skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's being clever. If someone prompts an AI generator and acts like they created the output, that's on them, not on the AI generator.
I would suggest more of a professional association with rules and a code of ethics. Just some pretty basic stuff, like a modern and detailed Joel test (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...) for tech workers.

That way, the association / members can offer something to employers - they will operate professionally, use approved and best practice tools and processes, and achieve outcomes on company time instead of arguing about tabs vs spaces, emacs vs vim, the need to rewrite everything in rust or clojure, etc., and in exchange they expect better conditions and terms.

The best examples of this kind of thing are the National Association of Realtors, bar associations, FINRA, FASB, etc. Although they don't look and feel like unions, they do function effectively to protect the interests of their members, and to a lesser extent the public and industry.
I'm not sure why you think the sunk cost wouldn't be factored into the unit cost? Lockheed Martin (and them any other subcontractors) aren't a charity.
If the police are empowered to arrest you and child services is empowered to take action against your family, there needs to be a clear declaration of safe harbor.
> This makes my blood boil.

It's supposed to. This is Reason's schtick, publishing click magnets about terrible overreach by our evil Big Government Overlords, and you need to give this publication a ton of salt if you read it.

Like start out by noticing that this isn't journalism. It's written by Lenore Skenazy "president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement." Quite literally this is an evangelism and fundraising piece by a charity that benefits from exactly the outrage it's trying to drive.

If the guy was arrested, where's a link to the records? Where are the statements from police? This apparently happened four years ago. Where's the contemporary coverage? Why does a Google search for "Killingly CT parent arrested 2019" return a bunch of SEO cross links to the same story by the same person?

I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm saying we need to be a little more careful with what we get upset about.
> Brushing your teeth takes time. If you could pay $20 p/m to get the same results from say a stick of gum (i.e., no time)...is that then worth it?

No, because I start the kettle (or coffeemaker, depending on what I want) before I start brushing. I brush my teeth while waiting for the kettle to boil.

I don't get that time back if I don't brush my teeth; I still have to wait for the coffee anyway.
As I said, I'm not against cover letters. I think they can be a reasonable tool that benefits both parties, if the interview process genuinely takes them into account and uses them honestly. I also think that the vast, vast majority of posts relating to interview processes in the tech industry on this website (and most others) show a staggering degree of lack of knowledge on how hiring works, and that interviewing in our industry is particularly poor given current normal processes.

But really, I was just trying to point out that the parent's comment didn't hold water.
Finance is a huge field. I'd say the need for mathematical modelling, in one form or another, is pretty universal no matter what you do in Finance. But there are also tons of other stuff you might need on top of that depending on what specific field of finance you work in. Distributed systems can provide the data that your model relies on, or even the platform where the model itself needs to run on.
There have been no carveouts announced for SSO. I am migrating as many of my accounts on other websites as I can off of Twitter SSO because it seems likely to me that they'll stop working and I'd lose access to those accounts if I am not proactive.
What? I was raised a Hindu, and Hinduism absolutely does not embrace drugs and polyamory...for any charitable definition of those terms.
>> With this line of reasoning, no one does or decides anything. We are all simply running out the simulation that was predetermined long before we were born. Even if this is true, it's not exactly useful.

I don't see any reason to believe what you say is wrong. Is there evidence we have free will? It's hard to find in physics. Could i have done differently that what i did? I don't think so. I don't control my thoughts, i don't think them before i think them. I'm not sure how i could do differently.
Being able to turn off everything in the house while lying in bed is pretty great honestly and once you have bulbs that go from white to yellow depending on the time you can’t go back.
> high resolution clockworks. (Similar to gps recieving).

There has been a paper about access arbitration to a Wi-Fi network using FM RDS data for timing

https://hackaday.com/2015/11/11/improving-wifi-throughput-wi...
My mom has a funny story about how my grandfather surprisingly didn't get arrested.

Back in West Germany, they had lived across from a bar, and every night my grandfather would send my mom and her older sister across the street to get some beer for him.

Then they moved to Ohio and rented an apartment down the block from the bar. And my grandfather sent two little girls who didn't speak any English to the bar for some beer.

Well, they came back with cops, who then had to fetch a neighbor who spoke more English than my grandparents to translate and explain the whole situation. The cops then left with a, "don't do that again" and that was the end of it.

The mind boggles at how quickly Opa would have been behind bars in 2023.
It's Reason, so that's basically assumed.
I did the same. But had it specifically set in 2021
Also set in the restaurant.
George gets a job as an "Uber Delivery"* driver and Kramer is excited about VR.

