skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm dense and obviously not the target audience -but I'm assuming the target audience posts here?

So I figure this would be the right place to ask: what is the use for this -particularly in gmail? Docs I guess I can understand but that's about it.

What makes this worth $30/month?
There are definitely losers, and they're on US soil.

Residents lost their homes in Mount Pleasant to make way for this debacle ffs.
I looked up the once-airport near where I grew up: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_Dallas_E.ht...

My parents worked at the defense contractor company on that site, E-Systems, for 30 years. I learned more about what they did there from this site today than I ever learned from them!
I'm not being clear, because there's some confusion in the replies to my comment here and elsewhere in the larger thread. I'm not denying that calorie counting helps most people lose weight. I did it to cut after a gain phase when I was training for certain events. Of course it works (for most people), and I agree with you that I wish more people did it.

What I am saying is that, for many and an increasing number of people, something is wrong - calorie surplus or not - with that they're ingesting. Even the physiology of being "fat" in the 1950s looked absolutely nothing like obesity does today. The "processed" part is the difference, though, so we certainly agree on that point.
>This system is then inherently favouring breaking the law because you will never pay more than the damage you caused

No, there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
The underlying problem we had* was the rate work was being completed was lower than the rate requests were coming in which causes the mailboxes on the actors to grow indefinitely.

In golang the approximate equivalent is a buffered channel that would start blocking because it has run out, but the beam will just keep those messages piling on to the queue as fast as possible until OOM. This is obviously a philosophical tradeoff.

* I should qualify that each request here had a life in low double digit ms, but there were millions of them per second, and these were very big machines.
For some reason, hiring culture considers any employment gap as signaling a poor candidate. I’m not sure why, but I wonder if it is that someone who can take a year off work doesn’t have enough debt to make for a captive employee.
> data has proven over and over that people can work more productively from home.

Citation needed. Not my experience at all.
Discussed a few days ago with ~200 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248895
Thank you, I couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s so irritating when I see commenters on HN immediately reach for Wikipedia for any controversial personality/group/topic. How is that still a thing?
The next time a friendly representative from the international brotherhood squirrel electrical (IBSE) union stops by to discuss joining their service protection plan, they should reconsider. "This a real nice connection you have here. It'd be shame if something were to happen to it"

Edit: or would that be the Free Mesons
For some reason programmers think that an "abstraction" is the same as just naming something. If I take a bunch of code that will only work given specific, concrete conditions and give it a name like "setup()" then I have "abstracted" it.

People who know what abstraction means, and people who use it to mean indirection or naming things, will of course never agree about how useful it is.
We also created a machine that knows how to create fluff pieces automatically
Get your iOs-flavored socialism outs here
The main risk of a hired maid/butler is basically theft.

Maybe it's happened, but as far as I know, no hired maid has bugged a home and allowed random low paid contractors to listen to their employers having sex but Alexa did that at a massive scale.

Can you name a hired butler who sent a continuous stream of photos and video to the police without their employer's consent like ring cameras have?

The scale and degree of harm caused by companies and the state spying on you 24/7 is far far worse than a single human who might pocket some trinket. If a housekeeper steals something I can fire them, recover or replace what was taken, and that's the end of it. Once your data gets out though there's no clawing it back, or knowing who has it, or what they're using it for. It will be used against you again and again for the rest of your life. No thanks. I'd rather stick with humans who work for me rather than pay to let companies exploit me.
When the CFO runs the company and the CEO is a figurehead with zero vision or ability to corral a group of infighting SVPs, nothing is simple.

Meta launched Threads in like a week, Microsoft dropped new Bing out of nowhere. Both companies support billions of users.
Right-to-work is about quashing union shops. You're thinking about "at-will" employment, which is the law of the land everywhere except Montana. But an employee contract overrides at-will employment: If your contract says your employer can't fire you, your employer can't fire you without being in breach of contract.
Now part of the issue is probably that WSL would sometimes hang and zombify, and could only be restarted by restarting the computer (in fact it typically did this any time the laptop woke up from suspend). So I didn't always get to cleanly shut down WSL. Additionally, I didn't have choice of filesystem— all my WSL guests ran ext4.

The issue seemed to be that sometimes files which the guest believed were written to disk were not actually written to the VHD file backing it, or the VHD file's changes were not actually written back to the physical disk. So sometimes upon a reboot (or after `wsl --shutdown`, which doesn't attempt safe shutdown IIRC), I'd lose files.

Generally it was only system files, and was recoverable by mounting the VHD for the guest to a new guest and repairing the OS in the worst cases, but sometimes did render the guest unbootable.

