skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though I (and many others) have deeply respected Musk for all that he’s done the last decade, he’s gone and screwed it up with this idiotic distraction that is twitter. And in the process he’s totally messed up his legacy.

The visceral hate for Musk’s actions in the past 6 months feels warranted. I’m annoyed as a Tesla owner that he’s distracted with these silly things instead of staying his original course. Meanwhile Tesla as a company has completely stagnated.
What about introducing a new code of ethics that students sign? They agree to disclose the level of help (1 - 10) provided by GPT and the teacher/instructor/prof grades accordingly. Silly?
Hear hear. Shipping at 10am Monday-Thursday is heaven, almost every single incident requiring immediate attention occurs during business hours.
Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...

From the March, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine:

> The time is coming fast when the only living thing around a motion picture house will be the person who sells you your ticket. Everything else will be mechanical. Canned drama, canned music, canned vaudeville. We think the public will tire of mechanical music and will want the real thing. We are not against scientific development of any kind, but it must not come at the expense of art. We are not opposing industrial progress. We are not even opposing mechanical music except where it is used as a profiteering instrument for artistic debasement.
How Financial and Technological Innovations Shaped U.S. Telegraphs, 1845–60
First you said environmental impact, not electricity usage which is very different.

Second that article makes it really unclear what is being included in "energy expenditures". In the earlier paragraphs it talks about electricity which makes sense given a.) it's extremely expensive in NY and b.) I'd imagine more heating comes from natural gas as opposed to AC in southern climates which comes from electricity.

It lacks a lot of critical information to measure environmental impact vs. other cities.

Lastly who is being included? Inner city residents only? Or metro area?
This is the one true way to validate DISPLAY is set correctly for remote apps.
7-9% is a range conservative estimate of the stock market returns since 1920; that is adjusting for inflation.

Here's one source that supports the 7-9% range over the last 30 years:
https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-stock-market-retu....

1920 to 2022: 7.38% (adjusted for inflation)
https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1920?amount=1...

1989 to 2022: 7.4% (adjusted for inflation)
https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1989?amount=1...
I think you’re over-exaggerating the impact to dismiss the premise. Endocrine disrupters don’t generally lead to death, they lead to developmental and hormone disorders, ADHD, etc. All of these things are on the uptick.
In Greater Toronto area, I like 1150AM which used to be sports station (opex galore) (and an oldies/community radio station before that), but in a cost-saving measure, now just simulcasts a subscription (!) business news TV station (BNN Bloomberg).
Unfortunately not limited to tech industry. I watched a publications department sit on a blacklisted application stack for five years, as IT - with plenty of warning - kept screaming that it was going to get turned off.

A complete absence of tool selection, migration, or any preparation whatsoever, because the new tool couldn't be funded from leadership, so the horrible ship kept belching forward. Until it was shut down. End result was seventeen people sitting on their thumbs for years.. and a totally fragged publication environment that never recovered, the product of which will - at best - be waived on future contracts at some incredible cost. At worst, it will be yet another barrier to the already marginal business.
There is an epidemic of "luxury" units that are really just poorly constructed buildings with a fancy stove and granite countertop. Modern buildings will have noise leakage via doors and windows for obvious reasons, but should not be transmitting anything but extreme noise through floors and walls. If you can really hear noises two floors away, I'm guessing your building wasn't built with noise in mind OR the party goers have blasted their eardrums too many times. Regardless, I'm surprised the landlords haven't handled this already if they are charging luxury prices.
Currently experimenting with automatic flashcards generation (summarizing + creating questions and answers).
Hundreds of millions of people own a car and park them in public or semi-public areas that don’t have charging infrastructure. There is a massive opportunity cost to charging for these people, and that needs to be factored in to large-scale studies like this.
Or an mp3, ogg, wav, flac
Despite revenue growing 2%, net income went from +$23MM to -$288MM?? Yikes
Feels like the battle between computer virus creators and anti-virus software all over again.
... in Winter.

Warm months can get noisy. Especially the god-damned locusts, but there are crickets and all kinds of things at night, even when those are dormant. Coyotes—those even, and perhaps especially, in Winter, but at least they're not so unpleasant to listen to unless your dogs are out or you forgot to put the fowl in for the night. Seemingly-endless Canada geese flocks low overhead, honking from horizon to horizon. God help you if you're near water. Frogs. Ugh. Frogs.

But, not so much neighbors' lawnmowers, or cars. Or car horns. Or people yelling. Or anyone else's music. That is nice. And man are the Winters peaceful.

