skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If.. uhh… society wasn’t so capitalistically expensive as to require the entire household’s adults to work

It is a tragedy of the commons problem. As soon as the other spouse starts working, the family has more money, but once every family thinks to have both partners working, sellers will catch on and increase their prices, bringing you back to the initial problem but now with one fewer spouse at home. It's not a capitalism problem, it's a general markets problem.
> My guidance counseler suggested I dont attend college, just a community college (despite the fact that I got admitted to a decent state school)

What's wrong with guidance counselors in American high schools? Why do I keep hearing about them giving kids incredibly stupid advice?
Based on your nuanced reply, you already seem "well qualified" :-)

> I want to WFH for 2 weeks doing my work in peace, then go to office for a few days of busy planning and socializing.

That's a reasonable take.

> its one of those things that benefits the company more than the individual.

I disagree on that one. In-person connections are very valuable to climb the ladder faster, particularly in the early stages of one's career. They are also helpful to forge bonds with senior leadership once you are at a higher position. That typically happens with casual hallway or watercooler conversations, occasional coffees or just while waiting in line at cafes for lunch. I have seen people liking other people more once they have spent some time in person.
"Contact Sales" is annoying to see, but for a small company I think it's a good sign. It means they're focusing on their product, not the automation of sales. They'd rather talk directly to interested customers, rather than scale and automate the sales pipeline for "mass-adoption".

Think of the alternative, a startup focuses on scaling their signup/payment flow, and have to sacrifice time-to-market and reduce the amount of time they're actually talking to customers and working on the product...
How do we ever move the world forward if we are only allowed to have one thing?
Yep, do a successful project, write a case study, and resell it to everyone.

"We here at [consulting inc] have previously implemented [solution] for [fortune 500] in [the same industry] and they experienced [big number]% increase in [metric] as a result."
I'm not sure if it's only me but the timelines have become useless the past couple of days

The "following" has been showing some 20% of the tweets it used to show. The "for you" tab seems to be repeating itself and/or not giving what I want to see

Cthulhu help me if I ever feel the need to follow somebody's crazy whims to feel like "a real developer"
I think it's much more common to see people in long sleeves with heavy sunblock at the beach than it was 20 years ago.

I think a good barometer is to look at how people dress their kids. I don't remember any kids in my youth wearing sunshirts at camp. And while my mom always sent us with sunblock, it wasnt mandatory. Lots of kids at my kids' camp come well protected from the sun.
Taking notes makes gaming more fun
You can do both ways but the latter is the more useful one. Duckdb is designed to read the data very fast and to operate on it fast. So you load a csv/json/parquet and then “create table” and Duckdb lays out the data in a way that makes it fast to read.

But you(I) wouldn’t use it like a
standard db where stuff gets constantly written in, rather like a tool to effectively analyze data that’s already somewhere
Treat the patient not the symptom. Looks>everything else is indicative of a much larger problem that needs addressing.
To answer some of the questions posed to this comment, I really think the problem is many school districts do not have enough buses and drivers to transport their entire student body at the same time.

By having secondary start first, you require 50% less buses.

If we were to switch secondary goes second and primary age students go first, your primary age children would leave for school around 7am and arrive home at 3pm. Most parents are not home at 3pm and this causes a large problem for families. In some instances, the older children who are in secondary schools -- watch the younger children until parents get home.
Even if you can technically do it, many people won't know that when making purchasing decisions, or won't want to run hardware that isn't officially supported.

Meanwhile the requirement means third party software can soon start relying on all recent hardware having that feature and you may soon run into trouble if your hardware doesn't have it.

"Nobody got fired for buying IBM" was a thing for a reason. If you spend the same amount you did last year on new PCs, nobody asks questions. If you put the money somewhere else and then after three years Enterprise Vault Thing 4.0 comes out and requires TPM 2.0, the CEO is mad because you need three years worth of budget in one year to replace all the old PCs.

Smarter companies will find better ways to avoid this, but 50% of companies are below average.
It's just an autocomplete. It just tells you what you want to hear. That is how it's been trained. If you want it to tell you awful shit, it will do so.
You can click them to get the full version.
Yeah, we also went HipChat + Skype -> Teams, and once one gets used to it, it's fine (and certainly better than XMPP hell). Teams' search was always problematic, but for our organizational use case (moderately long-lived chat rooms for the duration or sales or projects, with lots of conference calls), it was actually more usable than Slack or Zoom. Conversely, Slack seems much more effective for coordinating in-house tech teams handling ephemeral discussions. Horses for courses and all that.
They kill each others soldiers, yes, but they are always small engagements because it is very difficult to transport a large formation of Chinese soldiers to Indian territory (specifically, any territory India cares about) or vice versa because the mountains are such formidable barriers.
This has no content other than a single video, and all buttons just ask for email.

this is one of those "Make a fake website to gauge interest" pages, isn't it? I bet there are no real examples, no analysis and no evidence that this can work.
I was excited about this project, so I'm saddened by this news.

