skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed you don't see the pivot type valves anymore where you can just go up and over to hot right away. Most shower valves now are turn-throughs, where you start at cold and go up to hot. Having installed a few now, I think this has to do with the federal law for having a scald prevention device in the valves control (much like having a low-flo device in shower heads.) Both instances, they are plastic and so you can remove them or adjust them later. I think it's just easier to make a scald prevention device for a turn-through valve than a pivot valve and that's why most shower handles suck today. It's just a tiny plastic piece that impedes how far into the hot range the handle will go.
This fixes a security vulnerability introduced in OpenSSH 9.1, https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/20230202130212.GA15689@local... .
I'm not sure what you mean then. Clearly you have to put a bunch of effort into building tooling that works on Windows, and Nix won't cut it for that (you must build on Windows in most cases rather than cross-compiling). And if you're doing that you might as well also reuse the same tooling on other platforms.

Nix flakes can still be useful on the tool user side, if your application build requires Unix anyway, but on the tool producer side it's a bit less so.
This is just going to lead to lock in to a set of services which conform to a way of thinking and lead to you being banned from all if you get banned from one.
> Neither of us were there. There are people who genuinely believe in this kind of safety of children.

There is an article that describes what happened, which included the department officially stating the event was over-reach.

Maybe some people do think children shouldn’t be allowed to walk outside, and maybe those people are causing us to raise children ill-prepared for adulthood. I did not question whether such people exist, what I questioned is your conclusion that the existence of such people suggests the police were justified. The police should not be those people, and they do know better institutionally, even if individual officers overstep. The U.S. police force has no legal basis for threatening or arresting parents when kids are unaccompanied, there’s no law requiring parents to accompany kids, whether or not there is concern for their well being. Which is why their department admitted they made a mistake…
> I'm pretty sure you know exactly what the poster meant ...

No, I don't. It obviously is trying to say something about accessibility and SpaceX, but I don't see how the sense of accessbility being discussed in the thread even applies to SpaceX, much less what claim is being made.
One of the more egregious examples: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/aleynikov-sentencing/
What does "white" mean? Light skin tone, certain physical features? If so, many Latinos are white and that would explain the grouping.

Or does it only mean anglosaxon heritage? If so, why?
"tech work" is more than just programmers. Highly paid programmers might not be the initial target market, but roles like front line tech support, quality assurance roles would benefit from collectively pushing back on management initiatives like surveillance etc. Many times these jobs are deeply ingrained in a bespoke system that doesn't necessarily translate to another position.

When I worked at a UAW shop (GM) in the 1980s, there were salaried engineers and union hourly people building the cars. When the union made a gain by way of a strike, it was automatically applied to the salaried folks. We understood that their work benefitted the rest. This started to break down when GM bought EDS in 1985 and transferred all their IT people over to it and they lost all of those benefits. People who were able to get themselves classed as "engineers" rather than data processing were able to avoid the big transfer.
Follow Bitfinex'ed (or M Cryptadamus, or Molly White) or on twitter, you'll see why...

There are many 'sudden problems' that come up when people try to cash out...
I mean, you can distort/twist an ostensibly peaceful religion like Christianity into something insidious and outright evil. A lot of atrocities have been committed by devout and pious leaders who claimed to follow a deity/prophet with a peaceful/loving message, so it's unsurprising that it's still a feature of modern religions.

There was a point in time where the Islamic world was a world leader in math, science, and technology. Of course, like with anything, time and money corrupts all things. Oil especially taints everything it touches.
What makes the power differential between teachers and their employers different from the police and their employers?
The Muppet's Christmas Carol is a such a unique moment of time where you have legendary actor Michael Caine playing a role accurate to the original Charles Dickens story, combined with Gonzo as narrator and Rizzo the rat. I feel like since then we have somewhat lost the capability to make these sorts of movies.
People should stop buying pressure-balance shower valves, and switch to thermostatic valves. My shower valve is actually marked in degrees on the dial, and you set it to exactly the temperature you want and then don't mess with it - it will adjust as hotter water arrives.
Life may not look like us, but it sure seems like it's going to have nucleic acids just like us.

The building blocks are extremely common, they seem to have fairly broad initial conditions, and it seems like they are practically inevitable once those conditions exist.
> The "news" in America has devolved quite a bit. We've stopped funding public news sources at the level they need

The ownership structure of most news organizations is qualitatively different now than it was in the mid-century heyday of the "independent press". Joseph Pulitzer, for example, was succeeded by generations of owner/editors with a legacy to uphold until the 90s, when JP III died and the family's media interests transferred around and eventually becoming public. By that point, of course, papers had been raising capital from Wall Street for decades already.

