skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice!

The `t<X>` makes sense; we currently guess a tag name of "FooBarZaz" --> "fbz", but allow the user to override it, so you could hand-assign "t1", "t2", etc. as you added entities to the system.

Abbreviating/base36-ing even the auto-incremented numeric primary key to optimize lengths is neat; we haven't gotten to the size of ids where that is a concern, but it sounds like a luxurious problem to have! :-)
Quitting means you don’t get unemployment. if it’s an honor thing you’re arguing than sure , but honor doesn’t pay the bills and fees your family.
yeah like journalctl and especially its unfortunate useless binary format
As an outsider my impression of Utah it is just a state run by a religious niche group.
I'd probably ask an internet forum how to solve the hard problem of my business plan for me.
Kinda doubt they will achieve parity. Even if they do, for how long? The problem is that the spec is a moving target, you cannot justify maintaining a platform indefinitely while a complete version exist on the side.
Netflix has been going downhill for the past few years.

It is inspiring to see individuals succeeding on Substack - https://growthinreverse.com/archive/ It proves that people will pay for quality content and it is possible to build a successful business. If an individual can make a million dollars a year by himself, imagine what a business can do, if only they have the discipline to produce high quality content.

In the next few years, the web is going to drown in low quality AI generated content. It would be a good time for disciplined content producers who go for quality than quantity, to make a name for themselves - individuals or businesses
Indeed. It is a very low bidder and does an increasingly decent job.
This is also not true.

-Proton's updated ToS does not change dispute resolution for users outside of the US.

-Proton's legal jurisdiction is Switzerland. Swiss law does not permit class action lawsuits.

-For US users, Proton's updated ToS also does not remove your existing right to bring a claim against Proton in Swiss court (so you are not forced into arbitration).

-Recognizing that some US users might not want to bring a claim in Switzerland, our updated ToS adds the possibility to arbitrate in the US.

-We are wary of US courts having jurisdiction over Proton as it gives the US govt leverage. We suspect many of you are too, which is why people care about Proton being Swiss. Therefore, while Proton agrees to permit arbitration in the US, we don't by default permit proceedings in US court.
> We are essentially trading in highly skilled developers with low skilled ones, with some exceptions, of course

The exact same thing happens across the board, as I cite elsewhere <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36512411>: The best Canadian scientists move to the US, while an equal number in absolute terms of (presumably not the top) American scientists move to Canada.
to be fair anywhere you’re going for $50 is probably close enough that it’s not exactly exotic.

Looking at allegiant’s site right now the only thing I could find for that price is a flight from Provo to Vegas
I think games are hard, but people pay for them.

Too bad that the toolsets and skills available for games aren't pushed further into the computer ecosystem.

I think a linux desktop with UI elements from even a moderately basic game could be a better integration between humans and their work.

For example, most games have settings with options and keybindings right at the very start of your interaction with the system. At any point, you can get in and tweak them if they aren't efficient enough for you.

You can also adjust sound and display settings.

Additionally, most games have a sort of "soft start" to help you learn the user interface, and navigate through the game world. Games have to attract the player and get them up to speed.

It would be very cool to promote these sorts of things up in a desktop UI.
Every tool Meta has, Google also has. Google open source theirs so the industry gravitates towards that, but Meta keeps theirs internal. So is Meta's tooling better than Industry/Google open source tools? probably not. The only tool I was impressed by was scuba. But Meta basically build it out of gold (thousands of machines with TB's of ram)
Because they have a political agenda to push and have decided that Hacker News is a good place to push it (even though that's a blatant violation of the HN guidelines).
Plex uses a fork of ffmpeg that they iterate on and presumably cherry pick changes over from upstream ffmpeg, as well as add their own changes on top of. They also contribute back to upstream ffmpeg when they find a bug or optimization for ffmpeg. But working from their fork allows them to iterate at their own internal cadence.

