skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least the last couple of years. In fact, actual court cases have been fought about their meaning, those cases included actual depictions to try to point out that some were meant to be whimsical, and some were meant to be serious.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysi...
These are books I re-read every few years, I would say more often than every decade though:

Iain M. Banks S.F. novels:

Excession, Consider Phlebas, The Algebraist, Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, Matter. I don't re-read Inversions or Feersum Endjinn as I find them harder to get into (and they aren't Culture novels anyway).

Neal Asher: Cowl, Gridlinked and Brass Man

Michel Swanwick: Vacuum Flowers

Bruce Sterling: Involution ocean

George R.R. Martin: Tuf Voyaging, Nightflyers

Samuel Delaney: Nova. Nightflyers and Nova are back to back in a single volume as Del SF Binary Star #5.

William Gibson: Neuromancer

Robert Reed: Sister Alice

I'm currently re-reading (for the first time) Micaiah Johnson - The Space Between Worlds. She has an upcoming book this year: Those Beyond the Wall, which seems to be a prequel.
When Bush invaded Iraq, I remember a scene when the US military showed an areal video of some Iraqi vehicle to reporters: the vehicle got hit, boom it goes, and everybody cheered. It wasn't even some kind of "We have to do this because this is war," it was pure joy at the destruction and death of someone they've never met.

And I guess it's unfair to pick on the US for that - that kind of trait is pretty much universal. All you have to do is to see the other side as less than human.
With the French Revolution, the American Revolution, then Imperialism, then World War 2 and then its loss of influence: The UK faired remarkably simply because of the Enlightenment and later, the consequences of fighting against the people. Then antagonizing ally that shared many common interests.

Still, I can totally see the UK’s democracy devolving quickly, if in the decades and generations ahead governments trend towards authoritarianism.
thank you, will look into BLIP2.
Many of the renderings are supposed to show how it’ll look when it’s dark outside the train, since the whole winter, that’s what it’ll be when people are taking the train from/to work.

Denmark only has 8-ish hours of daylight in the winter, mostly co-located with the working hours, so it makes a lot of sense to focus on how the experience will be then. And they’re trying to go for “warm and cozy”. Looks good to me at least.

When it’s bright outside the inside lighting goes brighter and cooler.
Tiny Compiler – Writing a Compiler in a Weekend
Using weasel words doesn’t make your claim any more correct.
> Linux is not even close to matching Windows in gaming performance.

Proton/Linux can exceed Windows 11 performance, and is otherwise very close. The difference on my system is negligible.

https://www.computerbase.de/2023-12/welche-linux-distributio...
Single data point for consideration: For some reason, I'm not leaving.

It's tempting to speculate on the motivation for even posting, because they aren't gooogle or amazon, and it's utterly uninteresting for any smaller company to have incidents once in a while.

Maybe the point was to show how frank they are about stuff like this instead of trying to bs everyone?

I guess one thing I do find pretty interesting is how all the comments have been "whatever I love'em"
Ask HN: Shopify Store Terminated. Only AI Support?
Hello,

We run a fundraising platform that allows kids to sell things like Beef Jerky, Caramel Corn, and Pretzels to raise funds for their sports teams.

We have our own custom storefront, and were using shopify as the "fulfillment intermediary" (common API pipe) from our database to our vendor's warehouse.

Our shopify store was unexpectedly terminated in supposed violation of their AUP [0] (we sell food, and nothing on that list applies), with seemingly no way to actually get a human being on the phone. Their live chat feels like a GPT-3.5 model, and no phone number anywhere. My email support ticket has been languishing with no reply for over a week.

Is there any way to talk to an actual human at Shopify?

Very sincere thanks to anyone who can help... this has put us in a very difficult position: justin [at] moneydolly.com

Store in question is: 5ec6ab.myshopify.com (we just use it as a pipe, not to actually make sales)

[0] https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, why do these news apps like this one or Prismatic in 2014 not work in the english speaking market but in the Chinese market Toutiao was a massive success for bytedance? What is the difference that makes it so hard for news apps to work in the English market?
> we weren't allowed to just invent new math

Someone let the mathematicians know!
People have used marimo for production web apps. They won't get you as far as writing HTML/JS. But great for internal tools or external showcases, tutorials, interactive blogs, etc.