Having said that, I'm a little confused by the outcome here. What I really want is a pre-built piece of hardware that runs the Mycroft open source project, so I don't have to go figure out which speaker and microphone array works with whatever Raspberry Pi clone I can actually find in stock at the moment. I would be a little disappointed if there were no longer an entity working on the software itself, but honestly all I ever use this type of device for is 1) setting timers 2) checking the weather 3) playing music, so assuming those things work reasonably okay with the current software, I'm not really in need of further innovation here.

Back to the hardware - what am I missing? Can I buy this? The Mark I seems to no longer be manufactured and the Mark II is what seems to have now become vaporware because of this litigation. I understand it might not be a loss leader like a Google Nest Home Assistant Hub Device (I've given up on actually understanding Google's naming anymore), but it really shouldn't be that expensive for a "dumb" smart speaker. Does anyone make this? I'd prefer no proprietary hardware, but I'd accept a somewhat-closed piece of hardware if it could run software of my choosing.
This defense that Canvas exists therefore replacing high level shared web constructs used for nearly ALL interaction on the web with the lowest possible level thing the web has (pixels) seems to spring up a lot.

It doesn't seem like much of a defense to me, that a graphical target used to enable WebGL and generative graphics to exists- to enable some creative options- doesn't seem to imply it's good to replace all structured hypertext markup with pixels.

Google Sheets and Figma are the only two webapps I can name that rebuilt with heavy Canvas components, and Sheets getting rid of DOM broke a ton of crafty web extensions/userscripts & pissed a lot of people off. Sheets is also mostly HTML still, except the spreadsheet itself, because it means people's tools & extensions for many things still work & because it's a fine technology for developing almost all webapps in.
This is great! It really makes me yearn for a VIA like application to rise to popularity for mice. I still have trouble doing any kind of software anything with almost all popular modern mice on linux. There's an open razer app that's popular, but I think that's maybe it? I had a Glorious mouse for a long while I loved, but couldn't do a thing with it software wise.
I just tested this in Teams right now and it only copies the text I highlighted. I tried it both on the native client and in Chrome. If you select multiple messages, it will copy the whole message with one line of meta data but that seems pretty reasonable to me as that is also highlighted.
Agreed, it was super common. I'm attempting to say something slightly different, which is that SSR — as a technique that was codified, named, and supported in modern frameworks — first appeared around 2018 by my recollection, and so may be a new-ish concept for many web developers.

My assumption is that the WebKit team understands their average web developer (which may be notably different than an average HN developer) enough to know whether an explanation is worthwhile.
Sadness and anger are twin feelings. I have been oscillating between them a lot more recently.

Anger is an irritation of diverting from expectations.
> what about discrimination against stupid people?

It is also very common, but also very frequently is discrimination that goes to the core of the overt purpose of the decision being made. As discrimination is simply having any factor play into a decision, the usual problem is with (1) decisions whose motivation is to cause harm to a group, or (2) decisions in which factors like membership in a group are weighed that are not germane to the overt non-malicious purpose, which cause an (unwarranted by the purpose) adverse impact on the group.
I’m all in into the sprinkles approach (I’m a big fan of Hotwire and most of the times that’s what I use) but the Django templates are extremely outdated and limited. I don’t miss it at all. They’re really bad.

Compare it to Blade (Laravel) or even ERB (Rails) and it’s night and day.
The LSP protocol sends indexes. Insanely, those indexes are in terms of UTF-16 code units. Emacs's LSP client implementation here is sending the wrong index: 8 for the emoji's index, but 9 for the index of the next "character". But an emoji spans two UTF-16 code units, so the next index is 10.

Rust-analyzer simply crashes here, but it's been fed hot garbage by the editor. One might argue it shouldn't crash. TFA digs into the details around that, too, because Amos leaves no stone unturned.
It could have had something to do with women desiring independence.
Everyone, including people who should have known better, bought into the narrative that this was the "new normal".
School busses are shared across age ranges. So teenagers get the first bus, then middle schoolers get one an hour later, then grade schoolers.

So if you punt the highschool bus to later, you are either making for a very late school day, or making younger kids wake up earlier.

Or the solution could be to triple the cost of school transportation.
> For what it's worth, unless something's changed those accounts have admin privileges but _not_ root privileges.

You’re correct, those have the AdministratorAccess policy, not root. It’s been a while since I set those up.

For practical purposes, wouldn’t AdministratorAccess be sufficient to recover from a lost (root user’s) YubiKey?
Also Arcane
"mainstream" is "left leaning"?
Although AI can’t be trusted, we can trust that AI can’t be trusted.
Thank god Turkey doesn’t have nuclear power plants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_earthquake_vulne...
I am not sure that's accurate. I believe a security is MORE tightly defined than an investment contract: it had to be fungible etc. But I may be wrong and I think most of crypto already fulfils this which is why people default to Howey. I'd be happy to be corrected.

