skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that everyone has to work to have something to give in exchange for what they get from others. I don't agree that the struggles poor people face in our current economic system source from this truth.

I need you to tell me with sincerity that you think what Walmart and Amazon are doing to their rank-and-file employees isn't wage slavery.
Big Underwater Monument to Capitalistic Hubris and Small Underwater Monument to Capitalistic Hubris
Noted private-eye "Sam Spade" Sanders is on the case. Chances it results in anything beyond funding for his political groups and some clicks for his media friends...nil.

I wish these investigations were more serious than press releases and dog-and-pony shows with executives. They're so weak, that their witnesses constantly lie to them.
OpenAI lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations
It depends on how revolutionary the product or service was. Not sure if any company still does this anymore, but the way Google rewarded and recognized the initial teams behind stuff like gmail and Google maps seems more fair. Based on the comments I’ve seen so far, i doubt that OP received much of either from GitHub / MS.

Edit: I’m not saying that MS / GitHub is obligated to do anything more than it already has. From a PR perspective, it’s just far cheaper to give a fatter bonus and promotion to early contributors to a big product and publicize it. It will also encourage other employees to push instead of just cruising. Otherwise, now you have someone making a logical case for not working very hard for either GitHub or MS
From what I recall reading about the incident when it happened, the airplane did have the usual red beacon lights that normally indicate that the engines are running, and the crew that the woman was a part of had received multiple briefings about both safety around running engines, and this specific airplane.

The airplane had a non-functional APU, so they kept the engines running longer on the ground until they could get connected to ground power. Normally with an APU operable, the flight crew could start shutting down the engines much sooner, such that it would not have been nearly as hazardous to the ground crew. That's probably what any sort of civil suit will go after -- if AA had spent the time and money to have the APU fixed sooner, the dangerous situation could have been prevented and the woman that was killed might still be alive.
If you’re polling, you can use GitHub APIs. They are pretty well documented. If you want a turn-key solution, use gitea. Depending on how flexible you need it, gitea might cover your scenarios. But you can have actions in gitea as well that automate polling GitHub APIs for issues or comments or pull requests etc.
I have had zero problems getting pis for the past 3 years, but we generally pre-buy supply in bulk (500+)
The longer Bitcoin's network continues to function, the more people will become aware of its resiliency. Governments may topple; banks may fail; exchanges may go bust; Bitcoin keeps on ticking. Difficult-to-forge assets that can survive the failures of governments, banks, exchanges, etc. tend to gain adoption as stores of value. There aren't a lot of assets like that. Gold is one. Bitcoin appears to be one too.
France lays out strategy to combat 'overtourism'
David Pogue just referred to these kinds of submersibles as "janky" on NPR. He also wasn't impressed with the controller.

"All of these submersibles have been kind of janky," Pogue said.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1183057832/a-search-is-underw...
There's a middle ground between "hardware store crap" and "custom." The aviation industry has plenty of standard interior lighting and environmental control system that's known not to light people on fire or short out or otherwise fail and kill somebody.

https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/busin...

These are still COTS products.
An emergency release implies explosive bolts that could fail catastrophically at depth.

... which would be a risk that I might recommend for another application and manufacturer, but not for this firm, apparently. For this firm, I think I'd recommend "Don't do what you're doing, but if you must, keep it as simple as possible."
Deep sea rescues have a mixed track record. The Pisces III is one that succeeded
> So far, it's been proven wrong.

