skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - it was a popular AGW denialst go-to in the early 2000s until the increasing temps continued completely independently from the 11-year solar cycle. It's been pretty thoroughly debunked now, e.g;

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0293-3
Often, sometimes.
But that wasn't a scare. It's a real thing that made people ill with no cure.
Prime Trust suspends withdrawals following sale failure
After BitGo terminated the purchase of crypto and fiat custodian Prime Trust, the Nevada Financial Institutions Division issued a Cease and Desist Order, with Prime Trust pausing all deposits and withdrawals.
If there's one thing prohibition is known for, it's lack of crime! Wait...
The subtext of this article is that it's applying to remote Indigenous communities. They're not drinking because it's glamorous, they're drinking because they're caught in the cultural dead zone between a a modern market economy and a palaeolithic culture.
Also, does anybody know the future of the .app TLD? It was exclusive to Google Domains. I am trying to talk to Google Support but it's not clear that they know the answer.
Very cool! AWS docs are insanely hard to navigate, and I've been looking for a tool like this for a while. I'm curious how you created this—thinking of doing some similar stuff for my personal projects :)
You actually want:

while x > 10 do x -= 10
while x < 0 do x += 10
while y > 10 do y -= 10
while y < 0 do y += 10

What you have will discard some position information every time it wraps. Also, it won't correctly handle changes in position per frame that are larger than 10.
It's related in that both are maritime disasters that happened in the past week.
> anything that makes me feel like I wasn't tricked into hearing about what's promoted at the end of the page

That's why I read the comments here on HN first and decide whether to spend time reading TFA later. Chances are anything of substantial relevance will be directly quoted here. The discussion will probably be more interesting anyway.
A visit to RMS Titanic with David Pogue [video]
Crypto bugs found in the past few weeks
Decades ago also occurred decades after that. The average desktop app in 2003 felt faster than the average desktop app in 2023. The fact that you chose an app from 1983 shows you're intentionally dishonest.
The breaking changes aren't really gamechanging stuff, just cleaning up baggage in preparation for Svelte 4.x and Svelte 5. The course would still be fully applicable
Spanish/Egyptian. Where the person who was supposed to be a Scot had a Belgian accent.

I'm quite fond of the Bond film where he was disguised as a Japanese man, and all the actors pretended to be fooled. 6'2", with chest hair poking out of his kimono, an obvious wig, and speaking broken Japanese with his typical Scottish brogue. "Arigatoo gozzzimash"
He has a point. People that are always calling out nepotism, or good looks, etc... typically also have an axe to grind and have some festering sour grapes.

The situation outlined is true. It can take time to convince outsiders (friends), and time to convince insiders (the company, manager) that X and Y are a good fit.

Hiring is not easy. Getting hired is not easy.
I've been in the process of building a chrome extension to do exactly that. I've always wanted to work with browser tools so this is the perfect excuse haha.
Navy sonar equipment can hear so much more than you would ever expect. Sound travels very well in water. The navy has software that pretty much tunes all of that out, similar to how radar ignores things under certain speeds as it's just not interesting to them. However, if they want, they can see/hear the raw data. There's all sorts of Navy stories about what can be heard, and not all of them are untrue.
There’s no such thing as talent.
Is there playlist for those videos? A find them every so often but the names mean I can never find the full course.
This is a very misleading title. Informing you of that you might have legal rights is not the same as “outsourcing support to the legal system.”
> It could be a fire truck, road closure for cycling event, tornado ripping through a town, a terrorist attack, a secret service motorcade, oil on the road, anything.

Some of these are likely just a lack of training data.

However, I agree that there needs to be a better self awareness of "Cruise has insufficient training data about this exact situation, now we fall back into a safer discovery mode, where we make reasonable guesses and also ask for the help of an operator"
500 > 5
Hey! Thanks for sharing your concerns.

First, most conversations in Slack or Discord happen as just chats in channels. Not as threads. The thread implementation that they have is actually a "hack" on top of their "chat in channel" design. I'm part of around 50-ish Slack and Discord communities -- to make threads work, the moderators have to manually enforce them -- tell the users continuously to keep things in threads. As a member of the channel, you don't get any notification, or any real-time update about what's going on in a thread, only a number. Discord's "thread-only" channels are a deviation from a chat platform, and a forum of sorts -- it's a hacky design, I for one, I don't like it.

You correctly point out that Struct also just shows a number -- but that's the knowledge base product (stage 1) of Struct. The chat platform (stage 2) would have liveness indicators, and threads would be presented in a real-time format.

For context, I have put an example in the blog post comparing a Slack thread against what would be the equivalent Struct thread -- the difference in context is stark. Note that these are chat platforms, so not all context is in the first chat message. Chat messages by default are short-form. It's only together that they add valuable context, not alone.

