skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then the credit card company would have told me to piss right off, and I'd be struggling to live in American society without credit cards or a credit score.
The REAL business case is cargo culting.
All industry has a degree of foul play, including government corruption, fraud, bribery & money laundering. It varies by industry and geography.

I worked at a company recently who made claims about products having AI, and then I spoke with a data scientist who confirmed that the products do not have AI capabilities-- even basic statistical modeling or prediction.

I suspect an astonishing proportion of businesses lie to a certain degree, on the sales, marketing, and management side of things.
Title checks out. I don’t believe a word of it.
Meh, appeal to authority reinforcing a densely packed post doesn't win me over. Still appreciate they took the time, and it's helpful to know details. I'd prefer it was shorter and approachable to outsiders like myself.
>Correct or delusional? Experiment will tell.

I would say neither. It's easy to define the hard problem in a way that allows a neat theory. The problem is that you are alone with your definition of the problem, nobody is interested in the solution.

In philosophy the devil is in the details. I have 60 pages of hand written notes about consciousness just from trying to map different issues related to monism and panpsychism before I gave up.
I believe Amtrak owns their tracks on the Northeast Corridor which they don't in most of (all?) the rest of the country where they conflict with freight. Amtrak basically makes all of their money on the Northeast Corridor and loses it on most of their other routes.
It's supposedly not used by many manufacturers today but imagine through the 1990s when asbestos was still used widely in car brake pads, at every traffic light when cars stop the particles would fly into the air, then pedestrians are crossing the street, etc. breathing through that cloud.
Yes. So maybe this lawsuit could move the pendulum back from the truthiness state. I see a lot of 'so what' comments but maybe there's a better way.
Every ecosystem will have parasites, at every trophic level.
I've never actually used Redshift or Snowflake so I can't comment.

I will say that even moving from Postgres to MySql has a speed bump or two, so I completely agree.

Tech knowledge just isn't as interchangeable as hiring managers sometimes seem to think.
That’s a bit of a non sequitur, isn’t it? NYC was confronted with a problem of rapidly rising rents, and instead of handwringing and eliminating zoning and engineering huge tax breaks, they enacted rent control. Why don’t we have the courage to act?
They don't have the people, systems, or process to deal with individually negotiated delinquincy plans. They have batch jobs that run daily, if you miss your payment date they hit you with a late fee, then another one in another 30 days, and maybe after 90 days they will close the account and sell the debt. That's all they do, it's strictly based on dates and payments.

You'd think with all the personal profile data they're able to buy and collect themselves, they could identify the accounts that are just in a temporary bind vs. those that are going to be long-term problems. But AFAICT they don't do this.
> Because of the lock files, flakes are also faster

I consider lock files to be labour-intensive work-arounds for fundamental design problems. One of the things I like about Nix is that its design doesn't need them, and even allows me to automate-away their need in other tools (e.g. defining a project's "main" derivations using import-from-derivation on the result of a lock-file-generating derivation; this works well with legacy tools like Maven, for example)
Stelf-loader: A stealthy ELF loader – no files, no execve, no RWX
Did the same thing. Just scrolled to find it!
Is there a way to make this your actual screensaver?
Yeah, cf. Latin malus "unpleasant", "bad", "evil", "ill" and aer "air".
This may be hard for HN readers to believe given the anti-employer sentiment in many threads here, but...

My friend owns 15+ apartment buildings in "not so desirable" neighborhoods. He deals with a lot of tenants who don't pay rent and eventually he has to evict them.

3 months ago he was evicting someone for not paying rent for 12+ months, and a week before the police were going to help get the tenant out of the apartment, his employer stepped in and paid the landlord his back-rent in full.

