skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on how close you are to the sales process. I have had a chance to get a lot of experience working on proposals from a tech point of view and am involved in the pitch and negotiation. There is definitely carryover from those activities. But if you are consulting as a heads down IC and leave other aspects of projects and bids to the “business people” I can see where you may not learn as much that will be helpful as a freelancer.
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> but managers aren’t acting in good faith

An overly broad statement which, my experience, is not true. Managers come in many shapes.

Although, I suppose ironically, if you act in bad faith as a response to this perception, then I think that perception will quickly become true.
Pegasus spyware from NSO group
Huh? 77 is not 97.
Where does 90 million in "lobbying" go such that politicians aren't going directly to prison for bribery?

Answer: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/layers-of-lobbying
Exposed to microplastics in my water (plastic degrading in sea/lakes/water reservoirs), food (fish, beef, chicken), and air (car tire micro plastics mixing with air).

Now it’s in my coffee. Fuck this plastic planet.
This is brilliant. I'm a mid-level engineer with decent C/C++/Rust background. Have yet to find a team like this. I'm inspired by your story to keep searching!
even paraffin is not a significant health concern unless you consume it in large quantities and then the problem is more like Olestra.
> Especially if early/small, who wants to worry about scaling their DB layer unless they have to?

If early/small, who wants to worry about putting another piece of infrastructure (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc) in your stack that you have to operate?

It will probably surprise you how far you can go with just Postgres.
In Canada I push a button in my tax app to populate everything from the government database. I then add the things they don’t know about like donations, make some choices about my RRSPs, and then file. Maybe ten minutes?

One year I totally screwed up and they fixed it for me, giving me a considerably larger return than I filed. So I’m really happy that auto button exists now.
A very relatable story. Of course, we all feel sorry for those other Tims out there who were not lucky enough to have such a good manager. Partly, because we see the Tim in ourselves.

I think this is what we can do to help: Remember sometimes we are also those co-workers who took help from Tim around us and conveniently forgot to Thank their contribution in success of our project. A simple thank you note in the right meeting, slack channel or in the project delivery mail goes a long way. Measuring the indirect impact of an employee is hard, even if you were the manager at any level. Taking help is not a sign of weakness or acknowledging the contribution of a co-worker doesn't make your effort any smaller.
Appropriating Jewish biblical figures into a non Jewish practice isnt making that a practice rooted in Judaism. It's just very surface level nonsense. They could be named anything.
Fortune100 eng here, yes it is a thing.
I program in more than 10 languages. What I saw was a graduate level CS text, that was mostly covered the book 'Compiler Design'
Tim thinks it's awesome: https://twitter.com/iterex/status/1697927494479777844
Yes, I was referencing that book.
Building a micro-computer in Colombia 1980's
Can you make a snowshoe like device to help with this? Not saying to do so and hope everyone comes out merely a bit dirtier than normal.
Maybe a compromise that would keep both sides happy is for the government free file program to apply only to those who owe tax, but if you want a refund you have to pay for tax prep. Would maximize both tax and tax prep company revenue.
I'm not trying to suggest progress is bad.

My point is more: gosh isn't it odd that people are complaining it can't do all the things, given how radically different everything will be when that does finally come to pass?
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I love the internet.

The first two comments for me:

1) "As an active mushroom hunter, this is extremely unlikely and uncommon, this sounds like foul play.

2) I regularly go foraging in this region, this is extremely common and nothing suspicious.
The imperative can rankle too. I like passive voice or "let's" statements.
> the [ ... ] answer the author decided on

The questions mostly have correct or incorrect answers, and where there is some leeway, the author provides a fairly detailed explanation of what they would consider correct in each case. Do you have some specific criticism of an answer that you believe the author gets wrong?
I think the Democrats (Intuit headquarters in California) are primarily to blame here, but they find odd common ground with a portion of the Republican party who want to run up the debt by cutting revenue (while increasing spending).
Median household income is less than a tenth of median home listing price in Los Angeles.
People did and apparently do use the bridge. Lots of them, according to the article.

