skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Godwin's Law does not mean we're not allowed to address fascism anymore. In fact, Mike Godwin himself, who coined that law, has said Putin reminds him of Hitler, that it's okay to call Trump a fascist, and when Biden spoke of semi-fascism, Mike Godwin condemned the use of "semi".

Do not let some internet meme stop you from identifying fascism when it's real.

That Putin doesn't use the symbolism is irrelevant. That he's doing similar actions is what should concern you.
"But humans can do it with one eye closed and"

... and I want to grab the guy who says that by the collar and scream in their face "The whole point is to build something that can do better than a human."
Those who are invested have no reason to understand how it works. They just need to recruit more members.
Headline sounds like a google interview question
AI cameras will spot motorway litter louts and enhance issuing of fines
> You were repeatedly warned about not expanding NATO to the west, violating promises made to Gorbachev.

No such binding, heritable-by-a-successor-state commitment was ever made, as the Government of Russia, led by people who understand the basic mechanics and norms of international law even if they do not rigorously adhere to them, well knows.

And even if it had been, it would have been repudiated by Russia efforts to join NATO early in Putin’s time as leader.

> And you never really ceased to speak of Russia as an "enemy" whereas the Russian government insisted until february 2022 to call you "our western partners".

The US and NATO called Russia a partner (not just in a general sense, but as a member with others of the NATO Partnership for Peace and with a special relationship through the NATO-Russia Council) up until Russia launched the present unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine in 2014, which was not even the first in the series of similar wars launched against its neighbors.
Any good summary of what restrictions they've loosened?
Wow you must not read the news much https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4008817-crack-...
and we're just soooo much smarter nowadays than we were 1000 years ago...
> otherwise, their hybrid days become "video meetings but in a different building".

The places that I and my friends worked at pre-pandemic were already like this. Meetings were held via videoconferencing even though everyone was in the office, people mostly interacted with each via chat and email, etc.
As a kid I filled out a reader service card in a magazine, and said I was in charge of a $5,000,000 budget at my company. I started getting all kinds of trade magazines like InfoWorld, NetworkWolrd, eWeek, computer graphics and publishing-related ones that I can't remember the names of.

Most of it was over my head and general business news (Adobe buys Quark!) but it was fun to read about all this stuff.
Do you plan to provide Bing integration?
Diffoscope should help with that nowadays.
How bad faith can you get?
> The founders of the constitution hated parties but ended up with the game that leaves only a two party competition. That's hardly a choice, it's a single bit.

I've come to believe that the only thing we need to change to have a three party system is to make all votes for bills in Congress to require 70%+. Today things can be passed with 50.00001% which is basically binary. With the required compromise and negotiation, a third party would have power to swing the vote for yea or nea and dilute the power of the duopoly. At first, it might just take form as a caucus until enough power is built to build a proper party with funding for candidates.

I know it is a pipe dream because the powers that be wouldn't want to give up their hammer. I think this is one thing that the founders got wrong. Having to build compromise could be good for everyone in the end.
Go one step higher on the chain and develop a refuge system appropriate for the 21st century then you can knock out three in one go.

I dont know who this depressed but throwing trash bags on the street is something the modern world solved many years ago.
I guess those things wouldn't be included in 'Most' then.
Honolulu has a bad homeless problem, but they also have a strong, visible police force. Honolulu also provides free one-way plane tickets back to the mainland if there is family who says they'll help them get re-adjusted. So it's probably niether one of those things.
The article is making it seem like trap-neuter-release is a completely new strategy, but groups in NYC and elsewhere have been employing it for a long time. What's new is that Flatbush Cats is building a new vet clinic to provide more spaying / neutering capacity.
There are already companies partnering with OBGYNs to have cord blood banked at birth (for later stem cell treatments). I'm sure millions of 10 and unders already have their biological matter held by private companies.
Metal usually has a plastic coating though, doesn't it?
Not a lawyer but I think it's because that would be considered "compelled speech". If you think of a website as someones free speech, then forcing someone to make their site compatible with a certain browser would be "compelled speech".
The Californian poverty rate only beats out the south because Californian standards are way higher. Being poor in Mississippi is way worse than being in poverty in California, we might as well be talking about different countries at that point. This is just another dumb meme (that poor in California = poor in Mississippi, like poor in Switzerland = poor in Cambodia...uhm, no).

I encourage everyone to experience the Mississippi boonies filled with single wides and trash barrels in the back at least once in their lives. Then go check out poor places in California, just see what is really like for yourself.
I think this is excellent example of the problem. Very complex, with some chaos thrown in.

I disagree that is is impossible. We continue to chip away at the problem, at least to an extent that it seems worth continuing, not stopping.

