skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693664

From 2015, so the style might have changed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695754
This is the correct way of looking at it. It's about how the thought contributes or hinders your own success/happiness.

If you were to find, empirically, that believing that you're not deserving of happiness is more likely to lead to happiness, by all means do that.

But to pose that it is an objective truth is more likely to be a justification for why you're unhappy.
A short list of maxims from an organization which depends on high-performance human teams, US Special Operations Forces, https://www.socom.mil/about/sof-truths

Humans are more important than hardware
Quality is better than quantity
Special Operations Forces cannot be mass produced
Competent Special Operations Forces cannot be created after emergencies occur
Most special operations require non-SOF support

For software development, see HN discussions which reference Mythical Man Month (1975), https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mythical%20man%20month&type=co... & the book itself (pdf): https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2018-481/readings/mythic...
I was wondering the same. Even some currently live offers in some cities suffer from the lack of riders available. The only way such a system could succeed, IMO, is if the riders can install a single app and use all the white-labeled services in a single app.
> It sucks not being able to open the glovebox directly. I don't understand why it's an electrical button on the dashboard. It makes zero sense.

Really odd decision; hard to imagine it saves more than cents off the build cost.
I’m very worried about the fact that Tesla can’t take advantage of a (huge) $7,500 tax credit because their batteries are sourced in China. (Yes, they may be sourced in a Tesla factory in China but that doesn’t matter.) It does not speak well to Tesla’s many years of US factory development that they still can’t compete with Chinese-based battery production. It puts them in a position where US competitiveness is dependent on the good graces of the Chinese government, and the Chinese government is primarily interested in the success of Chinese firms. (And ETA: obviously most other Western automakers are worse off than Tesla.)
PoB is to obtain mining power, according to the article. How would transferring BTC to Satoshi confer any kind of mining power? Or what did the person who transferred the BTC gain from it? that’s what I do not understand, what’s the benefit?
Wow this is actually more than just a C compiler... it supports numerous 6502 systems like NES, has a number of useful libraries and examples like disk i/o and many ample programs including sprite multiplexing. There are also extensive pragmas to help optimize.
Actually, this guy lives in Luhansk, active war zone in eastern Ukraine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/world/europe/in-bleak-ukr...

Perhaps most unusual about the pair is that in a war that has deeply divided Ukraine, where no one is indifferent, the two say they are neutral. Rather, the conflict is part of a landscape that emerges in rare moments, like the distant reports of artillery fire at the end of one video.

That neutrality is not a calculated stance to avoid offending viewers. It is one of faith.

“The lord Jesus Christ does not take sides, and we must strive to act in his image,” Mr. Kryukov said. “We study the Bible, and our members, we call them brothers and sisters, live in Russia and Ukraine. If we picked a side, we would become an enemy to someone. And we don’t want to be enemies with our brothers and sisters.”
Show HN: High-performance K-way merge in Go with experimental range functions
This is an implementation of the K-way merge algorithm using the experimental range functions coming in Go 1.22 in February.

I learned a lot about what is possible to do with range functions, and I'm really excited for what they will bring to the language!

K-way merge has been a great playground for this, the range function API suits the use case very well.

I'm looking forward to try it in other scenarios, my next step would be to see the impact of using this code in https://github.com/parquet-go/parquet-go to merge parquet files.
That actually sounds like a remarkably elegant way to do it. We'll never know what the second order consequences could be until we try it. But I doubt they'll be as bad as what we're experiencing now.
I have the impression that people nowadays are completely infantilized. They will believe anything that supports their worldview and be heavily skeptical of whatever hurts their sensibilities. It's not even to the point of communication anymore, even with proper communication a large part of the population will behave like a 6 years old boy throwing a tantrum.

Quick example, we had creationism before 2010, after 2010 something even worse(terraplanism) appeared.
I expect it's more to do with how poorly insulated most UK homes are
Money pours into new fabs and facilities
never been happier in my life since i stopped caring about gnome, i wrote a couple of gnome extensions to make it usable (for me) and having to deal with all the breakages was really getting on my nerves.. switched to use i3 with a bunch of shell/python scripts and can go on with my life
Let me put it this way:

You're not supposed to read them precisely, but pattern match it, and it takes less than a split second for most of us.

You might have an atypical brain, and I respect that, but most people's brain work that way.

This is why dashboards do not have "sea of green lights", but things light up when things go wrong, because it breaks the pattern and gets your attention.

Your brain is much more capable than you think. It can do much more things without you notice. Like you have a peripheral vision close to 180 degrees, and even if it's blurry, your brain processes that space for (pattern) anomalies, without you noticing.
A hundred ways tech INFURIATES me [video]
Ah, I remember doing this all too well. Or at least, with the very similar <meter> element anyway.