How can a prediction of what happens after 2050 (i.e. after a total of 10 halvings to make subsidy negligible) have been proven wrong "so far" ??
I don't think most people who use the term wage slavery (which does seem a distraction to me) think that any payment of wages for labor is a form of slavery. It's more about the perception or reality (take your pick) that those jobs don't offer a path to progression to a better life.
I'll be on board of T!
Fuxi: I Ching divination with GPT-4
Introducing Fuxi: a revitalized I Ching divination experience powered by GPT-4. Harnessing the traditional three-coin method to generate hexagrams, Fuxi allows users to delve deep into their queries. With the integration of LLM, each question is comprehended and interpreted in the context of the divination result.
Yeah, I have a wired XBox 360 controller that will be old enough to vote in a few months. That things has out lasted and been used far more than the controls of many more expensive and professional products I have encountered over the years. I'm all for making OceanGate take responsibility for any actual negligence but this story just reeks of trying to shock people just by showing them how the sausage is made.
This mirrors my experience as well. I've tried to use them for pretty straightforward support agent type tasks and found that they very often go down wrong paths trying to solve the problem.
Do the math exercise with him for how much volume 2 miles of string takes up
Probably because with their current scheme they liscens the material for other markets and thus would be in violation of these kind of deals? As well as their co-funding/producing of foreign material. The question I would as as a liscense payer is what they earn through this.

Not saying it's not possible but why it is quite the hard thing to get out of, and not spend liscens money while doing so, makes sense. I would guess someone has made these calculations once or twice too.

Pretty sure it's not that they "just don't" though.
I've come across a few Gear Patrol articles in my mobile chrome feed and I must agree - they aren't very helpful. It seems like they just want to add to their network with a quality domain name.

> Will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol?
> Our current core editorial, tech, and business team is moving forward with DPReview. Gear Patrol is committed to continuing DPReview’s industry leading journalism, and we look forward to collaboratively investing in the site’s future moving forward.

As I read it, this is corporate-speak for 'no one from DPReview staff will join', so I'd expect it to become more bland content where you wonder if the writer actually used the products or just read the best buy product pages.
Relatively, exceedingly merciful.
The web browser is a feature, it allows developers to not have to code a second UI for their app, when they often have already built a web version. And it neatly end runs around having to make a cross platform UI toolkit that doesn’t look like hot garbage on every platform.
From this comment in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36394421

> OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush says the company had been evaluating the potential of using a carbon fiber composite hull since 2010, primarily because it permits creation of a pressure vessel that is naturally buoyant and, therefore, would enable OceanGate to forgo the use — and the significant expense — of syntactic foam on its exterior.

https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/composite-submersib...
I was wondering if this was just syntactic sugar. Thanks for clarifying.
In my observations, wealthy people often act like they are poor. In fact, their aversion to letting go of money can be likened to hoarders not wanting to throw away anything. If dollars were old magazines and newspaper, wealthy people would show up on Hoarders with the worst clutter imaginable.
If you can't afford to qualify the components on your 4000m diving vehicle, you can't afford to make a 4000m diving vehicle.

See: the fact that they lost their diving vehicle.
Hi @swyx, Thanks for the kind words!

we actually just purposefully left that part a bit scarce because we have something else coming up on the topic! I'm sure we will be chatting through it soon :)
Quite extensively discussed lately: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Using a joypad isn't a big problem in itself, but using a wireless one is extremely careless. What if the connection is lost? What if batteries die? Or leak? Etc.
Ah yes, the life insurance scheme.
If you’re driving you just can’t focus on scenery period, no matter how many cars you’re stuck behind. Whenever I ride as a passenger on roads I drive every day, I’m amazed at the details outside that I don’t see when I’m driving.

Just keeping a car on a road with no traffic takes a fair amount of focus: for evidence, just see how many people don’t do it and plow into objects that are alongside the road.
Civo is great!
Would love to hear more about your experiences in a blog post
Should have Qdrant in the list of vector db's
There are more than a few decent Java GUI apps out there, some built with swing, some with JavaFX, some with SWT, maybe we will soon see some using jetbrains compose. I would say that the developer experience isn't bad at all, but if you want to make a very complex or unique application, you will want to surround yourself with someone who knows those stacks very well (just like any other tech), the problem being that it's a dying breed.

