skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hype cycle was at the very start of my career. “Java and XML! Portable code and portable data!” was the big slogan.

I took a course on XML, DTD, XSD, XLST, JAXB, etc. It was everywhere. There were tools specifically to design XSD schemas, so that you could generate classes for them using JAXB and validate the data.

SOAP and XML Web Services were everywhere, using WSDL which was a glorified XSD. The WSDL would allow you to generate a client library and validate the data prior to making an API call. It was pretty useful and I still prefer it to REST, despite its warts.

Such a distraction though. All of the obsession with perfected static types and schemas got in the way of any productive work.

When I discovered how much more I could accomplish with a dynamic language and a SQL database I never looked back.
Yes, Tenox's archive is awesome and you can find some very rare and interesting bits on there.

But it is also terribly un-curated. Some directories look like someone just slapped a bunch of ZIP archives in there without checking. Some archives don't have version numbers at all, sometimes the version numbers are wrong, sometimes you end up with three archives containing the same disk images just in different formats.

Still, it'S the best place to find rare and unexpected things, so I can definitely recommend it, if you have enough time to do the sorting/curating yourself
The way that I have avoided burnout for all these years is working on my own projects, and building them exactly the way I want to. This gives me the strength to grind through the shitty work I am paid to do.
My city (Munich, Germany) automatically sends "parent letters" to every child registered here (they are addressed "To the parents of <child's name and address>), which contain advice on dealing with common problems and questions as well as providing information about support services, sorted by age.

So for example, the one for 3,5 years has sections on how to deal with food pickiness, or with excessive preference for one parent.
The image was linked in an article from an earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478080 and made coffee come out of my nose
Akin’s Law of Spacecraft Design
>1) Kids WILL use this to bypass parental / school controls as soon as they learn about it

Doesn't sound concerning, especially the latter.
no its not somones else problem

it's still your system

but a system as a whole never being fully in sync is a red herring argument which misses the point and focuses on an aspect which might sound like a problem but hardly ever is a problem at all
Wow, I am also impressed by the tech behind! https://github.com/authzed/zanzibar-annotated
People might not care about more than 7 digits of Pi, but they sure care about the first significant digit of 0.1+0.2 not being "2".

Also I don't think it would matter if a language like Python would switch to BigDecimals as the default option. Python does such a ridiculous large amount of stuff unrelated to the actual math, that bit of lost performance won't break the camel's back.
> sometimes, just sometimes - it is also to do with protecting organisations from careless or malicious users.

There are two cases where this is true: a user intentionally sharing internal access with external malicious actors, or a user unintentionally sharing internal access with external malicious actors (e.g. social engineering / general incompetence). Neither apply to kiosk breakouts.
What is the advantage of this board over ESP32 with wifi?
For sure. This is bad faith 101 from JPMC, and I don't really think they'll care if they get a slap on the wrist. 4 million dollar fine IIRC. The government's agencies that have this data should release it to the American public as a public service.

JMPC is no longer under investigation for Epstein - they paid a fine and that's that, sadly. Mr. Dimon doesn't want to testify again, because there's a high chance the Feds knew he was lying when he claimed in his first testimony that he had never heard of the guy and then claimed that he had no idea what Epstein was doing. Which if you follow the people involved, you know was a bold-faced lie. Yet JMPC will walk away unbothered, because they are untouchable.
This attitude is actually common place in the industry. Can we make more profit than the fine for market abuse?
You could say the same about any other faith, including atheists.
Very true. In some cases, it can be a force for good; a force for innovation.
They recreated that scene in Battle of the Bulge. (1965).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mb3O5u6ig
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Does it not boil down to a tradeoff between the amount of symbols you are willing to learn and the space you want to use to write a number down ?

Base 10 strikes me as good tradeoff
Unless I’m part of an A/B test...

The term of art for "A/B testing" in the mental health industry is gaslighting.
The $4M is a slap on the wrist, but if there's evidence that it was done on purpose, and the deleted data is evidence for a bigger case, they'd be in much bigger trouble still.

But, innocent until proven guilty; if there's no indication of any missing evidence, it'll stay at the failure to retain data fine.
Even though it looks like incompetence, what are the odds it’s a state-sponsored “incompetence”? For whatever reason it doesn’t feel like chances are good.
seems like it, but no one is talking about it – everyone I ask IRL says performance is bad, but not seeing in benchmarks
Great idea. Now all we need to do is markup the human generated horseshit on the rest of the web.

We humans have the ability to interact with the world, senses and all that; and we still can't agree on some of the most basic facets of our shared reality.

How are the beings we create going to do any better, especially when their ability to sense the world is limited to the inside of our computer networks?

