skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The types of people who hold this concern are categorically unlikely to be the kind of people to ask for help (or accept unsolicited help) from staff at a consumer computer store - they are much more likely to be the type of people who can almost certainly run circles around any consumer technical support or consumer sales staff they ever interact with, in just about every technical domain, and the type who deliberately avoid talking with the staff, as the staff are almost certainly unfamiliar, inexperienced with, and unqualified to address their niche concerns in the first place.

I'd never ask a Microcenter employee whether AMD or Nvidia cards are going to have better pass-through support on the Xen hypervisor to a BSD guest kernel with any expectation of a knowledgeable response, would you?

Would you ask a Best Buy employee whether the session tokens used by a wireless router's web interface are generated using a PRNG or a CSPRNG and expect them to be helpful?
While I do agree with the sentiment of the article and that all these workers should be paid a good living wage (especially the ones labelled essential during covid!)... I love on-demand everything. There is no way I ever will go back to doing some chores manually, like grocery shopping.

_Some_ things will always stay ultimately, like great restaurants/bars/clubs/... _if_ they focus on the human experience. I do not drive to a italian restaurant any longer to have a great pizza - I could simply order me one nowadays! - but the experience maybe a few hours of the flair being there.
I really only pay for WSJ, I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars every month just for news which I rarely consume. I did some research as to what sort of bias every news source had, and it seemed like WSJ was trusted the most by "both sides" which caught my attention. I wish news didn't lean one way or the other, it's really tiresome. I just want raw facts. Too many a time I see a crazy headline, people losing their minds, only to pull up the source video or what have you, and discover that they jumped the gun and didn't vet anything.
Right - and the risk is much greater seeing “unfiltered” emergency patients, compared to a patient who has had a full assessment in the ED, had surgical issues ruled out, etc and was then admitted to the internal medicine service.
I think it's a symptom of the same problem. We've already devalued quality of life by embracing car centrism, so we may as well let noisy DCs set up anywhere.
Each YC funded startup gets one "Launch HN" post (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/launches, https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html). It's fine if they've already launched. If they're already well-known to the community it might be different, but that's rare. In this case, for example, none of the posts you linked to got much attention.
If you can be restored from simply doing a different task, then its not real burnout.

As someone who has undergone real burnout from burning the candle at both ends for to long, I wish it was this simple. Its sometimes called a mental or nervous breakdown, and the only real solution is to disconnect from everything you can (hard to disconnect from kids), and just try to get back to a stable place. For me that was living in a Costa Rica for 3 months with no TV and spotty slow internet. The only thing you can do is sit on the veranda and relax.
I guess my question is if US tech companies don't comply with the Indian government and gets shut down, wouldn't an identical company who will comply with the Indian government just take its place?

The censorship is taking place either way right? Why not take the money?
If you're laying off people, you're going to also get rid of the low performers. Maybe you don't have enough low performers (or just don't know who they are) to make up the quota and you have to remove whole teams or use arbitrary metrics, but there will be an overrepresentation of below-average workers compared to the survivors. Source: wife is a manager at a company that had single-digit percent layoffs.
Missing Turbo Pascal and J++ on the list.
mRNA vaccine research was funded in large part by DARPA grants in the USA.
it's nice to see debian taking a stance here.

Although ubuntu is based on debian, it is significantly worse with respect to privacy and respect for the user.
I've hit this in software. Someone - not me - gives an estimate, a deadline is created, then... when I say the deadline can't be met... I'm 'negative' or 'confrontational' or 'not a team player'. When the deadline isn't met, I've been singled out as the 'cause' because I was trying to 'prove a point' or related language. Doesn't happen every day, but has happened more than a few times, and has happened to colleagues I've heard recount similar stories.

But yeah, in that example - totally the driver's fault. He's willing to break company property just to try to get himself some more sleep every week, without even considering the shareholders who've already taken out margin loans against their stock. Can you imagine how crappy it will be for them if next quarter comes in below analyst estimates?
The documentary did not even talk about how the Supreme Court of India investigated twice and the first one while the current opposition government was in power, and what conclusion they have reached. No witnesses from who were actually affected on both sides. Not sure if it should even be called a documentary.
Pipelines are even safer but not viable for all substances that need transport. But for those where a pipeline is viable, moving transport off of trains and into pipes is a good path. Going to guess in this particular case, a pipeline delivering vinyl chloride doesn't make sense, as the capital costs would be too high given the sparse endpoints. Petroleum products on the other hand are a pretty good match for pipelines where they exist.
The national research labs are great, but there are only 17 of those, and they don't employ that many people when compared to the software industry. Good gigs if you can get them, certainly.
But if it isn't politician's head on the line they won't do shit
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programmin...
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
While possible, I am not so sure of that. I am in my early/mid 20s (so hopefully no major cognitive decline!) but I still find things taking longer than expected. Part of it may be the work I’m doing today is tougher in some ways. I also have adhd though so that may also affect this.
They don’t even have something as simple as a key combo to mute and other basic functionality (macos).
Plus the data itself (encoded in load-db.js) at another 101KB.