If you want to make a small to mid-scale GUI, I'd argue that you'll be better off with a java toolkit than anything web based (tooling is awesome, there are RAD tools to prototype and iterate quickly, ...). The alternative I see in this space is PyQt/Qt for Python, but it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it and everyone knows how terrible packaging and shipping python is.
Air conditioning in India and Europe poses risk for dramatic rise in emissions
Two good examples of the flip are the Ferry Building in SF and Chelsea Market in Manhattan. Those used to be big industrial / shipping / cargo buildings but now sell upscale food :)

It's kind of funny how you see the same economic patterns play out in different cities over hundreds of years

Another pattern is that train stations and big US post offices are often in the oldest parts of town, and I think they have started to move over the years. That real estate is often extremely valuable, so the govt or business finds something else to do with it
Its kind of confusing that the author use JS objects (aka hashes) as an entry inside the HashMap he's building. I think building the concept of a hash from the ground up would be more illuminating.
The Dream of Harvesting Solar Power from Space Is Gaining Momentum
>A moderator is a volunteer position that people do because they want to run a community.

in the same way Spec work is a "volunteer position", sure.

> It is not “unpaid” labor, and moderators acting like they’re doing anyone favors is ridiculous.

I'd love for the mods to walk and show how correct they are.

>tons of people from the community will step up.

yes, because reddit never complained about power tripping users eager to be in a position of authority and praise how they make the site a better place. Surely hiring one of those in the midsts of a revolt is the best scenario.
Flying taxis star at Paris Air Show
When I put a dollar in a vending machine, I don't want to wait an hour for the soda to come out the bottom.
Human interaction on the road and large-scale computational psychological theory
YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
I was navigating around YouTube and found a channel I wanted to watch its most popular videos and have noticed they added back the oldest option!
Keep badgering them each and every month/year until they give in.

Some states are moving to make it illegal for HOAs to prohibit it the way the FCC did with satellite dishes.
Are the chargers/ports on cars easy enough to swap out, or are we manufacturing ewaste?

If I were to buy a car with CCS today, and then in 2024, NACS wins, and all cars going forward have NACS, and all charging stations change to NACS as a result... In the year 2030, can I get the port upgraded, are the changing stations obligated to support CCS indefinitely, is there an adapter I can just keep in my car for NACS->CCS that actually works (NACS->CCS is currently not an option... will it become an option?), or is my CCS car just unchargeable?
This is research! The point is this is possible now, and can be improved upon.
I like combining this with a bash implementation of an event API (https://github.com/bashup/events). This makes it easy/idiomatic, for example, to conditionally add cleanup as you go.

Glossing over some complexity, but roughly:

add_cleanup(){
event on cleanup "$@"
}

trap "event emit 'cleanup'" HUP EXIT

start_postgres(){
add_cleanup stop_postgres
# actually start pg
}

start_apache(){
add_cleanup stop_apache
# actually start apache
}

I wrote a little about some other places where I've used it in https://www.t-ravis.com/post/shell/neighborly_shell_with_bas... and https://t-ravis.com/post/nix/avoid_trap_clobbering_in_nix-sh... (though I make the best use of it in my private bootstrap and backup scripts...)
They have multiple of them on board and can swap in a new one if there's an issue. The focus on the controller is misplaced to me. Game controllers are well made and better suited for the job than custom hardware. It's just the association with videogames that makes it seem odd.

If they used $30 logitech keyboard as well, would anyone question that?
This is my nightmare :( I'm so sorry
Harsh lesson, those five signal names are identical if one squints real good. Would have never known.
I'd easily take the bet that this controller was not the problem.
I think it's pretty much standard practice in American and European commercial aviation, but I don't know about everywhere else.
> I suspect the name "goodwill" doesn't really help, either

I said in an earlier comment that I didn't think I was getting hung up on the name, but I had a thought that hints that maybe I am.

