skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False.

One guy in Nice, France killed 86 and injured over 400 in a single attack. That's more deaths than every school shooting in the US since at least 2000, and 10x more injuries.

France also saw 128 dead in one night in nightclub shootings, so all their gun laws didn't do jack.

It is simply false that outlawing guns has reduced these deaths.
Nice. How are the toggles controlled? Is there a web interface? Or simply a file checked into git?
Nothing, ostensibly. Do you think all the hot-ticket celebrities, brand accounts, political figures and self-made Twitter moguls are ever going to leave Twitter? If they do, it's because they're taking back that publishing power for themselves. If they don't... it's tacit recognition that Twitter "won". You want a TikTok-style microblog feed that nobody wants to offer.

People won't ever "move over". You can either use the protocol you like with the people that interest you, or use the platform that people are on. I say this harshly because I like Mastodon and I'm tired of people assuming that things will ever 'go back to normal'. Your idea of 'normal' is giving one party universal power over everyone, and if we make that same mistake again then we deserve another Elon Musk situation.
I think that phrasing can reasonably be interpreted as critical: it sounds like it’s saying it’s somehow women’s responsibility and that dovetails with the very common cultural trope of assuming that men are irresponsible horndogs who can’t be expected to control ourselves. I don’t know if OP comes from that background but it’s common, especially in strongly religious communities where you have the “Eve tempted Adam into sin” mythos.
Just a sliver of the profits given to the plebs to appease the masses, media
This is primarily due to HIV (rightfully) no longer being seen as a death sentence, and PrEP being widely available.

I think most folks were actually being quite rational here. When the consequences of unprotected sex were so severe, most people used condoms. Right now, for someone on PrEP and/or the pill, the negative consequences of unprotected sex are primarily infections that can be cleared up with antibiotics or are generally not very serious.

A serious untreatable pathogen may well change people's behaviors again in the future.
> never mind the 6 pack of beer bottles he brought!

Glass is infinitely recyclable, whereas "disposable vapes" could be referring to just the cartridge (hopefully) but also could mean the full-fledged single-use vapes with a lithium battery inside. If its the latter, they really should switch to the former. If its the former then I think your friend was being a bit excessive griping about that but a 6 pack of infinitely recyclable glass is hardly a comparison to the perma-trash generated by plastic vape carts.

edit: just want to add, those lithium batteries aren't "disposable" because of any innate attribute of the battery, they're only "disposable" because they are sold that way. The batteries could have been reused if the company manufacturing the vape just designed it as such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJMj7FtroY
I guarantee it's the HID headlights no one is regulating. It's blotting out the night sky!
This must be extremely subjective. Many times over I see very well qualified candidates spending months in this market looking for a position - when it took them weeks before.
Uranium costs are the kind of meaningless fact that’s true and wildly misleading. Fuel rods are not simply long sticks of unprocessed uranium.

Refueling is expensive because of many separate costs. Even simply being forced to take a power plant offline for a long period is inherently expensive. Similarly building a cooling pond and equipment to move extremely high level nuclear waste is costly. Add up all those individual costs and fuel represents a significant faction of the total lifetime costs for a nuclear reactor.
You can't necessarily survive #2 if it causes the talent you actually need the most to bail in high times. You can play this game at the margin by starting to freeze hiring before everyone else does, so that you can be there earlier to hire again at discounted rates in the downturn
If this doesn’t teach users (and developers) of the risks associated with centralized, closed services…

I guess nothing will?

It will be interesting to see if this drives users and traffic elsewhere.
> We already have proven prophylactic measures to prevent this disease.

Yes, there's also abstinence. However people aren't going to stop having sex, and they aren't going to use condoms frequently enough to control the disease.
I know I'm missing something, but this seems like the functional version of object classes.

I've mostly favored procedural programming and only use objects when I have to because the abstraction can make the program harder to reason about, especially when there's a lot of inheritance.

But I've heard some hype about types in Rust, and now this. The free chapter in the manning book even introduces types in terms of real world objects.

So, for someone who doesn't love objects, why should I love types?
I'm in my 30's and currently using an MBA from a top program to pivot into a field unrelated to my previous tech-heavy work life. It's an expensive way to "start over", but it's worth it for the near-guaranteed cushy outcomes.
This needs to be balanced with any loss of life from global warming. Some would want to consider non-human life in that calculation, as well.

(I don't know enough about this to know if nuclear will have a large impact, in the grand scheme).
>In the case of Disney, the company's success is largely based on its ability to create and produce compelling movies and characters.

> Since they stop doing so, Disney is in trouble.

