skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I emailed my MP

I think that's your problem. You're more likely to have success if you send a letter. Bonus points if it's registered mail. More bonus points if it's hand-written.

(Any staffers who can comment, btw? My experience is purely anecdotal).
yes, and/or word classes that may involve Gender, animate/inanmate categories, etc.
Or perhaps change the title to "narrowly available".
> She was entitled to a refund or vouchers.

Is this true? Many (most?) airlines offered vouchers en masse when they had to cancel most flights during COVID, with no option for full refunds.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of my liability to my customers in the UK is this: I am bound by the contract of sale for 6 years to provide a physical thing that is 'fit for purpose' or to take 'reasonable skill and care' to carry out a service. Unless it was advertised before you bought it that the game wouldn't work without a connection to a server and that this connection would only be guaranteed to operate for a certain time then you might have an argument. Search Citizens Advice Bureau in the UK and browse their consumer rights section to see what you could do and where to get some actual legal advice.
Not really. There are many DRI s at a variety of levels. Authority is distributed and non hierarchical. As the DRI you are responsible for one thing but it comes with no real authority beyond that. The main point of a DRI is that authority is clearly defined. The key advantage of this model is there is broad clarity on who that person is at any time.
It is incredibly easy to screw up cantilever brakes as well. Braking, yes. But doing it safely and efficiently? no.
I think this is a pretty tired debate but people who say “is there any extreme hypothetical situation where you’d be willing to give your rights away” are disconnected from the meaning of the word “rights”.
Now which of those are used by facebooks users
Yes, I agree with your assessment that technologies that can deal with larger than memory datasets (e.g. Polars) can be used to filter data so there are less rows for technologies that can only handle datasets a fraction of the data (e.g. pandas).

Another way to solve this problem is using a Lakehouse storage format like Delta Lake so you only read in a fraction of the data to the pandas DataFrame (disclosure: I am on the Delta Lake team). I've blogged about this and think predicate pushdown filtering / Z ORDERING data is more straightforward that adding an entire new tech like Polars / DuckDB to the stack.

If you're using Polars of course, it's probably best to just keep on using it rather than switching to pandas. I suppose there are some instances when you need to switch to pandas (perhaps to access a library), but think it'll be better to just stick with the more efficient tech normally.
I am pretty sure that no one at the patent office cares if your invention works or not.
I think the primary benefit is that in theory you can cut Google off at any time. If you disable the key service they can no longer decrypt your data. So if you decided that Google is no longer trustworthy you can leave and they can't access your data.

Of course this is sort of an odd game where you need to cut their access off before they backdoor it, so you have to somehow predict that Google is going to become malicious and beat them to the punch. If you a reacting to something that they are doing it likely isn't helping much.

Another possible advantage is that you could potentially have logging on key access which could give some idea of data usage. So if Google starts requesting keys for all of your stored data then you can be suspicious that they are siphoning up your data. (Or doing some background maintenance? Who knows?)

In practice this is probably mostly checkbox theater where it is a feature that Google and their users can list.
I’m not sure if it’s what you mean but the Cricut Joy in the US will cut these out. It’s $150. The larger version is $300.
Very cool. with the define module the last annoyance with SQLite can go away, I can easily define functions to convert between epoch and iso times.
Only Virgin appear to IP block.

Zen doesn't block it at all.
Sportzeug, Nähzeug, Strickzeug, &c.
This illustrates a problem with current penalties - they're too harsh if you have 100% exact enforcement.

Violating auto speed limits is a good example. Society can't enforce speed limits 100% of the time if it relies on the occasional state trooper with a radar gun. Therefore society sets the penalty very high so that the small risk of a citation isn't worth the benefit of speeding.

100% enforcement should have much lower penalties.

There are other problems with 100% strict enforcement, in that we don't even know what laws we have.
Is Clipboard Health engaging in unethical behavior?
Looking at the recent reviews of job interviews for Clipboard Health (YC W17) on Glassdoor, most of them seem to fit a common pattern:

> 1) CH seems to ask the job applicant to complete a lengthy take-home project, in many cases before even having a basic phone call with them. In most cases, it seems to be a very heavily detailed case study or project that goes far beyond what most would consider a reasonable amount of work for an initial stage job application for a non high-level executive job. In some cases, these seem to have possible direct business application for the case study or project, such as a detailed analysis of how to analyze certain metrics to increase sales.

> 2) CH then basically ghosts the job applicant and perhaps gives a generic type of "you were not selected" form letter in response to many hours or even days of effort by the job applicant, without even a drop of feedback.

At best, this seems to be deliberately disrespectful of many job applicants' time. At worst, there might be a potential for an extremely unethical harvesting of free job applicants' labor for Clipboard Health's own business benefit.

