skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, this generally doesn't happen.

Slack now has the outage listed:

https://status.slack.com/calendar

The online cynicism is something I've never understood. It assumes the world is filled first first-order simpletons & somehow only the poster rises above it.

People aren't dumb & companies aren't dumb. People will notice a status tracker isn't accurate. They will have reduced confidence in the company. Companies know people will notice & think this way, so they generally don't engage in this type of deception. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general, status pages have tended to be accurate in my experience.
Wow those numbers are counter-intuitive and in stark contrast to the mainstream zeitgeist. I think it's fair to say rates are up somewhat in the US (along with many other social ills) but for many other western countries they have been stable.

Breaking down the US statistics into demographics makes for some disturbing yet interesting reading https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db433.htm. Seems like the bulk of the growth has been older men (trending down) and women aged 15-24 (a shocking 87% increase from 2007).
Young people now identify as LGBT+ at rates comparable to historic rates of same sex experience.[1]

[1] https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/publications/historical...
Not free for gpt-4, but there is also cursor.so (no affiliation/never used but looked interesting when I stumbled on it last week)
Who’s in bunker, who’s in bunker?
> There were drugs, devices, procedures, and even vaccines, whose massive harms were only apparent years after they were approved.

However, in this case "massive harms" were incurred when people WEREN'T vaccinated. We do know, from data collected around the world, that the vaccine lowered all-cause mortality. We know that vaccine hesitancy led to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US alone.

You're right about one thing -- it's a tradeoff. And in this case the benefits were huge, and if there has been some great harm, I've yet to hear of it.
so, to summarize, you think it is easy, and you think you have an approach that would lead to a viable solution.

while interesting, your napkin math isn’t convincing.
the warming is already locked in, we will break it by 2030 even if the entirety of humanity died tomorrow.
That you've managed to have problems does not negate the fact I have as many bad experiences per year as you've had total experiences this year (this yer alone, I've used self-checkout at least 80 times ... probably a lot more)

Dislike self-checkout you want, but still sounds like a "you" problem, and not a "self-checkout" problem

Neat fact! You don't have to self-checkout at any store I've been to in the last 5 years (unless it's super weird hours ... and even then - you're probably there by yourself, so the attendant's likely to come over to "help" just to have something to do)
Have you not looked at the past two decades in tech? Offshoring and hiring firms in other countries has been attempted for a long, long time. The reason why it fails is because offshoring even in a fully remote environment is hard, from cultural differences, work quality, time zone differentials and so forth. You can hire a company in India to do work, but optimizing for cost and hiring a cheap shop instead of one of the more premium ones means you get exactly what you paid for.

Every time companies either bring the jobs back, bring the people back or spend more on hiring good firms in their offshore country of choice.
The same people wailing about their commercial real estate investments going south will probably start wailing about their residential investments going south if a glut of residential property was released onto the market from relaxed zoning. The only solution according to the MSM is going to amount to communism for property investors.
Thanks for sharing your groff file. I'm on a Debian derivative and running the below command did produce a pdf but the line "This paragraph should be right-justified and indented by th" was chopped off on the right side:

groff -Tpdf example.groff > example.pdf

Also, the left/right margins are partically non-existent (top/bottom margins look fine).

Did I miss any command-line option?
:has is one of the things I am waiting for, for a while now. Especially when parsing the html output of markdown this would be incredibly useful, as most converters pack images into paragraphs, so you have no way of selecting text paragraphs vs paragraphs with images in them.
Let it be known that I have no particular love for Google (nor any corporation of significant enough size for that matter).

That being said I can not say I understand what is being conveyed in the original comment nor by yours.

Google at some point promised free storage of stuff, and for some reason these comments try to make it sound criminal that they are now backtracking on that, even if it is in the case of accounts that have not so much as twitched in two years.

If we were talking about a promise they had made to keep all your data (for which you pay them to keep) completely out of their ad business, and then years down the line that promise would get reversed, well then this line of reasoning would make sense.

They are a corporation giving free stuff. More shouldn't be needed for your spider sense to tingle.
> I bet people will celebrate this feature when Apple rolls around implementing it two years from now.

Not only will it be celebrated but people will claim its revolutionary
Yep. Union worker issues, quality issues. Raw materials demand etc., etc., A lot more issues. It's getting costly to run a factory in India at a large scale. Though it might favor big businesses due to the fat margins on which they operate, but the margin gets thinner and they might look for cheaper places to setup alternatives. Inflation is one big worry and almost all state and the central union govt operates with utmost corruption!
You might be interested in heirloom troff. Supports UTF-8 so French might be fine, but I'm not sure about Chinese characters.

https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html

The page below might be of some use - seems like some work needed to get groff (GNU troff) to use Chinese characters.

https://kleshwong.com/blog/post/composing-pdf-on-linux-happi...
This is the hidden side of staff engineer. The bit books don't get written about for the same reason "how I got rich" books leave out the people who worked hard but got less.

