skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice! As someone who has dived into Unreal Engine and learned Blueprint, I realize the power Visual programming brings to the table.

It's pretty efficient, a great fun way to write logic and I believe it's the future in a way too.
I feel exactly the same way. TDD helps me think about the requirements, because even if I’m building something as a prototype, I still have specific requirements in mind. Those will change as I get feedback for the prototype, but even a really, really simple test will help me be more secure in knowing my reworking of the prototype didn’t break some very fundamental needs of the system.

My guidance would be to not start with many tests when writing a prototype / initial development of something - just write one or two of the most basic things you’re confident you’ll need. As your finished product comes into focus, then you can add more tests.

I don’t literally write a test before every line of code, yet I still consider what I do to mostly be TDD.
By the same logic, you can't have record-low unemployment and rising poverty rates. Somehow we squared that particular circle.

Like the unemployment rate and actual standard of living, obesity and food insecurity are loosely coupled but somewhat independent things.

An EBT program might be able to funnel dollars into grocery store tills, but it doesn't necessarily mean efficient delivery of quality foods.

Poverty often involves multiple dimensions of constraints. While it might be easy to simplify an argument by saying "buy 20kg bags of beans and rice and cook that for 93 meals a month", that neglects factors like:

* Burdened workers/parents who lack the time/remaining energy to prepare labour-intensive home-cooked food. Opening a tin or putting something in the microwave for six minutes is an awfully compelling proposition.

* Poor housing, where you might not have good cooking or food storage facilities. If you don't have a working fridge, many fresh ingredients are too perishable. If you have an infestation, bulk foods are just a hazard. There's plenty of wholesome meals you might have a hard time cooking if you're limited to a hot plate or microwave.

* Food deserts, where you have to buy what's reasonably available at what's likely extortionate prices.

There's also a bit of a hedonistic limit. We're not just chugging Food Packets to increase an on-screen stamina bar. Most people are not going to be able to stick to a tightly planned, "optimal health" meal program if it doesn't offer at least occasional luxuries and modest variety. Look how even rich people can't stick to diets. This is not a moral failing, but trying to balance health and taste concerns with tight financial restrictions often triggers "poor choices".
What’s with the hate. It’s a legitimate question. Canada is a developed country and RCAF has f18 and budget to train pilots

Surely it stands out that the prime minister asked another country to enter the Canadian airspace to shoot down an object.

I mean wouldn’t a politician consider the optics
That seems very odd for a default behavior. There might be good reasons to allow GCing of a dropped task reference, but it doesn't seem like that would be the most common case.
These people send enforcers to homes.
As usual. Not sure why this is, they could just charge for the labor that it actually costs them to put a different SSD in plus material cost, but no, they always mark up ridiculous amounts. It basically forces people to buy a dummy SSD with the device plus a loose one and then put it in yourself... at least that's what I do for myself and family whenever it saves more than 50 euros and takes me 5-10 minutes (usually it saves ~100 euros to buy extra hardware on top of what you already get in the laptop(!)).

If anyone is interested in unusably tiny and/or slow SSDs, let me know because right now they're just going in e-waste.

(I have similar beef with drinks in restaurants at, e.g., ~100x markup for tap water. Why not just charge a normal price for both the food and the drinks, instead of me having to guess at how much I should be spending on drinks to compensate the normal-priced food? Or make both cheap and charge a table fee, whatever floats their boat. This incentivizes people to not drink enough; usually it's calories where people overingest, not hydration!)
> My guess is that the laws for TV licenses were written before smart phones were a thing.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/part/4/2022-06-...
Communications Act 2003

The legislation hinges on the definition of a TV Receiver.

368Meanings of “television receiver” and “use”
(1)In this Part “television receiver” means any apparatus of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State setting out the descriptions of apparatus that are to be television receivers for the purposes of this Part.
(2)Regulations under this section defining a television receiver may provide for references to such a receiver to include references to software used in association with apparatus.
[F9(3)References in this Part to using a television receiver are references to using it for—
(a)receiving all or any part of any television programme, or
(b)receiving all or any part of a programme included in an on-demand programme service which is provided by the BBC,and that reference to the provision of an on-demand programme service by the BBC is to be read in accordance with section 368R(5) and (6).]
(4)The power to make regulations under this section defining a television receiver includes power to modify subsection (3).

Some businesses dont want the aggravation from the state.

However this is where it gets interesting, my interpretation of this law would mean every laptop, tablet and smartphone would need a tv licence if a UK resident and without a tv licence you cant even stream live events off streaming services like Youtube.

