skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The union can be good or bad. I'm a former IBEW member.

The reality is that you are adding a lot of extra 'management' on top of the existing company management when you bring in a union. At the end of the day, a union is a business and it is a profit-seeking business. Employees have to raise a massive fuss and get momentum from members in the union to receive any sort of defense from the union for their grievances.

The rotation aspect is also annoying. If you enjoy a particular job, you are forced to rotate out so that other members can have a chance. The juiciest roles always seem to go to the senior members. If you an apprentice, you just have to take what you get, and endure whatever hazing, teasing, and abuse you receive (tech workers jaws would hit the floor if they witnessed what I lived through).

At the end of the day you have to remember that there is one pie. Everyone wants a piece of the pie... management, employees, and union. Adding more overhead and more bosses is not always an effective way of getting more pie to the employees.
Is Dan Price associated with effective altruism?
Interesting. The ways electrical grids are going to need to atomize for resilience in the next decade is going to be cool. I mean, stressful as we deal with people shooting at substations and balloon EMPs or whatever, but EVs are grid storage. We have the tech to build more decentralized grids which will also push for less dependance on centralized services. It's scary, but I think the challenge will be interesting and it kind of gives me more hope than it does worry.
Curious: have you filed that by yourself? Did you need a lawyer, or felt you needed one, during the process?
I realised a while ago that I dislike the "Show, don't tell" rule; I much prefer writers who allow themselves to tell, to be story-tellers.

A couple of particular examples: Angelica Gordischer's Kalpa Imperial, and all of Susanna Clarke's writing. Both quite storyteller-y, and better for it.
Related:

Ariane 5 – Flight 501 Failure (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30556601 - March 2022 (1 comment)

An overflow error costing 500M dollars (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939625 - Jan 2019 (20 comments)

The Explosion of the Ariane 5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331474 - March 2013 (58 comments)

There must be others. Anyone?
For those of you interested in Amtrak sleeper cars, reserve early, and expect to pay the highest fares on the in-demand, scenic routes. Amtrak's revenue management has gotten a lot better in the last few years, and they are in the midst of a rolling stock and staffing shortage. Sell-outs are common, and ideally, you want to reserve early enough to be in the base sleeper, which won't be cancelled if equipment is scarce. There are frequent reports of sleeper car passengers being bumped down to coach (with a full refund of the room charge) about a month out when it becomes clear that Amtrak will only one sleeper instead of two on your route and you were booked in the second sleeper.

Otherwise, have a great trip, don't be attached to arriving on time, and enjoy that observation car!
For anyone that actually read the article, idk how much criticism there is for EA, but rather seemed more like a expose on how the Bay Area EA culture is heavily polyamorous with men abusing job connections to pressure women. Seems more like a Bay Area thing than an EA thing. I’m not sure though as I am not involved in any of these…
Astronomers Find a Dozen More Moons for Jupiter
The Most Important City in the History of Music Isn't What You Think It Is
Yea structurally they are a huge mess and we’re before the war.
Are these niche Amtrak routes profitable or just political pork necessary to get politicians on board with funding Amtrak?
Tips for Flying in to AirVenture
Sorry to hear that. That sounds rough.

I want this quiz, but for poison oak. There's so much blackberry and other stuff in the bay area that looks awfully similar. I'd rather learn how to reliably identify it than be afraid of ... everything.
Deriding the need to belong and do meaningful work is quite cynical and… immature.

Not everyone is in a situation where the only option is to harden their shell and submit to a corporation. Some will find a family or great friends at work. It might mean limiting your career choices, but it is not a character flaw.
If I remember correctly, I believe that mine will do forks also, they are just included in in your repositories.

I just looked over your project, and it seems pretty cool. A little bit different than mine, since mine is specifically github to a gitea mirror repository. I don't mind adding a link to your project in mine.

Thanks for sharing!
The Sadler Vampire was/is 100 kg something dry, 250 kg loaded and a range of 500km. How much power do you need for sensors anyway? Even with 100 kg for fuel, that's a lot of weight left for warhead and electronics. That's for a straight conversion of a COTS design. I'm sure corners can be cut for something which will only run for a few hours and never fly again.

But sure, I'll go back to my cartoons again. /s
That's true, but you're locked to them, if they vanish or decide to terminate your account for some reason, you're pretty much hosed.
TikTok is being singled out because it’s controlled by an adversarial government which the US may very well go to war with in the near future.
It sounds like you are reacting to the caffeine. Decaf still has somewhere between 5 and 20% the amount of caffeine as regular coffee
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"They fuck with your mind forever, then send you out to run the country" is how Robyn Hitchcock put it. Or something like that; I'm quoting from memory.

