skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is my best optimistic take on things. The rest of the time I'm worried the AI is coming for our jobs.

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
> But saying how those who earn more should pay more, when they already do, is simply silly.

I cannot tell if you're being disingenuous or genuinely don't realise that people saying that mean:

"those who earn more should pay a bigger slice of their income"

The goals are literally as I have described.
"I was able to"

Perfectly reasonable people are convinced every day to take unreasonable actions at the directions of others. I don't think stepping into the role of provocateur and going at a LLM with every trick in the book is any different than standing up and demonstrating that you can cut your own foot off with a chainsaw. You were asking a search engine to give you widely available information and you got it. Could you get a perfectly reasonable person to give you the same information with careful prompting?

The "think of the children" argument is especially egregious; please be more respectful of the context of the discussion and avoid hyperbole. If you have to resort to dead kids to make your argument, it probably doesn't have a lot going for it.
I saw a great visualization of this long ago. It plots two curves of ability, one for execution and the other for evaluation. They both increase with sinusoid curves shifted so that when one plateaus, the other is at an inflection point at highest rate of increase.

Technique and critique don’t necessarily advance smoothly at the same rate, leaving a variable gap over time, so sometimes you feel better about your work and sometimes you think it’s trash.

The important thing is to keep practicing.
No matter how many TLDs are created, .com is what matters.
"Make stalking a first-time felony offense; as of now, this is not the norm in most states. Bonus points if this can be done at the federal level."

"consent to Tile’s ability to work with law enforcement — even without a subpoena — if a Tile device is suspected of having been used in a crime"

Why are you advocating overpolicing and warrantless surveillance when we already know the police, prosecutors and courts are institutionally racist?
still they do have a strong focus on size reduction, like using musl instead of glibc.
Looks great. Been using Mapbox as my go-to for small projects since it's much smoother than Leaflet and has better DX in my opinion. This seems to capture all of that with an even better DX so definitely will be trying it out.
This company work will be infinitely easier with LLM like Chatgpt. Lower cost and quicker fake content generation.

I foresee the next iteration of Google Search Algo having a penalty for AI generated content...
I had similar problems with CircleCI and it’s docker executor. We recently switched to GitHub actions and the following led to huge improvements:

- much faster network speeds.
- We no longer run on the docker executor. Instead we run on Ubuntu. These boot in a second or 2 pretty consistently.
- the bulk of our test suite was able to be pulled out of docker entirely (a lot of jest, and PHPUnit tests).
- we have a bigger suite of E2E PHPUnit tests that we spin up a whole docker compose stack for. These are slower but still manageable.

Parallelism is key in all of this too. Our backend test suite has a full execution time of something like 250 minutes, but we just split it over a bunch of small workers and the whole thing completes in about 8 minutes.
Blockchain, can it run Doom? Yes it can
Mapbox was born from open source tools & culture. They were always active and supporting at FOSS4G.

I wonder what has changed?
I wonder what may happen in the future. I'm sure neither Purdue Pharmaceuticals nor the Sackler family expected to be seen as criminal in what they were doing (opioid epidemic). But when the outcomes were shown to be a result of their actions, they were convicted— or at least forced into settlement.
The way you attack Wikipedia is different, the "not notable" can be very powerful.
I think 'non-binary' gender is most likely a result of people being told that being a man or woman is no longer related to the material reality of one's sex but instead is some mysterious inner feeling of gender identity that can't really be explained or understood except by reference to cultural gender stereotypes. It's the identity of the gap left between these exaggerations of masculinity and femininity.

That's also probably why non-binary identity is overwhelmingly the most prevalent amongst the youngest generations, as they've been brought up being taught the ideology of gender identity as if it's a fact.
> Public transport sucks, not sure why so many people people like it.

Public transport sucks in the US, but that's just because the US has a weird hostility towards it, so doesn't properly invest in it. There's nothing about it that makes it have to suck.
And the IDEs which practically write your code for you. I mean yeah Java is so verbose but most of that word vomit is me just tabbing through autocomplete

I went back and prototyped a slightly similar app in Python w/ a gui toolkit and I felt like I was driving through exception city. I have made my career writing in dynamic languages so I forgot just how pleasant it was to write in a static one!
I blame the Apple II computer.
I'd say it's more universally an extremely polarized urban vs. rural divide that isn't really defined by the borders of any particular region of the country, although more rural states like Idaho tend to carry over common rural paranoias and resentments into the political space.
Are there decent label placement solutions these days? It’s a really tricky problem to do well.
I think that's the goal. I think Amazon wants to downsize more, but they know that repeated waves of layoffs look bad to investors. Plus, they want to end remote work. Mandating RTO lets them solve both.

