnout is the wrong word?
Google has the means to get the best data to feed their LLM. It could support formulating a potent and compelling product. But they'd probably also super-nerf it similar it what OpenAI has done.

Wouldn't this still undermine their core business model? I don't want ads integrated into any of my chat sessions. Black Mirror degree of dystopian.
Yep, it results in worse quality meat: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-scared-animals-tas...

I thought this was well known - it's the main reason why killing methods are 'stealthy' (the animals don't see them coming) in slaughterhouses.
The best way to reduce the number of animal deaths is actually to switch to beef exclusively.

An average head of cattle yields maybe 880lbs of usable meat + fat (https://beef.unl.edu/beefwatch/2020/how-many-pounds-meat-can...)

1lb of beef has around 1,100kcal. This differs depending on the protein/fat ratio of course, but let's just do a simple calculation.

An average person would have to eat about 2lbs of beef per day as the only source of food. This is actually quite common in the carnivore and zero-carb communities, people mostly report between 1.5lbs (lil' old ladies) and 3lbs (big, tall, strong people who work out a lot).

So one head of beef cattle can feed the average person for ~440 days, or a little over a year. That means that less than 1 animal needs to be killed per year for your entire nutritional needs.

Compare this to chicken. How many chickens do you need to eat per day? Probably 2 or more, since they're so lean. So you're at <1 death per year vs. several deaths per day.

I say, let's eat more beef.
You’re implying he used his drone (which he mentions in the list of confiscated stuff) to fly over Area 51 and take aerial photos which he then put on his blog ?

He denies that he was the one who took the photos in question …
That's great, I truly wish you and your members all the best. Just to clarify, I am not anti-union and do not support union busting.

I just think that right now, even in the current market, I have equal power in the employment relationship. Maybe I'm delusional and I'll be begging to join your union in a few years.

> more objective promotions process than any other I've participated in.

I cannot even begin to imagine what something like that would look like. If you base it off _any_ metric, it will be optimized and gamed. That's what engineers do. If it's not based on some quantifiable metric, I don't see how it can be in a contract.

Performance evaluations are definitely flawed, but I can't imagine a better solution. Hopefully your contract will be public and I can be enlightened. Make sure you submit it to HN when/if it does go public!
Do you run nitter self hosted? The most popular server seems down for me
> Which is not illegal.

IANAL, but perhaps one could give some insight into 18 USC 795 and 18 USC 797.
> Why do people still use Subversion on GitHub, anyhow? Besides simple inertia, there were workflows which Git didn’t support until recently. The main thing we heard when speaking with customers and communities was checking out a subset of the repository–a single directory, or only the latest commit. I have good news: with sparse checkout, sparse index, and partial clone, Git can now do a pretty decent job at these workflows.
I'd say that pretty much everyone involved cares - either about the animal's experience, or about the financial impact.

As I said elsewhere, at least in this case those incentives are largely aligned.
Correct and I really hate it.
Cost estimates for novel nuclear designs have a track record of being all but worthless. I wish I could dismiss your pessimism but the flip side of the economics, that’s a large part of what makes this so difficult, is that if they do succeed and make SMRs a real thing the cost could go down dramatically.
I was about to respond with WebKit but it looks like they switched to git last July.
Ask HN: How do I “institutionalize” myself?
This might sound like a strange question, but I'm feeling increasingly isolated because of my lack of any institutional affinity.

I'm touching 35 and I've never had a job, colleagues, or core profession.

I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency. I'm doing okay financially.

I did go to college but spent most of my time working. I'm not in touch with any of my college classmates.

I've never had a job. I've never even set foot inside an office.

I've also switched industries multiple times. Most of the skills I know, I usually taught myself. I really can't say at this point what my core expertise is. I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation.

This used to make me feel really good when I was in my 20s, but as I'm getting older, this lack of institutional belonging is becoming unnerving. The only friends I have - from school - will talk about colleagues and office and job titles, and I have no clue how to contextualize it.