So they are funded differently now. The publicly held conglomerates and private equity firms that largely own news organizations today are constitutionally of managing, perhaps even understanding, the "public trust" they own. At best they're concerned with trust in the news.

The concept of public trust is a little subtle. Every news organization, in the US, is a sort of public news organization (in theory).
The Book With No Pictures, BJ Novak. Apparently its a favorite because it makes the reader say a whole bunch of silly stuff. There are other books out there too that have titles like "Please Open This Book" and stuff that breaks the 4th wall in a story-telling aspect. It might get their brain thinking in different ways. Its just important to read to them, daily if you can. We did that and we have one that kinda likes reading and one that doesn't.

The pull of TV and YT stuff is that its kinda mindless entertainment.
Varginha UFO Incident
Very true, however, you verify "facts" by doing research and crunching data, you do that by Googling and searching, and this AI is just another way of searching and presenting that information.

Caution is always required.
Oh definitely. There's bound to be improvements especially when you glue an LLM to a semantic engine, etc.

The issue is again, fundamentally, one of data. Without authenticating what's machine generated and what's "trusted" proliferation of AI generated content is bound to reduce data quality. This is a side effect of these models being trained to fool discriminators.

Ultimately now I think there is going to be a more serious look around the ethics of using these models and putting guard rails around what exactly is permissible. I suspect the US will remain a wild west for some time but the EU will be a test-bed.

Ultimately, I'm fairly excited about the applications of all this.
We've had numerous power plant incidents throughout history, all attributable to human arrogance and incompetence - some of which have left thousands of square miles uninhabitable and given millions elevated cancer risks, caused widespread contamination of entire regions of the sea, etc.

There's pages worth of military-related incidents, including things like reactor fires that ejected huge plumes of highly radioactive fallout.

There have been numerous incidents in nuclear processing. One resulted in the murder of a journalist to cover it up. Hanford took decades to clean up (I think they've finally finished?)

We spent decades blowing up nuclear weapons for giggles, causing so much fallout to spread worldwide that almost all steel these days has radioactive fallout in it, and many things can be dated by the decay of fallout in them because it's so widespread.

The US alone has lost several functional nuclear weapons.

The policy around nuclear waste in much of the US and elsewhere was, and often still is, "stick it in a hole. In containers that can rust. In water."

Strange definition of "managed very well."
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/8NPM0
Not for games specifically, but there is a derivative "wine-crossover" that runs 32 bit applications fine on M1, and generally seems to work pretty well (for esoteric scientific instrument software at least, nothing with fancy graphics).

See https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine
Is this the first ChatGPT comment I've read on HN, at long last?
Skimmed paper. TLDR

- RT covered the protests

- So did some obscure Crimean websites

- Also, a few Telegram channels with maybe 30,000 members total

- Lots of blather about "populism", "far right", unrelated political movements on the other side of the globe

> It is unlikely that this coverage had a meaningful direct impact on the convoy movement

—buried lede on page 13
You should do MS Teams for sure.
> why an LLM trained on internet posts would exhibit political bias

You're moving the goalposts. The LLM doing moderation is trained on human responses to Internet posts—literally human censorship training an LLM to introduce bias at scale.
> that somehow relativity and the 2 bombs couldn't have happened without each other I found that quite bizarre..

Sounds about right, because that's literally not what I said.
It won’t because they have humans in the loop feedback.
Those statements would be corrected.
It’s pretty clear that the workforce is only looking at certain groups.
Float Compression 4: Mesh Optimizer
This is also the first I've seen this discussed in a tech setting.

I'm glad it made it to the HN front page, but I'd like the desired change to make it into a bill to be passed by Congress before we all pay our 2022 taxes on April 15.

What groups out there are fighting this?
Interesting bit of history. Didn't play Action Quake 2, but had great fun playing The Specialists, which I believe was also inspired by Action Quake 2.
Funny how both UFO and Angel/Devil sightings went down just as ubiquitous personal video recording devices became commonplace...
People of color are also more likely to be arrested without having committed a crime.

Arrest statistics are also self-reported by police, both on an individual officer and department-to-FBI level, with no accountability for the accuracy or completeness thereof that I'm aware of.

Violent crimes also account for only a portion of the economic damage crime-in-general deals to society, if we want to get utilitarian. Wage theft dwarfs all types of robbery and burglary, and that's only one type of white-collar theft (perpetrated, in the US, overwhelmingly by white people).