*Is that a thing? I don't think I've seen that where I am
First comment on the article:

“ At 75 I am in the baby boom and I was in the counter culture. Lets just say from 1965 to 1985. The counter culture was driven by the Vietnam war. Reciprocal to the war was the peace witness inspired by the Quakers. During this same period, instances of cheap real estate and low cost apartments and free places to live existed. Also developing the skills needed for living a counter culture life were helped along by, unemployment insurance. Unemployment irregularly functioned as a cost of living help when I went back to junior college to study film and sewing.”
The problem with trying to punish people for false complaints is that disincentives to reporting child abuse is probably not worth the annoyances. By the time it transitions from a mere annoyance (having to talk to someone from the CPS for an hour and that's it) to something much more impactful (someone producing enough fraudulent evidence that you are arrested and put on trial) they've moved away from merely abusing a reporting system and into full-blown felonious behavior that will not be ignored!

Kudos to my wife for explaining this to me after she told how a coworker teacher of hers was being harassed by a parent who had called CPS in retaliation for some nonsensical disagreement about (is there a pattern here?) kids on a school sports team. I was angry! I wanted that parent to be punished! But my wife is right.

Cue Will Ferrell yelling at kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=junIx1T8A5I
> Foreign investors now need to re-think whether Spain, and the European Union more broadly, are safe places to invest

That is a huge statement that, while potentially true, really sets off shill/astroturf warnings. It's a normally trustworthy publisher though, as far as I'm aware, so I'll keep reading.
Related existing thread on “poverty porn” topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34626033
It's because they aren't accountable to anyone.
Considering the cost of the API, no. It's not.
I assume you can still scrape for free by using the web API.
You’re getting downvoted but what you’re saying is kinda true. What typically spurned these laws was an actual tragedy: a parent had their child run to the store to buy something, child was abducted, family was devastated, and then worked to pass some law that makes it illegal for children under a certain age to be unaccompanied by an adult. Well-meaning but ultimately way too restrictive: what happened to their child was a freak tragedy, not a common occurrence.

Personally, as a parent, I hate these laws. I want my son to be able to explore the neighborhood, have fun, do outside chores etc without myself or my wife monitoring him. Imo forcing parents to be glued to their kids 24/7 makes life more stressful for everyone.
Yeah, that’s correct. I wanted to match the original comment’s phrasing and thought it was clear from context, but I probably should have just used a different word to avoid ambiguity.
It might be luck to HAVE good parents but it's the furthest thing from luck BE good parents in the first place. Good parents have the right to pass down that hard work to their kids.
And the ventilation ducts and filters are nice hotbeds for mold and bacteria.
Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?
I put an extraordinary amount of work effort in the company for 3 years. I worked under the same manager during this period. Last year when performance review meeting happened just like every other year, I was told that you are the best engineer in the whole organization.

For these years, I have not got a single dollar raise or promotion. My salary has been the same from the day I joined in 2019.

Last year, performance review meeting was different. When mass layoffs were happening, manager brought another engineer on the team. I came to know that this engineer had known him in the past, could be friends. Even though, there was no need for another engineer on the team. My manager told me to train this engineer with same skill-set like you. I am a nice person so I brought this engineer up to speed. From the time this engineer has learnt everything that I have known, my manager has stopped talking to me. My 1:1 meetings has not happened for last few months. I am getting cold shoulder treatment from everyone else on team. This engineer who I taught has been assigned lead role and giving me directions for last few months. The whole situation has become toxic for me.

How to handle this situation best?

This is top 5 tech companies in Canada. If this is the kind of culture promoted here, how are other companies doing?
And people wonder why there is a stigma and general reluctance to get help like therapy. Even if it were completely free, it can still have a cost and be used against you.
> Does anyone have direct, first hand experiences of this kind? Not from the media. First hand or someone you personally know.

Yes; a family member's friend is currently dealing with potential prosecution for briefly leaving their kid in the car.
> Is the big issue to stop pushing the normal light switch button? Is that a huge chore?

It does kinda suck, to be honest. Especially when the lights in question are downstairs, and I'm not. After the kids are done turning on every last light in the house, walking from place to place and turning off 40 different lights is tedious. Hitting the scene button at the top of the stairs to turn off the entire downstairs, on the other hand, I can do without slowing down.

The extra automation possibilities are nice, too. Even just little things like having the front lights turn on automatically when you arrive home at night.

The robotic vacuums are nice, too, now that you mention it. Kind of expensive but definitely a quality of life improvement.

But if I could have only one bit of home automation, it would be the door locks and garage doors. Those were the first things I made remote controllable and I wouldn't willingly give them up.
I love the idea that things were different once...
Sure, but 20 years ago, you had to go to a physical store, rent or buy physical media, put it into a physical device, and then play it.