Somewhere someone has to have the time to build out the tools, then dig the foundations and lay the scaffolding and the supporting walls. None of which looks like the artists impression and none of which has a web interface you can show.

So Staff engineer is like architect. Holding the nervous customers hand while they spend a fortune to have a large hole in the ground.

You cannot build a bridge by stacking bricks in front of the customers feet one at a time in a nice iterative process. You cannot always "see" progress at the user level.

to me the signature of really good software is when one marginal change delivers outstanding value and the engineers just say "was that it".
Nope, there is a huge net change because interest rates have increased. Mortgage rates bottomed out in 2020 at about 2.65%, so the monthly payment on a $300K mortgage was only $1209. Now at 5.87% the payment would be $1774.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Ask HN: What cheaper cities are the best?
Today, like any other day, there are top posts and threads about relocating, remote work etc on the front page. Lots of people are moving from more expensive cities to cheaper ones.

But which are the best cheaper cities, especially for those who do value cities that aren't just full of retirees or mostly tech workers?

I'll go first: I was pleasantly surprised by Durham NC when I visited there. It's small but fairly vibrant for its size, with plenty of young people and people of diverse backgrounds and livelihoods. (ie not just mostly tech workers, lol) For a North American city, it's fairly walkable and bikeable, and it's on an Amtrak line that can take you to neighboring cities and the entire East Coast. Cost of housing is reasonable, and because it's in the "Research Triangle", there is a viable local job market for academics and professionals, so techies don't necessarily have to rely exclusively on remote work.

Where else is good? Would love to hear more!
"Catfishing" is too gracious a word. "Human-farming" may be more appropriate.
Google is in no way interested in traffic safety and that's the reason I despise them for playing around in this field. For example, they encourage active use of the phone while driving by asking you to report and confirm/deny reports of "speed traps". It's similar to Tesla tinkering with self driving and using everyone around us as beta testers.
Why is it such a big deal to click the archive link, or use archive yourself. If the alternative is to not see the article, archive is a pretty good compromise.
Only because discrimination was legal.
As soon as car manufacturers implement dash cams, government will regulate it to require that it records the speed of the car as well, which I think owners will hate and make them want to avoid those models of cars. I think it's gonna end up as damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Remember to download your old favorites.
I don't think that's a real option though, because many people suffering from depression haven't been "done" anything to by anyone, or if they have, it's not out of the ordinary or different to what's been done to other people who are not depressed. Like losing your job, or splitting up with your spouse, or simply just existing.

Some people react with depression to a serious grievance or ill inflicted upon them (this is the form of depression other people are most likely to understand), and some react with extreme depression to the most ordinary and mild of life's occurrences.
Great use of "quotes". That will "convince" me for sure!
I don't know why, but I'm still surprised the voice was totally fake.

Before her downfall I thought it was some type of strange misogyny to accuse her of that. A lot of it was still misogyny, but turns out that part was right.
we debated this; this is going to be a sequential rollout based on availability/capacity, and it seemed better to broadcast it was coming earlier b/c we're not going to have a "launch event" moment.
SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows
"Transformers" and "Attention is All You Need" refer to an important development in machine learning and artificial intelligence, particularly in the field of natural language processing (NLP). I'll try to explain them in a simple way.

Think of a conversation you had with a friend. While they were talking, you were probably not just listening to the words they were saying right now, but also remembering what they said a few minutes ago. Your brain was connecting the dots between different parts of the conversation to understand the full meaning. Now, imagine if you could only understand each word in isolation and couldn't remember anything from a few seconds ago. Conversations would be pretty hard to understand, right?

In early NLP models, this was a big problem. They couldn't easily look at the "context" of a conversation or a sentence. They could only look at a few words at a time, so they were a bit like our forgetful person. They were good at understanding the meaning of individual words, but not so good at understanding how those words fit together to create meaning.
Most likely from scraping (crunchbase, yahoo,etc), unless they bought it from somewhere. In most countries you can get it from the chamber of commerce. Dun and Bradstreet and other similar companies. Some of these data aggregators will have partnership with other companies, and you can also (illegally) scrape it from there.
I'd add cut off browsing news/reddit and scrolling social media. It also overload the brain with garbage.
vs code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HuggingF...
vim: https://github.com/huggingface/hfcc.nvim
If you're not paying for it, you're the product
Programming is essentially if else logic
Yeah, a lot of the withdrawal symptoms are so mild or transient people don't think of them as withdrawal or even make the connection. And people seem to think that anything less severe than shivering and unbearable pain, delirium, doesn't qualify as withdrawal.

