skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With help from gpt4:

"As a concerned citizen and advocate for the technology sector in our great nation, I am writing to express my strong support for S.866, the American Innovation and Jobs Act. I believe this legislation is crucial for fixing the unfair tax treatment faced by startups, technology companies, and software engineers, which together form the backbone of innovation and economic growth in the United States.

The bill will make it easier for startups and small businesses to thrive, create jobs, and compete in the global market. Additionally, the legislation will also make it more attractive for talented software engineers to choose careers in this vital industry.

Our nation's ability to maintain its competitive edge in the global market depends heavily on the health and vibrancy of our technology sector. By passing S.866, we can ensure that our startups and tech companies have the resources they need to innovate, create jobs, and contribute to the economy. Furthermore, this legislation will help attract and retain top-tier talent in software engineering, an essential component of our country's continued success in the tech industry.

As your constituent, I kindly urge you to support and vote in favor of the American Innovation and Jobs Act, S.866. This bill is a vital investment in our nation's future, and its passage will undoubtedly lead to continued growth and prosperity for the United States in the competitive global market.

Thank you for your attention to this important issue, and I appreciate your dedication to representing the best interests of our community and the nation as a whole."
Nintendo Hacker Freed, Now Owes Them 25-30% of Salary for Life
Yep. Reddit just pulled a twitter. .

Remember years ago when twitter pulled the same on clients. Slowly there weren't any third party clients left when back in 2010, there were many?

Yeah. Knew this day was coming so let's hope this kills reddit
What Your Favorite Personality Test Says About You
https://archive.is/lnsRK
Perhaps a different park then.
It's currently "community maintained" by the community and some devs that used to work on the project.
Businesses have always been able to deduct salaries at 100%. Software businesses are now not allowed to do that. I have no idea what you're talking about.
People's opinions are often formed by musicians, partisan journos, and modern documentaries/movies which they then translate to mean it was the popular perception of leaders or the bulk of the people who lived through it.

Most of the journalists who remain popular tend to be those who are more radical/on the edge of cultural which is how they remained relevant beyond their era so it's easy to assume those people are representative of the population or even the educated class.
I believe that only works if you believe you'll benefit from moving the stock up and are in a position in which you actually can. Both seem doubtful to me for many workers. This is also why commission is a great motivator for sales people; they directly benefit from putting in the extra mile, so of course they want to work hard. Meanwhile a tech worker centering a div has no way of connecting their work with the company's bottom line unless they work in ads or similar. Even then they're more likely to be tangibly rewarded with a bonus or promotion.

Edit: Here's a simple math calculation that illustrates my point. Let's say you increase your company's stock price by 10% which is enormous for an established company, and 60% of your TC is stock. Congratulations, you got yourself a 6% pay raise, which is checks notes an inflation adjusted raise.
SF to LA is 347 miles. Tokyo to Osaka (most popular HSR line in Japan) is 247 miles. However, it’s 500 miles from Tokyo to Hiroshima.
Deno's initial release was 2018...
The Jess Franco Dracula was missing, although I am not surprised. It is a remarkably unmemorable film, especially for Franco. It felt as if someone was had described the plot of some book about these fictional blood sucking creatures, and one was named "Dracula," and then you got some people who had never heard of vampires or anything like that to stage a production.

Also, Love at First Bite is missing. "Children of the night ... SHUT UP!"
I hope Microsoft continues to degrade Windows which will result in improved competition.
If you can do with an even leighter-weight client, you can try my very own https://sqliteviewer.app. It's all browser/wasm-based and works offline, but has some important shortcomings.
Nice, trying it out!
That was a great explanation thanks for posting
I'm sorry, I don't see the problem here. If you don't like Windows, don't use it; it's really that simple. If you're forced to pay more to get a computer without Windows because of bundling deals, then just buy the one that comes with Windows (because obviously, the cost of the OS is being subsidized, and then some, by all the extra bloatware added on), and then delete it and install the OS of your choice.

There's nothing forcing you to use the OS that was installed on your PC; these aren't phones where the OS is largely baked-in and can't be easily replaced or reflashed. It's quite trivial to install a different OS on a PC. People have been doing it for decades now.

If Dell/HP is able to sell you a computer for less money by bundling Windows, then obviously MS isn't making a lot of money from OS sales, but rather from other stuff, which is why all the ads are included. People want cheap, so they're getting an OS which is cheap, and paid for partly from ads. If anything, people should be happy: they can get a computer cheaper by just accepting the adware/bloatware-laden MS OS, which they can then delete and replace with Linux.
Ask HN: How can I scan my DNA without sharing my biological data to anyone?
I want to know weaknesses of my body but I do not want governments to know that much about me. Any devices for doing the analysis at home and offline?
Scotland really should leave the UK, and then rejoin the EU. They'd be better off.
Given the quality of discourse I've seen in many Facebook threads, ChatGPT could do a lot better.
Most people who travel a lot like that are probably pre-check, maybe even clear. I am, and usually I get to the airport roughly when boarding starts if I'm flying economy (assuming boarding starts with first class). It's certainly not 6 hours total in the airport.

