skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's bad if you're in the U.S. Companies hire folks in the US to fire them later if they want to. That's how it works, and everyone understands that we can hire today, we can fire tomorrow, because of "employment at will". Those high salaries don't mean anything anymore. If your salary was $200K and you spent 1 year to find a job, your salary is now $100K. Compare it to other countries - Germany, for example. Salaries are lower, but if you work, you can't be fired. You're getting your paycheck, you're protected by laws, and it's your American fella who is going under the bridge with his family, not you.

We really need to make "employment at will" illegal.

Personal anecdote from Russia (I hold expired Russian passport and have many friends from there). Auto-translated from chats (reach out if you're curious getting the origin link):

=== 8< ===

Another moment. When I was completely desperate to find a job here in our region, I published a CV on the Russian HH.ru. And there is a lot of activity there. In one day, they wrote to me vk, sber, yandex and several other fairly well-known offices. And all as one are looking for remote employees, but for some fucking reason that is not clear to me, I have to be on the territory of the Russian Federation. That's just an exception with Yandex. They can arrange in Serbia. But you also have to go there.

=== >8 ===

I don't know what they did to the US economy, so now it's even worse here than it is in Russia.
It's such a contradictory article. It's conclusions are divorced from most of its substantive points.

Solar should have lower transmission cost overall because of local solar. I am unsure where "less efficient grids" comes from unless it's because of terawatts in a single giant coal burner or nuke. Non UK economies like mine have no nuclear and do have expensive transmission nets but it's a socialised cost and a net benefit overall.

He somehow elides over a 2 to 3x advantage in one space but worse overall. How worse? Why?

His strawman myth demolition was good.
The UK has an extensive network of protected public footpaths and rights of way, some dating back thousands of years. It also has a right to roam.

https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-your-ri...
I wonder if the process has been accelerated due to how much of the animal we use in food adjacent and non-food products, which aren't anywhere near as looked at as the "pure" food treatments. Potentially an example of how our traditional belief "don't waste the kill" having negative consequences when taken outside of the traditional uses of a kill, as we now have dozens and dozens of products coming from a pig that aren't edible.
I was expecting something about GPUs as well.

IMO it doesn’t make much sense to call things that run on the CPU “direct.” Direct access to resources is the assumption if you are running on the CPU, right?
Obvious difference is Jetbrains moved to autosave long ago, whereas VSCode never swayed from user save.
Show HN: BrowserBoxPro on GitHub Container Registry
A small, purpose built chip. The GSM Association refers to it variously depending on audience. For example on their landing page for eSIMs they refer to it as a Secure Element: https://www.gsma.com/esim/

You can get from that page to their technical standards which go into much more detail about hardware for eSIMs.

STMicro makes Arm based ones: https://www.st.com/en/secure-mcus/st4sim-201m.html
Its like a real life Roadrunner cartoon
People have requested this for years. I finally got around to it. This is a WIP but tested on MacOS and Linux it worked.

Pull the image and follow the run instructions: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro/pkgs/container/brow...
Yes. One of the systems was called "adherence." TSYS was using it in 2007 or so. Calls were supposed to be resolved within a certain time or you were penalized.

Same with your arrival time, bathroom breaks, lunch, leaving. You are/were tracked by the minute and penalized for any deviation in either direction. And they canned people all the time for straying too much.

It was the most sadistic workplace I've seen in the first world.
I don't know enough about heat pumps to comment about the substance of this report, but looking at the list of their other reports at the end,it seems worth pointing out the heavily ideological, global warming denying biases of the group that wrote this.
The bigger your throughput is the less food gets wasted because the variance of food needed for a day decreases. One restaurant with a big menu would be more efficient than two smaller restaurants with smaller menu.
Atul Gawande, such a great writer. Another favorite of mine that would be of interest to many here: Why Doctors Hate Their Computers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha... (archived version: https://archive.ph/PlnQl ). The big takeaway for me, which the article doesn't get to until near the end, is that close collaborations between technologists and the experts they're building systems for--the core of Participatory Design--can be VERY fruitful.
TBF pretty much all farms in Oz and the UK now have "no entry ring first" and animal production biosafety overall is much more stringent. I think in China too but I don't know how strong the regulatory oversight is.

Vaccinating workers and avoiding Influenza A risk seems like cheap wins. My hyperbole about "won't happen" is over cynical.
Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. I totally understand. A lot of the pet products you buy in the big box stores are really cheap crap.
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That depends on the scale and balance of inferencing vs. training.
Looks awesome! Maybe I missed it in the docs but I wonder how you solved the problem of a source table's initial snapshot when performing CDC (locking a large table on a production DB can be problematic).

