skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand having this policy in place for projects that directly compete with a company. Working on a search engine at home when you're working on search at Google, or working on a banking product for farmers when you do the same thing at work could be a direct conflict of interest and incentivize unethical or possibly even criminal behavior. I think setting some guidelines in place for that kind of thing is reasonable.

But some companies take this to an extreme.

I was working on a niche clothing brand at home in my spare time for example when I wanted to work for a gaming startup. They were giving me such a repulsively hard time about my side project even though the clothing had literally nothing conceivably close to the company's business model.

It's so stupid because companies should try and hire people that have diverse experiences and are working hard to achieve something.
I'm lucky enough that our local Bar-cade has a legit Atari Asteroids machine, including an actual vector monitor. Nobody ever tells you about how BRIGHT the phosphors are! Every time you fire your weapon, you are bathed in light from a tiny little dot on screen. It's a unique experience in our day of LED displays.
This is almost exactly how I see GPT and code. I have seen smart people who don't write code toss GPT a request and get a working thing but going from "hey write me an auto presser for a key on a timer" to "The client wants you to update the repo to handle this business logic and do this functionality" is a huge leap.

From my perspective, you still need a developer-minded person to do the job, AI just kind of makes their lives easier in the process.

I agree with the sentiment that it's the same in the art world. It's easy to get a compelling image but to get specific meaningful images usually requires a lot of post processing that a layman wouldn't be capable of doing.
In most urban environs I'd assume they're mostly killing off vermin (big win) and urban birds like pigeons and seagulls, so it's like: What, Me Worry?
The fact that these people conflated "grammar" and "inflection affixes" makes me think they don't know what they are doing.
This is completely false; working hours per worker have declined after the Industrial Revolution [0].

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#are-we-working-more...
There's a balance I'm trying to strike. If you're sitting on say, news.com then I get it, that's a good asset to have.

It's those other groups that throw combinatoric dictionaries at the registrars that force the latest round of startups to have a bunch of letters smashed together for a name, they're the problem.

I've got half a mind to just go with katakana for my next company, register a domain like ツイッター.com and just say "well, there's 46 characters. You can memorize it in like 2 weeks. Not my problem!"
Hi, yes it is rarely mentioned.

I am in the physics program
Global food security is at a crossroads as rice shortages and surging prices hit
I suppose this makes TV advertisers worse than Hitler
It's quite common with generational GCs, The nursery is small and many objects die early, so not a lot has to copied in minor collections. I've never seen one without forwarding pointers, it seems to me that they are necessary for updating all references.
The ESTA is not a visa and when using the Visa Waiver Program you do not have a visa. The Visa Waiver Program existed before ESTA.

Think of ESTA as an opportunity to search for you in terrorist & crime databases ahead of time, as doing it at the time of the entry is logistically hard.
I’m not really fond of this concept.

I think the simple idea of “risk analysis” is much more intuitive and better captures the idea that is being conveyed.
A cat that can kill houseflies is a gem.
The funny part is that 'y' used to be quite common in Middle Dutch as a variant of 'ij' or 'i'. This resulted in words like 'anys' (now 'anijs'), 'Leyden' (now 'Leiden'), 'ghelyc' (now 'gelijk'), and 'waerheyt' (now 'waarheid'). It was simply an alternative spelling. This was officially abolished with a spelling reform in 1863, with it only being allowed in loan words.

> I also think it's fine to just capitalize the I: Ijsland instead of IJsland. I suspect this will be the norm 50 years from now.

Nope, this just looks wrong to me and the spelling rules do not allow it. It is written as a single letter, so it should be capitalized as a single letter.
Look at the incentives. Dating apps want you to keep paying. That means they don't want you to meet someone worth entering a long-term rrlationship with. They want you to have just enough success to stay a customer. The occasional, not-awful date.

Like playing the slots: you get occasional, small payouts, and you hear about other people winning jackpots (oops, they slipped up), so you keep putting money in.

A believable service needs to align its interests with yours, in some believable way.
> Every "class" of disability is not equal and so we shouldn't treat them exactly the same.

You're making the argument for this dystopia:

https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

The point of government assistance isn't to make everyone the same, it's to provide a baseline. Someone in such a poor state that they can't work at all still gets a roof over their head.

Someone else can use the money to go to college or start a business, and society has an interest in promoting that because it yields returns. There is even an argument for investing more in people with more potential.