Edit - never mind, I found it:

He was the product of a proper, British, all-male boarding school. "An interesting form of emotional atrophy," he says today [1993]. "They cripple your mind, and then they send you out to run the country."

https://www.durianapocalypse.net/archive/93/000093ix.html
Thanks! I added a note to the blog post, saying that I might be wrong here.
Well as a Brit I'm pretty 'bilingual' when it comes to measures. The foot is pretty useful, but you never need the precision.

As you say, it's a human scale measure. If you're getting the tape measure out, just use cm and metres.
Sounds like the sort of thing dtrace or bpftrace might be able to do.
"Remote computer is not answering"
What is the correct code then ? In case there is no exception.
I'd love to get both chairs, but wouldn't they have to charge extra for both of them? The coach seating has been fairly full when I've ridden.

I was the opposite of you; I was the young man who fell asleep on the shoulder of the woman next to me. She was nice about it but it was really embarrassing! Sleepers were cheaper, then, too, so I didn't save much by riding coach.

The conversation with one of my breakfast table partners was the trip highlight. He was an elderly widower whose ride cross-country was a gift from his family. Good storyteller and he was pleased that I was happy to join him at his table, as opposed to a couple other introverts who scanned the dining car and left in a panic.
Lifetime warranty on a consumable product (SSDs have a limited number of writes) doesn't seem reasonable.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I understand that there are harmful effects you can feel at very high concentrations, but it's weird to me that some people (like the author) are freaking out over concentrations they can't feel.
Your whole argument is based on the premise that statements made in anger cannot be true. And the focus on emotional state is typical ad hominem attack. You did not refute the content in any way.
"Absurdly low" is extremely strong language for 27$ an hour. Privileged be the developer, I guess.
Totally agree, it is odd that the author of the article labeled "open startups" as a movement. I can see why they did so, labeling it as a movement improves the story, makes you a "thought leader", etc, which all leads to better marketing / sales.
It still isn't true when I took Amtrak back in August. Maybe it's just that one route, or that the train was sold out?
I increasingly believe that there are no legitimate uses of micro-targeted ads and only harmful ones. The only real distinction is whether or not it is harmful to the target (user), the advertiser (failed impressions), and/or the advertisement network (Google allowing malware companies to spend pennies on the dollar to sell bad software malware launchers in turn makes Google look bad).

Micro-targeting may go down as a multi-billion dollar industry-wide mistake by the time this plays out past logical extremes like this "most software download ads are now malware launchers and Google can't seem to or doesn't want to fix it".
Personalization could be a reason of getting bad results. I'm always using https://google.com/ncr in private mode and I don't think I've noticed any degradation in search quality so far.
In another thread, someone else pointed out that I could be wrong about the observation car access. I added a note to the post! :)
> "we’re all a family"

... that's why our valued Craptech employees should not be surprised if they are subject to abuse, estrangement, abandonment, financial hardship, mistreatment in care homes, abortion or termination of life support, etc., concurrent with our expectation of absolute loyalty at the expense of happiness, health, and sanity. And of course our gender pay policies are modeled on domestic work.
They don't really make them anymore, but you can still get m.2 form factor Intel Optane SSDs in the 900/905P series, example[0]. They have insane endurance specs. Their performance is also still awesome, especially for random reads/writes[1]. I wish they had continued making them. Most PC builders just bought crappy Samsung SSDs this whole time, ignoring these awesome (and high priced) drives.

> Life Expectancy 1.6 million hours Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

> Lifetime Endurance4 10 Drive Writes per Day (DWPD)

There was one update, but I don't believe it's m.2? [2]

0: https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-380gb/p/...

1: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ (sort by "Avg Bench" and you'll see these old Optanes still in the top 10)

2: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory...
"...The start-up had raised more than $700mn before Google’s investment, which was made in late 2022 but has not previously been reported....

...The company’s biggest investor is Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, which put in $500mn before filing for bankruptcy last year..."
Wow, this was the PERFECT opportunity to try out "WTF does this company do" https://wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app/ , which was posted to HN earlier today.

Linear is a company that has created tools to make it easier for teams to communicate, collaborate, and create. The tools they offer are software, such as spreadsheets, messaging clients, version control systems, text editors, and issue trackers. These tools help teams break out of the prison of stagnation and push for change. The company also offers resources for customers, such as a community, contact information, and terms of service. Additionally, they offer developers the ability to access their API, check the status of their systems, and access their GitHub and Magic.

