skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How have the labor trends shifted in the last 50, 100 years?

Labor intensive jobs(also calorie intensive) are down. Even the jobs that remain have more of the physical demands taken out i.e. using an airgun to frame up a house instead of a hammer.
And so do dried herbs and spices. I wonder how the levels compare.

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb...
Both Meta and Uber have a much better claim and progress towards being an everything app.
Boston was founded in 1615, and the US declared independence in 1776. A colony will depend on the mother country / planet for quite some time, but has a chance to become materially independent in 150+ years, too.

I'm not saying that this desire is rational, or that the result would be a libertarian utopia, etc. But "all progress depends on the unreasonable man", as history also shows time and time again.
If I stop posting to Hacker News please contact my family.
I'm curious how people approach big red buttons and intentional graceful degradation in practice, and especially how to ensure that these work when the system is experiencing problems.

E.g. do you use db-based "feature flags"? What do you do then if the DB itself is overloaded, or the API through which you access the DB?
Or do you use static startup flags (e.g. env variables)? How do you ensure these get rolled out quickly enough?
Something else entirely?
>I don't take the "kill spray" approach to interviewing

Sadly this is the only option nowadays if you seriously want a job. Instead of the interviewee being picky and only selecting the jobs they think nicely fit their personality, the right approach is to just apply to all jobs that fit your skill set. Interviewing is a skill that you have to practice, and the best practice is by just doing a lot of real interviews. A good strategy is to front-load the companies you are not very excited about, practice on them and if you get turned down it doesn't matter. Then when you get to the companies you are actually interested in you will have had lots of practice interviewing and have better odds.

At the end you'll hopefully be left with a few offers and you can decide if you want to actually work at any of those companies. If you don't then just politely turn them down and keep interviewing at more companies. It also helps to have offers in hand from other companies when applying at new companies, you'll get better/faster treatment because they know you have a deadline.
Massive receptive AI audience.

The papers published on GitHub are typically presented in a much more accessible and beautiful way than arXiv.

The downstream social traction is further signal and affirmation for your results, lab, and/or company.
I think it’s deeply rooted, but only a problem because we live such safe lives.

It started as a deeply rooted necessity. If you want to get through a winter that you don’t know the severity of, you better have above-average stocks of food and wood, plus stuff to repair your home if a severe storm strikes, plus extra winter clothing in case the winter is truly severe or your house burns down, and you’ve got to flee to your family, a few days walking away.
I don’t think HN is the place for arguing gender politics. Pregnant people is as or more accurate than pregnant women.
Not remarkable enough to land a post doc and stay in academia. But thank you :)
That's why I specifically mentioned it's not binding, and I agree that if it were directly cited as a source in a court case, that would probably be bad.

That said, I think it's perfectly useful to demonstrate the possible intent of the founders. Even if you can't directly cite a law out of it, it can still be useful as a tool to figure out what the founders were going for.
It should be labeled the 'Star Trek Away Team' effect.
Even in the US, "IRA" commonly means "Individual Retirement Account" … which of course makes no sense in context. (Or, the IRA you're thinking of, too, isn't that unfamiliar.)

Even the correct expansion, "Inflation Reduction Act" … doesn't really seem to fit.
I can only guess at motivations but I would think that when targeting security researchers you’d aim to not have persistence since that would make require leaving evidence of infection on the device.
Does cannabis concentrate heavy metals itself?

I can't endorsed this source, but there are plenty of others https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-cannabis-heavy-metals...
Related, if you're ever in Philadelphia, I suggest visiting, eastern state penitentiary, the first penitentiary in America. For many years, everyone was basically in solitary confinement. Very sobering place.
> I wonder who payed for the first production run.

Are you suggesting the kid pay for it himself?
I think by now the most efficient social media would be an endless doom scroll with sub 5 second videos that the viewer gets to like or dislike to train the algorithm.

No thinking, just flashing lights straight into the brain.

I'm sure this is what the kids will be watching in 2-10 years. Total mindless entertainment. I'd develop it myself and get rich, if I didn't have a conscience.
Yeah I've found GPT-4 to be surprisingly good at recipes. I think that's because it's effectively serving up the "average" recipe for anything you ask it for, based on everything it's scraped from the internet... which usually ends up being a good recipe.

I love being able to challenge it with "and now make it vegan" etc to see what it comes up with.

This is also another example of the thing where having a randomly unreliable teacher is actually quite useful if you're trying to learn to cook - because it forces you to question what it tells you, apply your own intuition and think carefully about what worked and what didn't.
I would rather have 10 M series and take the rest of the area for cache.
> Community Notes corrects for atleast factual claims right away.

