skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E-Bike touring would be an excellent use case for this. A lot of people would love to bike tour but don't have the physical ability. I have a friend who was touring on an E-Bike because it made hauling more stuff easier and he would just recharge at each stop. A solar panel would have made a huge difference.
Most executives and shareholders I meet are truly clueless in their business and how to be effective. I think this shows more in larger organizations because lower level employees are far removed from important decisions.

It’s fair to disagree, but in my mind it is why you pay top $$$ for great executives. But also unfortunate that an average executive can cause harm to a business due to a large sphere of influence.
I spent 3 years using Fish before switching back to zsh (and later Nushell, which I ended up working on).

Fish is a wonderful, mature project, but for me it wasn't quite ambitious enough. It breaks from POSIX just often enough to cause friction when adapting instructions written for POSIX shells, but not enough to make CLI UX significantly better than a POSIX shell. Also, scripting often seems like an afterthought in Fish.
I’d agree with you if any of them that did this had a stable or positive stock price. Looking at tech stocks and it’s hard to find an example where I feel the hiring was a good thing.
Pangolin is a probabilistic programming interface focused on fun
I think this is the logic that can make a company like Citadel, which fires 10% of their staff per year, work out well. If you have no expectation of job safety, it attracts a certain kind of person, but there's also no love lost if a layoff round is a little bigger than normal.
These companies laying off people are doing so because they made a mistake to begin with (over hiring). So, yeah, if you make one mistake, you can make another.

And no: not all tech companies have over hired during the pandemic and they are not firing people these days. No one talks about them because that doesn't sell.
God damn, thanks for all the info. My original intent wasn't actually even fighting desertification, but rather carbon capture, I kinda saw it as a two birds one stone kinda thing. But this gives me a lot of ideas for a multistep process. It seems like jumping right to peat isnt feasible, but maybe some microclimate engineering could be a first step in anticipation of the bogs.
And this ATC was hired and retained for DEI purposes? What relevance does this have, aside from insinuating that DEI is a scheme to replace good workers with incompetent ones?
I'm glad to see more mentions of MS's Midori project. The blog posts from Joe Duffy that this article links to make for interesting reading, and I think that there's some interesting ideas there that I'd like to see more experimentation with. The two that really stand out are heavily using contracts in the language and tooling (http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/#bugs-aba... goes into a fair bit of detail), as well as using capability-based security.
it's always the magic number between 5~7%.

which shows these companies are following the herd.
I'm not sure that anecdotal evidence should really be at play here. For instance, the only person that I personally knew who paid a Dignitas subscription chose not to go through with it, but that doesn't demonstrate anything about the population at large.

Terry Pratchett, after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, made a documentary called Choosing To Die, which you might be interested in. He had stated that he wished to die by assisted suicide, but ultimately Terry died at home from Alzheimer's.
Many hospice services are provided at patients’ homes. Hospice is end of life care, it doesn’t require a medical facility in most cases. A “hospice nurse” will do rounds to ensure everything is okay but for fairly stable patients, the bulk of the time/energy is provided by the family.
Ask HN: How Big Is a Microservice?
One thing that always frustrates me in technical discussions is that the things we talk about are never defined upfront. You can't have a meaningful discussion of Kubernetes use if one person says it's bad without mentioning they work on a 5 person team, while someone else says it's good because they work in a 100 person org.

Likewise, people argue monoliths vs microservices, but one person's idea could be microservice = 10,000loc monolith = 100,000loc, while the other person's idea is microservice < 100,000 loc, monolith = 1,000,000 loc. People could be disagreeing vehemently, yet agree without knowing that 100,000 loc is a good sized service.

So what is your definition?
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At the bank the firearms are just hidden from you. They're there.
I'm sure we'll start to see tiktok/youtube movies in the theaters soon enough. By that I mean studios pulling in stars to make god knows what (if we're lucky it'll be something like Freddy got fingered).
I'm sorry, but this is just a tremendously bad take.

Total points, first 4 years in NBA (including playoffs):

LeBron: 9339

Doncic: 7873
This sounds like you're ok to spend 8h of your waking time with people you don't really care about.

I prefer to spend my working time AND leisure time with people I care about.
The US doesn't have an unreliable electricity supply. The overwhelming majority of electric outages have a duration fewer than 4 hours, and most of those have a duration fewer than 2 hours.

There are problems in our more rural areas where the population density is low and damaged equipment may only affect very few customers. They're the lowest on the priority to get restored. In extreme cases it may be several days before your power will be restored. That's an outage event you can expect to occur once every decade.

