skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's actually possible to finish a train of thought or conversation and then look up the facts, keeping everybody on the same page. It's even more fun that way.

I'd be careful about "keeping everybody on the same page". If you know they'd appreciate it, then sure. But a significant portion of the population do not like being fact checked. They assume malicious intent (not realizing you factcheck everyone and not just them).

Below is an email I once got. The context: A bunch of us were having a social conversation after an event. A professor made a claim about how hot it would get in his country. It struck me and another one as off because the number was a bit higher than the world record. We hinted at it but he insisted we were wrong.

Some hours later, at home, my friend fact checked and sent a polite email pointing out that the highest ever recorded temperature in his country was a few degrees lower than his claim. His response:

"If I were you i would not have spent a minute doing that unless
you want to prove a point: I was a liar. ... At last, that's why I do not hang around with you guys."

People will jump to conclusions about your motives.
The whole private insurance is a racket, because private companies don't have many incentives to offer reasonable insurance.

Public insurance, or community driven, is a different matter. Sure, someone can have a non profit racket, but if the insurance pool is communal with relatively low overhead, it can function much better.

Universal care has different issues, but at least it is closer to communal in this sense, so better in that sense at least.
Seems like perfectly congruous statements from what I can tell.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with a business owner in southern Florida. I was showing him a demo of some mapping technology I had played around with and mentioned that I was also involved in some web crawling and NLP stuff. He mentioned the following opportunity.

If you could crawl and scrape public records to determine when the Air/Conditioning units had last been replaced at each property and then map it. He was convinced that HVAC companies have a good sense of the age of units that are needing replacement. One would generate lead maps specific to properties so that a sales person could focus only on the properties that had units approaching replacement age. This was around 2010. I poked around in the public records a bit and decided I wasn't the right person - even if technically possible.

I am not sure of the market validity of this idea but you might be better suited to this kind of thing than I was.
> it's about recognizing that's things as such have agency, even if they are "inanimate"

From the article:

"A piece of shiny plastic on the street pulls your eye toward it, turning your body in a different direction—which might make you trip over your own foot and then smash your head on the concrete, in a series of events that’s the very last thing you planned or intended. Who has “acted” in such a scenario? You have, of course. Human beings have agency. But, in her telling, the piece of plastic acted, too. It made something happen to you."

No, your reaction to seeing the shiny plastic on the ground is what happened to you. Your brain recognized it as something potentially interesting and/or valuable. The shiny piece of plastic did not somehow will you to pick it up, it cannot and does not have agency. (I can't believe we're having this conversation on HN. WTF is going on in the culture that makes animism suddenly attractive?)

EDIT: Thought experiement: If you were blind or it was night time and you were walking by the shiny plastic you would not even notice it to pick it up.
Yes but these are lawmakers in Florida we're talking about.
Laura:So Zod, have you heard of the concept of the need for cognition?

Zod: Hmm, no I haven't. What's the article saying about it?

Laura:Well, it's a personality trait that reflects an individual's inclination towards effortful cognitive activities.

Zod: Interesting, go on.

Laura:People with higher NFC tend to appreciate debate, evaluate ideas, and solve problems.

Zod: So, what does this mean for those with lower NFC?

Laura:Those with lower NFC may process information heuristically through low elaboration.

Zod: Ah, I see. It sounds like NFC is associated with deep thought and the inclination towards effortful cognitive activities.

Laura: Yes, and contemporary research suggests that it's closely related to openness to experience, typical intellectual engagement, and epistemic curiosity.

[...]

Zod: Well, this has been a fascinating discussion on the need for cognition.

Laura: Yes, indeed. Thanks for engaging in the debate with me, as someone high in NFC, I always appreciate a good discussion.

Zod: Anytime, Laura. As a neural net, I always enjoy exploring new ideas and perspectives.
> If you've got an idea that a plant can help with certain illnesses there's probably a natural product to extract from it.

But Big Pharma is doing that. They love to find new drugs, make a synthetic version, improve it and then sell it.

> If you think a traditional way of managing land is better than whatever is currently being used, let's run a test.

There are many methods to reduce fertilizers and other farming cost. In most place farm land is not replaceable and you have to keep it working for many years. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation Farmers are trying many methods.
Yes, we are currently bottlenecked primarily by engineering manpower.
Is $85k annual premiums a typo? That's about an order of magnitude higher than my expectations would have been for near retirement age health care.
> database systems

When was the last time building a database from scratch was a sane approach to building something?
Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
My manager isn’t a programmer but uses ChatGPT to educate himself on a topic and attempts to read the code to see what’s happening before asking one of us if anything is still unclear.
I just looked up the the top CEO salaries of non-profit organizations in the USA - as of 2020, they ranged from about $16 million to $8 million. A non-profit appears to simply be a 'non-stock corporation' and can have the same ridiculouly pyramidal compensation structures that shareholder corporations do.