Though given the first couple of links on the current front page that are local (Ask HN) so small because this site is tight, video content, etc, have payloads of 4.2MByte (a Washington Post article), 2.2MByte (something on the Economist), 4.5MByte (Wired), 4.7MByte (the-odin), ..., if that 780K+101K is doing something genuinely useful it perhaps isn't that big compared to the bad standard set elsewhere!

For a serious use, storing the DB engine and data in local resources rather than reloading each time which the devtools network profiler suggests is happening, would be a good idea (preferably only transferring a diff when there is an update).
This reads rather damningly. There a rundown on why you are so negative on him?

I recognize the name, but I have not followed him directly. Amusingly, I thought he was more of an editor of folks with decent opinions, such that I don't think I know his.
You paid to board in group X rather than group Y (for some value of X < Y). You got that, although it sounds like group X and group Y were boarded together.

Would you be complaining if the entire flight was full of people in group Z (for some value of Z < X)? Or if you'd bought a day-of-travel upgrade when you would've gotten a complimentary upgrade with your frequent-flyer status? Or if you'd paid extra to select a seat at booking when the seat you wanted turned out to be open at check-in time? Or if you paid to change your flight rather than wait on free same-day stand-by?

For all you, or the checkin agent, know there could've been irregular ops that moved the entire passenger complement from another flight to yours after you checked in. Unlikely, but it happens.

If you're really that worried about, write the airline and complain. They may give you a refund or some free miles or something. However, you got exactly what you paid for and entered willing into the transaction.

And, to be clear, literally the entire business of airlines (which is yield management) is based on asymmetry of knowledge between between travelers and carriers.
That kind of "well if we as a single company manage to take over this entire sector that's a $XX Billion/Trillion dollar market" is how the tech world evaluation has been completely broken. It's part of what drove Tesla stock to the insane valuation it's still not coming down from, "well if self driving ever delivers they could take over the car, bus/public transit AND taxi businesses at the same time!" without even demonstrating a real hands off autopilot.
It’s still bad that they would remove any add-on without notifying the maintainer of the reason.
that's what apt is for.
> A parrot can’t play 20 questions,

Not, but a tree can.

> emulate theory of mind,

Neither can Chat GPT. "Failing a Theory of Mind at the same level a 7 year old does" is no more Theory of Mind than being really good at chess is.

> or implement merge sort with pirate themed variable names.

True.
Not outside of the UK without a VPN (And let's be honest, who buys one in a country which has restricted internet to begin with?) but if they haven't blocked this link in your locale here's an option to watch it as well:

https://archive.org/details/india.-the.-modi.-question.-s-01...
Are you sending them from your own email server, or a service like Constant Contact? You'll have better luck if the server is known to the spam checkers and has a good reputation.
Only one person should ever take the blame for this. The guy who "lost" billions of dollars from the earthquake fund is the same guy who could have enforced stricter building codes.

It's time for the people of Turkey to make their voices heard.
I use Containers with Transitions (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-wi...)

It's a bit tedious to set it up at first but it's the only way I know of to get the following functionality:

With GMail open in a "google" container, non-google domain links open in non-google containers (configurable which container if any). Google domain links (drive, calendar, maps, etc) open in the google container.

Once setup, this means in your "standard" or non-specified container you can log out of all google services and stop their most explicit tracking of you through simple account cookies being read across the web while you search, etc. No longer when you visit sites that allow sign-in with google will your account name be auto-suggested, because the sites don't have that level of tracking info when you're browsing and searching outside of the google container. Viewing random trash yt videos will no longer sway the recs you get in yt.

The downside is that my google searches, done outside the google gulag, run into captcha prompts b/c I guess google search doesn't expect that much consistent traffic from someone who isn't signed into one of their services.

edit: this also means that you can, for example, containerize gmaps and set it up so that non-google domain links followed out of maps open in a non-google container. clicking a link to a business's website from their gmaps page no longers propagates your google account cookie to their site, etc. it opens in a different container, automatically.
I kind of agree, some Typescript projects look like Haskell envy (with all GHC extensions enabled).
Ask HN: What respirator can I send to people in Ohio?
"The chemicals were diverted into a trench and burnt off. Officials warned, however, that it would send toxic gases phosgene—used during World War I—and hydrogen chloride into the atmosphere."

