skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which isnt even independent!

Its crazy to see people advocate for duckduckgo while brave search exists, is more privacy respecting and is actually independent.
It’s not a partisan issue and politics should not even be involved. Other countries do it and it’s a no brainer. For example, India has a blanket education cess that individuals and corporations pay, and in return public education (school and college) is heavily subsidized (Schools are next to free). Everyone benefits from this investment and it’s mind boggling we still are fighting over this.

https://cleartax.in/g/terms/education-cess/amp
Our emergency fund is more of a "shit happens" fund. Shit happens every year. $2k to fix the car. $10k to fix the leaky roof. $4k in emergency dental work. And that was just this year.
Maybe someone with deeper knowledge of Gundam can correct me, but that doesn’t look like any of the mechs from the show that I can ever recall? The arms and hands look similar, but nothing about it looks distinctly gundam. Still looks bad ass!
I disagree. Colocation isn't the competitive advantage for startups. Strong communication is.

You can get part of this for 'free' if you shove everyone in a room.

You can also get this if you invest in strong remote culture that encourages lots of remote collaboration.

Source: I've been at a remote-first startup that is kicking ass over the last two years. In-office is available but remains entirely optional.
What about the ultimatum we were given 2 years ago on COVID vaccines from our employers?
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IMO the main issue with it - advisory locks in postgres require an open connection being held the entire time lock is taken. Combine that with thread per connection model...
> if Philips would have evolved to be the "European iPhone" company

They've certainly nailed the evil and user-hostile bit of being an iPhone company. From just 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377
From hand-waving attempts to connect modern AR-15 owners to a lynching that took place 3 generations ago, to technical nonsense like this:

>>> They ... required no particular expertise to shoot or physical strength to carry. They were also deadlier than the rifles that had come before them, which used relatively large bullets that made a straight passage through the body on impact.

...this article is a cheap hit piece.
If your 401k is maxed out it is probably wrong to save anything more in general. Maybe you are planning an expensive vacation so you save for a few months, and everyone should save a small emergency fund. However there is no reason to think you will live to see tomorrow and if you are one of the unlucky who don't wake up again any savings will be lost. A 401k is for most the right level of compromise unless you start late in life a maxed 401k is probably slightly too much savings. If you have the 401k maxed it is time to start living on whatever money is left - buy toys you will enjoy, donate to a good cause, I don't care, but if there is money left over after paying for normal life enjoy it as you can't take it with you (see religion for possible exceptions - you get to figure that out on your own)
It's just an extension of society in general. I live in a neighbourhood, I am a member of the community. I am proud of my neighbourhood even though I am not directly responsible for everything positive within it. Same principle scales all the way up to countries. It's a way of bringing people together (see: national sports teams). Nationalism is, uh, not without its downsides. But the motivations are pretty clear.
How could I not think that! Reinforcement of the "it's always DNS" meme.
This is not a legit Who Is Hiring post. Please see the instructions at the top, and please stop posting these. It looks like you've been doing it for quite a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=ajschumacher - that's not cool.

You've also been using HN pretty much entirely for promotion even apart from this. That's against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Normally we'd ban an account that was doing this but I don't want to ban you because you've been here a long time and have at some point been using the site as intended. If you'd go back to doing that, we'd appreciate it.
Me neither. That’s what’s so weird about the internet.

Imagine half a million people out in the streets together. You’d definitely notice that. Meanwhile, we can have these massive online communities and you’d never know unless you accidentally stumbled across it or someone told you about it.
That makes sense. Running laundry or other household equipment when energy is cheaper makes sense, but it requires a different time commitment. Cooking at other times to save energy costs is unlikely.

You'd get more participation if appliances could be smarter without increasing cost. The holy grail of delay freezer defrost cycles until off-peak, and relaxing temperature thresholds a bit to pre-heat or pre-cool towards the end of off-peak and let things go a bit farther off the set point while on-peak aren't realistic for say water heaters, because the increased consumer costs to do that (more expensive equipment, more time to set settings, most likely some signalling or networking to maintain) don't justify the savings.

I'm guessing there's reasonable uptake on smart thermostats that can participate in demand control, because smart thermostats are desirable anyway, network anyway, and can control large enough loads to matter. Not everybody will want it, but I'd be ok with starting peak a degree cooler or warmer than my set point, and letting the temperature float a degree farther during peak, because HVAC uses a lot of kWh and why pay 2x for those... but then I'm in a low energy cost area with flat rates, so maybe I would change my mind after experiencing it. :)
Supplies 1.5% of total energy consumption in Germany (electrical and some heating); 3.7% of electrical power production. From what I can tell, about 20-40% of domestic waste gets burned, including stuff that's ostensibly recycled but in reality gets burned. (I'm not a waste engineer.)
Nobody is talking about workers who prefer work from home.
Because the internal ID exposes timing/sequence information, as per jonhohle's comment.
That’s a naive assumption. I can go with any of your competitors (Datadog, Checkly, BetterStack) and not care about the infra
Public universities in the US do have admission requirements and yearly admission limits. I'm not sure where this idea that they don't comes from.
Oh, the irony. For everyone wondering how to "fix" this dilemma please research fuel cells and SMR Nuclear Technology. It needs to be priority number one i.e. built out first.
This it’s my experience as well. Sales is not a source of truth in any capacity. They are just there to get you to sign.