Of course with any job interview reviews you can expect some over the top negative feedback by upset people, so you can't look at any individual review and completely believe that their experience is completely true. But when you see dozens of interviews following this pattern, you start to wonder what's going on there.

Now, with such a series of bad reviews, you might ask why is their overall interview experience score only 51% negative? That seems unusually low for a company which claims to have a great culture (most MANGAF companies are in the 15-20% negative interview range as a contrast), but not catastrophically bad.

Looking at it, there seem to be clumps of positive interviews, with very weird English phrasing, and that do not seem to all be genuine. Sorting in order by most recent, and looking around January 13-14, 2023 is particularly interesting. Are these fake positive reviews from somebody? Certain phrases seem unusually weird and are repeated. Glassdoor does seem to manually check reviews for doxing behavior, but I wonder how good their automated "spam" detection systems are? Probably not so good, just based on this.

Now, I'm not making any accusations of illegal behavior or anything, heavens to betsy! But I wonder what a really good analysis of some of this review data might reveal about both the positive and negative reviews. If any journalists want to do some actual investigative journalism, there might be something unusual going on with this company.
It might be my conspiracy brain acting up but "multi-ton machine without manual override" sends all the red flashing lights and klaxons off in my head.

Political assassination via cyber attack/backdoor? ezpz, find a tree, accelerate into it, claim it was the car acting up.

Bug in the software? Sorry you're dying today because they wanted to repossess cars easier, your life is less important than protecting capital.

We're in a world where deregulation has planes either falling out of the sky or attempting to. I don't trust any soft handed regulation on cars without manual overrides.

My car has a push start, but also a manual transmission. I know if something goes wrong and my engine stops responding to the electric throttle I can just pop out of gear and coast.
Perhaps the reason you're being snarky is because you didn't get your caffeine fix. So glad I never developed that dependency...

Here's a contradiction: we expect "free markets" to outperform national or otherwise government services; now square that with East Palestine and the fact that by averages, we have more than one derailment a day.

Another contradiction: we exhort the value of "hard work" even as we build AI to do all the work for us, if the hardcore singularitarians have it their way.
>plastic shopping bags (use textile bags

iirc you would have to use a textile bag several hundred times to have a lower impact that plastic bags, maybe reusing plastic bags is a better option. Or polyester idk.

same for cotton, water use and carbon dioxide emissions are huge and debatably polyester clothes are better environmentally (it's hard to compare as there is no conversion rate between plastic waste/microplastic pollution and carbon dioxide) emissions)
https://grehack.fr/
The videos of self driving Tesla are available on Youtube. Those can be quite convincing.
Depending on which model you are looking at, you cannot get a faster Intel or AMD machine. Also not for less money. The Apple ARM hardware is amazing. Running Linux natively on a fast RISC machine should make many people excited. Also a good long-term alternative when Apple stops supporting new releases of macOS on these machines.

While I like macOS as a "desktop" OS, I run also Linux on my Macs. So far in a VM, which obviously is very convenient. But I am certainly looking forward to installing Asahi.
I highly recommend checking out polars if you're tired of pandas' confusing API and poor ergonomics. It takes some time to make the mental switch, but polars is so much more performant and has a much more consistent API (especially if you're used to SQL). I find the code is much more readable and it takes less lines of code to do things.

Just beware that polars is not as mature, so take this into consideration if choosing it for your next project. It also currently lacks some of the more advanced data operations, but you can always convert back and forth to pandas for anything special (of course paying a price for the conversion).
Much as I love Germany (the country, the people, the culture etc), I can't help pointing out that it wouldn't even be among my top 10 choices if I were an "Indian IT Specialist" considering to move for work. The sad truth is that bureaucracy, fiscality etc are so absurdly overblown in Germany that they almost kill the place in terms of economical viability for anyone above an entry level employment position. IT specialists have way better options elsewhere. And the situation is even worse for entrepreneurs.
In short: Germany is a top spot for tourism and culture… but not somewhere you want to pay taxes as an IT specialist, deal with bureaucracy or create a company.
I'd rather say that phones aren't a good tool for Org-mode: they are very challenged at text input (no keys) and interfaces that avoid text with buttons, dragging, and other reliable gestures have the advantage of minimizing the text and quasi-text input that is the backbone of Org-mode and Emacs in general.
> I wish people would stop insisting on using full-width columns to display their blog content because it is nearly impossible to read on a 27" monitor.

There's a noticeable portion of tech people who seem to believe that unused screen space is somehow wasted. No margins + no line breaks is the gold standard to them.

I don't get it, it's unreadable to me.
I started a paid six month sabbatical in December 2019. It worked out a bit different to what I expected, for all of the obvious reasons, but was still very good.