Weird live action remakes and recycled franchises are lazy.
I'm still hoping disney will rediscover traditional animation and give us more original content.
reminds me of Mean angle is not a usual average. Means on circle - Intro to directional statistics (3B1B SoME1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVmcaRAbJg
Solar and wind are great! I’m sure they’ll be a huge part of the future. However, there are places that don’t have good conditions for either and applications that they struggle with like providing large amounts of power for things like refining aluminum or casting steel. Not to mention how useful it would be if you fit one in a Super Galaxy and power a military base with it or quickly connect one and get it pumping power into a grid that’s experiencing blackouts. Wind and solar will probably be cheaper but this kind of tech could still be very useful in quite a few places.
Only partially related, but since they mention it at the bottom of the post: I really like GH's "brownout" approach to discontinuing services. They've done it a couple of times before (like this one[1]), and it's always struck me as a very sensible way to handle deprecations on such a massive service.

[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-10-brownout-notice-api...
Yes. This fixes only immutability. For the value semantics (=== comaprison of content) pls check sibling comment thread.
Natural end stage of organization growth.
Is there a simple way to synchronize tweets (including history) between Twitter and Mastodon?
Nothing - the staying power of Twitter is that public figures/celebrities/politicians use it. They use it because that's where the audience is. It's the definition of a path dependent product, and probably can't be recreated in a similar form.

For messagebus style social media? TikTok.
>many people are trying to milk Covid concerns merely to continue working from home or reaping other benefits that they value

How is this "milking" anything? The last few years have proved that lots of white collar jobs don't need to be done from an office building.

>Other than putting humanity in a total economic death spiral (that will be many times worse than Covid) I'm not sure what else can be done to give immunocompromised people a better situation.

This is a false dichotomy. The science is clear on this one. Continue wearing masks in public places, physical distancing, practicing basic hygiene, and continue requiring vaccinations. Yes, all of those things are proven to reduce transmission of COVID as well as other airborne viruses like the flu. Society doesn't need to shut down or enter a "death spiral" to do any of them. Leaders just caved to political pressure and stopped enforcing them.

>are genuinely trying to go out and live their lives as normally as they can and trying not to be a slave to their illness.

Yes, and they probably still have to wear masks and avoid certain places that are likely to carry an increased risk of infection. "Not being a slave to the illness" doesn't mean you go out and take stupid risks.

>Has anything qualitatively changed for immunocompromised people with Covid?

Yes, COVID is significantly more contagious than influenza, and causes more severe illness than influenza.
> It seems like the only way to get rid of tipping in the US is for every restaurant to do it simultaneously, either by mutual decision (ha!) or through some kind of legislation (double ha!)

Another unmentioned way is if customers just get fed up with paying tips and start tipping less. I get annoyed with any digital payment screen that only offers default tip options of 18% or more and take my revenge by sometimes selecting no tip.
Much of the property in NYC is just parking money into fixed assets... doesn't even have to be income property. I'm not sure the govt is capable of fixing the issue, short of separating corporations from personal liberties legally (via national legislation) and legislating usage requirements for corporate owned land/property. Both of which would be VERY hard to do legislatively.
the hiring bit seems useful
There’s a difference between failing to win, and asserting that others cheated. Calling others “diversity hires” implies that others have cheated. You don’t get to claim the high ground there.
> That's only true for pure C/C++ projects.

Ah I assumed this was primarily a C++ project given the context of the discussion. You're right it's not really the right tool if you're not doing a C++ project!

> Example from that Makefile

Honestly that looks like a typical fragile Makefile. Grepping all over the place. Regexes. Shelling out to `dd`. This sort of build system leads to constant fighting confusing error messages. It's a "works for me" build system.

I can see one bug and it's only 10 lines!

I think you can use Makefiles robustly - if you only use it for handling the build DAG, but apparently the temptation to use it as a general scripting system is too great for basically everyone.
> Oh, I didn't mean letting the clients support them, I meant making the clients support them and feature them how Twitter wanted them to.

So did I.

No feature no key, no key no third party client.
I believe if kids were shown this in school most of them would grow up vegans or vegetarians by choice.

I have three people in my circle of friends who have been vegetarian or vegan since they were little. All despite coming from a family background where meat consumption was the norm.
Two are German, one is Croatian.

All of them witnessed animal slaughter firsthand from close distance at a very early age.
what does the International Telephone & Telegraph company have to do with this thread?
> Focus on your physical self: make sure you've gotten enough sleep, have food ready to go for lunch, and have breaks between the interviews if possible. If the interviewer asks if you need a minute at the start, and you do - please take it.

This is great advice! I interviewed in 2022 and found that I performed significantly better when well rested. I also found that eating healthy helped during the post-lunch interviews.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
An El Nino in 2023 will be worse for climate than anything in last few years
Looks cool. I am an avid org-mode user which I also use for coding/writing/email, so probably not the target audience. Why no "pause" button?
"most providers won't administer any medicine that they didn't source themselves, because technically they have no way of verifying the provenance."