I don't know why these boatholes don't just SAY what it is they can do.
Not sure how containers can be superior than profiles for separating sessions between work clients. Auto switch container feature is not applicable. And reloading tabs in another container should not ever be required. Plus, logins and passwords of different work clients do not get merged into one profile.
My analogies are horrible…
I am using a WYND Halo air quality monitor, which was a Kickstarter. It monitors CO2 and other pollutants like VOC, even shows the particle size. Temperature, humidity and light intensity are also tracked. The app shows charts, but I haven't figured out how to download the data.

The Halo can also control an air purifier, which has been really handy. It's pretty cool to see the air quality improve while the purifier does its thing. This was especially important when we had horrible air quality due to forest fires.

Edit: The app actually let's me export all data as CSV.
Yes, precisely. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
This is like saying a single little match blew up a building, neglecting to mention the garage full of oily rags and gasoline cans.

The one line of code was the spark, yes, but the catastrophic consequences were due to a series of poorly-designed failsafes and insufficient testing.
Nice, I got 44.
“if it’s shiny, watch your hiney”
At some point in the long to infinite history of the universe there will eventually be born a creature with a configuration of neurons sort of similar to the configuration you had before you died. So it's sort of reasonable to say that's you. Plus time passes quickly when you're dead, so to you it will feel like no time at all.
We’ll it’s like any one of those random international forums but they don’t do anything or really even have strong ties otherwise.
I just want to say that this is a really interesting comment and set of ideas. I'm a PhD student in the area of privacy and anonymity, so I think about this stuff a lot. To your point about the emergent style of Reddit and HN comments, developed through the timely feedback of upvotes, I've often wondered how tools like suggested or predictive text are changing writing styles; like when I'm tapping out a quick email or text message on my Android phone and the keyboard suggests the next word that I probably wouldn't have come up with on my own, but it sounds good enough or better so I accept it. I thought the analysis that people have done on the writing style of Satoshi Nakamoto was the most persuasive evidence of his real identity, and I think you're correct that someone could now mask or morph their writing style in a very convincing way with these tools.
I still remember playing with green-screen Elwro computer at my friend’s house when I was 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwro
Thanks for the Wikipedia analogy, given another five years of time for refinement, ChaGPT will be viewed/used similar to Wikipedia.

it "could be wrong" has had next to no bearing on its social utility .

> Can you really trust an encyclopedia anyone can edit? Well, yes and no -- it's a bit like a traditional encyclopedia in that way.

> The key point to observe is that two decades on, we're still using it, a lot, and the trite observation that it "could be wrong" has had next to no bearing on its social utility. Nor have repeated observations to that effect tended to generate much intellectually stimulating conversation.
Coach is also surprisingly cozy. Wide seats, plenty of leg room. 30-40 hours in a coach like Amtrak‘s is nothing to complain about.
Which makes the litre equal to one cubic hand.
Agreed, still unable to take a high res photo from any device using their own camera plugin.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58163#issuecomment...

Sighhh. Maybe one day.
Who search for installers on web should know about winget, scoop or chocolatey.

https://winget.run/

https://scoop.sh/

https://chocolatey.org/

For those who don't like command line, there is WingetUI: https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI

We should abandon old, inefficient and now dangerous habits.
Y2K bug affected a lot of machines, yet the fear of the impact beforehand had a larger effect on society-at-large than any of the software consequences during the event.
To quote the movie Stalker,

'My conscience wants vegetarianism to win over the world. And my subconscious is yearning for a piece of juicy meat. But what do I want?'
How about "don't go against conventional wisdom unless you have a good reason; the more conventional the wisdom, the better the reason needs to be"? Possibly combined with "be humble and give subject matter experts some credit, an hour on Google Scholar doesn't mean you've learned everything".

If the conventional wisdom is "don't order research chemicals from a lab in China then self-inject them", then maybe a plan to get a peptide lab to manufacture cheap Semaglutide is dangerous, even if you can't explain exactly why it's dangerous (in this case it's probably pretty obvious).