But in both cases the government is terrible at doing the evaluation as a result of politics and bureaucracy, so the right answer is for everyone to get the same.
This is something people don't seem to realize. Some film will not survive the mechanical nature of automated scanning. The very act of unspooling the deteriorated film can destroy it. I have no experience with this specific microfilm, but have seen plenty of reels of 16mm and 35mm film just fall apart on a telecine unit. The tensions involved will rip apart weakened film stock. A good telecine operator will manually inspect film reels by winding them by hand. This was much more convenient when the film was left wound at "tails" since the operator would need to wind it back to the "head" anyways. This also allows the operator to determine if the film is warped beyond the abilities of the telecine. If it is too warped, maintaining proper focus is nigh impossible in real-time. High end scanners that are not real-time actually have a mechanism to "gently" press each frame flat to help counter this warping.

All of this to say that the digital scanning of a large archive like this with very much known deteriorating stock will not be done in any manner of "automated" way like the GP suggests.
Why didn't they just use qsort, which is in libc?
A lot of people on this thread revealing they can't read "in context" and are upset if every term used doesn't have a footnote.

I guess all the people complaining would prefer lawyer speak:

"FD&C¹ dyes (hearinafter known as DYES)"

¹ FD&C the U.S.² act governing (and defining) the regulation of food, drugs and cosmetics. This act is enforced by the FDA.

² The United States Of America

Addendum: This article is about how the FD&C (as an Act) defines a dye vs a lake.
Of course not. The person's sex was already defined. The surgery just brings their body into line with that reality.

If I, a guy, lose my penis I'm still a guy. Sewing it back on just affirms that.
So much for the idea that income levels would rise with inflation. Democrats have made us all poorer, treat them accordingly.
As a customer (my personal computer/display/phone/etc spend with Apple over the past 20 years or so: $25k+): I would prefer having someone in charge who can tell/understand/sense and say that something is clearly not good enough and then actually getting it solved. Tim Cook does not strike me as that kind of guy.

The abuse isn't required though.
I used to develop smart parking meters, and we used thermal printers in those. You can get paper that tolerates high-temperature environments like the dashboard of a car on a hot sunny day.
Fearlessly Handling BigKeys with Dragonfly
I am also interested if someone can chimenin. What's the current status regarding remote?
The Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s (2013)
Why? The price increase is not limited to Namecheap, as stated in the article:

> All .COM domain renewals will see an approximate 9% increase. This price increase will happen across registrars, not just Namecheap

You can shop for a new registrar but you'll be paying more for .com domains regardless of which one you choose.
Those database records are getting expensive. Guess I got to charge my clients more as well.
Amazing how quickly the "gender and sex are different things" wedge to get in the door became "my sex is whatever my chosen gender is".
A lot of these bought out vets are basically forced to close 24 emergency calls. Some cities like Rochester, NY are basically devoid of 24hr vet care.

Better hope whatever emergency fido is dealing with can wait till morning, because private equity has some blood to let.
I must have heard this story and forgot it, because I used this argument on my team when I ran the group at Blizzard that did installing and downloading and patching. “We have 10 million people downloading and installing this patch, so every minute extra we take is another fraction of a human life we’re spending”. Sure, overly dramatic, and corny, but helped drive improvements.

The other more important metric I pushed was “speed of light”. When installing from a DVD (yeah, olden times), the “speed of light” there was the rotational speed of the disc and so we should install as close to that speed as possible. Keep improving speed of operations until you butt up against whatever physical limits exist. Time is precious, you don’t get more of it.
This could have been all with consent and adjusted payments. AI does not just replace an artist, it can also speed up the work tremendously. It gives new possibilities using volume.
Hmmm, and what do those states have in common?
Why on earth should I have to make an account to read a free article? Why is Medium not banned from HN?
"100%" doesn't mean "there are no nitpicky edge cases," it means, "this includes you, yes you, this is relevant to you."

It is completely normal to use language that is not entirely precise. It isn't a criticism to point this out.
For some int'l comparison, here in Ontario, Canada, the norm has long been what is being proposed in these various laws. Only medical doctors, members of a College of Physicians, are doctors. If you present yourself as a doctor without being a member of the College, that's illegal.

Which creates the exact same bizarre circumstance. Nurse practitioners are a thing here too. They have all the powers doctors have, nearly. They can practice family medicine unsupervised, examine, prescribe, refer. But they're not doctors.

Much of this goes back to the Colleges (legally-recognized professional associations). In some senses, it's almost a trademark issue. The College of Nurses is just as protective of the Practitioner title as the College of Physicians is of the Doctor and Physician title. The history and nature of these organizations (prestigious, autonomous, and the perogatives fiercely protected by its members) prevents doing the logical thing - nurse practitioners and doctors obviously belong in the same professional organization of medical practitioners.
Root server costs should come out of the ICANN fee, which I believe is $0.18/domain year for all domains that aren't in a ccTLD.

Running the TLD servers for .com is likely more challenging than running the root servers; the .com zone is tons bigger, changes more often, and is clearly a commercial endeavor as opposed to the root servers which is collaborative in scope.
Most of it is just handled by selecting the proper font, which automatically gives you the proper ligature.