Understandably, it is tough to figure out which respirator to get for which condition. Does anyone know how to choose?
"European-style" isn't so much of a thing. There are all sorts of models. BioNTech is a public listed for-profit company that partnered with Pfizer, a public listed for-profit company, to develop that vaccine.

There needs to be lots of profit in healthcare for anyone to do anything, or even to be in a position to do anything.
That's a pretty obnoxious reply, especially considering they are your alumni. Be more humble.
AI babysitter for infants to supplement – not replace – parents. Captures audio / biometrics and responds to the baby with targeted music, positive affirmations, cooing, etc, to promote positive emotional state. Also notifies parents of states that require their intervention, like hunger, soiled diaper, abnormal vitals, inconsolability. Parents can take a break, watch a movie, entertain friends, etc, with the comfort of knowing their baby is being intelligently monitored. Existing baby monitors are way more noise than signal.
Lol yep. I mean I enjoy free articles here and there but I don't see Mozilla being wrong here
So the argument is that synchrony taken to extreme is ridiculous, therefore we need asynchrony? Sorry, but that's a textbook manipulation. Almost like he's trying to sell us something...

No wonder AWS UX is so terrible.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/number... (dates for 2021 to 2015 as of Dec 31 on that yer)

2022 8,992 ( from https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/13/twilio-layoffs-1500-employees-17percent-of-workforce.html )
2021 7,867
2020 4,629
2019 2,905
2018 1,440
2017 996
2016 730
2015 567

In the past 3 years, they've tripled in size. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+revenue+and+profit shows the comparison of the revenue and net income over that time.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+revenue+and+profit... isn't quite as readable for financial data, but shows the context with employees (as this is about a layoff).
I was saying the same thing to a colleague a couple of weeks back. The power of ChatGPT will become obvious when it's sucking in all of an orgs data.

At that point instead of your boss asking you to send an email to someone or asking the data team to pull some stat, they'll just ask the chatbot to do it for them.

My guess is 80%+ of the work most people in corporate jobs do could fairly easily be automated with the next generation of GPT being fully integrated with an organisations data and tools.

It's so obvious the power of this technology. Those saying ChatGPT is still making a few programming errors with their crappy prompts are missing the point. Wait until a slightly more advanced version of GPT has access to your dev documentation + all your repos + your jira ticket board + your dev environment.

You won't even need to ask it to do anything. Your boss is going to quickly wonder why they need a team of 20 devs when a team of 2 devs reviewing ChatGPT pull requests is 10x more efficient.
Have plenty of free time? Check out the new Double Fine documentary
Deeply discounted doesn't mean a whole lot when your monthly income is $50
Nutty idea, political grandstanding and attempt to evoke panic.

Not every situation has a "Pearl Harbor moment". Most situations don't so why should/would we expect one?
That's more due to exclusionary zoning than building codes. There is no reason why we couldn't build, for instance, a boarding house under modern building codes, which would create more affordable housing on the low end. The reason that doesn't get built is that the zoning doesn't allow it.
Cars have a safety rating, I wonder if houses could have the same kind of rating?

Would it be a better situation if houses for sale/rent will have a transparent safety rating visible to tenants and contractors could choose whether they build expensive, high safety buildings, or cheaper, low safety buildings?

Might sound dystopian, but to me it seems like the preferable solution.
I know I live in an old house that would probably not fit for an earthquake, but I also know that if I want to live in a safer house, I'd need to pay more or move to a less desirable location, so I'm OK with taking the risk that an earthquake will kill me while I'm in the house.

The question is whether the market could balance itself enough so contractors don't build just crappy houses and take all the new margin to themselves.
. BJP is clearly toning down its more radical elements how exactly this is measured? do you have any stats to support your claim not the observation going whats printed on the media / social media.
You're kidding yourself if you think the op was suggesting we abandon capitalism. This absolutist mindset has to stop. We can acknowledge our current system is flawed without suggested we abandon it entirely for something else. The reality is that our regulation of our system could be better.

Your binary thinking is lazy and closes you off to the possibility that we could improve our system.
Seems like it'd be smart to have a footnote or reference to the tragedy that informed the code on each section instead of allowing everything to be forgotten every couple years
That's even worse because that's saying the trillion dollar industry were every knowledge worker pays $84 a month for ChatGPT accounts is the bottom end of the range.
This works up to a point, but then you lose focus on what you were working on. Also, sometimes you can't rotate the task at hand.
CLOS multi-methods actually.
Checking for updates leaks your IP, which is PII.
Alastair Reynolds (one of my favorite hard sci-fi authors) used the idea a few times as well. Mostly as a minor detail, but “A Spy In Europa” had cities supported by hyperdiamond vacuum balloons, which is a pretty great image.
It also seems worse than that based on other replies in this post.