This thread is filled with people that think Psychology is akin to astrology.
But will then happily click on their phones that psychology has helped dial in to produce a response in them.
Now lets do it in Ologn computation time
> illegal transactions, scams and gambling together make up less than 3% of volume

> To me, 3% is an acceptable level. It's a lower percentage than the black market in many countries even.

Yeah, but that's because the vast majority of volume comes from speculation and wash trading lmao.

What do you think the ratio of speculation and illegal activity to legitimate use cases is? I'd be willing to be it's greater than 10:1, maybe even 100:1
Yes. My office is about a 10 minute walk away. I work from home when I need to get stuff done. There are simply fewer distractions. I go to the office when I do feel live having some idle chit chat or to be social. If I were 100% remote, I would not miss the office.

I do not have a separate office room at home, I work from my bedroom.
This is how the market for scales works: You buy a scale for the weight class you're planning on measuring. For example, you can't buy a scale made for weighing humans and expect it to be useful for weighing herbs or jewelry.

It's because of how load cells (and scales) are manufactured. They're made for weight classes like 100g, 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 5kg, 10kg, etc. So to make a scale for a particular weight you pick the load cells you'll need for the range you want.

Higher quality scales don't select higher quality load cells; they're all the same (reasonable quality) for the most part! Instead they just use more load cells and just take an average of all their values, multiplied by the number of cells, to measure weight.

So if you want a damned accurate industrial scale for measuring weights around 1kg you'd use like twelve 100g load cells rather than a single 2kg load cell or two 1kg load cells. Of course, then the hard part becomes, "how do I distribute this weight perfectly evenly across all of them?" so you have to take tolerances into account to make sure that at no point can weighing part of your scale rub against the side of its container or accidentally get something wedged between the scale part and the case.

There's loads of other things to consider as well but for the most part the accuracy of the scale is a factor of how many load cells its using, not the quality/manufacturing tolerances of the load cells themselves. Because even with the most precise manufacturing methods load cells will still drift and be impacted by temperature. All you can do is calibrate regularly, test them, and hope for the best (or use a completely different technology).
I wonder what kind of information they could reasonably extract from an average user's TikTok viewing habits?

Imagine a US congressman used TikTok for 90 minutes per week. They don't write any comments just scroll through videos and potentially like/share some videos.

Everyone talks about how scary good the TikTok algorithm is at determining your preferences and sending you laser focused content that you will find interesting and engaging. I am curious how much of that preference is extractable and how that might be valuable for purposes other than delivering viral short-form video.
> you will lose good employees

Another poster here said recently: the unspoken truth in the industry is that good employees will still be allowed to work from home.
> just a mirage of a better time

Don't fall into the "good ol' days" trap. There were more than enough problems/challenges/frustrations to go around back then too.
Democracy is the luxury of those who have peace, prosperity, and well disseminated information.

For a democracy that cannot be hacked, there would need be minds of a democratic populace who could not be hacked.
TNR with ear clipping is done in the UK by the Cat Protection League. They loan you a trap and neuter the cat. Our house cat is an ex stray with a clipped ear from CPL.
I agree with your retort. It's totally fair to call out a company when they contradict their own core principles. I just wanted to add (and this doesn't contradict your point), none of us should be surprised when a company's core values are performative. I think it's naive to see any of this as surprising.
It wasn’t always. That’s a shame to hear if it’s getting significantly slower.
> The majority of supporting Puerto Ricans is quite slim (especially compared to the national support). A couple percentage points lower and the majority wouldn't be in favor.

So? Majorities are often slim. Just look at US elections. The difference is whether you have majority rule or minority rule.

> Although, if you're now switching to argue that the national opinion is _against_ (or at least the republicans would block it)

I'm not switching, I'm just saying it's a partisan issue, and Republicans happen to be over-represented in the national government due to territorial representation, which is how they're able to block Puerto Rican statehood, against the wishes of the majority. And it's pretty obvious why Republican leaders want to block Puerto Rican and D.C. statehood, because that would likely lead to additional Senate and House seats for Democrats.
Some of those rats are the same size of the cats.
> You may not use it in your simple CRUD app jobs but it's absolutely not "some old thing people only had to use back in the day."

