skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Work hours” are less clear for salaried workers who may or may not take work home: if it was written to solve a problem for the employer, reviewed with other workers at work, but ultimately not further pursued the status seems murky.

The later derivative that was actively used by and updated for the requirements of another employer during the coarse of work seems to more clearly their property as a derivative (but also murky because it is potentially an illegal derivative of the earlier work, if that was owned by the earlier employer.)
Honda’s motocompacto returns as electric scooter that folds into briefcase
And if you don't like the service you have free returns for 14 days no questions asked
Do you factor in timing belt costs, clutch costs, oil changes and a full engine overhaul cost to the ICE side?

Very very few EV batteries actually need replacing. We have statistics from Nissan and Tesla from over a decade ago and even those ancient batteries have performed better than expected, retaining 80%+ of capacity.

Newer batteries are better.
How to Select a Town the Rich Won't Gentrify and Ruin
Because immune tolerance is the opposite of immune protection, when it comes to the adaptive immune system, whose business is deciding what to do the next time it encounters an antigen (it's a memory response either way).

But really what they found here should maybe be called an inverse vaccine adjuvant (the part of the vaccine which tells your immune system that the associated antigen is dangerous, and a protective response should be mounted to it)
Excel circular reference doc, for the curious: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-or-allow-a...

> Unless you're familiar with iterative calculations, you probably won't want to keep any circular references intact. If you do, you can enable iterative calculations, but you need to determine how many times the formula should recalculate. When you turn on iterative calculations without changing the values for maximum iterations or maximum change, Excel stops calculating after 100 iterations, or after all values in the circular reference change by less than 0.001 between iterations, whichever comes first. However, you can control the maximum number of iterations and the amount of acceptable change.
I haven't tried it but it should work with Hetzner Storage Boxes over SFTP. Extremely price competitive.
I sometimes think its all the other software communicating online we should be more careful off, you know manufacturers own software checking for latest driver updates, office suites and other programs phoning home and maybe checking for updates.
Except that NaCl dissolves into sodium and chloride ions in water. in any context in which you are actually tasting it, you are not tasting NaCl, you are tasting some combination of Na+ and Cl-, at which point, asking which (if either) is the one driving the experience.
Are they? India's volume does't look like it's expanding meaningfully at all, while North America and Europe are both growing.

Could be confusing because that bar graph has a lot of colors.
Maybe be a little less pedantic and engage in good faith - of course by "red hot" I meant that sellers can name their price, with sales still often going above asking in many regions across the US. Prices shot up like a rocket ship since the beginning of the pandemic, have been remarkably durable, and still continue to climb.
I didn't know that worked on Apple.

For me, I click Share > Send to other devices and pick either my desktop or my Pixel depending on which way it's going.

Pretty simple.
Plenty of competitors have prepared to enter Australia, and then left after finding there is no money to be made.

Too few people spread too far apart.
(context: i make ai death metal & also i worked on stable audio). 100% it was a dataset problem. Diffusion models still work well when you train them on death metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlsRMQzD_6Q
These were the good ol days
I've noticed in a few examples that the people who dislike TypeScript and use pure JavaScript generally are really good at keeping track of things in their head so they can go fast when they write. I'm not good at doing the housekeeping in my head, so I appreciate tools like TypeScript. I go slower, but it saves me time in the long run.

edit: right -> write
People have pointed out that due to rules about no repeats, the full state requires storing previous moves.

I’m fairly convinced that the most efficient encoding would be keeping only the move history and then playing that forward to obtain the board state.

E.g.: there are only 32 distinct pieces so a 5-bit number can select one uniquely. Each piece has a maximum of about 32 positions it can move to. Then the encoding is just 10 bits per ply. Typical games are 40 moves (80 ply) and hence require just 800 bits or 100 bytes for the whole game history.

Then you could get clever with Huffman coding or the like, since some moves are more common than others.
> how the Big 3 will be able to fiscally handle the UAWs demands

They are all posting record all-time high profits, and are forecast to continue doing so.

The solution is so, so simple, but also so very taboo to talk about in American society.

They can comfortably afford to pay their employees more by reducing profits.
The grognards aren’t going to like it no matter what but I’m not sure how much this really matters for everyone else once you get to the point that human story telling, lore, etc. is doing most of the things which a player really cares about. Most people I know have generally been moving towards fewer die rolls because everyone thinks it’s about the story, not the simulation. When I think of the other systems I’ve heard people play the appeal was something like a different setting, not fine tweaks on how you handle combat.

cRPGs are interesting because you get less of that color but have the capacity to actually do all kinds of calculations - get rid of a single HP value and track body parts individually, process damage based on location, use complex non-linear calculations, all are orders of magnitude less work than the video effects will run. I think we’ll see more divergence there between what humans enjoy running versus playing if they don’t have to do the math.
Afrinic placed in receivership, board elections to be held in six months
> The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule

Very cool, but what would happen if that molecule was small pox?
Do you want to ban Manual Data Brokers. Private Investigators?
Redfall was an incomplete game. Graphics was the least of its problems.
Ask HN: What space-related APIs exist out there?
I know open notify API has json files for how many people are on the iss right now, and where it currently is located. These are excellent examples.

