skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These people might feel spite and anger towards the western world for the extreme lavish excess that developers enjoy.

Oh, let me tell you my “lived experience” of spite and anger that I once felt towards western developers.

So, it was late 1990s and our sales guys got hold of a presentation paper that competitor guys gave to a customer that both our companies were trying to win. I never read such a collection of blatant lies in my life! And I came from a one-Party country where newspapers were… uhm notorious for their lying. But not like this! Specifically a feature that I’ve spent more than half a year on, and which we were proudly shipping - was marked as not existent. Imagine somebody trying to scratch half a year of your life, and a rather intense half a year to that - out of existence. With black, lying ink.

And I clearly remember sitting and thinking: why are they doing this? The competitor was a well-established company, long time in business, probably employed citizens, provided them with pension funds and other perks - why don’t they compete with us, mostly new emigrants on a work visas - why can’t they compete on _merits_? They have everything to just sit, work and compete - why lie?

Yes, I was feeling spite and anger, true.

But, about 20 years later, just around that your famous President inauguration - this exact competitor went bankrupt. The stopping point for a buyer was - they did not want to fund pensions 100%. It was like watching Karma working right and clear in this material world - a rare moment, no?
This is basically just someone either misunderstanding how the German government works, or deliberately misleading.

A committee of the parliament held a hearing where the invited experts said that it's a bad idea.

That's it. Parliament didn't vote on it. The government didn't publish a guideline that they'll oppose EU decisions.

Please stop upvoting this stuff. It's content marketing that pretends "experts say" means "Germany opposes".
I read this as "every command leaves your repository in a state where you can finish your tasks using the standard git command".
The best bread maker is an oven. I’ve never had bread out of a bread maker that came anywhere near to the quality of a proper oven-baked loaf.
I'm starting to suspect that it's not the LEDs themselves that are failing but the transformer packed inside the base. I haven't really dug in though.

Are there any good brands of LED bulbs these days -- bulbs that are likely to work as long as is claimed on the box? I've already scratched GE and FEIT off the list.
Does anyone know why Google did this for .dev of all things? HSTS makes sense for any other domain, but specifically picking a tld that people are known to use for internal testing, then shelling out the money to buy it only so you can force HSTS on it, comes out as a real dick move, honestly.

Or was Google so caught up in their good guy complex that they felt justified to perform a pedagogical intervention on the entire industry?
ADHD also isn't just one thing: it's a constellation of symptoms with similar causes, and two people can "have ADHD" and have very different subsets of those symptoms.
Too bad they force you to use that store though...
The Stasi did not vaporize in 1990
> An illiterate white person would have exactly the same problem as what you describe.

The standard for the "literacy tests" was roughly that you were exempt if your pre-1861 ancestors were allowed to vote.

Edit to add: The test questions were along the lines of "Name all of the judges in your state's circuit court" or [0]; note that both selecting the passage and judging the answers was left to the county registrar, and that it was left to their discretion whether it was necessary to administer the test to any given individual.

[0] https://www.crmvet.org/docs/550300_wcdc_vote.pdf
Glad they sponsored a project like curl. Projects like Blender are cool but the world is held up by packages like curl that aren't cool to sponsor.
You are free to put ads on your own service, because you own it and can do what you want with it. But you don't have the right to vandalize someone else's service with spam.
I’d argue that tokenization is more analogous to having a losslessly encoded image where you don’t have access to the decoder. Humans don’t perform well on that one.
Why the anger? It may not be a ton of money, but this is a lot more than what the utterly vast majority of companies do for the open source ecosystem they profit from.

The Curl author made the choice to give away his project for free, no one owes him money. So it is nice to see a company giving back, because they did not have to.
While in Russia talented developers make less than a newbie developer in the West earns, their salaries are relatively high compared to non-IT jobs. You won't die in the street if you are a developer. The reason why those people spam is either because they have low technical skills and cannot find a decent job (most probably) or simply because they believe that work is for losers; successful men take money from others instead of working like a slave.

As they lure people into Telegram channels in hope to scam them, I assume that the conversion is low and this is not very profitable and they do this because of lack of skills.
Except basic microeconomics demonstrates that profit is maximized when production is raised to the point where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Semiconductor fabrication is one thing, because cost of entry is astronomical. But these are chickens we’re talking about.

We are probably just seeing the effects of egg producers trying to avoid a bullwhip effect where in two years we are drowning in eggs because the market over-responded. So, they limit investment in production increases today while enjoying the result of an exogenous supply shock on prices. Poof: record profits.

What else should we do? Price controls? They provably cause more harm than good. Force companies to invest in egg production? Ridiculous overreach. The market will adapt, people will reduce egg consumption (perhaps durably), and we can play out the counterfactual in 20 years to see if the egg industry shot itself in the foot or not.
Thanks for clarifying the situation
San Francisco is 75 per 100K. (620 last year, population is 800K)
>will require public funding.