Dust from gravel roads (you have no idea how much if you've not experienced it—dust every surface at 9am, can write in the new dust on the kitchen table by 4pm, on a bad day when the wind's wrong and it's dry), "snow" from combines and various ag processing plants (pretty sure this stuff's terrible on your lungs, but at least it's not all the time and only in some places). That shit smell for a few days when the next farmer over spreads manure. Your hour-plus drive (each way) every two to four weeks for your "big shopping" (and they say cities have food deserts! LOL—and if you think there aren't rural folks so damn poor they have trouble keeping a car running and need tons of help just to get groceries... well, there are, and lots of them) and needing to have a deep freeze or two and maybe even two refrigerators depending on how big your family is. Having to drive that far, too, if your kid needs clothes or shoes and the limited selection at the tractor & feed won't cut it. Forget walking anywhere that ain't your own land.

Got its own challenges. But, sometimes, it is very, very quiet.

[EDIT] Oh, and gunshots! Pretty often, mostly far off, varies a little depending on what your neighbors are like, but common enough I think it's fair to call that a normal part of the rural soundscape.
How to manage money well, as someone from a lower-middle background?
Firstly I'd like to apologize for replying to this comment instead of flagging it and moving on. It can be difficult to judge sometimes when to engage.

There's something I'd like to clarify. I came back to this thread to find that my own comment was flagged, and I'd also collected a surprising number of downvotes in a short span of time (unless flagging resets vote count - I'm not sure). Is the flag from you, as a slap on the wrist for fueling the fire? I didn't think flags were used that way, but once again I'm not sure. If it's not from you, then I suspect some brigading may have occurred. (It's possible someone else felt my comment warranted admin attention, but 1) the timing is odd and 2) you've clearly already seen this thread).

Sorry as well for the meta - I'd have made this a PM, but, well...
It was dominant though. Top2 or top3 in research orientation. I don't think a single project was ever done without major UK participants and researchers.

Granted, we mostly excluded 'public schools' in favor of UK universities, at least for research and engineering projects, but Edinburgh had more power than Hamburg and Hannover, and I think only Paris-Lyon had more projects than them. Mostly because we had space projects.
Worked for cigarette smoke...
> one cannot subscribe using their iOS apps

This is all Apple's fault for demanding 30% of their revenue from IAP.

> subscribe in a way that Apple has no control over

What is the benefit of Apple's control, though? That is the main question.

> I fail to see how this is not user error

It was user error. It's a very common user error, forgetting to cancel a trial. You're missing the larger picture here, which is that Apple publicizes and justifies its App Store lockdown and cut in terms of consumer protection, claiming that App Store is a very safe place to find and buy apps. If Apple cared about protecting consumers, it would protect them from common errors such as forgetting to cancel a trial. After all, Apple does "protect" consumers from the common error of installing software that they shouldn't from the internet, by completely banning internet app installs on iOS.
This is what we did at my last job. You can catch DB specific issues that a false implementation wouldn’t show and make sure all your code paths work as expected.

Every time new issues cropped up we would put new data in the test data designed to reproduce it. Every edge case we would run into.

It provided so much confidence because it would catch and trigger so many edge cases that testing with mocks or by hand would miss.

Edit: also, it’s great for test/dev environments. You don’t have to worry about losing important data or filling new environments with data. Just start with the full test data and you’re good to go. It’s got stuff for all the corner cases already. Something got screwed up? Blow it away and reload, it’s not precious.
IIRC the marker got the same visualization that you used to take out quotes and citations that highlighted that the similar bits were in fact quotes and
citations!

Maybe high school is a different matter, but I'm pretty sure even the most technophobic academic knows that jargon, terse definitions and the odd citation overlapping with stuff other people have written is going to make a similarity of at least 10% pretty much inevitable, especially when the purpose of the exercise is to show you understand the core material well enough to cite and paraphrase and compare it, not to generate novel academic insight or show you understood the field so well you didn't need to refer back to the source material. The people they were actually after were the ones that downloaded something off essaybank, removed a couple of paragraphs and rewrote the intro to match the given title and ended up with 80%+ similarity
Dropbox is an $8.5b publicly traded company, so it’s in a much better place than an idea that got shot down on the internet and never went anywhere.
UK economy to shrink more than Russia, predicts IMF
Thank you! It is built with Vue. The star animations is built with canvas. The constellation was a collection of div and a canvas to draw the lines.

I recently open sourced the star animation at https://github.com/adityapurwa/starflies if you want to take a look.
That depends how you define success. I don't think many consider a zero-sum game where only the winners are publicized a success.
Let me give you a real scenario. I was entering a hilly/mountainous region, and the sign said "Tune in to AM 520 for rock slide information when lights are flashing" and the lights were flashing. You're just going to ignore that?
> What you wrote was wrong, so I refuted it.

What specifically did I write that was wrong? Because I did not claim that in all cases a state or national government subsperceding local authority is always un-democratic. I explained that it could be un-democratic. The key word is could hear.