I followed some advice from my collection of personal and professional mentors, which brutally summarised were:

- Focus on family and friends (work had consumed much of my attention for 8 years so this was very positive for my relationships)

- Do (bad) art, write, draw, make music, paint etc to both have fun and to enable brain plasticity

- Ask myself some questions before the sabbatical about my priorities in life, love and work, write them down and then seal the envelope and not think about them until I opened it at the end of the sabbatical

- Work on my health

- Complete a couple of personal projects

I am a much happier, well-rounded professional as a result achieving much more impact in more complex environments than ever before, and I have quadrupled my TC in the three years afterwards while decreasing my workload.

Being away was also fairly useful for my direct reports' growth, I think.

At home, things went from good to great too. Partner happy, pets happy, friends happy, me happy.

I feel incredibly fortunate that the sabbatical (and everything else that enabled it, and surrounded such a kind and generous offer from my management) took place.
> I don't need org mode on my phone. ... little piece of paper.

And then type that back on a computer? No, thanks, no desktop-oriented note format is ever worth going back that deep into the caves
Me too. Nothing beats them for being straightforward and cost-effective.
Patents don't need to be safe. You can patent a transportation device that works by firing a human out of a cannon, or a self driving car that simply runs over pedestrians, or even just a method of killing someone.
It doesn't have to be slow. There's a reason "Clean code" is being criticized everytime it's mentioned. It touts inheritance and polymorphism as a solution to everything like it's 2002. There's been enough "Inheritance considered harmful" articles to toss that aside

The take on switch statements is covered in "The Pragmatic programmer" as well, which coincidentally is much less criticized when it comes to books about clean code.

The way to fix the switch is getting rid of the class "shape" and making it an interface, then implementing the interface in each shape, as a non-virtual method. And then you don't let people inherit. They can compose instead.

Performance is unaffected, you get rid of the switch, the compiler catches your mistakes for you, and everyone's happy
Your post was a knee-jerk repeat of a very common conservative talking point. It had no nuance to lose.
I like this Apple policy. It seems scummy to charge for minor updates and if some App maker constantly has to revise their program and re-publish it under a different name it discourages charging for minor updates.
Yes! Swapping out NumPy with Arrow underneath! Excited to have the performance of Arrow the API of Pandas. Huge win for the data community!
> I'm unlikely to cutdown any tree, even if it's dead since even those support insects, owls, woodpeckers, and other birds.

Be careful doing this with any tree that can potentially fall on your home or one of your neighbors'. You will have a lot more trouble getting insurance to pay out if they find out you knew the tree was dead.
I think this is a sign of the times we live in.

Innovation today seems to have shifted towards serving the owning class.
Check out Exercism

https://exercism.org/
As a European who moved to USA almost 8 years ago, the positivity still grinds on me. Yes it’s _pleasant_, even nice, but it isn’t kind. Give me a person who speaks their mind any day.

At least it’s kinda okay in engineering land. We have our wry jokes and witty remarks. But poke your head outside that bubble and the amount of verbal gymnastics you have to wade through just to figure out what someone was trying to say … urgh.

edit: This reminds me of when my sister came to visit and we went to a farmer’s market. Someone bumped into her and said ”Excuse me” and she later said ”Aw Americans are so nice!” … no dear, that means “get out of my way asshole”
Looks like a solid POC or test project. Would love to see what solutions they can implement around specific or personalized discovery and even better engagement with devs or studio that make me want to support the project throughout the early process. Can they also incentivize the feedback loop?
While visiting from Africa l loudly said “Australia’s has more coups than the Congo” which nobody seemed to like
...or Double Commander
Not quite true. They will stop you from patenting a perpetual motion machine (typically by saying that you have not provided enough detail for someone to replicate your work).
I'm too stupid to understand the crypto technicalities. Is this really a good solution? Or embrace, extend, extinguish targeted on Wireguard?

The paper abstract mentions a "cookie"-like concept, and from websec I know that cookies are not always the optimal solution and historically cookie implementations had a lot of attack surface.

EDIT: Seems to come from German Max-Planck Institute which is funded by German government.
My poor internal physicist thinks this is unlikely. When you read about density of black holes, it is often mentioned that the supermassive ones aren't very dense (in the sense of mass/Schwarzschild volume). I take it the smaller a black hole is, the higher its density must be. Therefore it should be unlikely for much smaller parts of a star that does not form a black hole as a whole to become black holes as they must achieve much higher density than that of the star.
What do you think were the major challenges involved in creating Stuxnet and why do you think a GPT bot will make the next one significantly easier?
Ask HN: Should I release my MidJourney API?
I was working on a service that allows kids to write a short story and then generate the illustrations for them and get a book on the other side.

I quickly realized that MidJourney is the standard for AI imagine generation. Initially I kept using it thinking I had simply missed the API link.

As you might know, there's no API for MidJourney, so a few weeks in, I decided I'll just build an unofficial API!