In any event, the bridge was a mitigation of the degredation of a walkable neighborhood that the Federal government was lavishly funding. People wouldn't use the bridge if the Federal highway didn't exist, so ... the result of your logic is build neither? Of course not, you prefer people to be in their cars, probably electric ones, failing entirely to see failed mitigation after failed mitigation of the original misstep which was to build the highway in the first place.
How would room-temperature superconductors change science?
Seems interesting, what's the startup about?
> the Win32 personality is the only one of the original personalities for which this is true

The entire personalities thing was pretty much never used. I could never run anything OS/2 except for a couple 16-bit command line utilities, and the POSIX one was straight garbage and likely the source of many Weirdnix contest stories. It was only until Interix that you could actually source port anything worthwhile, and they quickly hit the limit that the POSIX and Win32 personalities could not speak to each other with anything other than TCP/IP. WSL1 quickly dropped the POSIX personality and switched to the Drawbridge sandbox stuff (in part to be able to access the Win32 subsystem, and to be able to skip PE binaries), and WSL2 followed by dropping the entire idea and using a then more classic HVM.
For me, it is the demonstration that amazing things are possible, even elegant, with the most rudimentary elements.

Scheme is a beautiful language because there is almost nothing to it.
Came here to say something similar.

In this case, Tim from the blog post is a football defender or a linebacker if you're an American. Measuring them based on the amount of goals they scored or a touchdowns they caught is stupid. Instead they're stopping costly errors and providing the foundation that allows others to go on and score. You're probably not going to win very much if you field 11 strikers or 11 wide receivers.
> The environmental impact is still number_of_individuals * mean_consumption.

you're basically just defining the mean here, this misses the point that cities are more efficient, making their mean consumption per capital lower
There should be limits to what companies are allowed to do in order to stop user hostile behaviour. It’s reasonable to say that if you want to sell things as a company you should have to take some basic steps like this
This is what a limited liability company is for.
I assume pockets.
I'm using view transitions (have to use Chrome to see it), basically just copy-pasted the example from the htmx site. I'd like to do a sliding-opening animation, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
Consciousness implements understanding...and, it can also mimic it (grant one a false impression of understanding) that is typically indistinguishable from the real thing (see also: dreams). Worse: it can often not do otherwise (than mimic understanding, such as wondering what is actually true).

Scientists who have little background in the complexity and nuances of consciousness, and language & culture (also fantastic reality simulators) frequently have errors in judgment that they simply can't detect, and typically can't even try to grapple with because of these misunderstandings.

And, with all the polarization in the world, it's interesting there's so little (if not negative) interest in these sorts of phenomena.
1. The first part here doesn't argue against my claim that "blockchain is only good for evading regulation", it argues that evading regulation is sometimes a good thing. That's fine, let's set that aside.

2. The second part argues about centralized entities changing ownership. I don't think the example of Twitter usernames is a good use-case for blockchain: there's nothing here that isn't already solved by public key crypto alone (which is how blockchain solves the problem anyway).

Maybe Twitter here is just an example and you want to talk about corporate control over payment services? I don't think this is a compelling argument. There's no shortage of payment services and even if one of them is bad you can always find another. Yeah: Stripe or your bank go out of business tomorrow, but switching to Apple Pay or a different bank is not a huge problem.
For this reason I don’t wear a smart watch, but wear a smart ring to monitor vitals and heart/sleep trends. Just FYI.
If any billionaire wants to start real philanthropy, this would be a good start. Spend $100M or whatever to kill these companies and let free-filing happen.
A big, big tool for that, is OOP inheritance, which is considered "bad coder" signal, these days.

Is it? I’d agree that there’s increasing awareness of the limitations of OOP, and I’d agree that using inheritance excessively can be one of the limiting factors, but I don’t think I’ve ever personally seen anyone criticised or penalised for using inheritance appropriately.
Yeah, unless this substantially mitigates amplification, even when using manual chunk sizing on known materials, the context still hangs onto its "dying thoughts" in a way that remarkably resembles Alzheimer's.
Well there is this notion of "calibrating" the score. It is well-known that most humans are bad at estimating calibrated probabilities unassisted. The system could have been designed to accommodate this user-interface difficulty. For example, I am sure there is enough data floating around that you could map a simple 5-choice Likert scale to some calibrated probabilities, without making any assumptions. But instead it is just a raw slider, with nothing marked besides the default 50-50, not really great for input. Even a simple "yes/no" choice (translating to fixed calibrated probabilities around 25%/75%) would probably result in better log-loss scores overall.
> Almost none of them include meaningful release notes.

"Bug fixes and performance improvements"
Sure if that’s what you meant, then yeah. Imho that’s a weird way to put it.

You can renew indefinitely with an approved I140, btw (typical for backlogged Indians) (not that this doesn’t suck).
Bundling a word processor is anti competitive based on all the objections to Microsoft bundling anything else. So what if you have to pay for it? Wasn't that the whole point of making this fair? You can buy any word processor, or find a free one.
Postgres can be tuned to 10k inserts per second, Kafka is definitely overkill for 200/s
That thinking is one reason why I left engineering and I don’t see myself coming back to it anytime soon. I don’t like being on-call, I’m not qualified to do Ops-like decisions and I haven’t seen this as the practice in most other industries - Boeing doesn’t have staff flying planes for the airlines, for one.

