skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been living in the Bay Area for almost 10 years now. When I first came here for job interviews, I decided to stay for a few days. Rented a car and drove from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz -- I just saw the sig that said "Santa Cruz" and that sounded exotic, so I just went. What a memorable drive. Dipped my feet into the ocean after parking at some historic surfer spot, and remember how cold it was and how awesome it felt. Had interviews in SF later that week and then headed to "Marin Headlands" -- had no idea what to expect. It was a Tuesday, so not a lot of people. Saw what are probably the best views in the world from out there.

After moving here (Berkeley -- couldn't afford anything in SF without finding a roommate), I knew that the "awe" factor would take 3-5 years to fade. Every morning I would walk to BART and be greeted with flora that can be described as "alien" -- nowhere else I've seen plants of such variety just growing in peoples' front yard. On the BART ride back from SF, I would be greeted by a sunset and the views of GG bridge between MacArthur and Ashby stations, and I knew at the time that that "awe" still has a long way until it fades.

I moved to Potrero Hill soon -- rooming with with a few friends. It was such a great time living in the city in my 20s with a bunch of friends. I would walk to my office in Financial District every day. I would take the long way. I walked a lot in the city. Almost every day I would just soak in the place. The "awe" stuck around.

I also had a car that I barely put on any miles on, aside from taking random road trips. My buddy and I set the destination to "Big Sur" and just drove. It ended up taking us up some fire trails up some mountain. Then through forest roads meant for only one car going one direction.

I had a period of my life where I was living in Berkeley again, and my commute involved riding a motorcycle to the marina before the sunrise, then taking a ferry across the bay watching the sun rise above Oakland hills and the morning open up the city views. And the commute back at sunset was spectacular. That place I was living in in North Berkeley was like something out of Miyazaki movie. The neighbors knew each other. People would stop and chat on the street. This period will always be etched in my memory.

There were so so many other things I can recall from memory that keep the "awe" alive. The fires at Ocean Beach. The random dumpling places in Sunset. Discovering things like the wave organ, or that mechanical museum close to the Pier 39. Climbing up and down from Coit tower. The random bikes and walks in the GG park. Land's end "maze". Cycling the wiggle. Driving up and down the coast and staying at roadside inns. Big Sur. Big Basin. Hot springs. Tahoe trips. Russian River. etc etc....

I live in the Suburbs now. It's nice. The neighbors help each other out and know each other well. The little kids play on the streets. The older ones ride bikes through the neighborhood streets to school. The vibe is different, but it's still Bay Area. I still go on random adventures. I still feel the "awe" sometimes.
Actually I think "thanks kind stranger" adds something to the discussion. A sense of human connection.
Fairness in society quickly becomes a can of worms. It is unfair that someone can make $80/h in the gig economy because of their body, but what about $80/h the coder makes because they can think a certain way, which carries on being paid as they slam that fusball into the goal, or snore in a meeting.
I’m actually making a game for iOS that will allow the player to simulate upgrading a 90s computer from hardware to network and play around with a simulated early internet. This is a great resource for me. Thank you.
I keep seeing foldable kayaks around - what a small world it is to think this guy has a part to that!
Your analogy would only make sense if the bill were only trying to tax including all or part of a news article on Facebook/Google. It sounds like instead any link would be taxable, so it would be more like the bus driver having to pay the cinema for the privilege of driving you there.
I have no stake in Canadian politics, but this is a very weird hill to die on.

"Justin Trudeau also admitted to wearing blackface makeup to sing the Jamaican folk song "Day O" in high school for a talent show."

Source: https://time.com/5680759/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo/
What is sketchy about it?
Which is he?
He looks broke/hobo.
But some pics seem like there is apartment, and that he travels some.
So does he have some money and is nomad? (some nest egg? he doesn't look like millionaire).
Highly pathogenic avian virus A(H5N1) on multiple farms in Finland, July 2023
I like Butler and I like Nussbaum, and this article is a classic. For balance, here is a recent interview with Butler being quite clear and incisive[0] and here is a fantastic, somewhat critical profile of Nussbaum[1]. Worth mentioning also, as Nussbaum does, John Stuart Mill’s 1869 book The Subjection of Women[2], an incredibly clear and comprehensive account of the issue sure to shock anyone who thinks feminism started with the sexual revolution in the 60s.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-...

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/martha-nussbau...