2.5 months also isn't very much time to relocate if necessary. Amazon could easily have given a MUCH longer transition period. It's quite cruel to workers, many of whom have planned their medium/long term around remote work.
Imagine the post WWIII disappointment while walking around your pristine neighborhood.

"Nobody thought enough about us to want to eliminate us."
When government corruption is legalized in the form of "campaign contribution", such kind of issues are inevitable.
I don't want to sound annoying, but it's a bit hard to generate raster tiles. I mean openstreetmap data is open and free, but it doesn't seem they distribute any software to build the raster tiles they host.

I don't know what they use, but it doesn't seem there is any software that is simple enough to use.

I just want to configure a subregion, call generate-tiles.py planet.xml or whatever, and be done with it.

I like open source, but there will always be open source software that is needlessly complicated because, well, it lets companies like mapbox and others to generate income for their expertise.

That's not the best open source spirit, in my view.
GDPR doesn't distinguish between websites and applications. It's about collection, storage, and transmission of personal information. No matter who, what, or where. One of the core pieces of information cracked down upon by the French DPA CNIL is that the IP of a user is considered protected under GDPR.

The German DPA has ruled that the usage of Google Fonts on a website broke GDPR because it forced the user's browser to reveal their IP to Google.
If you're casting a populist distinction between "economic elites" and "the People" you've already fallen for an oversimplified, cynical, inflammatory framing of the issue that has always been used by demagogues throughout history.
BRK is way bigger now. Also, value investing has done poorly as of late, compared to in the 80s and earlier. The era of tiny, undiscovered value companies going up 10x or more has largely ended. There is no need to buy tiny , undiscovered but risky companies when large companies like AAPL , V, or MA can generate even better returns and with more stability. Compare the long-term returns of MA or V...you will be hard pressed to find any company that beats those.
Don't worry! No one will ever ask you to again, now that we have LLMs that can do the same work faster, cheaper, and with no troublesome concerns over the morality of it all.

(I'm laughing right now, but not because I'm happy...)
Think of it like working in Illustrator, vs working not just in photoshop, but photoshop with a flattened source image.
OpenAI was created as an open-source nonprofit company
For filesystems the former. Having test code running in kernel space is relatively uncommon, though some kernel subsystems do that.

"can't even properly test it anymore" almost certainly means not that it is impossible for the maintainer, but more like they have better things to spend their time on.
the Epstein docs were just released: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250471-Epstein-Docs...

so i want ahead and indexed it all for searchability:
https://github.com/esteininger/epstein-docs

Example query:

https://collie.ai/show/epstein?defaultSearch=clinton
Aren't things like LeetCode and Hacker Rank supposed to be programming drills? Though I do like the idea of getting a realistic work simulation. That said isn't 4 hours a little short? I wouldn't be able to get much of anything done in so little time.
no to forget: Turing's seminal paper
>I hope one day governments catch up to the harms they're doing, and regulate them just as they did for Big Tobacco and many other truly evil industries.

But how does that happen when our government officials (at least in North America) seem technologically illiterate, and rely on Silicon Valley for their re-elections and donations (therefore becoming more susceptible to lobbying)?
I can't imagine coding like that. Imagine the frustration level at the end of the hour when they go to run it.
I was under the impression minis will be discontinued. Hope that is not true.
TSMC is making a lot of investments that won't see ROI anytime soon. Couple that with geopolitical risks and you can see how while buying might not be a bad idea, holding for short term gains would be very risky.
What's ironic is they're doing the opposite of what they claim Elon Musk is doing. So they randomly inject Elon Musk into a conversation about this topic to add that association. Imagine the insanity if bings ChatGPT got a hold of this thread as truth.

Oops, I may have dragged ChatGPT into it now too.
That’s because plenty of kids from 2nd generation immigrants from Mexico actually grow up mostly speaking and hearing Mexican Spanish and very little English because that’s doable in the US.

Your accent is entirely depend on your ability to distinguish and form sounds something which kids naturally pick from their environment but become harder as you lose plasticity.
Humans may need more sleep in winter, study finds
I noticed that many times using cache makes gitlab ci take longer than just fetching node dependencies again via npm install.
Typical boot is somewhere.. okay, lets take 30 seconds for all boot shenanigans. Okay, 1 min for ease of count.
That's 0.0694444444444444% a day.
Doubt it.
Even monster servers (like 4CPU and TBs of RAM) boot up in 10 minutes and that's only 0.69% of the day.
Modern systems don't gobble all up all available power at the startup and pretty quickly go to a power controlled mode.
Sure if you have some monster with a dozens of HDDs then there could be some nuances, but at that point you surely don't reboot often anyway
SpaceX drops plans to convert oil rigs into launch platforms
That's not quite accurate. They talk about paying, and possibly overpaying, for best of breed companies with high and sustainable ROE.

