skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate here? Spurred by you and the person you're replying to painting such different pictures of what sources are out there, I took a look myself. I didn't find it so trivial to find sources backing up the person's claims.

> Most places do not have "time limits".

I couldn't find anything about slaughterhouses having lifelong limits for employees and would love a link or search term to use because it's an interesting concept to me.

> I find no evidence of abattoir workers becoming more likely to be serial killers.

I also could not find evidence for this. Here is a meta analysis of many studies, none of which mention slaughterhouse workers being more likely to be serial killers. Some studies show higher crime rates in towns with slaughterhouses, but not for violent crimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009492/

> People used to kill their own animals and weren't vegetarians.

This is trivially true?
For which desktop ?
The math in the post you responded to checks out:

> That works out to 11.5 New Panamax ships per year in each direction

It seems like that it's enough, for 11.5 new panamax ships per year in each direction.
Perhaps not immediately useful but I would suggest buying an alcohol fueled camp stove in the future. A can of denatured alcohol (paint thinner) is compact and stable indefinitely. That will allow you to do most of the things you would do with a regular stove burner during a disaster. There are even devices sold for camping that will let you do limited baking over such a stove.
This is Ben's new book! One of Hacker News's resident historians.
you forgot to shill your website
Pretty sure the bright-line has always just been caveat emptor.
Ah.. yes, true. I live in SoCal. :)
The companies that produce the field rations for the armies also sell it for camping. It usually has everything needed and can be eaten cold(depends on the food), but it can be heated with esbit, spiritus or sterno. Only the german rations are for a full day, other NATO nations have only a meal in them.
Keep up the excellent work. Preline has been a joy to use. If I may make a suggestion, it’d be nice to have a CDN option with all capabilities (drop down mega menu, etc). A “whole nine yards “ version like HTMX offers.
I’ve been keeping my eye on Seamless M4T streaming project from Meta. Although I haven’t gotten it to run locally yet (mostly due to lack of time), I think it has the potential to allow things like real time phone calls. My end goal is to have system level real-time translated transcriptions (for video conferences, etc).
I don’t really know either. I’m just echoing what I read here:

https://www.moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2019/economi...
It does rhyme in translation! And yes, there is a lot of hard work in taking a poem from another language, adapting it to not only not sound weird but also preserve as many of the little connotations of words, and then also making it rhyme. I admire a good translation as much as the original.
Just remember that for making the final product you buy, there are several "generations" of components that also need to be transported.
Confessions of a Country Parson
Speak for yourself, there are dozens (dozens!) of us for which recursion is the more natural way to think about most algorithms. Joking aside, DP is very straightforward in more functional languages like Haskell where recursion is the default way to do iteration anyway.
If this bothers you, and you live in the US, ask the US Congress to change federal trademark law so a business that has a registered trademark (or that licenses someone else's trademark) must use that trademark on every product they sell.

This would let us know who owns what.
I gas up a 40L tank once a month in climate where -15 happens for about two or three months. The tires are modest as the car doesn’t weigh much. The winter tires last a while and I just switched to my second pair of summers. Maintenance on a gas powered sedan is pretty minimal as my Honda is extremely reliable. I plan to run the car into the ground until the salt eats it alive. There’s a lot of sedans like mine in my neighbourhood and only few have been rushing to electric. I plan to get a Corolla hybrid next if that’s a thing.

Edit: my insurance is more than my gas bill but pretty cheap. All electric cars cost a lot more to insure here because of repair costs I’m guessing
This would never happen in the USA. Pure communism
Absolutely not. Without large scale immigration, a slightly important country you may be familiar with wouldn't exist at all. The one where so many of these absolutely rotten-brained zero tolerance takes on immigration become popular.
I think maybe you misunderstood. I am pro guns. Everyone should have guns. Except cops. Cops should not have guns.

Cops represent the legal system and by giving them guns we are giving them the capacity to be judge jury and executioner. That is wrong. That circumvents the entire legal system.
D is a real anomaly to me because it should have had the same trajectory as Rust, it vastly improved upon other systems languages at conception, the authors evangelized it, including at FAANG, and yet, Rust seems to have gained traction everywhere D failed to do so. Even in places where C++ has historically been shunned, Rust has some traction (Linux Kernel). I now believe that language adoption is just a product of the right news cycles and timing, and perhaps hype over the creators or a certain feature. I am sad we got Rust and not D. D is so much easier to grok as a C++ person, and I think Rust is incredibly verbose looking.
PSA,

Getting data brokers to delete your personal data can be very frustrating as their business model depends on this data. Simply put, they use deceptive patterns to avoid complying with data protection requests. We have put together this guide which describes the most common deceptive patterns and how to counter them.

For example, in many cases data brokers cannot ask you to send excessive personal information in order to verify your identity. You also don't need to fill in online forms.