Thank you for correcting this disinformation. It's something that gets trotted out regularly without acknowledgement of how ridiculously imperfect our law enforcement and justice systems are.
The Wikipedia article for Project Veritas is quite the read. Here's the first paragraph:

> Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010. The group produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Project Veritas also uses entrapment to generate bad publicity for its targets, and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories in its videos and operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas
And, for all the talk of timelessness, the list was already quite reactionary in 1922. Vaguely Amish, in some sense, tbh.

I do really like the pedagogical approach. I just wish that approach to learning and teaching could move on from a very particular cultural moment in pre-war Britain/America. All those crusty Oxbridge guys who had Strong Feelings about reading tons of Euclid were reacting to their own cultural moments and have now been dead for half a century :)
I'm not up to date, but a few years back I got the impression that Bitcoin was losing that fight to Monero. Is that not so?
Application Info Across Organization
Curious what you're using (if anything) to keep track of all the software / applications / clients / projects in your organization. Think a large enterprise with hundreds of projects / applications over time.

I'm trying to find a solution to consolidate different factors such as:

- technologies implemented

- a general sense of budgets

- frequency of development tasks like new features, bug fixes, change requests, etc.

With a goal to:
- report and search across all these factors

- demonstrate the current landscape

- bring to light any possible technical debt

- align resource skill sets across the applications

- maintaining and refinements of project knowledgebases

Researching different areas around Application Portfolio Management, App Inventory such as:

- https://www.leanix.net/en/wiki/ea/application-inventory

- https://www.dragon1.com/watch/459470/application-portfolio-management

- https://www.orbussoftware.com/resources/wiki/application-portfolio-management

- https://valueblue.com/en/guides/why-a-traditional-application-portfolio-management-solution-is-no-longer-enough/

- https://github.com/gregfelice/appinv

- https://github.com/migtools/tackle-application-inventory

- https://github.com/ani-team/projentry

What are you using? Commercial, Open source, In-house custom dev?
I went to St. John's for a year and the math curriculum was the high point by far.

I didn't read the OP and can't vouch for it. the curriculum I got was almost entirely Euclid, plus a little bit of Greek stuff about arcs and sections, which I imagine was Nicomachus per the above comment, and there may have been some stuff about astronomy as well.

but reading Euclid, and doing an entire year of math that doesn't even have numbers until the very end, which was early number theory: just incredible.

I got bored, though, and the later years of the curriculum skew very hard towards European philosophers. the longer you stay there, the more you become justified in summarizing it as a philosophy degree for the sake of convenience.
Real time console output from an Ethereum node running in my living room
In the early 80's, I modified a VHS cassette by placing a cylindrical high-strength magnet adjacent to the tape path on the takeup side. There was a nearly perfect pre-existing pocket in the case webbing to put the magnet with a dot of glue. The idea was to make a play-once, self-erasing cassette. Although not perfect, it was effective enough to really screw up the second playback. Probably screwed up the tape deck, too, but I don't recall any real evidence of that.
Then that's a lazy point, because it should be immediately obvious that studies for gender can be conducted easily across time and space whereas most demographic splits being discussed in this thread cannot because they are highly dependent on time/space and have therefore have endless variables that cannot be controlled for.
Giant Steps
Culture isn't uniform or static, and the expressed / visible culture is concentrated on a small minority that have more influence.

The idea that LGBTQ is a minority in the population is true, but they are a plurality of contemporary expressed culture
Problem is that the country doesn't agree on why we're on the wrong track.
not much privacy then, eh? somebody will be able to trace that key to you or other things you've signed at least

PS I'm not too obsessed with privacy and I'm ok with assuming all my FB things including DMs can be made public/leaked anytime, but there is a bunch of stuff I browse and value that I will never share with anybody.
> rival the TV and YT junk

Can't compete with these, nope. Only way is to limit them a few hours a day or less. The ability to relax and be bored is essential to support the desire to read.

We did it an hour before bed every night under warm lighting. Loved Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Grinch, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Engelbreit's Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes set.

Loved The Police Cloud by Chris Neimann, and Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton.

We liked The Giving Tree, but be prepared as it shows a dysfunctional relationship. We took it as a "teachable moment."

Agree with those who say to go to the library for variety.
Its not people seeing it, its how people on HN behave when they see it. Which is why it is about posting it on HN not linking to it from anywhere else on the internet.
The "content moderation system" is new, so I don't think it changed. What, however, changed during the time ChatGPT is live, is what kind of prompts it refuses to answer, because the topic is offensive/inappropriate. It had hilarious versions where it would tell you a joke about men about not about women or one ethnicity but not the other.
>Native ports kind of died out as running the Windows build in Proton works better than the native port which would often break after distro updates.

>Its remarkable that these days you can reasonably expect that just about every game will work flawlessly running in wine.