They say that explicitly here, in their Acquisition Criteria https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2000ar/acq.html
I think they are getting at "vetocracy". I like Vitalik on this subject: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/19/bullveto.html
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34827298
I think a key part of their new user optimization is putting very little weight on your previous performance. So if you make a great video as a user with 0 followers, you still have similar odds to a 10M follower user to making it big on the FYP.

There might, of course, still be additional new-user weight. But I think this is at least a part of it.
> One theory is that they did so because of concern over geopolitical risk

That isn’t a logical reason at all. TSMC’s risks and Apple’s risks are directly correlated and Apple is Berkshire’s largest holding
>They also encourage users to save their work in the cloud way too strongly.

I mean... I usually don't like those sorts of things either, but it's literally a window when you click save, before the main dialog, asking whether to save on the computer or their cloud, with a tick box if you want to skip and always save on the computer. Doesn't get much lighter than this, other than not having cloud integration at all... :)
I totally agree with you. Sometimes I think programming has ruined doing things in the real world - I’m spoiled by the idea that I can slap things together, then iterate to a refined result. But if you do that with anything else, like cooking or home improvement/maintenance, you just end up with a mess.
No build system was ever used in the making of Pinterest's widgets:

https://github.com/pinterest/widgets
FEMA advises Gov. DeWine Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time
That's a great way of looking at it. Languages all have benefits and drawbacks, but you have to consider whether they help you for your problem.

One time, I met a guy who wrote firmware for Seagate hard drives. Any new feature he added had a budget measured in microseconds. Obviously he wrote nothing but C++.
If You Use LastPass, Change All of Your Passwords ASAP
Providing an update: I'm 99% sure my personal email address is being flagged as spam by DO's ticketing system and it isn't that I'm being ignored but that they're not receiving my correspondence. :)

I reached out to @DigitalOcean on Twitter about my tickets and the older one was closed out as a dupe and we moved forward with the most recent one. They weren't able to verify my ID - no reason give but I think I know why - and they asked if we can move forward with an alternate means of verification: a random temp charge between $0.01 and $4.99 to the account and I provide the amount of the charge.

I agreed to this - and 12 hours later I forgot if I had replied so I agreed to it again. This morning I received an automated response asking for me to respond. I responded. 2 hours later still no response - I hit up Twitter again. I'm thinking the reason they weren't able to verify my ID is because they never got my email providing it in the first place.

Now - despite not verifying any charge amount - literally as I was typing this post I received an email stating 2FA was disabled. Either they lied about not being able to verify my ID or they decided to unlock my account anyway without verification which may be of concern to others.

E:

2FA re-enabled and this time I made damn sure to backup my backup codes properly... also responded to the support ticket one final time requesting they verify if they've received it. If I don't hear back I'm going to assume I should change the email associated with my account. :)
How to run KVM guests in your GitHub Actions
"Nor does the law require, as many believe, that executives and directors owe a special fiduciary duty to shareholders. The fiduciary duty, in fact, is owed simply to the corporation, which is owned by no one, just as you and I are owned by no one — we are all “persons” in the eyes of the law. Shareholders, however, have a contractual claim to the “residual value” of the corporation once all its other obligations have been satisfied — and even then directors are given wide latitude to make whatever use of that residual value they choose, as long they’re not stealing it for themselves."
Except in this document, it's actually documented as "create" (with an 'e')
It is conceivable that the universe could be contiguous. Our current scientific thinking points to it being constituted from discrete pieces though.
aka our directors own urban real estate holdings and have vested interests in collecting rent
I'm having trouble finding citations on the specific law, but this website states that the US has capped satellite imagery for civilian use at 0.31 m

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02365
Ginger is surprisingly useful. Apparently it works similar to a cgrp antagonist. Ask a Dr about cgrp antagonists and cgrp inhibitors. I’ve even pushed ice to the roof of my mouth to fight the migraine pain before.

For a migraine, I once fell asleep in a yoga position that relaxes the trapezius, tens unit across my face and back (separately), a cooling pad across my forehead, and heating pad on my back for 50+ minutes. I had probably taken ginger and a cup of coffee too. I did wake up without the migraine. Traps felt very worn out.

Magnesium lotion might help. I’ve done aloe Vera plus menthol/something cooling before.

Definitely avoid alcohol like it’s the plague. Minimal caffeine per day (double edged sword), proper hydration, never second hand smoke, no strong scents, basically any triggers, etc. The list goes on.

The real trick is finding someone good. For me it was someone with a phd in psychiatry and md neurology who specializes in migraines and is familiar with movement disorders. Probably related to scoliosis of my spine. Dr has some mixture of stuff (including the dental pain killers) to inject for migraines that works miracles.

