skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should just be the default. Many organizations do in fact write this down in their internal communication guides, where it's known as the ABCs (accuracy, brevity, clarity) of professional communication.

> I always have doubts about others' work and suggestions on how they could do it better

If you're right, they should listen to you (gratefully), if you're not they should tell you why so you can learn. There is no good reason to react emotionally to professional criticism, it is a worst-practice which no measures ought be taken to accommodate.
The article touches upon this. You can phrase it as social media becoming just "media" again. A small group of heavy posters is responsible for the content backed by an algorithm that broadcasts it.

I think the cognitive effects are already visible. We become lazy, addicted, complacent, distracted and anxious.
I dunno, I have no problem with them using an f2p model to pay for full time ongoing development, moderation for events, etc.

And a cosmetics cash shop isn’t more baffling then fortnight or whatever: you basically just took a screenshot, but that still doesn’t let you walk around with it in game on your character.

No, the real problem is that it takes a strong direction for this sort of system to not devolve into selling power, and making the game shitty and grindy for free to play players to push them towards buying skips, and as far as I know, a lot of those Iron Realms muds have failed this hurdle.
The article linked to the full Ma Bell list: https://web.archive.org/web/20150317062651/http://www.ourweb...

It's strange to me that there are 5-6 options for each exchange, instead of a canonical name.
the problem is, it's hard to prove that someone is not a true "_____". Because the definitions are not well defined.
10kW to 40kW according to their spec sheet[1], so seems irrelevant as an alternative. A single one of the older dams getting replaced, the Iron Gate Dam, has a capacity of 18MW. One powers a single small farm, the other powers entire towns, heavy industry, foundries...

And to be clear, these are small, old, dams. Modern dams and turbines produce far, far more.

[1]: https://emrgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Emrgy-Specifica...
Although Spider is better known in the text-to-SQL world, you're right that BiRD may provide a better testing ground. Comparing against the current leaderboard on that standard is on the docket!
I like this game. Now the question is “why are you interested in people posting about emerald mines?”
I think we do for the big ones on the Columbia, etc. The small ones that are aging anyway get torn out.
AWS should add this to their Certifications offering.
I can't find any reference to "Parvovirus-B6" in the literature or any taxonomy. There is only Parvovirus-B19, the near ubiquitous causative agent of the childhood infection known as fifth's disease. Are you immunocompromised? Has any radical treatment such as convalescent plasma been considered?

https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-...

Note that the attached figure describes pathogenicity as affecting any animal host, not just humans.
Even living someplace that has fairly poor cell reception if WiFi assist isn't working for some reason, it's really hard to justify a landline as "backup" for the rare occasions I wished I had it. I got rid of it a few years ago and, while there has been a day or two I wish I had it, hard to make the case.

(And, yeah, if you're going to be VOIP anyway, if your internet and/or power is hosed you're probably not in a better place anyway.)
You can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.
Correct, it's produced as a cool nerdy promo by a CT scan machine company (https://www.scanofthemonth.com/about)

Every article from them does pretty well on HN, understandably so.
Maybe not anymore. The building is being demolished.
https://www.archpaper.com/2023/08/last-remnants-hotel-pennsy...
Came here to post this haha. Great minds, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacpBRPonzM&ab_channel=Thing...
Parent might be British - POTS is still widely available here, although not terribly popular. It's about as expensive to get a POTS line as three unlimited-calls 4G SIM cards, unless you combine calls with your broadband and can save money on the line rental.
Totally agree. You just need to be mindful of context.

I’m in a senior director role. Part of that is that I need to be cognizant of what I say and how I say it, because Spooky23 is talking, but “corporate officer guy” is who the audience hears.

One early mistake that I made was recognizing a colleague who was essential to my aspect of delivering a key project. Which was true. But because of how I said it and what I didn’t provide (context), a person reached out to me, genuinely hurt and upset because they felt that the (very significant) contributions that they made were forgotten or ignored.

You can’t walk on eggshells, but a celebration should be that.
no, beginning programmers need to learn negotiation, marketing and sales skills
Doom barely ran on 386s and lower 486s, so running at all on a 286, let alone better than most any 386, is pretty impressive to me.
> SWF

> Amazon EC2 Queue

Nothing to do with EC2 but okay.