Bonus question: why do humans see any non-human semblance of reason as something that should be an infallible oracle? Why do we not see that non human intelligence must be just as subject to error and chaos as we are?
Counterpoint: I transitively use reveal.js (for slides-from-markdown stuff) and I didn't even know slides.com existed until now.
> When I was in primary school in the 90's, it was technically still allowed by the state, and was threated by teachers, but I don't believe it was ever actually done, and I believe is illegal now.

In the US? Of course not. Still allowed and in fact being done: https://theconversation.com/video-shows-students-still-get-p...
They also need rough play. Last night, I was playing with my nephew, and I was just picking him up and tossing him on the couch. Then, I was choking him out, and he was just laughing and laughing.

I think about what men need most, and I'm pretty sure it is brotherhood. People that you can go, hang out with, and not hold back with. I've thought about getting into men's health because I see the future in my nephew. I don't want him demoralized by the world... I want him to become strong, manifest virtue, and build a better world.
PolyML.org, or MLton.org. The guy that worked on MLton's multicore support went on to the Ocaml team and helped them get multicore working.
A recent video circulating on social media platforms,seems to depict a Russian air defense system, the Pantsir-S1, failing to intercept a long-range Storm Shadow missile in Ukraine. The Pantsir-S1, a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and missile system, is described by the Russian state military exporter, Rosoboronexport, as capable of effectively engaging a broad class of air attack weapons. However, the video suggests that the system failed to track and destroy its target, even at near point-blank range.
A lack of backups designed for “just such an occasion,” of course.
Parent was likely talking about activities for which there is only a "mobile app" solution, with no fall-back human option.

The usual pattern is:

1. Company releases mobile app

2. Company directs users to mobile app, for data collection purposes, and releases new physical activities app-first. Backup, non-app methods are an afterthought

3. At some point, the non-app methods are so broken, under/unstaffed, that they're functionally useless

Consequently, you now can't do the thing without a device.
When I look for a new position, I try and make sure it’ll allow me to learn a new fundamental skill rather than the latest new framework (though often there’s overlap:)

Over 30 years that’s allowed me to be employable across a lot of different tech stacks.
The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
That's an added bonus to the user in most cases!
Meanwhile, the government seems to have accidentally deleted its records of your tax payments for the past 12 years.

I'm sure you understand how that can happen.

Pay up.
https://archive.ph/fWwxK
If it's a suggestion then why do you care if people suggest something else in return?
Discussed at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666455> (604 comments).
You're not wrong but at the same time she otherwise seems to do a good job with my daughter which I'm keen not to in any way get in the way of by making this about me.
Every company will become a lightning company
I'd say the ideology of mechanization extends to every facet of modern society, to our detriment. Perhaps you're just complaining about CTOs because the ire was aimed at you in particular that time? Mobile game makers weaponize psychology at every level of development and then mock their biggest money-makers as "whales". Rush to dehumanize everyone and why be surprised that this is the inevitable result? A human is only worth as much as its output. Good news is soon the "machines working in the factory" will be smarter than everyone, and you can enjoy your CTO's dumbfounded face before we all shuffle into extinction.
A compelling medium article talking through why the incentive to leverage lightning network will become standardized for every business and enterprise.
...by far the biggest issue is that it (Bitcoin/crypto) simply fails as money.

But it works pretty well as a gambling/speculation scheme.

In the article's assessment, bitcoin/crypto is really just a digital collectable --- not much different than a NFT.

In my assessment, it is at the center of a semi-covert attempt to destabilize the US financial system. Look at how much the crypto marketplace bas historically been associated with China --- and still is.

The world's largest crypto exchange was started in China by a Chinese national and is currently under investigation for money laundering and tax evasion. For much of it's early history, most bitcoin mining was done in China. Now that crypto exchanges are losing access to the US banking system, Chinese state owned banks are stepping in and throwing them a lifeline --- even though crypto remains illegal inside China.

I'd love to hear a semi-rational explanation as to why something outlawed in their own country is such a significant interest/concern to state owned Chinese banks. This is no different than providing support and haven to manufacturers of fentanyl --- which they do even though fentanyl is banned in China. The most logical motive is societal harm to western competition.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-state-owned-banks-turn-...
Failed businesses don't often fail because they executed things perfectly. When you bankruptcy and shut down, you don't necessarily sell property immediately.
> This is gonna sound a little facetious, but... aren't you also doing the same?

Yeah, I am. Can I think of something more masculine (in a positive way, given context from thread) and challenging than being a good father and husband through it all? Maybe, but they're same order of magnitude and direction.

> Perpetuation of one's genes is far from selfless. (Unless perhaps one views one's genes as the important entity, and oneself as their mere vessel. But that's too deep for this post.)