> What pits people against each other are exclusionary housing laws that the wealthy use to keep poor people separate from them, not the words we use to describe that choice.

Just to be clear, when you wrote this instead of "the wealthy use to keep poor people separate from them" what you meant was "what each progressively wealthier group uses to keep the poorer groups separate from them" then?

> Duh, that's why we try to achieve balances of power. The state overriding exclusionary housing laws during a housing crisis a good example of this being used correctly.

"When state power is being used in the way I agree with to supersede other democratically elected governments it's good".

The State used that same justification to wield this same power to override the wishes of the historically black communities of my home town and forced them out for highway construction.

I didn't claim that it's always good or always bad or always democratic or always un-democratic for the state to override the wishes of a group of citizens and their democratically elected government. I claimed that sometimes it could be. History also shows, and I've given a very good and clear example, that this power tends to be abused. Usually by corporate interests in cahoots with the biggest government entity they can get to wield power.
Truly "industrial" small x86-64 PCs will have direct wiring terminals for 12VDC power, or -48VDC, not a consumer grade 110-240VAC to DC-something power brick with it.
TL;DR is the introduction of C99 VLAs, not Pascal-style arrays, though a potential attribute could be added so we could do

int some_int;
int some_array[] __attribute__((__element_count__(some_int)));

to store the size of some_array in some_int.
> Why not a park or other recreation area

How do they get there? What might not be obvious is that the parks are often far away, because you can't afford to maintain many parks because the tax base is too small.
This is a great way to test for backwards-incompatible changes if your fleet is running canaries or instances on different versions backed by a singleton database. You apply the migrations, checkout the app from the old version, and then re-run your test suite. Any failures are a reasonably high signal that some backwards-incompatible migration was introduced.
What Is a Small Press?
All in all this is business as usual. You can't work because your work device is unfit to do the work? It's not really your problem as an employee. It's the employers' responsibility to provide the tools, and it's up to each management how they solve it, with what trade offs. This one picked "bugdet first, compliance second, worker/client satisfaction and business continuity last".
> If I instantly teleported to Alpha Centauri, that wouldn’t put me in the future.

If the teleport is using a wormhole - a device which connect two points in space - we can consider this.

We have experimental confirmation of time dilation, if we have an accelerated motion. In other words, let's make the wormhole entry on Earth move for some time so that its time is behind, say, by 10 years from the Alpha Centauri.

Then, if you instantly teleport to Alpha Centauri by stepping from Earth into the wormhole, the time at Alpha Centauri is 10 years before. You may use, say, 7 years to fly back to Earth through "ordinary" space, with sub-light speed, and you'll arrive to Earth 3 years before you left.
Indeed, I didn't say subtle because I thought it was so obvious it went without saying. My bad.

Now why these social cues are so often subtle or ambiguous is itself an interesting question. It's not one I have any good answers to though. In this area, as in most, I'm a phenomenologist and not a theorist. Needless to say the phenomenology I've developed precludes telling a woman I'm interested in about the phenomenology I've developed. Except of course when I think she might find it attractive. Human social interactions are marvelously complex. Frankly my inclination to start navel gazing has set me back once or twice.
It is not. I also remember this behavior around forking private repos from before the acquisition. But then again, this doesn't lend itself to a conveniently pithy comment about Microsoft ruining everything.
Either your batteries were old[1], or you're overlooking something else that might have caused increased self-discharge, such as high humidity. Some will say it was a myth, but it was true at one time.

What is a myth is that storing cylindrical cells in your freezer will slow self-discharge, and while it is proven cold storage will reduce self-discharge, the problem with a consumer freezer or refrigerator is that they are humid, so any gains the cold would provide are more than defeated by the humidity, which not only will increase self-discharge, it can damage and short a cell. The humidity in a consumer-grade freezer drastically increases to 80%-95%RH twice a day and slowly drops over several hours. The best place to store cells is in a cool, dry location. And cells are cheap and readily available, and storing cells for years in a freezer, even if it worked, would be wasting a ton of energy just to save a tiny amount of energy, which, again, wouldn't happen anyway.

[1] https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science-you-asked/...
Using platforms encourages internet censorship
Infra can make it easier to do it safer; it's not a panacea.
Sure you can roll back; alert based on metrics / logs / error rates, but the knowledge required to automate around these data points tends to require the data to already exist, which won't be true with new features.
The Musk Twitter takeover discussion was full of predictions about how long the site would continue to function, most of which have already been exceeded.
Noticed the same since the early days.
Microsoft does this a lot, where they assume that rules that apply to their own organisations apply to all organisations in precisely the same way.

If a Microsoft IC leaves, they should lose access to all Git repos, including forks.