But if you live in an urban area, urban being 5,000 or more people living in a town, then you have very reliable electricity.
As I said in another comment, there’s a conversion between intent to sell and actually selling. The same way if you were against murder you’d implicitly be against conspiring to murder.

If you are selling or intending to sell something, and you choose to have it mediated by the government, whether or not you’re allowed to falsely advertise something has nothing to do with freedom of speech. We aren’t agreeing that censorship is allowed. Censorship isn’t voluntary.
Companies generally give as little evidence as possible of layoffs before they happen. Morale and productivity take a huge hit as soon as employees start to realize what's coming.

If you keep an eye open on who's hiring on linkedin you'll see a surprising number of companies posting new positions will have layoffs the next week.
I'd picture that as a hybrid system that uses some old AI ideas together with some new AI ideas. AlphaGo which combines a neural network-based player with a MCMS player that simulates a large number of games all the way to the end, is a good example.

The intellectual north star of this is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_solver

and might be a better model than the "semantic web" in that the semantic web has revolved around description logics like OWL that implement a limited subset of first-order logic that is always decidable. One trouble is that OWL-based systems can't handle arithmetic at all, given a height and a weight you can write a rule that says anybody over 6 feet is tall but you can't say a person with a BMI over 30 is obese because OWL can't add, multiply and divide. But something a little more expressive that searches efficiently in practice because it gets "hunches" from a neural net could be useful but it will not evade the limits on computation and logic that Godel, Tarski and Turing warned you about.
The group of people who believe (or claim) that any demographic discrepancy is due to discrimination includes Ibram Kendi and other intersectionalists / critical race theorists.

Claiming that these people are somehow at the fringe of the DEI movement is ridiculous. These sorts of beliefs are openly professed and put into action with actual discriminatory policies.

Walking it back to "influenced by factors" is just a classic motte and bailey defense. These people don't act like these factors need to be carefully investigated, they have a fucking checklist and it's all based on race, sex and sexuality.

Then, you try to somehow equate the idea of white supremacy with the idea that DEI is an anti-white movement: as if any defense of white people requires belief in racial superiority. This is ridiculous.

The irony is that it is exactly this sort of biased, sloppy reasoning that has allowed the looney tunes land of DEI to proliferate.

Even if you can point to hard evidence of well recognized figures holding extremist views which are put into practice, there is always some eager nelly standing by to carefully explain why that's actually totally normal and the real worry is those scary right wingers over there.

Absolutely nuts.
Anyone grab any screenshots while it was up?
I can be simultaneously angry that our medical system sucks and still believe that setting up a mini hospital in dying elderly people’s homes is a colossal misuse of government funds.
Not really. It's been pretty obvious for years who shot it down and where the missile came from, as eastern Ukraine was experiencing a major infestation of little green men at the time. It might inspire some extra support from Ukraine in the Netherlands, for example, but the risk factors for a world war aren't closely tied to it.

If there's a world war that comes from Ukraine, it'll be something stupid like an attack on Poland from Belarus or via indirect pressure on other conflicts. IMO, you're more likely to see something big kick off in the Pacific in the next couple decades, almost certainly involving direct fighting between the US and China.
Then choose to live where the taxes are low and services are shit. Don't take the piss out of our choices. They do not affect you.
Exploring WebAssembly with Forth [video]
Conversational AI tells us what we want to hear: the Web is reliable, friendly
Sure, the NHS does provide excellent care, but it's not free. The fact that the British won't come to terms with this is causing its collapse:

"In December, as many as 500 patients per week were dying in Britain because of E.R. waits, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, a figure rivaling (and perhaps surpassing) the death toll from Covid-19. On average, English ambulances were taking an hour and a half to respond to stroke and heart-attack calls, compared with a target time of 18 minutes; nationwide, 10 times as many patients spent more than four hours waiting in emergency rooms as did in 2011. The waiting list for scheduled treatments recently passed seven million — more than 10 percent of the country — prompting nurses to strike. The National Health Service has been in crisis for years, but over the holidays, as wait times spiked, the crisis moved to the very center of a narrative of national decline."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/uk-economic-decli...
im some ways, I also think the UKs is better in some.. but I mostly think both of them are total shit, and I think a very very large part to blame for that is government
It was their early ad campaigns that featured Danica Patrick. They even showed some ads during the Super Bowl. You can still find them on YouTube.