Interesting. In Czechia, a doctor will send you to buy a vaccine against tick meningitis into a pharmacy and when you come back, will administer it.

It is up to you as an adult not to mess up.
I did not know that the treatment plan changed. I guess it makes sense, it sounded like at the time the pill was almost a "just in case" but it really was the shot.

But that was me interpreting (and remembering) what the doctor said so not really backing that by anything.

But thanks for letting me know about that. Not sure how I missed that news.
Copyright Issues in the Andersen vs. Stability AI Art Generator Litigation
I believe this approach was proposed, but implementers pushed back because the initial interning is expensive and there are a lot of scenarios where it would never be used. You don't really expect creating a Point to do a hash lookup.
Does experience in high-school journalism support the claim that professional journalism is all a conspiracy to manipulate the reader? I doubt it, and I edited my high-school newspaper for two years lol
I'll dm u :)
They already are on android, iOS, and windows.
I wonder, if somebody has not a happy story, but an ongoing story of failures in job search - would he write such a story? Or we hear only from those who succeeds? Or, assuming that everybody eventually succeeds, those who take years to find a position won't write about it, as they are too exhausted or embarrassed?
I would take those node recommendations. I've dipped my toes in, but don't have the wherewithal right now to really figure out how to find what's worth following.
To be fair, these interviews provide a lot of valuable signal in terms of how you approach tradeoffs and explore a problem space. In that sense they're quite similar to the work I did at $dayjob, just in a compressed timeframe (which makes it challenging). As you said, the questions are similar to real world systems at these companies -- it's just that you won't have experience with these systems unless you've worked at these companies before. It's a catch-22.
>Customers simultaneously deciding to stop tipping (triple ha!)

I think it's easier for restaurants to stop tipping simultaneously than for every customer in America to stop.
I've noticed this dynamic too... I have had relationships and jobs that had incredible levels of psychological abuse, and yet I stayed for way too long, and continued to rationalize the abuse. I think at some level I would start to get depressed and suffer low self esteem, and believe that any level of abuse or mistreatment was justified. After leaving, I can barely understand why I didn't see what was happening or admit it to myself.

I was the perfect target for narcissists- any abuse or negativity would cause me to feel guilty and responsible, and try even harder to give them what they want.
google has plenty of dev offices in western europe. Did you try to apply?..
The answer is that it's hard and people want to be rewarded for the hard work at the market rate.
“Hohn is not factoring in the counterintuitive reason why Google and other tech companies pay software engineers total compensation packages of $300k to $800k. They are hoarding talent from their rivals and paying workers handsomely so there isn’t a motivation to quit and build a startup that will disrupt the status quo.”

Terrible reporting. I would like to see a proper financial analysis on whether hoarding or preventing competition makes financial sense. I think the hoarding idea is a crock of shit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487744
its an interesting space to try and inspire engineering from biology, a quick search says eagles have the best eyesight

i just saw a video about a dog's nose being used for particle detection in crime scenes, i'm wondering if there's already been, or when there will be work on recreating the basis of an eye as a detector

or if maybe this has already been subverted by lens manufacturing
Yes for me. Way fewer grounds in my coffee.
Doesn't seem like they've addressed it yet based on the Meet/Hangout fiasco that is still unravelling. Mid-2010's Google was already showing signs of corporate lethargy.
More like wannabe tech hub - salaries reflecting competitiveness.

Reality is SW engineering barely 2x median income in Germany untill you're talking like senior/lead roles. Meanwhile in the US grads start 2x.
Really bothersome that the one example cited here is Pecking House, which has a months-long queue. His strategy requires a certain amount of abundance, and will not necessarily work for every dumpling shop and deli in America.
And if they have to operate 1% of the time, they can do that with hydrogen, and the fuel cost will be inconsequential.
My only issue with Mastodon is the network effect.

There are many accounts I follow on Twitter, relatively popular accounts not friends with 5 followers, that aren’t on Mastodon.

So I’m missing a bunch of what I had. I found new things too, which is great. But it’s still never going to be a 1:1 replacement.
Ask HN: Learning Test Based Programming
What resources do you recommend for me to learn Test Based Programming? I have a little exposure to the concept, but I generally do not think of programming in that way. While I have added some tests to some of my programs, I have met people who start with testing, and I'd like help developing that mindset.
Maybe you can count the first parent commits on mainline, and then reverse that list.
"Particularly for the subpopulations most affected by gonorrhea, where the data very clearly and unambiguously shows the opposite relationship."

People who tend to be sober and care about prophylactic care are the most afflicted with gonorrhoea?
Sorry, I misinterpreted you -- I thought you were talking about gating features to specific clients. :D
I'd say the answer to that is: "sometimes".