The tenant was employed at a local roofing company. Apparently he was a good roofer, and the owner of the company didn't want to see the worker homeless, so he stepped in and paid a year of the guy's back rent. (And here's the twist... after his employer stepped in and settled his back rent, the tenant still refuses to pay rent, and will be evicted again 6-9 months from now)

Maybe debt collectors have had similar luck as the landlord in this story, but that's probably a secondary motivation. Primary motivation for the debt collector is intimidation. Debt collection agencies are ruthless in all ways imaginable.
| It is hard to see that most people would prefer to use a train than a car to travel between cities unless they were going from a place close to a station to another place close to a station. So maybe the population might be simply democratically making choices to not invest in this because it goes against their preferences - instead of them being "deluded".

You were never given a choice. Read up on the history of how mass transit in the US was systematically underfunded, and continues to be attacked by parties who stand to benefit.

The opposition to HSR or mass transit in the US is no different than the opposition to single payer and/or universal healthcare, which somehow all other developed countries have managed to implement with far superior outcomes.
> One other thing debt collectors due is robo-sue their targets, bulk-filing boilerplate suits against debtors, real and imaginary. If you don't show up for court (which is what usually happens), they'll get a default judgment, and with it, the legal right to raid your bank account and your paycheck. That, in turn, is an asset that, once again, the debt collector can sell to an even scummier bottom-feeder, pocketing a lump sum.

I feel like this paragraph basically invalidates the rest of the article. If it's this easy for them to sue and get legal access to your money how is paying "optional"?
I had a laptop with a replaceable CPU. By the time it was worth upgrading it made more sense to buy a new laptop rather than upgrading the CPU. For repairability it's also not really that different unless you're running something like a framework laptop and, even then, replacement mainboards cost about as much as a whole new laptop anyways.

I do wish the M* laptops had something like a CFexpress slot or similar though. The built in storage is blazing fast and power efficient but soldered. Thunderbolt or USB drives are plenty fast enough these days but the external nature of the ports is a bit of a pain. Large amounts of storage are also where the price inflation really is (since you can't just add cheap storage it has to be the blazing high end storage + markup) so this would help the most.

RAM I'd rather have soldered in these days on a laptop. Performance is higher, power usage is lower, and you can order it with enough that you don't need to wait for new modules to be invented to upgrade and have enough RAM 5 years from now. It does mean you can't take any old M1 from ebay and upgrade it, which is definitely a downside, but for a laptop I think the benefits outweigh the cons. One thing I've noticed is there are always people that order them maxed out and move on when the next generation comes so high RAM options are still available used. One thing that is lost is, again, you can't choose to cheap out and get bottom bin speed memory. You have to pay for 8 channel 6400 MHz RAM in your laptop. Not necessarily a problem with the manufacturing method, it's possible to solder cheap RAM, rather just an Appleism. On the other hand... you do always know what you're getting if you buy one, which could be a plus.

Anyways, all of this is to say if you want a budget laptop which minmaxes it's price/performance ratio at a lower cost then the Apple laptops are definitely not the right pick. The reason for this is not as much how they are manufactured rather wher Apple targets the platform. The best price/performance optimization is probably a Chromebook with a monoboard and soldered RAM.
i'm always astonished at how little anything got better despite the intensely escalated demands. web cams didnt get (much) better. most people's jobs didn't get them good mics. widespread understanding or adoption of latency's impact on conversation flow didn't become common knowledge. hybrid setups with some people on videoconf and some people in the office are still steaming hot garbage everywhere i've ever worked (yes cisco has some cool stuff but basically nobody leans into it).

Its like in the standoff over remote vs in-office everything got frozen in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brodeur
I live near Los Angeles and talk to people there. As an outsider the situation seems crazy and impossible. They complain a bit, but they brag more. It works for them, somehow. It’s not for me, but that’s fine.
Yeah, at that scale your devs end up bogged down in cloud concerns. We can't keep anyone at big companies very long because of all the arduous infrastructure bullshit that they have to deal with. Lots of it ends up being done outside of Jira. Total mess.
This headline/article is silly.

Yes, it's optional in the sense that you won't go to prison.