Truly astounding that you acknowledge that the power companies are (at this point) just rent-seeking monopolists, and your response is "Gosh, I guess we'll just have to subsidize them with a massive corporate welfare check! No other options are possible!"

We've seen this game play out with telecom before. Spoiler: the monopolists just pocket the money and don't build the infrastructure.
While I completely agree with you on the causes of social malaise, and the importance of it, I'm not sure "we know exactly what to do" is really an accurate statement.

Opioid addiction has been a spectacularly difficult nut to crack as long as there have been opioids, and highly related issues like alcoholism likewise.

There's a lot of inputs to addiction. You rightly point out the input of economic dignity, which probably is top of the list from a policy standpoint. And on a public policy basis there's also culture, media, simple availability of the drug, availability of interventions, and many other inputs.

But the largest input to addiction is family structure and dynamics, and it's not even kind of close.
I think it's a great introduction into hacking for people who might not find it otherwise. I love the idea of coffee nerds realizing that this stuff (working with small PCBs, hacking cases, wiring, etc.) isn't really as intimidating as it might seem.

Hopefully tomorrow, someone inspired by this can get more out of a cheaper grinder, then after that, who know what?
Would like to see some screenshots or maybe a video on how to use it.
And there is no "Privacy Policy" - the link is broken
... no?
Sage to Cunill tran? and now a Compak OD. The electronics are a bit faulty (forgets settings) and I had to invent a replacement missing hopper, but very pleased with the shots.
controlling the border is a hot button political issue in the US. It comes up constantly in election season. The right wants more the left therefore wants less.

It would be better if the state's were allowed to do more on their own borders but it's a federal thing and therefore impossible. Texas has the money and will to do a lot of border enforcement on its own but it's prohibited by law.
Capital controls are communist? That's funny, because up until the Post-WWII order that's pretty much what everyone had. It's what some western nations still have to this day. It's what we do for our entire military supply chain. You know, like those radical lefty organizations Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon.

Adam Smith himself is communist by many modern capitalists' definitions, the label is getting tiresome. They (and possibly you) just want money without any responsibility, a child's idea of a good life.
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Has anyone noticed that warmer light LEDs causing blurrier text. I did a test and found that my cool light LEDs made small text stable and readable while the same text under warm light was blurry.
In Taiwan as well (mainly Taipei) right now there is a huge egg shortage due to bird flu and other reasons. Nearly no supermarkets have them. They get shipments but quickly sell out.
I'm suggesting that it wouldn't be a problem if NPM switched off indexing, and if the article is correct that half of packages are spam then it'd actually be significantly beneficial.

The broader point is that by expecting Google to be a single interface to the entire internet, and refusing to accept that there might be some places you need to go to directly, we make the problem of spam worse. Using Google for navigation when you know what site you want rather than using that site's search feature incentivizes spammers to abuse things they would otherwise ignore.
There is no wall high enough to even make those things pause for a second.
Sure you can. My wife yells at me all the time. I says they are LED stop complaining. She says they are still wasting energy, doesn’t matter the amount.
> the country that will have the most powerful AI first will be the leader in everything

Have you been listening to those podcasts for business leaders that take the idea of AI-powered digital transformation seriously?

AI certainly can change things, but I find rhetoric like this to be massively overhyped.
> I want to be paid for the value I provide, not the GPS coordinates of my desk chair.

As per my previous comment people at the office do provide more value.
I see a lot of posters confidently saying that the solution is obvious and it's [insert their favourite social panacea here]. The level of confidence does not seem related to the amount of evidence presented.

Examples include: more equality; more opportunity; less democracy; reducing gun accidents; less stress; and less teenage parenthood.

Many of these problems have been around for a long time. For example, the US has long been unequal and long been a democracy. Teenage parenthood has actually been falling. The fentanyl epidemic is relatively recent. You cannot explain a change by a constant.

I would support more intellectual humility and attention to the evidence in thinking about this terrible problem.
I'm not sure that I like the fact that gut pushes the emoji thing onto users. IMO a good commit message will be descriptive enough that you really don't need an explanatory emoji. For example, if I have a commit titled "Add documentation for SomeAPIClass", I really don't need a book emoji in front of that, because I made it clear that it was documentation.

If you are going to add emoji to a git commit, make sure it's appropriate. For example, if you add a feature to your app that shows confetti, you might add a party popper emoji to the commit message, but you shouldn't litter your git history with emoji unnecessarily.

