skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said, "It's a bad idea to rush through refactors".

What constitutes "rushing through" a refactor, and what forces and context make it bad to do so? What can we do, if anything, to make it so that refactoring is as much a part of everyday development as the CI/CD process, and thus becomes just part of the work that's done, not something to be put off until the business decides there's nothing else with a higher priority?
I'm perplexed about the wider community's strange enthusiasm for Discord. As another user noted, fundamentally it's IRC with multimedia. Why are people promoting it so enthusiastically? Even if we accept the very controversial idea of 'Get Support On Discord!', the actual product itself is nothing special. It's only a marginal improvement over other similar products we already had. All of this is leaving aside very real concerns about how user data may be used in the future.
> Forgetting that BC exists entirely.

I mean, you forgot that the PNW outside BC exists, so it seems fair.
Heartening to realise that that my venerable and slightly moth-eaten ThinkGeek t-shirt (ca.2001) emblazoned with "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" remains relevant today.
> Different US states' very unique interpretation of laws on certain things is something I have seen that needs explanation

Definitely! Especially here on HN. A lot of the questions & criticisms I see from people outside the US likely stem from ignorance about how the government of US is constructed. The states really are very powerful, even ~250 years into the experiment.
Thanks for the words of gratitude, kind stranger! Glad to have potentially written something of some value to you.
> They really will turn off the audience you want to attract.

I disagree. The vast majority of the internet doesn’t care, because it’s the internet and this is normal.

The types of readers who will read a blog post and critique the author for things unrelated to the content of the blog (such as the presence of ads) are generally not a great audience to cultivate, and definitely not a great vocal minority to cater to.

There are numerous examples of YouTubers being hesitant to turn on ads in their early days because they think it will drive away potential subscribers and drive down view counts. Then they turn them on eventually, growth continues exactly as before, and their only regret is not turning them on sooner.

Be careful not to mistake the vocal minority’s complaints as a common concern.
There's Lynx Browser for that https://lynx.browser.org/
There's an Observable notebook [1] that allows you to play with L-systems with colors and animation!

[1] https://observablehq.com/@kelleyvanevert/l-systems-2
#1 purchase for bike owners traveling near cars: Garmin Varia. Cheaper ones exist, but this one a) pulses at drivers to let them know you exist and b) informs you on your head unit that car(s) exist(s). It's not a panacea but it'll turn a bad situation (inattentive driver) into a better one.
Yes. Currently it emits Intel Mach-O's, and is one itself, however this is not an issue thanks to Rosetta.
If there was a monopoly situation (which of course is a big "if") then it's reasonable to have laws requiring specific levels of service from the airline. It's fairly easy to write those laws to force the airline to fly.

If the Chinese state intervenes in US domestic travel affairs then the US has the option to nationalize their fleet. All their assets and operational staff are in the US and the staff aren't going to oppose keeping their jobs...
Sorry; I posted with old info without checking if the situation had since changed.
I prefer “application/json”. The user can write their own interface.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

There are people who say birds aren’t real, or that Australia isn’t real, or that the earth is flat.
https://archive.is/UUU6N
Because PHP is bad or because you personally don't like PHP?
I don’t disagree with your main point, but you can definitely still get regular cab no frills trucks. (Sadly that’s just not what most people buy)
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders
What the part that isn't thinkin', isn't thinkin' of
Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you
Or is it worse because it's always waiting
Where your eyes don't go

Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discoverin'
You're free to come and go, or talk like Kurtis Blow
But there's a pair of eyes, in back of your head

Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearin' your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go
"Coke talks about Coke. Pepsi talks about Coke. It's good to be Coke."

When people stop talking about Twitter in the same breath they discuss any other social network is when Twitter dies. Until then, good luck.
I think many people also need to remember that in this case white people means “white Americans”, not white people from anywhere else. We had nothing to do with any of it!
Agreed; the germ theory of disease simply says infectious disease X doesn't occur but for some kind of microbe. That is, the x-factor isn't bad air, evil spirits, or offending the gods.

It's obviously not true that if you get infected by microbe m you will get the disease X. Such claims may be overstated to motivate people to get vaccinated or to practice good hygiene or animal handling.

What the author seems to be arguing is that medicine has over-emphasized microbes, and under-emphasized the role of immune system deficits, particularly for diseases where latent infections are common.
This was the first thing my brain jumped to: "It would be a hell of a lot easier to comply with NHTSA regulations if you didn't have a combustion engine."

At that point, the issue is safety and crumple zones, which, again, should be vastly easier when you don't need an engine.
The Bali bombing was in 2002. I don't think that counts as political instability unless 9/11 counts as political instability.
Number stations are also a thing.
The FTC is currently opening an investigation. Multiple nations are launching inquiries into these systems. If you think this is a problem that isn't going to become much bigger, you are in for a rude surprise.
How is you private life have way less data then you public life?