But if you want any chance of being able to take out a mortgage on a house, or to finance a car purchase, then it's not very optional. Not to mention a bad credit score makes it much harder to even rent many apartments.

Also, lenders will sue you if you have the money. In which case it's no longer optional either, when they win.

The article is about shady practices of debt collectors, but in no way does that ever make a leap to the idea that paying consumer debt is "optional". If you don't pay, it generally has real negative consequences. It's up to you whether those consequence are worth it.
Europe’s thriving businesses face mounting windfall tax hit
https://archive.ph/vYOvl
I thought once you paid the debt the credit score should improve, no?
i actually have vmware fusion for running windows apps and things, wonder if i should just switch wholesale
Progressively Enhanced Form Validation
They tried to make the the explicit number irrelevant and infer the level by the number of nested sections, so instead of:

<article>
<h1>Title</h1>
<section>
<h2>Section</h2>
<section>
<h3>Sub Section</h3>
<section>
<h4>Sub Sub Section</h4>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</article>

You could simply use <h2> repeatedly and keep the semantic structure of the former.

<article>
<h1>Title</h1>
<section>
<h2>Section</h2>
<section>
<h2>Sub Section</h2>
<section>
<h2>Sub Sub Section</h2>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</article>

However this was never implemented by any browser or screen reader and was finally dropped from the standard.

http://html5doctor.com/computer-says-no-to-html5-document-ou...
This reminded me of when when I first learned HTML in around 1995… anybody else remember Kevin Werbach’s Barebones Guide to HTML?

It was basically a site that listed all the HTML tags and what they did.

That plus a text editor and early version of Netscape Navigator was all you needed, and you were off to the races to learn and experiment!
Yes, Stack Overflow is also cargo cult programming.

Of course sometimes you have to use tools handed to you by others and sometimes you won't understand how they work (I don't know how CPUs work but it hasn't stopped me from programming).

This speech is largely about how you shouldn't willfully delude yourself. I think we've all had that situation where we're hunting down a bug and rearranging the code just so seems to resolve it, but we don't understand why. At a certain point the temptation is high to shrug your shoulders and move on even without fully understanding the mechanics of the fix. But if you do that, it will likely come back to bite you/someone one day. In the case of science it's even worse than engineering because the entire point of the endeavor should be to advance understanding, rather than to get certain results.
That’s not actually a good rule of thumb, nor is there any government credit agency in the US.

Wrong on both counts.
I've had a debt go to collections one time. It was a medical bill that I had somehow lost track of (or maybe never received). It was legit but I had never seen it. I will say that the collection company was very cordial and almost apologetic, I told them I would need to confirm the debt since it was a complete surprise, which I did, and I paid the provider (not the collector) directly. Never heard from them again, and it never affected my credit score.
Not always true – see e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/23394.stm
People choose with their feet (wheels?). Americans are much more likely to move around, more so for big city dwellers.
Cargo Cult Psychiatry (2022)
This was inspired by Richard Feynman's commencement address, which gets posted to Hacker News fairly regularly. Scrolling the comments on the latest submission of Cargo Cult Science, I saw ... my name [3]? Hah.

I might have figured out the physiological antidote for my friend's condition, last August. But it took a few months to really kick in. I ended up having to file a complaint with Adult Protective Services last fall, who only picked her up and returned her to her guardian, which follows the recommendation to keep her in care homes. She escaped from her guardian again this year, in February. This time she's been able to stay off of alcohol (5 months!), and hasn't gotten re-captured by the mental health industry.

The good news from the mental health world is that Chris Palmer, M.D. published Brain Energy [0] last year. I haven't read more than excerpts from google books [1]. My understanding is Dr. Palmer was a conventional palliative psychiatrist, then he had a patient whose schizophrenia improved on a ketogenic diet. The patient was able to discontinue antipsychotics: Dr. Palmer's mind was blown. Then he discovered the 70+ years of research establishing that mental health conditions are metabolic problems that can be successfully treated with pro-metabolic therapies.

