skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a well reasoned argument here. At the same time, respectfully, you may be too intelligent to be the target audience for the student service. Can you see a college version of yourself paying $500 to write a college essay for yourself today?
If I have no passion to be a marker or an artist or an artisan, is any luxury time I have wasted because I'm not 'cultivating' myself? Isn't that what I get to decide? Also, can we considering the middle of a pandemic a valid test case? We were all told to stay home - most people weren't about to go take a pottery class.
In fact, any surplus value from labor you are not pocketing/delivering to your shareholders is value left on the table and makes you a bad exec. Thus, the proper way to do it is to minimize the information your workers get, keep them hungry/afraid/without fallback medical care, and make sure they have no other option but to break their back for you.
To me it's the University of Cambridge's email server (RIP 1993-2021). I see a few alums keep use their hermes ID as they a username outside of Cambridge (like mjg59).
(well written) tests tend to fail (or fail to compile) if they're 'stale' though, so they force you to maintain them just like other code.

(I'm not arguing against writing comments though - the 'they'll get stale' thing is not enough to make them not valuable)
Nobody forces a builder to put in sound deadening, and they won't experience the suffering of hearing their neighbors, and they won't lose profit because pretty much by definition they are only building in places with excess demand so they can still charge pretty pennies for junk.

So of course it's one of the first things to go. Everyone always chooses to pinch pennies instead of do the right thing.
I wonder what architecture they use that can lose an hour of data?

Most architectures I see might lose a few milliseconds of writes in the typical case, and perhaps a second of writes in the worst case (which occurs when the master gets islanded with a couple of clients).
I’d be depressed if I was one layoff away from six-figure debt. Tech workers living in SF should build up enough savings and a Plan B such that they can easily recover from a layoff. This includes looking at where you live, big purchases, etc… Maybe a CX-5 or a hybrid RAV4 is perfectly fine for one’s needs instead of the Model X. Maybe it’s worth it to get two roommates if you’re in your 20’s - it’s not as bad as you think and you sidestep the scam that is rental prices in SF. Etc etc…

Sometimes depression (and maybe low test?) can come from an actual or perceived lack of control. There are tangible steps people can take to make themselves more anti-fragile, and if you have a significant other, you need to be able to articulate why cutting back on lifestyle expenditures is necessary and can actually make you happier/feel in control of your destiny.
That's a major failure on their part. I did get several nagging emails from them.
Yes, sort of, though if the economic incentive was high enough, someone could connect the AI to input through the keyboard and "type" out the essay. At scale it would be cheap. You could record video of you typing, which would work for some time until at some point video fakes get advanced enough... sigh.
I worked at a late-stage Rails-based startup that had "dont write comments" as an engineering principle!

The python folks before me used this to avoid writing docstrings for modules/classes/methods, so code could only be understood by reading the entirety of it. Throw in some deep class hierarchies and it was very hard to onboard there.
Too bad its not 100%.
The name brings memories. Without screenshots I can't tell if it's the same thing, but I have memories of a similarly named WM from ancient days.

I wonder if it could be used for a project I had in mind a while ago, in which a small number of apps would run maximized each one in its own page in a tab control contained in a single full screen window, without any controls, so that they can't be closed or moved by mistake, and the user would use the tabs to bring to front each one (just like pages in a web browser), then any alert, file requester or anything opened from one app would open modal and bring the relevant app to front. The purpose would be to ease the reach for apps without having to maximize, roll down, bring to front etc. as quick as possible without having to look for them. My first use case would be a music synthesizer built with a Chromebox or similar mini PC in which I would run Alpine Linux plus Yabridge and a small number of native/WINE plugins, so that it can be also used live with minimal reload time in case of problems, power outages, crashes etc. and defaulting to a well defined state.
Can some chess players detect when an opponent is using stockfish? Yes, if they’re Magnus Carlsen and memorized a particular line of play. This is a bit like that. But yes, I suppose when these tools become so fluent that they basically never need to use the same pattern twice, we’re toast.
> If I buy something from a big box retailer and fail to return it before the return policy ends

Notice the word buy here, not try. There's a world of difference between buying and trying. When you walk out of the retail store, you've already intentionally paid your money. With a trial, you don't necessarily have an intention to buy.

As I said in the article: "People often compare App Store to a retail store, but what physical retail store in the world allows you to walk out the door with 84% of its products without paying anything?"
IMO we need a mass-adopted digital signature solution using biometric identifiers such that publishing an article, or even a comment, can be signed by and only by a biological human.
It's only taking away their privacy if they're falsely accused.