Or call up a cable or satellite TV company and had to have equipment installed and pay equipment rental fees, and watch whatever was on without any control.

It is, objectively, pretty easy and convenient to watch what you want, when you want (assuming you are in the right jurisdiction). The only question remains is, are you willing to pay the amount the seller asks?
Ask HN: Has Vercel revolutionised todays web design?
I mean take a look at the websites being retweeted here https://twitter.com/rauchg

Almost every single one looks about the same.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t like it because I do. it’s beautiful and minimal, but is it right to give Vercel the credits?

If not, where did it originate from?
Ask HN: Reccomended books about the actual luddites
Recently I read that the luddites were not only opposed to the new technology (looms) they actively broke into businesses to destroy them.

After reading this it occured to me that I actually know very little about the real history there.

Weirdly, it seems to me that AI is on track to become one of the biggest political issues. I would like to learn more about the history there and possible clues about outcomes and approaches related to society's response to new technology.

Any books welcome, but a biography from an especially notable luddite that tells the story through their eyes would be preferred.

Thanks!
He IS spending his own money on something he finds useful-- the OpenAI API. NOT ChatGPT. He gets greater use out of the service, as the API isn't limited in its output the way ChatGPT is (no content filters), AND it's cheaper. Did you even read his comment>?
The article does later get into "changing the shape of the scoop", meaning a more directional antenna. And the designs for directional antennas are generally larger than omnidirectional ones.
> they didn’t like the way my wife had walked our daughter to the bathroom.

Sorry, this sounds so absurd you can't just leave us hanging to guess what was specifically claimed ;)

In a similar vein, in my family we had a complaint to social care worker that our Grandma (who was immobile in a bed and without verbal contact because of terminal Alzheimer) was improperly taken care of. But as my mom is a nurse who did all the feeding, cleaning 2x a day and installed anti bedsore mattress, no fucking way.

We know 99% that the complaint was from one of the people in the family, as almost nobody else knew or cared what was going on.
Excellent article that clearly describes the benefits and simplicity of hypermedia applications. We have experienced the benefits of designing our web applications in this manner using htmx. This library, htmx, has been a real lifesaver for our projects.

Just to be clear, the author is NOT arguing for some forced quasi HATEOAS in the typical current architecture of JavaScript rich client passing JSON data in RPC fashion over HTTP. Instead, he is stressing the beneficial original hypermedia architecture of the web; that being, server rendered HTML to the hypermedia browser client. Htmx adds much dynamic behavior to such an approach.
why do you not consider hackernews as "social media" ?
The all story is a scary tale about the state's intromission on people's lives.

But this part is a constant reminder of how misandric present society is:

"...the officers proceeded to charge Rivers' husband with risk of injury to a minor. They charged Rivers separately for the same thing. Then they arrested her husband and took him away."
Exactly. Even though you could specify what happens mechanically on any given system, the results are kind of uncontrollable on most real computers.

Whether things should be UB or implementation defined requires a good value judgement. Per se there is not a real need of UB, (assuming that the behaviour of a machine can be specified), but on the other hand there isn't much value in specifying a situation where all control is lost to the point where implementation details leak (runtime structures are overwritten etc.).

Since there is (I assume?) an expectation for "implementation-defined" to have an actual definition, pedantically an implementation leak would require all implementation details to be codified, and thus set in stone.
This is really, really scary and what scares me even more is these proposals just seems to keep coming and in time some of them will probably make their way into law.

Used to be for EU but if any regulation like this goes through, I will immedietly vote for any politician willing to exit the EU.

Honestly, I am kind of for leaving the EU anyway since I don't like the large centralized power it has become. There is litterally few who understand how the EU works, there is practically no way of knowing how to change EU politicians minds etc. If I want to change public opinion in my home country, that is way easier than doing it for the majority of the EU countries.

It is barely a question of time until bad stuff happens in my view.
Erlang isn't dying but not many people care for it in capital market. Looks at the traits of Erlang, it's designed for telecom environment which is almost opposite of capital market.

1. Fault tolerance is almost all hardware driven. Capital market participants spent billions of dollar building reliable private networks.

2. Distributed in trading doesn't mean what FAANG are doing. Trading systems for example usually run 2 hot-warm systems with real-time replication commits, that's about it. They don't run horizontally scaled systems because network time would kill their performance.

In my experience, I haven't heard anyone asking for hot swap code and high availability (outside of trading hours).