God it was a nightmare. There was no standardised selector for various parts of the bar, so I had to use a bunch of awkward -webkit and -moz prefixed ones that weren't consistent at all. The values for these were in at least one case contradictory, so the value for one part of the bar had to be assigned to one pseudo element in Chrome and the opposite one in Firefox, and getting the thing to work as expected in Safari was as awkward as you could imagine, despite all the documentation saying it'd use the same styles as Chrome.

They really need to standardise the selectors and styles for these things already...
Very cool but the title seems like clickbait. Arboreal alligator lizards were documented like 200 years ago, this is just a new species in a known genus. If its a lizard just say its a lizard. The title makes it seem like its some kind of new giant tree-dwelling reptile. These lizards are less than a foot long.

Also

>Alligator lizards are a group of lizards only found in Central America where they live in “humid highland forests,”

This is incorrect, we have alligator lizards in the US. Arboreal alligator lizards are one of three genus of alligator lizard. I wish they’d use Abronia instead of saying alligator lizard or else they are gonna confuse texans and californians who have alligator lizards in their backyards.
An analog gauge also gives you a very quick and intuitive sense of rate of change.

It's extremely quick, easy, and intuitive to see an analog tachometer climbing quickly and time a shift properly.

If there's anywhere where a precise value would matter, I would have to imagine it would be F1. They are certainly not sticking with analog gauges because "tradition" or "cost". And even if it were only better given an adjustment period or additional training, they would simply have made the switch and the drivers would have adapted.

Yet, while there are several variations, every team to my knowledge uses a series of lights which are even _less_ precise than the analog gauges most of us have in our car.
Key Lessons from the Wright Brothers
Rumour is Americans like to read dickens and hence not want to cover British copyright
But RHEL (starting from version 9) is built from CentOS Stream (apart from the separate trademarks which have to be swapped). CentOS Stream sources are RHEL sources.
A very relatable story! Are you going to write follow-up posts with more details covering the rest of the journey with more of the ups and downs of running a tiny bootstrapped startup? I'd be interested in reading!
Profit margin for Big Tech is absurdly big compared to most other industries though, it makes much less of a difference than for grocers or other industries with razor-thin margins.
> This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.

Yes, this is where I think a lot of folks who moan about "bloated JS frameworks", etc. really are just complaining they can't use their favorite (or only) language for web UI development.
How democratic is this in practice? Seems.... iffy.
Not across the EU.

They have to book EU revenue somewhere in the EU, so it's entirely knowable how much they make.

This is also why the fines are based on revenue, to avoid transfer pricing shenanigans.
Ask HN: What Unlocks with Karma, and When?
Maybe the BSD are too close to Linux to displace it.
And these days, a pure Sid install is honestly pretty damn stable.

I still probably wouldn’t run it in prod, but for desktop? Without a question.
Shareholders care more about net profit than revenue. Using revenue makes the number more clickbaity. Also, you claim this isn't a deterrent, but you don't explain why. How do we know that tech companies weren't just well-behaved last year? Or, should one week's revenue never ever be able to pay off a company's past year's fines, and we should always assume tech companies are more evil than that?
In general, I think Officious Phrase Use is usually evidence of bullshit. Applies equally to "no evidence", "some evidence", "stop resisting a lawful order", etc. It's usually a sign someone with little on their side is trying to sound official and legit.
HN may enjoy this old Christmas special I wrote on Ethan, a teenager born without a cerebellum https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/the-...
Does anyone ever wonder about vendor lock-in before choosing a No-code platform?
> Do you still feel free to post any kind of criticism online nowadays? (e.g. Twitter, forums, etc.)

I do, but I have accepted that I will never ever visit the US for this reason, not for tourism, not for work - as long as CBP can refuse me entry for not disclosing my social media profiles (all of which are highly critical of the US government, particularly during the Trump era), I will not go and spend tens of thousands of dollars for flights, hotels and stuff when some random CBP agent can deny me on a whim.

Up next on my "country shitlist" is China and Russia, I'd likely be imprisoned upon entry for the same reason. But it's easy to avoid these two countries - it's harder to evade the US as most flights towards Central and Southern America connect via the US, and you need a visa even for transit unlike in European airports.
What's dumbfounding is the general vibe of the replies to his post. "You'll come back stronger" and "This says so much about you as a leader."
The OP did a bad job but here are my guesses.

Most traditional UK homes do not have central air, they use boiler/radiator systems for the winter. Retrofitting these homes do have central air with a heat pump probably does not make sense.