I also have NOAA KP Index API which is super interesting too.

NASA open API was a bit too much, and some of them seem dead.

I'm looking for small and easy APIs like these. Will be used as content for educational live coding sessions with teachers.

Do you know of any other such APIs?
Project requirements are never fixed, they’re always evolving.

It was only a matter of time before users would’ve complained about features being missing/broken, especially since what they’re used to is Excel and this was meant to replace it.
I would use either a platform or a generator that is able to create an RSS feed from the very beginning.
Well I get a 403 when trying to load the detection page (in Firefox) from behind a VPN. Guess that's a fail then?
I agree with you - that's why I propose public corporations as lenders of last resort to create incentives outside of the traditional market forces that would help create this housing stock that industry insiders would rather not.
You are free to do that. UPC is a private standard.
Instagram reels are even worse in this regard. Really, TikTok seems to actually be doing the best to keep kids safe in this space, despite constant criticism to the contrary.
> We had the capital and said, ‘let's hyper-scale; let's recruit as many smart people as we can and just throw them into the business and see what they can do,’

Inner workings of the mysterious "leadership"!
Yeah you did with Pixel phone.

I missed the “dodged a bullet” aspect you were going for on the watch. That makes sense.
The problem is that opens the door for the company to sweep issues under the rug. This is a pattern history has repeated time and time again
The Online Safety Bill looks set to shatter privacy in the UK
UT99 and all the Unreal games have been delisted from stores and they're shutting down the game's master server. You can still play solo or in LAN but online multiplayer is gone and there's no (legal) way to get new copies.
I don't know what the orange site is. But I know a panel of "expert regulators" did not decide on this fine. This was a negotiated legal settlement.
Any PM that walks in with “Just make it like Excel” hasn’t spent a moment writing code.
Sorry, I managed to miss the context.
Ah.

I suppose that is fair. Maybe. Almost. ... I still don't know though. It feels like humans still have an out-of-band advantage in how we /remember/ data for creativity.

Maybe I'm just not prepared to understand how we can quantify "creativity" between two different entities with vastly-different capabilities yet.
> It seems to me like a bit of googling and >90% of the work here could have been avoided.

I had a deadline and the only idea on the team for shipping a working product, and I shipped a working product on time.

Uber ran (runs?) their own data center. Getting a Windows machine/VM procured to actually run Excel would have taken an act of god. I was able to spin up a new front-end service in about thirty minutes. And I had some code that sort of kind of already worked, so I wasn't starting from scratch. Keep in mind that this system needed to be used by multiple people with different sets of data simultaneously.

> Are you really going to build and maintain a full blown Excel clone in JS? Is this really the objective of the frontend team?

If they'd have kept asking for more features and Excel parity, I suppose we would have considered it. But they didn't.

Certainly I don't expect many people would have chosen to do what I did. But the thing worked (and surprisingly well). If all you took away from the post is that it was a big complicated project, I'm afraid my writing has failed to convey the message it was attempting to convey.
You can also coax google images into finding images of a specific size:

https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A88x31&tbm=isch (88x31)

https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A32x32&tbm=isch (32x32)
U.S. vs. Google: They Pay How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?
It's a common excel trick in finance. For example, let say you have $0. If you borrow $1,000,000 at 5% interest, by end of year you'll be short $50k. That means you actually needed to borrow $1,050,000. But the extra $50K causes more interest ($2,500)... so you needed to borrow $1,052,500, which causes more interest... and so on.

Instead of doing some Excel Goal Seek or Solver or VBA macro, it's nice to let the excel "reactivity" handle it for you.
What outdoor cat lives 2-5 years? How is this number meaningful when it’s not compared across countries and urban environment?
The way inflation is measured is debatable. It's in the government's best interests to measure it in such a way as to make the number as small as possible.
I clicked through to the linked McKinsey article [1] to see what all the hubbub was about, and I found this gem:

> For example, one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such as design sessions or managing interdependencies across teams. In response, the company changed its operating model and clarified roles and responsibilities to enable those highest-value developers to do what they do best: code.