My genes are not me. The societal pressures here are not to perpetuate and have children any more. At least not in most non-catholic circles (mostly joking). I should be making money, staying fit, finishing my side projects, kicking off a business, DM'ing sessions with friends, fixing up my house, taking up long-distance running, writing engaging linkedin posts, going for long bike rides, continuing boxing training, getting happy hours with my old buddies, blah blah blah.

I fight those urges every day, effectively sidelining my hopes and dreams because I'm nurturing one new singular hope: That my kids will have what they need to succeed. Just because I signed up for this when I decided to have kids doesn't mean it isn't challenging to keep it up. Just because my DNA moves on, doesn't mean I don't have to practice an order of magnitude more self discipline than I ever had to before. The payoff went from 1-2 years away for most things I'm usually engaged with with, to 20. I'll be near dead by the time they graduate college and start to have a fully functioning executive center. In that time, most my spare money and time will be spent on another human, with the only external
payoff I can think of being that they might pick me a nice nursing home, and I can post cute pics of them on Facebook, if they don't get shot, run over, or OD on something before then.

> Can you think of anything feminine that takes more strength than motherhood

I don't think remaining childless takes more strength than motherhood. I think they're different directions, and that's ok. But my wife agrees, it wasn't hard to not have kids for most her life, she just had a good family that accepted her decisions whatever they were. She built a busy and full life, which took work, but it wasn't harder. Not at all. It may be different for others.

Everything below '---' is a lot of rhetorical questions, but I generally agree with the sentiment.
I wish people were using xmpp, tox, briar or jami but that is the way it is. Network effect.
Cool! I was in the process of reading the JavaScript version. Converting the book to various languages will help spread the concepts in this book to a larger audience.
> I don't think this was intended as "physically hitting".

I am very sure it was. In many parts of the world (including the USA) that is still completely accepted and normal.
Well, why should coordinates (and everything else, really) closer to the camera/player have more precision than those further away? And then you accidentally mix these two things together and here we are.
I would fully expect that exercise done socially would have direct mental benefits. Even if it is just having someone to exchange hello. Indeed, the suggestion of an "exercise buddy" seems lined up in that direction.

I am interested in knowing if my thinking on the benefits of socializing are out of date, on this.
Air travel is so safe that anything that makes it more expensive has a real cost in lives, since it will cause some people to save money by driving instead. Somewhere (here on HN?) there was a link about an FAA decision to not require car seats for infant passengers. This would require purchase of another seat for the infant, and FAA calculated the cost in lives from this effect would be 60x that of the lives saved by the car seats.
Only if those people who are going to be disadvantaged have political power. If the majority stand to gain by new housing, and they can elect a majority of MPs under the UK system, then the NIMBY voice is moot (although there will be no doubt resistance at local level where much of the planning will take place).
Thanks for that! Looks great. For anyone else looking: I think it is page 23 (105:23).
Sorry, what war has been fought over cobalt, lithium, or nickel? I think that’s just not true.
Radio telescopes searching for gravitational waves making announcement Thursday
and what happens on a write? Does it wait for X nodes to ack the write (slow) ? Or does it return right away and risk some data loss?
I'm neither english or german, but I do prefer this german approach of making single offers to visitors and being direct in work emails. Being direct doesn't have to mean bossy or rude, it just means getting to the point.
It doesn't even need to go all the way, it is supper easy to shift the precision depending on the input.

For example 0.01 + 2.01 can already be written like ((100*0.01) + (100*2.01)) / 100 which seems trivial to implement in the language.

with something like 1000000000000000.0000001 + 1000000000000002.0000001 it seems to me that one could split the operation into 2?

One could even discard 2 numbers worth of accuracy and have a representation of 1/3 and 2/3. I'm not that attached to 4294967295 Having 1/3 would be more useful.

Why would we call an implementation correct if it produces the wrong result?
Eruda: Dev Tools for Mobile Browsers
Yeah you can use any Linux or BSD system. That includes NAS devices like QNAP, Sinology etc… that serve up a network share via Samba or NFS.
I've been around the block a decent number of times, having had a kid way too early at the age of 19. Now I'm 42 and watching friends raise kids, along with many others throughout the years - my kid is 22 now.

The sole thing that is universal is simply giving a shit and putting effort in. If you legitimately care about your kids and live a life to ensure they get the best reasonable outcome you can achieve for them, things are likely to turn out fine.

This goes across countries, continents, cultures, socioeconomics, you name it.

Anything else after that is basically focusing on micros vs. macros. It's amazing how rare this train in parenting actually is.

After that it's largely on society in most places. The suburbanized atomic family expected to handle everything on their own are extreme headwinds for the average parents to push against for example. Only once you get beyond this would I feel "parenting education" would be worthwhile of any serious society effort.
>And as most of the people don't see themselves as economically stable given the socio-economic conditions that have been in place for the last 15-20 years

But as the OP says, this is almost backwards. The poorest in America are continuing to have children; their lifestyle isn't encumbered by a family.