Compliance is a set of stories/tickets/requirements like any other, with a priority to be assigned and eventually worked and reworked at some point in the process. There’s nothing wrong with not addressing it as the first thing - it just blocks release. With that, it will eventually get worked on, hopefully at the time where the pieces that need it are understood and the work to reach it is understood.
Microsoft releases PowerToys’ with Crop and Lock
The IPCC reports don’t really factor in the dramatic acceleration of methane emissions from bogs and Siberian wetlands.
Did D-Wave show quantum advantage in 2023?
And the primary reason for the "reboot" is to mitigate "misinformation", which is "media's most urgent problem". Personally I think that the widespread assumption that they can reliably identify misinformation, making free speech a bug to be fixed, is a more urgent problem.
I've been to BM during a rainy event - the playa silt is so fine, that when walking around, it built up layers upon layers on the bottom of your shoes, and pretty soon you were walking around in lifted Disco Mud Boots with like 6 inches of mud on the bottoms of your feet.

Was no fun.
Metrics. I used to work on a team with skills in agile development. The process was evaluated at every retro and everything was tweaked. One member of the team however continued to put tasks into states that was not even in our agile board. Meaning. You could not drag a task into that state. You had to set it. Turned out that the idiot CTO used an unknown report to evaluate staff. One metric was putting a task into a specific state no longer used by our team. The idiot CTO had told his favorite pet dev about this metric.

Too bad I quit before the CTO, CEO and most of the board members got fired. Would have enjoyed sitting there and going. Yes, yes, yes.
HN discussion quality check:

Jobs clearly wasn't resistant to app stores.

> Wrong, here's receipts.

30%!

> Wrong, 15% unless you're a whale.

Don't argue. Just read my mind through the screen, you already agree with everything I said.

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I don't get a dopamine hit from threads like this, they drain me. The opposing side gets a dopamine hit, reputation be damned.

I wish everyone would broaden their media sources as well as treasure history more (myself included.) I do appreciate flippant vs. philosophical exchanges like these to sift the comments for nuanced truths.
It's related but I don't think it prevents you from having nested dependencies.

This is about building packaged charts with multiple levels in one go (e.g. without packaging the nested ones first).
What CPA charges TurboTax prices? I'm talking "standard" TurboTax, not with all the ridiculous upsells that you don't need.

I agree with everyone that it should be a completely unnecessary product, but I don't feel that it is excessively expensive for what it does.
You can just advice it to forget (that is, skip in summarization) things which seem irrelevant.
Why There Is No Moral ‘Right to Strike’
Was there anything special about ReiserFS specifically vs other filesystems? I recall it had issues dealing with ReiserFS filesystem images.
WordPad will be removed in a future release of Windows
It reminds me of the cycle of enshittification: once you have a captive audience, you start bumping the profits at the cost of the user experience.

It looks like something similar is in effect here: instead of meeting the different customers where the customers alrady are, it's the company's preferred way or the highway.
Shaq starred in 'Kazam'. Perhaps 'Sinbad cli'? Cool project!
It seems to me that sparse encodings would be more efficient and practical for medium term memory. Isn't rhe problem wirh dense embedding is memory usage?
Exactly, I wouldn't be comfortable just blindly auto-restarting an app after a crash. macOS offers a “Relaunch” button in these situations, so you can restart it interactively. That's good enough for me.
Company releases first renderings of a new city proposed for Solano County
>That’s funny, I had the opposite impression after my various EU business trips over the years.

Depends where. I've noticed certain Scandinavian countries like Finland take public hygiene to the next level, but in central Europe like France, Germany, Austria, Czechia, etc. it's more socially accepted to casually share germs and not shower too often.
> This is vague.

Is there more than one case where Musk did this? TBH, I wouldn't be surprised, but my internet searches turned up only the one case.

> Was it when the guy attacked a car with his child in it?

Alleged, by Musk, a flagrant liar, who also lied in the very same tweet claiming the jet tracker was responsible. Later analysis of location data from Musk's own posted media showed they weren't taken anywhere close to an airport.

Nevertheless, Musk did doxx a man. Even if the man did stalk and attack his car, that's a matter to be dealt with by law enforcement, not Musk's rabid fanatics on the open internet.

There is still no argument to be made that somehow, doxxing is okay when Musk does it.

