skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>employees are forced to individually consent or lose their job.

that's the thing, software workers are used to just walking away, because their skills are versatile and demand is high. A national level athlete can also simply retire on a few year's funds (or hell, sell themselves as an influencer. You don't think a youtube channel alone of LeBron wouldn't generate a 6k income from weekly "advice"?), but they tend to have a competitive drive to stay in the game, literally. You don't grind your entire childhood's physique away because you're gambling on the chance you retire at 30 (even if that is the most likely thing to happen due to injuries).

To be frank, the vibe I get from the internet seems to be that a lot of SWE's are indeed minmaxing to get out of the workforce ASAP.
SharedArrayBuffer was affected by Spectre vuln and was disabled in some old browsers (or browser config).
That's the famous folk song "Sakura, Sakura".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Sakura
i cant fucking take it anymore
> There's no true "minimum viable population size" as far as we know

For most vertebrates, it’s as low as 2. For some species, it could be 1. Definitely more than 0.
Not loading with Firefox Nightly or Chrome Beta on Linux
Don’t forget lust! No drag queens have caught up in pedophilia, but tons of pastors and priests have been.
Does it? By economic development do you mean relative to other countries or in absolute terms? The US was pretty democratic way before we were anywhere close to rich my 2023 standards.
> an unbroken tradition stretching back centuries, decreeing that women were to remain absent from this revered mountain’s embrace. Even domestic critters like cows and sheep had to give this place a wide berth.

ok but why do they include cows and sheep in this decree
Same thing for me, though slightly less severe on 2013 macbook pro and 2016 macbook pro.

What's more concerning than the cosmetic damage to the laptops, is where the (presumably dissolved) aluminium is ending up.
West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
I can imagine how a new style of web-only terminals be possible. The filesystem is realistically _any_ url, and you can load any wasi programs (via a shell, which is also just another wasi program).

I wonder if this is practical, or just a gimmicky way to use a computer...
I really wanted to pick it up, but it lacks a lot of Unicode symbols which for some is a bit of a joke since they come in ‘ligature’ form.
The same is true of lots of kinds of work: finance, healthcare, foodservice, retail, construction... (Especially construction.) The common thread is income inequality and poor protection for workers, not sex.
The best (in terms of speed/low maintenance) are probably considered invasive weeds.
I grew up Catholic, but had some Charismatics as friends from the 80s to the late aughts. In Florida, their mega-faith-church-complex was a combination movie theatre, shopping mall, food court (with one fancy restaurant), and modest arcade . . surrounding and attached to the vast "church" area proper, which was more like a stadium. All, of course, were religious organizations . . I often wondered to myself: how much money could you spend entertaining your family in this . . religio-entertainment-complex . . which you could then write off on your taxes? Rather a lot, it turned out.
That was some of the worst SEO dreck ever to originate out of OpenAI.

(Way)TL;DL: M3, 11”/13”, new keyboard. Nothing your average ten year old couldn’t guess.
I love this comment and love to see IDE features returning to editors via language servers and better build tools.

Eclipse RCP was a pretty cool toolkit for building enterprise desktop apps that could be deployed to both Windows and Linux desktops. You could build complex stuff without much effort. And by 2000s standards it looked pretty slick and sophisticated.
Ok, I follow now. I do remain skeptical it would work in practice though in any meaningul way to get people to reduce their carbon footprint. For that to work, the numbers would have to be truly significant. I'm not sure what those numbers would look like, but I imagine if people cant forsee the immediate economic benefit to them in the very near future, it wouldn't work.
An interesting suggestion, but ‘indeterminate’ maps to nullish values, not to negative values.

If you have options such as “oak”, “teak” and “walnut”, and there are some options outside of those, how do you allow users to select neither oak, teak or walnut? It’s not through selecting one or all as indeterminate — it’s gotta be through some other mechanism.
I think they should be banned because it makes no sense to me to extensively use chemicals that have not been shown to have a reasonable chance of being safe. Why extensively use something about which we know very little what the environmental effects are?