I've raised both pigs and cattle in the past, and pigs are definitely the more intelligent of the two. They're much more likely to be agitated by a rapid change of environment. Both are herd animals, so the agitation of one tends to agitate the others.

In the context of a slaughterhouse, the biggest things that should be done to reduce agitation is to reduce their exposure to unfamiliar sights and sounds, give them time to adjust to their surroundings without being disturbed, limit the duration of disruptions, and keep them in smaller groups.

In my experience in the situation I described in my top-level post, some pigs definitely knew that something bad was happening when they were let in to the kill room. Completely subjectively, I'd judge that maybe 10-20% of them acted like they felt threatened at that moment.

In that particular operation, we'd slaughter no more than ~50 pigs at a time - enough to develop an efficient process and for the workers to be proficient with it, but not enough to justify an expensive mechanical system optimized for throughput.

The person responsible for killing the animal had probably done so thousands of times in the past. It took less than fifteen seconds from the time the pig entered the room to the time it lost consciousness.

For what it's worth, I never saw an instance of the slaughtering method failing on the first try, but there were arrangements in place in the event that it did. A second bolt gun was kept armed and within reach in case the one in use failed. Given that this was a small "family" operation, there was also a .45 handgun a few feet away that could be used in an emergency if there were no other option to end an animal's suffering.

I was in my mid-teens when I worked the floor there, and the training was short but effective. For the first half dozen or so that I killed, a more experienced person was there overseeing, and was ready to step in if necessary. I was given the opportunity to "practice" on previously-slaughtered animals so I knew exactly where to place the gun, how loud it was going to be, etc., so by the time I was in the position to do it for real I had no doubts about what to do and could do it quickly.

Finally, I'll add that agitation - or "stress", or "panic", or whatever you want to call it - is a financial concern as well as a moral one. An agitated animal is likely to injure themselves before being slaughtered, which reduces meat quality and yield. Large companies are definitely optimizing to reduce that. My concern is that they're optimizing the process to maximize yield to the detriment of animal welfare. To be fair, I don't know if that's the case. I've not worked in a larger facility.

I live in an area with a ton of pork and poultry processing facilities. Given that my assumptions around the slaughter methods were shown in this thread to be incorrect, I think I'll see if I can't get access to one to tour their operations and see for myself.
Sharp Analog Snap-In adds analog functionality to the Sanwa JLF lever
I'm a software engineer, and my coworkers and I are currently bargaining a contract as part of the CWA. We aren't taking the approach you describe.

In general a union contract isn't going to end up with terms that the members don't want, because members are doing the bargaining and (in the CWA at least) have to ratify the contract by a majority vote. The same is true for other unions organizing software occupations, like OPEIU Local 1010.

We are aiming for automatic cost of living increases within job grades - to avoid the need to job hob endlessly - and objective performance reviews between grades.

It's been a lot of work to get i right, but I think where we'll land will produce a much more objective promotions process than any other I've participated in. Other CWA unions with software developers have taken a similar approach. Our contract will be publicly available when it's concluded.
> Wind and solar will probably be cheaper but this kind of tech could still be very useful in quite a few places.

I agree, and I would love to see SMRs succeed. But, the latest developments in the cost of NuScale don't get my hopes up very high.

Related, I have no idea if UNSC is going to go anywhere, but I really like their website[0]. Probably the best SMR company website in existence.

[0]: https://www.usnc.com
When pointing out anything that Sundar did wrong to get to this point, remember the 3 responses of the Management Class to an inconvenient fact:

1. It's not true.

2. It's true, but it's not important.

3. It's true, and it's important, but we already knew it.
> I don’t think allowing your competitor to use your own data against you is ‘anti-competitive’

Counterpoint would be that Twitter grew (partially) due to it's easy to use API. And one could argue that Twitter has a monopoly on short message social media because of this growth. Thus being anti-competitive by suddenly disabling its API.
If by "exploit" you mean "offer a clear and optional exchange of money for labour in return" then yes, I guess people were explotied here.

As per everyone in employment.
Yeah, some just skipped "http:" prefix and continued with "veh-veh-veh".
Is this to force customers to use CDK?

https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
Absolutely! One of the smartest people I know did, and works for Google now and even landed a YC interview. Not only is it possible but it could end up being a boon. Best of luck.
The problem with taking "revenge" is that you only hurt the employees. Assuming the employer is not stealing tips, not tipping doesn't affect the bosses at all. If you want revenge, stop visiting the place.
A Practical Template Attack on Crystals-Dilithium [pdf]
Duet: Creating Harmony Between Processors and Embedded FPGAs
Basically one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol

I didn't realize they fell out of favor because of disease transmission. As the article notes, I think a compressed air version is used in No Country For Old Men (did people not know what that thing was?)