Meanwhile, it's the young professionals, who sometimes have a skewed view of what it means to be "poor", who aren't starting families because they don't want to give up aspects of their lifestyle. Again, not a judgment, just observing.

This is a cultural thing. My wife and I ended up with a child at a fairly advanced age. We moved to a rural area about 5 or 6 years ago. Now that our child is of the age to play sports and other activities, we are socializing with other parents. They are sometimes half our age, married with families in their early 20s. These people are what would generally be considered "lower-middle class". And yet most of them have everything they need. There's no expectation that you're going to be a globe-trotting nomad, or live in a 5000 sqft house here. Raising a family is a priority.
You could probably turn those questions right around on people: have they meditated “enough” recently? Are they getting 8 hours of sleep and going outside regularly? My bet is that they’re not, and yet if they’re not depressed… well maybe there’s something else going on!
engineering is a service. like QA. you would never say QA is product owner. right?

PM is the product owner by proxy for the stakeholders.
You've attempted to subtly rephrase the question - I said "tend" for a reason, thus I will sadly have to discard the rest of your post. In fact, it puzzles me why you bothered writing a wall of text here, surely you didn't believe this wouldn't be seen through instantly?
This is a balancing act. Spending the time later to undo all of the technical debt accumulated can take even longer.
Negro wasn't an offensive word even in the 90s from what I remember.

It would have sounded overly formal and a bit outdated but it wasn't a slur. I assume this just comes from Spanish so no more offensive than saying black in English. African-American was still somewhat new and certainly not as a widely used as today. Even in the mid 2000s people used the incredibly offensive term mulatto without a second thought as opposed to mixed race.

It would be like if latinx replaces latino completely in 20 years, latino becomes a slur and people in 2040 judging us now as racist for using the word latino. It is ridiculous and ignorance of the reality that language evolves in time.

It is also hard to put Miles in perspective. Kind of Blue was the second best selling album of all time at the end of the 1950s after Elvis Christmas album. Rebellious new heroin music as opposed to the high art we view jazz today.
IBM RPG
The only reason those 3 aren't selling data is that they have the vertical integration to launder and monetize it themselves.

They don't have to sell it, because they can keep it, productize it, and then sell the targeting information to advertisers, without revealing the underlying data.

--

Imagine a Google, Facebook, or Microsoft without an ad network and devices/apps to serve it on.

Then tell me they wouldn't immediately be selling their tracking data to anyone who would buy.
hahaha took a second.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MaoNDzZ8Mw)
I'm from America and have heard both these concepts, just to add a data point
This pattern is also sometimes called a doom box. They're useful for when you need to make forward progress on task #1 (tidying the desktop) but don't have the energy to do task #2 (actually deal with the random crap).
I already mock us for needing endless safety warnings.

Don't stick your hands in a moving chainsaw blade, eh?
Why would I need to pay any money to get my data back using Timemachine, Borg, Duplicity etc… though? That doesn’t really make sense.
Atlas of biomedical literature could help track down fabricated studies
Whoopsie I'm such a klutz ;P

Look, I didn't mean to do the espionage thingy, especially in public ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Getting hit as a kid didn't teach me anything positive.
Not this one? https://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Japanese-Epithets-Language...
But these qualities are gendered. Women are in general not wanting to be leaders in the same fields as men, and these fields are generally in prominent prestige (think roles like banking, lawyers, leadership, etc). In fields like medicine where there is more gender balance and even more women at the lower roles (like Nurses), we see these fields have more qualities of care imbued as well as the leadership that a physician need demonstrate. But even it was controversial for women to be doctors in the times that physicians had a lot more authority... now when the field has curtailed physician autonomy and become more about shared decision making, it is interesting to see that more women are entering the doctor role.

Still when it comes to leadership, it suits a man by his qualities to be a leader, while a woman is suited for other roles. You can just see this by the role mothers play in their families versus fathers. If you have an imbalance or the women starts taking control or leadership in the family when the men are still present, then you get a lot of wonky results.
Reminds me of the trick in windows 98, where you could by pass the password input screen by opening help and open file dialog.
Are there off-the-shelf solutions for legally mandated data retention and deletion? If not, who are the typical go-to players in this area?
Rare events like that can be covered by combustion turbines. First with natural gas (not used often, so little CO2 emission), ultimately with hydrogen.

Because a simple cycle combustion turbine power plant is maybe 5% of the cost per watt of capacity of a nuclear power plant, we could cover the entire grid with CT backup and not come anywhere close to the cost of powering the grid with nuclear. And because these would be used so infrequently the fuel cost would be negligible.
I should have posted his follow up study which demonstrates the transfer of genetic material from milk and its effects within human cells.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/CCID.S69135