skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we expect to have good managers when we promote based on technical competency rather than leadership ability? Sure, a certain basic level of technical competency is needed, but after that management and development require different skills.
That concept looks so much better than the result, it's not even close.
>> You spend some time whitewashing the US aggression and trying to explain how it’s better or different

I have said no such thing, quite the opposite - I found it worse for native hawaiians, since the occupation has lasted much longer.

>> I care about health and safety of the actual people

No, you don't - you say that countries like Latvia should pursue similar neutrality as they did in 1930s, which will put them at high risk of another Russian invasion. Or better yet, that they should voluntarily join Russian "federation" so that they could be systematically wiped out in what you call peace and stability. And blacks should go back to plantations too, I suppose?

>> Russia is weaker and more isolated (largely because it DIDNT pursue a systematic policy of expansion around the world since USSR fell apart)

It did pursue that. The policy is known as Karaganov doctrine and it declared Latvia as "near abroad", that is, not a real country, but some breakaway colony on Russian border that Russians believe they have a right to enslave. Latvia has been on the receiving end of that doctrine since the early 1990s. Russia has done everything they could to undermine Latvia's independence, economic relations with other countries and cooperation with international organizations. Latvian State Security Service publishes excellent annual reports that chronicle Russian activities against them. https://vdd.gov.lv/en/useful/annual-reports
So we went full circle back to a taxi company then?

Turns out uber isn't magic and the market settled on taxi companies being a thing that exists for a reason.
That is understandable, and, as I said, your choice. You did mention business use in your original comment though, where I wouldn't say it is, or should be.

On a flip side though, I've seen so many older folks loose so much time and undergo a lot of stress (which may be highly unwarranted for medical reasons) from having money stolen by banking malware, or more recently, good old phishing. It's like a vaccine, we endure a small pain to prevent a much greater one in the future.

Anyway, I hope you and your family does well!
Motor Insurance industry concerns over adoption of BEVs [pdf]
How absolutely horrifying. Is this the future we can expect from climate change? Murdering the people who try to escape the suffering we have inflicted upon them?
Indeed, given it's often the same developers working on both, a reasonable amount of the effort put into getting X to work without needing configuration was people actually working on Wayland but also taking the time to pull X along for the ride where possible.

X has a lot of code in it which needs to be elsewhere in the design envisaged for Wayland. Once support (for example, for kernel mode setting) is available for Wayland to use it, it makes a lot of sense to also use it with X.
From the report:
"Much of the Motor Insurance industry is yet to start to adapt to the challenges
ahead and the implications remain unquantified on repair capacity, training and
skills, cost, and the lifetime sustainability of BEVs. Despite this, the Motor
Insurance industry is already seeing BEVs performing differently in the market.
BEV claims are already ~25.5% more expensive than their ICE equivalents and
are taking ~14% longer to repair. It is impossible to quantify whether total-
loss rates are higher for the current generation of vehicles as there are too
many confounding factors."
Contributing a dollar to an artist they like is beyond the ability of many people in the world. Both in technical terms (actually being able to reliably send someone a dollar), and monetarily.

And very few artists are out there surviving on patrons giving them a dollar a month, I imagine. Most of them survive on larger pledges, and as far as I know, very few of them reach anywhere near the amount of money traditionally-published authors can make.

> As for art that isn't "deemed worthy immediately," that doesn't immediately make money in today's system either. If the art can be freely distributed, it's more likely to find its audience.

Yes, it doesn't make money immediately in today's system. But many authors collect a back-catalogue of works, which might pay out only a bit of money at a time, but over a career can be enough. If I publish a novel every year for 20 years, even if every novel only brings in a sprinkling of money per year, by year 20 I'm getting 20 sprinkling of money, which could be enough to sustain me.

Very few of these "middle of the road" authors are popular enough to survive on patronage alone, I believe.

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At the end of the day, you think that "the internet" somehow made possible something that wasn't technically possible before. I think that's mostly not true - the technology was never the problem. That's why copyright exists in the first place - to make sure that, despite books being almost-zero-cost to reproduce, we put an actual limit on it in order for more books to be published.

If you want a different system, that's your prerogative. But you have to grapple with the tradeoffs here. If less money flows to authors - which would happen if you abandon copyright - then there will be less books. That's almost a law of economics. If you think that somehow you can make something like patreon scale up to the same amount of money that exists in "the system" today, then a) I disagree, and b) you'd still have to content with the issues I mentioned.
My understanding is that part of the goal with this UX rewrite is to move from XUL to HTML/CSS as XUL is increasingly unmaintained as Firefox has made the move for most (maybe all by now) of it's UI years ago
That's right, there even used to be a picture of Bill Gates and Paul Allen using the DEC-2020 at the LCM in Seattle.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/DECSYSTE...
> that color management is needed for a tiny subset of users (those weird guys with printers and calibrators...).