My point is that most jobs are simple CRUD app jobs or positioning divs on a screen, not deep seeded CS stuff.
Yes,they are both foreign powers. But one is a undemocratic dictatorship.
I agree that jooq isn't a typical ORM. MyBatis is in the same camp. I really can't believe it took so long for people to realize old-school ORM solutions like Active Record and Hibernate were bad ideas. I cringe whenever I come across Hibernate code.
Leaning in to "spontaneous conversations" as a benefit of office work is so weird. I count "spontaneous conversations" as close to the #1 downside of working in an office. Your ideation is my distraction. Also, championing in-person conversation as a way to communicate in the office often results in poor official communication: It's better to have clear, written communication of company/division decisions than relying on "Oh, I ran into Bill in the hallway and he said the team's now working on the FooBar project this quarter!" And poor internal documentation: How does this API work? "Talk to Erica" vs. "Read the internal wiki here"
Yeah. I work for Google, I'm remote. I much prefer being in person with my team in Mountain View but the Bay Area is such a fucking nightmare for families that it's simply not worth it.
US residential real estate is worth $43T, so about double. Does that mean home owners have lots of money and power?
Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”
Definitely take a look at tools like borg and restic, they'll help make the backups easier to do and have advantages in encryption and deduplication. Borgmatic is a nicely configurable system on top of borg for handling retiring of old backups and file paths and such.
I've been a long term Monica user, and great to hear this project will continue and grow... I'd love to request a few features
it wasn't worse when it came to computing. Hell even taking Microsoft as an example at 95% marketshare, at least Windows was a genuine platform people could build software on. Imagine Windows in 2005 working like an Iphone, the only way to install software being the Windows Store and MS taking 30% of literally every transaction conducted. Doom would have probably been kicked off the app store on day one as well because some concerned mom complained about it. Imagine Windows blocking your executable from running because you implemented your own payment system in your own piece of software.

As much as everyone loves to complain about MS, at least they sold us an operating system and we could pretty much do on top of it whatever we wanted.
Well, this is weird. I'm totally blind, and I use Apollo precisely because it is accessible. So now what Reddit?
We embed Postgres and pgvector in Zep[0], a memory store for LLM apps. It’s rock solid, even with very wide vectors, and with the right indexes ANN is performant up to tens of millions of rows. Haven’t tested beyond this, though.

It’s super useful for hybrid search: vector similarity search over unstructured data joined with filtering by structured data.

One caveat: It’s important indexes are added after a fair number of vectors have been persisted, which can make some production use cases challenging to implement.

[0] https://github.com/getzep/zep
choosing where to live is a personal choice. choosing where to work isn't.
Can we give the cats a few months to take down the rat problem first?
Well we're talking about source code here. Apple has no expectation that applications for their platforms are open-source and so they don't get to see the source code either.

Scanning of the binaries, "Notarization", Developer ID signing and all that stuff is something different.
To enjoy more rats, I guess.

Dogs must be eradicated. They're dangerous for human. Cats are not and should be tolerated.
We also seem to be in almost the talismanic phase of the pandemic. By all means, most should IMO get vaccinated to reduce the risk of serious disease. But I'm unconvinced that other mitigations for large indoor events are appreciably more effective than wearing an energy crystal around your neck.
> Is it worth the price of mass daily commuting

Yes, but the commute is a huge cost.

I spend 80 minutes in traffic every day.

During this time I listen to podcasts, music, call people, and think.

I will be happy to have a remote-friendly job, e.g. when our systems are deployed in dozens of physical locations throughout the country, the DevOps role is essentially only possible as remote. But remote was just not a high priority for me this time. I really enjoy showing up. I'm not very social outside of work.
When you cheap out on flextures, it's not the accuracy under ideal perpendicular loads that goes, and cheap housings struggle to provide ideal perpendicular loads. These are not particularly difficult things to get right, but the construction of even relatively expensive ($150) scales is so cheap that it screws this up and results in >1% deviation over the surface of the scale if you bypass the digital cheating mechanism.

Is it a big problem? No, but there's a fake decimal and an attempt to hide that the decimal is fake. Not cool.
From the article:

> The email also reminds [non-remote-designated] employees […] that managers can factor their absences into performance reviews.

Requiring on-site vs remote work is one thing; tying it to performance considerations is another. If an employee is performing well against all other standards and isn’t causing collaboration problems, but has absences against the on-site policy, that should prompt a totally different conversation.

Overall, that note (plus the fact that it was sent in a company-wide memo - recall how huge Google is) seems like it creates gray areas for incompetent managers. Or, for a way to make any manager’s job easier during layoffs.
cool a lisp clone. Good work.

Could macros be used to add structs? How much code would this require?

I don't feel like a language is real until you can associate data. It's literally the first thing I do when I start any software project that's not a five line script
Or have qualms about both??
Bring in a cat and you get a burger!

After a while the hamburger's will taste different. That's the point when you will surely know the program became self sufficient...

lol
Not sure it matters since there's plastic in all the food and drinking water anyway.

