skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "80,000 lines of sheer terror"

X11/Xorg is in a precarious place with Wayland waiting in the wings.
Sadly Wayland "breaks everything" and isn't yet a serious prospect for
anything but a new-broom distro. My personal experiences with Wayland
confirm this - most stuff just fails in weird ways right now. So
there's a window of insecurity or non-functionality between one world
that is dying and one that has yet to be born.
> Fascinating that German unions sometimes have managers as members.

Of course! From a theory perspective, it's completely clear: just because capital gives some workers a mediocum of power over other workers doesn't mean that those managers suddenly have different interests than the people they lead. They still need to sell their labour to survive, after all.

> Are those members ostracized by the real workers?

So much for theory. In the real world, bad managers exist everywhere. In union shops, they are probably reigned in much more than elsewhere, because they quickly find themselves in mediation meetings between workers, union and management every time their workers realize that they actually do have rights, and that those are violated by management frequently. Those guys are ostracised, whether they have a membership card or not.

But yeah, managers can easily get into situations where their own performance metrics would suffer if they follow union directives, so conflict of interests are not uncommon. Just like humans everywhere, they somehow live with the cognitive dissonance.

As an example, I worked in a production plant where the floor boss would go through quite a bit of paperwork to hire scabs from a temp agency during union strikes, because missing production deadlines was unthinkable to him. Normally a pro-union guy, glad to take the union-negotiated salary increases, not a bad boss, but seeing that his production lines never stopped was his job, and so he did just that.
Awful lot of sites have icons on them. I can't recall ever seeing icon credit. Copilot is like a year old.
The FDA’s See-No-Data Approach
Hello Developer: October 2023
> beginner-written julia code will end up being roughly comparable to expert-written numpy code or whatever

This is not possible by definition, or is a misunderstanding of where and how performance occurs. If this is possible, then it is just as easy to perform worse if the beginner steps to either side of the happy path or if their problem doesn't fit the preconceived optimizations and is therefore no longer a "language" but some kind of "library". I think Julia should be seen as a library and not a language because a language is not comparable in this way that Julia likes to handwave away as magic.
Thank you for using my app :-).
Train crash worthiness is quite an interesting topic. Important to remember is that trains carry hundreds of people. So a crash involving a single train carriage can easily become a catastrophe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewr-4TvG810
Yeah, "failing" for 15 years is a pretty good indication that those demographers are actually succeeding at what their employer wants... :)

someone in the system is probably paying for data that shows growth to protect their interests (eg coverying up insolvency of teacher pensions or justifying municipal debt/bonds)
Multi-Modal Face Stylization with a Generative Prior
It's shifting responsibility.

And yes, it is an easy target, because the goal is to find someone to yell at; nobody cares about winning lawsuits. It's about DAs finding a scapegoat to yell at, to avoid the fact that they have failed to disincentivize crime.

It's not negligence because nobody should be under any obligation to defend their property against theft. It's the job of the state to punish crime.
Yes, for example any site with user-uploaded content — think marketplaces, social media, SaaS file/docs storage, etc. Very high write throughput and expectation of that data being available in search/chatbots right away.
Show HN: Pluggable Message Processing in Python
The US is sending billions of dollars over to fund the war, which McCarthy supported and grassroots republicans opposed, that's why he was ousted.
https://archive.ph/tl2Ow

Tragic.
;Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120188 - Aug 2023 (43 comments)

Co-owner of Kansas newspaper dies after police raid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37114892 - Aug 2023 (4 comments)

Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105764 - Aug 2023 (103 comments)

A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102271 - Aug 2023 (118 comments)

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096015 - Aug 2023 (138 comments)
Nit: the justification of the text on mobile makes this straining to read.

One source: https://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/rules/accwcag2...
Most Americans don't live near wind turbines. The small minority that do live near them hate them. They are an unsightly blight upon rural landscapes, and if you're within half a mile of them, the low frequency sounds are disruptive and unwelcome.

EDIT:

If you are (a) not American, or (b) don't actually live near windmills, or (c) not living in rural areas where all windfarms are placed by elites who don't live there, then why would you downvote this comment? Your privilege is showing.
I bet my entire Beanie Baby stash that your NFT stash won't be worth anything by the time you're ready to judge this bet.
Crows use statistical inference to make informed decisions
> I think you missed the point. An ML model would only fail in the way KL describes under certain circumstances. If it was indeed the case that everyone does drugs, then it would learn that traffic stops in wealthy neighborhoods also leads to drug busts. The conclusion of KL and related work is that we have to be careful when training ML models to remove sources of underperformance, not that all ML models are useless.

This assumes that the police actually _want_ to make drug busts in wealthy neighborhoods. It's hard for me not to think that using ML models is intended to be a way to insulate the decision makers from accountability; pick a model that gives the results you want, don't divulge the details, and you'll never have to explain your actions because you were "just following the model".
For the unfamiliar, a "board foot" is a unit of lumber volume representing a square foot of board with 1 inch thickness.