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> He didn’t make the rules on Twitter before he bought twitter.

He did make the rules after he bought them. Specifically, the one about location revealing. Then he used the rule to shut down the jet tracker — which was not violating the rule, because it only revealed publicly available information. Then he used it to ban journalists — who did not violate the rule, because they only linked to sites containing publicly available information.

Since then, Musk has again doxxed people on Twitter and claimed it wasn't doxxing because he was only revealing publicly available information.

Is that sufficient evidence to show Musk's "rules for thee, but not for me" attitude to you?

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> Of course you need to provide evidence to an assertion.

I did. Sorry for not citing precise links — I thought this was a settled topic — but I did put enough info in the comment that is easily corroborated by light searching on Google.

> Who?

I swear I checked the Googleability of my comment before I posted it. Anyway, here's a direct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linette_Lopez#Retaliation_by_M...
Snow doesn't stick to your shoes the same way mud does. Snow shoes are meant to distribute your weight over a larger surface area to prevent you from sinking down. With mud, it's not so much sinking down as it is clinging to your shoes.
Which clearly didn’t matter to their target market, which you didn’t represent.
Nobody decides what's true.
Yet, in aviation, we have the "experimental, amateur built" (or, E/AB) category of homebuilt aircraft which is going strong and honestly I'd say that most of the technical innovation happening in light aircraft is happening in the E/AB category. There are thousands of homebuilt kit aircraft safely flying in the sky above you right now.

The difference, of course, is that for obvious reasons, aviation has developed a pervasive culture of safety and rigorous root-cause analysis whenever an accident happens, and deadly crashes frequently result in regulatory corrective action. If car accidents were as rare as aircraft accidents, the NTSB brought a team of investigators whenever one happened, and the results of that investigation led to stricter laws and enforcement, we'd probably be OK with kit cars, too.

The sad truth about automotive is that crashes are so routine that police won't even get out of bed unless there are injuries. And, there is basically no penalty for negligence that leads to a car "accident". It's almost impossible in the USA to lose your driver's license, even after dozens of repeated DUIs. Totally different cultures.
Lamborghini Plans to ‘Go Crazy’ with Paddle-Controlled Torque Vectoring
Given approximately everyone's heard of it, and warnings about it, but also that I don't personally know anyone who tells me that they personally do this, my guess is in the order of 1% of the population. Might be more, might be less.

1% of Russia would be 1.5 million (and given this thread, 412k for Ukraine).
As others have said, it was an enjoyable read, and I thank you (and everyone else involved) for caring. One small bit of feedback: I suggest being a bit more subtle about how much work you did. At times I wondered if you were telling us things just to try to impress us with your dedication rather than because they were an important part of the story.
The issues is car's can't drive in the mud. When it rains, in less than 10 feet, your cars tires will be 50 submerged. So you can't even make it 100 ft, much less to the paved road to Gerlach.
I too had a childhood game about tiny cars that I couldn’t remember.

My game turned out to be stunt gp.
> Have you ever seen an organization filled with service-oriented employees and no doers?

Yes, but to be fair it was an IT organization which had settled on a metric of "tickets processed" for their quality metric. As a result people who processed a bunch of tickets but never addressed root causes were seen as "good" vs people who wanted to fix fundamental problems that would reduce the number of tickets. It was, for me, a pretty classic case of picking the wrong metric. And to be fair the "best" IT/Service org is one that looks like it has nothing to do because it is always ahead of the curve of upcoming issues, and upper management has a hard time with that.
it hallucinates! i would never use a tool that hallucinates.
> If early/small, who wants to worry about putting another piece of infrastructure (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc) in your stack that you have to operate?

Yeah, I get that. I guess my assumption is kind of that these things are so common and mature at this point, that setting them up isn't that big of a deal. I suppose too that if one is early/small, one should probably use a managed solution for anything possible as long as it isn't crazy expensive; so a managed TQ should be easy to set up, and if you're using managed Postgres, scaling it horizontally should also be relatively easy (?)
Yes, a comment on a website that just says “no” is way more truthy and should be taken at face value. Anything published and peer reviewed can just be assumed to be false.

Great call. Thanks for really bringing up the level of discourse.
plaque buildup?
Live webcam: https://burningman.org/live-webcast/

Looks empty. Either few got in or most left.
No, as I didn't even know which country it was from for sure, right? ;P But I went ahead and typed "UK encryption" into the Hacker News search and it all popped up from the last few months; the first hit, from a month ago, was even about Apple actively scrambling to push back on it (lending even more support to my point).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800297