There's no way to avoid ingesting plastic any more. You could maybe reduce it a bit, that's all.
Fleet 1.19 introduces AI-powered features
Redact: Delete posts from Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and more all in one place
Because the umbrella is big enough to cover people selling nudes, I suppose.
Well, yeah, I hear you.

But consider that I didn't make lisp-like languages because I didn't find anything suitable.

There were (and still are) lots of nice Lisp implementations when I made my variations over the years.

It's the same with any language created by a single person: we aren't doing it so that we can use it in production (that's a bonus, if possible).
This is a good thing. It will force some to venture out on their own where they will learn to stand on their own two feet. Or it will hold employees accountable to the shareholders (owners of the company) to provide a collaborative, in-person, company culture which ultimately enhances productivity and efficiency.

In short, Grow Up!
(a message from a tech worker who has rarely worked from home and has reaped the benefits of in office work throughout the pandemic)
Maybe just me, but I actually find I have an easier time staying focused when I'm away from my desk with just my laptop.

Multiple screens are great, and sometimes I have good success for a while after going back to my desk with its nice big monitor and all that after I get into a flow on my laptop, but when I really need to focus and am having trouble, oddly enough, just walking to another room (or a coffee shop, or whatever) and sitting down with only my laptop often gives me a good kick-start.

Dunno why. I'd go with "multiple screens = distracting" except that I mostly focus on my main screen when I'm at my desk, so I don't think that's it. The change might just break distraction loops (ahem, visiting HN) or something. Or maybe I can't fool myself with "well, work stuff is up on the other monitor..." Not sure.
I'm gonna guess the main problem is the rats are smart and will stay in sewers and other places cats can't get to them.
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And why attempt to start sending notifications if it is the first time I have visited a site? I don't know the site, I haven't had time to read any of the content. Why would I possibly want to get notifications from a site I know nothing about? Maybe if I visit it several more times in the next week or two, then ask me if I want notifications if you feel you must. Anything else is just annoying and sort of mindless.
Is Teams serious?

https://twitter.com/ernerfeldt/status/1640972391265230848
Ask HN: How can a junior dev maximize their income?
Let's say you are a junior dev that wants to maximize their income over the next 10 years, median outcome for someone capable of getting into a FAANG, not lottery tickets. What should you focus on?

ML+Python+Pytorch because it's hot right now? Java because no one wants to maintain legacy Java code but there are lots of it and the demand will be there? COBOL to take that even further? Node.js because it's popular? Swift because Apple will continue to dominate the high end? Practice and pass the tests to get into a FAANG? Go work for a high frequency trading company? Learn SAP?

Asking for a friend (TM). Seems like a particularly interesting time to ponder this question (again), with layoffs in tech all the rage and geopolitics looking a bit less 'steady as she goes' than say, 10 years ago.
I didn't know there were computer nerds who can't at least count in binary.
Yes, there's other comments here addressing the marginal soil aspect. My understanding is that marginal soil that is used for agriculture is generally used for cattle grazing. So I'm not sure that there's a free lunch here. People aren't generally buying plots of marginal soil for agricultural purposes, but maybe this changes that.
The biggest factor for RTO/Hybrid for most, is that they moved to a lower cost area. I was in South Bay - bough a 70 year old just before pandemic - a small house for a lot of money. I found a huge, value for money house, 1.5 hours away from the south bay, for far less and sold off my south bay one.

There's no way I'm coming back to south bay and pay more in rent for a small apartment than I pay in mortgage. Even hybrid is a pain with commute totaling 3-4 hours on weekdays
I mean, you definitely Should be doing all that. 2 hours at the gym + suppluments + cutting out processed food + getting at least 150 grams of protein a day + drinking purified water have all contributed significantly to keeping my brain active and capable at 38.
> alright, we'll let you fix our broken s** site but only if you take a vow of poverty.

I'm so glad someone brought this up. Every conversation I've seen about Reddit's API pricing on HN has had at least one person asking, "well, how are they supposed to fund the site then?" And that's not Reddit-specific, it's a really common talking point whenever a property/platform starts cracking down on fan/volunteer work.

But that question never gets asked about the fan/volunteer work. It's interesting to look at what ventures we as a society think have an almost moral right to make money, and which ventures we almost think of as being morally obligated to not make money. Sometimes it's really arbitrary.

If 3rd-party accessibility services are important for accessing your service, those 3rd-party developers should be allowed to make money off of their stuff. Sometimes "non-commercial" clauses are appropriate for some projects/terms, but sometimes they get really abused and it's worth taking a step back in many situations and asking why they were included in the first place. Community-focused devs like to eat and have housing too.
> my very slight cough was in fact COVID

If that's all COVID is anymore, then why do we still need to mitigate the risks?