This said, I'd really like better trains since flying sucks still. Planes are dirty, expensive, and airports are quite awful.
can we make them 64M times cheaper please?
Netflix still did have a DVD service? Seriously?

I know they've started as a physical rental service but I always though they've ended that at least a decade ago, if not more.

Can't believe they were still into it in 2023 anyway.
I am reminded of a couple of articles in the MIT technology review describing AI as the second automation revolution:

"For all the amazing advances in AI and other digital tools over the last decade, their record in improving prosperity and spurring widespread economic growth is discouraging. Although a few investors and entrepreneurs have become very rich, most people haven’t benefited. Some have even been automated out of their jobs."[1]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/25/1070275/chatgpt-...

"Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, provides compelling evidence for the role automation, robots, and algorithms that replace tasks done by human workers have played in slowing wage growth and worsening inequality in the US. In fact, he says, 50 to 70% of the growth in US wage inequality between 1980 and 2016 was caused by automation."[2]

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049378/ai-inequ...
For those who think left/right is enough: When you are racing sailboats, a boat on your “left” (or “right”) can have “right” of way because the wind is hitting their main sail from the “right” and yours from the “left”.

They will yell “starboard!” at you, rather than “left” or “right”. Easier that way.
While I agree that oligarchy has been the order of the day for some time, perhaps always, it is not self evident that having hierarchical elections is somehow worse than direct votes for people we see talk briefly on TV. I would actually prefer that I always get to choose between people I actually know face to face, that in turn select diminishing numbers of people. When we vote for sound bites it is simply a matter of who can comvince us they believe our own hastily formed opinions predicated on subpar government, economics, and history education combined with a complete lack of relevant work experience are in fact correct. If I select between my neighbors, it would be based on my perception of their character, and the ability to spot both expertise and bs.
I have no use for this but I've gotta say this is pretty awesome, great job!
This could create a new industry of double Irish-style/sale-leaseback avoidance schemes that will be a boon to tech lawyers. E.g. Tech co sells its software to an Irish sister company and then its software engineers create software for that Irish firm, which in turn licenses its software _back_ to Tech co.
This is how I think of the Superbowl. From now, I will call NFL as the Power Slap League.
He’s also got a very strange and endearing sense of humor!
Spars and ribs (frame) are usually numbered, often based on distance, like interstate exits.

"Ten sequential rivets debonded on aft starboard #273 spar" would then be a writeup.
Maybe. I don't see any reason to assume the US won't continue to successfully a) escalate police power to keep citizens under control, b) continue giving people just enough crumbs to keep them from getting violent, and c) propagandize the hell out of the idea that societal mismanagement is a matter of personal responsibility. China has done pretty well while clamping down on civil liberties, and the US has always been better at obfuscating and spinning similar tactics to be more palatable to its citizens. And you only need to look at the rust belt to see what happens when US business leadership decides to follow the cheaper option.

Though, regardless of ensuing social unrest, the fact that the people involved are human beings should be enough to not treat them like used condoms when computers figure out how to do their jobs. Should be.
Thank you so much! This has been my project for the past 3 years.
Romantic love, perceptions of responsibility, and attribution biases (2016)
> Answer by Cristina Hartmann on Quora. This piece is an adaptation of Quora questions

First time I’ve seen this
This is pretty "easy" in Chrome, at least for a definition of "easy" that I'm comfortable with.

For more than ten years I've had all cookies turned off by default in Chrome's site settings, and I click two buttons when visiting a site if I want to allow it to store data on my machine. That allowlist is persistent so I don't have to think about it again.
I thought that the court system was one of the pillars of the American legal system.

If they didn't use the court system then there isn't really any legal alternative for non-government entities to exercise their judgement against each other outside of lobbying their representatives to make Fox News illegal?

The facts were laid out and the chance for an independent to review and make judgement. Fox settled because they felt that the facts were not in their favour.
A good IDE makes it very easy to navigate through files like that. You navigate to functions, structures, variables, etc... instead of files.
Opinion pieces on how college campuses/education going downhill are popular these days, but I wish they stop using Yale, Cornell and other private institutions as an example of how shitty it's becoming. They're by definition private, if they want 2 administrators, a personal driver, and a maid per student for $200k a year, let them do that, market will sort itself.

Is situation dire at public universities like University of Michigan, Ohio state, UT Austin, university of Washington, UCLA? Is the in-state tuition ridiculously high?