The interesting thing is that Afrikaans actually went the opposite direction as Dutch. Prior to 1863 Dutch used 'y' and 'ij' pretty much interchangeably, but a spelling reform made 'ij' the official spelling in Dutch. However, Afrikaans seems to have settled on 'y' and 'i', leading to things like the Dutch word 'tijd' being spelled 'tyd' in Afrikaans.
> A typical old Java project depends on Gradle (or Maven, or even Ant), an outdated JDK, Eclipse, Protobuf tooling, XML tooling, custom tooling, you name it. Next, your project may require linting, formatting, and will be checked by some third party services. Recently, Docker and friends have joined the party, and a web based frontend requires TypeScript, a framework, Webpack, and many other libraries and tools.

You say that as if it were a God-given truth that that is how things must be, or maybe even as if it were a good thing that that is how things are. Which could hardly be further from the truth. The solution isn't to cover all that shit up with yet another layer of cruft, but to get rid of most of this fricking cruft.
In practice, the scanner would be cleaned after each roll. This is how we handled motion picture film scanning. With stock in good condition, the cleaning after each reel is not necessary. I can only imagine that a microfilm scanner would by the nature of the format be much much smaller than a 16mm/35mm scanner. To me, that would make the cleaning very tedious and time consuming.
That does not say anything about how much work exists in aggregate. The human population has gone up, so it can be simultaneously be true that the amount of work being done increases even as each worker works fewer hours. As well, this also says nothing about the quality of work, as GDP is going up, so it can also be simultaneously true that the quality of work increases even as each worker works fewer hours.
Great job on the concept and love the idea of using Flutter, but please switch to a more stable web development framework. I could not load the app on my phone browser immediately, until I switched to desktop mode.

I assume it's going to be much easier for you guys to build on Android and iOS now :).
> Or you can have Rob Liefeld hero #6, who charges in with big guns. And either the bad guy dies, or the bullets bounce off and there's little ground in between.

don't forget pouches. presumably, as the character levels up they get more and more pouches.
Well that is not at all what happens on my machine, which is a Core i9 13900K with 128GiB of memory. It just grinds and grinds and grinds for ages.
It does sound like they want them to investigate the newspaper
There's definitely a straightforward enough evolutionary advantage to being more sedentary (demotivated) when recovering from an injury or an illness.

The problem is we're getting inflammation without earning it the old fashioned way: misadventure.
All probability questions suffer from the same bias. The Monty Hall problem doesn't work if the person offering the choice has some agency and motives.
Responsive sites have to be like elastic 'jelly' and accommodate every view-port resolution. The only exception being non-mobile-friendly web apps, in which case some sort of manifest should be read by the browser and presented to the user clearly stating mobile isn't supported and they should use a desktop browser instead.

Then there's the progressive web app (PWA) debacle, where users don't even know what a PWA is and don't know that they can pin sites to their home-screen, simulating an app.
The yellow jacket wasps in the ground can be dealt with using a clear bowl and some dirt. In the evening (when they are dormant), place the clear bowl over the entrance, and seal the edges with the dirt. Be sure that there is still plenty of clear glass/plastic. With the clear 'window' area, they will keep trying to get out, but if it is fully covered, they will be motivated to dig a new entrance/exit hole. After about 3 days, there will be no activity.

The vacuum method is useful when they are in a building. Use a strong shop-vac. Mount the hose a few inches from the outlet, and turn it on for an hour each day. If you turn it on more than that, they'll learn to avoid it. This took about a week to terminate the hive.

I've done both, but only reluctantly when they are a real hazard (minimize cruelty; these aren't quick deaths). The nest will die out anyway in the autumn, except for the queen and then it will move for the next year.
1) Amdahl's law means it's not useful to have hundreds of cores for general purpose computing. There's not that much parallel work to do in typical applications. Increasing the proportion of work that's parallelizable for a given application pays dividends when you have more cores - that's why Servo is so exciting. In some cases, picking an O(n2) algorithm that's easy to parallelize will be faster than a less parallizable O(nlog(n)) algorithm - this is true for problems like Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP).

2) Shared resources (in-memory mutable data, hardware devices) mean the ratio of contention to CPU work goes up when you have more cores.

3) Cores on a single die need to share the same constraints - thermal limits and transistor count. So you're best off having enough powerful cores to get you to a sweet spot of single-core performance vs multi-core parallelism.

4) It's hard to provide a performant and useful many-core machine model. Cache coherence makes it easier to program a many-core machine, but limits performance. Without it, you're stuck with distributed systems-style problems.
You're correct of course. I read that as first derivative for some reason.
> This reminds me of the “XY Problem” framing [0], a concept that has been very helpful over the years when communicating with customers about feature requests.