[2]: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-stuart-mill/the-subje...
Related to this, anyone know if Zoom has a separate offering for education (universities, schools, etc)? I teach at a university, and not only do we use Zoom for lectures etc, but also for office hours, meetings, etc, where potentially sensitive student information may be discussed. I'm probably not searching for the right thing; all I found was this: https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/FERPA%20Guide.pdf

(FERPA is to higher ed in the US what HIPAA is to healthcare.)
I live in the US. I am a software engineer making more than a half a million annually. I have access to tremendous resources and can advocate for myself and my family. I live in a college town because of my wife's career. It is not a big city, but is also not rural middle of nowhere.

Getting a routine gynecological appointment for my wife any time in the next six months is impossible. I gave up on trying to get an appointment with an allergist for myself, even after getting a referral. What you describe is common in the US too, even for those with means. I cannot imagine what it is like for somebody who doesn't have money and insurance.
> I can tell when particular nextdoor neighbors are home just by seeing their Galaxy Watch or earbuds in my network list.

I know when the mail arrives even though I can't see the mailbox from where I'm sitting. The number of recognizable bluetooth and wifi beacons is large enough that you can draw all kinds of very privacy invasive conclusions from them. Occupancy is one thing, but also patterns of behavior, and more. Very, very scary stuff and really easy to abuse.
Not really the same profile
Nokolisp – Lisp interpreter and compiler from 1977-1988 for MSDOS
Why would legalized abortion reduce the rate of serial killers?
This. But the deep trouble kicks in when you're prescribed some treatment (a wrong one), your situation gets worst, and then the next "expert" has to deal with the original condition plus the new symptoms.

Sometimes (when possible) you just reset yourself: stop all medications for some days, so that the collateral effects are gone and you're left with the original condition (aggravated, of course, because you left the one medication that was working with the 3 others that were just giving you wrong symptoms), and then another "expert" begins from the "start".
As it turns out artists detest being paid in exposure and prefer money.
This is some top quality banter, on par with C+Equality and Objectivist C.

https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa...

https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
> instead of filling the thread with comments that add nothing to the discussion

Like yours? (And this one...)

58 Karma users shouldn't be telling others how to behave. (See: karma is good for something...).
Won't it cause confusion with the other c language?
>On the other hand, the case that Google is going to make (and which I think is going to be really hard for the government to overcome) is this: we (google) give our product away for free and so do our competitors. What’s more, the cost of switching search engines is literally zero: just type Bing instead of Google.

That's not a defense, though.

So the government is unlikely to prove anti-competitive outcomes by arguing an increased cost to consumer, but that's not what they seem to be arguing. Going from Ohio v. Amex, The other relevant ways to prove anti-competitive outcomes are through a decrease in product quality in the relevant market or market power and evidence of harms to competition.

The government appears to be arguing that product quality is lower and that Google has market power and has engaged in conduct that harms competition. If those are results from anti-competitive behavior then that is an antitrust violation, and should be.
The beauty of torrents is that as soon as someone else starts to download, provided they're a good swarm member, the overall seeder capacity increases.

You don't need to have 100% of the data to start seeding, you only need a single chunk.

It might take several weeks for that first peer to hit 100% but it should be quickly followed by a whole lot more as those peers are all seeding each other up to 99% amid the process.
With the police state there?! What could go wrong!
I remember during the pandemic they were the most ruthless one, and one pic stuck in my mind, a police man with a machine gun threatened a family with kids because they were spending some at the beach, because that was a “public safety” problem!
Code: https://github.com/timonoko/nokolisp
No because it’ll never go anywhere lol
I wouldn't call him a hobo in any way, but if you really like a calming way of wandering around North America, I recommend checking out: Foresty Forest YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@forestyforest

He lives in a van with a dog. And he will summit random mountains across Canada, go on hikes, cook some food in his van. There is a weird comfort that I think might echo with people who have a fascination with nomadic lifestyle.
What other language?
Pause it for 6 months only!! :)
There are some really really good open source clipboard libraries like https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ . I'd love to see a more cross-platform version.

It's shocking to me how much user-agency I feel like I could get from better control over my clipboard. Whether I want to turn a url into an archive.today/ url or remove crappy tracking links, or whether I want to send a url to another device, or share it... Having a history of things I've copied. The clipboard is weirdly the one interstitial system left standing in computing, and everything else is siloes and isolation. I'd love to see more and more work to make good open source explorations here.

Does anyone know if clipboard managers are possible in Android? I'm vaguely under the impression that by design this is a capability reserved for the keyboard one is using. I'd love to be wrong here.
Can confirm AT&T retention. In the late 90's they were already approaching trillions with-a-T metadatums.

Federal LE, telecoms, and "the intelligence community" have always worked closely together.
Yeah, it's a dual-socket 48-core.
Reduced child neglect and abuse
Gonna need a cite on that logic. The MS case was about including IE with Windows for free. With Google, the products are paid for by the ad revenues instead of Windows and Office licenses.