> Given enough bandwidth and reasonable latency, you expect the experience to mirror youtube or netflix, but plex is not even close.

The funny thing about people is that they say things like this without considering that their own setups are to blame. YouTube is ran by servers outside of your control with content delivery mechanisms caching popular videos in a datacenter SSD near you. I run my Plex server on a relatively old Intel NUC in a docker container with the storage mounted over NFS from a 4 year old Synology NAS. I'm typing this message with another window open on my Plex server which I had skipping around a video with near instant playback when I move the play head (even outside of the reported buffered zones.)
Was it like how all nature documentaries now have to conclude with a section on climate change?
Yeah its PITA problem.

Like, service can fork, return okay then die after a second coz someone set memory size wrong. No real sensible way for init system to prevent it.

Or takes 5 minutes to load then hits some bad data and crashes.

We just set services on auto-restart, monitor it and flag alert if service is restarting too often.
Oh ok thanks, sorry I just google the name trying to answer my GC related question. Maybe I missed it when skimming the github page, couldn't see a mention of memory management.
I think this will devolve at this point. But you should consider that you are perhaps far too confident in your position here. My last attempt is due you to consider what happens when you

A) multiply two degrees together

B) multiply two dBm values together

The output "units" in A change but do not in B. dB and angles are very different.

Edit: the units in B do change, but the dB part doesn't. Tired.
yes, this is why we need claim participation of American people.
Yeah, nah. That's gonna be a hard pass from me. I'll go straight to mastodon.
To me this makes no sense. Isn't the point of a performance improvement process to.... help someone improve? Nobody is perfect, and if your performance isn't in line with what your boss thinks it should be, isn't the appropriate remedy to explain what needs to change, and then see if you can change it?

Naturally, if you attempt the PIP and it doesn't work, then leaving makes sense. But leaving because you start one is illogical to me.
> [Brazil has] an insane education system, it's good but maybe too aggressive.

Richard Feynman had a not-so-positive view of the Brazillian education system, which he summarized with "no science is being taught in Brazil!"[0]. Granted, his view was based on personal experience around half a century ago, so everything may have changed since then (possibly even due to Feynman's influence).

> Lookup the law exam. It's rough.

I'm having a hard time finding comprehensive resources here. I've found bits and pieces that make it seem...not that scary. 80 multiple choice questions where 40 correct is a pass, and then a few essays. A 2022 article[1] states that some prestigious law programs have bar passing rates near 80% while the average pass rate is closer to 30%. American states have per-state bar exams, with average pass rates in 2023 ranging from 31% (Alabama) to Alaska (75%) [2]. Is the difficulty of the exam not easily represented in statistics?

[0] https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

[1] https://portal.fgv.br/en/news/20-years-revolution-brazilian-...

[2] https://www.ncbex.org/statistics-research/bar-exam-results-j...
counterpoint, my yaris has a 42L tank. The light comes on around 36L to 37L in. I know if pretty well so I've pushed it to 38.5L (another ~30km past the light) but never risked going any further.
Because you'd have to pay more to attract somebody local who's happy at another company.
> He also fucked up some in systemd, journalctl being biggest example.

"Let's just invent our own non-ACID file format instead using what's already available." (Like perhaps SQLite.) Howard Chu of OpenLDAP had a rant on this:

* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924071300-170035-why-you...

Does journald support off-host log shipping yet? Because for all its supposed replacing of syslog, as a sysadmin I still have to run (r)syslogd to send things to a central log host via RFC 3164/5424 anyway.
I think from now on they might white label your response, call it acerbiç
Undertale was made in gamemaker. Superhot games were made in unity. Rocket league was made in unreal engine.
For anyone interested in making games at a lower level, Gustavo Pezzi's course on pikuma.com is an excellent resource. Just finished the one on game physics and I learned a ton.
Weirdly enough, with the new scroll-driven animations spec (the spec’s terminology), you can do all sorts of position-based styling without any actual scrolling taking place[1]. Of course you can also use it for its intended purpose of actually detecting scroll position.