I don't think the product the OP linked was a very good example either. It's just an electric boiler that somehow stores offpeak energy to be used during the day. Don't know a lot about boiler systems but I cannot imagine these are that revolutionary and there are other similar systems out there, it is just an electric boiler with a smart energy/battery storage system to capture the off peak energy...seems like you could do something similar with a standalone electric boiler and a battery backup system.
I have no idea. I think we're far from that because the spread between passive investing and active management is still in favor of passive investing.
1. That might rule out psychology as a branch of science.

2. This gets back to the point Scott is making - now define "scientific evidence". For any reasonable definition of scientific evidence, there is a lot of evidence for almost everything. I can find scientific evidence for aliens if I want to - to a terribly low standard, true enough - although what Scott picked on was homeopathy which works a bit better.

People underestimate lies, damn lies and statistics. There are facts that back up any worldview, no matter how insane. Carl could find scientific evidence to back up his theory. There'll be anomalous weather station readings, weird sounds, academics papers published by crazy academics that kinda support him. We've all met monomaniacal people; they aren't shy of finding scientific evidence for their case. Still bunk though.
I especially liked his ZEISS videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOfNa8n6mQ&list=PLaLGh7vzNI...

The stuff you find on ebay is just amazing.
The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust. It doesn't make sense that there are entities which have more rights than people.

If I do a crime, I go to jail. If a corporation does a crime, they only need to pay a small fine.

Not to mention that they have many thousands of people working for them doing crimes on their behalf for which are never caught and never punished. Just the scale of a corporation, makes it impossible to prevent crime. They are crime factories by design.

If a nation state kills someone, it's not called murder. If a corporation commits fraud, it's not called fraud... So long as they don't run out of money.

Corporations can influence laws in ways that I can't. I can't even talk to a politician.

Corporations have far better access to government contracts and the tender process than regular citizens. There is subtle, but harmful corruption constantly taking place behind the scenes.

Not only that, but the people who work for corporations are, to some extent, shielded from the crimes that they commit on behalf of corporations as it limits their liability by design, not to mention all the opportunities for cover ups and deflection of liability that they provide. It absorbs and neutralizes liability. Nobody ends up taking responsibility. The crimes keep getting more frequent; corporations keep finding people who are more and more desperate and willing to commit crimes on their behalf. People create shell companies just to launder borrowed money to corporations, in the hope that they will get a well paid corporate job from them after their shell company runs out of money... The list of schemes/crimes is endless and beyond my imagination.

The first corporations ended up bankrupt. E.g. Both Dutch and British East India Company, South Sea Company, Mississippi Company... They ALL turned into bubbles and collapsed spectacularly, every single time. That was before the fiat monetary system came along and started propping them all up... Now the scam never ends. The entire economy is fully monopolized by these proven scam constructs. They suck up all opportunities and produce cheap, low quality products... but because they take away opportunities from everyone, nobody who isn't a corporate shareholder has surplus income and are therefore forced to buy cheap, low quality corporate products.
You are correct, the layman's version of "evidence" has a very different meaning from science and courtroom's version of evidence.
This is regionally specific. The US south, for instance, sees higher usage in summer due to air conditioning demand.
40 For 40 – Wisdom I want to remember
Many years ago I contributed to IncludeOS and that thing could boot a vm in a millisecond under the right circumstances, allowing for things like per request vm isolation. So I suspects it's a mix of hardware circumstances and the way the microkernel is implemented.
Evidence in the scientific sense is something is any information which increases the likelihood of a claim being true. The fact that someone is willing to testify is evidence that the claim is true - not bulletproof evidence, but evidence.

Sometimes, people just saying something is extremely good evidence that it's true. My name is Stuart. I'm 22 years old.
Yeah I follow them on Twitter and they add new stuff occasionally if it meets the standard of 'wtf'.

The physicians/administrators is interesting as well.
Is there anything an excessive amount of coffee can’t fix?

It seems she’s the opposite of that Hawaii flight that lost the roof and one flight attendant.
I use Mint but don't use Flatpak at all, never liked it and actually find sandboxing to be annoying

> I could not get Docker's apt repo working though because it was looking for Ubuntu release names or something. So sadly I can't use it as my dev OS.

add "jammy" instead of "victoria"
Perkingee, when you read one orthography with the rules of another orthography. Curiously, also happens to "Czech" or "Czechia" itself which I've been shocked to learn some pronounce chechia instead of checkia, explaining the baffling confusion with Chechnya.
This is a good point, summer time could potentially use solar.
Google chooses to provide those services for "free" which means thez actually do benefit from the users.
Obvious cause could be his "employers" getting rid of a toxic asset.
Testimony is a form of evidence, and in a judicial setting is often enough to convict without any supplementary physical evidence.
What happens when these robotic systems fail: https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4?t=1490 :^)
I never forget to turn off my phone, probably because I'm so used to pushing the off button when I lay it down because I disabled auto lock on my first iOS device (1st gen iPod Touch). Maybe it's better now (by registering attention via face id), but back then I often found myself keeping something open as a reference and then having the screen turn off when I needed it.

edit: I just checked and indeed the settings screen says it watches for attention, so I'm willing to give it a try and enable auto unlock now...
With a touch login on the phone and (say) google authenticator IMHO it's considerably less inconvenient to login into something online with the desktop than what Chase does to me. The phone is sitting right there anyway, and 6 digits to type in by hand is not that big a deal. I do it all the time.