My hunch is it's fine for those. Cost of living and housing might be an issue for the campuses that are in popular cities (NYC, Boston, Seattle,...) but for middle of nowhere college towns, it's all good.
does a single load balancer ever get overwhelmed? what do you do when that happens?
Sounds like something the same folks who think taxing unrealized gains is a good idea and won't instantly tank the entire world market would think up and then put into law.
So you’re implying they _would_ use harsher language against Amazon, thus maintaining their claims of editorial independence from mutual owner Bezos?

Not to suggest the Washington Post doesn’t have clear conflicts of interest. Just not sure how your comment adds up.
Maybe boat lingo improves safety by keeping people in the mind-frame of being on a boat.
I dealt with the demise of Free Heroku a few months ago, and it was a big deal because I needed these projects online, since I'm early in my career and job searching (great timing, I know). I hosted them on my own linux server at home for a while using PM2 and nginx. Recently I decided to try AWS, mostly so I could add it to my resume. Setting up an EC2 Virtual private server wasn't much different than getting my home server running. Very different than Heroku though.
Do you have some data on the percentage likelihood of being scammed in crypto vs in the traditional financial markets?

Let's just cherry pick on DeFi. DeFi had something around 10% of its entire TVL lost last year to hacks and scams. I guarantee you that 10% of the entire 'TVL' of PayPal wasn't lost to hacks and scams.

PayPal has almost 79B in assets. Pretty sure they didn't lose 8B to hacks last year.

The fundamental character of crypto - a market where police and regulators look the other way, but money moves freely - whose biggest rocket ride to fame came from Silk Road - is perfectly suited to attract crime and criminality. Without crypto nobody would even remember ransomware because you can't send millions of dollars in Starbucks gift cards.

This is its niche, like it or not. Because if you're not trying to do crime, classical finance is faster, cheaper and safer.
I actually don't know. Like I mentioned above, there have been a few theories about how life is so strongly asymmetrical but nothing concrete or proven yet. In fact, it is a bit counterintuitive because all natural chemical reactions produces racemic mixtures and only life produces specific stereoisomers. It also means life has evolved to give up nearly half of the natural resources available, a very strange thing in terms of evolution.

Not all enzymes are stereospecific though. Some of them can take any configuration of a chemical and convert them to other type of isomer. But these are rare and usually an exception, not the norm. Still, it makes it harder to figure out why chirality is so important in life and not so much in some other parts of life.

Maybe your explanation about handedness makes sense. But then it would fail at explaining ambidextrous people since they are definitely better and yet still so rare. Life is really difficult to figure out.
My theory is: hipsterism and nerdism are both forms of trying to invest your identity in a cultural product. If there’s no competition, you become a hipster; if there’s high competition, you become a nerd.
Sending Messages to Git Through stderr
What Are BabyAGI and AutoGPT?
I know that exact feeling.

While I'd also pay what producers deserve, in some cases it's not possible. You could pirate the content, and buy something (e.g. Merch or something similar where the funds go roughly to the same place as if you've obtained a legal copy of the actual content) other than the actual media from them.

If buying a 4K Blu-Ray copy of a movie is 20 dollars, but I'd prefer an MP4 on my computer (and don't have a disc player anyway): I can simply pirate a BRRip torrent, but get for example a T-shirt of a similar price, or perhaps even directly donate money to them if possible.

I believe its fair play.
People generally don't pick Emacs to get eye candy. If that's why you went for it, it will be painful ride.
Is 1st gear still in the top left position?
Pursuing objectivity: How virtuous can you get? (2016)
It seems a good place to note that BNF already existed since 1959. https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/Ba...

BNF provided a formal grammar allowing the declaration of precise and iterative constructs without additional complexity of algorithmic content. Original spec @ https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/Ba...

BNF was created by Naur, the guy who invented FORTRAN, and was critical to both many early RFCs (the most important standards that facilitated the growth of the internet) and man pages in Unix. The syntax:

executable <required-arg> [optional-arg]

... is a legacy of BNF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form
Nothing to add except to say, sorry for your troubles - that must really suck :-/
$20/mo. per user is insane pricing

Cloudflare does the exact same thing, based on the same technology, for half the price.

I’d much prefer to go with Tailscale, but at these prices it’s a non-starter.
>Take your time, progress at your own pace...

Which Agency is recruiting?
The advantage of using separate words for the frame of reference of the boat is that you can still use left and right with their normal meanings as well.
Much, fast, maintainable: pick two.
How did Anthropic agree to let anonymous users call their API? This was a big stumbling block for me.
Just when I was thinking of getting it again.
It effectively adds another CA to the set of CAs we already have, but this time without any of the transparency logs or browser leverage to control abuse. When operators screw up WebPKI certificates, people get certificate errors in their browser. When they screw up DNSSEC --- which everybody does --- their whole domain falls off the Internet. It doesn't solve any problems, and creates new ones. It's easy to understand the hate DNSSEC gets.
> "“We’re not crackpots or conspiracy theorists, we’re husbands and wives and family members who have lost somebody – that’s all it is."