But this also unlocks a lot of other style query problems, like the cursed wrap detection. For some cases, container queries should also be sufficient. And contrary to many of the other responses here, yes I think this flexibility is important progress. There are tons of fairly straightforward (even trivially specified) layout techniques that are currently next to impossible without some combination of hardcoding measurements and/or JS, which are going to become reasonably achievable in the next year or two. That’s fantastic. And for everyone who complains about this complexity at the styling level, it’ll eventually eliminate the need for a whole class of runtime JS doing a whole bunch of inefficient calculations badly.

1: https://kizu.dev/position-driven-styles/
I think this is inherent to the American experience. The DNA of this country is constant, unceasing change. It's sad that the old things are disappearing, yes, but with that is the appearance of a bunch of cool new things. For instance, Nat Geo may be dying, but you can now watch 1000000 hours of amazing nature footage from the comfort of your couch.
> I do want SnagIt for Linux of course, but what are you going do?

Flameshot is basically this, if my memory serves. The new default KDE screenshot tool also has a very robust on-screen dialog for cropping and annotating.
Funny to see this now, when thinking about a response he gave to the question 'what the hell is cloud computing', way back in ~2009:

"it is the most nonsensical .. maybe I'm an idiot, it's really just complete gibberish..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
"There is no way web ads are worth what companies are paying for them now."

Sadly, it seems that they are worth slightly more than what people are paying for them. I don't know who of the 5 billion online are motivated by these ads, but there are enough of them and they have enough money to make the system viable.

I have a friend who runs a local business entirely via Google ads, when he has space capacity he increases his ads spend and his capacity is used, when he has tight capacity he cuts back on his spend. He has a consumer facing business.
Are we supposed to give free pass on stupidity if they were lucky enough to not hit anything this particular time?
I'm gonna call BS on this one.
How are you talking about $20/yr sub being expensive while also comparing that subscription with flying out to various locales?

I don’t know where you’re finding such cheap flights
You haven’t provided a source for any of this.

Let’s just look at the facts here. Grusch has given congressmen locations of where these alleged craft are held, program names that the SAPs are hiding under, and names of people involved. Congress could very easily get to the bottom of this by appointing a special envoy with a full top secret SCI clearance to go investigate these locations, and they could subpoena the people that Grusch has pointed out who are involved with the programs. This could be resolved in a week if they would just do that, so why not let them investigate this really quickly?
> "In our statistical analyses, there's a less than 1-in-1,000 chance of nature giving our results without gravitational waves being present"

I wonder how many science experiments were done on earth yesterday. It was probably more than a thousand. This is why if you are doing science, you should always do the sciences that will give amazing headlines if you are right. Maybe you will be one of that day's lucky one in a thousand!
normal people who are allowed to fail die doing stupid things all the time. people die climbing or skydiving or any other number of ways. the fact is people are just really bad at risk assessment.
This kind of comment is blatantly violating the HN guidelines in both letter and spirit - it's a generic political tangent meant to spark a flamewar that has no informational content or value whatsoever.
Tracing Garbage Collection
> One of my colleagues was moved to tears by a GPT-4-generated letter of condolence to a relative who had recently received a devastating medical diagnosis

A world where GPT-4 or systems like it are ghostwriters for everything, including highly personal communication, isn't particularly appealing to me. And yet here we are.
The Munster movies are unwatchable. They should never have been made. The TV series, though, is nigh perfect. Some nice touches are the mirrors that shatter whenever Herman looks in them, and the trombone accents are inspired.
I don't think they took offense to the "rita" part.
I’ve heard of this one too. I’m too cynical to believe it’s legit though.
Slightly obligatory Futurama quote:

Leela: Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet!

Farnsworth: Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure.

Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?

Farnsworth: Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
The parent is making the analogy that back then supply chains were powered by wind. Change happens.