My stance has nothing to do with the study.
Thanks! Yeah WebAssembly has an exciting future ahead of it.
Indeed; this is the bulk of AWS / Azure / Google Cloud's business model, the so called "kill zone" adjacent to their infrastructure offerings. They let startups conduct the risky, expensive R&D to find product-market fit, then step in with massively more operational resources to clone whatever worked, only with massively more resources on developing better tooling.
The dataset used to "train" is from Antrhopic's Claude LLM (so vaguely up to date as of year-end 2022)

The premise of cody is the ability to pass entire repos in via embeddings and only highlight the relevant functions in various code snippets to pass into the LLM prompt.
>This is one of those comically out of touch armchair historian takes.

Having lived in the Middle East and owned a traditional curved dagger, I can safely say that the type of dagger mentioned in the original article is not used primarily for warfare. They serve as a symbol of manhood and social status. It is seen as highly disrespectful and dishonorable for a man to draw his dagger.

> Curved blades were made back then for the same reason they are still made.

Traditional Arab swords and blades intended for warefare are normally 2+ feet long. Not too sure that a 3" dagger is too effective.
The Winners of the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2023
Drumroll, please! We are absolutely ecstatic to unveil the winners of the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2023! This extraordinary event brought together 1492 participants hailing from 88 countries, who unleashed their creativity and showcased their ingenuity in 100 projects.
This does not answer the question, what does the redistribution of services from the old to the young looks like.

If the issue is wealth disparity, then why only target the elderly not the young people who are wealthy as well?
In the Chigasaki train station (Kanagawa Prefecture), the tune is from pop tunesmith legend Kuwata Keisuke. That is his hometown. (Been since 2014, evidently.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrMeLLXifBY

I noticed the tune when passing through. Otherwise I wouldn't know where the dude is from.

Compare with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5xSs9jBlk
> Knowledge does not magically make you moral, knowledge "just" makes it more possible to become and act moral.

I fundamentally do not agree with that. With intelligence and opportunity it may be possible for a moral person to more effectively do things which are moral, but that doesn't make that person more moral.
I imagine cars are a much worse offender than AC in buildings due to the shorter lifetime and the harsher mechanical conditions.

In my country during summer, at basically every large supermarket there are stands where you can have the AC refilled in your car.
Plumbing is another example where imperial works and is even used in Europe. It doesn't matter that a pipe is 3", it may as well be called "type B", since all you care about is if it's big enough for the purpose (you look that up in building code) and if the parts match together. The moment you need to perform calculations is when imperial becomes a total PITA to use.
I spent 3 months in an economy built around milk bags (Uruguay) and when you come from a tetrapak/carton or bottle economy, it's deeply confusing.

"What's this stupid oval plastic jug for?" (Throws it back in cupboard) - a week later people are laughing at me failing either to pour from floppy milk sacs or understand their hilarity.

(if you've never seen one, its typically a perforated, lightweight rigid former, which holds the sac. The idea is that when you snip one corner of the sac of milk, it naturally forms a spout, and this shape is just to hold the bag rigidly so you can grasp it to pour, without milk spurting everywhere as the bag looses rigidity. Without knowing what it is, it looks like a bizarre local colander or childs toy of no clear purpose or utility. And, they don't necessarily live in the chiller cabinet with the milk, so "how do you know")

It didn't help the rental flat had no sink plug. Dictionary "tapon" was met with hilarity by every check out counter lady I spoke to.. "plug" having many colloquial meanings. I made one out of a rubber sanding disk fitting for the sink, nothing else over the counter fitted.

Milk and yoghurt and cream. All flow production well suited to this bagging (heat sealed top and bottom, filling a tube off a roll. Interesting Q: how do you get the milk into this tube?)
An underrated fact is that the Japanese train & metro system is largely privatized: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-10-31/why-tokyo...