Our friends at SLAC use marimo for their internal exploration experiments and publishing interactive apps.
He is an example: https://marimo.io/@public/signal-decomposition
I have been a paying Kagi customer for the past year and could not be happier. It is a small sliver of sanity showing what the internet could be without the cancer of ad driven anti patterns.
Really bizarre to bring out the snarl word "entitled" over... the persistence of false legal theories?
There are simple answers, albeit not politically correct ones:
1. The quality of education has declined precipitously in the US since the 60s
2. Organizations no longer focus on hiring the best based on merit but rather meeting “diversity” goals regardless of the qualifications.
3. Governments and the corpocracy has become a permanent, incestuous relationship committed to siphoning and redistributing taxpayer dollars.

I don’t see it changing anytime soon. The US Congress is a collection of corrupt dinosaurs, on par with the old Soviet Union Politburo.
Her account can be taken at straight value only because this company failed the firing so badly.

This should be able to be easily answered.

E.g.

"Your performance review on November 17th we discussed concern that you weren't closing any sales."

"Your peers close 20 tickets per week, you close 12."

"You made mistakes on X, Y, and Z deals costing us clients."

"A sales associate normally closes 3 deals in the first month after their 3-month onboarding."

Basically, anything concrete at all. Either tell someone they're laid off (cost savings) or if you're going to cite a cause then you should back that cause up. You can't claim at-will-employement-fired-for-no-reason when you half-ass it and state a reason with no data or facts or any management chain present to speak to the reality of the situation.
Holy cow...if that is true
Obviously the NTSB report is not finalized, but I think we can rule out metallurgy. Even just from the photos you can see that the tabs in the airplane that the door plug rides up against and the corresponding tabs on the door (even though it fell out of the airplane) are still intact. The only other faulty metallurgy issues remaining would be if certain bolts that have not yet been found had failed. The likelihood of that is extremely low given how new the plane is, and there would be evidence of wear on the corresponding parts, which has not been reported. This pretty much guarantees some level of faulty assembly with incorrectly torqued or (most likely) missing bolts. Very much the sort of accident for which aerospace has a process to prevent.
The country is the poster child for pulling the ladder up after yourself.
Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to work around IE's broken box model? I remember actually using this[0] hack somewhere long ago:

div.content {
width:400px;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width:300px;
}

I can't believe the stuff we used to go through.

[0] http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
There's 10^x more of where that's coming from... Welcome to The Matrix
That's a wall of text, but I think you're misreading the general context.

> this is happening just as news breaks about layoffs at CloudFlare.

Err, you have this backwards. The news broke that there weren't layoffs at CloudFlare (keep in mind, their spokesperson publicly stated this to the news, and there are legal consequences for lying about this). The CEO stated that <3% of the sales team was fired for not meeting standards, and that that's a normal rate for each quarter [1]. Sales in general is attrition-heavy, and rank-and-yank is a relatively common, if employee-unfriendly, strategy. So, yes, the former situation is much more likely when you strip out points 1 and 2, since points 3 and 4 correspond to each other and the latter situation is illegal in two different ways.

> it is common knowledge that layoffs are usually conducted as one massive group meeting with all parties at once

This is common knowledge? I've literally never heard of a layoff conducted like this, only the reverse. The major tech layoffs this week (Google, Twitch, Unity, Discord) were conducted in the reverse fashion.

> That's not me claiming that you're wrong, which would then require me to provide a reasonable argument. Instead, I leave you to wonder if I don't see the apparent contradiction, or if I do but I'm just not engaging with you for some reason, etc.

Occam's Razor: It's clearly a social problem, and it makes much more sense for it to be on one end than the other.

All HR has is a record saying that she was underperforming. HR doesn't know what went on in the meetings between the manager and their report. Even if they were to show her a piece of paper that says she was underperforming, you end up back at square one. There's obviously a paper trail (true or fabricated), and she doesn't believe what it says. The only person who could solve the problem is a person who isn't there.

> I don't see that as under-performing and then making an excuse for doing so

I was pulling in info from elsewhere in the thread where account executives were agreeing that that was under-performing. I'm not making that judgement call, as I've never worked in sales for B2B software.

> it would also be the height of cowardice for a boss to have someone else fire one of their reports for them.

This is my entire point. The difference between our opinions is that (to me) all the signs indicate that the manager fucked up. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

[1] https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Edit: TL;DR: Either it's a complex, multi-level conspiracy that's somewhat dysfunctional but not in a way that would lead to the conspiracy falling apart... or someone has a poor manager.
AwesomeTurborepo: resources for accelerating JavaScript builds
https://i.imgur.com/QYcAozd.png
Count me as extremely skeptical of the climate change "movement", but even I don't understand what kind of connection you're implying here.
I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request
> Oh I'd be all for getting rid of KYC laws and similar, no complaints here.

I'm not entirely sure why we still have them. They're expensive and inconvenient, studies have shown that they're extraordinarily ineffective, as far as I can tell they persist because people have the perception that they're important and then resist getting rid of them.