The BBC also have the legal right to spy on you, in the same way utility companies can without court orders, even tax inspectors have more rights to spy than the police, so considering the BBC journalistic endeavours, this unlegislated right to keep journalist sources secret even from courts, have the BBC got a state legislated licence to hack the world?

I'll probably get more hassle on the street for this comment from those around me for pointing the above out.

PR goes a long way.
I think it dependson one's personality type.

All those things didn't affect me because I didn't care about any of it. I made barely enough grades to barely squeeze into university. I just didn't care, not too much.

I would think that college admissions is too narrow of a reason as to why. Only about 35% of high school graduates go on to university. I'm sure a significant number of university attendees don't have these issues to the extent that they have to go to a therapist. It's great that you went, wonderful that you did, but I am not convinced that anywhere near the majority of university students had that much pressure - to the extent of having their life break down.

I do agree that everyone needs a healthier lifestyle.
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In New Zealand we have anti conversion therapy laws. The way the law is written it may not be legal for a trained councilor to suggest that a child is not trans if they present as trans. I don't know if it's possible that 100% of children claiming this are correct.
Our company is intentionally small, we have been around for over 10 years, we move fairly fast to address needs in our market segment, and we have been doing mostly TDD for years.

I highly recommend writing automated tests to guide what you do even for small companies. Perhaps especially for resource constrained ones, when every hour spent working is hard earned.
Maybe housing in tech hubs shouldn't cost $5k a month.
Yeah it's hard to generalize, but as someone who tries to live within our means - in good times people think you're cheap or not doing well, in bad times they think you're some privileged ass because you're not in debt or in trouble like they are.
Buying anything outside the Dell or Lenovo business ecosystem really puts your head on the chopping block to be announced a crazy person the minute some business critical function (like dual monitors through dock) doesn’t work…
You are basically making arguments that fall in 2 categories

1. Nobody is forcing you to use Java

2. Appealing to authority as justification for Java use.

Neither of which go to contrary of anything I said, so this is a pointless discussion because it basically means you agree to every drawback of Java I stated.
Do the parents of children at private schools not pay tax? Why shouldn't some of that tax go towards their child's education?
Wild. Learned something.
Lol. I used to go to a community college to have my teeth cleaned by students for $5. Yeah, they need training. Usually it’s an associates program.

Dentists are notorious for being greedy idiots. Hygienists make $30-45/hr, and have a portable skill. So unless you’re super flexible, they’ll jump with the market if the dentist tries to cheap out.
Imagine you're a big pharma company, are you going to lose market share to a plant? Cheaper to pay a media outlet to start a fear campaign, and hire lobbyist to pass laws against "The dangerous plant" that killed little Toby.
Bing is making a ton of money because they actually have a usable search API for Bing.
If they do that, the USAF/US Army missile defense is going to zap their pesky baloons with lasers or regular ammunition.

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/12/07/us-army-laser-stry...

So far they're offering good sport for the USAF. I'm glad they decided to take action and shoot'em down instead of letting them pass undisturbed through US airspace. This should send a clear message to uncle Xi to keep his lantern festival at home.
Situation’s heating up.
The EU Cyber-Resilience Act would mandate expensive 3rd-party audits for some categories of software (including open-source) before they can be sold commercially, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594440

> the big players who can afford certification will be able to use ANY open-source component for free but the people who built it will have a tough time to go to the market because they will require the funds they don't necessarily have.

The list of "critical" software categories can be updated by the EU based on perceived cybersecurity risk. It currently includes:

Operating systems (server/client/mobile)
Hypervisors and container runtimes
Public key infrastructure
Firewalls for industrial use
Routers for industrial use
You need to find a better company with a better corporate culture.
Seems like a good way to assess response times of US fighter aircraft and early warning radar systems..
It might have to do with cost, although I'm not sure.
It's a reference to an 80s movie called "The Last Starfighter" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
totally, that's going to be a huge piece of functionality that will add a ton of value to the user. It's what I always worry about in maintaining my scrapers, updating xpaths, all the rigmarole parsing and what not. Stable pages are much appreciated but we all know web designers are gonna design. Thanks for making this product, being in a post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn world is gonna make for some great adventures I think. Keep up the good work.
> Allowing a single covid-positive kid go to school means contaminating a significant portion of the class's students and students' parents

To a first-order approximation based on data from my three kids and their classes/schools, pretty much all the children in all the kindergarten and school classes got Covid last year. All their teachers got it, too, including the vaccinated ones.