Pricing, functionality, support? Ask someone else.
Remember that for a US-based startup, the "hiring talent from anywhere" is easier said than done.

You've got to register your business in every state you have somebody working, get unemployment insurance and workers comp set up there, make sure you understand the local labor laws, etc., etc., etc. That's not even considering hiring outside the US.

It's a total pain in the butt and may not be worth it for a small company with limited person-power.
To be clear, since the article doesn't mention it: this is the same progressive web app functionality you can use today with Chrome. I find it really useful, I'm excited Safari is getting the same functionality.
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Not sure how it works everywhere, but in many cases it's not just money they give you. They basically reimburse you for particular moving expenses.
To think of it in programming terms: the original vaccines had code with a length of 4000-4300 nucleotides. Yes, that protein might trigger reactions after injection. But, then, what would you expect from the virus, which has almost 30,000 nucleotides, encoding an additional 28 proteins, including those involved in replication and camouflaging?

The only scenario in which you have better chances not taking the vaccine is by making sure you never get exposed to the virus, for years.
I was actually in this situation recently. Download everything you need, dependencies, editors, programming books, docs. Enjoy the distraction free time!
I know a few old school sysadmins who got left behind because they couldn't upskill to DevOps and consequently lost out on $$, others who were fired after moving everything off prem to AWS because the company no longer needed them. You understand that your theory is a "conspiracy theory", so why even say it? how does that add to the discussion?
I chose ULIDs for a recent project.

Hope it won’t bite me in the future.
When I need to talk to someone, it's easy enough to message them requesting a quick video call and screen share to discuss "X" and if it's inconvenient, we just setup a time for later and it's done. The rest of the time, we've got a nice, quiet environment to work in. Ideal, if you ask me.
And mostly closed source :)
Those of us actually working on the energy transition will be aware that behind this issue is the interconnect queue backlog. There’s plenty of renewable energy capacity in the US ready for construction that would help solve issues like this, but the approval and permitting process for connecting those renewables to the grid is so onerous, it’s become the major bottleneck for getting renewables on the grid.

Here’s a recent episode from the consistently great, technically in-the-weeds podcast Catalyst, on this subject: https://www.canarymedia.com/podcasts/catalyst-with-shayle-ka...

Renewable energy FUD sells ads, and there’s a lot of money to make if you just ignore it and learn what the real issues are, so that you can go to work on them.
Oh that's a great idea, this is the way. I don't use emacsclient because it has weird interaction with Doom's workspaces, but your way might solve this problem. Thanks!
Your comment is also not well-defined.

Are you claiming that many people you know who are maxing out their 401k, HSA, and Roth IRA literally speak the words "paycheck to paycheck" to describe their financial situation?
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How did Firefox get my passwords?
I was on a Zoom call (~300 employees of a F500 company) a while back, when the "return to office" push began. An executive asked everyone how "return to office" was going. A few brown-nosers commented about how happy they were to return to the office, followed by uncomfortable silence. Then, an employee spoke up, saying that she returned to the office recently, but still doesn't understand the point - "I had to sit in traffic for almost an hour to come to the office and do the exact same thing I've been doing from my house for 2 years." A week-or-so after that meeting I heard that she no longer worked for the company. She'd been an employee for over 10 years.
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You can still have elite public universities (UC Berkeley, Michigan)
Maybe the trick is to spread sun exposure across the body rather than mostly let our limbs and face take most the sun. Protect those areas, but get fuller body sun more often. The parts of my body on the boundary between heavy exposure and no exposure seem relatively okay. They have a slight freckle-ness to them, but arguably acceptable. (I'm not young; time-tested.)
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Unless you prohibit alcohol entirely (which would be challenging both technically and socially), you'll still need to check sobriety to enforce the law against drink-driving. So say the UK was only 1 litre on your list: would you then say that nobody should be charged with drink-driving?
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One of the problems associated with remote work is that synchronous communication is not guaranteed. People tend to work varying hours and even during their "work hours", they will make breaks to do various activities like household chores etc. So it tends to be more difficult to catch a co-worker for a quit chat. Then there's a feedback loop where you basically stop trying since it has such a low chance anyway.
Agreed. And one more consideration is that (extended) grapheme cluster boundaries vary from one version of Unicode to another, and also allow for "tailoring." For example, should "อำ" be one grapheme cluster or two? It's two on Android but one by Unicode recommendation and is the behavior on mac. So in applications where a query such as length needs to have one definitive answer which cannot change by context, counting (extended) grapheme clusters is the wrong way to go.
I have never experienced this installing Firefox. To double check I downloaded Firefox from getfirefox.com and installed it on a Windows 11 machine after reading your comment. It installed without issue.
First that comes to mind is the "effective power" one, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2015-1157 There's also the "black dot" one, can't find the CVE though.
In the beginning of the game factorio, and probably lots of other games like it, everything you build is the "burner" version because those are the first things you have available. You build them and feed them with coal to make them work. They produce lots of pollution and the bugs attack you for it. You don't use them forever; you quickly upgrade to electric/non-burner stuff, but you still have to use the burner stuff to build the more advanced electric structures. Once you have enough, you replace all the burner stuff and maybe keep some around as some kind of fallback.

