skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unions (at least, US-style unions) would have no reason to exist

Of course they would, because corporations exploit workers all the time. If workers aren't being paid the backpay they're owed, the union will handle that. If workers want to be able to take the time to walk to a bathroom instead of having to wear diapers or piss in plastic bottles while working, the union will handle that. Same with being forced to work excessive hours, having unpaid overtime, being locked in overnight, being forced to continue working under hazardous conditions, being forced to submit to strip searches by management, etc.

These are the types of abuses that happen in the US, and even if every employee were part of a union, companies would continue to do those types of things for as long as they could get away with it. The difference is that workers with unions can pressure the company to stop abusing workers for example, like when employees are being forced to share underwear with their co-workers (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-08-fi-7876-...)

unions protect workers against a hell of a lot more than just being replaced by slave labor, or robot slave labor.
When I finished undergrad, the most desirable tech company to work for was Microsoft. They paid 55-60K (starting comp) I recall? Interviews were nothing like today (with the insanity of leetcode). What is mind boggling is that I'd have a better quality of life in those days (houses were super cheap) and work was not as competitive/backstabby as today.

The million dollar compensations (when counting stock growth) and intensity/stress around interviews and promotions is what ZIRP wrought for the elite in tech.

Would be interested if people who were mid-career in the mid 90s can comment on their perspective.
Hell yeah. I spent a lot of time on RDP (Working remotly on my work laptop).
Its great protocol, and over LAN its very very snappy, you can pretty much stream video via it but it will choke bandwidth like there is no tomorrow ;) (around 80Mbit 640x400@25)

Indeed, comparing it to Xserver, its much better. I use quite a lot Xserver on windows too, to render for example remote Firefox. It works pretty well, but not that good compared to RDP.
Imagine the law suits in the future on content taken for AI use
SPAC’s don’t count. They were all scams to start with.
It’s still basically if you say you have it, then you have it. All the definitions are still so loose as to be “catch anything” filters. Worse, you will rarely find any effort made to verify the claim with a clinical diagnosis. Worse still, there’s the minor matter of cause versus correlation. It’s still a crapshoot across the board with few exceptions.
I've done something similar on trains in the UK before, specifically LNER (was Virgin Trains East Coast at the time but don't think the Wi-Fi solution has changed) trains. The icomera captive portal has an endpoint which returns the GPS coordinates of the train along with the speed. And some other endpoints for next stops etc.

Once made a little React app that showed the train on a Leaflet map. Was a good waste of a few hours.
I just said you can’t.
The abstract directly states "Inferred trophic roles range from detritivores to predators, but all are based on indirect evidence such as body and gut morphology, modes of preservation and attributed feeding traces; no trilobite specimen with internal gut contents has been described [3,4]."

Can your local paleontologist give you a single citation showing direct inspection of a trilobite gut? Because the way you wrote it, you just said "the food of trilobytes have been known for 20 years or so". That doesn't contradict what the authors say, but rather, ignores the fact that this is the first direct, physical evidence in the gut of a fossil. That kind of data is generally weighted much higher than any indirect evidence (which I think is what was available before).

I don't argue that scientists juice their studies to get attention/justify the funding, but I think your criticism is probably missing the literal truth of the statement (and if you show me a single cite disproving their statement, I'm happy to change my mind).
During the beta I had to use proton to be able to start the game and was getting anxious about the state of non-Windows versions, but it launched natively and it works fine.

Now you can run a native client on Wayland and pipewire. The only big issue I've seen is CPU starvation on the servers during the launch, but that should get fixed soon.
Seems the DB has to be public (probably fine with IP whitelisting), but this is super cool that they manage it for you!
Show HN: Braintrust – Eval platform for AI products
Hey HN,

We're excited to introduce Braintrust, a platform for running and tracking AI evaluations (“evals”) [1].

At my previous startup Impira and leading AI at Figma, we had this recurring problem where we never knew if changes we made to our products would improve or regress key user scenarios. We built some tooling to solve this problem and after talking to other developers learned that it was a widespread issue. Specifically, it’s challenging to establish a great dev loop that lets you systematically improve and ship high quality AI products.

We worked with the teams at Zapier, Coda, and Replit to refine Braintrust. We consistently heard that they were facing challenges with evaluation, so we built Braintrust to help them. Today we’re releasing the product for anyone to use — including a free plan [3].

There are a lot of LLM tooling products on the market. Here are a few ways Braintrust is different:

- Rather than showing eval metrics in your observability tools, Braintrust offers an “experiment tracking” workflow, meaning you can try out changes while developing them, and drill down into diffs between other experiments and git branches before you ship. Check out our docs [2] for more details.
- We believe strongly that you should own your data and support on-premises and private VPC deployments.
- We natively and equally support Typescript and Python.
- We have a flexible free plan for builders and an unlimited free plan for academic and non-commercial open source projects [3]. We will introduce a self-service paid (”Pro”) tier, hopefully with feedback from this community.