For long Covid I’m thinking paxlovid, then try to just nuke inflammation with anything known to fight it. But be careful…
VC funding? I think they were funded mostly by grants and their own revenues for the first few years. Then they started taking VC money (over $300M to date).
I get what your saying but I don't think you actually want what you're asking for. What would this 'caring' even be good for? Because I don't get the impression that it would actually solve anything right now and only serve to infect the male demographic with the all-to-common victim mentality.

From an individual perspective if testosterone is such a concern you can do trt and remove yourself from this issue. And while ivf isn't ideal and I'm not currently in the market to have children right now, I don't see that route as causing existential stress in me personally or calling my masculinity into question in any meaningful way.
Electric motorcycles are very quiet, so yes, electric motorcycles resolve that concern too. They're also twist-and-go - there's no clutch. Some people (like me) would miss that, but there are many others who would love not having to worry about it.
Audacity also offers non-destructive editing.
This City Shouldn’t Be Here
I've just tried it and it opened openai's chatgpt
Investors love layoffs thus far. Has this generally not been the case in the past? Or specifically repeated rounds are not taken well?
This is very cool.

However, most our use cases would be in PHP apps. I see that you’re working on a code generation API. Would that be the step necessary for generating the PHP invokable code?
Same here. It's too short. Nothing there. like watching a bunch of gifs but with audio.
Yeah one of the ways 17th amendment really broke things was the Senate went from an elitist organization representing the intrests of states and statesman like the UN in order to balance the ills of populist House but now it's got all the populist ills of the House but non of the bennifits of geographic or population representation.
Not the expert on this, but Tesla whistle and Tesla shorts come to mind immediately. There are more subtle ones, e.g. the Tesla respirators right when Covid hit.

This was all before Twitter of course.
They seem to be at step 3 at the moment.
You don’t know much about chip manufacturing and the expertise and logistics required do you?
> That's not true. The option is there.

I tried it before I wrote the comment to be 100% sure, the option was not there, and it still is not.

I am not sure why it is the case but I am quite sure it was the case way before as I was making sure of this back then.
Your post is a great example why I wish Go lang was named something different. Because you use the lower cased versions java, rust, js, ts, nodejs, deno, etc. But all your 'go' refer to the verb, not the Go language.
I love them - they add a really nice taste and a bit of texture.
You are responsible for your choices all day every day for your entire life. I agree. It is a self-destructive behavior to think otherwise, in my opinion. How can a person grow if they don't take responsibility for their choices?
Speech is controlled by muscles, which in turn is effected by signals from brain (through nervous system). So, in his case, cancer could be affecting the nervous system.
> You can get stuck in this loop of topping your last performance.

There's an easy way to avoid this.

Burma-Shave.
The language you're most proficient in that has a somewhat decent community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidated_damages

"Under the common law, liquidated damages may not be set so high that they are penalty clauses rather than fair compensation... Generally, at common law, a liquidated damages clause will not be enforced if its purpose is to punish the party in breach rather than to compensate the injured party"

If Tile provides information to the police to help catch a stalker, they can't claim their reputational damage is $1m. Actually, even their statements in this thread show that it's intended as a punishment.
My understanding is that you can't "show and meet with" them unless you are already a significant donor.
> Companies don't want the financial hit of large HQs staying empty because of some specific arbitrary regulations/requirements.

This argument needs to stop. The financial hit of paying for office properties is orders of magnitude higher than any sort of lease break fee or regulation penalty. If these huge tech companies could safe money by getting rid of their office locations in favor of remote work they would do it in a heartbeat. Forcing people to come back to the office due to some sunk-cost-fallacy for paying for office space makes zero sense.

> Going by CEOs' statements and seemingly coordinated actions, there is cultural stigma against remote work, implying that its unproductive, lazy, or whatever, hence these blanket policies read more like political statements than measured, data driven responses.

The CEO of Amazon doesn't make a decision of this magnitude based on a whim. They'll have mountains of productivity data on remote work by now and it even says so in the post.
Ask HN: Which query builders (SQL) inspire you and why?
I'm looking for inspiration. The query builders I've worked with have had convoluted method-chaining to build the queries, poor or no support for CTEs or database-specific methods, their own DSLs and generally been just-useful enough to keep using but magnitudes more painful than writing SQL.

If I were to write a query builder, which should I look to for inspiration and why?
I'm not sure what you mean by that? Isn't there a pretty obvious distinction between the interest and desires of the mass of people vs the interests of powerful special interest groups like corporations and the very wealthy.

I mean we have no problem looking at historical society and drawing a distinction between nobility and the masses. Why does that logic fall apart in modern day societies
To be clear, what I am saying is it is NOT clear how enforceable it would be vs saying we know it is not enforceable. Our terms also specify we can only collect after a criminal conviction. The press writeup did not go into detail. We've thought this through quite a bit, and it is in a grey area.
That is a fairly brave statement given some of the research looking at how failed attempts at ML modeling fall apart [1]

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/06/data-cascades-in-machine-l...