Hope this helps: https://consciousdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dark...

I'm one of the creators of https://databrokerswatch.org and https://yourdigitalrights.org/
The way to determine who sold them the data is a service and agent I've envisioned for a long time, but never had the wherewithal to produce. (I won't go into all the hurdles.)

Everyone should have their own email domain, and an agent that also serves as your email client will generate a proper looking (for some definition of that) email address within your domain for every new correspondent.

Now, whenever you see your identity (email address) associated with anything at all you can determine the original source.
The Wikipedia page doesn't have a date for that, but it says this was invented in 2006. If that is when it occurred, do you think it couldn't have improved in 20 years? Regardless, this was likely a random person who created it, not a government with billions of dollars available.

Also, this isn't really new concept. Look at this [1] craft from the 50s. If a government was able to do as well as they did back then, I have no reason to think they couldn't do better now.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
I got a 40A outlet installed in my garage for $400 after a state rebate for EV chargers at home. In the past 2 years I've used a non-home charger 3 times, only on long distances road trips. I charge the car maybe twice a week, and when I do it takes literally 5 seconds as in walking by to plug it in. I would say an EV is far more cost and time effective for my circumstances.
The Jones Act's Role in Encouraging Puerto Rico's Use of Russian Energy
In my country electricity is more expensive. Cheapest by far is LNG.

EVs also have much higher costs in repairs, maintenance and car insurance.
Breakdown and Segmentation of US Businesses
Why, how much, and when you should be taking time off as an engineer
This is how kindles work too. Mount as an ordinary FAT filesystem USB mass storage device, copy the azw3 to it, then read.
What I wish I had, and maybe someone here knows of something that fulfills the role, is a means of providing erroneous information about myself to data brokers. I'd like to insert some fake addresses, wrong phone numbers, made up familial relationships, etc and let that propagate, rather than go through all the hoops to try (largely in vain) to have the information removed.
not a wicked googly jimmy cricket concept. web search engine terms lilliputing "pocket translater" shows quite a few options.

https://itranslate.com/features/camera-translations

https://blog.google/products/translate/see-world-in-your-lan...

https://translate.google.com/about/
Sorry, try Marius at Citymapper dot com
I'm a bit lost in this terminology. But coming from the Operations Research perspective that gave Dynamic Programming its name, Dijkstra's Algorithm is very clearly Dynamic Programming. It's Forward Dynamic Programming as opposed to the much more common Backward Dynamic Programming, if that helps any.
People keep saying peer review is just a sanity check but no one seems to really grasp it. I get it because internet discourse has overblown the validity of peer reviewed articles to an insane degree.

Peer review is just a sanity check. Authors and scientists and studies and papers are important or not independent of the peer review process.
My recent model paperwhite does not support epub.
nifty trick
A caveat: such rations are also extremely high in salt since they're intended for soldiers doing heavy physical exertion and because it helps with shelf life.
All problems solved using DP can also be solved using global optimization techniques. A much easier one to implement in an interview than most DP solutions are simple genetic algorithms. Yes, DPs really do solve any silly interview problem and even have several advantages to boot (i.e. partial solutions if stopped before they're finished).

Anyone interviewing you who won't give you a pass for solving the leetcode problem the "wrong way" without strong very strong justifications is a fool who themselves shouldn't be working in tech.
(not GP)

If it is at 24fps it is already stuttery on my 60hz monitor (not a TV and not smart!), so anything is better than constant, obvious stuttering (which I understand most people learn to ignore, but I can't). In my experience it either works perfectly or it is just the 24fps stutter, so having perfection 70% of the time and stuttering 30% of the time is better than stuttering 100% of the time.

For my family who have smart TVs I've noticed 0 issues with the interpolation itself and it is always a smooth 60fps (which IMO is better than smooth 24fps), though they also have some ML sharpening enabled which sometimes has strange artifacts.

FWIW I also can't play video games at <60fps and have trouble enjoying any fast paced action scene shot at 24hz (with the exception of anime, where at least every frame is carefully constructed and chosen to work at the intended framerate and isn't just a blurry mess)
Why is this needed for this library?
https://databrokerswatch.org/
Cool project, and best of luck to you. However, you might want to rethink the name as Citadel is also an established company - a large hedge fund with deep pockets that's not afraid of using it's lawyers.
Very relevant: https://www.nowadaysmagazine.com/magazine/japaneseaudiophile...

I think being an audiophile is the ultimate rabbit hole. I am glad my ears were “dulled” from listening to loud music on IEMs in my younger days. I have a pair of excellent studio monitors and that’s as good as it gets for my ears.
(Disclaimer: The following applies to western Europe)

> Factor in your time hunting for a charger

Not really an issue, there is a large variety of apps to navigate you to a charger and check availiability beforehand.