> Personally if I were buying prescription meds I'd go to a pharmacy simply because I don't went to be caught and charged with illegally buying a controlled substance.

Aspirin isn't a controlled substance. In theory someone who didn't have to comply with regulations could supply it for a lower price. But the drug store's price isn't particularly excessive and risking your life on your distant acquaintance's chemistry skills generally isn't worth saving $0.50.

If the price difference was much higher or the pharmacy wasn't allowed to sell it to you at all then many people would do exactly that, as we've seen.

> The laws are enforceable if they catch you. Catching you will be harder on the black market, but you absolutely can be charged if they do.

You have to consider how catching you generally happens.

Suppose you have a law requiring merchants to offer a 30 day warranty. This is easy to enforce -- the customer goes to have the merchant honor the warranty and if they don't the customer reports them to the government.

Now suppose the law prohibits certain types of transactions, even if neither party is deceiving the other and both are entering into the transaction with informed consent and of their own free will. Well then they're just going to do it and not tell anybody about it, and how is anybody going to find out?

The government can try to enforce laws like that. But their ability to depends on the perpetrator's willingness to do business with strangers who are really undercover law enforcement. In general the higher level operators avoid doing that and the low level pawns are disposable and arresting them doesn't make a dent.

Trying to do that with digital currency is possibly the hardest of any of them because by its nature it's fungible and can be transferred across the internet. If someone set up a foreign site where anyone could exchange cryptocurrency for bullion or some other commodity, what does KYC enforcement look like? The party intended to be doing it would be outside the jurisdiction and the most visible artifact would be a package with some non-contraband fungible commodity going through the mail.

> Fewer potential customers to transact with means demand goes down, in all likelihood the value of bitcoin would be much lower if there were no legal uses for it.

The premise isn't that there are no legal uses, it's that the legal uses would have to do KYC. So the people not breaking any laws would do the KYC and the people breaking laws would not.

Also, the value of Bitcoin only really matters to people holding non-trivial amounts of it or making contracts denominated in it, i.e. speculators. It makes little difference to anyone using nominal amounts as a currency.
It was an empire. Empires come into existence through violent conquest. That violence was tolerated, or encouraged, should not be a surprise.

That said, it was 320 pairs of gladiators, so you'd assume 320 deaths or fewer, rather than "over 600".
Meanwhile your Mac still ships with a shitty 8gb by default
FHWA requested 68.9 billion for 2023. How many car crashes should there be?

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2022-03/F...

For the curious: https://www.transportation.gov/mission/budget/fiscal-year-20...
Just use Little Rat to block unwanted call-homes, telemetry and stuff like that
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
America isn't the kind of country that would remove dams for purely environmental reasons.

The fact is, a lot of these dams have long passed their designed lifespan and they're crumbling, a disaster waiting to happen. And though somewhat productive, they're not so productive anyone is about to write a check to cover the maintenance.
What rights are legal migrants denied that are accorded to citizens?
Same as paying taxes that fund the military
A party that overtly supports capitalism is not a leftist party.

Its at most (in the direction of leftism) center to center-right.
How will you coordinate that? Short of a benevolent powerful global dictator (aka God), I don't see that working out.

Will China scale down to let India prosper and be even with them?

Will China scale down manufacturing to be level with the US?

Will Europe be ok giving up their wealth to Russia?
Hardware Disease
Props to the founders for trying, but news is a bad business that is already very crowded, so I'm not super surprised.
You assume that the same part of the government that runs it wants to stop crime.

If you control the exit nodes, you can snoop on the content, even if you don’t have the destination. The goal for governments isn’t catching crime, it’s spying on secrets. Same way WikiLeaks was supposedly started by snooping on Tor traffic.
Does it actually complain about generating explicit content? It certainly seems willing enough to describe brutal murders as long as it thinks it’s writing a story.

It still baffles me that people get more upset over sex than death.
Your contributions to this site is keeping it alive, and as a result it has inspired me to give a talk about my favourite updates to Python, since release 3.8. I could have found the data myself for sure, but you make it super convenient to compare all versions.

Well done!
> You get many of the same environmental benefits (lake area no longer flooded, fish can traverse the base of the dam)

Besides the fact that the lake area will still be partially flooded, as other replies have said, fish are complicated and there are a lot of dam related issues that affect fish passage. Just a few:

- Downstream passage would have to be through spillways. Survival rates are pretty good (95%+) [1], much better than turbine passage, but not as good as not having a dam in the way.

- Conventional spillways open from bottom, which fish have a hard time finding. [2] Granted, if the water levels are reduced this could be less of an issue.