The thread based pricing would actually be much cheaper. Take Typsense community, they have thousands of users, but say 100 are active each month. That'd cost them ~$800 per month via Slack. They have ~600 threads right now, which would cost them ~$100 in Struct -- that's about an 8x difference.

Also, with Struct -- there's a huge "discoverability" factor -- so every new question doesn't need to be a new thread, it could share existing thread with the same topic.

I have no doubt, thread based pricing would be a lot cheaper. In any case, we'd be adapting the pricing model as things become clearer with usage.
I’m thinking about accuracy when looking at google maps.

So do you mean that the length and orientation of the borders is the least distorted with the Mercator projection?

I’m actually not sure how a different projection would distort a country’s border. But for example I’m not putting a ruler against my screen and I don’t know if I need to know if a border is oriented North or not.

Mostly my point is, are we rendering maps for real users’ use cases or backwards rationalizing the status quo? Besides the level of effort that would be involved in changing it, can’t think of any real defense of the use Mercator projection itself in its current context.

Some other comments references street maps that are grids, so a non-mercator projection would bend a grid of streets- this makes sense- but again, the main critique is around the relative size of countries- i.e. the look of the map tiles only when zoomed out sufficiently far. Maybe this is the main UX hurdle- in google maps to change the projection above some level of zoom.
Yep that's totally fair, i haven't had prime for a few years now but have heard from others that 2-day isn't common outside of Seattle and other major cities.

That doesn't change the promise though, if anything it would make sense for a company missing the 2-day promise to throw even more natural resources at the problem.
"I don't need to know anything about the problems you've solved in order to determine that you've solved them incorrectly, and that I'm smarter than everyone, and I'm going to be rich."

Let us know how that works out for you.
> Teacher quota? Wut?

Yes, much like the dairy quota system. The government anticipates how many teachers will be needed and only blesses that many to practice. For sure, it sometimes gets things wrong. Quotas were reduced considerably a few years back because there were too many teachers being produced, which was impacting pay. For what $60-100k is worth, it is actually less than teachers were making before that mistake (or "mistake"; some government assemblies are less friendly towards teachers than others).

> This off-the-wall shit is part of why people leave teaching. Being constantly criticized by people living in a fictional world, and blamed for tons of things that are simply made-up or that you had no say in, gets old.

Okay. What off-the-wall shit might that be?

> Some of the places with very lax standards for becoming a teacher are nonetheless struggling to fill positions.

Struggling to fill positions, or there isn't demand for the positions? Saying "Boy, it sure would be nice if we had more teachers" is no more demand than a 14 year old kid with $100 to his name and a poster of a Ferrari on his wall imaging having one of his own sitting in the family's garage. That's merely dreaming. Very much not the same thing as demand. Only demand is significant here.

> it's got nothing to do with quotas or whatever.

It doesn't sound like you have a teacher quota system in place in the part of the world you exist in, so that goes without saying. Obviously there is no universal standard here. Different jurisdictions are going to have different rules.

But it is clear that supply management does artificially increase wages, and teachers here (not the world over) leverage it. Why do you think that virtually everyone agrees that monopolies/monopsonies are bad for buyers? Why do you think tech companies want to build "moats"? Exactly, because constraint in participation is how excess money is made.
> Indian-originating tutorials on YouTube

The article discusses NPTEL. For most of its duration, NPTEL videos were straight recordings of classroom videos at India's top IITs.

I have found their rigor & instruction to be at part with MIT OCW (which was and still is the gold standard). The instruction style is more mono tone and less interactive. But, neither are negatives when watching a youtube video.
>How is this any different from farm machinery 200 years ago or industrial automation 50 years ago? More production with far less people.

The economy will for sure eventually get into some sort of equilibrium again. Things will become normal sort of like how the giant wealth inequality gap is super normal right now (likely caused by the same automation you're describing).

But there is so much different now then before. Additionally the velocity in which this replacement is occuring is much higher then industrial automation. Given the differences we cannot fully know the outcome.

It's easy and convenient to allude to examples in the past to predict the future, but that is not a data driven or logical conclusion. We don't know what will happen, and to ignore the possibility of a bad outcome is folly.

My wild guess is that there will be a temporary period of destabilization and this temporary period could last between one to two decades all the way to several generations. By then all the "problems" will be normalized; sort of like how the wealth inequality gap has been normalized and how it's basically become normal to see tons and tons of homeless people living in RVs in the bay area.
Non-anthropomorphic climate change can take centuries or millenia to happen. So that people are concerned about things changing on the scale of decades seems understandable.
I think the amount of resources being marshaled, including those of the US Navy, to try and save a bunch of wealthy people who went on a pointless suicide run, actually says quite a bit about how are world is ordered. The US Navy could easily be deployed to save migrant ships or in a similar humanitarian capacity, but that would set a “bad precedent” in terms of our obligation to these people.
I don't agree at all. Most addicts on the streets were addicts beforehand and the reason they're homeless has a lot do with their addiction and being unable to maintain a working lifestyle.