If it were called "slop" instead of "goodwill", I think I would be less bothered by it. don't get me wrong, it would still bother me -- and I wouldn't understand it any better -- but it would feel less like a term someone would use when trying to pull a fast one.

> It's just that accounting wants both sides of the ledger to balance

Yeah, you and a couple of other people keep saying that, but I don't really understand what that means. I mean, I know what having both sides of the ledger balance means, but this sort of example seems bizarre and extremely suspect to me. It just looks for all the world like people making stuff up.

That's OK. I can't understand everything, and this isn't something that's actually important for me to understand.
My educated (a little bit of engineering at uni) perspective is: Completely idiotic to build a submarine out of carbon and not have the means for a complete inspection for manufacturing defects as the original article suggests.

Carbon, as you correctly note, needs to be very homogeneous. Bubbles, lamination defects or -god beware- fissures lead to failure, of the sudden, unannounced and total kind. And not only is it necessary to check after production, but also after regular short intervals of use, because a mere scratch in the carbon can be fatal.
Mock vs a fake. The difference lies in where the behavior is specified. In a fake, the behavior is hardcoded or simple. With a mock, it is each test that says what the behavior is.

The two scale differently. Mocks are per test, fakes are once.
Those were called correctable ribbons. Our old Juki 6100 daisy wheel printer used them.
> I'm not sure what wealth has to do with workplace safety.

Ironically, there's actually a good chance that the high stock price is partially influenced by increased profits from a lack of strict safety processes.
Ah, I remember watching that travel show episode. It takes on a whole new perspective now.
Fire that killed 4 at NYC e-bike store was caused by lithium ion batteries
BBC Select is only in US and Canada, not in rest of world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Select_(streaming_service)
Didn't you get the memo? See: "RE: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished".
And where the spare batteries for the controllers are?
Do we know anything about how many times this submersible has survived descending to such depths?

Surely its been sent down to dwell at these depths autonomously dozens if not hundreds of times, right?
For me it's probably Ghidra or Jetbrains IDEA in 2023. Both are desktop, thought I could see the debate on whether or not developers are considered mainstream consumers. I use them on Linux and Windows, so I definitely get value out of their cross platform capabilities.

I use Eclipse-based tools at work (again, I can see the debate). It seems like Samsung's Smarthings (IoT platform) used to use Groovy, but has recently migrated away.

I also know you said desktop, but a weak argument could be made in favor of the (also weak) JVM connections of Android. I'd put forth that some Android usecases are basically former desktop usecases.
This was my disappointment with my Tacoma. For the size of the truck itself, the towing is very limited. I know they would rather you buy a Tundra, but a Tacoma's towing isn't much better than my '85 Chevy S-10. That's just really sad when you compare the sizes of a Tacoma and an S-10
Plenty of people 'opt-out' from the societies that we have built.
Loved my HD555s, did the foam removal instantly, but wouldn't say it was a game changer.

Rocked the Zalman clip on mic and moved on to doing the 3.5mm detachable mod and used a V-Moda BoomPro.

Still a great setup today, especially for gaming. Sadly lacking in bass.
Gas station stores are moving in on grocery stores.

There's a huge war brewing that most people don't even know about, but once grocery stores started imitating Costco and offering gas, the convenience stores have been firing back by undercutting grocery stores on staples.

Around here they'll even undercut Walmart on dairy and select produce.
Yeah, let’s also keep our home doors unlocked because we are more than the thieves that could wreck our lives!
There is also a new (OpenSource) Postgres extension that claims to provide multi-master replication based on logical replication, BDR and pglogical

https://pgedge.github.io/spock/

which can also be used for online upgrades.