So an 8' long board 12" wide and 1" thick is 8 board feet. Or half as wide and twice as thick (6" x 2") in the same length is also 8 board feet. You get the idea.
http://web.archive.org/web/20231003195013/https://blog.cr.yp...

https://archive.ph/NrOG6
Any chance of doing something similar with sqlite?
I would just add that, based on the prevalence of drug use and abuse in this country, the increasing availability and increasingly reduced cost of illicit drugs, combined with the exceptionally high rate of incarceration and probation compared to other wealthy nations (and even non-wealthy nations), we are clearly doing something spectacularly wrong. And this wrong approach is costing us billions upon billions of wasted dollars, not to mention the cost in human lives and livelihoods. No alternatives should be off the table.
> myth of shareholder primacy

FWIW that's just logic.

Whether it's de jure or de facto, the owners of something will own it to their interests.
If those calls can cause errors, then yes, it's necessary to handle them. Maybe you're content to have a contextless stack trace printed whenever things fail, but I like a little order.
I made Beekeeper Studio because the lack of a good SQL editor on Linux drove me crazy. TablePlus is great on MacOS, but when I started it didn't even have a Linux version.

I have full feature parity across all OSes, which I'm pretty proud of as a one-man team (although I do have some AMAZING part time help)
If Traefik is not your thing Im happily using https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy and sslip.io for local docker compose development.

And then even plain nginx under that to proxy to non docker services...

(And ipv6 for really short urls. example.com.--1.sslip.io etc)
> I would also never pay any money to maintain a computer to do work for a company.

But you would maintain a car to [do] work for a company. I'm going to have to take my three hours a day that I have working remote, more if you include prep time to even leave the house, and spend that on bumper to bumper traffic baby!
Thanks, we'll fix the scrolling issue!

Do you have any examples for recent prod issues you faced?
Would be interesting to see how we could help speed up the investigation there.
> "No doubt the editors at the New York Times and ProPublica would say the same of their own pages."

Of course, the WSJ would NEVER have a “a preferred narrative”.

And so we should really keep burning as much petro as possible, because otherwise shareholders are being stolen from!

And this is obviously another "prefered naritive":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/ameri...

"Forty years ago, small towns and rural regions were healthier for adults in the prime of life. The reverse is now true. Urban death rates have declined sharply, while rates outside the country’s largest metro areas flattened and then rose. Just before the pandemic, adults 35 to 64 in the most rural areas were 45 percent more likely to die each year than people in the largest urban centers."
> I can understand people being desperate and in need of that first job

Desperate people do desperate and unpredictable things though. Case in point:

> I remember exaggerating a bit when applying for my first job. [...] I spent the following 2 years miserable, I just didn't fit in that well.

Every now and then I have to investigate employees who seem to spontaneously lose their shit-- aside from one with an alcoholic spouse, so far every single one of them were just in over their head. They don't return calls, cozy up to security and ask questions about monitoring tools, check into mental hospitals, suddenly have internet connection issues all the time, lose or destroy their equipment repeatedly, etc. One would hop onto the IT support Slack channel and see what widespread issue was currently impacting others, then claim it was happening to her (and do the same with general/social, to see when people were getting sick and with what).

I wouldn't say it rises to the level of malingering, but it's clear they're desperately stalling, and it just creates a vortex that sucks them and everyone around them into. Contractual obligations stop being met because they become an entire sideshow and won't surrender. My fear is that one might eventually resort to sabotage; the closest we've come was a nonperformer trying to leverage workplace violence allegations against an executive.

> Nowadays I'm brutally honest with my application and the following interviews.

This is the way to do it. When you weave a web of lies, you have to maintain all those threads. Pathological liars are always anxious. Honesty makes for a much easier life.
I once set up something similar in Karabiner. Had it on for all of 20 minutes before I got tired of it
Blog post coming soon about this. The TL;DR is the underlying architecture matters… a lot. More coming soon.
> I have no other choice

There are approximately ~1 gazllion wireless internet providers where I live.
> Fast connections and free bandwidth have caused people to completely ignore the fact that every time some CI pipeline runs, npm goes off and downloads 100MB of dependencies. Dependencies that haven't changed since the pipeline last ran 30 seconds ago.

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought it was well known best practice to cache your deps[0].

I'm pretty certain that this can be achieved with most CI/CD tools.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/caching-d...
There's nothing about this in the docs :)

Backfills are done in fixed size batches to avoid taking long-lived row locks on many rows but there is nothing in place to control the overall rate of backfilling.