> Japan followed a similar path as the West before World War II, but afterwards diverged. As in the West, railroading started out very laissez-faire in the 19th century, but came under state control in the beginning of the 20th. But after World War II, while nearly all railways and intracity buses in Europe and North America were nationalized, Japan stayed its pre-war course, with the railway industry retaining its sizable minority of private firms.

They became further privatized in the 80s, and now there are multiple competing rail companies in Japan. It's my understanding that their business model is to build rails, run near breakeven on the actual trains, and then capitalize on the businesses that spring up around the lines (by purchasing nearby real estate and opening up shopping centers & restaurants).
if there ain't been no
The first chapter of Men Too Wear Clothes (1939) by Dorothy Stote explains how to select a hat.
The ISS has a crew of 7, micromanaged to death from the ground. McMurdo Station is a town of anywhere from several hundred to a thousand people. They are not comparable social situations.
One of my biggest pet peeves is the business owner who feels like their business is entitled to profitably exist.

Every business has to constantly adapt to a changing business environment. The ones that don’t fold.
I also cannot understand how people develop that way.

That being said, better workflows do exist. I imagine IDE-integrated LLM tools like Copilot and CodeGPT are much more productivity-enhancing than copy-pasting code between a browser and an editor.
Particularly popular in Canada
I hate it. The entire thing that makes HN special is the lack of ideological silos and relatively high level of discourse despite that. I want to have debates with strangers I disagree with. I want them to disagree with the things I say. I want stimulating conversation, not a bunch of golf claps from people who like me.

I get wanting to "filter bots and/or corporate shills" but a tool like this encourages all kinds of behaviors outside that scope.
Oops my bad. That'll teach me for not going back and double-checking. But looking at it, I don't support their approach anyway.
1. yes, maybee you can share it to others who might have interest in using it

2. hn mantra, any tech stack you are comftable using as long as you can ship your product to your users fast

2cents
What's to stop another maintainer from actively dismissing[1] your requested change and merging anyways, and how is this scenario materially different than the same maintainer consciously disrespecting my unresolved thread while overriding my required approval?

Even more adversarial, why not just exploit the implied race condition of your process by having a new PR submitted for another maintainer to merge before you get a chance to block it?

If we're still in fact talking about a scenario involving a group of maintainers with equal authority over a protected branch, all I see is the inescapably human dilemma of collaborative communication and network of trust.

But if one "maintainer" has the asymmetric capacity to immutably block all others, then the goalposts have moved and we're not really talking about just maintainers with equal pull.

On an opinionated note, if there's anything I learned about embracing Microsoft, it's that you can't judge true TCO by merely comparing superficial sticker prices.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...
> or any tests can become a huge drag on every single iteration in the future, and I've seen it absolutely sink companies.

And on the other end treat test performance as iteration speed so what once was a test suite you could run with vim-test on every little code change in seconds with a sqlite/redislite now requires docker, a 10 second startup time, and 5 minutes for a full run.

It's amazing the difference in productivity in projects where the test suite is fast.
With the daggers that I have seen and handled, the blade is curved but does not run the full length of the scabbard. It is not unusual for the blade of a L shaped scabbard to be cresent shaped[1], meaning that it is quite easy to pull the blade out.

[1] https://www.rct.uk/collection/62815/jambiya-dagger-and-scabb...
> 1in = ???

25.4 mm, ever since 1959 when we redefined it.
Minimum radius is much more important in plumbing I think than metric/Imperial. And screw-thread.
I always buy tetrapak in Canada.
Um lol what do you think the error is here? This is widely accepted syntax for a stub. So yes it does return None if run but it's not expected to ever be run. So pretty ironic that you would blame pycharm (which is indeed excellent) for your own misunderstanding.