The most memorable withdrawal symptom from weed for me was the sweating. Cannabinoids tend to affect the hypothalamus which is sort of like the brain's control module for the endocrine system. And one of the things it controls is temperature regulation. So if you quit cold turkey that all gets outta wack and the sweating happens. Takes at least a couple of weeks to get somewhat back to normal.
If you prefer a freestanding network application, connman-gtk is an alternative.
> A company has to pay to have this page, so this certainly does not include all companies.

I found a listing in there for my old startup derived from the LinkedIn page, and we never paid for that LinkedIn listing.
I guess it depends what you mean by "impersonate." Are you asking whether they literally claimed to be a police officer? If so, they almost certainly did not. But they probably showed up with a uniform and a brass badge with words like "sergeant" and "national" and "service" on it next to maybe an eagle and a flag, and they probably talked about how the homeowner was in trouble with the law.
Perhaps, but they could have broken it down, assaulted them, then claimed that they were violent. They get away with that kind of crap all the time, because mostly, they do this to criminals, and are friends with the local police. Sometimes they get caught, usually for things like shooting a dog that was chained and far out of reach, or because someone had it on video, but these thugs are the kind of people who got rejected from or fired from the police, so however incompetent, cowardly, and violent the cops are, these thugs are worse.
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... if there is no AM radio where will people tune into right-wing talk?
I had this but its a fairly easy fix, you take the mouse apart and bend the metal on the switch slightly, and it fixes it for a couple more years.
Visually he does fit right in.
It should be addressed in the headline. Controlled burns can prevent wildfires. There, I fixed it.
I live in a remote area in Washington State and we have many controlled burns every spring and fall. https://methowvalleynews.com/2023/03/29/methow-valley-ranger...
BTCPay Server: top bugs in Bitcoin payment processor code
This is from last year: Cities Lost Population in 2021, Leading to the Slowest Year of Growth in U.S. History https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/census-2021-population...

> Substantial population loss in some of the nation’s largest and most vibrant cities was the primary reason 2021 was the slowest year of population growth in U.S. history, new Census data shows.

> Although some of the fastest growing regions in the country continued to boom, the gains were nearly erased by stark losses last year in counties that encompass the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas.

> The pandemic played a role, as the number of people dying rose substantially and many Americans left cities for smaller places. But experts say that skyrocketing housing costs were also to blame, and that some of the changes are a continuation of fundamental shifts in American demographics that began before the pandemic, such as the steadily falling birthrate and steep drop in immigration.
That's clearly ideological brainwashing and you should take it up with the head teacher. It's not only factual nonsense to believe what your son is saying, but also dangerous. You definitely don't want him to be added to the ranks of the "i killed myself to save the planet" brigade.
The Brits love it.
There's Google Wait, Wait+, GWait, Hangwait, Wate, Wait4it, Google Weight List, Alphawait, and last but not least GWait Hangwait.

Am I missing any?
IBM, Google Give $150M for U.S.-Japan Quantum-Computing Push as China Looms
lol been working on this since 2021; I have a small team and we do our best.
When you say "let the markets rebalance," do you mean in the way Western governments used to before the Great Depression, say during the 19th and early 20th centuries? Do you realize how horrific the panics of 1818-19, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1869, 1873, 1884, 1893, 1896, 1907, 1914 were, in both the US and Europe? And after all those horrific panics, the old systems led to the Great Depression, 1929-1939. Is that what you mean?

To the extent economists today recommend propping things up, it's only because they believe the alternatives are much worse. Judging by the historical record, I'd say they're right to focus on minimizing damage, akin to doctors with their Hippocratic oath.
Yes, i find that unethical, and the key thing is they're making money on a work they have no rights to.

For that scenario, providing a download for free is still illegal but less unethical.
My 2 cents is that all 3 of you are right. There's an aspect of culture in the US which leads us to being very, very litigious. Call it "get rich quick" mentality, or "I got mine". The huge numbers of lawyers helps, but I think the causal relationship is the other way - that the number of lawyers in this country increased to meet demand.

Of course a consequence of democracy is as you way - there are political consequences to unpopular (but necessary) actions, making such measures unpalatable for any but a second term president.

But we surely have navigated politically unpopular initiatives before, for the greater good of the nation. See: Civil Rights Movement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-kin...
> This illustrates a more generic problem with our legal system.