No, it doesn't. It's vote-based; enough people have to vote that it's a helpful vote for it to appear. That can take hours/days/weeks.
Using electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water is, to use your phrase "a known quantity and doesn't need to be repeated for every new study in the field". In other words, that process is real and "passes physics".

If, on the other hand, we propose to use electrolysis to generate liquid hydrogen to use as fuel, the ENTIRE PROCESS has to pass physics.

It does not.

Why?

Well, it takes approximately 55 kWh of electrical energy to extract 1 kg of gaseous hydrogen from water.

Great.

However, 1 kg of gaseous hydrogen contains 40 kWh of energy.

In other words, you have to use MORE energy to extract the hydrogen than the energy it contains. This idea, at the most basic level, does not pass the physics test. It's a fantasy.

If the creation of hydrogen fuel via water electrolysis is an example of something that "doesn't pass physics" then the idiom "doesn't pass physics" obscures more than it clarifies. There is nothing physically implausible about water electrolysis. Despite the energy losses, water electrolysis to produce hydrogen fuel may be better than the alternatives; for example, you can launch a rocket to orbit with hydrogen fuel but you can't do that with electricity. If "doesn't pass physics" is supposed to be shorthand for economic implausibility relative to alternatives, just make the economic argument instead of referring to physics.
> The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto.

> The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of all four UK nations.

Wasn't expecting toilet humour from the Ars. But seriously (having never heard of Cryptosporidium myself) I was expecting this article to be about some malware which rides on the back of a new hot-garbage shitcoin.
More on infrastructure composition software is an abstraction above that.

Is the unit of composition a rack (chunk), a server (smaller chunk), or a blade (smallest chunk)? In what I think of as classic systems architecture you've got a 'store' (storage), 'state' (memory), 'threads' (computation), and 'interconnect' (fabrics). In the 90's a lot of folks focused on fabrics (Cray, Connection Machine, Sun, etc) somewhat on threads (compute blades), and state came along for the ride. How these systems were composed was always a big thing, then along came the first Beowulf clusters that used off the shelf motherboards (a "chunk" of threads/state/store) with a generic fabric (Ethernet). Originally NASA showed that you could do some highly parallel processing on these sorts of systems and Larry and Sergei at Stanford applied it to the process of internet search.

Collectively you have a 'system resource' and with software you can make it look like anything you want. When you do compute with it, its performance becomes a function of its systems balance and the demands of the workload. Its all computer sciencey and yes there is a calculus to it. This isn't something that most people dive into (or are even interested in[1]) but it was one of the things that captured my imagination early on as an engineer. I was consumed with questions like what was the difference between a microprocessor, a mini-computer, a workstation, and a mainframe? Why do they each exist? What does one do that they other can't? Things like that.

[1] At Google I worked in what they called 'Platforms' early on and clearly most of the company didn't really care about the ins and outs of the systems bigtable/gfs/spanner/etc ran on, they just wanted APIs to call. But they also didn't care about utilization or costs. By the time I left some folks had just figured out (and one guy was building his career on) the fact that utilization directly affected operational costs. They still hadn't started thinking about non-uniform rack configurations for different workloads.
> even the notorious probability of precipitation

Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what you're saying but when it says "30% chance" what it is actually saying is "there's a 100% chance of rain in 30% of the coverage area".

Not sure if that makes it more or less accurate.
Hm well you may be right there, I admit I was mostly thinking about person-to-person engagement than twitter timelines.
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Note: Search by just topic/keywords, e.g. "Kingdom of Heaven", for broader results!
I studied Structured Analysis at university and still have a couple of books on the subject, but I never used it professionally.

I had a lot more experience with UML, but that too has gone out of fashion.

Nobody models anything anymore, not even ER diagrams are used.

Knowledge ends up scattered between a million tasks in some project management software. Often, things are not even written down, because "there's not enough time".
> The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of all four UK nations.

> …

> Though we don't know what's behind the UK's startling gush of cases…

What a choice of wording!
My wife consumes a lot of chocolate. She would subsist solely on chocolate if that was possible. I have no idea how much she actually consumes, but I’m never surprised to find empty chocolate chip bags in the garbage.
It's a significant amount of trees - smaller than I thought, but perhaps the largest megascale project ever attempted. ~230B trees which is ~7.6% of the global tree stock.
If you think about how it works, it's going to have a strong representation of oft-published recipes and oft-published substitutions and will be able to mash those together into plausible original recipes that are adjacent to them. Making a satisfying meal for a few people with comparatively mainstream tastes should be pretty reliable.