Did you implement something like described here? https://netflixtechblog.com/dblog-a-generic-change-data-capt...

Lastly, I wonder what plugin you're using for the Postgres logical replication?

Congrats!

Edit: re-read it and saw about the DuckDB blog's inspired ctid solution for the initial snapshot. Do you find querying by ctid okay performance wise? As far as I remember it will use sequential scans
Subtle difference: GrandOrgue uses samples of actual organs, pipe-by-pipe. It can direct its output to many different channels and has software mixers to map the outputs onto the number of channels you've got. An 'electronic organ' is a device that creates organ-like sounds, either using tonewheels (for instance: Hammond) or some electronic oscillator and then uses various methods to mix in or filter harmonics. This can create sounds that closely approximate a real organ but it isn't quite the same because you don't have that massive soundbox called a church to go with it (I see churches as very nice instrument casings).

Moddarts 'Organteq' comes very close with their virtual organ simulator, it uses a whole pile of math to recreate the sounds of a real organ. Using that + a multi manual setup gives you a close approximation to a real organ which you can configure to your hearts content. But the software used in this project, GrandOrgue which uses samples is also very good (and is the one I use).

Playing an organ is - in my opinion - a lot harder than to play a piano, the learning curve is very steep and the added footwork is a serious complication if all you've ever done is play the piano. I suck at both ;) But it is a lot of fun.
Hands-On Mapping: The Story of a Blind Cartographer (2021)
I've only eaten there once or twice, I think they expanded to my area too late. One chain that stands out for huge portions was called Claimjumper. Looks like it's still around.
> Millennials who went to the Cheesecake Factory, especially for special occasions, associate it with good feelings. If the restaurant is where you spent your parents’ anniversary or your own birthday, then it’s going to be tethered to happiness. Under the warm, gauzy filter that nostalgia provides, it’s hard for Cheesecake Factory aficionados, especially ones hardened by adulthoods that were punctuated by various financial crises, the fallout from 9/11, climate change, and a pandemic, not to look back at the restaurant without some kind of wistful sentimentality.

Interestingly, one restaurant that had even more of this nostalgia vibe for me as a kid in the late 80’s, early 90’s was Pizza Hut.

I remember going there for parties and celebrations and having a nice sit down dinner. However, in the late 1990s, it went downmarket to try to compete with Dominos. The sit down experience greatly declined.
Why does somebody automatically have to be a "shill" for anything just because they make a coherent argument contrary to yours? Aside from being a transparently stupid and dishonest way to shut down debate through ad hominem, it's absurdly binary on how it categorizes agreement with you as correct and anything else as automatically mendacious.

Could your arguments not by the same silly logic not then make you a shill for the extremely media-savvy, multibillion dollar system that's currently pushing specific and often politicized arguments about how climate change is a looming catastrophe? Whether they're wrong or not, I don't yet know and would prefer to debate on evidence more than politics, but if organized, well-financed effort to move a certain agenda is a hallmark of shills existing, then there must be shills for Big Climate too.
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> but then extends to "and people who like to eat at chains are bad eaters."

People who think like this are not worth being around. Snobbery fueled by raging ignorance.
Sure, a few sites with drm'd content today is no big deal, but when any site that wants to serve advertising is using drm, when google.com and gmail both are, when amazon.com is, that's a step change.
https://archive.is/I1tWc
We used to like to get a few of the small plates and share, kind of like tapas from an alternate universe. Some of them are really excellent. They rotate those a lot though and last time we went we didn't find much on that page that really lit a fire. But if you do it's really a nice time, order a drink, share some plates, marvel at the Stargate architecture.
I don't think it's reasonable to be insulted or offended.

But it was a noticeably odd choice and odd scene. Jean didn't read Sanskrit and does not come across as a "intellectual", so the likelyhood that she randomly picked the line out of a random book in the middle of fun times strains the credibility. It would have been believable if he was picking the verse while isolated up on the mesa or something like that (and probably more true).

It was weirdly incongruous in an otherwise nearly flawless movie. I re-watched Fat-man-and-little-boy which contained far more flubs and clumsy scenes (still good though).
> In the UK, the electricity:gas price ratio has been increasing for many years, as increasing penetration of renewable energy makes the grid progressively less efficient.

Does anyone know any more context on this? I found this surprising. I would have assumed renewables would be cheaper than fossil fuels. This feels like fossil fuel industry misinformation, but I don't have the facts here.

