skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given we can look back at history and see direct causal links between industrial action and subsequent improvements, there is no way to take this seriously.

I have no doubt you're right that it correlates neatly with different income levels, but I find it comical that you think that addresses the issue.

I also note that you claimed working hours as a normal good whose demand would rise with income but ignored the point that the demand far preceded the economic ability to bargain for it with money, and that the demand was not constrained by lack of money. The notion that it fits your description at all is bizarre.

EDIT: I'll also note that after having had time to skim the article you linked, it does not appear to even attempt to make an argument aligned with yours. The author very specifically points out significant confounding factors, such as whether or not unions resistance in the specific given conditions affected productivity negatively or hindered productivity improvements.

A union certainly can make a wrong tradeoff - Indian unions prioritised keeping the intensity of the work down, at the cost of reducing their then-future ability to demand higher incomes. But they were only able to have that negative effect on future wages because their activism had a substantial effect on working conditions and by extension productivity.

That their goal was short sighted does not change that if anything it is a demonstration of the substantial impact unions do have.

That there is a risk that a too successful union can end up having an adverse effect by accident is nothing new either - it's if anything one of the historical conflicts within the labour movement in terms of outlook on the approach between seeing it as about conditions at individual workplaces or tied to local concerns vs. inherently a political and society-wide and international concern.
I think you could be right but I wouldn't worry about scientists trying to remove the trip aspect, as doing so in a clinical setting would be a good way to prove/disprove your hypothesis.
... Wait, so they _have_ a working one... but https://status.twitter.com, which has been the status location for about a decade, has had a broken cert for months?

Is there anyone left working there at all, or is it just Elon roaming the empty corridors as Jason Calacanis follows him telling him how marvellous he is?
Neat. I recently was having fun with doing something similar manually in Blender, generating depth map and using it in Stable Diffusion with controlnet. Results were great. My models didn't have texture though, so sd generated it. But I imagine I could go with img2img to preserve texture if I had it.
I believe you have misread my post. Powers that be continue to want me to not have mind altering experiences. I continue to have them anyway. So it goes.
IDEs have improved so integration of Swift and searching is easy. Objective-C now could do without headers but I used it 25 years ago and having headers made life easier.
Meanwhile a recent survey published last week showed that Twitter reach in Sweden was at an all-time high this year. Newspapers left with the argument that no one uses the service, despite there being twice as many real users as when they celebrated the site. Now this claim from Slack that they don't have resources for autoposting messages?

The death of Twitter seems quite questionable and mostly political.
the worldwide crackdown on freedom is an interesting phenomenon
An order of magnitude faster sounds unimportant. Is all the time spent by researchers sitting around waiting for 0.4s for a paper to download really an issue?
Maybe he would appreciate a computer with this updated version of OS/2 https://hackaday.com/2023/02/16/arcaos-os-2-updated-for-the-...
China to curb exports of graphite, a key battery material
Fun is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure depression.
Yeah, I'm counting this as yet another weak but positive evidence that we've hit on something fundamental here - if not universal, then at least to the path evolution took that led to a human mind.
Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and Metalinguistic Abstraction
Nebulous is exactly what it is, because despite what you think:

1. The empirical evidence does not support the notion of fewer bugs, even for static typing, never mind Swift

And no, this is not from lack of trying. People have tried to show this time and time again. And time and time again they end up not showing it, with effect sizes tiny and pointing in both directions.

And as an anecdotal example: which way has Apple software quality gone since they started adopting Swift and SwiftUI? System Settings anyone?

2. Swift is slow, not fast

I did fairly extensive research for on this for chapter 9 of my macOS/iOS Performance book. Even those cases where I fully expected Swift to be faster, which were not numerous, it managed to be slower. And there are really egregiously bad examples, like Swift Coding, which despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary some people still believe to be fast.

Why do they believe it to be fast? Because so much work can be done in the compiler. So it must be fast. But it just is not. In fact, it's ludicrously slow. This is probably lesson #1 from performance optimisation: things are not fast because simply you did something that you believe to be fast. You need to measure to figure out whether they are fast and in order to figure out how to make them fast.

(And those mistaken beliefs actually lead to slow code, because you already did the thing that makes it fast, not need to check or optimise. I am pretty confident that a similar effect happens with static typing and safety.)

Or check out the computer languages shootout. Swift tends to be somewhat on par with Java. Which is not particularly fast.

3. Swift needs loads of runtime

For example, due to the somewhat bizarre idea of having protocols be polymorphic over (pass-by-value) structs and (pass-by-reference) objects, Swift has to dynamically dispatch the copying of individual arguments to a function when protocols are involved. If you're both lucky and not using modular code, the compiler may be able to figure out how to elide that dispatch. But it won't tell you if it managed to figure it out or not.