The fact that they have to say this to begin with is upsetting. I have come across posts of some unfortunate people who have experienced adverse effects from these vaccines, only to see replies accusing them of being "liars" and "far-righters" (even though their post isn't even political). I even recall a meme where they took a video of someone's vaccination side effects and put comedic music over it.

This isn't just exclusive to vaccines. As a person who knows several people who have suffered serious side effects from medical treatments, I have seen way too many incidents of "it's all in your head." and "we can't quantify it, so it's not there". The result? These people lose trust in the health care system.

Sometimes giving someone the benefit of the doubt can go a long way.
How expensive is this to run?
New monetization strategy, I presume ... I'm expecting a great deal of chatbot-style generated content to start flooding in and the timeframe for cashing in on it is pretty low.
Ah I see, I never read the manga - thanks for the clarification.

The soundtrack was indeed fantastic - one of my favourite anime series all round.
If you're trying to solve boolean satisfiability, you want a SAT solver, not Prolog.

If you're trying to solve more general problems, you probably want an SMT solver or other more specific solver (e.g., ILP), not Prolog.

If you're trying to verify software, you want a theorem prover, not Prolog.

If you want database-ish stuff you want Datalog (or something like it), not Prolog.

Prolog falls into the uncanny valley of being too general of a DSL for the sorts of optimizations that more narrow solvers enjoy, while being too narrow of a DSL for most general-purpose programming. I think because it was an early DSL, people got caught up in the idea of it being more "high-level" than other languages [1], but the DSL nature of it wasn't fully appreciated at the time.

[1]: For fun, take a read through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l... , which was a whole thing in the 1980s.
Which makes for some very confusing situations when the river is twisty. There are different places in New Orleans where the West Bank is south of you, west of you, and east of you.
You can try Doom Emacs if you want a solid starting point. (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs). Emacs is so idiosyncratic compared to a lot of modern stuff people are used to, starting with a base like this may be a little easier than trying to do it from the ground up.
People recently got accustomed to think "I have all the films in the cloud". However as for my experience the movies I'd like to watch are not available on three major VOD providers I am currently paying for. Moreover movies disappear, especially from Netflix and when I come back to re watch it with my spouse, it's no longer there... I wouldn't call myself a Luddite but I'd like to have a stability here
I can't even consider an OS with ads to be a valid candidate. If I have to choose between seeing stupid trash in my OS, or using a half-baked under-linux (which is how I call Mac), then half-baked under-linux it is.
The Trump voters will be happy with the software developers all fired and jobless, because it brings them down to their level.
Step back a bit to evaluate your situation.

"I could not keep my head up with friends or family if I do not escalate this"

Really? As you noted, you're many levels below the CTO. Why would the CTO's decision affect your ability to be in harmony with your friends & family? This indicates you have far too much emotional attachment to your work. Remember, you work for a business and at the end of the day that business is going to make decisions irrespective of how you feel about them. You should document and communicate your concerns in a non-combative way and then move on. Invite the CTO for a coffee to talk over the decision from their perspective, again not so you can combat them on it but so you can understand where they are coming from. If you can't come to understand and accept their decision and/or if you truly believe the CTO is immoral then it's time for you to find another job, fighting them in this one will very likely get you nowhere.
Oh, hiring 1099 consultants now looking rather attractive
Coincidentally, Amoeba records put out a really interesting episode of What's In My Bag? today with Seal[1]. At the end (I linked the timestamp) he starts talking about perceived value of owning an album vs. the digital ether. Really worth a watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WznlFoMd24&t=915s
Yes, the shifting pattern is exactly the same.
The Founders were of diverse positions and ideas on the topic.

A couple overly simplistic examples:

Jefferson wanted the Constitution rethought every 19 with modern wisdom to prevent it becoming a carceral joke society laughs at as dated and sad.

Madison felt the future was forever obligated to fit themselves into a past framework as a kind of thank you for the hard work the long dead performed.

“They did not want a strong federal government” is overly reductive and normalizes into a boring sound bite what was really a complex and lengthy back and forth.

It would be fair to say that most feared a strong executive turning autocratic/monarchic but that’s about all they agreed on readily.

I suppose I fall into Jefferson’s camp. Paraphrasing, he wrote to Madison “clearly the dead so not rule the living.”

To the flames with this outdated gibberish. To us it’s all hand me down spoken tradition we never witnessed anyway.