If Joe Random open-source contributor is removed from an open source repo's access list, their fork shouldn't be wiped.

But Microsoft has One Rule To Rule Them All, so they won't make exceptions for unimportant people like their customers.

I see this a lot. A good example is Azure Active Directory, which is basically "Microsoft 365 Authentication" that they rebranded and sold to developers for their own use, i.e.: Azure AD Enterprise Apps, App Registrations, and B2C.

There are many aspects of the AAD design that make zero sense until you pause for a second and realise that it is not designed for you. It's designed for Microsoft 365!

For example, auditing. My customers are typically government agencies or banks, and they have strict auditing requirements, especially related to data access. All user authentication MUST be logged, including client IP address, and everything else. Most access is by their own staff, or by other orgs that have signed various contracts or agreements, so there is no expectation of privacy.

This is basically impossible with many configurations of AAD. It just refuses to collect meaningful audit logs. Why? Because GDPR applies to Microsoft 365 and they don't care about the data hosted on services such as SharePoint Online. That's not Microsoft's data, that's their customers' data, so its up to the customers to enable logging "on their end", in their individual AAD tenants.

There is no way to centrally collect logs as a service provider using AAD in a multi-tenant scenario.

When I asked Microsoft about this, they waffled on about GDPR and privacy regulations -- which apply to them, but not us.

Another example is Microsoft Teams, which hides the name of the organisation people are coming from. In large multi-org meetings this is infuriating, because you have no idea where anyone is from. Microsoft does this because they use outsourcers like MindTree for support, and they don't want their customers to see this in Teams meetings for Azure support tickets. No-one is allowed to see where people are from so that Microsoft can bullshit their customers.
Misallocation of Capital as Economic Statecraft (2021)
In a way it has stripped out a little of the fun of it, but that is a very VERY minor thing by comparison to systems that now just work!

As for Desktop environments, it is very rare that I have had any game breaking events on these for a very long time. The foundations are mature and hardened nowadays.

I have had the occasional issue on a elderly T400 Thinkpad when transferring large files on Mate and Enlightenment DE but I get the feeling that is potentially a hardware issue.
It is always possible to get the service for about $5-7/month by contacting customer support and mentioning the price and switching to a competitor. They’ll put you on a promo that lasts a year for $5-7/month. You, in turn, will put another “save $100” reminder into your calendar for next year before the billing date.. and the cycle will continue. The cycle is well documented on the subreddit, no need to take me at my word.

Yes it’s dumb but sxm also works better for my personal situation than Spotify etc.
SQL is not a declarative language. It is a functional language, and structured language on the top as extensions. HTML is a declarative language.
Talk about lacking nuance.

Health isn't binary: alive or dead.

Something like one in three people will get cancer at some point.

It's possible endocrine disruptors contribute to that rare.
This doesn’t make any sense to me.

My private forks are *mine* and I most certainly do not want GitHub guessing at whether and when to permanently delete them without my consent.

Companies of course have the right to manage access to their proprietary source code, for example by only giving access to corporate accounts under their control and reclaiming those accounts when an employee leaves.
Ask HN: How do you recommend creating authority in an industry?
Would love to hear your stories from veterans in the space on how you became well known as the go to guy in this specific niche.
As I am starting my consulting firm I want people to know my name and that I can actually do it.
For Android just leave battery saver permanently enabled at 100% charge. You lose animations and haptic feedback but it cuts down on radio usage and extends battery life.
Concordia students set to launch most powerful rocket developed by civilians
> discovery of content that you're interested in

I am skeptical of this line of thinking, even for something like Hacker News. It is the same thing that people say about TikTok, and pretty much every other preceding social network/content distribution app. "Discovery of content" implies to me that there is some kind of search. It implies an amount of self-directed, self-motivated activity. I would think that a PhD researcher or a programmer on stack-overflow or a person in a library is "discovering content"

However, on these algorithmically informed apps, the thing doing the discovering is the app, not you. It is discovering the bare-minimum amount of interest that it can provide such that you don't leave. If the app showed you only things that you are the most interested in right away, that would mean that each new piece of content was less interesting than the previous. You would open it up, spend 5 minutes, and then leave. Instead, it learns how to intermittently reward you with interesting content and figures out how much filler you will put up with without exiting.

At least on hacker news and other forum-based sites, you have the ability to only click on links that you want. I regularly open the site see there is nothing for me and leave within 20 seconds. Facebook is more controlling as you can only see a few posts at a glance. TikTok is completely controlling as there is no realistic 'browse' experience. You can see someone's profile, but since the content is video you can't really preview anything or know what it is going to be like without diving into the one-after-another-no-breaks feed.

The over-all point here is just to remember how passive a process using any of these applications are, and to remain clear-headed about it.