More like Amazon Distributed Functions.
I hope there will be, but I'm not really sure. I think the future of Nix is in smaller, focused flakes being shared and exchanged. People dunk on projects like Rust and Node for having infinity dependencies, but it is that way because those ecosystems have rich library ecosystems that are worth using. I see the same thing happening in Nix.
Right but the melee weapon can potentially disable 10x as many targets as one that explodes.
It's https://squabblr.co (no m)

The HN link has it correct but the body has it wrong
it is hard enough to combine a job with side hustles…
I prefer it this way. I would love to see original jokes on HN, but the issue is that if you allow "jokes" in general, there's a flood of low-effort repetition of popular phrases or comments where the only "comedic" value is that they've forced something into a cliche sentence structure. That feels more soulless than the way HN is, because comments get so samey. You see the same effect sort of start to creep in on certain political posts, where people feel that they can achieve a cheap sense of attention and comradery for expressing a trite idea instead of a joke (comments that mostly amount to "Elon Musk is a mean man! Who else agrees???")
> these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use

When it comes to wave power, "in discussion" is the operative word. Modern pelton wheels are 95%+ effective in converting kinetic energy into mechanical energy and have been in operation for decades. They are super well understood and optimized and are deployed at scales of dozens of megawatts per unit. Total installed capacity is probably into the hundreds of gigawatts.

AFAIK, no wave power project is above 10 MW as of now and the total installed base is still tiny despite decades of research. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wave_power_stations for example. It is a combination of the ocean being a super unfriendly environment for technology in combination with all of the wave energy extraction technologies being extremely inefficient.
Not used GCP...

Is it as bad as the "Google" folder on an android?
Amazon's real motive for RTO- Tax Benefits
Amazon is eligible for millions in tax benefits for having its employees work in their HQ2 office. I wonder if management is using the tax benefits as their motivation for forcing their RTO policy so aggressively.
This isn't a case of "we're making this for some noble purpose, but it might be abused". This is "we're making this so that we can use it for evil". Like the engineers at Palintir who were working on the whole predictive policing thing. There's no good that can come of that (I suppose the same could be true if you left out everything after "Palintir" in that sentence). The core motivation of developing the technology is evil.
> I'm asking why the federal government should override state and local governments who, representing the will of their own populations, judge such rules to be counterproductive given the state of their local economy.

Because there is no “correct” size of ruling government, just what gets negotiated. Feds overrule state, and states overrule counties and cities, and counties overrule cities, and cities overrule neighborhood associations, etc.
Thank you, you're welcome! I think those tools are interesting, but a crutch / tape over difficulties that Nix presents. I think that tools that try to hide a bad experience with another layer often presents more problems in surprising ways that sometimes leaves users with no option but to undo all their hard work and start over. We did a similar experiment last year with Riff, but haven't paid it much attention because of the layering problem. Our focus is making Nix and flakes themselves the best tool for the job.
Maybe

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Where no offset and the !Local tell the app to use OOB defined location?
There are people who profess to believe that taxation is theft. Even if I grant for the sake of argument that their position has merit (it doesn't, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief) I still think there is a worthwhile distinction to be made between being held up at gunpoint in a dark alley and being audited by the IRS.

Likewise, there are people like you who profess to believe that acting in the interests of campaign donors is corruption. Even if I grant for the sake of argument that their position has merit (and it very well might) I still think there is a worthwhile distinction to be made between voting for a bill because someone donated to your campaign, and voting for a bill because someone flew you to their hunting lodge in their private jet.

There is a broad range of activities that can be labelled "corruption" but using the same word for all of them means intentionally discarding important information and nuance. There is a line -- not a sharp one, but a line nonetheless -- between "corruption" that is acceptable, even necessary, under our current system, and "corruption" that is not, and I choose to reserve the word "corruption", with its pejorative implications, for the latter and use some other word to refer to the former.

There isn't really a good word for the former kind of "corruption" because it's not corruption, it's just the Way Things Work, for better or for worse. But fine, if you insist, I will refer to the former as "type 1 corruption" and the latter as "type 2 corruption". Type 1 corruption may be distasteful, but it is clearly legal. Type 2 corruption is nominally illegal, but rarely prosecuted, in no small measure because the line between the two is blurry and it's hard to prove that a given act was in fact type 2 corruption. This has gotten even harder since Citizens United because it moved the line that delineates the two kinds of corruption, making things that were once unacceptable now acceptable or even necessary.

AFAICT, Joe Biden has never engaged in type 2 corruption, which IMHO is the kind that matters. I don't like type 1 corruption any more than you do, but the only way to get rid of it is to change the law, not to cast aspersions on those who engage in it -- because that includes every democratically elected official in the country.
I guess the hope is that eventually there will be a language which is roughly as easy to read/write as normal proofs in English but can be machine checked.