Almost every Windows game I check on ProtonDB has a non-platinum rating because of things like "game starts on a black screen until you blindly press a key" or "ending cutscene doesnt play" or "mouse acceleration doesn't work" or a billion other broken things. Is the game playable despite these issues? Sure it's playable. But the fact is that when game devs ignore Linux users assuming that Proton exists, then there is no incentive for them to fix these issues. Even a playable game today can become completely unplayable tomorrow because of a game update that works fine on Windows.

With a native build you get a guarantee from the dev that they'll fix their Linux issues.
Something that expects a reading level greater than that of an average high-school student and offers long, dense articles.

I’m thinking The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, etc. Each varies in their biases and you grow to recognize them as you read more but they’re generally reliable sources written by serious people.

There are of course also smaller, local papers worth reading. There are also papers I consider of lesser quality that still have some good journalists working for them —- but you have to actually read the byline and know who’s writing rather than focus on the brand. An unfortunate number of people don’t get past “NYT said X” and “National Review said Y”
You're right, the difference is even more stark.
It's a good thing you pay an accountant...

What you suggest is not a hack of the tax code. Close corporations are generally required to pay reasonable salaries to their owners (and more importantly, payroll taxes on those salaries) if the corporation's revenue is derived from the labor of its owners. Not doing this is the #1 reason that close corporations, and their owners get penalized by the IRS. From personal experience being brought in to put out these fires, the IRS might be willing to negotiate the size of the penalty, but penalties will be owed, as will back taxes on the tax deemed due, as well as interest on those back taxes. Generally, these close corporation owners will spend more on penalties and interest for a single tax year than they would save in 5 years from this scheme, and that doesn't include legal fees they paid for the audit.

There is no bright-line rule for what a "reasonable" salary is. For low six-figure amounts, the SS contribution threshold is usually considered a safe amount with the rest paid as a dividend, but for seven-figure amounts, different considerations apply. Indeed, at larger amounts, the IRS is actually opposed to close corporations using inflated salaries to reduce corporate income taxes (because salaries are deductible to the corporation but dividends are not).

So: owners would have paid their progressive rate on the XXXk of income received as salary (which is deductible to the corporation), at a likely 22-37% marginal rate, plus up to 12% state income tax rate, for a total of up to 49% including state taxes. The remaining income received as a dividend would be subject to a corporate tax rate of 21%, plus a personal tax rate of 20% (15% on the portion of the dividend income, if any, below the QD 20% rate threshold, which depends on how much of their income they chose to allocate as salary), plus 3.8% NIIT, or a 44.8% rate of federal tax before state taxes on the corporation and the owner are taken into account. Or in other words, usually worse than just taking all of the profits as a salary.
Maybe I was bored, and my mind wandered into something fanciful. No harm no foul, except it seems to have perturbed you. So I like to shoot short films and fun things with friends, and we're always chatting about random things from life that could be spun into a short story. It's habit. Never seemed to have bother anyone till now.

Are you the type that gets irritated when people call out "great name for a band" during normal conversations. Some people just catch onto things in conversation and the mind takes its own spin on it. It can make for great conversations. Unless you're just against having fun.

Edit: never mind the plot of China Syndrome was an industrial accident, yet a very compelling plot. Or "Sully", or the one where Denzel inverts the plane to avoid tragedy, or any of the other numerous plots involving industrial accidents like CHUD!!!
>"...hey didn't know who I was and every time I would stomp them they would yell "FUCK" from the other room...."

I laughed so hard about this, I can picture this in my mind.
> No, political affiliation is not a protected class in California. A bill that would have made it one failed to pass the state legislature in 2021. [0]

Regardless, it shouldn’t be.

[0] https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/is-political-affiliation-a...
I wouldn't call it masculine or feminine. I would call it a bit shy and a touch inviting.

I understand people 'think' a certain way... but there's also objective reality - where the source of 'masculine' and 'feminine' are attributes or properties of the subject or object in question - is not the subject or object themselves, but in the perception of them (by themselves in the case of living subjects; or by other's in the other cases).

I Understand your point - I disagree with respecting people's opinions of such archaic mentalities (as old dinosaurs should get with the times or go extinct), I just don't support machismo/sexism - and this seems like such a clear example of this - judging a pose in a gendered way (and implicitly saying there is a superior option to choose (masculine) - that's the quite part) renders (to me) that person's opinion on other subjects suspect: due to the fact I can no longer trust their opinions aren't routed in sexism.
You can also get the same outcome (i.e. not smashed windows) without an authorization government. I'm not even sure these are meaningfully related, there are many countries which are both less authoritarian (in certain ways at least) than the US and also have less crime.
You know you can still run Windows for ARM, right?