It however only supports Postgres 15 and (not yet released) 16
Plenty of manufacturing environments that involve heavy items. Even with a lift assist, they'll still need 2-3 people to help lift or guide something to the next cell or next place in the line. Lift assists are still expensive, and if that could be replaced with a robotic arm and cut out 2-3 employees at the same time? There's going to be a big market for this. Certainly big enough to keep a company afloat while they continue to refine the product and reduce costs.
I drive a class B up to 400 miles a day. You really don't want to drive more than 8 hours daily no more than you want to work more than 8 hours daily. And I say that as someone who went from San Diego to Seattle in a single crazy marathon drive once in a sports car during the very dar.kest days of the pandemic. I will eventually trade mine in for an EV option because my limitation isn't hot water or gasoline but rather electricity. I have both a generator and lithium batteries but on a 100° day I like to be polite. So the idea of charging the silly thing at an electrify America is really appealing. Cue someone ranting about the environmental toll of EVs.
> It’s too easy to be independent these days,

To be fair, I didn't say you have to have a good common cause. Just something to do in some capacity.

Like, you don't need help, it's fun to hang out and it's an excuse to get help.

My point is to say the relationships are different rather than transactional. Focused on a common cause and that sharing of it rather than relationships directly.
What do #1-#8 have to do with Linux? As far as I can tell, nothing. A flip phone will cover your use case nicely.

Personally, I have no interest in making phone calls. 99% of the time when my phone rings it’s a spam call. The other 1% of the time it’s one of my uncles or aunts, all of whom are in their 80’s or thereabouts. After they pass on, I will have no reason at all to make a phone call, except perhaps to book a doctor’s appointment with some doctor who hasn’t switched over to online booking.
Bug Writeup: Bing Chat Data Exfiltration Exploit Explained
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site moderators
Murderers aren’t really representative of the homeless.

Bear in mind mere homelessness is not unequivocally a crime in the states, see Martin v. Boise (2020 or so).
It’s worse, in many (most? all?) cases a legal backing is superior!
Those people will believe, sure. They will still make up a minority though.
Where do you get the VPS?
Every time I have seen people calling this amateur hour, I wonder if they are right or if it is similar to NASA using the same chip that was used in the Sony Playstation in the early 90s as in the New Horizons probe which reach Pluto in 2015.

https://www.itpro.com/hardware/368293/why-cutting-edge-space...
> did you think the size and shape of the gas pump nozzle were handed down from God or something?

No, but you'd just have the fuel tank opening large enough that you can put in any particular handle. And in the end you didn't need Gulf saying this brand or that brand could buy gas, but not that brand. So while there were a lot of different handles before U842, they usually all actually worked with all the different brands and the gas stations didn't have to pre-approve the different cars to get gas there.

I've had a few gas tools and gas tanks which didn't have a gas port that was shaped for a U842 handle and yet I've still managed to fuel them just fine. I didn't need to get Shell's authorization every time I wanted to fuel a Toro.

I'm kind of amazed people think its a good thing for Shell to have the ability to say "no, that brand of car isn't allowed to buy gas here anymore". Imagine if Ford operated most of the pumps in the US and could just decide Toyotas could no longer get gas at the majority of pumps. Sound like a good idea?

Imagine if Tesla operated most of the DCFC dispensers and could just decide Toyotas could no longer get gas at the majority of dispensers? Oh wait, they already made that decision. Despite the majority of Tesla dispensers technically supporting CCS communications a Toyota couldn't possibly charge on most of those dispensers even if they had an adapter, because Toyota and Tesla don't have an agreement.
TerraUSD: South Korea 'cryptocrash king' Do Kwon jailed
Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Ohio prevented incarcerated people from receiving books about programming computers like Joshua Bloch's “Effective Java” because they “pose a threat to the rehabilitation of inmates” and prison security.
How long would it take to get down to 4000m though, didnt they lose contact like 1 hour in?
Reddit hasn't been open source for a decade. So, the "open source" part?

If someone really likes my project but really hates me (or vice versa) you can fork my project and keep going. Take all the progress I contributed to and make your own ball.

Reddit, not so much. Maybe you can clone the high level design, but the people wont follow. It's not like OS where contributers are well, contributing. Most of the audience is passive browsers.