I guess I could continue ranting about the people who add "feat:", "chore:", and the like to their commit messages, but what I've written about emojis here really applies to the plaintext tags as well.
I have found that there can be huge quality differences between cheap and more expensive LED bulbs as well. Specifically the ones that use a cheap rectifier. Sometimes I think that I can see them flickering out of the corner of my eye.
Maybe it's just morning, or maybe I'm a luddite, or both, but my knee-jerk reaction to this was "why does anyone need this? Just learn git." But then I saw the "explain" command, and then I read that you're a new CS student.

That got me thinking about the first time I really screwed something up and had to figure out how to use git rebase, and the first time I tried to create a git submodule (back when submodules were new and there wasn't much help to be found on StackOverflow). I must have let the Stockholm syndrome set in, because the "explain" feature is a wonderful idea for students.

The dead-simplicity of it is very desirable in certain spaces. Back when I was in college, I wrote code for some indie visual novel games, and I was always the only person with a software development background. If I had a tool like this, it would have been MUCH easier for my colleagues to cooperate with me in the development process.
which one is the next incarnation of performance/price/goodness after the RTX 3090 for running a mini AI homelab?
I mean. Given the world as we know it would become impoverished overnight without them, it's hard to see how oil and financial services industries can be seen as immoral. Imperfect, certainly, but immoral?
Right, but not having kids is also a far bigger cost to many people than any amount of money. Hence we prefer other approaches to the problem.
And I thought March would be a bit more kinder to IT sector than February and we still have Friday left for a few more layoffs.
Hi there!

Reading your CV on your website, it seems you've been working on a product of the same name intermittently since 2016?

Is this an evolution or something new just under the same name?

Could you share a bit where you think hexcloud differentiates itself from existing solutions like Fivetran, Stitch, Talend, Matillion, Airbyte, Keboola, etc. etc. etc or even native solutions like Kafka sinks, kSQL etc, tracking tools like Snowplow et. al.

The data ingestion domain is so, so crowded.
If you don't like this bill and you are a US citizen, now is the time to act. Write and call your senators and representative and let them know that you oppose it.
You know what's funny? I just asked ChatGPT to implement those exact same things and it shat all over itself producing embarrassing nonsense that won't compile, let alone do what they're expected to do. Bugs and incomplete code everywhere.

You'd have a much better time just Googling those asks and re-using a working examples from SO or GitHub. Which is ironic, given how ChatGPT is supposedly trained on those exact things.

I'm wondering how come we're both getting such vastly different results. Maybe your bar is just lower than mine? I don't know. I'm honestly shocked at the contrast between the PR given to ChatGPT, and the results on the ground.

Try this simple ask (the results of which you'll find plastered everywhere): produce a Python function that decodes a Base64 string and prints the results, without using any "imports" or libraries. Every single output I got back was embarrassing garbage, and I gave it something like 15 shots.
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Most people in cities will be charging at home though, the big supercharging stations will be along the highways where people are driving for hours. And with how simple car chargers are, they can just be a part of supermarket parking lots, etc.
This! What all these ungrateful nerds seem to disregard is whether one company should take the responsibility of paying the curl author enough to match a year's worth of salary? Or should more companies (and there are many that make much bigger revenues) each contribute 10K to this project to total a year's worth of salary?
> The government could literally take any power at any moment for any reason at any time that they wanted to.

It can but there is a process to follow and the process might take time.

It is the same with Russia conscripting and officially threatening to use nukes. Of course they could and they did, but in order to do so they first had to officially declare the annexation. Otherwise there was no internal legal basis to conscript since Russia officially was not at war, it was a "special military operation". They could have also gone the alternative route of changing the laws. Or the alternative route of officially declaring war as an aggressor from the beginning.

Same for official nuclear saber rattling, their official nuclear doctrine only allows defensive use and, before annexation, Russia could not claim anyone was attacking it. Before annexation, threats of nukes only came from TV people not high ranking officials.

No matter how democratic or repressive a regime, no ruler rules alone. Therefore even in the most authoritarian regimes there are processes to go through in order to achieve certain objectives. Different processes have different costs and risks. Those processes have steps with each step facilitating the next ones regardless of whether they are eventually taken or not.

This bill is just one of those steps towards dystopia.
You can write the install date (and store name) on the bulb housing with a sharpie when you put it in the socket. It's not a receipt but it at least gives you a shot at getting a return when it fails early.
APL entered my consciousness when I wandered into a talk at a conference, where those cryptic symbols first confounded, then intrigued me. Now that I've learning a bit, here's how I explain it. While in elementary school we learned the symbol "-" is a very compact way to convey the powerful ideas of subtraction (when placed between operands: "3-2") and negation ("-5").

The insight underlying APL is that this idea can be extended further. When working with matrices (2d arrays), the operations of (a) checking the shape of an array and (b) reshaping arrays are so frequent that APL designates a single symbol for them: "⍴" (which to me looks like an iron bar whose end was "reshaped" into a loop).