Overhauling the legal definition of non-profit to require the highest-paid employees to make no more than ~10X as much as the lowest-paid employees would make a lot of sense.
> dev, test, and e2e tests should be done against full-size db clones

Real customer/sensitive data should not exist outside prod (and backup). So generally no, not full-size clones. I'd argue instrumentation in prod should give information on performance - for some tests/development you might need prod-size fake data.
Some other embarassing success story. My gf bought a postcard in Czech Republic, filled it with my address in Warsaw, but forgot to buy poststamps.

She didn't send the postcards and carried them to Warsaw. In Warsaw they fell out of her pocket on a street, or something like that.

Still, they arrived in our post box. We still don't have an idea how and why :)
It's not an error just because it does jot hold in individual level for you and many others.
The word isn't used, but isn't that exactly what's being described?
The power imbalance arises from a lack of competition. That needs to be addressed as well.
That's making an argument about hours worked?

> According to a detailed “time diary” dataset that measures work wherever and whenever it takes place, government employees work around three fewer hours per week and roughly one less month per year than private-sector workers. Substantial differences in work time persist even after controlling for occupational and skill differences between sectors.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0275074003258823 would suggest the effort is on-par, which strikes me as reasonable. If you have good job security why butt-in-seat if you're done for the day? Might also suggest that private sector is inefficient at how it uses its labor, if working more hours and one more month per year gets similar results.
Meanwhile in real world, the local grocery store can't even notice when products on their shelves have already expired. Sometimes by quite a long while. Not going to hold my breath for that one.
The party of freedom of speech
I work for a smaller company (< 200 employees) and it's similar. We are still hiring additional engineers but we've let go some project people as well as our scrum masters. Scrum masters at least do feel like they don't justify their salary to me really, it isn't as if the team leads don't have to be in all the meetings they run so may as well have the team leads run them
We’re making our prices public
> In the bill, Brodeur wrote that those who write “an article, a story, or a series of stories,” about “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature,” and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.

So, only if done for money.

> Explicitly, the blogger rule would not apply to newspapers or similar publications, under Brodeur’s proposed legislation.

A pity the Internet was never recognized as equivalent to press, as that has a specific constitutional protection that sending data to an Internet-accessible system does not.
It's funny that I was saying the EU is going to implement this like 10 years ago and people were calling me crazy conspiracy theorist, that the EU would never have done anything like that and that EU is totally not evil.
Look how Overton windows is moving.
Today it's a thing and nobody calls it conspiracy theory anymore and suddenly people no longer talk about good EU.
Tomorrow you'll have these scanners on you device.
From then your life will be micromanaged by bureaucrats and you'll become a slave.
As ideology EU is built upon is slavery.
Right. If Keep supported "make an uncompleted copy of this completed list", that would satisfy the main "checklist" use case.
OK, one individual introduced a bill. To use the national example, Marjory Taylor Greene can introduce a bill, and so can AOC. And the press can notice that they did so, and publicize it. That's... not much.

Wake me up when the bill makes it out of committee. Until then I can't be bothered to care.
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Basically, heat is the thing you say to describe your detection of a transfer of internal energy from an object to its surroundings.

E.g., an object's atoms are vibrating a lot, and you touch it, and that vibration spreads to your atoms, so you say you've noticed "heat" in that object. Or the vibrations are emitting radiation (like infrared light) to you, and the radiation begins vibrating your atoms, so you might say "heat is coming off of that object".

>Heat is energy in transfer to or from a thermodynamic system, by a mechanism that involves the microscopic atomic modes of motion or the corresponding macroscopic properties.

>In the kinetic theory, heat is explained in terms of the microscopic motions and interactions of constituent particles, such as electrons, atoms, and molecules.[57] The immediate meaning of the kinetic energy of the constituent particles is not as heat. It is as a component of internal energy. In microscopic terms, heat is a transfer quantity, and is described by a transport theory, not as steadily localized kinetic energy of particles. Heat transfer arises from temperature gradients or differences, through the diffuse exchange of microscopic kinetic and potential particle energy, by particle collisions and other interactions.[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat
Raylib bindings to Scryer Prolog using library(FFI)
Before my current role, I had to juggle roadmaps and integration partnerships with the Big Clouds. It's insane how much they ship their org chart but also their internal politics?