This would certainly be a nice feature to add soon though.
Thanks. Yes, it is the idea of one more than the thing itself. I realize might be tad too early, and perhaps my excitement jumps the line a bit.
You are citing a correlational study from 1986 on 1970 data as strong evidence? That study doesn't even establish the direction of causality: it's very plausible high crime rates lead to poor economic outcomes, versus the opposite. That also squares with the fact that most poor people aren't criminals and don't have criminal tendencies but are unable to absorb the cost of crime.
The USA's relationship with Pakistan far precedes the war in Afghanistan.
Consider: https://graphblas.org
> Or CI should be run on ephemeral cloud instances, but the packages should be cached using a separate service from npmjs.com (e.g. S3)? If so, what makes this other service preferable?

Yes, you should vendor external dependencies.

A build should ideally not require internet access to complete.

People learned nothing from leftpad.
It's also used in Evince.

I guess the other (quite complete) open source options are xpdf itself, muPDF (used in Sumatra PDF), pdfium (Chromium's PDF viewer) and pdf.js. I wonder how they compare between each others. Especially muPDF and Poppler.
"Led competitors to raise their prices and charge customers more" is serious, yet it's glossed over. If Amazon is truly telling competitors to raise prices, that's collusion in of itself.

The rest of this is just "Amazon uses pricing algorithm."
Really though an open source product has not really been released until there is documentation walking through setting it up and doing some simple thing with it. As it is I am really not so sure what it is, what kind of hardware it can run on, etc. Do you really think it got 117 Github stars from people who were qualified to evaluate it?

(I’d consider myself qualified to evaluate it.. If I put two weeks into futzing with it.)

Every open source release I’ve done that’s been successful has involved me spending almost as much time in documentation, packaging and fit-and-finish work as I did getting working it well enough for me. It’s why I dread the thought of an open source YOShInOn as much as I get asked for it.

Sometimes though it is just a bitch. I have some image curation projects and was thinking of setting up some “booru” software and found there wasn’t much out there that was easy to install because there are so many moving parts and figured I’d go for the motherf4r of them all because at least the docker compose here is finite

https://github.com/danbooru/danbooru

even if it means downloading 345TB of images over my DSL connection.
The reviewer's criticism didn't stop the article from being published. Sure, they didn't recommend it initially but that happens.

I'd call it somewhat mild attention to other factors from the one reviewer. The pointing out of issues in data balance, why an nn model, are also good criticism. Here's the review page if anyone wants to read it.

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

So the question becomes, is his claim of leaving out other factors not greatly influencing and it's just a grift and/or is nature's review process a dog and pony show?
> I always felt more connected to my coworkers when we are regularly working from home. The office is such a false environment people just act very differently.

Jokes on you, I don't care if my coworkers get hit by a bus either way! I cannot stand anyone I work with. Every meeting that should be 15 is now an hour minimum why? People want to chat and I sit there with my soul leaving my body totally unable to do anything but smile fake and try not to look like I'm dead.
Also (optionally) in Zathura, my preferred PDF view for its minimalist interface: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
The chart in the article does a nice job at illustrating that prices are roughly speaking back to essentially pre-pandemic levels after giant spikes. This seems healthy to me.
I mean, yes, Apple (even before they get to making their own silicon) can slam a wad of cash on the table and say “make us a better retimer or else” or perhaps even “make us a better SoC or else”. Not a lot of other laptop manufacturers can. (Now that I’m looking, it seems that Intel and Kandou are basically it when it comes to USB4 retimers, and the Kandou ones—whose deficiencies we’re discussing here—only recently arrived on the market.)

That said, I believe all Frameworks will accept 100W down any of the four ports, even if the batteries are only designed to charge at 55 or 61W[1] and the rest will have to be consumed by the rest of the system somehow.

[1] https://community.frame.work/t/how-fast-can-the-battery-be-c...
As per the article I guess the benefit is specifically for managing compose files across teams through git.
If that interpretation is correct, how can websites like lemonde.fr propose to either accept all cookies or get a paid subscription, under the GDPR?

Is that actually illegal? Or am I missing a difference with what you're describing?
Hey! I'm the creator of Beekeeper Studio.

It's a similar value proposition as VSCode/Sublime Text vs IntelliJ. If you are in a database all day and need a big beefy IDE, Beekeeper Studio isn't for you.

I built Beekeeper Studio because I wanted an easy to use and intuitive GUI. I'm not a DBA, so using DBeaver or DataGrip required me to basically re-learn the whole app every time I used it, which I didn't have the patience for.

Hope that helps add some context :-)
An interesting set of comments (by tptacek) from a thread in 2022 (I wonder if they still hold the same opinion in light of this latest post on NIST-PQC by djb):

> The point isn't that NIST is trustworthy. The point is that the PQC finalist teams are comprised of academic cryptographers from around the world with unimpeachable reputations, and it's ludicrous to suggest that NSA could have compromised them. The whole point of the competition structure is that you don't simply have to trust NIST; the competitors (and cryptographers who aren't even entrants in the contest) are peer reviewing each other, and NIST is refereeing.