In the same way as "-", compact symbols aid communication and also comprehension. Since the symbols aren't alphanumeric, whitespace separators aren't necessary to delimit tokens. Just as "10-7" means the same thing as "10 - 7", "3⍴4" and "3 ⍴ 4" are equivalent (it means a 1d array comprising 3 fours: 4 4 4).

What has helped me has been learning from the inventor himself: Iverson wrote books that introduced the symbols in a very natural way. The one I'm working through now (and which I highly recommend) is "Elementary Algebra", available for free download here:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Papers/Ele...

To try out your own expressions, you can use https://tryapl.org/
Looking at your resume, in a market that is slightly tightening. I see the following items:

1) your technical skills look great, and imply you want a technical job

2) I would separate your freelance work from you employment at Punters, to show you have experience as a contractor, not someone who just got laid off (made redundant), cannot find a job and now is trying to go contracting.

3) Punters Lounge - job title - oh so you are management type? Are you looking for a management contract job?

4) add a job title to GreatSway

5) So you are starting your own company, 'Combo Tech'. Good for you. So when you are working for me, and I am paying you, you will spend half your time on your pet project.

6) So you are starting your own company, 'Combo Tech'. Good for you. So when you strike it rich you will leave us.

7) Job titles are all great, but to not be tied to the title they gave you. Use a descriptive title.
Show HN: Using AI to make a generated video of you to talk
Hello, recently I made a website named VirtualYou.
https://virtualyou.art

Problem
My problem was that I wanted to find a solution to make videos online and presentations with a figure that represent me but I didn't want to show my face.

Solution
So I've had an idea, what if I make a service that helps poeple who encounters the same problem using AI ? So I searched solutions and found one : make a digital art of the person and make the image speak in a video format with the appropried voice using several artificial intelligences. So with this poeple can create put their face and speechs on videos without saying a word.
>Becoming China is not how you compete against China.

I don't disagree, but I also don't know what alternative works without weaponizing our own ideals against us. Free speech is wonderful, but, as irrational apes, it can also amplify divisiveness. I worry that the alternative at a technological scale requires a civically engaged and rationally-minded populace, and my optimism is waning. So what do you suggest as a workable alternative?
They did it for a good handful of TLD, including .app, .day, .dev, .page, and .new. I get the impression they're pushing for it to be absolutely everywhere, and "greenfield sites" are an easier place to start than to break things that already work.
If in response VPN services block their users from accessing TikTok, then VPN users will see these VPN companies for what they really are: just another middle-man in an already MitM'd internet.
I am sensitive to low refresh rates - back in the crt days I would visibly notice low refresh monitors and it would give me headaches. Some (low cost?) led bulbs give me the same effect- I can see the rapid flicker. Some hotel rooms are notorious for this.

I have led bulbs everywhere (new build, recessed lights). Thankfully they don’t have the flicker effect I’ve seen on other bulbs. And I’ve found that I actually prefer the more “daylight” bulbs in certain areas such as kitchens. The cans do have adjustable color temperature (a physical switch) so it’s not too bad if I decide I’d like a warmer light down the road.
> "The United States has appropriated approximately $115 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine since February 24, 2022."

Ukraine received about $7b in 2022.

$12b does not look like a tiny fraction of $7b.
Espresso is different from other coffee types. There is a tight sweet spot where all the variables are just right, and you get amazing coffee. Espresso equipment is therefore all about making the variables easier to control, because you can’t solve a 12-variable problem if the variables have random values for every iteration.

Lower grade equipment can make great espresso, but maybe you are managing good results only 1/10 instead of 5/10.
Wikipedia: "Yudkowsky is an autodidact and did not attend high school or college. He was raised as a Modern Orthodox Jew"

My comment isn't about Yudkowsky in particular since I don't know him, but I'm getting really tired of this relatively new phenomenon in America of home schooled religious devotees attempting to impose their half-baked views on the rest of us.
They’re moving left too, just more slowly compared to the coasts. If you go issue by issue (god, guns, taxes) the only major shift for republicans has been same sex marriage, where they’ve moved significantly to the left. Democrats meanwhile have moved sharply to the left across the board: https://jabberwocking.com/if-you-hate-the-culture-wars-blame.... For example marijuana is fully legal in North Carolinian, and medical marijuana is legal all across the Deep South. But in California, the legislature passed (though Newsom vetoed, with an eye to his presidential prospects) a bill allowing cities to have government-sponsored drug injection sites.
Is the Digital Advertising Industry a Bubble Waiting to Burst?
Some of my LEDs continue to glow faintly when off. I assume the efficiency of the bulbs is converting a small trickle of power into light. Has anyone experienced this? Anything to be done?