Basically the phone is the 2FA generator.
The numbers are links. You can click them to get more info about what each number means.
Heat pumps work perfectly fine with radiator systems.
Unified DataCenter and Local Foundation Model Serving: Beyond Docker Way
Does "the app" mean the site's app?
So you skipped my question: "why?", and instead decided to argue against a strawman.

Ironically, that seems to answer my question.
Very true article and it's a pretty shit model for innovation!

I want to launch a business which requires investing a lot of resources per customer. Think, the users pay 100$ and I spend 80$ in resources straight away, transform the resources in a peculiar way and provide it to the customer.

I have already tried this and failed due to occasional credit card fraud and sneaky chargebacks from users AFTER having used resources.

Now, being a small business (zero employees) I can't afford to stomach losses for months, invest into marketing and then wait until 100x growth bring me some profits.

Just because of fraud being the problem of the seller and not of the cardholder, my choices are:

1. Go to parasitic VCs and convince them to give me money, in the hope I'll be profitable in a few years

2. Sell 1 on 1 to trusted companies - which doesn't work if you're selling B2C, increase your sales cost and bar you from a typical SaaS paths with random customers

3. Accept only crypto-currency payments - but nobody will bother to convert money to purchase something when they are used to just use their credit card
The desktop in Ubuntu is a bit more polished than in Debian; this has nothing to do with system features or stability, it's just some more convenience for new users; nothing that can't be put on par by changing some settings or installing standard packages. On the business side, the only advantage of using Ubuntu compared to Debian, is that Canonical, which is behind Ubuntu, is a company while Debian is a community. Companies usually want to talk with other companies rather than communities with no business structure. They are of course wrong, but when they realize it's usually too late.
The article strikes the vulnerable human psyche, probably that's why.
> Why is it okay to attack Iran? Unless in a state of war, it seems just as “not-evil” to do this to the US or UK, no?

Iran funds, plans and executes terrorist attacks around the world, including Europe and the United States (via proxy organizations, and it also mostly fails, which is nice).

Iran supplies Russia with drones for its war with Ukraine (obviously this is after Stuxnet, but just pointing out they are aligned with Russia/China against the West).

Iran openly calls for the destruction of the United States and Israel (can you guess where its future nuclear weapons will be pointed at?).

How is it not okay for the United States and Israel to sabotage their nuclear program? How is it equivalent to sabotaging the UK?
Here’s one point I find helpful (particularly if you’re a director-level thinking of restructuring this way.) If you don’t have the utmost confidence that your entry-level managers can hire/have hired a balance of people to effectively take on the responsibilities of a stream-enabled team, you’re not ready to work this way.

A team of backend specialists will really struggle if they are suddenly given complex frontend work, and vice-versa. Plus, if you typically have teams of -4 engineers, that means that even one person being out can be catastrophic to your team’s balance. Or if you pick up a project that suddenly increases a specialist burden, you have to find the right enablement team or move people around the org. Expect that to happen often (perhaps even quarterly?) depending on your stream and product team.

You can also hire fullstack, but beware that they need to be truly fullstack in a way that is really rare. It will probably require a bigger salary commitment across your teams.
What are the examples where we reasonably and rationally agreed on a positive long term change that short term harmed us?

I think it really happens when the harms of not doing the thing actually start happening and the pain of not doing it now becomes greater than doing it now.

That would likely mean once we get powerful enough (which might be global climate change/industry) we'll have one that we can't 'fix' in time eventually.
Short Ruby News – Edition #73
This edition covers the last two weeks of 2023 and the first week of 2024. It is extra large and packed with information about Ruby 3.3, merged PRs for Rails 7.1, and Rails 8 and Turbo 8 plans.
The fines should be measured in units of time, not % of revenue, or some fixed dollar number. All other measures can be gamed, except time. For example, Meta would think twice about violating privacy if they were suspended from doing business for a month, or their fine amounted to a month of revenue with definite start and end dates.

We already do the same thing with people (taking away their freedom for lengths of time), it’s time to have the same punishments for corrupt corporations.

Shutting down their operations completely for lengths of time would also have other consequences besides financial.
Also good advice for dating!

If an attractive lady walks up to me at a party, first thing I'm doing is asking for references.