It was the high (low?) point of techbro culture in ads (mid 2010's). They got a lot of bad press and pressure campaigns and started to change their culture after that.
Meta acquires Within despite FTC concerns
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It’s how you think.

People plan and choose to exit early all the time. Some people don’t want to live, even when death is nowhere near, but stick around because they don’t want to devastate their family.

Honestly, you sound like someone who likes to pretend to have insight into the human mind, but you can’t be bothered to actually invest the time listening to people you don’t understand.
A monkey has all the cards stacked against him/her. No so developed brain. Non supportive parents. All the things DEI aims to correct. should we make the monkey the president ?

This is ofcourse an exaggeration but you get the idea.
Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems?
Wait until you read about the School of Salamanca from 4 centuries ago basically defining modern economics, philosophy and the New World a few years before the Lutherans.

So, saying 'X ethnics it's inherently lazy' it's bullshit. It's more related to poverty and how rich were you parents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Salamanca
For me the fun of programming came back when I allowed myself to do things that are completely useless, apart from the fact that it brings me joy. It started with 6502 assembly programming for a breadboard computer I built. Right now I am programming C using old Borland tools on an old MS DOS computer. Again, super useless, but oh so fun.

And who knows, maybe this new knowledge will be useful professionally one day (I learned a lot about very low level computer concepts, and I didn’t know C before), but that is totally not the goal. Just the absence of the pressure to be useful brought back all the fun for me.
Low-key bummed out that I can’t put

background: mouldyblue;

in my css :smh:
Deliveroo to cut 350 jobs – 9% of its workforce
What goods are you thinking about? I think even tobacco (generally the most taxed product) is under that.
This is an opinion piece, not actual journalism, for context.
I got a job back where everyone is in the office 4/5 days a week. Its great I love it, its really annoying when someone works from home a day and you can just go over problems. Look for jobs like this, they're still out there.
The oldest animals ever, ranked by age
This rings so true. A best friend ran her business through GitLab for years. She was a subscriber for a team of 3-5 people, but recent pricing and plan changes [1] caused her to switch back to GitHub.

She's got a small team on GitHub and has all of the critical features for less than a single seat at GitLab now.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-...
Workers are workers. Even the most highly paid workers have more in common with the homeless than they do with capitalist class. Get laid off, maybe have a large medical bill, and then any worker could find themself desparate for just a roof over their head. So yeah, it sucks when these huge layoffs are happening, it sucks lot. The best thing that could come from this is for tech workers to realize how precarious their lives are and start standing in solidarity with other tech workers and workers generally. Don't try to drive a wedge between tech workers and other workers.

The working class and employing class have nothing in common.
My setup is pretty similar in schematic, but not finess of design.

I have a 24 port netgear fanless smart switch as the backbone. I did have a POE version but the fans were too loud. I have a PoE injector now which allows me to power the APs and the phones for the house intercom.

I use pfsense for routing and firewall.

Ubuquity for APs. I have four, one for upstairs, one for down, one in the garden and one in the shed. three are second hand.

I have a VLAN for work, (I can ssh in from the normal vlans, but I can't get out from the work VLAN)

A have a VLAN for CCTV, normal use, servers/services, and one for IoT. Seems to work ok for my needs, but most people don't need what I want on a network.
> No matter what you think now, you will still want to live when death is near.

Not true.

My father wanted to die for the last 6 years of his life.

He would talk about it and obsess about his death in eager anticipation.

His last words that followed by three days of not eating or drinking were "Can't this go any faster?"

Just not wanting to live, and not being depressed about it, made transition easier for me personally.

He was never in pain during this time, so I didn't feel compelled to help him die.
It's not possible to pay more than 50% in earnings related taxes (income tax and national insurance) in the UK because the national insurance is capped at £23k and the highest tax band is 45% (on earnings over £150k). Even if you earn £1m/year you still take home more than £500k.
You sound like an amazon bear in 2004 - that's not how you measure the financial focus of a CEO.

https://www.vox.com/2017/5/15/15610786/amazon-jeff-bezos-pub...
The double taxation thing really is a bitch. Not to mention, giving up one's US citizenship triggers the equivalent of an estate tax as if you died.

Still, it's a democracy and some people voted for those things; it also doesn't explicitly force people to stop speaking their native language or abandon their religion, or throw people in prison for waving a sign in the street. So I keep my US passport and pay my taxes.