I feel that this better illustrates the downsides of centralized power: centralized decision making won’t be as efficient as decision making done at the nodes, closer to the actual problem because of missing context and data; and maybe even indifference

For the record, I am not saying that there are no benefits to centralized planning and control. This is just one of its weaknesses besides corruption
How did you compute this? I just did another check to verify (wc -l) and it's coming to 15,980,531.
your data is they could give 2 shits about you. They take care of pigs before they slaughter them.
What she's saying :) We're rare, but women in tech exist.

But otherwise, yes. I was pointing out that "everybody" isn't quite true.
Their business plan is to build custom models for clients/companies who want to own models built on their own data. No comment on the viability of such a business model.

https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1649152422634221593
I tried on ChatGPT and with this prompt and it worked quite well:

"Please, browse https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2023/05/misdiagnosis-in-a... and make a summary in the form of a dialog between two people. Leave an empty row after each dialog. Bolden the important parts of the text. Before the dialog start with 2 or 3 sentence summary."
not yet available; it'll roll out sequentially in the coming weeks as we sort out capacity and polish.
Along the North Eastern coastal regions of North America the predominant biome before European settlers began colonizing the region in earnest was the oak savanna: an ecological system dependent on fires. After those settlers arrived they took steps to prevent those fires from affecting their towns and inadvertently by clearing land for farming. The result are forests that are choked with under brush, mass migrations of animals, the spread of parasitic insects, etc. Completely changed the character of the region.
Anecdotally: I know multiple people who have switched in the last few years. At this point most of the holdouts I know personally are people who are just used to Android and don't want to learn something new (based on talking with them)
Maybe it confused Radiohead with Sparks.

(When Sparks played on Top of the Pops in 1974, supposedly John Lennon called up Ringo to say “You won’t believe what’s on television. Marc Bolan is playing a song with Adolph Hitler!” … and indeed watching https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ztSKDbDRXc that sounds about right!)
They're a B2B finetuning and fully managed model solution. Open Source is free marketing for them.
Or the ones having kids are actually more rational. Consider:

1. There is no scientific reason to believe the world is doomed. Go read some serious climatology papers and see for yourself. They're unreliable and exaggerated but even so, no doom.

2. State pensions and benefits might actually be doomed though given demographics. If the state can't take care of you in old age, you'd better hope you have kids who will.
Show HN: Skreech – An HTTP API wrapper around Whisper
Please post again when it launches
Here is a snip from the midi specification

> The MIDI circuit is a 5mA current loop; logical 0 is current ON.... To avoid ground loops, and subsequent data errors, the transmitter circuitry and receiver
circuitry are internally separated by an opto-isolator

Ground loops is not something the audiophools have cooked up. Ethernet devices are also isolated from each other, although it uses 1:1 transformers (Ethernet Magnetics) instead of optocouplers.

The optocoupler also works like a cheap (although somewhat hard to replace) fuse which is probably a good thing if you want to connect you Roland Jupiter-8 / Fairlight CMI to some dodgy equipment.
That's right. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics is baked into our legal framework.
The "west" had Meng dead-to-rights and under house arrest in Canada, yet an example was not made of her. All charges dropped. I wonder why?

Also, where I live (Florida) new condos are going up all the time that have Huawei routers in practically every unit. The last 3 high-rises I've lived in have all had Huawei tech both in every individual unit and also part of the building's network.

This is a company founded by a former solider in China's military. Why do we let them act unmolested in the US, when they don't let our telecoms compete in their markets?
Extending Fly.io's Distributed Turn-Based Game System, Part 1: Extism in Elixir
"By design?" Let's dig into that. Their CV, or non-LEO uniform, or physical size does not give them license to walk into peoples' houses or to threaten to do so. Everyone knows that. Which means they probably made a threat, and if that threat in any way suggested that they represented law enforcement, it should absolutely be illegal and they should be locked up for impersonation.
Disruptive Technology Strike Force – Enforcements
Researchers Reveal Newfound DNA Repair Mechanism
I spent some time talking about this with a family member that works in forestry. My takeaway was that the core issues are 1) it's labor intensive and expensive to manage the burns, beyond what we have budget for now, 2) there's a liability+harm issue to work through (e.g. when a burn will necessarily put a lot of smoke into an inhabited area how do you manage that), and 3) the combination of climate change and many years of fire suppression mean that doing the burns safely is harder than it was say 50 years ago. It's really a political issue, that is to get broad support to spend more and have worse quality of life for a while in order to get the situation under control and in much better shape a decade down the line. Tough sell.
There is inventory of new built houses to be had. Some nice houses can be had.
From molecules to the whole brain, study reveals the role of serotonin