When I Googled the issue, I found people reporting similar problems on GitHub and Reddit going back years. On bare metal, the same distro I was running features atomic upgrades (on all filesystems), has survived power outages during system upgrades, etc.
Since you mentioned them I think it's worth telling people to take those benchmarks with a larger grain of salt. They've become such a pissing contest that I don't know if they can be called "real-world". There doesn't seem to be much scrutiny of the implementations.

Take some Rust frameworks: they write out pre-computed header strings to the output buffer, completely bypassing what the framework's documentation recommends. Examples are actix[1] and ntex[2]. No one would ever do this in real life.

Now I like Rust, and it'd likely be some of the fastest even without these shenanigans (Axum and may-http don't do that, I believe). But I don't know if other languages/frameworks have benchmarks implemented in the same non-idiomatic way just to look better.

[1] - https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
[2] -https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Jeremy Gibbons: Algorithm Design with Haskell [video]
I've been enjoying learning Haskell for the last 6 months and one of the things that I really enjoy is learning new algorithms that use functional approaches (and use immutable data structures).

Coming from a Java background, where most data structures are mutable (lists, maps/sets, trees, etc) finding how the same problems are used with immutability is quite mind expanding (height balanced trees, rose trees, finger trees, etc) and how some other algorithms are impractical and expensive (e.g. bubble sort).
I retired early (age 49), but I took a four month leave of absence about 5 years before that. Trying a leave instead of retiring was one of the few things I read about early retirement that made a lot of sense.
I gather some people "miss" work or get bored. I didn't miss it when I took the leave and definitely was not worried about being bored when I did retire. Anyway if you are thinking of early retirement I highly recommend trying to take a leave of absence first. You might have to be willing to quit to make it happen though.
Would love to see parternity/maternity leave for non parents, and normalization of 4 day work weeks.
I’m aware, and I’m 100% behind it. It’s the right move. For Poland, for mental health, for invigorating the workforce. I complain about the US system because it’s sooo backwards and it’s what I know. It’s also being used to model other European efforts to eliminate pensions and retirement efforts.
It lets you detect if the user is running a vulnerable kernel.

Apple's stack is pretty secure. When was the last iPhone jailbreak? I don't follow it closely as I'm not an iPhone user, but it feels like a long time ago now. And if an exploit is found, they can just revoke that kernel version. Apps can then ask users to apply the update to regain access to their streams.
Sounds about right. I played off and on for a month or so; through a few updates.

There had/have been recurring problems with elevators and inventory. I would get ejected into space; no leg breaking.

I think just the way they mesh the world together makes that something that has been hard for them to fix.

The inventory issues are what got me to stop playing. Long inventory load times, and then 75% of the time, inventory would be lost or permanently broken (items lost/can't add new things to inventory).

Still fun for a few days. Pretty graphics. Space flight was fun.
FPS missions needed a lot of work, but functional.

Another thing that made me quit, was the tedium of setup. You respawn quickly, from death into the hospital (unless you end up in prison, for shooting an at FPS guard that looks 90% exactly like an FPS enemy (then you get the prison play loop, which is fun once or twice)). But, then you need to take the elevator (chance of instant death) down to the ground floor. find the train. wait for the train. take the elevator (chance of death; or stairs if you are lucky [ i feel like there's a 'I'm gonna git you sucka' joke in here ]) to the shopping district. Wander around the shopping district (which is different on each planet) to hopefully find new Armor, Rifle, Mining tool, Gravity-gun tool (not all planets have the things you need, even)... then get back to the train and repeat for the space dock. then elevator to your ship bay.
... that's like 10-30 minutes. it just gets tedious.
- probably more fun playing with groups of people, but it got too tedious playing solo.

Was an early Kickstarter backer, so I'll try it again at some point when it is more polished.

Agree that what I paid for was mainly a modern Wing Commander/Freelancer type game, and they are overreaching by a lot. I think the First-person-shooter stretch goal was added later in the funding campaign.

I also feel like a lot of the kick-starter ships have been power-creeped (and they also seem to be lagging behind in quality updates; because CIG has to design and sell new ships to make more money to fund development, and then most of that money goes to make new ships).

They should not be making new ships at all at this point, unless those ships are required for the single player campaign. Focus should be on game systems and game play.
For me the biggest challenge to the idea of it being secret US tech is the testimony of high-ranking folks like Dave Grusch and Karl Nell. What do you make of that?

Another counterargument you often hear is the decades-long historical record from pilots (both civilian and military), including reports of "Foo fighters" during WW2 from both sides of the conflict.

It is a muddy subject.
lol... if they retaliate against her she gets to file another case and win even more money. I'm not sure what to make of the assassination intimation; I mean... so far as I know there's no history of corporate whistleblowers being killed or having their lives threatened physically.