I'm in the process of building a new business and the fact that I don't know what goes into hiring, onboarding, and building out processes for an employee freaks me out a little. I'm too old to not know the basics of employment.

I feel...unmoored, to put it one way.

I know I can't live out the rest of my life being this isolated, but I don't know how to break out of it.

The obvious option would be to get a job, but I live in a country with a very favorable exchange rate, and I know how to make money online in USD. Even if someone were to hire me with my rather blank resume, the pay would be nowhere near what I can make online.

Should I just bite the bullet and job hunt, even accepting lower pay than what I currently make?
Spacewar PDP1 Source Code
> If enough people hated tipping, restaurants that don't have tipping would eventually out-compete those that do.

What makes you say this? As another comment points out, minimum wage is lower for restaurant workers in most (all?) states. How would a restaurant without tips outcompete in this system?
Buffer has Mastodon support in beta, so they're at least hedging their bets.
> civilized people don't regard Naziism as a valid topic for disagreement

see how fluidly you move between naziism as an analogy and asserting that it has a literal meaning such that the "war" about that has been over for decades? nobody here is a literal nazi not even close, so this whole argument is meaningless.

> the people who do not like assholes stop coming around

the whole point is that actually no, it is possible for people to strongly disagree yet stay talking and adults do so all the time.
Back in the day, I used to oversee a lot of usability research for a well-known travel engine. Every single time, people would choose the lowest possible base price. It did not matter if you explained to them how uncomfortable it might be, any add-on fees they'd occur, quality of product, or literally anything else. All that mattered was the first number they saw.

I don't know if it's a uniquely American thing, but the ability to wrap one's head around future cost additions or commensurate value is just completely not there, at all.
>?> The act of planning will make you feel better.

Just keep in mind that once you start planning you may be tempted to start burning the bridge before you actually get out. Resist that. Plan A is still your paycheck until you actually secure plan B.
I originally thought the same - I manage the backend/database for a small team that works on our warehouse/website integration with a legacy ERP system.

My experiences with semantic keys has been awful. I've been told "Oh this [property] will either never need to change, and never have duplicates" of properties you'd think really should never change, several times.

Somehow a different department decided to change the skus.
I've seen emails need to either have duplicates or be changed.
I've seen a few instances of order numbers from the ERP system having duplicates under certain circumstances.
A few cases like GTINs where every item should already have a unique one assigned - until we have an item that is missing one and will never be assigned one....
The big one is needing to archive things or keep histories of objects - if you use a synthetic key it's super easy to just add a "active" flag and you have to change very little code.

I totally get wanting to avoid extra queries and extra steps, but if the need to change a pk _ever_ occurs it's terrible to near impossible (in the case of external dependencies). Many frameworks like django make it fairly easy to naturally add that extra step without needing to make spaghetti to do your lookups
> Specific to this case, is there a good argument for not requiring that the method of slaughter is public?

That's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, there will likely be bad arguments ("I don't want to watch that!" ignoring the rebuttal of, "Don't watch it?") which become annoyingly persistent. Then "workarounds" like fake camera feeds.

Still, requiring that this is auditable by the general public doesn't sound bad on its face when it's considered that the general public is eating the things being audited.
> How is it possible to both detect a photon and then allow it to travel to the human eye?

Leonard Susskind explained it like this in one of his lectures (they are on YouTube, he's an excellent explainer):

From the moment the photon is emitted, to the moment it's detected, the photon exists in entanglement with all the intermediary things it "touched". Only at the final location it's "absorbed" (with a probability). At the intermediary locations the probability ended on the low side so it passed through.
"Last memorial day I tried to have a little BBQ... ended up eating and drinking by myself on/near the sidewalk in front of my apartment, while grilling and listening to a festive playlist with songs like Carry on my Wayward Son. I kept asking random people if they wanted a brat, but nobody did..."

In the most polite way possible, I can see why you are not invited to parties very often...
Thanks for sharing, what obviously BS wording.