If, on the other hand, the conventional wisdom is "eat 6 - 11 servings of grain and 3 - 5 servings of vegetables a day", but many nutritionists are recommending less grain and there's new research out saying that much higher vegetable intake is good, maybe a plan to eat more vegetables and less bread is good.
Which is, by the way, insane. Aside from freshness reasons, I live in a mild climate and it's not an infrequent occurrence for outside air to be closer to my target temperature than inside air.
Two things:

1. I wish more HN posts ended in "for fun" -- so much of what makes being a progammer fun and enjoyable is plumbing the depths of what is possible, not because it's "best practice" or whatever. I think these types of forrays are where true mastery comes from.

2. The less reserved keywords a language has, the better. It makes things like this easier. Years ago I figured out how to implement Goto in Smalltalk "for fun". It was easier because Smalltalk had less reserved keywords.
Buy some plants.
> Still haven't replaced half the functionality of flash websites.

Nor the intuitive tools to create their behavior
Last time I articulated your sentiment, the reply was something along the lines of "Well, if you actually needed to ask it about terminating conditions of rust programs, you are certainly the last person who should be judging the validity of its answer" LOL
Yeah, its still very early preview. we are working on making sure parsing works well on different formats. But for now you can make sure it looks well in txt. Would love to see you in our discord. Very soon it will support different formats, so make sure you are updated.
“Billionaires don’t get to operate under a different set of rules.”

Lol! Maybe next trial he'll rephrase that.
He does mention it (and stylizes it RUST for some reason) in the other longer paper that many people also read and came out at the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34491731
>Now they're all crowded and it's just as hard to find a seat as it is outside the lounge.

While I don't disagree with you, the seats in the lounges are still more comfortable than anything outside the lounges. Probably the only thing I still try them for at this point... maybe stronger wifi, depending on the airport.
This is one of the most comprehensive articles I've yet seen on the topic.
Tell that to all IoT things and PLCs out there. The *D* in IoT stands for Date.
>how are we supposed to build a second home on a dead, ruthlessly hostile planet until we demonstrate ourselves capable of stabilizing the biosphere and building a sustainable long-term civilization here

because its unique challenges and constraints may make us develop technology that we wouldn't otherwise that may in turn out to be useful back on earth. Much of our technological advancements come from military research, where there was no civilian demand. We developed computers so we could break encryption, we developed the internet as a successor to arpanet a military network originally made to maintain command and control in event of nuclear exchange. standardized clothes sizing was invented to make uniforms more cheaply. satellites were invented so we could spy on our military rivals. the entire space program was a spin off of ICBM program. Nuclear power came from atomic bomb research, we have developed many advaced prosthetic due to injured veterans needing them. weather prodiction thanks to radar to detect enemy planes.

But what if we could have something less self destructive than war that would germinate new technologies? Thats what a reasons to colonizes space. space colonization gives us many of the same challenges war does without the need for mass loss of life. Needs for new materials, new means of generating power, new modes of transportation. space exploration will give us new frontiers to strive against rather than find better ways to murder each-other. the ease of earth doesn't provide those challenges. I can dig up my back yard throw seed on the ground and will have vegetables to eat in the fall but i have learned nothing, find a way to grow food from lunar or martian regolith and you just have invented a way to rapidly create new soil and solved earths soil erosion problems ans well as found new ways of removing toxins from contaminated environments.
Hey gorgonical.

Do you have an email that I can contact you with?
in real life, better to treat everything (or at least anything sus) as a yes :P
>In one sentence, he just no longer believes in sharing every core metrics

...which seems to be for the reason the parent mentions?

"We're open until we're not." isn't "open".
well i bought from digitec here in switzerland and they take care of warranty. other than that i don't expect any support from any ssd vendor.

I rely on the physical store i buy from where i live. that's the reason i only buy either physically or from amazon germnay (their support had been rock solid in the last 10 years i had been using them).
As an engineer, The Wind Rises really spoke to me. One of my favorite films of all time and one I’d recommend any day of the week.
Discussed a few times here:

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22509223 - March 2020 (21 comments)

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647098 - Feb 2017 (75 comments)

“The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” by Honore de Balzac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515523 - Nov 2015 (1 comment)

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921691 - June 2014 (37 comments)

“The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880196 - Aug 2011 (21 comments)
Shell reports highest profits ($39.9B), and double last year's, in 115 years
Any other good articles out there?
Indeed, but so very few things were automated back then compared to now.
I mean usually the coworker wouldn’t be hallucinating at work
Haha good one... I dunno if this page is a reference to something. And I didn't bother to read the contents. But I opened the link since it was from linear.app. I have used Linear and it is cool. Maybe you can think of it as a faster Asana, project management is their core functionality. My (current) top choice of tool for managing tasks. Definitely recommend to try it.
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