Electric trucks are becoming available.

Heavy transport trains are now electric:

https://thedriven.io/2022/01/19/mining-giant-bhp-orders-elec...

https://www.australianmining.com.au/fortescue-battery-electr...

https://www.railtech.com/rolling-stock/2022/03/04/australian...
But lack of firsthand evidence of ETA's does not constitute
evidence of the existence of ETA's

I said this. So... yeah, agreed.

The rest of this: I don't care, except that you
have to work yourself into contortions to simultaneously
argue that all firsthand reporting of ETA's has been
stymied by legal threats from DoD

Your logic is incorrect.

First, the whistleblower protection is new. It hasn't been around very long. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ufo-whistleblowers-wou...

It would definitely be illegal for anybody with firsthand knowledge via their security clearance to go public with classified stuff. That is 100% clear; probably the only 100% solid fact in this whole circus. They could, presumably, take it to the whistleblower channel in a non-public way, but I don't know the details there.

What Grusch has done is more of a legal limbo area. We can't say how legal or illegal it is without knowing exactly what the classified info is.

What's also clear is that there is a heavy price to pay in terms of career even when going through the whistleblower channel. There are all sorts of incentives to not do it. Just because others in his position does not necessarily mean he is lying.

Personally I don't believe it's aliens. I find it incredibly unlikely that alien races would send crewed ships here and then be clumsy enough to crash them or get shot down. I think it is far more likely to be some kind of camouflage for another more mundane program.
Shuttle Is Going into Beta
Undertale is a good example. Toby Fox has taken YEARS and said he has struggled implementing the follow-ups.

And regardless, a few counterexamples aren't gonna get me to use trash.
It really is amazing. From Oracle's Service Agreement:

4.2 You may not, or cause or permit others to:
perform or disclose any benchmark or performance tests of the Services, including the Oracle Programs, without Oracle’s prior written consent;

It's nuts!
You might have an easier time targeting a specific kind of car buyer.

Somebody like my mother in law who always leases a Toyota Corolla derivative from the same dealer? Somebody like me a few years back who was looking for a new Honda Fit but settled for a used one because I couldn’t find a new Fit? Somebody like me last month who got a 1996 Buick Park Avenue for his son from a shade tree mechanic because his son hates new cars and recent used car prices are insane (and not like Crazy Eddie!). Or the agricultural economist I know who picked up a Corvette for $35k at the peak of the 2008 crisis because he had cash and the dealer needed it? Or somebody who thinks Audis are the bees knees? (Yuck!). Or someone who can afford a new McLaren?
It's because the PIP is a formal (usually legally required) process that generally only starts once the business has already decided to fire you. It's very rare that things turn around afterwards.
If you’re using a computer for symbolic algebra or whatever, none of this matters anyway. The whole post is about simpler notation for the sake of making things less error-prone when working by hand.
Perhaps, but that isn't the point you or I were making.

You're saying this is surfacing to fabricate American excellence and relied on the assumption that these claims are being made because 1) Only a superior nation could hide this and 2) only a superior nation could find them. What has been claimed was that it's barely hidden and a bunch of nations have been finding them. Your argument is against a straw man.
It’s exactly like media queries, just not attached to a global root which can’t convey any information except what the browser specifically decides to index for querying purposes.
Either this information is incorrect or a lot of companies have been getting away with violating this for decades with no consequences. Take for example, the Nintendo Switch. It contains GPL'ed software, which Nintendo makes available on their website (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/oss/), but they make absolutely no interface for the user to modify or replace any (GPL or not) code that was not provided by them. Lots of companies do this in fact... practically every modern car on the road is another example. And allowing them to have user-replaceable code would be a huge no-no for a variety of (potentially deadly) reasons. Same for medical devices.
the earth's refined petroleums are my tank and i can tap this amazing tank from anywhere along my route
The AI Quagmire: Legislators are playing catch-up with the use of AI in hiring
He is completely correct. Weird that he would say it out loud.