Perhaps the most bold and disruptive aspect of
Brain Energy is understanding precisely how and
why medications that harm metabolism might
reduce mental health symptoms.

The long-term consequences are of great concern
and require the urgent attention of the psychiatric
community.

-Chris Palmer, MD - https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerMD/status/1687850270602981376

One of your submissions informed me about the mechanism of how cocaine harms our metabolism, by shredding our mitochondria: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956058 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211048

Dr. Palmer recommends a ketogenic diet. I think most of the benefit of 'keto' stem from avoiding fortified flour: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562197412851712

A lot of people are harmed by folic acid, and the iron and lack of fiber in fortified white flour is harmful for almost everyone, in that they disrupt the microbiome. Most people get adequate iron, and don't actually need iron filings ("reduced iron"); the fiber in whole wheat fiber feeds bacteria that make short-chain saturated fatty acids [2].

The Supreme Court denied four of my petitions last year. :(. I'm going to contact my (new) congressional representative about congressional oversight, to see if he has any interest in protecting those who can't protect themselves from do-gooders with obsolete approaches to mental health.

[0] https://brainenergy.com/

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=FoxlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT233&dq=B...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756104/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37108434

7422 / 108
You're misunderstanding a little, although it's exactly what you think. The 2.7K recordings are not at all a random sample of the 400K, they were probably chosen because the labels could find a reasonably clean copyright history for them (i.e. be pretty sure they actually owned them.)

The "small sample" is the number of those 2.7K that have gone out of print. They're playing language games to imply that almost all of the music that is part of the "Great 78s" project is currently in print by only suing over 0.7% of it, and saying that most of that 0.7% is available as a digital download.

So to summarize, they combed through an IA project, and probably found that it consisted 99.3% of recordings that the entire RIAA (which represents the entire mainstream US recording industry) doesn't think that it can prove ownership of. These, they insist, are just cover so they can distribute the 0.7% of Bing Crosby 78s.
Among our creditors was also a local bank (whose customers include a lot of farmers); they were willing to discuss things with us. We managed to pay them off (with a few months of forbearance) and continue doing business with them.

Lovely folks there, I fear the day they get bought up and turn bad.
I think that'd be hard in practice since the article mentioned that they're sold in bulk. Sending offers to everyone in a package would be difficult.

But I wonder if it could be possible to crowd fund something like this, or have a non-profit that just buys cheap debts like this and forgives them all? Idk what that would cost, but it could help shrink the shady debt collector industry a little.
Well that's embarrassing.

Thank you.
It is not just zoning, it's also permits and building codes
Russian and Chinese hacked UK foreign office, breach withheld from public
> As for TOS writing it’s good to keep in mind that the only binding provisions in a TOS is the ones that a judge (or jury, IA) finds reasonable under the circumstances that they are contested.

Oh no, a civil lawsuit with an out of state LLC that has little to no information for service processing in your state's way. With no indication of ownership structure that gives any insight into what you'll collect from a favorable judgement.

Oh no, anything but that.

Liability is a "user funnel" where lots of potential plaintiffs get bounced. Just make it more expensive.

The risk about finding if a provision is binding exists for a plaintiff too, greater risk.
C++ doesn’t get this treatment when it comes to template metaprogramming, Python doesn’t get it about metaclasses, etc. Every language has tricky parts. The difference is that Haskell’s trickiest part, Monads, are actually very simple. They’re simple enough that they can be explained in a short article, so that causes people to write lots of articles about them.
It’s Time to Re-Imagine the Air Conditioner
As of 2019, to be in the financial top 10%, you needed a HOUSEHOLD income of just over 155k. I think that many around here are so utterly out-of-touch with the lives of most people in the US that they can't even reason about the blocks they have to advancement.
Agreed. There should be an active sale clause for all copyrighted material, including video games. If you want to make money from the work you “own,” then fucking do it. Emulators exists for most systems. For books, the marginal cost of epub distribution is essentially zero and any high school kid can make one for you on a Sunday afternoon.
Actually the ethos is precisely the opposite and is enshrined in our Constitutional right to association. You have the right to associate and disassociate with whoever you wish for whatever reasons you wish.
This is a long comment section, with many good viewpoints, but your summary is the most insightful: WFH spreads the performance distribution of pre-existing traits for attitude to work.
It improves but collections are an adverse notice on your credit report that stay for 7 years. Its different from just holding a high balance on the card.