Email accounts have waaaaayy more information about you than a public social media account. I can find out your private thoughts, the things you buy, who you owe money too, your social graph, tons and tons of data. I can find out way more about than from some comments on a nerd forum.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everyone has a my number, it's needed to do your taxes for example. But the government wants everyone to get a plastic my number ID card and use it for multiple services including replacing your health insurance card. But using one card for various services is seen as a privacy risk.

I don't remember the details but it doesn't seem legal to force people to get one and use it, so they've been offering incentives like coupons for stores. Meanwhile, from what I passively understand from news, there's been issues like information sent to the wrong person so it's difficult politically to push for it more.

I personally didn't get the card because for foreign residents it expires when your permission to stay expires and I didn't want the hassle of getting a new one each time. Now I live in Europe and I have a similar digital ID and it's quite nice to be able to do virtually any procedure online, although once you apply, stuff that took 30 minutes or 1 week in Japan takes 3 months here.
I think the point of this container is to be that explicit admin action.
Whole list you can find:
https://whatcms.org/Tech_Reports
I know about the conventional 2-qubit Molmer-Sorensen but not the 5-qubit version. Could I ask what it is?
Are you using the GPT-4 API?
Which coin?
Wrong. PE investments today make a small portion of the overall portfolio of a pension fund (varies from state to state). In widely swinging markets a PE form that does not speculate in the market but buys and flips with a lot of expertise a private company, and often generates higher and more sustainable returns. This is a reason why PE investments by pension funds are increasing, but they still make a small portion of the pie. In addition, pension funds are not funded through tax money but through portions of ones wage. And not all pension funds are from the state (e.g. CalPERS), most of them are run by pension fund specialized corporations or if big enough by the employer itself.
According to the 13th amendment it never really ended. The film 13th
I think vans are a great choice, but from what I can find they’re not any cheaper than trucks. ie, getting one for less than 40k seems to be out of the question.
The author got betrayed by her headline writer. She's not offering a "map" (she's not a moron) nor is she presuming to tell men what to do. She's making a respectful attempt to understand social realities behind the rightward swing of younger men (the appeal of Peterson, Tate, etc.). But she has to wrap it in so many pieities and disclaimers for her fragile audience that the article ends up unreadable. If you're masochistic enough to read it closely anyhow, it's clear that she's quietly undermining the dogma (see "I, a heterosexual woman, cringed in recognition") and is rather sympathetic to the people she's writing about. But you have to be a Kremlinologist to detect it because it's what you can't say in the WaPo.
That's a calming thought.

All biomass on Earth is a one with 12 zeroes less than the mass of the Earth.

Your brain is about 3 regular bottles of water worth of mass.

Whatever inside that brain of yours that is stressing you out... is so far from being consequential to the universe that it's probably not worth stressing about in the first place. Just relax and enjoy the ride through this crazy universe.
Reddit's API changes have finally broken our mod tools
We must be neighbors (or close to it) because I think I know exactly where you're talking about.
I picked up a scintillator/PMT from this seller a few years ago: https://www.ebay.com/str/theradlab

A few hundred for a combo already assembled together.
This sounds interesting. I tried something similar with Django. You have a write up on this?
Yeah but the point is that the vast majority of people buying full sized pickup trucks aren't actually using them for practical purposes, and it turns out that when something becomes a status symbol like that for so long the capabilities diverge from what people that aren't just buying it as a status symbol want.
...and so many dealers don't stock them. I honestly don't remember the last time that I saw a new one on a lot, let alone the road. Of course n=1 and all of that but I used to own one and live in a rural area so I don't think I'm far off.
Pension funds are investors in PE, they're not the debtors. In other words, if PE firms do well, their investors (pension funds) do well. They're also not stupid

This whole conversation about PE is non-sensical. It's all based on this naive notion that PE firms borrow money to buy investments and use that money to pay themselves, more often than not bankrupting the original company, and since it was borrowed money, they can come out unscathed.

But no one can answer, why would anyone lend PE firms money if it's a bad investment? Debt normally doesn't have an upside. Best case scenario is you get paid back what you're owed plus interest.

A lot of online criticism can't even get the relevant players right and relies on naive tropes like "they're greedy" or "corruption", as a hand-wavy way to explain complicated dynamics. And then they throw out theories that could be dispelled by reading the first few paragraphs on investopedia regarding PE firms. Why is the discourse in this particular field so poor on hacker news? Low quality conversations regarding technical topics would not fly on this forum. If someone mentioned Y2K and you made a low quality comment like "greedy corporations wanted to save money by not storing more than 2 digits for the year", you would get downvoted to hell. So why does this topic have such poor comments?
I can get a 5GHz signal in my bedroom through two interior walls. And some appartments do have very thin walls and ceilings .
No, it’s clearly not how it works.