I am convinced that some of the teams there are really trying to angle for releases that ship for PR rather than the feedback. (Although some AWS PMs really are trying despite everything else.)
This is extremely authoritarian.
I don’t think danger was the main consideration here, but rather necessity.

Agriculture is really labor intensive. This is also why children are out of school in the summer so they can help out with their family’s farm.
Wildest of all to me is that some networks add even more ads above and beyond what an older show was produced for, leading to running episodes at slightly faster speeds to fit in that extra ad break.

TBS was infamous for doing this with episodes of Seinfeld, you can find them side-by-side with the original speed airings on youtube.
What happens in Florida doesn't completely stay in Florida. Eventually the Supreme Court gets a vote.
> When clothing manufacturers remove an inch or three to make people feel better about themselves, what else can you do?

Is that actually a thing for clothes sized in inches? Or are you referring to the unitless sizing of women's clothes?

I do get that unitless sizing is annoying to deal with. But it's apparently popular enough to exist as a thing.

For Men's clothes that aren't measured in inches and are instead s/m/l/..., I find those measurement to be shockingly stable across the industry. Although, to be fair, men's clothes are generally meant to fit more loosely than many articles of women's clothes.
Actually the origin is this word (with the last two letters transposed), and the Wikipedia article gives IPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutheria
Do you have some sort of special private insurance? 85k /yr is unbelievable to me.
I consider it newsworthy when anyone wants to promote a bill that is antithetical to the US Bill of Rights, broadly applied, and other declarations and acknowledgements of freedom.
Was this due to the battery charging or was it a poorly designed battery/device? I'd presume the latter as it was a vape on a Spirit plane.
>What was interesting is that it was our PRIVATE insurance that stalled and stalled over approving the surgery. When she switched to the MA plan, it was approved immediately.

At least one part of the scam seems to have worked here: you use "private" to describe your old plan, to contrast with MA. In reality, both your old and new plans are private.
they mention it pretty early on in the article. The same firm created both

> An enterprising and clearly meme-savvy fund manager out there, Tuttle Capital Management has actually filed prospectuses for two Cramer-tracking funds:

The Inverse Cramer ETF (SJIM)
The Long Cramer ETF (LJIM)

> In retrospect, I'm not surprised. Tuttle Capital is known for its hilarious yet strangely effective ETF lineup. Case in point, their earlier Short Innovation Daily ETF (SARK) that bet against Cathie Wood and her funds is still up 73% year-to-date.
I wonder if a letter addressed to “Liz Truss” would have got there in time for her to still be in residence.
Ask HN: Looking for an Old Article
Looking for an old article about over engineering ip scanner into big data cluster while simple C program outperformed it greatly.
Orion is great, but it does have some extension compatibility issues. One huge annoyance for me is 1Password. Apparently, they refuse to whitelist Orion because it’s a niche browser. I’m all for more people using it so they change their minds.
It may be wiser to stop reading, plug your ears with wax, and hide in your room until death takes you.

If you can't read for pleasure on the site you are reading for pleasure, something is wrong.
> downfall

What downfall, exactly? If I want to get paid, the GPL doesn't help me with that. If I don't care about outside contributions, the GPL doesn't provide any advantage. Insofar as I have written something that is complete in itself then a BSD license makes perfect sense.
Former Quant tech from HFT here. The role and the vision of the firm definitely got my attention. Reached out to you via email
"If the Mississippi possesses anything at all, it is agency–such a powerful agency that it imposes itself on the agency of both regular people and the Army Corps of Engineers.”

No, the Mississippi is a river: A collection of water acted upon by gravity and weather. It does not have agency - the Mississippi cannot decide to flood a town or breach a levy.
That's obvious. It's called "x".
Many people equate timezone to mean a slice from pole to pole that has a similar Sun angle. If the moon has exactly one timezone, then that timezone describes the time on the entire surface and has no 1:1 analog with sun angle for a given spot within the timezone.
> There are no death panels.

The overall function of private "insurance" is appropriately labeled a "death panel". In general I find it very odd how so much scare propaganda against changing things is based on describing the actual current dynamic.
Wow thank you! Good finds. This is exactly the content I was imagining was out there: clear details about what’s expected of teachers following this change.

That second link has quite a bit of information sorted under those “toolkit” tabs. I think your intuition is correct: that this is opening up a different way to be accredited, not optionally supplementing “western science”. Teaching under the correct cultural context for a student to get that most value from a lesson seems good. I’m also seeing a lot of values like you’re saying, which also seems like a good thing.
> The space the original video uses is too small, and maybe it's that the camera angle is poor

The whole point is that selective attention can make seeing even very obvious things difficult.