Early last year I recall talking to my (then) 8 year-old about his best friend, who was stuck at home for a fortnight after testing positive Covid [this was before we'd all had it]:

me: "How is he?"
son: "What do you mean?"
me: "Is he OK?"
son: "Why wouldn't he be?"
me: "Is he getting better?"
son: "He's not poorly, he's just positive, Daddy!"
Perhaps. Or perhaps our socioeconomic systems shouldn't be so insanely misaligned with the literal continuation of our species.

Fertility rates and birth defects forced our hand. Saving longer just raises your chances of holding nothing but blood and ashes at the end.
Early childhood development is about the most important thing society does in a person's life, after safe birth. By the time they're at high school problems are intractable which could have been remediated in kindy or prep.

I'm being mildly hyperbolic because I think a lot of people assume it's just watching kids play. It's not. Where do you think fine motor skills, balance, exercise habits, mental health, diet, recognition of emerging health issues comes from?
I'm not sure if the massive freeways will really be needed. If a significant portion of people can work from home, I don't see much reason for it. I think the ideal future for many is single family homes in a resort like setting. If you are already where you want to be, there are fewer reasons to drive to other places.
What's your guess for why they're treating you like this?
Whenever I mention my project's website in an HN comment, I am 'self-promoting' so you are correct. In my experience that is not something that is frowned upon on HN, since I see this kind of thing all the time (the article I commented on was promoting another product).

Didgets, as it exists today, is a technology rather than a 'product'. It consists of a set of highly optimized data objects that can be used to build complex systems like hierarchical file systems, relational database tables, logging frameworks, configuration managers, or content indexers. I have implemented enough functionality into the browser application to prove that it can do those things well, but none of them are fully implemented yet. I am trying to find the right product-market fit.

I have not yet open-sourced any of the code, but I probably will once I decide which open source licensing is best for it. I am simply trying to introduce this technology to others to see if there is any interest in it.

Note: While I didn't explore every configuration option in Postgres so I don't have confidence that it ran as fast as it possibly could, I did not just use the default configuration. I tried all the usual tricks to speed it up.
You have rediscovered "outrage porn"
Very interesting quote, and makes a lot of sense.

I think elements of the "threat" remain today, despite being complete overshadowed by "diversity initiatives".
What a strange set of considerations so bizarre they apply to like no one but you. Good thing that is the case and this logic applies to a dwindling number of professionals. I understand how people can judge on such minor things but on that front, might as well not hire any black people or women on your team lest you heighten your customers' subconcious biases.

edit: also, would a linux laptop work for you? Wouldn't you need office or such?
I’d love to know about a good laptop for Linux that has 32gb RAM and a decent amount of IO and a decent keyboard.
You could fly a commercial airliner in fewer hours training
Pretty cool especially with Ryzen CPU option. Does it support USB 4 with Ryzen too?
> last time this happened in US airspace was Pearl Harbor

Didn't this happen in 9/11 with one of the planes?
What’s the AMD equivalent?
because UFO, fighter jets, balloon probes, and geopolitics. Seems pretty interesting to me.
> spend a lot of defense budget scrambling fighters around and shooting down UFOs

I doubt if the expenditure has been significant. The US has a lot of air to air missiles, pilots who need flight time, etc., and a lot of that stuff is a sunk cost.

There could potentially be a big increase in cost in the days that follow, for the US and for Canada. It's valuable, fragile human beings who need to do dangerous things like dive for surveillance balloon parts, or go out onto the ice to collect them, but the cost of scrambling some fighters and firing some Sidewinders by itself can't be that high. If scrambling fighters was all there was to it, the costs could probably be rationalized as a valuable training exercise.

I would venture to guess that if you tried to reduce everything to a dollar cost, the cost to the civilian economy of closing a portion of the airspace on the East Coast a few days ago to facilitate the interception of the balloon was higher than the cost of all these military operations to date.

> make the US go nuts

Yes, measured by the whole "make the Americans act crazy" metric, they're doing great. It's like Judo or something: we Americans just need a little push...
Owning the means of production is no simple task.
Engines of each cell. They burn food and oxygen to make atp.

atp the form of energy the cell use for almost everything.
Don't trust the posts above! These were written by spies from Rylos! Once we smash the Frontier we will be able to rid ourselves of the Star League!
The Horde is coming.
FYI it's just an alternative frontend to a current events page wikipedia has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
While I'm usually a strong supporter of objective facts, I would want to call into question this particular statistic though - is it possible that the number for black people is higher because they are discriminated against often by law enforcement a lot more than lighter-skinned folks?