Either way, we are sort of stuck on the same core problem: What is a security?

The Howey test was made up by SCOTUS. It isn't set in stone. If someone can made a convincing case it's wrong, congress or the courts can change it.

The problem is, it is actually hard to come up with a definition that is general, simple and applies to stable coins but not to 1000s of thinks like bricks or cars or concert tickets.

That's how we ended up with Howey in the first place.

So we either have to admit stable coins aren't securities. Or we have to widen the definition a lot and suddenly the sec also have to regulate all sorts of markets they've never actually touched before.

Of course if you know such a definition, I am all ears.

I actually think cryptos state as psuedo regulated is the worst of all worlds: good actors and would be investors or users are put off by the chance of politically motivated regulator actions and rampant fraud. But that's a much wider position than "stable coins aren't securities because they don't offer a reasonable expectation of profit"...
I don't understand.

Let's say it was hypothetically like this.

Microsoft

2019

Cost of capital: 0.25% (should be irrelevant because they had billions in cash on hand but let's assume they refuse to use it for whatever reason and instead went to banks to get loans to pay for employees working on projects)

They work on a project, it returns 20% gross. 20% - cost of capital = ROI of 19.75%

2022

Cost of capital: 4.50%

Project returns 20% gross still, but now the net ROI is 15.5%

Why would you lay off employees who could bring you 15.5% (average project profitability assumption?) in favor of instead parking your cash for the risk free rate of 4.5%?
> These large scale school systems treat students like cattle

I think that's by design, though, as school primarily exists as extended daycare so that parents can work.
Twilio hit its all time high around Jan 2021, $435/share. In the 12 months following that he sold roughly $160M in stock, riding the price down to about $250/share. And he even got a 75,000 share grant last March after that performance.

From afar it seems like the company is being plundered by the C suite, would love to hear first hand accounts from employees after the last 24 months.
Russian shortening service nah.uy

For Russian speakers there is a joke in there.
It's been kept up to parity but a complete rewrite is currently under way - watch https://dmiller.github.io/clojure-clr-next/
Only if you believe if Equality is some sort of natural law. Which is a laughable proposition in a world with finite resources. Otherwise, we all have right to $30k pet monkey, because Michael Jackson had one.

Twitter policies are not laws. Twitter routinely bends its own rules. Twitter also prides it self for being a place where you can get news and engage with Politicians, and has actual dictators with active accounts.

The special treatment that Trump received, before being kicked out, does not really prove Twitter board supporting Trump ideologically at that time.

More like business decision to maintain a reputation as being neutral in a situation with large proportion of its users still questioned the election results.
That would not fix the coordination problem - if the family includes one of each (elementary, middle and high school kids) you still have to make breakfast for them, get everyone ready and head out. Let’s say they all don’t have to leave at the same time, but most other activities have to be coordinated and the sheer noise in the household will wake people up, not to mention it’s a bit easier to feed all 3 kids together.
It seems unrealistic to think that any machine of sufficient intelligence will not have bias (relative to some perfectly imagined, imperfectly designed human system).

Any goal assumes some a priori good or set of norms over which to optimize.

Philosophers, politicians and priests are still working on that one.
I did not interpret it in that way; I thought it was “That is offensive to me and even more so to these other people I know”. Your point is correct – it can charitably be interpreted as being a form of refutation argument. However, anecdotes about individual people are a very weak form of argument. I could think of a few better arguments immediately from the top of my head: The clumsy wording of the text (in the PDF) itself. The fact that there seems to be no personal testimonies about what is implied to be an extremely widespread conspiracy. And, of course, your link is a much better argument than any individual anecdote.

But ‘azinman’ did not do any of that; they chose instead to play the “I’m offended!” card. If this is allowed to fly, well, then anyone can be offended by anything, and argument and debate is dead here.
I find it both odd and interesting that this topic, and so many others in our culture, boils down to whether someone/something is racist or not. Racism has become the ultimate morality test. Someone got ChatGPT to say the N-word. Queue up two dozen articles across various neoliberal publications: "we must do more to ensure AI does not harm the most vulnerable in our societies." I agree with many of the points made in the article about our own projection of morality onto the machine.
I'm not 100% sure of the ask but I think Teleport can do this sort of thing. https://goteleport.com/docs/

also -

AWS has AWS Systems Manager. Any system can run AWS SSM agent and SSM Documents define scripts that can be run on machines running SSM agent. On demand or scheduled, with some dynamic inputs etc.
> I am eager for this to stop being newsworthy and await the veneer of morality being replaced by unbiased real morality in our software.