Our mission is to enable developers to build high quality, reliable AI products. We couldn’t be doing this without Elad Gil, who helped me incubate the initial idea and team, which today includes founding designer, Coleen Baik, and founding engineer, Manu Goyal. Also big thanks to David Song, from Elad’s team, who is also helping us.

We’re excited to launch today [4], but we know there’s a lot left to build and are excited to hear your feedback.

[1] https://www.braintrustdata.com
[2] http://www.braintrustdata.com/docs/guides/evals
[3] https://www.braintrustdata.com/pricing
[4] https://www.braintrustdata.com/blog/reliable-ai
Thanks for the non-paywalled article
Self driving trashcan, brings your trash to the landfill while you sleep so you don't have to pay for garbage pickup.
Enable the automatic trash sorting attachment for only $999/month.
I think the idea is that "the real content" will be nearest where all the translations have consensus. Aberrational translations are quickly discounted this way.

Even the single best translation will probably be worse than reading the top three best translations since translation is as much an art as a science.
> some brahmin would discriminate (and talk smack) about other brahmin (by name/family) who didn't dilligetly follow (eg dietary) rules

At the workplace, this is plain-vanilla religious discrimination: discriminating against someone based on how they practice their faith.
Does Uiua still have to do some parsing for parenthesis for functions?
> There is no situation that allowing discrimination by caste to continue is a benefit to anyone other than those that are at the top of the caste system. That is inherently against western social views and anthema to equality.

This. The US is not here for you to reproduce your oppressive hierarchy from the old country, no matter what hierarchy it was or what country it was from.
> In that they are groups socially constructed inherited ascribed identities to which social status and significance are attached, yes, they are “like” races.

It would be more historically correct here to say that the whole notion as found in the Americas of 'race' as a system of pervasive discrimination and unequal status was explicitly designed to be "like" caste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
I had an idea to use Facebook messanger as a proxy. Specifically to use the cheap messaging plan on a cruise ship for real internet access. My home computer would be a gateway that monitors fb and fetches/returns websites. I never even tried because it just sounds like a violation of multiple ToSes. Not to mention message size limitations, throttling, my fb messages being pages of encoded text, etc.

I feel like it would need to work like Opera mini to maybe be usable. Even then interactions would be uncomfortably slow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
I love the I Ching for divination. Not in the "tell me my fate!" sense, but as a way to use randomness as a means to look at things differently. It's like Oblique Strategies but even obliquer.
This sounds like a good way to meet some upset people with expensive sunglasses shortly after you land.
If you have location permissions enabled in your camera app, the image's exif data will have the coordinates in it.

(US Civilian GPS units are prohibited from working above 60,000 ft above sea level and 1,000 knots due to ITAR munitions export restrictions.)
Of it's anything like my job, it's likely that a majority of the slowness is in the non-coding steps - meetings, upgrades/config, business ideation and prioritization, etc.
Remember a story from Phillip K Dick where there are self-replicating robots that patrols and target the opposing forces on the battlefield (ironically it is Russians vs the UN).

Second Variety
If it were, then people wouldn’t bother writing native applications.
I have an American Airlines flight in a few hours. Looking forward to see what kind of data I can find now
You think that all new vehicles will be EV, I think that this will be only a temporary hype, and will fade in 10-15 years or so. Time will tekl
Post metaverse drinking binge there’s a headache for all involved. Tim are up the metaverse narrative and doubled down on investing in it.
So add python as a dependency to every project?
I worked for a mega-corp (not FAANG) and my manager told me that the company did “extensive research” to determine market value for each position’s salary, and that their goal was to then be at 95% of that market value. So annoying that you, allegedly, know what the market value is and then purposely try to undercut it to save a little money.

I get that it’s a business and it’s nothing personal, but this company had insane profits and mad growth so they could afford to pay people a bit better.
You fix what you can fix.
I'm not so sure. The same data packet claims that the flight has 2h 25m of flight time left to cover 1167 miles. That works out to 483 mph, which is pretty close to the stated 487 and might be explained by some padding added to the time to account for taxiing.

Unless that 1167 figure is in a different unit it doesn't even come close to working out at 487 knots ground speed.
That's it, but damned if I can find any ten year old references to what was a huge thing back then.
This is a whole bunch of corporate bullshit for "everybody just migrated to our platform from Postman, and now we're proudly making the same mistakes that made everybody leave Postman"
It gets even more cursed if you look under the hood. You've probably seen Electron, right? Well they didn't invent that so clearly they can't use it. How about we use an old version of Unreal Engine, then use this to embed an even older version of Chromium Embedded Framework, and then we use that to render the UI with software rendering only? Genius!
Your definition of "bad article" is a single word difference: "And McDonald’s began changing how it [serves] up its coffee."