But the more esoteric you go, aiming for something really novel or something unusually historic/traditional/regional, or the more technical and delicate, the more it'll turn to hallucinating naive text continuations that will lead you astray. An experienced cook will know to spot the weird stuff and revise on the fly; an inexperienced one is going to end up with some... odd dishes.

It's the same as many of us see when used for code assistance. It's great at inventing "original" boilerplate which inspiration has been exhaustively covered in source material, but gets real wacky and unreliable the more you move away from that.
Surprised the author limits this to Twitter and recent history. Social media has mostly been self promotion and virtue twerking for at least a decade.
I'm an airplane owner, and I agree. If they had outlawed it, I bet the solution would have come a lot faster.
> visa applicants aren't US citizens and aren't in the US, so they don't have the same set of rights that citizens do, nor should they.

That was a strong Kool-Aid. There are universal human rights, there is no need to grant applicants USA constitutional rights to respect the former. It's a matter of decency and honesty, you are not free to infringe the privacy of others just because they weren't born in a different soil than you.

Of course, human rights are constantly abused at several degrees all over the world, but geez, at least try to be discrete about it.
Unwillingness to do this arbitrary action you've chosen isn't unwillingness to do anything positive.

As for complaining, you started it. (Unless you're claiming the article itself is useless complaining when they could do something to help the problem, but "plant a tree" is not something that could help this problem.)
According to the lead author and editor of OAuth 2.0, (who asked that is name be removed from the spec) is: "a bad protocol."

Developer Quits OAuth 2.0 Spec, Calls It 'a Bad Protocol' - https://www.wired.com/2012/07/developer-quits-oauth-2-0-spec...

"OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294959
Significantly, these will support plug-and-charge with no need to scan QR codes, swipe payment cards, or tell the machine which cable you're using.
yes, that is true, and we know several reasons for it, but it is irrelevant both to the narrow issue of whether fat cells produced in childhood derange your caloric intake regulatory homeostasis thereafter, and to the broader issue of why there's an obesity pandemic
Cruise just needs to move to flying airplanes. With all the anti-GA and anti-airport astroturfers there will be no one to fly them for their vacations.

People just can't see the end result of their ideologies.
Wait, so instead of a regular screen, you get an unevenly lit screen and a very bright and glary light source that’s visible right above the screen? Those sample pictures look miserable to work near.

How about a conventional display with an ambient light sensor that can adjust brightness to match the ambient conditions? Bonus points for optional automatic white point adjustment. (Many mobile devices have these features.)
> Reddit, HN, X/Twitter, Instagram, plenty of other sites have no bans on the kind of usage of multiple accounts that the Reddit founders were doing.

Reddit founders were posting, commenting and using various accounts. It all fits astroturning and sockpuppeting. Again if they wanted to just have content there is 0 reason to not disclose they are admins. They pretended it was organic for a reason.

> Some governments have proposed identity requirements on social media platforms but for reasons that have nothing to do with anything the Reddit founders did for a few weeks in 2005.

Stopping bots astrofurning (more i the political context) is a reason given both in US and UK proposals. So yeah goverments have mentioned "people pretending to be more than they are" as a reason. You can be extremely nitpicky and pretend that it doesn't cover this case, but its certainly in the intention of the law.

> you still can't name a case of someone who was harmed by what Reddit did

Every other forum that provided a similar service. From niche forums, that were gobbled up by reddit, to other digg alternatives. Reddit swallowed communities with insane growth, all predicated on fake engagement. If you make a hoodie brand and buy 10,000 followers on instagram and people think you are popular and you jump over other brands who are doing a better job, you have lied and deprived people from finding those other brands that had a better product.

> The right way to discuss this topic is to explore exactly what kind of deception was committed and who was actually harmed by it

The deception was non transparent content, predicated on the expectations of the audience, intended to portray the product as more popular than it is. This lie vulnerates the predicate of honesty of the optimal market hypothesis which is the basis of the modern market economy. The people who were harmed where thus direct competitors and future consumers because those are the intended parties of the optimal market hypothesis.
Looking forward to picking this up in March 2024.
The cycle of violence that has marred the region for decades is so unfortunate.

It escapes my mind how decision makers (on both sides) have failed to value the human cost in the past. Irrespective of the history, the current situation is not very complex: it's a one sided war where Israel is the occupier (responsible for a lot of inhumane actions), and Palestinians, represented by Hamas, are resisting by whatever means necessary (no matter inhumane e.g the Oct 7th attack). The cycle continues.