On Friday, I posted a demo video of it ( https://youtu.be/Wye8I3KoXaE ) on the MJ subreddit and it got deleted very quickly. DavidH, the CEO claimed it goes against their ToS.

So, do you all think I should push ahead and make it available? I'll likely need to play cat and mouse if they decide to ban my account.

P.S.: I think the biggest deal-breaker for me is that I'm Muslim and going against a contract (even tho I didn't explicitly see or sign the darn thing) _might_ be against Islamic morals (i.e. haram) :/ .. would love your perspective, fellow Muslims.

P.P.S.: I've always looked fondly at stories like PayPal going to eBay's conference with a giant block of ice with "frozen" money inside ... but I don't know if I can do that.
For example, great apes look somewhat like humans but can't pass a Turing test. Should we give them same rights as humans too? It works other way too.
Apple has long dragged their feet on mobile Safari features that would be beneficial to websites-as-apps. This is changing somewhat, very recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906722
> So many companies hire solely on technical aptitude, then design the role of the engineer as an implementer of others’ ideas. Stripe (and specifically the Atlas team) biases hiring much more strongly on aspirations, track record, taste, and potential. The team is filled with enthusiastic, energetic, fantastic communicators who are motivated to deliver ideal user experiences. In the right environment, people with these skills are able to produce a better product and build a better team culture than a dull, code-focused, command-and-control kind of environment.

I really really hate this idea that the most important skill about an engineer is being a good communicator. I know why people say that, but honestly, being a good communicator is the _last_ thing that makes a good engineer. The best software engineers are good at - I know this comes by a huge surprise - writing code. It's strange, but people who's job is to mainly write code also should be mainly good at writing code. In fact, people who are good at communicating tend to turn everything into discussions, debates, meetings and do very little actual work. Software developers don't need to be good communicators. They stare at a screen and need to be good at being content by solving problems by writing code. If they get happiness from that and they are fast learners then they will be good developers. Managers need to be good communicators. Team leaders who need to explain concepts to juniors or discuss architecture with others need to be good communicators, but not your regular junior/mid/senior developers. If a software engineer is a good communicator they will quickly be put into a role which will make them something that is not a software engineer anymore, so it's arguably a skill that is important for other roles and not coding.

EDIT:

Lots of people here trying to berate me on effectively what boils down to being a normal person and describing it as a "good communicator". Sure I agree with that, you have to have some basic humans skills, being able to read things, understand basic shit and being able to speak to other people like every other normal person who functions in society. I personally don't call that a "good" communicator. Just a person. Just like I don't automatically assume that if someone is not a good/great communicator that they automatically are poor communicators. By the same measure that everyone berates me here we are all good athletes if we can run 10 metres or kick a ball down the hill. Personally I set the bar slightly higher than just being normal when I describe as something to be good or great but perhaps that is just me.
China Moves to Erase the Vestiges of ‘Zero Covid’ to Deter Dissent
Because prions weren't enough horror on their own!
It is, but that's the catch. It would be exceedingly hard to provide understandable examples of these things in code that is complex enough to need the patterns.
That's not really true. It has to at least be plausible. Usually.

One exception that comes to mind is a couple of patents some physicist working for the US Navy created that probably aren't real technology. Anti-gravity devices and the like. Why they admitted those? No idea, but possibly this was done as part of some sort of hearkening back to the cold-war-era strategy of 'waste the enemies resources on a goose chase' kind of thing.
Drinking 3 or More Cups of Coffee a Day May Increase Kidney Dysfunction Risk
Scott Adams is jerk who no one wants to work with. I don't care if he's a plumber, a cartoonist, or a garbage man. Finding a job, and people who want to work with him is his problem.
A quick syntax question:

std.debug.print("{} ", .{n});

What is the '.' before '{n}' for?

Thanks!
It's equivalent to 'bum wines' in the US. Huge market would be teenagers and problem drinkers. They absolutely drink it in a single serving, it's an incredibly cost effective, high sugar way to get out of your mind. We certainly employed its dubious abilities in my teens.
If a restaurant near you says their new menu is generally available, do you turn up looking for a free meal without a reservation?

The Google announcement is pretty direct about the plans the feature is included with, and how to enable it.
Sounds like you need to deactivate iMessage:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted by default.
I'm in a similar boat with RSI; Vimium is a huge help to me. What do you use for a windows manager?
I've used this phrasing in large consulting projects and it tends to help in the communication. It's all a made up number to just let someone know how the team is feeling about a date and if things are in trouble early enough. Business owners tend to understand it well compared to "the deadline looks tight".
Shifted?

When was it different?
If you're behind on payments, just disconnect the negative battery terminal. Or, take out the fuel pump relay.
Good point. I believe Opera Ltd., the company that develops the Opera web browser, was bought out by a Chinese company a few years ago. I would figure that the amount of browser data that could potentially be exfiltrated would be a major concern as well.