It's not false that McDonald's was negligent, and it's not false that the lawsuit forced a change. As far as I can tell nothing else is false. You can correct a statement in one bullet point of an article without calling it a "bad article."
Amulet is a graphic novel series written by an American author and illustrator. I don't know what you would qualify as indie, but Amulet might.
Not just aerospace, I vividly remember the first, and last, time I saw an An-124 in person. They were hired to fly some 60 ton heavy mining equipment, a gearbox for a ore mill if I remember correctly, from Munich to some place in Asia. All in all, from hiring the Antonov to it leaving loaded for Asia, tool 3 days. That included sourcing and transportimg the equipment from the manufacturer to the airport.

Sometime time is so much money, that money is a seemingly second thought. Still the economics work out.

Side note, I was sure to see you under this submission before clicking on it! A pleasure as always!
Perhaps a naive idea, but: wouldn't it be better and simpler to simply state that you can only discriminate on factors of actual relevance? Ancestry or sexuality would not be relevant to a rental contract, but both could be relevant to a medical study. Level of income would not be relevant to your right to take a taxi (as long as you can pay the bill), but could be relevant for a rental contract.

Trying to list all possible factors is a never-ending task. Caste? Gender? Income? Eye color? Medical history? Height? Favorite color? Any or all of those could be relevant in some circumstances, and not in others.
That should fail a lint check in your CI and your editor/IDE should autoformat that indentation away.

You also claim that is a "problem with braces" but you're not using braces and languages like rust no longer allow brace-less single statements like that.
I picked up a Beelink because the Raspberry Pi 4 was unavailable. I use it as a Linux desktop (next to my M1 Air) and a Jellyfin media server. It has replaced the Raspberry Pi for some purposes, but the Pi still has a place when hacking on hardware due to the GPIO.
And torsion effects when trying to move structures or reorient the whole structure.
> I don't see why anyone would fly United, Southwest, American Airlines, etc VS.the budget Airlines like Spirit.

I'm on a spoke (not a hub) and just don't have the service available to use budget airlines even if I wanted to. We have JetBlue -- they fly to Boston and that's it. We have Allegiant and they fly to Phoenix (not really Phoenix -- Mesa), and we have Avelo they they fly to LA (not really LA: Burbank). All these airlines fly one flight per day, and often not every day of the week. When I'm traveling somewhere that works for the budget airlines, I'm still leery because if their plane breaks down or there is "weather in Cincinnati", I'm screwed. They don't have a second plane available.

otoh we have United, Delta, American, Alaska, Southwest with flights to several hubs each, multiple flights per day, through international ticketing, first class sometimes open... Plus I don't pay for luggage on the major carriers due to credit card membership/status.
With LLMs we can create an open-source Library of Alexandria
With LLMs we can create a fully open-source Library of Alexandria.

As a first attempt, I have generated 650,000 unique textbook samples from a diverse span of courses, kindergarten through graduate school.

Happy to discuss methodology and goals further. This is just a 1st attempt / iteration.
It depends on how they're laying off. If it's by project, they might not be segregating by skill. If it's across the board, then they might.
> Companies lay off people because they can, simple as that

Pretty cynical and unfair IMO. Meta layoffs were the first time the company did layoffs in its entire history. Layoffs are super unpopular with employees. It's not like they wanted to do it.

This argument is lazy. Like suddenly there's a huge wave of layoffs, and your explanation is "they could." That really offers no explanation for why it happened now vs. literally any other time.
Murena aka /e/ has a number of known issues.

[1] https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt
Not fully disagreeing, but the web feels more heavy on RAM and other resources than native software. Also, the only programming language being Javascript, which is just starting to sort of change with WebAssembly is also far from ideal. Some other stuff like storage is also comparatively recent AFAIK.
This might be the most succinct description of where we're at right now, that I've read all year.
That's really a simplification. What's your definition of survival? Twitter was similar to Snap and got acquired for $44B.
I really hope Songtradr doesn't enshittify Bandcamp. Recent trends for services like Reddit, Twitter and others make me nervous, especially when it comes to FLAC downloads.
I was never disputing any of the validity or where the actual source info. But yeah I guess posting the Stern source would be a little better if they just quoted from them.

My point was just because I find it ridiculous to post "Tagesschau" as a response to a ask for a"reputable" new site. And the idea that "many distracting ads" make a new site not reputable is equally ridiculous. Its 2023 this is a heavy tech related site, and this moron this does not know what a adblocker is.