> waiting around for the car

In my experience when on the highway the time you need for a break (toilet, eating, relaxing) is equal or less than the time the car needs to charge. If you are shopping, your car will be done charging before you finish.

> Usually you need to install some infrastructure or deal with overnight slow charging.

If you are just using the car in the city for short trips you only need to change every 1-2 weeks. In that case you can just go to a quick charge station which many gas stations are installing now in paralell to their pumps.

The problem I see right now: While consumer prices are 0.3€/kWh at home, quick chargers demand 0.65€/kWh, which is insane.
Timing is important. D was like year 2000, Rust 2015 or something? A lot had changed in the meantime.
Batman (Military)
BS article, lots of frameing; You have to look at the full picture, doesnt make sense to just zoom in on one part of the equation. E.g. doesn't take into account the energy that you have to invest to charge your car (as the charge gets higher, the amount of energy needed to keep filling rises as well), Solar panels are NOT free, EVs need to charge more and it would be fair to include extra miles that are made to find a charger that actually works (It is said only 25% works) let alone higher costs due to higher failure rates (see the German TUV reliability index).

I will happily keep driving my diesel. The people I know will only keep driving their EV until people have to start paying roadtax for them.
A cheap app that will provide results comparable to Neumann, Trinnov or Lyngdorf is drc-fir [0]. It will correct frequency response and phase while correcting the reverberation in your listening room. It's free software and quite well documented.

[0] https://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/
Mandiant Details How Its X Account Was Hacked
In most countries where EV adoption is progressing you can count on a turnover of electric power generation from fossil to non-fossil sources. As that happens, EVs become greener and greener. Gas cars are still going to be gas cars.
I don't know, a part of me hopes that my profession becomes just another boring line of work. I started doing this in the 90s when web dev was as unglamorous as any other line-of-business programming work, not much different than being a DB admin. Then over time it grew into a bubble (and then another) and then COVID hit and it all exploded... but that was never gonna be sustainable.

I would rather it be a mundane industry again without hypergrowth, attracting only the people who are really interested in it, rather than the folks who're in it for the money and who try to speculate on and grow every business and team into inevitable enshittification.

In my mind it's really just another trade skill, not entirely different from carpentry or plumbing, and should be treated as such and just casually exist in every neighborhood, mostly invisible, not be the end-all-be-all of the entire economy. Then people like us just live and work and immigrate like any other humble skilled craftsperson, not some hoity-toity digital capitalist. I hate the glamor and glitz and competitiveness -- and dark patterns and shitty management and MBA thinking -- that excess wealth brought to this industry.

shrug Maybe the AI boom will draw away all the capitalist speculators and web dev becomes just another unsexy mundane job again.
I did not advocate for denser housing. For what it's worth: to the contrary, I advocate for strengthening rural areas - it makes property ownership possible in the first place, building out dense housing requires a lot of very expensive infrastructure, and the complete disconnect behind urban and rural life style and quality is one of the biggest contributors to the current political divide.
> EVs also have much higher costs in repairs, maintenance and car insurance.

Not sure about the maintenance cost being higher here. The only things that need regular service are brake and tires as all of the moving parts of an EV are contained within an electric motor assembly that are very reliable across manufacturers.

By contrast, an ICE vehicle is loaded with moving parts, all of which need lubrication, have wear profiles that demand replacement occasionally, need to pass emissions testing, etc.
There are more than that, even finding diameter of a tree is pretty nasty
From what I know, EVs have lower cost of maintenance and car insurance, and same cost for repairs.
What kind of repairs and maintenance costs did you encounter? So far I paid much less for my EV than a comparable gas car.
The Schulze Method
Gitlab vulnerability risks account takeover via simple password reset
The fact that the best example I could find being a StackOverflow question about whether such a feature even exists kinda proves your point: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2780793/xcode-debugging-...

The answer even has a comment saying:

> Ages coding in Xcode and I never knew about this feature! This is awesome!!! Thanks a lot

We really have a problem in this industry about documenting institutional knowledge huh?
People will spend $10,000 to upgrade to a carbon fiber bike and save 4 pounds of weight while having a giant beer gut
If they are analog/hall effect switches then in theory you could do it.
A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years with the need for charging or maintenance.

Shoudn't it be: "without" the need for charging or maintenance. ??
Mindstone: A reader app for enhancing personal and professional skills
What do you mean by "ton" in either Kg or on lb (or stone for all I care). Like calories, ppl mess that unit up all the time (tonne, ton, short ton, long ton, etc).

If you mean 1800 kg, my full size 3.3 L V6 Sorrento weighs less at 1724 Kg. So unless you're comparing a Renault to a GMC Suburban, which I must insist are rare, you're just nowhere near the right mass.
An asteroid does not have the ability to care about those things, it’s a rock. It can’t choose to leave the earth alone in the name of empathy.