> Microsoft Teams is a great example of an anticompetitive bundle if you want one.

Also true.
And who picked the line-up?
MuseScore is a good source! But there is absolutely an art (with deeply mathematical influences) to producing pleasant-to-read sheet music. You’re better off paying for even mediocre songbooks, say Hal-Leonard or Alfred press, for musicians or even just genres you like, than sticking purely to free sources. For $5-20 a book (of say, 8-20 songs) I would argue it’s better to pay for it.
There is a comradery in that it sucks, you know it sucks and that we are just getting through it. No one is out to "get" you. You are also part of the suck club.

The second you get another job they are reminded of all the people who take advantage of people in the suck club. You got out. They didn't.
Even further Apple's commitment to TSMC allows the financial certainty which permits the kinds of capital expenditure that TSMC makes to their bleeding edge nodes.

Apple are not altruistic but their actions are a big part of enabling these advances.
This triggered my PTSD haha
Damn right!

He know the realities of the system and is doing his best to get his patients good care.

It's like my first day of high school. I had a history teacher. The entire first class of history in high school was devoted to knowing yourself. He told us in basic terms how our bodies worked, that we shouldn't try to dp homework after a big meal, how we should use our resources, how we should be respectful, how learning the laws and history of our country could personally impact or protect us from injustice.

He treated us like equal human beings he truly wanted to help, not just work he had to do that day.

You're doctor did the same, blessings on him.
If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
that’s fascinating.

can you point to anything where one could start exploring this area further?
I would love to see Dbeaver integrate this!
Cape Verdean programmers get all the breaks.
I'm Canadian and I'm not upset by this. If you can't find the local news websites, it's probably best that you don't get the news. Incompetence and (dis)information are a bad combination.
True, but those professionals don't take the hippocratic oath.
'uso' is 'a lie' in Japanese, it is also an exclamation that can mean 'really?' or 'bullshit!'
But that isn't true. Every language with ergonomic error handling (i.e. something more than C or Go) has special language features for handling errors. What 'fundamental language features' would replace Zig's specific language features like errdefer?
> Yet even with good quality film cameras, and darkroom development, people have always had difficulty photographing very dark skin. So I expect that will be a continuing problem for facial recognition.

This is simply because film equipment materials and processes have also been optimized for lighter skin. It isn't a problem with dark skin, it's a problem with photography as an industry systematically privileging better results for lighter skin, and even defining paleness as "normal".

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/shirley-cards/
What kind of answer would satisfy you?
I really don't get it, what exactly do you think is the difference between doing laundry or cooking a meal when you take a break vs anything else you might do on a break?
It sounds like it is a worthwhile step to make it Google and friends problem to not store that information. Similar to how they blur faces in Google Maps.

I don't think it's unreasonable, Google knows and we all know that private information ends up online without our permission, but Google is the only one in the conversation hoovering that data up and showing it to anyone who asks nicely.

I don't get to do that, laws apply to me that say I can't even collect that information without consent let alone display it.
It was facial recognition tech of some sort that put her into the six-pack:

"The ordeal started with an automated facial recognition search, according to an investigator’s report from the Detroit Police Department."

"A detective with the police department’s commercial auto theft unit got the surveillance video from the BP gas station, the police report said, and asked a crime analyst at the department to run a facial recognition search on the woman."
It used to be available as standard on both but iOS locked it down after some truly insane demos showing how it could be used for fingerprinting or (IIRC) even detecting what users were typing.

This is why we can’t have good things.
The people saying “in office is more productive” don’t have to answer to anyone because they pay the salaries. The employees who are saying “I prefer it” have the right to quit.

There really isn’t a debate here that requires scientific studies backing it. It’s like asking whether Elon Musk had any studies showing X was a better name than Twitter. Companies can do what they want and employees can vote with their feet. If the job market weakens then it becomes a harder vote in the negative.

WFH is really no different a perk than free lunches or unlimited PTO. it will be offered when the labour market demands it, but I think we are heading into a weaker market and employees will be up shit’s creek.
IMO, surveillance is a necessary tool for control and fear. It need not be total surveillance (see e.g. the panopticon), but a belief that you will get caught is needed.
Honestly it’s unclear. The quality ingredient thing - maybe just marketing? Who is honestly serving quality ingredients when they cannot afford the rent or paying their staff. There’s a lot more mediocrity that flies here versus Manhattan . There are some great restaurants there but unless you are killing it or serving pasta, you are going under in like 12 months . Even standard coffee shops have great food as a result (bodegas excepted). As a data point , the tenderloin I have noticed has the best food at the best price points, if you are willing to go there.
Yep I believe her, I heard similar stories from some relatives, the system is rigged regardless from whatever angle you look at it.
Although it's many years since I (re-)read the book, I do understand that. Nevertheless, in fiction, the surveillance was apparently mandated by the central government.