Yeah go ahead, downvote me flag me, I do not give a fuck, you are as braindead as the people on Reddit or Twitter.
This is really interesting - reminds me of Matt Levine's observation about some of the crypto scams promising outrageous returns that do it for the same reason, which is to filter out the most gullible targets out of the set.
AnyDesk is surprisingly good and works on Linux
Just a thought, if a black hole that close were discovered there would be another space race to get there. It just sounds so cool to the politicians (who've seen the movies) that any scientist would have no problem convincing them to loosen the purse strings.
Did you have permission to do that ? Sounds pretty risky to be probing the network of a flight imo.
In honor of the 10th anniversary discovery of the lost Nigerian Doctor Who episodes, I'm going to assert that the whole thing is a nefarious plot by The Master to suppress them:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/oct/11/doctor-...

At some point, someone probably sent an email explaining that a Nigerian television station had found a priceless box of lost episodes, and then requested assistance with preservation and/or shipping.
It’s available to buy from several places https://rpilocator.com/
Seems like this version hides or deletes your queries with a push to some cloud login. I'll be looking for an alternative if this is the direction Insomnia is headed.

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585
As Mao once noted, at the end of the day, political power grows from the barrel of a gun. Billionaires certainly have significant influence over policy decisions, but the tools of violence are still controlled by the politicians. Money can't protect you from the army or the secret police, as Jack Ma discovered in China.
"Come on, light “pollution” is not remotely equivalent to the others."

Submitter here. Doesn't make it less relevant. Greenhouse gasses, 'forever' chemicals, other types of chemical/nuclear pollution, raw sewage released into rivers or oceans, microplastics, noise pollution, light pollution, strip mining, slash 'n burn practices, overfishing, etc etc, they all degrade the natural environment one way or another.

What's left is the result of all those effects combined. So even if one type of pollution doesn't seem that bad, it adds to the death-by-1001-papercuts we're dishing out (with "papercuts" being an understatement).
It's a self fulfilling prophecy nothing more and slowly fluctuating back

Adjustment of COVID, low interest rates and Russian war.
This is the bad trend emerging in Yaml based DSLs

If you want to do things like that, use a real language and emit a final config value
> If you're more of a generalist though? I can see productivity gains of 25% maybe.

I really doubt this. Copilot/ChatGPT are not useful at all for the hard problems and they're not trustworthy enough for the small problems. Even for the simplest things I have to comb over the generated code very carefully because I've seen them be subtly wrong dozens of times in my relatively short use. If I have to go over everything they generate with a fine tooth comb it's just easier and less error prone to write it entirely myself.
Which is why you configure your editor to auto format, and then those errors can't exist once you press save.
On mobile, it constantly opens the keyboard, and I think it's perfect!
At the end of the day everyone follows a utilitarian moral system... If your moral system gets you killed because of an impedance mismatch with reality.
You cut off the rest of the quote, which is "afraid [...] of being left to themselves in their own flats."

I don't think this type of fear has anything to do with media fearmongering. People just hate being left alone with their thoughts.
Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in the last two years
That is how Wikipedia doesn’t have a profit while it’s CEO takes 6 figure bonus.
It also fails for mobile data and large crowds. Try checking your email at a concert.
It took about 5 seconds IIRC on our college campus network.
Niura’s EEG earbuds scan your brain health and recommend music to your mood
True, but there are certain things (e.g. including spyware in games not using their analytics and/or ads solution) some of their important customers would never tolerate. Then again they might just make no-"spyware" a "feature" only available in enterprise versions...
The good news is: We know and we're taking your needs seriously.

Much improved RDP support is coming with Plasma 6 in early 2024: https://planet.kde.org/arjen-hiemstra-2023-08-08-remote-desk...

It's integrated into the Plasma display server, so no more fiddling with xrdp.
Use json5 ?
They have lots of revenue. They would need to pare back their operating costs quite a bit to break even, and who knows if they can do that without overly impacting revenues.
I 100% agree in principal, but I think there is something psychological about paying even a small amount of money that makes people treat public transit differently (better) than if it it’s entirely free.

Sort of related, I can think of NYC charging $1 for a subway card, you don’t see discarded subway cards on the floor of the stations.
I mean, maybe it was unintended, but you can't deny the irony.

You don't have taste buds so you'll never understand saltiness, so now let me cover you in salt for you to understand what salt tastes like.

IMO the whole point is about unlearning, not looking for something forcefully, or trying to "get" something. That's just my idea though.
Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914
A lot of patients every day end up asleep and a fair few say they wish it was longer. I’d be in that group.
The noise is often described as a relaxing ‘white noise’ by this group.

The outer shells are different between vendors and the Philips ones I trained on definitely looked more ominous than the Siemens ones I use now.

The unnerving movement is partially due to the magnet interacting with the inner ear. It creates a sort of vertigo. Explaining this to someone who is anxious seems to help ‘it’s not you freaking out, it’s what magnets do to your inner ear and it eases after a few deep breaths’.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409466/