The rest of the article is equally hare-brained. It's a sort of clueless management-consultant thinking that believes software engineers should be furiously typing all the time, and it entirely fails to understand that actual software engineering is about solving business problems.

Stuff like this really makes me wish I'd optimized for $$$ earlier in my career, and I only hope I can retire before this kind of absurd thinking spreads into real technology companies.

[1]: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...

EDIT: Changed "MBA thinking" to "management-consultant thinking," in response to fair feedback below.
Humans recollect on what they have been trained on as well. I'm not seeing the tangible difference.
I want an electric sheep
When I worked on iOS games, I ended up having to ban all jailbroken devices. I didn’t like doing it, but basically - every cheater we found was using a jailbroken phone, the number of non cheaters with jailbroken phones was tiny, and it would have basically taken up all my time to deal with cheaters rather than implement fun features. I’d have just ignored them if it wasn’t for the fact that they made the leaderboards look really fake.
Richard Dreyfuss: Americans’ ignorance of Constitution, disrespect for opposing
The unsubscribe law has been on the books for nearly 2 years. Most vendors have changed their processes. I have personally benefited.

I expect nothing less for this law. Show me an example for a relevant law not the P65 BS.
I think one of the biggest growth areas for junior engineers to reach mid-level and senior is recognizing when you're re-inventing the wheel. E.g. If you are given a programming task to do anything related to Excel or the Microsoft Office suite, it's worth googling it first, because some engineer somewhere was probably tasked with doing the same thing a decade ago and has written a blog post or made a GitHub repo for it.
No. You can even just install Whisky, this will tell you upon start it will not work unless running Sonoma. After updating to Sonoma whisky starts and checks for Rosetta and GPTK. For me GPTK was then pulled and you can then create a bottle. I added a Steam bottle, got the SteamSetup.exe and installed Steam. x
All bread cuts out most of the fiber of the wheat kernel. That's more of a net gain than removing the items you listed.
Given that ECS is just procedures (systems) mutating structured state (components, entities) any older book on Pascal programming should do.
Note that boost is also not the C++ standard library.

A few people have tried to make boost-like meta-packages in Rust over the years, but in practice, people don’t use them, and they die out.

Also, like, serde's main maintainer is also a member of the libs team, so it being moved into the standard library meaning more maintenance doesn't really make sense to me.
Gamers are calling a lot of games lately incomplete. It doesn't stop sales if it looks good enough.
$50 dollar fitness bands with 2-3 week battery life basically all I need. Show some messages, control media, occasionally use as remote camera shutter. There's some in watch form as well. Still nothing close to Pebble with programmable buttons.
> It just looks amateurish and unpolished. It looks like it's janky and doesn't work very well. It's just unappealing in any modern sense.

I was with you before but now I think I might be glad that people like you get ignored by emacs developers. Do you also think that Craigslist looks amateurish, unpolished, and unappealing in any modern sense?

I'm all for improving usability (I agree with all the other points you made in this post) but I don't want my software to look "modern", simply because in general, UI design has gotten worse over the last 20 years.
This was unnecessarily snarky in an otherwise insightful discussion.
Every single government employee and their family/friends vote in local elections, and other people do not. You will not win an election without their votes, and you can use opaque compensation like DB pensions and whatnot to hide and punt forward the costs of the compensation.

You will never find a non taxpayer funded entity promise something like this:

>After 30 years of service, LA lifeguards can retire as young as 55 on 79-percent of their pay.

Go ask an insurance company how much an annuity for even $80k would cost starting at age 55 until death. It would be $1M+.

Social Security averages out your earnings for your whole lifetime to calculate the benefit, and that is with the power of the federal government. City and state governments regularly promise employees final average 1, 3, 5, and at best 10 pay formulas. So you see cops/firefighters/lifeguards/etc spiking their overtime and working 80 hours per week for the last few years, doubling and tripling their DB pension benefit.

And you simply will not see this outside of taxpayer funded entities.
God Give Me a Sine: Adventures in Interval Arithmetic (2021)
Convinced that people who do this actually don't know how to read very well, hate reading, and hate books. They see books as intimidating and scary. These extremely low functioning people tend to be overrepresented in public teachers and schoolboards, surprisingly. If, therefore, some of the books are EVIL, all the more convenient for them to get rid of these unpleasant objects.
> Self winding watches were a thing for quite some time.

Definitely still a thing. I'm wearing one right now. :)
I dunno man, I'd love to drive a Model T for a week.
Needs more mockingbirds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3V4bBpTQs
I misused the word "dedicated"; the server is actually used for lots of stuff. What I meant is that I didn't repurpose an old desktop or anything, it's an actual rack mounted server.