In reality, we invite the surveillance home, and give it breakfast.
No language has a 'static check for whether the error has actually been handled or not'. In Rust, for example, you can just 'unwrap' an error. In Haskell you can use 'fromJust'. And in Go you can just ignore 'err' and assume it is 'nil'.

Sum types might be the 'mathematical dual of product types' but programming languages are not mathematics. The possibly implementations of sum types are quite varied. It makes sense in low-level languages for the programmer to use what makes sense in the particular situation.
Who earned more, the architect for the pharoahs pyramid or the person pushing one of the massive slabs of rock?

Which job was harder?
AMD Confirms Next-Gen Instinct MI400 Series AI Accelerators Already in the Works
10 years ago each upgrade is leaps and bounds faster. And it's required too as the apps would be more demanding by the year.

Nowadays everything is stale. There are no killer apps to drive upgrade. A 2020 flagship is still in top condition to handle any apps except 3d games.
You misunderstand, you're competing with both kinds of people in your career all the time. There's no opting out. There's a global pool of talent and it's one big market.

But an important corollary is that you absolutely do not have to be at the tip top of that competition to live a good and successful life. It's a global competition, but there are a lot of slots to be filled out there.
Who earned more, the architect for the pharaohs pyramid or the people pushing one of the massive slabs of rock?
Which job was harder?
They (Liberals) only wanted an end to FPTP if they could get ranked ballots,

And the multiparty committee that was struck to look at the issue refused to accept that, and recommended a mixed-member proportional system. Ranked ballots would effectively mean, in the context of Canadian politics, a strong bias towards the Liberals -- because in a Venn Diagram of voter preferences in Canada the Liberals almost always end up in the centre. So ranked ballots would effectively end the NDP and other third/fourth parties as an electoral force, or so NDP & Bloc & Greens analysts etc thought.

It's notable that Australia's ranked ballot system also seems to have narrowed choices there to a two party system and they have no left wing party equivalent to the NDP anymore.

The NDP favours a proportional or mixed-member proportional system and has since its founding in the 60s & the Conservatives don't want any reform at all.

So Trudeau killed the committee, gimped the minister in charge of it, and lied and said "the committee couldn't come to an agreement" -- which really meant: they wouldn't adopt the policy he demanded.

And that was the closing of that very briefly open window.

If Canada ever gets electoral reform federally it will be because the NDP wins power, by some freak accident. Except Singh has basically sunk the party.
Agreed, a subscription model where you end up “owning” a particular version after reaching some milestone is ok with me. Sort of like a payment plan.

I’ve been a happy subscriber to Jetbrains Toolbox that has a similar model for many years now, and have interrupted and later resumed my subscription while being able to use the software in between.

100% against a subscription where you no longer able to use the software the moment you cancel your subscription after paying for years. Looking at you Adobe.
OP here – just chiming in to say I'm enjoying how nice everyone is being :D Glad to hear other folks have the same feelings towards SF!
A fun fact is that, if memory doesn't fool me, the levitating frog experiment was carried out by Micheal Berry and Andre Geim, and they were awarded the ignobel for it.

Berry is the same one of the Berry phase for which he received a ton of non-humorous awards, and Geim went on to discover graphene and receive a Nobel without the ig in front.
> Clearly, at some level of management, the happiness is less important that the profit, but that’s beyond my pay grade.

It isn’t beyond your pay grade. If your team underperforms because of your decision, then you risk the entire team being let go in the next downturn.
Breaking Changes in Distributed Systems
I'm confused by the labelling, normally "super" implies speed but here the interaction gets slower while the pixels increase. Maybe Max is a better descriptor?
Obvious solution is to get friendly with the package maintainer, find a security vulnerability in the anti-feature you need, lodge security bug, get a CVE, and ask real nicely an upgrade to include the feature^H^H^H^H^H^H^ fix you need.

On a serious note, I deal with bug fix / feature requests regularly in Z-Stream (kernel) in an almost weekly cadence, getting the patch upstream, getting the request to backport, making an adequate test of the feature.

Source: Worked in product security for little red, now big blue.
Thank you for the suggestion. The news I was after was usenet feeds, I have archives of some groups but thought it would be interesting to rather than go and read it all at once have it put a new days worth of posts every day from the past.

As the messages are all in just text format with headers and timestamps I should just be able to extract the messages from a particular day and add them to my news reader, worst case changing the timestamp to today to have it appear in a sensible place and putting the original timestamp back where it can be seen when reading.