Color management is need for full HDR support, it uses Wide Color Gamut instead of sRGB
Victorian papers were jam packed with grisly stories of murder and crime. Executions were still public. Today’s restraint is what would surprise a Victorian time traveler.

The Moonstone is the first detective novel and first “house murder” story (think of the game Cluedo, called Clue in the US). It’s still a great book to read today, a very modern story (you could send a telegram to the then-new Scotland Yard police and someone could come by on the train later in the day!).

What’s crazy is that it’s author, Wilkie Collins, was at the time more famous and successful than Dickens, but is practically unknown today.
I’ve been meaning to do a comparison of lab zero between the two.

I’ve only had the chance to look over the Python lab for a few minutes, but compared to what I remember from the R labs, it is much, much more involved and longer.

I know HN likes to complain about how difficult and confusing R is, but I think that it is an easier language for beginners or stat inclined people to start doing statistical work in.

/two cents
> Don't forget rewriting the code in Rust because it's faster and type safe!

I also enjoy piling on Rust fanboys,but those of us who had to go through late night troubleshooting sessions to track issues that were ultimately caused by use-after-free issues do tend to be vulnerable to Rust's memory safety siren's song
"Where do you think sci-fi got it from?"

Go on...please tell me where the AR in William Gibson's 1984 novel ,Neuromancer, came from.
I think "meglomania" works.
I wonder if at some point, we could train an LLM to churn out hot takes about why this one design pattern is awesome but that other design pattern is horrible and why you need to die in a fire if you use MVC but everyone should be using MVVCP instead but do stay away from MVPVC or your life will be wasted. Then we could train a second LLM to read the first LLM's articles and write flaming rebuttals and have the first LLM write rebuttals to the rebuttals. And if everything works, we could finally automate the entire debate away and go on writing code.
They just raised $42 million[1]. Where are you getting the info that they are profitable?

[1]: https://www.livemint.com/companies/start-ups/blusmart-mobili...
The tone and level of entitlement of some comments is astonishing. Thunderbird is a free and open source tool, used by many (including me). The least we can do is to be a little nicer.
> Collected plastics in Germany are usually not recycled, [...]

...well, I use the term "recycle" very loosely. If it's disposed of responsibly, then fair enough. That presumably includes burning, as long as you do it in a way where you don't just blow the toxines into the atmosphere, and, presumably, wherever you generate heat, you can at least get some electricity out of it.

It just seems to me like the PBS article is strawmaning the pro-plastic argument by making it look like the only way you can have plastic at all, is if you're cool with it ending up in landfill.

The logic seems to be this: Plastic is extremely cheap to manufacture from primary resources, therefore recycled plastic could never compete in the marketplace with newly-made plastic, therefore there's no demand for used plastic as a resource in making recycled plastic, therefore used plastic will end up in landfill. Compare that to textile which has a much larger economic footprint and costs more to produce while being more durable. The previous argument about the primary market crippling the secondary market doesn't hold for textile. After all, second-hand clothing stores are a thing, and probably are a force for good.

But people mistakenly take away the message "textiles are good, plastics are bad". The economy is starting to reflect that consumer sentiment, and you're seeing plastics replaced by textiles in lots of scenarios to reach the "green consumer". Is that a net-positive, environmentally speaking? Probably not. If the break even is at 130 uses of a cotton tote bag, and assuming one shopping trip per week, we'd have to, on average, see nearly 3-year-old tote bags being used for them to make sense. I don't think that's what I'm seeing around me, I'm seeing mostly brand-new tote bags and/or people sporting a different one every day of the week because they have dozens at home.

What I'm also seeing: "Green" consumers are mostly just "rich folk", and their greenness doesn't stop them from engaging in their "rich folk" behaviours. They are buying more stuff, and replacing it more frequently, plus they are paying higher prices to have the stuff they buy be made from more durable materials, because durability gives a material an environmentally-friendly image while low cost gives materials a "damaging for the environment" image.

There is a very simple solution to this dilemma: Dispose of plastic responsibly despite the cost. It's not like nothing could ever get done in the world if free market incentives didn't force them to get done. Covid shutdowns got done. Some things are just a matter of principle. Make this a matter of principle. Pay for what it truly costs to dispose of this stuff out of your own pocket. If that means that plastic is still more economical for you to use for certain applications than alternatives, then by all means keep using plastic.
That intuitive feel of "what's faster" has been lost ever since computing power exploded. Back when the resources were at a premium, we were just better engineers. Not all of us had the command of Leetcode algorithm problems, but we rarely missed a database index and knew to stay close to the metal as much as possible, avoiding network trips, avoiding database trips.

It still holds true today, and software has become bloated and slower because these simple rules are being ignored. It's all in the cloud, it's all distributed, it's all "free".