I run NixOS on there with a bunch of different services, though the only thing that comes anywhere near mattering resource-wise is JellyFin when it's transcoding.
I wrote the comment above, though I'm not the author of the code that you appear to think I am. But I am in agreement with him.

> Their employment contract for-sure states they own any work produced by you during your employment, and you agreed to this.

There are many open legal questions as to where this line is drawn. Surely the line falls somewhere between "every character I've ever typed on a keyboard" and "the verbatim code". I personally don't think he's crossed it. IP ownership is much more complex than portrayed in HBO's Silicon Valley. That is my opinion.

Furthermore, when I worked at GitHub (now acquired by Microsoft, so I'm sure things have changed drastically) -- there were very lax IP ownership agreements in the employment contracts around code ownership, because the legal department was worried that if found in any way conflicting with California law it would render the entire IP claims null and void (which does have precedent in California).

The point is we don't know, and I think OP would know better than us if it was disallowed or not.
Agreed. It's wrong. Pretty sure I didn't say it was alright in any circumstance, but if you can hilight where I did, I'll correct it from my post, as that wasn't the message I wanted to send.

There are degrees of wrongness.

Drawing a lewd picture of someone is not rape, for instance, but both are wrong and both have been mentioned.

We have separate terms to describe different things for a reason. That was the point I was trying to get across.
"Is that like, using condoms, or...?"
The goalpost moving is supersonic. "AI isn't that impressive, it's only more creative than most humans." was an unthinkable sentence only 5 years ago.
Since smallpox was eradicated over 40 years ago and most people alive today have not been vaccinated against it, I doubt it would matter much.
The second quote isn't entirely related to the first. "Sufficient housing stock to tank prices" is an enormous amount of housing, the likes of which are not contemplated by traditional builders, who are out to build high profit margin housing at prices the market will bear. That's the system that needs disruption. It's not de jure collusion, it's a mature industry with mature players who have been on the search for blockbuster profits in recent memory. The average home size has skyrocketed over the last forty years, builders and their financiers are no longer content to make a living building homes, they want to hit home runs every time. It's time to incentivize smaller players in the market and to steer them towards building cheaper housing with smaller profit margins.
Pretty sure that's not how copyright damages work. Don't take legal advice on HN folks.
> “take this [the spreadsheet] and put it in on the website [Wesley].”

This should be taught in classrooms.
Now this is really sad. This is why we don't have nice things.

I believe the "natural" state of the society where we can build on each others work, but copyrights make that practically impossible.

It lowers the quality of art significantly (I do believe that most art pieces could be significantly improved, but we can't do that).

It lowers the quality of cars, electronics, and other products, also their reparability from 100% to 0% or so, as they constantly discontinue past products, and make them shittier, and they prohibit 3rd party to make replacement parts, and we can do nothing against it.

And it allows rent-seeking behaviour, for example we gave Intel a hundred of billions of dollars or so, because the prevented other companies to produce x86 compatible chips, and they could get away with ridiculous profits. This would be illegal if Intel was a 'monopoly', but the same rent-seeking and abusing the market is not illegal since Intel is not a monopoly. Or countless other examples.

The article states that we almost developed a sane society where we could build and sell whatever we wanted, and use whatever we found (even if it was made by an other person), but the exact opposite happened. The article does not mention the reasons.
Often times, "all or nothing" is not the best solution to a problem.
[Dupe] of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers
Protect them from what?
The problem is that this really screws the shareholders, and _obviously_ so.

Most of the value of stock comes from the ability to sell it to someone else who wants to buy it. Who wants to buy stock in a company that has presented a plan to self-immolate?

The current stockholders may see some returns from short term profits, but then they'll be left holding the bag.

This seems like a case where the shareholders are incentivized to oust the board, because the company is going to screw them.
Just a heads up for anyone who finds themselves with a similar requirement, there's a very robust set of office APIs available in .net. I would be surprised if you couldn't open and run a whole workbook with them though I have only used them for more tangential tasks.
The premise here is specifically not to train it on generated output of the bigger model but to merely use the bigger model to better curate non-generated (and thereby untainted) inputs for the training set of the smaller model.
My choices were being an ahole or the cat wasn't spayed / neutered though.
The US and Europe haven't vaccinated for smallpox since the early '70s and routine vaccination wrapped up globally in the mid-'80s, so, for many... absolutely nothing.
But what happens when the boat speed matches the propeller airspeed? Wouldn’t sucking the air from the ground and deflecting to a variable angle allow for higher top speed until you are power-limited (as opposed to gearing limited)?
This and it’s very well known, but don’t discount their talent. There are plenty of smart and effective people at McKinsey, even if they make mistakes like the rest of humanity.
As someone once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug.
This is a neat post, thanks for sharing!