And properly used you might not even have to relinquish privacy if falsely accused. A quick montage video demo and a promise to show the full hundreds of hours of video of "irrefutable" proof to embarrass the school district at the next PTA meeting might be sufficient to get the appropriate response.
It really was the deal of a life time. Owner was retiring. They were only open for a few hours on Saturdays the last few months of operations. The closer you could hold out to buy, the better deal you got. I even talked them down a grand! I hope you get a chance one day
HTTPS in the Real World (2018)
I live in a decently "nice" part of Seattle. Constantly concerned stuff will get stolen. Have had car broken in to more than once. "Terror" might be overstating if, but the level of property crime is objectively harming my day-to-day experience.
> I'm sorry you find denouncing and rejecting Nazism is boring.

Evidently, simply denouncing and rejecting does nothing to prevent it from emerging again. All the raping and murdering in Ukraine is currently done in the name of denouncing Nazism, yet it looks very much like Nazism.

> you also misunderstood my prompt, which was to debate with people who believe what I listed, not debate with me

Turns out debates don't always happen on your terms. Despite your best effort, you still learned something today.
If this is true then living through hardship is still possible. There are places in the world with very low living standards and it's possible to move and live there. The military still exists. Working long shifts and living in man camps at the fringes of the developed world still exists.

I've done this thought exercise many times, traveled extensively, and continue trying different types of work. The truth is that most of us (HN users) have pretty comfortable lives and would be making huge quality of life sacrifices to live the dream of the romanticized past.

There is definitely something to sort out around "what does the high paid knowledge worker do when they no longer have hardship defining their life for them" but I don't know if artificially handicapping yourself and LARPing struggle is the answer.

If you do find the answer then please let me know.
haven't seen that; thanks for the reference.
i've been using the Microsoft dev docs, and fsharpforfunandprofit ...
(and just situational awareness from an optimizing compilers background)
Hermes was among other things, the messenger of the gods in the Greek pantheon. I'd guess they were thinking of that as the context for the name. Of course, he also the psychopomp, the god who guided dead souls to the underworld. That might also be appropriate for documents many of which are dead from day 1.
I spent a fair bit of mental anguish on whether to purchase FSD or not. Thankfully the FSD subscription was out and I reasoned that it could be turned on when valuable enough. The FOMO pricing of FSD seems unnecessary, in retrospect.
This is missing the 6th platonic solid.

https://assets.nautil.us/8516_6a12d7ebc27cae44623468302c47ad...
Her product isn't the website.
It's the same reason Craigslist is still in business. Craigslist works very very well for what it needs to do. In fact, HN works well and could of easily been built in the 90s. We create usernames, post here and share content. No need for tons of CSS.
Now I'm wondering if Ghost Blog would handle load better...

No reason for a non-technical person to spend thousands of dollars to build a basic informative website.
That would seem likely, as loneliness and social isolation have a much higher risk of mortality whether they have underlying conditions or not.
>The "many pronunciations for one kanji" thing isn't a problem in practice, because 1) most kanji have _1_ on'yomi (Chinese) and _1_ kun'yomi (native) pronunciation, with it being obvious which one to choose from context, especially because when it's kun'yomi, the kanji are suffixed with hiragana to denote its correct pronunciation. There are however problematic kanji, such as the one you note, because there are several things it could mean, but this isn't really any different from _all_ languages.

What the heck...? It's most definitely a problem in practice! That problem becomes pretty obvious once you get a vocabulary of around 10k ~ 15k words and you read both fiction and non-fiction books. What you find is that every time you encounter an unfamiliar word you only really have a best guess at how to read it and you actually can't be 100% sure. This has repeatedly been my experience. I spent some time thinking about if I could shortcut this process by instead simply learning all the "exceptions to the rule" but what I discovered is that the volume of them is too large for that to be a tractable approach.
And people will be homeless in large numbers until enough housing is built for them, and the government is allowed to spend the $x to house them rather than the $(x * y) required to deal with all the effects them being homeless.
> If the original code was "open source", then why exactly was it in a private repository?

It's been too many years to remember the exact reasons, but this was not the only repo in the project. This was the "working directory" that had all kinds of random stuff that a data science project might accrue over time. Later in the project we published 3 repos which were more "cleaned up" to be potentially useful to outsiders (I use scare quotes around "cleaned up" because the codebases are still a mess, sorry).

Anyway, 3 of the 4 repos appear to still be public:

https://github.com/futurice/health-visualizations
https://github.com/futurice/health-visualizations-front
https://github.com/futurice/laaketutka-prereqs
These are really clever. Work especially well when wearing a yukata!
The back-end stuff doesn't really change, so more DE options is not going to be the end of the world.
Or educators could be forced to evolve around a new tool that gasp requires a different measurement of skill one that is much harder to fake.