As for Rails - it's the same problem but it's different. If you stay too high up in the abstraction orbit, it's hard to think of the nitty gritty of performance.

What is the cloud doing? What is the ORM doing? Once it's all "magic", you just keep piling on non-performant crap until it becomes an emergency. Then you just add more cache :)
Nitter is working again
Depends on which compounds you're talking about, but yeah they might just cause reproductive collapse of our species...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reproductive-prob...

Probably not a huge problem based on the fact that I don't like thinking about it.
I looked through the new features list, but couldn't find the "conversational" threads feature which was on the roadmap for Q1 2023. Is this will coming or am I just missing it?
"ethics". Well at least they are creating more examples to analyze
So, Threads has him panicked, huh?
The settlement will be paid over a decade and 3M don't admit liability. Feels like another slap on the wrist for Corporate America. Mike Roman should at least be serving prison time as a warning to others.
This is where ChatGPT usually shines. I gave it your comment and asked it to find the concept. I had to nudge it in the right direction though: https://chat.openai.com/share/f8855a35-7076-43e6-bf9e-19de8b...
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sKZXj
EasyJet asks 19 people to leave flight after it was too heavy to take off
Which is not that much of a problem for Thunderbird, which is released for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but not IOS. And the Android version is actually K9.
The longer this goes on for the more the reputation of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company is going to get affected.

I was going to buy a Tesla. Now I am never going to buy a Tesla and I am actively going to persuade people to make different choices.
Can you point to any substantial reproductions of copyrighted novels that are output by LLMs? If it’s just compression, you should be able to pull a substantial reproduction of the works out of them.
I imagine a lot of people like this book and are happy to see an update.

In that case it is hard to say anything of value other than an upvote.
A rip off implies some kind of scam or unreasonable markup. Which isn't the case, it's just inherently expensive to have someone bring food to your door.
Can you elaborate on that? A significant portion of DNA in organisms literally encodes for protein sequences. It also has functional parts (binding sites for proteins, promoter sequences). Some RNAs are not translated because the RNA itself has function, but I don't see that same argument for DNA.
learned new word today, thanks! (antecedent).

> The Oxford English dictionary defines the word antecedent as a thing that existed before or precedes another. Precedent, on the other hand, is defined as an earlier event or action which serves as an example or guide.
Slate | Group | windy
Thanks for your feedback. GitLab team member here.

The incident review is updated in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/1... I have added your feedback into https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/1...
Just has to not be a disadvantage.

Plenty of mutations have no purpose whatsoever and were unrelated to survival or manifest after reproduction so are not selected for or against.
TL;DR: Thanks, I hate it.

It looks like the web version of Outlook. This is not a compliment.

Can I disable the search bar wasting that space? I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've used email search over the past 2 years. Three times, for the curious.

Can I disable the preview pane like I can now?

What's "unified" about the folders? What's being "unified"?

I've never tagged an email in my life, but there's the tag panel, taking up loads of space. Can I turn it off?

Sidebar "menus" should be considered a criminal act. Where's the menu bar? Why is everyone determined to force the metaphor du jour onto their applications?
> (...) would be dwarfed by the cost of modifying them to use that control system."

This should be the top comment. Cost is a critical factor. I would also stop riding the bus and drive a Ferrari to work if that option costs as much as a bus ticket. As it doesn't then I'm going to stick with the bus, but this does not make it a superior choice.
Haha! Touche
Okay, I don't really see much of a point in arguing for the tech we do have that doesn't cause any society to collapse that you are oblivious to.
Oh wow that's a huge difference.

The first one looks like polished quality software while the second one looks like some junky app made by a solo dev on his free time that doesn't care how it looks like
i am very skeptical that this new UI is really better. I will give it a shot, but seriously, things should just stop changing things just for the purpose of changing it
Some number I found online, while trying to multiply the 30 trillion human cells with the data storage of DNA per cell:

"one gram of dried DNA can store 455 exabytes of data"

Seems like a pretty sweet use case to me!

I definitely do lack storage by the way. Say I want to download the common crawl data set, 380 TiB. And for redundancy I'd need multiple copies of the data too. That's a lot of disks for in the home. "18TiB ought to be enough for everyone" really doensn't cut it.
I'm running pretty much the same software that I was using in 1987, it is a lot faster now though.

The only real difference is that emacs is using a TrueType font.
I've recently used this approach for generating Open Graph images for display when a link to the site is used on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc [1]. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly something could be implemented. The last time I'd done something similar was using Cairo and needing to write more of the scaling dynamics. I don't think I ever got it to adjust to dynamic content very well. This time I put together a prototype in Inkscape, converted it to a template and render it to PNG with Sharp [2].