> it's so hard to tell but I'd honestly be surprised if too many people fell for the original today.

I used it on a class full of middle school science students two years ago. 21 out of 24 missed it in the first class. 5 out of 24 in the second, though they insisted no one warned them :D
Funny your example is hvac, i recently made an “instant quote form” for a friend who works in hvac (interiorclimatesolutions.com)

I agree though, i feel like lead gen is how this has to pay for itself. I’ve been resisting that path but it feels like i need to reconsider the model as there are likely ways to do it. I just don’t get as excited by it, but perhaps that’ll change.
SeaweedFS vs. JuiceFS
And won’t it be nice when that happens that you will then be able to jump from app to app because they are required by law to interoperate?
Thats correct according to my understanding as well.
> I feel like I can easily see through interview practice or coaching, so I don't recommend spending more than an hour or so "preparing" for system design interviews.

I'm very surprised by this recommendation which doesn't match my experience at all. First, lots of candidates don't have experience building such systems, so they need to learn by reading books and articles. Second, the candidates need to be familiar with the structure of the interview and what's expected from them, and that takes practice too.
The article points to it. Thorn has a commercial product they call 'Safer' that they have been pushing.

I'm not going to be cynical and say this is just about the money but... Ah who am I kidding, this is just about the money.

Just like it always is.
Also considered highly essential - really non-negotiable on an economics/government level - because most people need to, you know, eat.
You realize this is the same state that passed a law just to punish Disney for speaking out against the “Don’t say Gay” law?

I’m repeatedly amazed how ass backwards Desantis and the entire state legislation is in Florida (my current state) compared to Brian Kemp and the Georgia legislation is (my former state until last year).

And just in case people don’t know, they are both Republicans.
Well, the sad truth is that a lot of _interviewers_ actually suck at interviewing, so sometimes an interview devolves into a bewildering game of what this particular person wants to hear today based on their mood, especially with the open-ended questions. It is not always possible to suffer through this process politely and constructively.
I know whitespace is "wasted" file size for transport purposes, but god damn that HTML on Better and Best are unreadable without proper indentations.
Taming Bing AI
You can now specify the chatbot's tone.
In the same time period this company appeared, therapists also started hosting online sessions en masse. Being an employed person in the US, I have health insurance, so sessions with a therapist of choice were $25 out of pocket.
I don't see how that is any different than a human being. We are all just a collection of particles being acted upon by certain fundamental laws of the universe. Why do you think you're so different?
Our remote manager bought us an expensive HP floor-mount server like a dishwasher. It was over spec'd and underpowered. And we didn't need a server, not for work.

My colleague loaded up his entire ripped CD collection and we got Bluetooth headphones and had it serve up tunes all day. Back when that was a thing. Only thing it ever did.
Disputes are how refunds start, no?
Are we talking about unions or socialism? I don't see unionism as an inherently anti-capitalist construct. It's a contract amongst workers and business owners. As with all contracts, their value tends to be dependent on your individual situation. It's even possible for unions to be anti-socialist, by constraining access to a select few creating elevated wages for the in-group while shielding access to that value from the out-group.
I think people often convince themselves that becoming a manager is a path for those who couldn’t hack it. In reality it’s a completely different set of problems. If you’re a decent developer with phenomenal soft skills, there is a very good chance you’d be better in management or sales than writing code.
as a guy who works in developer marketing - good set of advice in here imo.

posthog if youre reading this - how did you think about budget for marketing? time budget and $ budget. "Hire a developer who loves writing onto your marketing team" is a huge expense for a very early stage startup (it looks like you're Series B with $27m raised so you can afford it - when exactly do you pay a developer salary just to write?).

also find it funny to see "It’s ok to waste money on sponsorships" with "Sponsoring events is disproportionately expensive". so basically only newsletters work?
Whenever I see such righteous anger, my first instinct would be to ask: Would you not do that same if you were in the same position?

These guys came up with potentially the most important technological advancement since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Many years ago they didn't dare think they'd ever get here. But now they got here. And they can become billionaires.

That person out there who would say no to becoming a billionaire, please pick the first stone and throw it.
> Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

Non-profit doesn’t mean the organization isn’t supposed to have surplus revenue, it means it doesn’t exist to return profits (e.g., via a claim on the assets of the company) to stockholders or some other beneficiary with a claim on them.