Given recent trends in the development of AI, this is not something I would be holding my breath for.
To steelman those school administrators/policy makers, we barely know how the human body even works and how to maintain it.

These mechanisms like diet and sleep have feedback cycles of months, year, or decades. Sometimes even lifetimes. We're extremely bad at learning from them and often fall into short-term traps that cause much bigger long-term harm.

I.e. do we, as a society, know what "a healthy diet" is? Or what "healthy sleep habits" are? I would argue we don't. If you were to survey the median person, they'd probably be pretty outdated and wrong on both. Same for doctors, who typically have their knowledge from med school and haven't kept updated much ever since. In my experience, the typical doctor doesn't know much about chronotypes besides maybe that they exist, and will recite diet dogma from the 80s or whenever he/she graduated.

So while I do agree that the impact is terrible, let's not forget that the median person simply has no idea what works, even the leading frontier of science and researchers is only slightly better off. It's like being mad at medieval peasants for not knowing about electrons or ramjets: it was very unlikely they could've known better at the time.
> The US can't bomb anything that has air defense

Now it's:

> Has the US ever bombed a country with GOOD air defense, give a specific example

You should probably provide a timeline because I would just give examples from World War II or something and that would effectively "prove you wrong".

But my response was to your initial statement that the US can't bomb anything that has air defense, which is incorrect, as you know. Secondly you are probably thinking about bombing strictly in terms of aircraft bombing things, but you're neglecting that the US can launch missiles and take out air defense elements and so wondering whether the US can bomb a country with good air defense probably isn't the right question to ask because the US would destroy the air defense elements and then bomb the country.

But even so, yes the US can bomb a country with good air defense because the US has developed weapons platforms that can do so.
Software Engineering of Machine Learning Systems
> This shift reverses at adulthood. The biological nature of this daily rhythm means that sending a teenager to bed earlier won’t necessarily mean they fall asleep earlier.

No, this shift does not reverse in adulthood for some people... I am in my 30's and I still fall asleep midnight to 1 AM, and wake up "late" by most adult standards at around 8/9 AM.

I can not shift my sleep schedule to earlier, I've tried many times, it's just not how I am wired.
Well, I'd rather that creepy males didn't parade their sexual fetishes everywhere and pretend that it's totally normal and fine to do so.
I would add that there is such diversity among humans that what pleases or contents one will bore and anguish another. There is no single solution which is optimal for all.
Cookie AutoDelete does it well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

It works on Firefox mobile beta and nightly with an addons collection: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...
If only time served makes you a veteran, I guess I'm one too, but a lot of it was mediocre time.

I still like hacking on things, but only on hobby projects. When it has something to do with work, I agree. Clojure reminds me of why I liked coding in the first place and I like the way LISP-type languages make me think differently about what I'm doing.

But "in the real world," yeah, I don't want those things. I want something I can build and maintain and be done.
My cynical take is that someone who cannot figure out what career to be in themselves ends up a guidance counselor.

The job isn't well paid. And anyone who can do large scale talent identification will likely be paid a lot more in the corporate world. So you end up with the least competent ones in public schools.
> My guidance counseler suggested I dont attend college

Reminder to self, tell my children to ignore anything a 'guidance councilor' says
If you go Away, it stops bothering to show you new incoming messages. It gets especially confused on Mac with Universal Control.
I’m so happy to see this available to everybody! Z-lib is definitely in my top 5 favorite websites of all time.
"Medical advances have obviously been huge in making life longer and less painful for the (lucky subsets of the) masses."

Even this much is not clear. The economist Robert Gordon has argued, to my mind pretty persuasively, that medicine (i.e. doctors, hospitals, routine checkups) has received undue credit for improvements in health between 1870-1970 that are actually attributable to improved sanitation, diet, vaccination, etc.
> The hard lesson here was that you build your business on other people's platform at great peril, and it is almost never worth it over a long enough timeline.

I don't disagree with this, but for customers, this is a bonus: I don't have to give random small business my e-mail or any information. I, as the customer, tend to trust Amazon more than Small Co. with any personal and billing information.

I hate that when I buy things using Shopify's payment platform, there's an auto checkbox that says "Allow store to contact me with deals and offers" that I have to opt out of.
I should not have to donate a single penny to a charity to end homelessness. The US is a rich as fuck country, and has every ability to end poverty, up to and including increasing taxes for well off people like me.

Am I really supposed to believe that we could build an entire cargo ship every 3 days out of 18 shipyards in 1942, but we somehow can't build a million simple and dirt cheap homes?
I think the Roam Research style backlinked knowledge management apps are directly enabled by datascript.

Two "copy cats" (not meant to be derogatory) of Roam that are open source are:
https://github.com/logseq/logseq
https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

The underlying in memory datalog style database that can run in the browser that enables these apps
https://github.com/tonsky/datascript