Regardless, I agree that in some places a heat pump is just not economical. I have a natural gas furnace, and gas usage is pretty cheap in California, at least when compared to electricity.

My original plan was to get solar panels installed, and then switch to a heat pump once the furnace needs replacing. Ditto for my now-gas water heater. Then the electricity powering the heat pump would be "free". An added bonus is that I would get air conditioning along with it, which I currently do not have, and that would essentially be "free" pulling from the solar panels as well. (Sadly, the solar panel install didn't work out, but that's another story.)

I wasn't planning on switching to a heat pump because of cost (though with solar panels, it would presumably end up being cheaper than burning gas), but because I think burning fuel in a closet in my house isn't a great idea health-wise, and burning fuel in general isn't great for the planet. Although I'd find it really hard to give up my gas stove...
vscode doesn't show up in webmaster stats in a meaningful way, so no.
You’re probably tight.

Personally I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten in one. I like a good fast casual burger now and then it’s often a good choice late night or at an airport. Sometimes I’ll break down and eat at some casual chain at an airport or in some suburban location. But if there’s a location with a CCF there are probably other options I’m inclined to choose first.
https://archive.is/XNp7X
The 'organ' section for most keyboards is unusable for anything except for short effects. Usually the samples (if they use samples...) are extremely short and the presets are boring. On some models you can even hear the sample loop points. I have the same irritation with most wind instruments in keyboards, they sound terrible and aren't even close to what an actual instrument sounds like.
Second H-1B lottery announced for FY 2024
They conveniently dropped the charge that would require the politicians who received those funds to become involved in the case.
That means NASA won't ever land a human on the moon again.

I wouldn't bet my money into scam like that. THere are way more sane options to bet on. And on the plus side Starshit won't probably get human rated anyway.

Would you hop on a bomb knowing that you're just part of an idiots interpretation of rapid development and also knowing you're doomed and with 100% certainty going to die in any case of failure? No thanks!

Not enough that they're going to destroy the whole wildlife at boca chica and not feel any need to clean up their mess. Honestly I wish them to be grounded at starbase until they handpicked and cleaned every single piece of dust they produced in the area.
Material impact is the same guidance for non-cyber incidents. So it seems well established. The alternative would be a govt list of incidents and you would be complaining that we need a less brittle way of disclosure because the list is always 5 yrs behind.

It isnt the SECs job to track that data. Its the SECs job to ensure companies are not lying to the point they're defrauding their owners. Take the complaint to the correct agency and let this one do its job.
https://archive.is/fDFIu
It's bullshit.

The ratio is increasing because of how the energy market works. Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. But fossil fuels set the price.
The article mentions they have separate bakeries (uncertain whether Cheesecake Factory owned or not), the in house kitchen/pantry/freezer is optimized around food prep/cooking everything else on menu.
How did you know it was a double bit flip and not just BGP bug or an in memory bit flip before being sent to the socket?
Not much to say about geothermal heat pumps. And the whole discussion about electric vs gas cost is a perfect example of why we need plentiful and cheap nuclear energy. Electricity should be so cheap that everybody wants a heat pump because of the economic benefit.
No thanks, I'll take my chances with the flu.
https://archive.is/8BPNX
There's a world of difference between visiting links hallucinated by an unreliable ai and having a third party store (and possibly sell) every single thing you say to an ai and tying it to your identity, forever.

Also there is nothing about that attack that makes it iinherently only applicable to self hosted models.
You must not live nearby; the term is ubiquitous here. There are many local companies and products whose names refer to Cascadia - certainly dozens, probably hundreds. There's a soccer championship called the Cascadia Cup, there's a strain of beer called Cascadian Dark Ale, and there's a style of music called Cascadian Black Metal. Too much to list.
Dude just go look up the new k-8 item. Its like 4 questions . What happened, when did it start, is it stopped, and what are you doing about it? This new requirement changes nothing except they have to report the incident. Nobody stops working the issue just because this report is made.
In an industry with famously low margins, wasting food is literally throwing away cash.
Or even kosher and halal
> Abuse is a strong word

You said yourself: "if you are fired, you would be beyond fucked with your life, so you pull an all nighter." If you don't think that's abuse, I don't know what else to say.

> We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever.