The obvious one that already exists ... ORAL EXAMS.
These numbers are based on some very questionable assumptions. It cost me maybe a third of that or less.
>Comments are excuses

What the hell is that supposed to even mean? Then writing log messages are excuses too.
Comments are critical to long term project quality and consistency, but they're always going to rot until tooling starts taking them seriously.

For instance, it's great that code reviews have become standard practice at most organizations and for many projects, but the tooling for those reviews almost always rely on showing the few lines above and below a code diff. The reviewer has no convenient way of seeing how the changed code may conflict with any applicable comments unless the comments happen to be within those few nearby lines or the diff happens to include comment changes. Even then, the big picture is out of view and rot is still likely to seep in.

It would be nice if incoming developer-support AI could start tackling this, by surfacing impacted comments and even "linting" them for applicability and accuracy.
Finding someone to blame doesn't matter if the company goes bust.
Not unpopular at all. This is totally sane. I wish more companies cared about good coding practices, code quality, and development life cycle. Things like comments made more sense in an era when there was no version control, no conventions around code style, no testing, etc.
Tangentially, Mysterious Cities of Gold played in the U.S. in the 80s, on the children's cable network Nickelodeon, along with another French show they called Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, evidently titled Les Mondes Engloutis in France. I also loved these shows as a kid!
Well, it's not reasonable to me, but we'll just have to respectfully disagree on this.
We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla...
To clarify the appropriateness of this analogy:

This is unexpected behaviour from Github here which may (and has, by the anecdote of OP) cause permanent data loss. Documentation is not good enough, as users should not have been expected to have read the entire documentation.
Why would you need screenshots, when all you'd ever do is running terminal emulators?

As it seems customary.
In Canada for us driving our EV has been much cheaper than the ICE vehicle it replaced. Rough math has it around 50% less. We charge at home.
Just a quick caution, I had a frustrating series of issues with an Asrock Industrial NUC that I ordered from Newegg. Asrock Industrial support was fairly helpful and responsive and it definitely looked like my unit specifically had a faulty motherboard which, well, these things happen. The caution is that arranging an RMA turned into a real pain between Asrock and Newegg. I don't think Newegg is exactly selling them gray market, but they are not one of Asrock Industrial's distributors, which seemed to be the pain point (Newegg was not actually set up to handle RMAs). I think it might be a better idea to buy through https://mitxpc.com/ which both sells direct to consumer and is a listed Asrock Industrial distributor.

To their credit Newegg did take it back and send me a replacement but I think it had to be escalated to management and they ate the cost. It took a few days and a few back-and-forths with their CSAs.
the balkan state of microsoft casts its shadow over this.

if you flip the coin it looks like lets blacklist linux devices from using services or resources that hop through a Defender firewall.

why would this be limited to enterprise LAN and not eventually be adopted to blacklist linux based devices over home internet connections?

how does this not disable intentional honeypots, or holes, critical to threat response?
I disagree that this is a slippery slope. The line should be drawn by the people living in the society that draws it. As that society (and the cultural, technological, and environmental context around it) changes, the position of that line might change as well.

Many in the USA would choose a world with more expensive junk food and socialized healthcare than the reverse.

(I'm assuming your questions are rhetorical. Each of them has their own set of trade-offs.)
Is that actually true? Does the timeline of the change the Go team is rolling out corroborate the claim?
...and now the weather.
I do the same on Windows. There's an option to hide icons on the desktop.
Any idea on how this would affect learning with a spaced repetition software? Perhaps, the practice of excessive recalling with, say, Anki could essentially be detrimental to learning in some aspects? As it would make certain connections in a neural network unnaturally strong and cause saturation and overactivation in the last layer.
Yes, but the beginning of the article doesn't mention any spoilers and the article doesn't specifically mention that it contains spoilers... Authors typically put a disclaimer
> Leading a life of indolence and sloth is not healthy for the body or mind.

False dichotomy. Not working 60 hours a week != leading a life of indolence and sloth.
It's normal. However -- and I say this with respect, as it's true for all of us -- you have to realize how dumb you were in your teens. Back then, your brain was about at sharp as it will ever be, but you didn't know very much. Almost everything you encountered was truly new to you in some way. And novelty is fun, especially if you're capable of making sense of it.

If your 13-year-old self met you today, he or she would be astonished how wise and experienced you are. And you'd probably be amused how eager but naive your younger self is.

In some respects, this transition is unavoidable. You're supposed to get a little bit jaded as you get older. You can't be excited forever that today's the day you first saw a giraffe up close or discovered type inference. Eventually people will expect wisdom, experience, and judgment from you, rather than raw enthusiasm and energy. But does this mean your future needs to suck? Not at all.

The key is using your experience to see a situation differently than you would without that experience. Think back to your first week on your current team and how little you knew. What would you tell yourself if you could teleport back to then? Are you taking that advice now? If not, why not?