[1]: https://hntrends.net/api/og?word=twitter
[2]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp
I don’t think I said Einstein is underrated or that relativity isn’t interesting. I asked what astrophysics had contributed to the “Real world” in the last 50 years. Sounds like mostly “jobs for astrophysicists and builders of astrophysics equipment”. Maybe something developed for LIGO etc will find its way out of the world astrophysics, but so far I don’t think we’ve established a benefit that provided by Starlink-like systems (just my opinion, obviously)
Well... you can define an interface, and have a class that implements the interface, and pass an instance of that class as a variable. That's not quite "passing a function as a variable", but it's kind of close if you squint.
You might have a particularly good eye. I saw none of these problems in the marketing screenshot.

I only see one ... icon in the entire screenshot, nothing is fuzzy, and all text looks aligned. The only weirdness is a misalignment between the sidebar header and the main window header, but those don't need to be aligned anyway.
I’ve heard some people still consider “meat” to be food.
Western countries spend a lot of time and money informing their populace that refugees aren’t human, they’re menaces. There’s plenty of narrative spin about how rapes increase with them, or how they don’t integrate into society properly, how their children can’t follow the new country’s laws and teachers can’t discipline them for fear of being called racist, how they breed too much and will soon take over our country, they steal jobs, etc etc etc.

I’m not surprised there’s not significant outcry when hundreds are drowned. Much of the population is already taught to view them as a threat to be eliminated.
Except Der8auer was too lazy to even prove capacity of last drive is really fake.
Don't forget the attendant deeply rooted corruption.
I'll take this over waiting in a long line or not knowing if they have what I'm looking for.

I picked up a MBA and had a similar experience. It just takes 5-10 minutes for someone in the stock room to find the thing and carry it out to me. 10 minutes feels like a reasonable amount of time. I guess best buy has a slightly better system?
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KWK3s
I’m not sure it’s dorky. It’s more strained humblebragging wrapped in a CV viewer.
I'm quite sure it's not a mental defect but if anything a fallacy.
Right, but what paradigm do you use to write those LLMs?
Archive: https://archive.li/ZOk1t
I'd bet an SVG <path> can easily handle hundreds, if not thousands, of datapoints.
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They have, however, added things that most people do care about - such as different HiDPI across multiple monitors and an extremely thin (low latency) render path.
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I keep hearing this: "they've added things people care about, such as..." then a shopping list of utterly irrelevant stuff I can't even see.

>1 screen with different DPI is THE ONLY thing Wayland does that I want.

I don't give a flying monkey about rendering pipelines, refresh rates, tearing, or any of that stuff.

If someone found a way to add variable DPI to Xinerama, job done, and I could continue to use X for another decade or two, and ignore the weird arcane stuff that the Wayland folks want and AFAICS nobody else cares about...

Just as with GNOME, or systemd, or OStree, or Flatpak, or almost anything else new out of Red Hat and its community in the last decade.
> Currently I'm using React

If you're using pure react (client side) with the Supabase APIs, then RLS is all you need (just make sure you are using the anon key, not the service_role key)

If you are using something like Next.js, then you can use the service_role key on any server-side routes. This will bypass Row Level Security, so make sure you use your own Auth system inside the server routes

> should I use it along with NestJS or should I completely shift?

You can use Supabase just as a Postgres database. Just leave RLS on (to disable anonymous access) then connect to it from NestJs using the "postgres" role/password that you set up when you created the project. There's no need to shift, especially if you are thinking to shift to another Postgres host
If that's a result of some organization contaminating the local water supply, then I'd call it "secondary damage" and vote billing said org for it.

Otherwise, you either live in an unusual location that makes any kind of water-related infrastructure projects very expensive - like, idk., a small settlement at a summit of a mountain, or in the middle of a desert - or something is very much broken about that place.
https://www.giiresearch.com/report/bon1238015-germany-plasti...

61% of the plastic waste collected for recycling in Germany is incinerated.

A lot is also exported to Asian countries where we pretend they are recycling it but they are probably not. This was in the news all over Europe back in 2019 when China stopped allowing imports of waste and all the "recycling" programs went into crisis mode. Germany now exports its waste to Malaysia instead.
Is it binding if I don't have a tool to read .pdf, as .pdf is not required to use the software (or to download from GitHub)?
For comparison, DuPont alone saw around $1 billion in annual profits from its PFOA products back in 2016.[0] It's unlikely that 3M saw its PFOA/PFAS profits wiped out by this settlement alone, although you might very well get there if some of the estimates of the company's liability--up to $30bn--are anywhere close to accurate. There are dozens of additional cases out there, and likely many more to follow. Even though many will probably get dismissed, the ongoing litigation costs alone are going to be a pain. Then there's political pressure, damage to 3M's brand, and more. It's all going to add up to a truly massive number.

Not sure if it'll do much to dissuade any companies from embarking on the next massive environmental fuckup, but one can hope.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...

1. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pfas-project/companies-face-bi...