The score almost means nothing with them present.
> The lawsuit also claimed that the CDP team "wanted to redefine the meaning of 'real-time’

I’ve always enjoyed the fact that SEPA Instant, the small-volume low-latency version of the eurozone bank transfer system, defines ‘instant’ as, in practice, 20 seconds.

The UK went with slightly more conservative naming for their one, Faster Payments (in fairness, it also has much looser tail latency requirements).
It's not about what you're allowed.

The reason this won't happen is the USA just can't build major public infrastructure anymore.

Europe, the East ... even parts of the developing world have surpassed them in this regard.
Nearly 100% of the rich people I know had family money. Living expenses now take up a very different amount of people's income than they did before. The skills you need to get a leg up now are very different than they used to be, even in recent history. Anecdata is useless.
> You might be wondering, like I was, if there’s more to this instruction, but that’s all it does! This doesn’t seem very useful, right?

It seems very useful. I've used it for several algorithms including DNA analysis and vectorized math.
Indeed the article points out "The Marxist philosopher G A Cohen might well have been right when he declared in Why Not Socialism? (2009) that ‘[e]very market, even a socialist market, is a system of predation.’"

I've lately had a private joke that the lovers of capitalism are the true "marksists" in that everyone is a potential "mark".
Front page of a daily national, but the standout thing is no pre-agreed announcement and plan
People love stories.
Perhaps it has decided that you're simply not allowed, and is trying to waste your time with fake captchas.
I am forced to run both, work needs Intune which needs Ubuntu (I'd use NixOS everywhere if I could). Here is my config, but be warned it'll probably confuse a newcomer: http://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/nix

My config/flake is cleaved in two: one for NixOS (which isn't used for Ubuntu) and one for "Generic Linux" (which is used everywhere). I used to have nix-darwin in there too, but Intune on Ubuntu has allowed me to retire the work Mac.

The second-half is where the real value lies (my NixOS config is actually really minimal, just enough to get into sway). I use home-manager to manage all my dotfiles. I switched work laptops recently and nix+home-manager brought up the environment in less time than it took to install Ubuntu - and that's a full desktop replica (Gnome plugins, hotkeys, installed apps, nvim config, and everything).

The next big benefit is direnv integration. Direnv itself is bloody fantastic, but add nix to the mix and you have a whole new level of magic. If there is an in-tree flake I can just echo `use flake` to establish a dev environment with all dependencies, at the right version, through the mere act of cd'ing into that dir. If there's no in-tree flake (as is the case with my work repos), I can use one of my dev-shells with e.g. `use flake $HOME/Nix#cmg-js` (assuming I've cloned my config to ~/Nix).

There's no real reason for me to use NixOS on my own machine, but I do love the boot speed and the ability to roll back. I'm pretty fearless when changing my OS config. The nature of Nix means very little beyond what you explicitly demand is installed, and it keeps snapshots of your previous configs. It's not mandatory at all, though. Home-manager is where it shines.
“my suggestion that by showing oppositional views they had self selected was sufficient for BB to get fully on board the euthanasia train.”

Laughing so hard at this. My eyes are tearing up. Thanks for the morning laugh
California has beaches. Oregon and Washington have coast.

A rich person might have a second/third house in the most beautiful of areas. Typically the coastal towns are depressed economically, and have a lot of confederate flag flying trucks.