It's DEFINITELY not a minority. They don't just randomly end up on the streets from some random cause and then turn into addicts. That rarely happens, there are too many opportunities in this country to just become completely homeless from bad luck.
> I don't know if it's some sort of perverse Stockholm syndrome, or if young developers today are just not familiar with how incredibly fast desktop applications used to be decades ago.

Most of them have no idea how fast a computer is because they've been using ludicrously slow software for so long they just think that's normal. Microsoft developers these days seems to have a particularly warped understanding of what "fast" means in computing, see Teams startup times [0], VS startup times [1], or that whole debacle with Windows Terminal.

[0] https://twitter.com/i/status/1640972391265230848

[1] I couldn't find a video in a reasonable time frame, but it is very slow compared to its predecessors just to launch let alone do anything that might justify it.
You're asking if a clear problem with emotional instability while briefly sober, across observation of virtually every subject that drinks long term, is from another cause than the substance abuse that causes emotional instability when partaking?

Even given the deluge of research on alcohol's long term damaging effects on brain architecture?

Sounds like you have a study to do. Everyone else will be advised to make a practical judgement until it comes in.
There are finite resources out there for sea rescues. The argument is that they're being applied to 5 people on a pleasure trip instead of 500 migrants who presumably have much better reasons to risk their lives.
Postgraphile hits version 5, replacing the look-ahead system with a planning and execution system called Grafast that simplifies the SQL queries it generates.

Version 5, soon to be in beta, continues the pattern of auto-generating the structure, types, and resolvers for your GraphQL project based upon the models you've already defined in your Postgres database. CRUD queries and mutations are automatically created from tables and views. More advanced queries and mutations are just a Postgres function away.

V5 is welcoming feedback from project sponsors. If you don't want to wait for the next release, v4 is still fully supported and available at https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

(Note: I do not work for nor am endorsed by the Graphile team, and I was not paid to submit this. Merely a loyal fan.)

Database-driven design without the boilerplate hassle.
Who is Fossi's employer?

It seems legitimate that Twitter would deactivate Twitter accounts dedicated to criticizing Twitter. There's absolutely no requirement that a company actively support its detractors.

Likewise it seems legitimate that the owner of Twitter would deactivate accounts which target the share price of his other companies. A share price that is used (via collateral) to keep control of Twitter.

It also seems legitimate to ask whether the employees of a competing company are surreptitiously attacking the company (possibly on behalf of the company). This sort of thing is potentially illegitimate competition.

The only thing that seems illegitimate is suing a person writing elsewhere against your company (and, of course, contacting their employer if they are not a competing company).
This brings up a great point that's really common in ultra religious communities.

When you demonize some common human activity as sinful, and use social shame to try to keep people from doing it, what you actually accomplish is a lot of grandstanding and moral high horsing, and when individual self control fails, it fails hard and dramatically because there isn't a social structure in place to guide people on how to engage with vices as safely as possible.

You get massive binge drinking and drunk driving.

You get drug use with no culture of testing, so overdoses are more common.

You get teenage pregnancy and STIs because abstinence only education doesn't work and kids don't know how to use birth control and STI barriers.

You get men that don't know how to accept sexual rejection and women who aren't taught how to reject, both of which lead to sexual assault, intentional and not.

Overcoming the demons of our human nature depends in large part on accepting the fact that they are an intrinsic part of us, and learning to dance with them is more effective than trying to ignore them.
This isn't burnout, this kept me from burning out. I was wound up pretty tight and now am more sanguine about work things in general.
Given military subs operate around a maximum of 500msw why would the USN have randomly coverage of hydrophones to detect implosions at depths no military sub would be at? This sub probably imploded around 1500 msw.

A lot of people are saying sounds travel far under water that's true.. but laterally and not between the typical layers of the sea.

Not to mention that these hydrophone systems are at critical choke points not littering the ocean floor uselessly.

It seems motivated by a sci-fi understanding of the physics.

Don't get me wrong things like this happen as cover ups. In this specific instance it seems driven by nonsense.
Apple M1 Max.

I understand that everyone's situation is different, but I live in a poor country, making like $2k/month and still consider investments into my computer worthwhile, so I never tried to save money on it. This is american website, so most people here surely can afford fast computer for their work.
I listened to Reiss's (the passenger cited in that story) account on his podcast [0], and it's somewhat ambiguous. There are periods of spotty communication and long periods of the sub just getting lost. But not comms system/transponder abruptly going out and not being heard from again.