I'm a dark skinned non-African person, and I've been pulled over for my stuff and questioned by law enforcement in multiple non-US cities at multiple times of my life. In fact, even in my home country India, I'm often treated with more disdain than my lighter-skinned relatives by law enforcement and what not.
No, it's to find out how little/much/slow/fast you need to be before the USA detects it and starts launching interceptors.

Or, if the USA just shots down everything once it enters its territory, future dirt cheap, "don't even have to be smart" bio/chemical weapons platform.
You can buy the Starbook, and there are reviews on youtube.
Not really, TDD helps you to think about what you're writing and even when you're prototyping from scratch gives you a good overview of the complexity of what you are writing, because you can't just finish a method that is few tens of lines long then try to test it, you write small test case, then you evolve the method that is being tested by the unit test and so on, and you can see when it's becoming too complex, I think some people just is not used to small methods whose responsibilities are well thought beforehand and just try to be a cowboy, TDD is about the quality of the code, the clarity of code, mantainability of code, as unit test, not necessarily the correctness of code in production
For comparison: a mid level dev could expect $120k/y in Sydney, probably same in Melbourne, Canberra and a bit less other places.
We like it there
Back in the old DDR4 people used to say extremely high frequency ram (lets says above 3600MHz), that normally was O.C'd, would make your system unstable.

Any one knows if it still happens in these DDR5 days?

I'm asking because 6400MHz seems ludicrously high for a guy like me that just last week got some good old 2400MHz sticks for my home server and I'm wondering if it isn't marketing just to show high numbers.
Naval Interviews David Deutsch (2023)
They've clearly learned some things from Apple.
For those of you us in the eastern time zones, it's a fair warning at this time of night. Better to save the link for tomorrow :)
There may be other factors that you don’t know about like flexibility or workload. If you’re working like a donkey at a busy CVS (high stress, shitty company), a less busy grocery store may be a better gig.

Even marginal/trainable skills draw a premium. We have a good friend who owns a seafood restaurant - she’s paying $30/hr to shuck oysters.
Try this:

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position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
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Looking at secondary and tertiary "responses" can help you make useful inferences in the face of zero comments.
lack of infrared is what cause the damage.

mitochondria need infrared to make melatonin(remove free radicals from combustion)

Without infrared (living inside) we are in constant inflammation, especially the mitochondria

The research is solid, but it’s mostly ignored.
Yes, I always enjoyed the first book or two of Arthur C Clarke. After that he generally had shot his wad / overstayed his welcome.

2001 is really a visual opera so to speak, but it makes very little sense without the book/("programme"?). I felt like this was written after the movie.

2010 felt like much more of a read that was written before the movie with a deliberate plot.
You are defining male and female that way.
If you go by that definition, you can define a transgender person as someone who deeply thinks and feels they ought to be of the other gender.
They are not 'mistaken' other than by your definition. If you ask them 'do you have a penis' or similar question, they will respond with your objective reality.
So, how concerned are you with government use, either directly or indirectly, of machine learning?
I think that's because not many people use their discovery. They usually end up from somewhere else. So they don't have that part to play with (eg charging money or using algorithms to recommend content that's profitable for them).

Also, their monetisation is pretty seamless because you come there with the intent to pay. So requests for payment don't feel out of place.

I guess for the people you patron it's less great now because I see many people moving to ko-fi.
I’m the opposite. I don’t want to have to use any third party code, libraries, frameworks, etc. I want it all in the standard library.
VDI scenario is common now for engineers, so yes it would work to virt into a windows box, but yes there are other friction points such as compact issues with PowerPoint for meetings, and you probably wouldn’t run a PowerPoint over a virt.

It could also take a lot of messing around to get Office 365 MDM working with Linux. I think you'd want to do a Linux desktop deploy and sort out these issues before you tried to deploy [any of these brands of] Linux laptops.
Lack of infrared is what cause the damage.
mitochondria need infrared to make melatonin(remove free radicals from combustion)

Without infrared (living inside) we are in constant inflammation, especially the mitochondria

Now, how many hours of time do the elderly go outside? Get close to zero fast. There is a care center close from home. They never go outside. Also true of most of the population.

The research is solid, but it’s mostly ignored.
Search medcram infrared, this doctor is trying to spread the word, so many lives could be saved.

I healed my winter eczema in a short time with a simple infrared lamp after watching a few of his videos.