Government whistleblowers, of course, is a different story.
A week or so ago there was news about a research article[1] about greenhouse gases and how in the USA, the top 10% of households by earnings can be linked to a much higher carbon footprint. The headlines mentioned that 40 percent of USA’s GHG emissions can be attributed to the top 10%. Granted, it seems like they aren’t emitting directly, but it is linked by how they earn their money, and how they spend and invest it.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> It is relatively rare for Gen X and Gen Y workers to have stayed with one employer for decades, as many of their parents may have done.

I’ve seen more people take them in between jobs than during, which works fine within the job hopping expectations that companies have created.
It only took until 1988 for CD-ROMs and players to become widely available. Also, there was a craze for LaserDisc-based arcade video games, starting in 1983.
> It's more like left-handedness (or good old homosexuality), in that the rate of incidence is not increasing but rather that social repression has backed off slightly and people feel a bit more confident being out.

I hear this exact same argument for autism, adhd, gender disphoria, cancer, heart disease...

I also hear about how hard it is to come out, and how you should believe what someone tells you because no one would sign up for this lifestyle without good merit. And I also hear about the increase of hate crimes, and the fact that it is the topic de jour of modern American politics.

Seems like we are consistently eating our cake and having it too, here.
I've updated the main README with a basic C example
Or maybe we can go further with a personal qualification salary for everyone, stopping the run for economic growth at all cost before it's too late for our planet (and us) :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Qualification_Salar...
It's true that boiling water reduces dissolved oxygen, but cooling water takes on dissolved oxygen.

So I don't think the science backs this up.
does anyone know a good way to convert pdf's to epub. I tried calibre but the inconsistent formatting of pdf's make this really buggy. Is there any OCD / machine learning solution out there? :)
Amazing works and life! How I wish other mathematicians like Ramanujan and Mirzakhani lived such a long life.
Likely nothing, but I do end up flagging most Twitter articles for being irrelevant and inflammatory. We've seen them for months now, and as a non-Twitter-user, I am fed up with hearing about it. Most of the Twitter-related submissions do not feel on-topic or follow the HN guidelines (including the one you linked).
If someone could convince researchers to publish this way we could really reduce the work involved publishing science.
That quote gets even more oxymoronic if you continue:

> … Booz Allen has counted former senior U.S. intelligence officials among its corporate officers.
I'm glad we're on the same page, thanks for bringing nothing to the conversation with your comment.
Quoting Betteridge; No.
we will have a pure HTTP & gRPC OTel adapter soon - just focused on the platforms first for this announcement but follow the repo for updates:

https://github.com/dylibso/observe-sdk
I try to amplify it as much as I can, for free.
I have to create an account just to try out this to-do list app? No thanks, already lost interest, too much of a chore.
An important context is the use case. Grossly speaking, business applications tend to have a shorter lifetime and faster cycle time than system code like, say, the Linux kernel or gcc. So the cost of refactoring in the latter case is amortized over longer timescale; when you have rapid business needs it can often be better to just pmake the change in two or three places and move on because in a few years the whole thing will be replaced.

We all know of exceptions to those examples (quick-and-dirty code that survives decades later) but I think that's the way to think about it.
At current rates of ballooning power requirements we will soon have to
Mine always turns out runny and fails to congeal. Any tips?
> I think the problem might be how to provide in-wall cabling that's to code for 220V

That's no problem, standard romex nm-b is rated up to 600V. The only real difficulty in doing that in most US homes is that it's all or nothing. You'd have to upgrade all receptacles on the circuit to 240V. Depending on when your home was built, the kitchen might well have several circuits for the wall receptacles (even just one circuit per receptacle, not terribly uncommon in my area), which makes converting one of the circuits to 240V pretty trivial.

Given how many appliances these days use switching power supplies capable of a wide range of voltage, I wouldn't be totally surprised if it was possible to wire an entire house with nothing but 6-15 or 6-20 receptacles and not have too much difficulty sourcing compatible appliances.
Let me know if you want to come to Florida and test it haha. It’d be fun to do like up a couple test envelopes and see what happens with a few different rounds.
Honestly, I make a low six figure income (starts with a 1), with a couple of kids, and a stay at home partner, and work from home in a moderate city for housing and costs on the west coast.

We make ends meet, can afford the things we want to do, but never seem to actually build any savings. (grocery costs are eating us alive this past year or two)
How would this cover for security vulnerabilities and other invisible tech debt that was incurred in the previous iterations? Generally, in the migrations, humans discard a lot of old code for new modules and capabilities which have become available. Does the AI take care of that?
if we all did work we loved, we wouldn't need to retire. sadly the world has created a machine that feeds souls to produce profit for the elite to fed grapes.
relax bro
Just having some fun.
Nothing personal
In some DRM architectures, the key and data encrypted using it is never even exposed to the kernel.