Peace is usually in the hands of the more powerful, the one who has more, and can give more. In this conflict, at present, it's Israel. Some other day, in some other place, it'll be another entity. The only way for peace to happen is 1) either the powerful decides that it want's peace and offers what it takes to achieve that, or 2) the powerful completely eliminates the other side (akin to a genocide). I don't think (2) has ever worked, or will ever work. Even if it did, I hope no human with even slightest of morals would ever think of it as a viable solution.

In the last two decades: ~15,000 including children, ~1,700 Israelis, ~13,000 Palestinians, have lost their lives [1]. Each of these lives was equally valuable.

I don't even know why I am writing this, knowing full well I may be attacked. I guess, I just hope that somewhere, slowly, seeds of peace will be planted and people will start moving towards a world which is more peaceful.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...
You're telling me that a/the solution is to do exactly what all the "burn baby burn" people are sort of saying in some sense?
> "For many (maybe even most, but I don't know the exact numbers) certified aircraft there is no legal path to get it to run on any other type of fuel."

Until recently this was true. But since September 2022, G100UL is legal and certified for "every spark ignition piston engine and every airframe using a spark ignition piston engine in the FAA’s Type Certificate database.”
Yeah it kinda feels like we're just going back to how things were before everyone decided 12-factor was the new hotness.

SQLite has its uses for sure - just not on a system that might need horizontal scaling, HA, or separate worker processes.

Sure, sure, you can duct tape a few SQLites together but then you're dealing with this

> LiteFS only allows a single node to be the primary at any given time. The primary node is the only one that can write data to the database. The other nodes are called replicas and they provide a read-only copy.

Might as well have just set up a separate DB server, less faff. At the point where you need to scale MySQL/postgres beyond vertical scaling you can probably afford to pay someone to do it for you
When you're a small company, simpler is actually better... It's best to keep it simple so that recovery is easy over building out a more complicated solution that is reliable in the average case but fragile in the limits. Even if that means there's some places on the critical path where you don't use double redundancy but as a result the system is simple enough to fit in the heads of all the maintainers and can be rebooted or reverted easily.

... But once your firm starts making guarantees like "five nines uptime," there will be some complexity necessary to devise a system that can continue to be developed and improved while maintaining those guarantees.
He's suggesting that the reason we find child-inventions impressive is because they're children doing it. "Rich manufacturing-savvy parents fund child's idea" is far more par-for-the-course.

I'd imagine it would be quite routine for children to "invent" things with such parents --- how many are tinkerers as children? A lot.
How about you guys fix your sync so that it actually does its job of syncing settings.

It is mind blowing to me that the sync does not sync:
- changes to settings
- changes to keybinds
- theme changes

For being a browser for powerusers, this is frustrating as all hell when I try to set up a new computer and find that I have to try and replicate all those changes after enabling the sync.
When I lived an hour from Boston (where a lot of Irish people with money used to send money to the Irish Republican Army) there was the joke that "Contributions to the IRA are not tax deductible" based on the double meaning such that contributions to an Individual Retirement Account are tax deductible.
I can think of many reasons not to use a Synology router, and this is one of them.

Other ones:

* Depending on your settings they broadcast an IPv6 DNS when they shouldn't. I told them about the bug and they scoffed.

* Wrong setting when you DO broadcast an IPv6 DNS with just SLAAC. They send it via DHCPv6 without setting the right bits.

* Setting up 2 networks with 2 domains, like iot.wirelessgigabit.com & home.wirelessgigabit.com does not work. They don't attach the domain to the the network. Last one wins.

* No way of redirecting traffic, like all outgoing :53 to a port. All you can do is block which breaks things like a Google Mini.

* No WireGuard VPN

* No OIDC authentication. (DSM has it but for some arcane reason you need to join the domain before OIDC works...)
I scaled Amazon's Load Generator to run on 1000s of machines
> Does it not drive the same roads as human drivers?

No, human drivers drive on roads beyond selected neighborhoods of Phoenix and San Francisco.

It is unknown how generalizable the results of the study would be beyond the conditions experienced on the roads in the areas Waymo had been deployed in. We might see significantly improved safety or we might not. But given the messaging from Waymo, the presumption would seem to be that performance would be worse in other areas/conditions.
Are you thinking "Rather than having a cook compose recipes with 1000 variations based on permutations of allergies, just produce one recipe with intended outcome, and let an AI figure out the variants"?

How do you train an AI on taste?

Would a chef state what's allowable for a recipe? "This one you can sub the soy out, but this one falls apart without it"
Something of a nit, but I thing Baronets are a bit of hybrid in that they are not peers, but it’s a hereditary title