Corporations are made of humans, who, it’s been shown, care about other humans a lot of the time. I think the more we rely on these power structures for our own self preservation, the more we start to weaponize them against weaker forms (normal people) as a form of active defense.

I like the reference to Cthulhu, it really is like a higher order life form. Workers are the cells, infrastructure the body, and the c-suite is of course the ravenous mind. You as a human don’t care what happens to a cell in a Petri dish, the same way corporations don’t care about what happens to individual people. As a human, I find this evil, and wonder if there are perhaps other higher order life forms (economic systems) we can construct that aren’t as harmful to their own composition.
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> they could very easily have a data breach and every customers full info would then be out in the wild

Based on the many notifications I've received from hospitals and insurance providers telling me they've allowed my private information to get repeatedly pilfered, at this point I operate under the assumption that if any organization collects information about me, it's going to leak within the next 5-ish years.

The first and most effective line of defense is to not let the data brokers collect your information in the first place.
So much wrong information in the comments here (or, rather, lack of information, because most comments are ill-informed).

See for example https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-... for a good debunking of many common myths (good showing here).

Yes, one should not accept the all-rosy picture of EVs being all-clean and ideal. But my EV a) is 4-5 times more efficient overall in converting energy into motion than a car that burns gasoline, b) has significantly fewer parts, c) of the energy I use, at least a portion comes from non-CO2-emitting sources (nuclear, solar, wind), d) when I brake or go downhill in the mountains, I recover some of the energy, while purely gasoline-powered cars recover none, and finally d) we seriously need to stop burning dinosaurs, or we'll cook ourselves.

BTW, as a datapoint from someone who has done some calculations in real-world scenarios: when charging at home (EU), my ongoing cost-per-km is roughly half that of a gasoline-powered car.
Interesting quote, since my mind immediately went to Critical theory, one of the schools of philosophy probably targetted by Popper.

Over the last 200 years, the definition of science has been deliberately narrowed down a lot, mainly to combat pseudo-science and misinformation, but I think partially also to create an in-circle of academics. There are few good definitions of science, and usually they are a bit self-contradictory or insufficient to capture the underlying goal of science; the building of a corpus of verified knowledge. Falsification is a very high standard, that cannot always be applied, but it is still a good first test to filter out possible bullshit.

In deductive studies (formal sciences but also often in other fields) we need to have acceptable axioms, and rigorous deductions from these axioms. In inductive studies, you need good data and valid methods to derive meaning from that data. A lot of research actually falls somewhere in-between, and we wouldn't want to outright dismiss it, as many subjects would be too elusive to study at all, but we still have a vested interest in understanding them.

A lot of research, and I would count psycho-analysis in there for the most part, kind of walks the line between pseudo-science and proper deductive or inductive studies. These fields definetely build a corpus of knowledge, which often turns out to be true, but there are fewer good measures of filtering the bullshit from the nuggets of truth, and that substantially devalues the field. The risk, not exclusive but especially pronounced, is that acceptance of research becomes more a measure of eloquence than depth of enquiry.

And fields can be collectively wrong, even in the more rigorous fields that lend themselves to proper testing or deductive reasoning: You mention Newtonian Physics, but there are too many examples to enumerate: Quantum superposition was extremely controversial when first proposed, and poor Lobachevsky was ruthlessly mocked for his perfectly valid development of hyperbolic geometry.
The parent didn’t suggest Java is less safe; their point is “Java is safe; C++ is fast; Rust is both” and they just phrased it unclearly
> It is said only 25% works

It is said wrong then. I drive my EV all ov er Europe and most chargers work most of the time. In three years of driving I encountered three broken stations that were shown as functional in the app.
I charged my Tesla on US 110 volts for several years just plugging into an outlet. Overnight, it got me plenty of charge for a normal day of driving. You're building a case based on faulty assumptions.
It's the intent to shock or humiliate behind the sending of a lewd picture that's disturbing, not the picture itself.

A urologist can look at penises all day and not care because there's no ill intent behind the display. On a dating site that's absolutely not the case.
Thanks for the info I always wondered what was going on there.

I've gone to Gabriella's in the mission a number of times. It's one of the only authentic New York slices you can get in the city for people who crave the taste of home
An LLM can be executed in an “OODA” loop like in AutoGPT and given a goal towards which it takes agentic actions, especially if the LLM is fine-tuned for function calling. So, it can be the main component of an agent that does have goals/de-facto motives! The wrapper code can just be a couple hundred lines.

AutoGPT itself is pretty weak, but it’s possible to write wrapper code that leads to stronger agency. Also, agents formed this way with GPT4 are way stronger than with GPT3.5… so expect this trend to continue.
If you have a garage, charging an electric car is supremely convenient. It's like having your own private gas station at home.
Sorry, fixed my link. The semicolon broke it. https://imgur.com/a/7WGO9M6