> What Bernstein is counting on here is that his cheering section doesn't know the names of any cryptographers besides "djb", Bruce Schneier, and maybe, just maybe, Joan Daemen. If they knew anything about who the PQC team members were, they'd shoot milk out their nose at the suggestion that NSA had suborned backdoors from them. What's upsetting is that he knows this, and he knows you don't know this, and he's exploiting that.

---

> I spent almost 2 decades as a Daniel Bernstein ultra-fan --- he's a hometown hero, and also someone whose work was extremely important to me professionally in the 1990s, and, to me at least, he has always been kind and cheerful... I know what it's like to be in the situation of (a) deeply admiring Bernstein and (b) only really paying attention to one cryptographer in the world (Bernstein).

> But talk to a bunch of other cryptographers --- and, also, learn about the work a lot of other cryptographers are doing --- and you're going to hear stories. I'm not going to say Bernstein has a bad reputation; for one thing, I'm not qualified to say that, and for another I don't think "bad" is the right word. So I'll put it this way: Bernstein has a fucked up reputation in his field. I am not at all happy to say that, but it's true.

---

> What's annoying is that [Bernstein is] usually right, and sometimes even right in important new ways. But he runs the ball way past the end zone. Almost everybody in the field agrees with the core things he's saying, but almost nobody wants to get on board with his wild-eyed theories of how the suboptimal status quo is actually a product of the Lizard People.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32365259, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368598, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32365679)
Is the output of your work used to inform the public on a health danger which determines their level of fear and support or opposition to response measures?

Obviously something like this is reasonable in some cases. Just because it is reasonable in some cases does not mean it is reasonable in every case.

Compromises should not be misleading, let alone extremely misleading.
Are you claiming that, all else equal, the government that criminalizes common acts is more stable than the government that does not?
Hm, perhaps it is not the name that is secret but the algorithm itself and its use of it.
Oh, yeah sorry for the terrible title :-/.
The price of lumber also was astronomical during Covid. I think it’s somewhat logical to expect a return to a more “normal” price as economics bounce back from a somewhat unprecedented couple years of crazy economics.
So then we're not worrying about the "anti-war" position anymore, alright.
I mean, grassroots Republicans elected Reagan who beat the Soviets and Bush who wanted to "fight them over there so we don't face them here", they're certainly comfortable with spending money on the military.
They haven't historically wanted to spend that money on welfare though, so I'm not sure that Americans are going hungry because of Ukraine.
The problem is that RTO companies refuse to recognize that, and are making "do it or get fired" demands of employees regardless of where they find it productive to work. Those more productive in an office have always had coworking spaces available. Those who work better from home can get stuffed under these mandates.

So whose preferences really matter here? Who holds the power in the equation? I'll give you a hint: it's not anyone who actually cares how productive work gets done.
> They are an unsightly blight upon rural landscapes

One branch of my family lives near group of them, and I would not describe them in such way. Not convinced that USA rural landscape is so different in way that would be uniquely impacted by them.

Also, impact on landscape is quite competitive with other power sources.

> if you're within half a mile of them, the low frequency sounds are disruptive and unwelcome.

not noticed that, maybe it applies to some specific type of them
About 2 million km if GNU Units is serving me correctly:

You have: (1 gravity) / (1/1440 * rpm)^2
You want: million km
* 1.854336
/ 0.5392766

By comparison:

You have: (0.5 gravity) / (1 rpm)^2
You want: m
* 447.12962

(That's the scenario in the film here.)

For 1 g at 1 RPM:

You have: (1 gravity) / (1 rpm)^2
You want: m
* 894.25925

And presuming 3 RPM is tolerable (a common assumption in early space station / space colony proposals):

You have: (1 gravity) / (3 rpm)^2
You want: m
* 99.362139

(Almost exactly 100m or 330 ft.)
If you look into the actual historical basis of shareholder primacy, you'll find everything is a bit more complicated than you think it is.
Shareholder primacy has an old idea, coming from a the 1919 court case Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. The facts of the case were as follows:

1. The Dodge brothers - minority shareholders in Ford Motors, wanted to set up their own automotive company. They planned to use the money from Ford's dividends to support their company.

2. Henry Ford would have liked to keep his monopoly on affordable cars. He cancelled the dividend and claimed he's going to spend the money on improving society (by selling the Model T even cheaper) as a thinly veiled excuse.

3. The courts in Michigan saw what's happening and forced Ford to issue dividends.

As you can see in that case case, it was the lack of shareholder primacy that enriched the powerful. In the last 20 centuries of human history the powerful have always crushed the little man with the excuse they are serving the public interest. Beware of anything that empowers powerful individuals (like corporate CEOs and directors) to take arbitrary actions in the name of "social responsibility".