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stubs.html#using-stub-...
This is commonly used in Italy modified in the form "etto"
University of Michigan Internet outage since 1:45 pm
The University of Michigan has been experiencing an Internet outage on all campuses since 1:45 pm. The cause is not publicly known. Some folks are having a very bad day/night.
Different forms of this are practiced in every ag sector. If you're bored and need a few thousand pages to leave on the back of the toilet, go hunt down the latest version of the farm bill. I've heard it is not quite as arcane as water-rights law, but it is in the same ball park.
next.js or php
Sounds a little like Stable Diffusion.
"Mainly because the last paragraph in GP comment focused on the dearth of direct clinical applications."

I am not sure why everyone is convinced that they will not be very useful in therapies...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357081/
> With a union, the pathway would be more defined

By defined you mean requires as per the contract or even the law.

Yeah, no. We do not want to be forced into your requirements.

And we will fight and sabotage all of these efforts, because we know what it is that you are advocating for, and we will not pull up the ladder behind us.

Fortunately, the anti union side is winning in the tech industry, and those who want enforced barriers to entry are losing so much that none of this is even a real conversation in the industry right now.

> We might even get real engineer licensing programs

So literal legal requirements. Yes this is what us anti union people want to prevent.

This is why you will never has us on board. Because when your mask comes off, and people are actually honest about what they want implemented, it becomes clear that it was always exactly the stuff that we were trying to prevent.
Add two USB-C ports.
given a large enough population, you can expect to see that most individuals don't think more than 1-2 steps ahead, and they are likely to also fall into automatic, habitual behaviour - what used to happen prior to covid will resume with high probability, if returned to office settings.

This is what those business advocates and hopes for, in order to resume their original business model.
How do we know one of the monks he lived with wasn't a transgender woman who wasn't out?
Yeah, it's a curse for all of us that are into tech haha
Used to be very common in Brazil before 2010, now it’s mostly plastic bottles and Tetrapak.
Mostly eastern Canada I think. Fell out of favor in central and western Canada a while ago.
just saw this. I've got no idea how kanji ocr works but I do know enough japanese to know what most of those characters are attempting to refer to, my penmanship has certainly been that bad. I still don't understand how it would make its way into the standard unless that part wasn't written by someone who is competent in japanese.

I wonder how often that happens - surely there's tons of people dealing with japanese text who can't read it and just use diligence to make sure the "letters are the same"
The only way to tip the scales is to have a baby boom. When populations were youthful and there were very few elderly, democratic societies did not have pension programs. Was that because people were ignorant, selfish, etc? Or was it because the constituency for pensions was small?

Actually my rhetorical question is only half wrong. People, young and old, are selfish. They are however not at all ignorant about who butters their bread. If you want to increase spending on the young, then you need more young to vote for that.

If anything the growing ranks of the elderly guarantee a greater share of public spending will go towards them. From a growth perspective, that's a vicious cycle. From a fairness perspective... well it kinda makes sense that larger cohorts should get more spending in a democratic society. I get there's a lot of nuance, but this is the gist afaict.
The main application of small self-hosted email services is getting your messages blocked by Google/Microsoft as a service.
Formal hats have been dead for over half a century.
This seems to be over 9 years old, but it is the first time I hear of it.

For the reasons other mention, it seems like the idea isn't very popular.
If what you say is the truth then it's doesn't matter who is saying it; whether it's me or The Pope.
I'm consulting with an Australian group called Control Bionics. They have a US company & office, with CTO and sales team in Ohio, but software engineering is done in AU. Their primary product is an electromyography and accelerometer hardware device to detect muscle activations or movements, and then most commonly used as a mouse-click substitute in conjunction with third-party eye-gaze hardware proving the cursor. (I've also designed them an autonomous wheelchair module, but that's another story...)

@pg - If your friend has not tried adding a mouse-click via something they can activate other than eye-gaze, this would be worth a shot. We have a lot of MND patients who use our combination to great success. If they can twitch an eyebrow, wiggle a toe or a finger, or even flex their abdomen, we can put electrodes there and give them a way forward.