David Pogue seems to concur with this [1]. He saw them lose track of where the sub was located (wrt to the Titanic wreck), but he said the support ship never lost the ability to communicate with the sub.

[0] https://bleav.com/shows/what-am-i-doing-here-with-mike-reiss...

[1] https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1671524465736335366
Really great idea. AWS docs are a nightmare to navigate.
I point out that success requires talent - I don't know how you read that differently.

Most of the time losers claim that "if they would know the right people..." or point "he/she got a job only because they knew someone", well NO because knowing right people is only part of the work, one still needs to deliver and still needs to have relevant skills/talents.
While true at some level, the challenge of learning to read as one gets older is frustrated by just having more distractions, plus already knowing how to play. A person who is already a good musician, has to be willing to take a big step backwards while they come up to speed on reading.

Also, there are degrees of reading skill, and a need for maintenance. I'm an amateur jazz bassist, but started on classical music and then maintained my reading chops by gravitating to gigs that require it, including the large ensemble that I've played with for 14 years. At this point, I'm a better reader than some of the degreed professional bassists who are better musicians overall but have let their reading chops atrophy. I get calls for gigs because of it.

Being a better reader can involve being quicker at it, dealing with more complex material, or letting it occupy less of your attention so you can focus on other aspects of musicianship.
>n particular, VR is definitely not as immersive as actual reality, so anything that could be done in VR to convince someone of non-fantastical things can also be done (at a higher expense, for sure) with actors and props. So, your claim about 5 minutes to quit smoking has no reasonable chance of being true from where I'm sitting.

Well yeah, it can be done in real life, it's just much more brutal.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000579...

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/0005-7967(63)90042-1

A fourteen-year-old boy was said by his parents to have started smoking at the age of seven, and to be spending every penny of his pocket money on cigarettes. He had at one time regularly smoked 40 cigarettes per day, but was now averaging about half that number because his pocket money had been reduced. He said he wanted to give up smoking because he had a smoker’s cough, was breathless on exertion, and because it was costing so much money. Physical examination and chest X-ray were normal.

Treatment was given in the outpatient department. On the first occasion he was given an injection of apomorphine l/20 g, and after seven minutes he was told to start smoking. At eleven minutes he became nauseated and vomited copiously. Four days later he came for the second treatment, and said that he still had the craving for cigarettes, but had not in fact smoked since the previous session because he felt nauseated when he tried to light one. He was given an injection of apomorphine l/20g, and after seven minutes he lit a cigarette reluctantly, and immediately said he felt ill. He was encouraged to continue smoking, and he collapsed. He was given oxygen and an injection of Coramine. When he recovered he was very hungry and asked for food, which he ate voraciously. Four days later he was given apomorphine l/40 g. and vomited as soon as he attempted to light a cigarette seven minutes later.

When he next attended he said he no longer had any craving for cigarettes, and he made two interesting comments: “When f see an advert on T.V. for cigarettes,
it seems like a dead advert. ” “Just smoke from my father’s cigarette makes me feel ill”

Two months later he left school and started working. He said he had “got a bit down” at work and wanted to “keep in with the others”, so he had accepted a proffered cigarette. He immediately felt faint and hot, and was unable to smoke. It is now a year since his treatment, and his parents confirm that he no longer smokes.
Speaking about size reduction, I once had a client who want me to update his product as it became extremely slow and buggy. The product was an MS Word Add-In that was run on an MS Surface which takes shots using webcam and insert them into the active document, it was built in .Net and the previous developer used, as I recall, OpenCV library to take the shots. The installation binary was around 300MB! And, to add insult to injury, both x86 & x64 of OpenCV were included in binary which made the final binary more than 600MB. I then used a tiny lib in C# to take webcam shots and rebuild the entire solution from scratch which generated a binary of around 1MB. The client had some concerns and suspicions about my delivery but once he tried it in a clean Surface, he realized what I did. It was like magic for him but not for me. I was happy because I made him happy :)
IntelliJ is not very fast by any benchmark. I mean it's based on Swing! There's a pronounced multi-frame pause between right clicking and seeing a context menu.

C++ based editors like Kate blow both VSC and IJ out of the water. Runs so fast it feels janky, like the computer isn't doing anything.
Just wondering because it's not always apparent that a car is slowing to park parallel, especially if they don't signal. The only way I know to make it really clear is to stop alongside the open spot, signal, move ahead slowly and put it in reverse, but half the time humans still don't get the message.
I'd imagine that location is the second most acoustically monitored part of the Atlantic (looking for ruskie subs coming from the north).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS