skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s worthless in the near term for labor rights issues with regard to action in Congress. We can barely keep the government functioning from a funding perspective. Republicans and the US chamber of commerce will keep trying to grind workers and their attempts at getting agency.

The NLRB continues to enact pro union and worker policy; that is the lever to apply maximum force with until representative turnover in Congress can occur.

I repeat myself for emphasis: workers must organize, and failing that, quit to starve the business or industry of labor (depending on their means, location, other potential employment opportunities, etc). Otherwise the beatings will continue as long as the workers keep showing up (as this very piece the post is referencing describes). I see no other options, having worked back from first principles and systems analysis. If the economy or its subcomponents must be pushed towards failure, that is reasonable. Just as in tech workplaces where dysfunctional business systems continue to function due to unseen (sometimes Herculean) effort, if you allow the dysfunction to occur, no change will be made. You either let the system fail, or you push it to failure.

Examples:

https://news.yahoo.com/entire-police-department-quit-over-10... ("An entire police department quit over $22-an-hour pay, saying there is 'zero incentive' to work there")

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1211632901/schools-across-the... ("Many school districts around the U.S. are moving to a four-day school week to retain teachers. Districts that don't want to raise taxes to pay teachers more are using the long weekend as an incentive.")

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-districts-4-day-week-tea... ("Nearly 900 school districts in the United States currently use a four-day weekly academic schedule. That number rose from 650 districts in 2020 to 876 districts, across 26 states, in 2023. While smaller, rural districts have been more likely to favor the schedule, larger districts are now shortening their school weeks in an effort to recruit and retain teachers. It's a selling point in an era when schools are facing a national teacher shortage.")

https://www.deseret.com/2023/5/3/23709769/one-third-us-nurse... ("30% of the nurses are planning to quit their career, which is 7 percentage points over the 2021 percentage")

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1207991399/4-four-day-work-we... ("A manufacturer tried the 4-day workweek for 5 days' pay and won't go back")

TLDR There is no labor shortage. There is a shortage of labor willing to take the abuse they historically have.
It’s not unusual for Preppers to store a year of food or more for the entire family. That absolutely would make the difference in surviving even a many year famine.

The idea that storing large amounts of food to prepare for shortages is useless is a really silly concept considering how widespread it is amongst humans and many other mammals.
Interestingly, 37 also shows up in the Optimal Stopping / Secretary Problem.
Taiwan's Most Pressing Challenge Is Strangulation, Not Invasion
I was going to comment, but you've done it for me. Your additional advice is spot on. But I actually think, "do whatever you like, the web is designed to be flexible".

The most crucial (half made) point here is that if you want your website to be useable beyond the output, document it ... include comments, make your reasoning explicit and not implied. And yeah, a repo is probably a great place for this. It doesn't even need to be linked on the visible part of your site (I mean, who's the primary audience here), just do the old "we're hiring " trick and print a link to the site's GH in the console. The docs will probably solve a few problems for you too when you need to change things down the line (I constantly read and improve my own comments during refactors, and usually kick myself when I haven't made them).
Bodhi User here. Yes, can be used with tiny resources. But runs as well on a fat machine. Pleasant experience.
I love how each of the decks being a proper computer made this much easier to pull off. Like, driving a display in a dummy device would probably get you the same effect, and take longer. But that's likely the route a third-party production company would take.
Maybe Costco caught up with this. I can't find it on their web site (at least in the US.)

All I see is the "Extreme Go" which I presume is a different product.
Keep Cup almost had it right with a reusable coffee cup that came in standard cafe sizes. Too bad the cups themselves weren’t very good and getting replacement parts was very difficult.
My Case for Go
Close, but there's slightly more to it that. In this case the government that gave Apple permission was Ireland, but the issue is whether by doing so the Irish government is in violation of an EU treaty that EU countries can't offer subsidies to companies selectively (typically to avoid them subsidising companies from their own country at the expense of companies from other EU countries). The tricky bit is that control over taxation is not included in any EU treaty (i.e. it remains a national competence and countries are free to set their own taxation policy, which is perfectly reasonable). This case hinges on the question as to whether the tax break given to Apple was also available to other companies (which would be fine), or whether they were given some kind of special treatment. The reason Ireland is fighting the case is that in the long term they (and many other EU countries) do not want to cede any power to the EU regarding tax policy, either directly as part of a new EU taxation treaty or via the backdoor through court cases such as this.
I think the recommendation to use tailwind and avoid build steps and incompatible.
Yes, that would help. But the ultimate goal is less single-use cups. Places like Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. are missing a marketing opportunity.
Yes, there's us over at https://garden.io! We're big believers in pipelines that run anywhere. I even made a short little video that should give you the gist. [1]

Some of the short-list of differences: we use YAML for our configuration language, Dagger can use full-fat languages to define its pipelines. Our feature scope is broader: you can use us to vend IDP-like stacks to your developers if you're a Platform Team; we make development with remote Kubernetes clusters very easy, including all the remote image builds; and we have a number of integrations so you can bring your IaC tool of choice (Pulumi, Terraform) into your pipeline and set up service -> infra dependencies.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnan6s2cDg
Language design and compiler engineering is about tackling progressively smaller niche cases, as the prior ones are addressed. One can draw a line in the sand and say "I'm done, the next niche use case is too niche and the added maintenance burden isn't worth it", but where that line is drawn is different for different products.
South Africa's 'Too White' Farms May Lose EU, UK Access
The rolling shutter compensation is pretty cool and isn't something I would have thought of. Did you know that would be an issue from the start or notice it only after you built the rest of the system?
> The closest I've every been to a British bank, was getting a Curve credit card, where they wanted a picture of me and my passport. Which imo. Was hilarious and must be way to easy to forge.

Yep, and this is standard operating procedure at pretty much every bank in the UK, and they wonder why they have to spend so much money on mitigating financial crime (not to mention employing people to review pictures of customers full time)...
Which company sells the Linux laptop with the best DSP?
Threads are of course appropriate to implement high-level concurrency and parallelism. But for fine-grained parallelism, they are unwieldy and have high overhead.

Spreading an algorithm across multiple threads makes it more difficult for an optimizing compiler to find opportunities for SIMD optimization.

Similarly to how modern languages make it easier to safely use threads, runtimes also make it easier to take advantage of SIMD optimizations. For example, recently a SIMD-optimized sorting algorithm was included in OpenJDK. Apart from that, SIMD is way less brittle at runtime than GPUs and other accelerators.
https://imgur.com/a/9ivrF6A
So Coke had a similar auction thing and I quickly realized that the top prizes could be nabbed for cheap because it would take people forever to collect enough ringpulls and mail them in so they could bid on things. So my friends and I cleared the entire CITY of Coca-Cola. Every grocery store. Pallets of it.

This was just one de-ringpulling session of about 800 cans here:

https://imgur.com/a/kE0djNt

This is what happened next though... (spoiler: I didn't get my merch)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36989718
I'm not sure I understand which party is which in your description. We have two spendy parties. One who claims to want to cut spending, but refuses to raise taxes. And another that will raise taxes to cover their spending, but mostly only for certain types of wealthy people.
We can change the incentives of these game makers/designers, through the legal system.
As an example, Paypal and credit card companies offer charge backs.
What if you could charge back for all the money spent on a game, at the cost of getting your account/IP banned and being forced to uninstall the app?
If the 400,000$ the whale spent got returned to them, they would be made whole. It's not like alcohol or tobacco where you've physically consumed resources. You are undoing access to digital resources and returning those to the company in exchange for all the money the player spent.
What makes pie menus more self-revealing than any other type of menu? Isn't it just a menu in a circle instead of a straight line?
The interesting thing is that this feels like a thing that it would be extremely hard to know, and yet we found a way to show it to be true.

Many much simpler and more intuitive statements about primes and their distribution are beyond the grasp of modern math to prove or disprove.
If I ask ChatGPT "is the sky blue?" it replies "Yes, the sky is often seen as blue during the day, particularly on clear days." How does it verify this? It cannot. There is no chain of reasoning by which the LLM can verify this statement. All it can do is defer to others. In other words, the utterances of ChatGPT are entirely hearsay.
> The easiest solution would be to . . .

That doesn't meet the goal of amnesty.

Before the footage is made available, the people holding that footage have leverage.

Once they share it somehow, the leverage is gone and it's unlikely that they'd be given amnesty. In fact, the act of sharing the footage has some nonzero chance of revealing people . . .
This is the biggest pain-point of the language. We need a solution.
This is just... nonsense. You need to get around a bit more if you don't think the quality of life in Ireland is high in comparison to most places in the world.
Ugh, must we relate every thread about integer fascination back to Zerry/Unny zealotry? It’s been going on for centuries now, nobody’s changing their opinion at this point.
While I’m sure you think that is a gotcha… Alumina is not the same as Aluminum, but I count them as the same thing for the purpose of creating aluninum. Clearly not everyone does.

Find a chart that shows Russia making more alumina that anyone, you won’t find it. Best case, you’ll find Iceland making it, but the unwritten subtext will be Chinese factories and loaded on to Chinese ships.
Memento mori.

Mars will not save our species. Everything is finite, even the sun.
> and yet Greenland is gaining ice

Your first link doesn’t seem to show this. It shows that the rate of loss has slowed over the past few years, but it’s still losing mass every year.
I actually gave this advice to a woman recently who was trying to get her images removed from Reddit. They weren't sexual enough for Reddit to remove the images her ex was posting, so I told her to just DMCA them all. Not ideal, but there you have it.
It was disastrously successful to the point where 'hoover' has been synonymous with 'vaccuum cleaner' ever since over here!
I got interested in how it works in the UK, and I went looking for how one could log into government services. First I found the discountinued verified id system, and then the new gov.uk one login system. Which based on my understanding of them, both are eID systems. Limited in scope compared to systems that integrate with non governmental systems, but still eID systems.
It wasn't negligence.

Internal emails were found during discovery explicitly describing their strategy of keeping the coffee that hot so that fewer customers would avail of the free refills, because by the time it had cooled enough to comfortably drink the majority of customers would leave the store.
> "Not that complex"

Even if you have a fully static website you generally have a navigation bar and footer that needs to be on multiple pages.

Things don't need to get very complex to benefit from frameworks and tooling.
The RSS feed for it here appears to work: https://www.latent.space/feed
Technically, I can't imagine how this could be implemented. In the worst case, it would mean that everybody caring for privacy would use alternative builds. But realistically, a week after publishing the first browser with this kind of hostile certificate, we would have several hacks on how to disable it. It simply makes no sense at all.
It's not my opinion, it's the standard philosophical account of knowledge [1]. Do you have any examples of "experts" whose basic knowledge would be precluded by this definition?

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#KnowJ...
Banks can and do loan out more money than they have on deposit; they borrow from the central bank in their jurisdiction when required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
The ports of Sydney and Melbourne have been shutdown over the weekend as part of pro-Palestinian rallies. I wonder if this could be related.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/pro-palestine-protesters-g...

HelpfulContrib stated the same, but was either downvoted to oblivion or removed his post.
If it was truly this kind of naive progression, things sound pretty simple.

However, we both know reality tends to be more complex than that.

For example, a company with vastly more experience doing engine tests (etc) should also have vastly more experience designing safe testing processes and procedures. To the point where they may eliminate injuries completely. ;)

So saying worker injuries are acceptable due to the output quantity of stuff still seems like an excuse for poor workplace practises.

If they double their output of stuff, are you ok with them increasing the number of worker injuries rather than figuring out how to reduce or eliminate the injuries?
Modern Medicine Traces Its Scientific Roots to the Middle Ages
Reminds me of "move 37" made by Alpha Go:

> Michael Redmond noted that AlphaGo's 19th stone (move 37) was "creative" and "unique". It was a move that no human would've ever made Lee took an unusually long time to respond to the move. An Younggil called AlphaGo's move 37 "a rare and intriguing shoulder hit" but said Lee's counter was "exquisite". He stated that control passed between the players several times before the endgame, and especially praised AlphaGo's moves 151, 157, and 159, calling them "brilliant".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
Website for Reviewing Custom GPTs
Hey HN,

just started a review site for custom GPTs for different use cases. I figured that since custom GPTs were so easy to create, there'd soon be 100s of them for each use case, each with comparable performance, so a review site might be useful. What do you think? Can you see these types of articles providing value?
Much of what I read in this article is outright illegal in many parts of the world.

American leadership? Nope.
Hearthstone helped me get over my regret about selling all my Magic: the Gathering cards. I played Magic on the school bus in the 90s, had a lot of fun trading and making decks, and eventually sold it all because I didn't make the effort to find people to play with.

Hearthstone lowered that barrier significantly, and I still consider it an excellent game, aside from the predatory/monetary trappings. I might still play it if it could be done with real magic at my dinner table with friends, for a one-time flat fee or for the caloric cost to summon all the components, assuming some reasonable magic system.

As it is now, I like playing Cribbage with my wife, and am looking forward to teaching our daughter how to play Chess, Go, Backgammon, Arimaa, and any other game that isn't packaged in a predatory wrap.
Porsche Open Source Platform
I'm not sure that's always the case — we don't expect assembly to be a high-level language after all! The more specific and batteries-included the browser becomes, the harder it is to go off the beaten track. My standard example here is date pickers — theoretically it's just a simple component, and yet there is no one-size-fits-all option. What works for booking an appointment won't work as well for putting in a date of birth. What works for a date of birth won't work if you're trying to book a set of nights in a hotel. You might want to include prices for individual days directly in the date picker. You might want to show which days are valid and which aren't. You might want to show several months, you might want to show just a week.