Oh, and speaking from 30+ years of experience: message passing simply is not the bottleneck in 99%+ of the cases, and if it is it is fairly trivial to remove.
Hm. I think it is advisable to just use several browsers. One for banking and some shopping (plane ticket websites can be quite fragile) and one for surfing.
I use firefox for surving. This are my plug-ins:

Allow Right-Click

Bypass Paywalls Clean

ClearURLs

I don't care about cookies

NoScript

Privacy Badger

Startpage.com

Turbo Download Manager

uBlacklist

uBlock Origin

Temporary Containers:
Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable containers. Containers isolate the data websites store (cookies, cache, and more) from each other, further enhancing your privacy while you browse.

And some more, that are unlikely to be useful for you but have some use for me:

IP Address & Geolocation

FoxClocks

Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary
I took taxi rides in Corolla Altis. It is quite comfortable compared to Model 3 where I cannot even fit behind driver. I never drove any of these, speaking as a backseat passenger. What I also noticed Tesla 3 jumps on any road imperfection.
He is largely irrelevant now. He was significantly popular, but there is a combination of:

1. Many of his most fervent followers fleeing the country in February or September 2022.

2. His team being useless and consisting of people of very questionable loyalty (the question remains why he let them all in), and in many cases under their own brands.

3. Overall switch from the anti-corruption discourse towards different set of topics, such as war, etc - where he does not have much relevance.

4. Him being AFK (not to blame him for that).

5. His organization FBK now resides abroad, burning grant money and not doing anything useful for Russian residents.
C++ std::optional is not an error type. It's a (slower, bigger, less capable) Option.

The C++ type intended to be similar to Rust's Result is std::expected
Show HN: Summify.io now summarise YouTube videos from 20 languages
The Earth will be just fine without humans.
Impertinent Questions with Kristine Harper (2008)
As a meteorologist for the United States Navy for more than twenty years, Kristine Harper is distinctly qualified to talk about the weather.
Thanks Nico. I'll give this a try!
So you must like detective fiction, eh?

You’ve won me over and to your point you can have a Fr. Brown (1950s Catholic priest detective) and a Dexter (blood splatter analysis turned serial killer).

Now of course the basic premise is always the same good (but conflicted) guy sees bad thing done, investigates, finds bad guys and reconciles one small aspect of world and maybe one small aspect of self discovery.

Heck, most shows have this arc now that I think about it from Sherlock to dr house to those criminal lawyer/police shows.
> The surest way to sabotage a standard is to say yes to everything.

I like that quote. And with the current high frequency of new standard releases the probability for this is even higher. Maybe they should slow down and take more time.
Finally, well deserved. Now just waiting for Wile E. Coyote and Tom.
It was perfectly obvious that I was talking about functioning CPUs.

But sure congratulations on winning your imaginary argument
I believe you. But try selling that to management. And when the language isn't used for any of the other software maintained by the company and nobody is going to be given time to learn it to keep the knowledge in-house... forget it.
I did not… it seemed wildly high to me too.

But I checked and got second sources that matched close. So I rounded down from 5670mg/kg to a more easily to do mental math with 5500mg/kg.

It turns out the amount of lead required to kill you directly from lead poisoning is… quite a lot! But that’s kill you… your probably going to have some other lead poisoning related health problems well before that.

Edit: Re googling one of my references.

“LD50 for lead 4665 mg/kg of bodyweight in males and 5610 mg/kg of body weight in females.” from
https://www.aatbio.com/resources/faq-frequently-asked-questi...
I've been using three profiles for some time now and it works great.

One is a profile that I exclusively run in a Linux network namespace, where all traffic is routed over a wireguard VPN. A shellscript sets up the namespace, connects to a randomly selected VPN server, sets up routing and launches the Firefox profile in that namespace. That shell script is launched through a custom key shortcut.

The "normal profile" does not have many anti-tracking measures and privacy extensions enabled. I use this one for online banking or other personal activities which I don't want to route over a VPN. It's also synced with my phone.

A third profile is restricted to certain websites. It's pretty much a default Firefox, except for ublock. ublock filters ensure that only selected websites can be browsed in this profile. This profile does not clear cookies on exit etc. I use mainly it for web apps that require login.
The common expression would be "a quantum leap". Which has nothing to do with the "size" of a quantum, but suggests a massive (technological) improvement and increase in capabilities - like going from a normal binary computer to a quantum computer.
It's a classic Gish-gallop. Throw as many diagrams and vaguely plausible sounding arguments at the reader as possible and maybe one of them will stick.

In the meantime it takes far more time to convincingly debunk than it does to generate because of the sheer volume of disparate arguments that need to be countered.
Show HN: Salami – declare your cloud infrastructure with natural language
Hi HN!