Lean comes closer than Coq, but is still far from this ideal. It may be that AI will need to be involved (as in, there could be a tactic that generates proof terms using an transformer or something).
I used to use ReiserFS, basically because a friend told me that it dealt well with large numbers of small files, and I liked to do things like compile the kernel myself. I moved away from it around the time that distros stopped using it as a default filesystem, but I wouldn't be surprised if I have some old laptops still formatted to ReiserFS.
It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloromethane aka R-30. It took a while to find out what it was from the flyer.

See also https://iifiir.org/en/fridoc/r30-an-overlooked-natural-refri...
That's easy to know, just look up "Xbox Underground" and you'll know what happens when you get caught by the FBI accessing video games developers networks and leaking games:

Short version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Underground

Long version: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/

In short they got sentenced to 18 to 24 months of prison.
Does this retrieve data from your accounts? If so, what does it use to do that? Plaid?

I love projects like these exists, but not being able to download the data automatically from my accounts was a dealbreaker for projects like GNUCash.
Sure but I would assume they would eventually have some type of relay, like lunar gateway. Allow the landers to sip power and send to the relay, probably more a series of satellites in more eccentric orbits, and let those use their bigger solar panels and higher power to transmit/recieve back to ground stations.

I mean, how would we communicate with Mars colonies when the earth and mars are at opposite sides of the sun without some series of satellites in a elliptical orbit possibly at angle perpendicular to our general orbital planes?
this is the most San Francisco story ever.
I own VanMoofs, and I live near a brand store. I also own a car, and I used to own a Stromer, which doesn't have brand stores.

I can't believe anyone desires the experience of the auto mechanic, for anything. Like I know that's something that exists obviously and is something people do, like people go to normal bike shops. But it doesn't make sense.

If people want to buy crappy bikes they can. There's an ecosystem for that. VanMoof's problems are complicated, there are a lot of super low information comments on HN right now. I'm not interested in people's anecdotes, and I'm not sharing any either. All I'm saying is that in my experience, with every product I've owned, the VanMoof approach has been better for me, as a consumer, and that I only hope that they figure out pricing to make it sustainable in the future.
Statically link Swift runtime libraries by default on supported platforms
Sick of the stupid jokes? Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math lib
This would be a lot more Twitter like if posts are sent to communities with tags. A huge failing of reddit is that cool posts need to be reposted.

On reddit, you can already post tweets for your followers to see by posting to your profile.

Doubling the comments saying to add activitypub functionality. As an aside, mastodon is a fediverse app, and not the name of the network. Other fediverse apps are Lemmy, a reddit clone, and the other Twitter clones, like pleroma - which is better designed than mastodon

Lemmy, pleroma, mastodon, et al can all talk together, it's cute :)
Sorry but wet bulb temperature is a lot lower than you think it is. Your comment will age badly, to put it mildly.
This is an interesting point but does rely on a rather narrow definition of “type safety”. By any definition I have used, the code is type safe in those final examples. It has a bug, most definitely, but it isn’t type unsafe in the way that reading a chunk of memory intended to hold type A as if it was holding a type B is
Perhaps it's to match the class-leading usability of the AWS web console.
At the end of the day, some engineer has to sit down and say "I'm going to make this evil thing because the boss is paying me to do it". That's a breach of ethics. That emergent behavior is enabled, at every step, by complacency.
Yes, B19, sorry don't know why I said B6.

And yes it's very common in children with mild symptoms, and in adults it's extremely rare to have any symptoms at all(from what I understand it's actually not well studied how common it is as an infection because the symptoms either don't exist or are the same as normal cold so no one gets tested for it). At the hospital at the specialized infectious diseases unit they told me they have only seen 5 adults with it in the last 10 years and I've been the worst case they had.

>>Are you immunocompromised?

No

>>Has any radical treatment such as convalescent plasma been considered?

Not that I know. I did eventually start recovering so I guess they didn't want to go nuclear.
1. I am not placing blame, I am saying there are actions you can take to live in less fear. Maybe personal sacrifices are required, but many have had to make sacrifices to avoid fear throughout history and not all fear is organic or fully based in reality. Media is known to amplify fear and reality has historically pushed many people in directions they do not want to go. Only in modern society has the expectation grown that reality needs to cater to everyone's individualism, an impossible feat. Please see an article I wrote here about the damage over-personalization has done https://hackernoon.com/personalization-or-personal-bubblizat...

2. Hate shifts over time. As soon as old targets becomes stale, the manufacturing of narrative amplifies new opinions to shift hate to. With amplification of opinion comes more dissent against opinion. Further reach comes with further responsibility. Censorship does not solve this. Hate crimes have gone down at large but have increased against your particular group, which allows you to somehow throw out the overall statistic showing progress? Talking to other groups that have historically experienced hate might add some perspective for you as to how things have indeed gotten better.