It also ruined stackoverflow, since replies which ignore the question and assume that the OP really meant something else end up being so much easier to write/vote on than an actual answer.
Lyrebird the Linux voice changer now supports PipeWire
Right you are. I should not have been posting comments that early.
How do you know they have lower costs? My local water municipality recently increased prices citing increased pricing across the entire spectrum of equipment, materials, chemicals and labor. This in addition to state-mandated improvements to waste water management that must be completed within a certain timeframe.
It’s not just this. I’ve seen many people get caught up in things like incorporation, or legal agreements, listening to start up podcasts or even designing business cards. I like ycombinator’s advice for early startups: if you aren’t building your product or talking to customers you are wasting your time.
Dentistry, X-rays and Morecambe and Wise (2018)
That's what the CPI is and the real wage growth charts are exactly what you're asking for.

That being said, there's definitely a disconnect. The CPI metric is constantly changing, and is such a broad economic indicator that many people's experiences will not "feel" like what the federal data suggests.

The root of the growing wealth gap is the massive deficit we've been running. Especially since the GFC, the strategy has been to rack up a bunch of debt and inflate that debt away. This inflates the value of financial assets, property, and commodities...none of which is owned by the average joe whose cash savings gets destroyed in the interim.
The paragraph is this:

> Dyes must be "bloomed" before use. In their unbloomed state (i.e. in the jar) they are different color than in use. For example, our Bright Green Dye is brown in the jar, then turns a vibrant bright green when bloomed in water.

It does a pretty good job, together with the rest of the article, explaining that blooming means letting it dissolve in water, at which point the color changes.

I'm not familiar with dyeing at all, but "blooming" is used in a bunch of other contexts that mean similar things, e.g. "coffee blooming" (adding water to freshly ground coffee), even things like "algae blooms".
The article doesn't make this very clear and the way it phrases it is confusing.

> Dyes must be "bloomed" before use. In their unbloomed state (i.e. in the jar) they are different color than in use.

With the evident meaning: "bloomed" -> out of the jar, in the water.

But blooming means precipitating the dye in whatever solution it will be in, usually using a salt like sodium bicarbonate.

[EDIT] The Wiki page on lakes makes it clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_pigment
Unfortunately the XY problem is now mostly used by know-it-alls trying to show off. At least in my experience.

If you ever find a question that you think is an XY problem, answer X first and then say "did you want Y?".

The worst possible answer is "you should be asking Y".
Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy : https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/02/02/released-50-yea...

https://archive.is/eQaOX

"Soylent Green"

Soylent Green (1973) - IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

Soylent Green - Rotten Tomatoes : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soylent_green
I think most people are mentally ill. Living one's life in models and ideas, ideas that are mis-characterisations of natural reality, despite the evidence of one's own experience, is especially hard to take.

My point about the exemption of private jets, is that the environment is a political control lever. Its about power. Talking about killing the earth is merely a convenient mechanism to help the medicine go down. The earth will not be any better at the end of this process. We will get lots of TV programs about how the earth is being saved etc. Do you remember hearing about how the water in Venice improved during lockdowns? That sort of thing. So will pay much more, in loss of freedom and cash, but we will get TV programs to tell us it was worth it.

Carbon taxes - the means of pricing externalities - are a further governmental control structure. So, you have government saying 'such-and-such is a problem' and the fix is 'extra taxes'. Don't forget in my example, the farmer is already subsidised by the government. With subsidies and control for "externalities" - how one can say that free market forces have anything much to do with the produce we get, I don't know!

PS - I think your trust in governance and academia - as seems evident in your comment - is misplaced. Everything operates on money - what studies are undertaken, where money is invested, what information is publicised. The well is already poisoned - we are all simply being washed in the media spin. Recognising the truth or reality of our situation will not come from a study or a politician.
That would highly depend on how many other expert forest rangers corroborate your account, and how much sensor data accompanies your claim.

I also think the focus should be on witnessing something. Saying it’s definitely Bigfoot is an interpretation of what you saw. Maybe you saw the same phenomena other people saw and believed to be Bigfoot. Maybe what you saw has explanations that aren’t currently accessible.
> How many times do systemic abuses need to be brought to light before you warrant cynicism as the default?

The number of occurrences is not important unless paired with total opportunity for occurrences.

Ten out of a hundred is pretty damn bad, but ten out of a billion is a statistical rounding error.

It's up to you to decide whether you want to make arguments to sway people by emotion and based on popular opinion or based on facts. To be clear, you may be completely right in this case (I don't know the statistics), but it's up to you to decide whether you're happier winning an argument or being right, because how you argue the point will often tend to put you in one of those categories from the beginning.
It is almost impossible to find nice .com domains, most of them are either being used or resold. So I don’t see any impact.