Salami is an open-source DSL that lets you declare Terraform-style configurations with natural language. The compiler uses LLM (currently GPT-4) to convert natural language into Terraform code.

This project's main motivation was to better integrate LLMs into the developer workflow. Salami makes it easier to program in natural language without switching and copy-pasting. It’s also more accurate than GPT-4 alone, as it can catch errors and generate code that is more likely to be correct.

The GitHub repo has several examples you can easily run. I also wrote a blog post and recorded a short demo video.

Blog post: https://www.petrgazarov.com/posts/infrastructure-as-natural-...
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej629E0WOIY

Thanks for checking it out!
Metal was released on the same year as Swift, could have been a way to show off Swift, instead used Objective-C with Swift bindings.
You are only seeing what Twitter's current front-end is showing you: a random assortment of old/"best-of" tweets.

Enter through an alternative front-end (https://nitter.com/SlackStatus) and you should see more status from this year.
The Songtradr press release says "we have acquired Bandcamp" - which to my ears sounds like "we have taken ownership of the company registration" (in UK terms). In which case TUPE would apply, if they were Bandcamp employees. Even if Bandcamp was dissolved as a company, I suspect there would be a case for TUPE seeing as the acquisition happened so soon after the dissolution.

If they were Epic, not Bandcamp, employees then Songtradr would be within their rights to proceed as they have. But Epic would have had to go through a redundancy process (including explaining why it's happening, detailing the alternative tactics they have explored and trying to find other roles within the organisation for the affected employees).

Of course, it's all immaterial as UK law doesn't apply (and I only took a short qualification in it so I know it's fiendishly complex anyway).

EDITED to remove information I had included in the original post
I think it's antithetical to the philosophy of arxiv in the first place. It's a preprint service. Adding a review process would make it... a journal. Arxiv being impartial to the content it publishes is one of its' greatest strengths.
Ecstacy can have great therapeutic and profound effects...

It's not that surprising that if you only use it to "rave for hours" and "open the door for other chemical drugs", then you'll find it a "recreational and hedonistic substance". That's practically a tautology.
You do know his political stance, right? https://twitter.com/krides/status/1509841011295592450 Do you also have huge respect for Prigozhin for flying back to Moscow after agreeing to stop the revolt? Same energy.
So, except Putin, all others are either dead or rendered inoffensive and likely be killed as well after the public forgets about them.
Nice to see this - also, looks like one of the primary authors is jbetker, who built the best open source TTS model that I've seen yet (TorToiSe):

https://nonint.com/2023/09/23/dall-e-3/

https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
> But hey, Bitcoin can also be used for CSAM, unlike VPNs, Tor, or cash, which is why the HN cognoscenti condemns it.

Straw man much?
After reading research about this a few months ago, I made

https://ketamine.games

It's totally free, private, with no tracking analytics, and many Reddit users have reported increased success using.
I've done quite a bit of LSD, mushrooms less so, and then some assorted other stuff.
Works like a charm on my mac (intel)

Been in analytics in fintech scale-ups for the past 5 years. Been there, done that for financial or regulators reporting with manual SQL archeology across snapshots
a brave wheen
BlackSuit ransomware group claimed the Government of Brazil cyberattack. It is not clear if the hackers communicated with the officials of the Government of Brazil about ransom demands.
I can agree there, though I think the need for religion is a very interesting debate. It might be innate, but it does make me wonder.
Your point about hypocrisy may be valid, but it doesn't seem fair to imply the new behavior is to give the user an option to pay creators. That already existed. The new behavior is removing the option to block advertisements.
On top of that, the guy is literally a racist, if anyone cares to explore his past. But he’s all hero these days, because he wants to be in charge of Russian regime instead of Putin. He’s portrayed as a fighter for freedom, while actually right now, any Ukrainian soldier does more to protect the values of democracy. By literally fighting tooth and nail for it. But nobody seems to care about a Ukrainian soldier as much as they care about just one person from Russia, isn’t it?
You read some writing by some "ancient" people (post writing 'ancient it seems) and you're launching into broad sweeping generalisations about all "ancient people" ?

Wow.

Meanwhile, I've travelled a lot for work - mostly to odd corners of the world, and I've yet to meet people that didn't have stories about animals and animal behaviours.

Famously, for example, Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories are largely about animals, Tiddalick the Frog, Emu and the Jabiru, etc.

They encapsulate the place of animals in the environment, and as hunter gatherers attuned to where next years meal will come from, attention is paid to breeding and caring for the young so that there are full grown adults to breed again and to eat.

Rightly or wrongly the stories are about the imagined feelings of animals, the things that make them happy and plentiful, the bad things that cause numbers to dwindle.

Various people had various relationships with various animals, not as "pets" but as other beings in the world.