3. Taking action to infringe upon rights many respect, only generates more dislike for the group pursuing infringement. We should find solutions to lessen hate without infringement on any group's rights. Violence is not a right, there is not a "freedom of violence" constitutional amendment. The current state of censorship attacks much beyond hate, but uses hate as the primary scapegoat, amplifying the abuse of minorities along the way.

4. I am going to disengage at this point. The use of multiple personas in a single thread to promote your opinions causes questions as to your true intent here. You seem to be fairly solidified in your stances regardless. I wish you the best and a life free of fear.
If you are looking for a really good book about the history of water in America(especially dams), check out "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner.
> Put the player in a cabinet with glass doors. That will dampen most of the noise.

So replace my furniture? No thanks.

> Turn the movie up. This also works for road noise in a car.

Have you heard the sound balance on movies these days?
I felt like it was okay-ish given he immediately qualified his own, nearby hometown with the same descriptor. I think it changed the effect from discriminatory to almost a term of chagrined endearment which lent weight to his subsequent commentary.

Would I have written it myself? Probably not, especially given who recently popularized the term "shithole". But I think as a rhetorical device it did what he wanted it to in his writing.
I was about to say that Legos are all very durable and not likely to degrade like other plastics (80% ABS, which last hundreds of years with minimal microplaslic generation), then after researching found out I had no idea how many types of plastics they used:

https://www.lego.com/ms-my/sustainability/product-safety/mat...
Ask HN: Would love a physical job, any ideas?
Hey everyone. Here's the long story short, perhaps some of you can relate:

I'm a 31 year old, recently single, long time programmer. For the sake of this post, humor me and assume that I am at least above average when it comes to engineering. I've been passionate about it since high school, have had a wide variety of projects, never give up, have a track record of success, etc.

Over the last few years I've built up my current humble project into a steady little business which nets me some steady income with little of my time required any more. Let's say roughly $5,000/mo clean - enough to live in many parts of the US (currently I'm in Southern California).

After months of reflection, therapy, etc etc, I've come to believe that a physical and social job would do me a world of good. I.E. not one where I'm completely alone at my computer for hours, days, months on end.

I've thought about becoming a firefighter (overcorrection?), a pool guy (seriously), an online teacher (teaching programming from my own perspective) etc etc.

As you can see, I'm fairly confused. So, I'm casting this note over a shoulder into the HN wishing well and wishing that one of you fine friends happens to stumble upon this.

Any ideas?

<3 - Mike
At 10^22 years, where do we draw the line between what we consider stable and what is "radioactive" or "decays"? If the heat death theory of the universe is true, then isn't everything above iron eventually going to "decay"?
No, I'm not affiliated with the authors, I just recalled seeing the extended syntax when I looked into Temporal's features a while back.
Comparing Code Llama Models Locally
That's a completely different question. It is established fact that Microsoft is engaging in anti-trust behaviour as far as European law is concerned.

Whether a company that's orders of magnitude smaller, with nowhere near the same reach and force, would be considered engaging in anti-trust if they did similar bundling is basically unrelated to why Microsoft unbundling their Teams product from Office would stop them from being further investigated. Past violations of the law don't magically stop having been violations just because you decided to stop violating the law.
"war story" is a bit strong, but most of the time I don't go with the obvious solution, there was some investigating done that led to the conclusion that the obvious solution wouldn't work.

The trick is to know who you are talking to. If they did think of your idea, accusing them of having missed it is offensive. If they didn't consider it, asking them to justify their reasoning puts them on the spot.
It’s to mirror the AWS user experience.
Does Funkwhale count?

https://funkwhale.audio/
As a UK citizen, I am routinely impressed by our government website. It is one of the few things this country does right, in my opinion. I know some people who work on the UI, and they put painstaking attention into every tiny detail to make things as accessible as possible. The goal is that it should be universally navigable by anyone, regardless of technical competence, disability or background.
In Germany basically all ISPs never provided the binary groups, so piracy was never an issue. There also was no conspiracy to shut down the servers because of that.

And yet the German groups started a slow but steady decline after their peak in 2001: http://usenet.dex.de/de.ALL.html

I was active in the German Usenet back then and still remember that between around 2001 and 2005 the spammers and trolls took over and destoyed one group after another until they were completely unusable. I also mostly quit around maybe 2005.

So I highly doubt that Usenet would have continued to work if ISPs had just continued support it. Usenet only worked as long as everyboy was nice to each other, it would never work today without much better moderation protocols and tools.