National scale investment like the power grid are not subject to the same kind of rules that classical investment because the state can and do print money. For all the bad things I have to say about the Inflation Reduction Act for exemple, it will result in significant investment in renewable with money which for all intent and purpose appeared out of thin air (with all the impact this will have on the overall equilibrium of the economy).

You could have at the same time have a comprehensive investment plan for nuclear and renewable without one significantly impacting the funding of the other. The US would be labour and knowledge limited long before it is capital starved.
No, they are underfunded because it is easier to win elections by shortchanging the pension plans and keeping taxes low now, counting on future taxpayers to make up the deficit.

Nothing stopping them from playing it conservatively and investing in high grade bonds and whatnot, but they want to hit those 8% annual returns (not including the underfunding in the first place), and so it drives them to riskier and riskier assets.

And of course corruption of someone on the board of the pension plan investing in their friend’s nephew’s investments and so on.
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It's IRC with multimedia that someone else manages but you control who can use it.

And a lot of people who use it have never used IRC.

And it has an app that has the same name as the service. That makes it a whole thing, like Instagram or TikTok. It's really eye opening to see the number of people who never considered that reddit the app is a separate thing to reddit the service/site.

The wider IT community is still very much a small niche. We often forget that.
If I had encountered this link on social media I would have been much less likely to entertain the veracity of the claim. But coming from the front page of HN, and only lightly skimming for a couple of seconds, I started being fooled. Shows the power of reputation.
Mozart Was Inspired by His Pet Starling (2017)
It’s not too far-fetched, it’s happened before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
Much the same way as it's "inevitable" that the RISC vendors will take over the world since the late '80s. Or it is "inevitable" that Intel will die Real Soon Now for the last...oh...30 years now. Or how it is "inevitable" that IBM/Mainframes are doomed for at least the last 40. How long have we been predicting that ARM will catch up...and all we have is a firm, definite 'maybe' with M2, a tech available to a single vendor?

Said another way: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Usually cars of this class can only support about 100lbs on the roof. We have Prius and RAV4 Hybrid with that limitation. The roof racks are still very useful, but I wouldn’t put 4x8 sheets of anything on them.
LegendAI (datalegendai.com) is created by Kien Le Trung and Jason Ang (2 University of Florida students) and launched on Feb 2023. Unlike existing popular Amazon product research tools like JungleScout and Helium10, LegendAI provides extremely accurate historical sales and stock data. They proven this with their Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The 2 explained that to make this happens, they had created their own proprietary AI technology that web scrape the Amazon marketplace. Kien, one of the co-founder, praised both JungleScout and Helium10 for being great Amazon product research softwares and for having many features, but he emphasizes that while LegendAI does not have as much feature as they do, it excels at one thing that it does: Tracking data. Its accuracy, as shown in the video that he made is over 97%. He believes that Amazon sellers can use LegendAI to track sales trend of competitors' products, understand if they are doing better so they can change and make more profits.

With both JungleScout and Helium10 both makes over $20 million revenue, LegendAI, even new, is something we should look out for. It mights be the hidden next million dollar software company.
At condo distances you should be able to do 10Gbps over cat5.

2.5Gbps isn't even going out of spec for cat5 and should go the full 100 meters.
Some of those trucks are quite high and will kill pedestrians and even destroy other cars more in higher number.

It’s just physics. If you need it, fine, but seeing how much they are selling of those, a lot of us are starting to doubt how much of it is need vs want.
Oh it was https://www.chiptune.com/ but it has an invalid TLS certificate now.
EchOh-No: a Vulnerability and PoC Demo in a Popular Minecraft Anticheat Tool
Nobody under 35 wants to use email for anything.

I'm older than that and I certainly don't want the hassle of setting up a mailing list. You can make a Discord server with a few clicks.
That's a great question and really the ultimate trick. For me the situation is oddly a bit of optimism and hope in an otherwise totally screwed up system. I find peace in the idea that the planet will go on one way or another, if we humans cause too much damage it will get rid of us like a bad cold and move on.

That can absolutely be depressing as well, but that's where I have to remind myself that the environment functions on the scale of thousands of years rather than decades. This planet and the life on it is an absolutely amazing thing, and amazingly resilient. I hope we can pull out of this nosedive so that we can continue to see what humans come up with, but I rest assured that we can't literally destroy the planet and that "the end" for us will be well down the road.