We're still building the necessary non-burner stuff, and the reality is that we'll probably have to use more coal than we thought for a little while longer. But I just don't see that as an issue, I see it as an annoying transition phase as we build out the new technology we're steadily unlocking.
> they want that collective environment that they thrived in pre-pandemic

Is there an issue with this? The pro-remote people want the environment they thrive in and the pro-office people want the environment they thrive in.
Maybe this is just a symptom of working in a field with plenty of work opportunities, or the fact that I am not American, but the idea of a company demanding that I relocate in order to be closer to an office is comical at best.

I can't imagine a quicker "kthxbye".
> some efficiency, simplicity in not going out and getting a PTSN line.

Yup - it was much cheaper, my previous phone connection was from a cable company, and I already had internet. And as it turns out, VOIP seems to be more reliable than PSTN. And my (boutique) ISP specializes in VOIP.

I wouldn't have even bothered with VOIP, and just relied on mobile telephony; but I don't trust mobile providers, and I wanted a landline-style local phone-number.
By "settle" I think you mean pay off the national debt by printing money. According to https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
there is $33 trillion in debt outstanding, and https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.h... says the M2 money supply is $21 trillion, so I think "settling" the national debt in this way would be highly inflationary.
Isn't that what the base M1 Air ships with?
It sounds like Weird Al trying to be Michael Jackson trying to be Weird Al.
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It's not free for them, it's being taken out of their income to the point their salaries are significantly lower than the US. This is like saying if I pre-order a game and then play it when it comes out I'm getting a free game.

I have no idea why this is the default answer whenever this comes up. It seems like you're trying to sway opinions by gaslighting what's really happening. Why is it hard to admit the term free is obviously being misused in this case to present socially funding healthcare as better?
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740671. It's off topic in this threads, as the rules at the top state.

That's not to say that some companies don't post misleading ads - just that we're not in a position to adjudicate that in the hiring threads, and neither is the community.
From what I can see here, we agree that carbon pricing would make it harder to run ghost flights, it's just we can't be sure whether it would become impossible. That depends on the details.

But going back to my OP, I'm not that interested in ghost flights per se. I'm interested in the unnecessary CO2 they emit, and even there, mainly as a symptom of the broader problem of an unregulated, untaxed externality. I think this is the real reason to care about ghost flights.

Someone could also care about ghost flights out of aesthetic opposition to waste or regulatory arbitrage, but I'm not interested in that.
Yes, so start now. Also, check out Small modular reactor (SMR) Nuclear Tech.
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This is neat, I have been looking for something like this.
The US is a big place. There are certainly huge areas of the country in which social norms have deteriorated to the point you’re describing, but it’s not the case across the nation. There are still plenty of small towns in rural US (and Canada) where speaking in a movie theatre, playing music on a bus, or littering on the street are generally not tolerated and at worst might even invite a polite confrontation. In the area I grew up and now own a home in, it’s not uncommon to see unoccupied roadside produce stands (with incredibly food) which are entirely cash and self serve. It’s not hard to explain why stands like that don’t exist in urban America.

I’ve spent half my time in NYC and Seattle the past couple years. I think it really can’t be understated how different rural and urban America are in their social norms and behaviors.
Also worth pointing out that new solar has been cheaper than existing coal for at least several years: https://energynews.us/newsletter/renewables-are-now-way-chea...
If you want evidence I can provide it.
> a lawyer with a vested interest in DuckDuckGo.

Downvoters obviously do not know who Megan Gray is.
Sovereign borrowers are free to default on their debts. This is just a business decision, not a moral failing. But once they default they shouldn't expect more loans from the IMF or anyone else. The IMF was never intended to be a charity, and there are other international programs for distributing food aid to countries experiencing famine.
That's very true, even contracting I ran into different issues based on where I work from and where they are. Some companies required a business entity is certain states.
Basically I was hoping to use it for functions that wrap others.

E.g setup something and then pass the kwargs through to the other function.
Recent voice models by OpenAI, Meta, and ElevenLabs all state upfront they work with paid professional voice actors, so this space will get intetesting fast.
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iOS offers this bargain: you don’t get to configure much, but as a result I’ll know where things are and when it “guesses” what it should do, it will usually be right.

Linux offers the opposite: I’ll just do what you want.

Windows has a fun alternative: you can customize things but I’ll also change things, we’ll handle conflicts by rolling the dice.
Got it - I misunderstood.
It's not an anti-feature. Those languages gained popularity in part because they were dynamically typed. But this debate is decades old and people always dogmatically choose one side, so not really any point in trying to convince you. Alan Kay made the argument back in the 1970s that type systems were always too limiting, therefore classes and late binding were the answer for him.
She was also demoted at U Penn. She is now working at a university in her homeland.