- Time spent in slow moving water increases predation on salmon. [3] If you visit a dam you'll see ospreys all around. Slow water can also favor some species over others.

- There are a bunch of other water quality issues that dams cause, most notably water temperature. The 2002 Klamath fish kill [4] (the largest in history and a major impetus for un-damming the Klamath) was caused by high water temperatures. [5]

- Even shadows can cause significant issues, from structures as small as docks or piers. [6]

- Upstream passage is not solved by opening the spillway and would still be an issue, requiring fish ladders or transportation. All the existing problems with fish ladders apply. [7]

- Besides salmon and trout, other important species get blocked by dams, including sturgeon and lampreys [8], and each are affected by dams in their own way.

[1] https://www.salmonrecovery.gov/Hydro/Structuralimprovements/...

[2] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species...

[3] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Klamath_River_fish_kill

[5] https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/prog...

[6] https://wdfw.medium.com/casting-shadows-on-the-sound-3a9a555...

[7] https://medium.com/re-form/whats-the-dam-problem-3b5cd839ae7...

[8] https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-lampreys-pacific-lampreys...
Both very possible reasons. At the same time they also pay for Kagi and don't (seem to?) intend to purposefully use Google directly so another possibility is they often have to use computers they don't control or regularly use but logging in to Kagi is friction and it won't have their usual extensions anyways - that's something I ran into using Kagi. Or perhaps even other reasons still. It's why I enjoy asking - you learn more than always assuming you know why with your personal biases.

Speaking of personal biases, I don't mind paying by any means... but that only works when it's an option. There is no way to pay Google to remove search ads (short of building and maintaining privately hosted front end for the API which does everything google.com and associated does) so I have a $99/y personal account and run uBlock Origin. On other things worth too small an amount to be worth the transaction cost or just plain not something you can pay for I leave the blocker on - if not enough of us are interested in paying to remove ads for it to be a worthwhile method then it's probably not going to result in the downfall of the service for those of us to block them. Similarly I pay for YouTube Premium but if I find myself on a computer I can't or shouldn't log into I don't mind utilizing an ad blocker. Heck, this has gotten to be such a complex topic I'm a paying user for YouTube and subscribe to a Patreon only to need an adblocker to skip the sponsored sections of the video! It can really get quite interesting how people consider these different nuances in different ways. Anything from just don't care about the effects to it being impossible to use any sort of ad blocker morally and everything in-between.

I also don't really mind AI generated stuff, it's no more always spam and junk than the human generated web - and it's not really free either, just cheaper. That's probably getting a little disconnected from search provider consumption though.
What do you mean, "it always costs something?"

In a healthy relationship, both partners receive more than they sacrifice in 'costs.' This is the whole point of all mutually entered into relationships...
What is extraordinary about the government paying Social Security and Medicare for the boomers, the second largest cohort in history, who are currently retiring?

Up until 2021, Social Security income matched outlays, but the outlays have increased and will keep increasing. Social Security is now drawing from the trust fund; it is small now but will get worse.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59340
You have conflated two of my points on jobs incorrectly.

Plumbers and other such jobs are some that we currently lack the skilled people to sufficiently fill. Still. This many years after brexit.

And while the working conditions of many seasonal jobs are far from good, sometimes blatantly illegal, where the jobs have been filled it is more expensively (one of the factors, a number of them due to the effects of brexit, fuelling those price rises that counter any wage rises that have happened), and where they haven't crops have gone unharvested causing waste and, surprise, fueling price rises this time due to lack of supply.
In your rush to dunk on your political enemies, you neglected to read the part of the article where it says the vast majority of these dams being removed do not generate any power and were constructed for water diversion or erosion control.
I dunno how it worked, but I went much of my childhood without an inner voice. Didn’t seem to hinder me at all.

One day I played around with imagining my thoughts as a voice in my head. Kept it up for a few more days. When I tried to stop, found I couldn’t, not entirely. Had one ever since.

I still wouldn’t say my inner voice forms my words for speech or much of my writing, even now. If I consider what I might say ahead of time, yes, if I’m just talking, no. And of course if I think about it (as I am now) then it gets more involved in that process.
Currently on the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012) but all the top comments say the submitted URL no longer works. So a new article URL is probably best.
So what happened? Google Assistant was pretty cool and a groundbreaker. Then ... nothing happened for years, until ChatGPT gave them a kick.

Maybe it was all the kerfuffle about AI ethics that nobbled them for a while.
What are the exhaust products of HDPE? Any larger molecules will reduce the exhaust velocity, which will lower the specific impulse compared to methane even if they are producing the same amount of energy.