I really don't understand what you're saying here, especially about "free will". My impression is that you seem to be implying with your response that bosses demanding all-nighters is fine, but a mere critical comment from a stranger on Hacker News has equal authority and power, somehow even worse and immoral. But that would be quite overdramatic, so maybe I'm misunderstanding.
I'm not sure Elbakyan receiving this award is particularly appropriate, considering she is strongly pro-Putin and is a big fan of Joseph Stalin (she regularly quotes him on VK).
A source of compressed air and a rubber membrane, when used in the appropriate manner, will very quickly make you widely disliked, in an even more compact package!
A lot of the time in general, depending on the restaurant, a couple apps or small plates are perfect for me these days. Less filler while getting some variety especially if I’m eating by myself.
"Direct" here is more analogous to the Direct as in DirectX and Direct3D.
Has Python launch time gotten faster? It used to take a second to start up, where Ruby would be instant on the same machine.
https://archive.is/wVL6c
Honestly yes. Obviously there's a lot of disparity in how video evidence of crimes committed by police are handled. Some officers do get charged and convicted, some get fired with no charges brought, others voluntarily retire, and some only get paid vacations before they're cleared of all wrong doing, but considering how often police have gotten away with outright executing people on video, is it really so hard to imagine it isn't happening with rape?

What I can say is that I haven't seen the footage of police raping someone shown by the news (with the exception of Daniel Wilkey - https://youtu.be/90UuIJkeZYg), and I imagine that many victims would object to that footage going public. I think it's reasonable to conclude that rape is less likely to be filmed (by police, victims, or bystanders) in the first place and more likely to go unreported entirely than the beatings and murders we usually see footage of.

Still, we know that police do rape people.

Personally, even things like this are terrifyingly dystopian:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/justice/new-mexico-search-law...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2020/09/2...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/19/syracuse-...

But there's at least some thin excuse for why that should be allowed. We've also seen cops caught who ended up with a long list of victims and/or a history of complaints.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-cop-arrested-custody-koh...

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2019/may/13/desmond-loga...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/tennessee-deputy-danie...

https://www.wdrb.com/news/fourth-woman-files-lawsuit-accusin...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/23/roger-...

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/hempstead-village...

I'd like to think that today things are slowly getting better and that if a video was released which clearly showed police raping someone at least something would be done about it, but I really don't have any reason to think that police would get away with rape any less often than they do murder.
As far as I know, there are no known quantum attacks that break the security of AES. It is unknown if they are able to turn AES insecure, like they do to RSA and discrete logarithm problems. And there are several post-quantum candidate alternatives to replace RSA and crypto algorithms that would break under quantum attacks.

Quantum computers break several security assumptions. But not all of them and we usually can replace the broken assumptions. Discovering that P=NP, or that one-way functions do not exist, on the other hand, would imply that several secure cryptographic constructions that we want to use are in fact impossible and would be a much scarier discovery.
How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble
> By contrast most white collar jobs are unnecessary fluff mostly dedicated to producing luxury goods, bean counting, or entertainment. About the only white collar jobs we need to live well are medical personnel.

“Bean counting” (which I take as not just accounting, but management, analytics, auditing, investigation, and legal and dispute resolution) is what makes sure the combination of resources are where they need to be for other (including blue collar and medical, and everything in the supply chain of either) jobs to be able to happen at all, and which deals with the fact that the humans doing them aren’t robots and have coordination needs. If you want an economy much beyond individual subsistence farming, you need “bean counting”, and you need more of it the farther from that you want to be.

Coordination costs are real.
> The internet would be a much more enjoyable place if we strive to make it as secure, useful, and accessible as possible to as many people as possible instead of gatekeeping it to a certain group we decide are worthy because they are capable of browsing HN with curl instead of Chrome or something like that

An ideal to aspire but many will use for things worst than porn.
https://archive.is/NTmLW
https://archive.is/Zhs7y
If aliens are here, on this planet... what do you think they are doing here?
Barbie iterative manufacturing, explained by industrial design historian [video]
Came to see some Python zealot use the term “monkey patching” and was not disappointed
Nice work OP, this has a lot in common with how I always wished excel worked. It's nice to see that someone's finally built it, and better than I would have.

FYI your homepage has a couple of typos (spreadshet and spreadhseets).
The USA gets those top level TLDs because that's who created the Internet in the first place. It's an outgrowth of a US military project called ARPANET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
https://archive.is/6q2gm
Well that's gross. Do you have any links to explainers on this; I just did some searching but nothing useful came up. Probably I just don't know the magic keywords to use...
"Amendment X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

The Federal government should only exercise enumerated powers. Thomas Jefferson struggled with the Louisiana Purchase because buying land is not an enumerated power. Of course this document also has a Necessary and Proper Clause and an Interstate Commerce Clause.

In practice judges on special courts decide if they value drug prohibition or the semi-sovereignty of states more.
How did OpenAI crawl the web so effectively without getting blocked?