Twilio has only had one profitable quarter in its entire existence. Both the business model and strategy are clearly broken.

I do wonder (read: hope) if this means the next wave of tech companies will be more private/lifestyle focused. 37Signals had a great article about this:

https://37signals.com/why-we-choose-profit/

Not every company needs to be a market leader, what's wrong with having a drastically smaller size (say <200 people, a number plucked from thin air) and decent revenue?
Clickhouse has experimental feature enabling a Watch https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/watc...
Ahh... probably good to clarify that.

My company limits us to a maximum of 15% of your total compensation in addition to IRS limits. I set it to 15% and let them sort out the IRS math.
I hope they do. This can only improve Teams
Wouldn’t mind if it’s monthly. Weekly I feel like I would probably know what hit the top.

You could also tag the content so if I wanna see the top AI or hardware or Geopolitics post I could sign up to see those. Some posts that way might filter past just the top 30.

Imo just the top 30 don’t add that much value. Tagged top 30 might, at least for me.
The value of text completion goes far beyond chat interfaces. LLM's are computers.
We decided to use Lago with our SaaS. Billing is super complicated and Lago handles everything we need out of the box. Building this stuff would have been a nightmare. Really cool!
I believe GP is referring to the `snap` package manager on Linux, not snapping in the UI.
How can you say the questions aren't in good faith and then link to a popular Stack Exchange question and argument about some of them? Developers do need to ask these questions.
This has been the case since even before the invasion of Ukraine:

https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-update-to-travel-adv...

The world, and in particular the US population, seems to be very much in panic mode with obvious signs of hypervigilance for at least the last few weeks. Everyone needs to take a deep breath.
Yes and no. A pet parrot repeats what you yourself trained it with, or at least the people in the residence. ChatGPT was apparently trained on the web en masse; the parrot can speak back with the sum of human knowledge, to some approximation. That's quite useful. (And also problematic sometimes, as discussed elsewhere.)
> BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues.

BCC iPlayer doesn't work in any country other than the UK, so there isn't any question of it working in India. BTDigg is blocked in India, along with most piracy oriented websites, since long before the BBC documentary thing I think.
I never claimed there were no differences between these accidents...but we could simply ban those chemicals, or ban the industry from making those chemicals in that way. The point is not that this didn't happen because, after careful deliberation, it was found that this wasn't possible.

The point is that it wasn't even considered, despite the very many accidents having vastly more severe consequences. And it's not just this one industry. How about cars? How many people die every year? Do we ban cars? We could. Do we require cars to never go faster than 10 km/h? We could, and in fact that was what Carl Benz wanted. And one of the reasons his company effectively failed and was bought by Daimler. But we do not, because we consider the benefits to outweigh the (substantial) risks.

With nuclear, we don't seem to be capable of making such an informed decision, balancing the risks with the rewards. Instead, we demand that the risk be zero. This is obviously irrational.

The cost of the Tōhoku earthquake and Tsunami was $235 billion. Do you also count the cleanup costs of all the other technology that was destroyed by the earthquake and Tsunami against that technology. Or do you do that only with nuclear?

The $100 billion cost you claim against nuclear was caused by the Tsunami, not by nuclear power, and of course the number is massively inflated due to the overreaction to the accident. So thank you for further proving my point of the massive cost of irrational overreaction to nuclear.

Fear of nuclear power has killed more people than nuclear power. And in fact, the number of lives saved by nuclear power is in the many millions.
A fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust
"An Apple iPhone XR or newer is required for the 3D Face Scan. Bigscreen Beyond is manufactured based on this 3D Face Scan, and cannot be manufactured without it. If you do not own an iPhone, you can complete your 3D Face Scan by borrowing a friend's iPhone or using an iPhone at an Apple Store."
The bigger (and richer) the market, the stronger a country is in negotiations. All those politicians who would like their country to leave the European Union should be reminded of this.
Linkin Park releases AI-generated music video “Lost”
EDIT: My response was sarcastic. Just characterizing the right wing misinformation accounts on HN.

The pogrom is an internal matter. A hitjob is external interference. /s

Btw, I watched the documentary and it actually covers the Supreme court judgement, so the responding accounts are actually spreading misinformation.
I don't think I've seen a case where the local government wants to build more housing but, gosh, they're just too expensive. It's usually NIMBYism or just general disinterest in a "non-sexy" political issue.
Dioxin Tests Conducted in 60s on 70 Philadelphia Inmates (1983)
> The Chinese balloons weren’t in a large metropolitan area.

Do we know that? We mainly just know they weren’t shot down over one.
Incidentally, it's amazing how terrible MS Teams is at code blocks, both the creation of them and the copy/pasting/using the code from one somebody else created.