If you keep applying accumulated experience to your current decisions, then either you'll continue growing, seeing repetitive things differently over time, or you'll decide that your current environment is toxically static and can't stand up to the kind of introspection that you demand, and you'll move on. Either you change your perspective, or you change what you're looking at. Either way, you never see the same thing twice.
did you read the update in the article? The Go team contact him directly and in private, as well as accepted responsibility for the situation regarding all small sites, not just SourceHut. So his actions did have an impact.
Modernizing C arrays for greater memory safety: a case study in the Linux kernel
I worked at a 60-hour-a-week-average job and the attitude of 'that was last week, what have you done for me this week' followed by being RIFed the second the spreadsheet told them to...

Life's too short. I've lost two of 4 parents and working more hours aren't going to bring them back.
Even in the big areas. KFI-AM and KNX-AM are still huge in Los Angeles, for example. Both have FM simulcasts but I've gotten KFI-AM in Arizona and Nevada no trouble, and the KNX FM simulcast in particular has odd coverage gaps.

The counterexample in LA is KABC-AM which is a shadow of its former shelf.
> A reminder: the people in the past who went through these things and strived for something more (like the above commenter) are a big part of the reason we have it so easy today.

Agreed. Advancements happen because someone somewhere was dissatisfied with the status quo. It's a prerequisite.
‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces
I was thinking that there have been swings of what is valued (or trusted) in education and testing (or voting, promoting) to prove that someone has the goods.

At one time it was live oration skill, and then people thought, "maybe that disfavors people who are introverted or whose talent comes from thinking and writing".

Then, at another time, it was thought, "well you have to test because sometimes time pressure and not being able to go away to think about something for as long as you have time to work on it produces something valuable".

Yet another time, "let people do homework to prove their value through effort who don't test well" but now who knows whether they actually were the ones doing the work?

I wonder what this development will produce?
Build subsidized housing for people who need it. Time and time again experience has shown that to be the cheapest solution. But many Americans who never grew past toddlerhood find that unacceptable because it means someone else is getting something they aren't.
In my {semi-tongue-in-cheek} opinion - Thus begins the origins of Arnies' Skynet.

The {semi-cynical} part of my corporate soul screams ‘oooh, what a great way to boot-strap your own ML/AI and have marketing trumpet it as 'So good that it was trained on OpenAi data and Human™ Error Labelling!'.

The Futurist (Luddite???) in me shudders at the thought of two very powerful computer systems (models) working to out compete each other in a way that turns out to be ‘rather unfortunate’ a.k.a ‘Oh shit! We should have thought about how we (the human race) can somehow be able to tell machine output vs. human output’. But that is a discussion I will leave to the lawyers and ethicists to thrash out a solution/definition that outputs a simple binary Y/N with a Five-Nines certainty.

But Meh - A) The above is a rather random comment and B), Time will tell and hopefully this and other similar efforts remain 100% Libre as in 'free to all individuals forever and is non-revocable'
But how about "do one thing, but do it right"?
That is not universally true.
What are people’s opinions of PopOS? I tried it one after reading a good review, but the experience had enough bumps that I resolved to just do Ubuntu next time.
Talk about a local maxima, yuck.
No doubt they will pour one out for all the homies laid off.
TIL, thanks! I probably confused this with the GitHub takedowns, when forks are removed as well (as it happened to the youtube-dl repo). I could imagine my manual clone not withstanding such takedown either, though.
Having lived in Germany, and now in the UK, this name gives me shivers.
Nothing is scarier than getting an email from Hermes: we got your package!
did you read the update to the article, as it answers that question
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People in the past also had a fun and also seeked meaning. They were also seeking relationships and socialization. Some were rich and led iddle lifestyle and yes some were slaves.

However, the basic human "I don't want more then this" was present in all of them.

It is nit like everyone in history was simultaneously subject of famine, tuberculosis and then died in childbirth.
Same - wasn’t an employee but used it often in ~2013-2015 timeframe. I’m pretty sure the valuation was many many many multiples of any sort of revenue based metric, wasn’t it?
Check out rotary desiccant dehumidifiers. They can work at very cold temperatures. They work by continuously regenerating a desiccant disk.
Huh, you're right. There is additionalProperties, but I mistakenly thought `"additionalProperties": false` was the default.
Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
I've been looking for resources for our data team to apply best practices for testing SQL pipelines (we use DBT) but have not found anything. How do you test SQL pipelines? What patterns, tools and best practices would you recommend? Any good reference material you know of?
Sounds like Idiocracy
I think about this movie every time I eat a banana and I can confirm this is where I learned this
You are expanding the scope of the original suggestion to make it seem more extreme. Taxing activities that damage society as a whole (and funneling that money towards mitigating that damage) seems to me like a good solution.