Also, my contact details are in my profile. I'd be happy to put you in touch with our CEO and I'm confident that offers of funding would be of interest. The company is listed on the Australian stock exchange, but could likely go much further with a direct injection of capital to bolster the engineering team.

Cheers, Tom
Rachel Carson warned us about this sixty years ago, but here we are.
Vitrified Fort
that's easy to say when it's the US and you'll probably stay in jail a month or two at most, as opposed to having a loved one thrown in prison, tortured, and then executed because of some political statements that you made
I'd imagine it's not that they literally freeze to death, but in cold humid places if you want to save money on heating you will turn down the thermostat and keep windows closed. Poor ventilation in those conditions leads to poor indoor air quality and causes mold, which causes illness.
We need more plastics in our diet!
Humans and mice are very similar to one another, so I think this is a useful metric.
First off, I don't think anyone can answer these questions for you. There are a ton of considerations that could influence the end result, and you haven't provided any context really, so any answers you get will reflect this. That said I'll give it a shot.

1. You'll likely get a bunch of opposing opinions here on HN, it's a divisive topic (which probably means you can go with either and be fine). That said, my recommendation would be to start with the cloud - tons of managed services out of the box, good default security, lots of resources, ease of experimentation and rolling back infra that didn't work out, etc. Look into serverless tech like Lambda to control costs.

2. Whatever you already know best. Unless you're looking to learn some specific tech. But if you're focused on delivery, underlying languages/frameworks matter vanishingly little.
Does scrolling past toc and the first paragraph skip a whole screen for anyone else? Or is it yet another UI advice article that cannot scroll itself.
Outside the sphere of Western cultural influence mortgages are not a strong financial norm.
https://archive.is/ugX8j
Every time capsule I've seen online ever, seems to have remarkably hokey artefacts in it. Random things which it's hard to judge relevance of with modern eyes.

I wonder how many of them yield eg low background radiation sources, air samples insulated from contemporary changes, tree ring data with specific times, previously unseen sources of confirmatory data about other things, extractable DNA, colour swatches preserved from UV light, whisky bottle residue..
The early US came tragically close to adopting the metric system, and on more than one occasion.

I invite you to watch this amusing and relatively short video by History Maters on the subject: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtKbq_zAr-A&pp=ygUWaGlzdG9yeSBtY...

As an American I will say this, almost nobody genuinely thinks that our measurement system is superior. I suspect the majority of us know it’s a janky system but it’s so difficult to change.

That being said, I switched over to Kilometers on my iPhone because of Pokémon Go. I’ve actually gotten to the point where I think of walking distance in metric more readily than in fractions of a mile, so metrification is making progress in unexpected and exciting ways!
so to measure a nanocentury you should basically count 3 thousands ... if you want a few more digits of accuracy, count the 3 thousands plus (√2)/10
See my comment about the Adani PPA downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37286639
Ah, I was thinking more about lock in as more of a hard technical lock in (where he talks about setting up new build systems, CI, etc) rather than a soft lock in created via a lack of education & understanding, but I can see how that can happen if people just use tools without understanding what they do. That's a fair point!
Empirical observation of $0.10 worth of screws
> Seems like one of these claims needs adjustment.

Well, yes, I didn't mean literally everyone. It was a turn of phrase, a hyperbole.

> "They have argued that cities should instead prioritize the programs that have been defunded over the years that would address root causes of crime and poverty, like education, healthcare and homeless services."

Yes. Police and prisons are actually vastly more expensive than other, nonviolent community investments to reduce crime. But efficiency and cost effectiveness aren't really the point of "law enforcement". Rather, to borrow a phrase, the cruelty is the point.

Anyway, my point is that the power of the police unions is due to the public support for the police, not simply their collective bargaining power. Few other unions have as much power.