In the meantime, I just try to do my part to minimize my impact and partner with nature rather than fight it. I want to enjoy my life, and for me part of that is pushing myself to the point of some frustration and discomfort. I live in a small house with simple utilities and hope to have it off grid soon. Yes I still have a car and buy some things from Amazon or the grocery store, but I do without when I can and at least a few times a week I get annoyed that I don't have more storage in my tiny house. I figure if I'm feeling a bit of that pain I must be doing something right and can better enjoy the good parts of life.
I think so. I work with a group that was researching ways to improve the hacker news ranking algorithm. We concluded that there were "false positives" and "false negatives" -- stories often did or did not make the home page based more on timing and luck than the actual content of the story. Read more here: https://github.com/social-protocols/news

However, we concluded that the biggest problem is false negatives -- good stories that never made the home page -- because of submissions to /newest that simply don't get enough *attention*. There are too many stories and not enough eyeballs. As a result, there is not enough data to know if a story would do well if it were shown on the front page or not.

You can see this from the fact that there are many stories that are submitted multiple times, and 4 out of 5 submissions get only 1 or two no upvotes, and then the 5th makes the front page and gets hundreds. Sometimes it's due to timing factors -- the story has become relevant for some reason -- but often its just luck.
Remastered version here https://youtube.com/watch?v=aYEp26g14Wk
You have enormously misrepresented that story. It wasn't true as anyone actually believed.

The processor throttled when the battery could no longer deliver the current necessary to drive it at full speed. It had nothing to do with new iPhones.
We switched to TriNet, a personal favorite. Their support is awesome and you get employee purchase program stuff with it.
Ice cream became artificial or expensive; and then got flooded with silly stunts like "little debbie" flavors. Few today have made (or had others make) real ice cream to have a standard to compare against.

I expect a new revival of home made ice cream soon. Its a good route to selling a bunch of hardware. Make a bunch of mini refrigeration units wrapped around the usual agitator motor: "salt free" ice cream maker. Do a few infomercials and it could be the next Juicero.
So far in 2023 all CVEs reported on Linux had at most a CVE score of 0-1, which is also the score of all CVEs reported for FreeBSD.

https://www.cvedetails.com/cvss-score-charts.php?product_id=...

What exactly is your definition of security track record? Do you have any, or are you parroting cliches?
I'm sorry that people are occasionally, silently, but unfairly judging your choice of vehicle, presumably.

I don't think that counters the fact that many do people drive gigantic vehicles they will never need, though.

> Meanwhile, approximately everyone here routinely drives alone in a vehicle capable of carrying 5-7 people. (and right about now, someone is about to reply with 'ride a bike, cars suck!')

You've managed to lump everyone who disagrees with you into either the "hypocrite" or "fanatic" boxes.

I drive a Mini Cooper, not that that's worth bragging about. How will you dismiss my opinion?
In the linked article, the situation was that they absolutely needed to change some hard-coded MONTHS value from 3 to 4 in order to keep the factory running.

That change should be shipped in isolation. With manual testing to cope for the lack of coverage, presumably.
Refactoring doesn't have the same urgency as keeping the factory running, no matter how much we all believe in keeping the campground clean. It can wait until Monday in this particular case.
Industrial Policy at Work: Evidence from Romania’s Tax Break for IT Workers [pdf]
Am I reading correctly that you’re running a site with 40 visits per day and it’s only costing you 1 cent per month?

So you have a container with Alpine Linux and nginx and that’s hosted in Cloud Run and mapped to your domain?

When you say “visits” do you mean the container is active 40 times per day (presumably for not very long)?

Edit: what determines when to suspend the container?

Edit again: answering the previous question: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
As a total aside, domain expertise is kind of amazing.

Like, you can look at a string of opcodes from a processor that you haven’t touched for a decade-plus, and still recognize what’s going on.

It’s important to remember that applies in all fields.

That bumpkin that grew up on a farm?

Sure, he might not be able to write an award-winning essay, but he could probably tell you everything you need to know about your local soil chemistry and it’s suitability for various crops just by smelling it.
Wrong. Banks who provided billions in loans to PE firms for decades, are now getting more cautious. But not because they fear of a failed investment, but certain investors of the bank do and that means problem for the bank. The Banks actually don't care what happens to the company being bought. An investment bank which provides a loan never sits on its debt. They are bundled into financial products like CDO, CLO etc and sold to institutional and wealthy private investors. This bought the rise to a new ''era'' recently, where PE firms set up special investment funds to fund big acquisitions of other PE firms. The reason being the current situation of the financial markets and the general negative mood in the markets.

Example with a retailer from the UK, which turned costly for the investment bank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYKT4pvYYA&pp=ygUTZnQuY29tI...
Hey! Do you have a few minutes?