For example: Ngarritj - the Yolngu speaking bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSxc6Y1aVA
Embedding fonts isn't really great for SVG exports; either you link to the fonts, in which case the SVGs only load correctly when the user has the font locally or is online, and the CDN is still running; or else you embed them as base 64, which makes the image very large.

We do the base 64 route for tldraw, which is sort of the best of all bad options. I'd like to someday add more export options so that a creator could host the fonts themselves on the same site where the SVG is shown.
So your evidence is the first result of Google. Thanks for proving my point.
I think you're still attributing more effort than is actually necessary to sideline your protection from encryption.

Telegram supports open source and third party clients, so if you wanted the benefits of E2EE with a popular chat network then that's a better way to go. Custom clients on the telegram network.

It is best is to use something like Element/Matrix though, for sure. But if you're trading UX for convenience then materially the difference really is a lot smaller than you imply.
British submarine HMS Thistle found nearly 83 years after WWII battle
What value do you get from YouTube Premium that I don't get from using my ad blocker while browsing YouTube for free? (I also get 1080p videos on my phone with a safari extension.)
Show HN: Open-Source TypeSafe Feature Flags for Next.js
If the stories are true the most powerful demon of all, the infamous Teq Thuk, could posses a mind in mere seconds. They did not stand a chance.
It can be great for party setting but I recommend doing it in the safe environment with family, friends at home or in nature. The feeling of deeper connection with people or nature you already have connection with is revealing. I felt love I knew in even more direct and pure way.
I remember using line-oriented editors, maybe pre-vi. maybe ed, though I vaguely recall something else. I don't remember sam however.
Don’t join a fucking startup if you can’t handle it shutting down at any given moment.

If you want employment stability join a profitable company or the federal government.

> That'd be a win/win, except for the leadership who would rather gamble using other peoples chips but keep most of the winnings.

It’s a startup! You’re there to try to make the options work out as an employee as well. I would 100% rather ride to the end with any chance that it will take off.

They failed to get a loan in time, it’s not like they knew it was a fantasy that could never work out. They had a viable business and got caught in counter-party risk.
I don't know much about those guys but it seems like what they do: You send your free source code with all the engineering work already done to china so they manufacture it and by the way if it works they can take it, modify and close the derivatives like they have done with quadcopters and 3d printers.

It looks like a brilliant idea(for them).
I think many people are stuck in the cash mindset so it seems okay to them that they pay 2-3% in fees for an electric transfer. Where transporting $100 million and $1 would cost the same I don't understand the percentage fees. This includes credit card processor fees etc. A lot of you I feel sort of have Stockholm syndrome when it comes to stuff like this specially in the US. A lot of this stuff requires government intervention I think as it is impossible for any startup to bring about disruption. In Asian countries where credit cards were not that prevalent new processing systems have brought down the prices to 0.5%-1% which I still think is too high.
No, he's someone who is being detained just to make a point and discourage others. Had he really known something of vital importance about the US or any other allied country national security, he'd have been tortured 5 minutes after his arrest.
I think you have it the other way around. Elixir is built on top of Erlang, no? So if it runs Elixir it can run Erlang in the same way React can run JavaScript, but not necessarily the other way around.
Been quite happy with PDM last 6 months, that's pretty fast, how does this stack up?
It previously worked till Netflix decided Apple shouldn't see Netflix library or usage and pulled it.

It sort of worked with the app..

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/netflix-apple-tv-app/

Then with TV+ it didn't...

https://bgr.com/business/netflix-apple-tv-new-service/

Of course, now most smart TVs fingerprint what's on screen and sell that data so the data is out there.

Meanwhile, here's who plays (literally) nicely:

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT208083

The 'channel' subs are most seamless, but heads up Apple doesn't let 'channels' list some of their less family oriented content while apps can.
Scaling to 15000 Functions and Beyond
Russian regime is strangely obsessed with following some procedure and complying to some law, even if it sounds like a joke. In this case they just found the way to legally stop publication of his statements and what they say is true if you accept their narrative as a whole. Still it is just propaganda and lie, because it is based on highly illegal (unconstitutional) foundation. The laws that they passed, the judicial process - everything is rotten to the roots.
> Still, people tend to value their life higher than their relevance

That's exactly what sets rare individuals like Navalny apart: that what they believe in, what they stand for, weighs heavier than their personal well-being.
I think it undermines the rule of law, and probably respect for authority.
Sure, but what are the majority of their customers going to do? X is an unstable platform that confuses most users, never mind the moderation problems.

Would be nice if they were adding a Mastodon account, but I can't blame any company that chooses to retire Twitter presence at this point.
It's also unfortunately kind of broken (or it was last time I used it)
I actually love polishing but not writing tests unless it’s with cypress.
Even YouTube employees use uBlock Origin: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1714815061326237703