That’s how many high resolution video DRM schemes work.
Yes, I addressed that in my comment.
It has only been 64 years, you can't expect static executables to happen overnight.
MftF is best understood as a best case scenario for successfully resolving the climate crisis.

That is, if we're to successfully address this challenge, with minimal global disruption (and where "minimal disruption" means all aircraft falling from the skies), then something like KSR's path is required.

I've seen your criticism voiced elsewhere (a major publication review that I'm lapsing on presently). This particular critique misses the book's point entirely.
American culture places a lot of importance on individualism. This means people are free to make choices that will lower their life expectancy without fear of judgement. So Americans don't live as long. Doesn't really prove anything about the quality of health care.
OneSignal (YC S11), email/SMS push notification platform, is hiring engineers
Unsolicited Advice on Hiring for Founders
What’s this company, if we may ask?
In principle, there's nothing wrong with lobbying. Legislators cannot be specialists on everything that needs to be done. Bat conservation charities lobby the government on issues related to bat conservation. Deaf associations lobby the government on issues related to education of Deaf students and Deaf accessibility. Lobbying from commercial interests is infinitely more suspect, of course, but still sometimes reasonable. The trick is to have very strong laws about openness: lobbyists should be registered, and minutes of meetings should be published.

Ireland's Regulation of Lobbying Act (2015) [1] is something of a gold standard, which some other countries are considering using as a model [2].

[1]: https://www.lobbying.ie/help-resources/information-for-lobby...
[2]: https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-lobbying-clampdown-m...
Possible is not the same as admissible.

Good to know that the prevailing commercial tech culture now sees plagiarism and stealing ideas without attribution as the modern way of doing business and hopes that dressing things up under some algorithmic veil will hide the act.

I guess the pit of moral decline has no bottom. The consolation is that theft has never been the road to wealth. Once the plundering is over the only thing that is left is a wasteland.

It seems that Microsoft has finally found a way to kill the open source "cancer".
A lot of health plans consider any bill presented more than a year from the date of service forfeited. Medical billing is notoriously slow, opaque, and fragmented. On the insurance side they tend to be super slow in payment running 120 days behind forcing the hospital to de facto provide vendor credit to insurance companies that are way better capitalized than they are.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310663

In short, penalties aren't theoretically capped at 100%. That said, it's still theoretically possible to construct situations where the expected cost of lawsuits is less than what can be gained by the illegal act. However to make that claim you'd need to correctly calculate what the chances are of getting caught is, which is far more complex than pointing to a court case where someone settled.
Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster
The V&A museum's historical clothing exhibit was my favourite part of an already outstanding museum collection.
> I long for the days of a (small!) daily standup coupled with simple Kanban and an issue backlog.

Scrum is just that plus these things:

- showing the client or their in-house rep what you've done and getting their input on it

- checking in with yourself + your team that the systems are working or working out how to improve them

- some recommendations for how often to do those, and for how long

- definitions of two other roles: one to own shaping the backlog and one to work as "manager" - does soft-skills people stuff, liases around the company to solve blockages, trains the developers who need it how to do this last bit themselves.

Scrum is informal, and the only strict parts are designed to monkey about with traditional business structures (business analysts, project management, line managers). When I say "monkey about with" I mean this: change the roles and lines of communication to reduce silo-ing.
No. The law you quoted limits the maximum temperature of hot water supplied by fittings to fixtures.

It says nothing about fixtures that increase the temperature of water and dispense it, and does not limit the temperature of dispensed water. Instant hot taps are both legal and commonplace in Canada.

https://ca.zipwater.com/
Living debt free feels great, and is a huge privilege. Debt is perhaps the biggest economic driver humans have invented. It gives people leverage they would not otherwise have. College. Small business. Home improvement. Of course there is the downside of usury, payday loans, cc debt, medical debt, inflated education expenses, and all the other troubles caused by debt. But well-chosen debt can be a godsend.
Bro I get you :( I would do the same. It's a drop off point we have to sacrifice.
Imagine in 5-10 years where, just like people make video games all by themselves or with a small group of people, people can make their own movies that rival Hollywood productions, for a fraction of the cost as there's no need to hire anyone. When the output is just pixels on a screen and you can manipulate the placement of every pixel, it's really no different to Hollywood making them with real actors and crew members or someone drawing them, as is the case with current animation methods. Now, we can do the same process as drawing each frame but then make it look photorealistic.
does the gene for halving overall hormone levels evolve fast enough to respond to 3 generations of improved health care?
Warmer water loses dissolved gasses faster.