The US is one of the few countries in the world where people do collectively have power to make drastic and enduring changes to the system without needing to start a cycle of violence to accomplish their aims.
> The main effect is that you lose the trust of the top performers. These will be the in the lookout for new opportunities the day after the layoffs are done. If you cut 10%, expect 10% from the top to flee within a couple of years.

I don't know, but I imagine that there's a pretty substantial difference between an isolated layoff and an industry wide layoff. Maybe it hits differently when you get to see the sausage made.

Where is a top performer at Google going to go? I'm sure there's some companies out there that aren't doing layoffs right now, but most of those probably can't offer FAANG/MANGA salaries.
A couple of years ago there was an avalanche of posts about projects written in Go. Today's hyped language is Rust. Give it another couple of years and some new language will have taken its place here.
What would the cost be if you had near 100% private in home care for whatever reason in the UK?

It’s basically what they chose in this case, Medicare would’ve paid for the hospital and hospice. Even if there was a bill no one is obligated to pay it unless the estate has money for private care. In this case it’s assumed her estate doesn’t have the funds to pay for private care or rent an apartment.

Her case also seems complicated because assisted living and hospice couldn’t tend to her needs but the hospital thought a lesser facility could provide it. Bouncing her back and forth.
It used to be the trend 20+ years ago. At this point it's retro, so good chance for this to come back in some corners of the cyberspace..
In the context of HN it seems more the opposite, as everyday there are comments to the effect that such and such interest groups are stalemating each other in pursuing any substantive change.
Understanding Visual Comparisons in Playwright
> Mountain View is mostly flat.

Well ... Not a big one, I grant you, but hill nevertheless :

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4231911,-122.084872,3a,75y,1...
What an eloquent writer. Anyone know the vaccine drama that he mentioned?
Sony Mavica
Are Fritz!Boxes available in the US? They're built by AVM (a german brand) and are pretty neat if you want something that's secure, supported for a long time and easy to configure. Add some of their wireless repeaters for coverage via mesh networking and you'll have a guest wifi available everywhere and all is well.
> specially because your marginal tax rate might be already at 50%, evaluate asking for some Stock Options/RSUs/etc.

.. where are those tax exempt? In the UK they're treated as income at the time of vesting, which is not unreasonable https://frazerjames.co.uk/rsus-a-tech-employees-guide/
I guess it is just as safe. One advantage that I see with this tool, is that it runs in the browser so you don't have to install anything and can use it from any device with a web browser like your phone or tablet.
> I imagine ChatGPT like results from a phone system would be even worse.

You might be correct.

I can't be sure.

My opinion is definitely influenced by spending an hour on the phone with CVS yesterday + another hour on the phone with my father's cable company.
Not a criticism of the action, but an observation. In the book The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson, the authors observe that part of the reason healthcare may be so expensive is that we (unintentionally) communicate how much we love a person by acting as if money is not an issue. This means that despite last months of life often being the least pleasant for the dying, we expend a tremendous amount of money and resources intentionally to show them (and ourselves?) that we love them.

A really worthwhile read are some of the essays online with basically the same title: How Doctors Die. Doctors, who are familiar with the process of dying in a hospital, typically do not wish to die there (it is miserable), and choose to die at home.

I wish our society had a better ritual around death. Having an option for the dying person (if they are of sound mind) to choose euthanasia would be very merciful.
Lebron being the goat while also having a corny, 100% scandal free lifestyle is imo one of his crowning accomplishments. It is unbelievable that his greatness hasn’t gotten to his head ala Kyrie.
Fire departments funding isnt contingent of producing outcomes which agree with political or economic agendas.

Lets not pretend like "scientists" by virtue of their job title are moral paragons or even experts in their fields. Everyone on this website (or like 75%) is a "scientist" to some degree. If you are an educated adult with any sort of scientific background you are fully capable of adjudicating a research paper into the following catagories : utter garbage, a reasonable but unscientific paper, a solid paper, or a questionable but too outside my expertise to grok.

Im no chef but I can tell instant ramen from filet mignon.

The general public is not necessarily capable of this sort of discernment. Which is fine, but we ought not to let people get away with steamrolling people who are more educated and more reasonable by appealing to "science"

"Science" as it is used in popular parlance is a farce.
Spillover effects of rising energy prices following 2022 Russia Ukraine invasion
The logging platform? Graylog is backed by kafka for the reasons OP mentioned
The NHS has its own share of tragic stories. https://archive.is/lkqY5
Great! because two Germans put together a documentary the thousands that died are back alive? The former victims will be relieved by their new circumstances.
2023 Layoffs: Disney to Cut 7k