I don't necessarily disagree that more components in browsers is a bad thing (I've been very happy to use the new modal element, for example), but I think the browser is working better right now as a lower-level (albeit still fairly high-level) platform that allows people to build a variety of documents and applications on top.
I should point out that I'm not the first person to use camera tracking for this [1], but to my knowledge there hasn't previously been a serious attempt to combine it with inertial or pressure sensors (which are both necessary for competing with graphics tablets) or make it open-source.

[1] http://media.ee.ntu.edu.tw/research/DodecaPen/
> Libinput, for example, has a hardware database to correctly handle or work around quirks for all sorts of input hardware.

As a complete aside unrelated to the broader discussion, libinput is my nemesis and it has degraded my user experience of Linux.

I hate, hatehatehatehate one finger tap to click. It's a huge misclick generator, and libinput used to have it off by default for good reason.

However, libinput gates all actually useful and not very error-prone gestures like two and three finger taps to right and middle click and multifinger swipes behind having one finger tap to click enabled. You either take it all or you get nothing.

This is a huge regression from the old Synaptics interface which let the user freely assign different actions to taps with different amounts of fingers.

The worst is that it's completely intentional and has been the case for over five years because the old maintainer didn't want to write tests.
I fundamentally disagree - it's like "all you need is an MBA and you can run anything"

If we think of management as "coach / therapist" (ie the eight rules of google management" then yeah, the goal of management is to take a team of high performers and help them not to implode. But I don't see that as "management"

I think there are better definitions
I found it pretty compelling, despite knowing the outcome for years. Then again, I never watched tiger king, so this style of documentary was fresher to me.
Don’t the ships have a kilometre wide sonar scan? Therefore traveling 1 kilometre counts as scanning 1 kilometre squared.
Tim Cook has a choice, Apple actually started doing that right after Steve Jobs passed away. Steve categorically refused to do that kind of stuff precisely because of those problems.
Tim Cook also has a vested interest in lining his own pockets, he has targets that are about revenue and profits, not user experience and customer satisfaction. So, he maximise his own benefit and this is what we get.

People who pretend Apple wasn't different under Job are magnificent gaslighters and should not be taken seriously about anything really...
17 is well known as the most random number between 1 and 20.
> and is an integer

How could a median prime factor not be an integer?
A very happy user of this. I mainly use it's vimium like feature. And, the author is very responsive on github.
At last, someone actually talking sense on this thread.
> In contrast, if my government was the only bank I could use, they could debank me entirely and totally fuck me.

Digital government ID doesn't make the government into a bank. It also doesn't confer any powers that they don't already exercise through your physical government ID. Most countries already require some form of government ID in order to open a bank account, presumably they already blacklist these.
Documentation:

https://www.bsi.bund.de/dok/TR-03130
https://www.bsi.bund.de/dok/TR-03124

The individual specification PDFs are in English.
Surely this third party abroad will not alter stored footage with some hidden and pranky details..
Redshift Research Project: Single Page System Table Diff
I have finally created a single-page diff between system tables of Redshift versions.

It's crude, I need to sit down a make a nice UI, but it's one day of work and it's information available nowhere else.

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/system_table_tracker/index.html

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/system_table_tracker/1.0.59117_to_1.0.59596/one_page_diff.html
Would a BGB config cause phones not to connect to the cell towers?
I love maintaining and cleaning up code (I will insist on cleaning up according to my taste even if it already works fine in production, just like when I carve the turkey I eat some crispy and fatty pieces hot from the oven) It takes a great weight off my short term memory and ADD that I know that the code already worked, so if it stops working, I did it, recently.

But here's the thing, hot-shot devs, and hot-shot dev wannabes look down on maintenance; and humans are social creatures, me included. So I'm not going to do a job for you that you look down on, unless you carry me in (and out) on a sedan chair.

Same for writing doc, I'm good at it and enoy it, but there's no pleasure in doing something that other people don't really value.
One other special property prime numbers can have is being irregular. And guess what the first irregular prime number is? 37. Interesting that it appears so late because irregular prime numbers do make up around 41% of all primes. See: https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Irregular_prime_number#:....

So the most interesting prime number really depends on what you consider more interesting. If you prefer the median second prime factor, then 37 is the best, but if you prefer the first irregular prime number then 37 is also the best. So it all depends on your perspective.

Another reason to like 37 is that it ends in a 7 so that it "sounds random" when someone asks for a number and it is better than 27 because it is prime. 7 is too low and 17 has connotations with bad luck. Although 37 is quite scary too: it's not just prime, which is pretty irregular, but it's also an irregular prime.
Pretty short sighted to turn a CAS platform into a standoff platform. These need to be distinct platforms for cost efficiency. Standoff weapons are expensive. CAS should be plentiful, cheap, and easy to manufacture.

btw, not a military expert, just a random guy on the internet who watched two wars where CAS was a problem once the skies were settled.