Of course we have all heard of a coworker who was placed on a PIP and then survived the PIP and went on to do well. It happens, but the people who struggle and then fail, or who survive but struggle for years far outnumber them (and he has the data).
I did apologise and apologise again recompense when payment was late during a difficult time in the scale up and stepped in with my own money.

I agree Eric is bright and so wanted to support him through an internship where he had lots of freedom.

He didn’t manage to do it (as noted in his tweets) but I offered to pay anyway and also offered other support.

One invoice went to the wrong address (our fault) and as soon as he asked about it we apologised and asked him for details so we could settle it immediately as well as asking him for the third invoice he never sent (again for work not done).

We made mistakes and struggled as we scaled, faster than anyone could have imagined but always try to improve as folk should.

Power differentials are tough and complex but in this case we tried to be understanding and apologise when at fault and now he is on a crusade against the org per his tweets and it’s a bit tiring when half the org was hired from non traditional backgrounds and the community.

I honestly wish the best for him and hope that hate dies down, he will be happier that way.
Lets say they get 90% of modern site compatibility, could they dethrone Mozilla? Possibly? I'd consider switching and supporting "the next Mozilla" if they were close.

I just got a built in to the browser pop-up add a few weeks ago from Mozilla about a VPN product... sheesh.
Wow, very convincing argument, you must be a professional spy with all your more-than-passing familiarity with intelligence agencies, I bow down to your totally rational viewpoint on the world where government agencies follow all laws and aliens routinely crash their flying craft for our venerable government agencies to recover and (legally, of course!) keep secret from us for seven decades.
> In this artist’s interpretation

Why arent we using midjourney for obligatory space article pictures?

World’s most replaceable job award goes to Astronomy editorial artists
if one named as pismo is a unicorn then i won't worry anymore what i will call my company
Yup. It's a last resort. If they just wanted you to improve your performance, they wouldn't include HR.
The majority of humans can't defend themseles against their own confirmation bias, even when they are aware of the phenomenon. I suspect this isn't going to improve anytime soon.
I did the last cohort of YC. Surbhi Sarana was our partner. Though she is quite helpful, I find that her thinking process during interviews or all the way until the demo day is how will "she" look in front of others if the people she selected or coached don't raise a lot in a demo day. I felt shit that a lot of good people who had amazing ideas with biotech software were rejected because of optics and her lack of knowledge overall in health sciences/life sciences. Has anyone had a similar experience?
They're really bad at purging outdated search results, I often see them trying to GET pages that haven't existed in 5+ years.
> This has been a problem for years.

Hah, yep. I used to build tools to detect it at an adtech startup. A common approach at the time was to take someone else's text and use naive thesaurus replacement so that it would be just barely comprehensible but statistically look like english. So “You can catch the mouse” might become “you jar trap the rodent”. Glad to see how far technology has progressed! /s
he writes:

> where ln(e^2πi)=ln(1)=0,

that is incorrect because the logarithm of a complex number is multi-valued. He even cites the correct source on wikipedia, but his argument is incorrect (and because the exponent is 2πi he actually would get a meaningful results I believe).
Debian didn't really have any issues with it either, merged /usr is the default since two stable versions ago already. There were just some troubles with internal politics around the topic.
If you leave voluntarily you don't get the severance. The best play would be stay as long as possible to keep the paycheck and look for a new position
I bought that, too, but the resolution of the images is so low it makes my eyes bleed to read them.
> Among the many creatures being done in by all this junk are corals, tortoises, and elephants

Other creatures include Snake, whale, crocodile, giraffe, cow, dog, crab, sea lion.

Twitter thread with images:
https://twitter.com/aadhi_reach/status/1264109645125189632?t...
Which people and what lesson?

Like who is it critical to not write off carbon fiber for extreme depth submersibles?