Are there shops out there that run Erlang? Sure, but most companies don't care about Erlang simply because its value isn't better than Java/C/C++.
The police (executive branch) are the ones who decide what and how to enforce as evidence by the fact they dropped the charges. We live in a very vague world and have to use our own judgement on things as laws cannot contain the full context necessary to make those judgements. Do you truly expect an elected official from a city across the state or across the country to understand the relationship between you and your neighbors or the structure of your town? If there is truly so much crime that it is unsafe for children to walk to a store unsupervised than that points more at a failing of the police but we know that police do not prevent crime[1].

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/04/20/988769793/when...
Sorry you had to go through that. I am having a hard time thinking of a way how someone could walk their child to the bathroom wrong. Could you share some more details if you are comfortable?
In my experience, in the US, the lawyers will find the "deep pockets" to go after, and may establish precedent.

In the US, we have the Second Amendment, which has probably prevented many, many lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers (but there have still been a few).

Unless there's a constitutional amendment, protecting the tech, it's pretty likely that some hungry lawyers will figure out how to go up the food chain, and get some money.

If the tech is used to go after politicians and oligarchs (almost guaranteed), you can bet that some laws will appear, soon.

In the US, threat of lawsuits govern many decisions. It's a totally legitimate fear, and politicians are notorious for protecting their hunting grounds, and their privileges.

Look at the fight over encryption. It is a "no-brainer," if you are aware of the tech, yet politicians have a very real chance of doing great damage to it.
Because Reagan sold everyone out to corporate greed in the 80's and it's been going straight down from there. Profit above all. Year over year growth to infinity or die.
Not obvious to me that they could have sued and won, people sue for much worse things and lose under "qualified immunity." The bar is very high.
Honestly, taking some of the power out of mod’s hands might improve Reddit. Changes like this are big and scary, but we have seen how mods control discourse to a point that the threads and discussions are entirely controlled to push a single viewpoint not representative of the population only represents the mod’s opinions.

On another note, I have been using Weibo, tick tock, and other Chinese apps. I have been really impressed at my ability to control my feed compared to Reddit. There are certain types of post that Reddit wants to recommend me, and I have never figured out how to hide them. On the other Chinese apps, I can dislike the author or post, and I can like the author or post. It has really picked up on these cues in a way that Reddit never has, and my feed is exactly what I want. Just needs a little tending to, but the learning and response is precise
I don’t disagree with you, but that doesn’t negate GP’s or mine’s point.
You will never stop the march of technology, especially when it requires so few developers to create it. It will emerge.
omg I thought I was the only one. Had this problem persistently when I was at a guest house in the phillipines. I figured it couldn't be safe or good for my laptop but a guy's gotta get paid...
Cannot you just get a library card at the university? I live next to a university where I have no affiliation, and if I pay $150 a year I can eat all I want. (Though I do think I have to be onsite as there is no remote access.)

Another trick is to sign up for the adult ed classes, or basically retiree classes to get access. I've even heard of people doing this to get cheap health insurance!!!
it doesn't take passion to post your opinion in a web forum.
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What's the confusion? The allegation is that choosing to build this represents, at best, incredibly poor judgment. The GitHub issue and GP post are good faith appeals to kindest possible interpretations of this work. To use your own example, explosives can be useful, but if you discovered that your neighbor was building pipe bombs in his garage, you'd probably want them to stop. "I'm not gonna use them. I just think they're neat." is not a convincing argument for them to continue. To extend the analogy a bit further, this seems comparable to discovering a box full of pipe bombs with a big "free" sign in front of their house.
My advice would be to schedule which of you has night duty and the logistics around that (prepping bottles, etc.) since getting sleep is key to being able to do anything effectively during the day. Even if you both wake up, knowing you can ignore the baby since you aren't "on call" is a blessing.

You'll not be able to work effectively since interruptions from a newborn typically cannot wait and are very random. I'd look into day care of some kind, possibly half-days to have solid chunks of time to get work done. Or if you and your partner both work from home then same advice as above with "on call" but arranging schedules for focus time or meetings.
Not entirely sure what's "revolutionary" about the ORM, although the lack of joins, M2M relationships, migrations, and other basic features certainly is revolting.

The entire API/serialization/… part also seems extremely primitive, what with it being only capable of either exposing data or not, with no easy way to filter or transform data.

Let's hope it survives long enough to be competitive with mature frameworks.
Thanks for the warning. I had put it in my "watch with kids" bookmark folder.
First, I don't take anything in Reason magazine at face value, because the pieces I've seen have always seemed published for appeal and to convey a "we are the people of 'reason'" image, rather than the issue itself.

That said, assuming at least partial truth to this article, I hope the kids didn't see their parent arrested, and weren't interrogated by anyone. I'd find a really gentle Mr. Rogers-type counselor to help talk with them about it.