skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true.

There is a distinction to be made between loneliness and solitude though.

One can feel hopelessly lonely in a crowd, one can also find great solace in solitude.

In fact, another great cause of mental health issues is the apparently growing inability for people to stay still, instead constantly vying for interaction (and often resorting to that quick virtual dopamine hit loop, sometimes even when face to face)

There's balance to be had, both ways, but not everyone have the same needs.
Odd that so often here on HN we talk about how prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate... yet whenever some CEO or high level official is caught in malfeasance, we insist that "sending them to jail" is the only proper response.
I 100% agree about traffic enforcement cameras.

The article makes it sound like these cameras are not intended to enforce traffic laws but rather track the location of every car it scans to aid in solving other types of crime.
The word "blog" seems like a giveaway this isn't from a real archive. I don't remembering hearing it until years later.
I think you’d get downvoted for not contributing anything and it would have nothing to do with these supposed “fanboys”. You made a claim with no evidence to support it that was so general it might as well be meaningless and then added some preemptive persecution. If I could downvote your comment, I sure would.
The culture of the company has to match the culture of the space. If focus is important it needs to be in the physical design of the space and the culture it supports.

I don't know if newsrooms started open concept but they had it easily for a long time.

As a design, "open concept" in part was less construction costs and more profit for the lease.

Of course, it is pushed as being open/collaborative/innovative. It was an innovative way to openly oversee collaboration, or whatever the acting required to look busy was. :)
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”.
The rovers are so interesting, glad they got those out.
Peter's Vision of a Sheet with Animals
> Supports the following LLMs:
> OpenAI's Completions Models

so not gpt4.5-turbo? that's the chat API after all.
They edited their post. If you look at the comments others have made, you can see their original comment was much more ambiguous
> This is a customer service. A written notice of termination works for any consumer contract.

Not entirely. Most places don't accept cancellations over email, or require certified mail for cancellations, which just means now you have to go to the post office between 9-5.

> Unpay for it. This is the utility of credit cards.

Most places have segments in their contract that state if you do a chargeback or block a payment, they will terminate your account, and payment providers can block that card from being used on their service in the future.
Set your expectations first, it is hard to reason about it without more context. You will need to learn local language anywhere and, if not English, it may not be very useful for you elsewhere.

For children Germany is ok, but you have to take into account that they must attend school (yes, home schooling may be a problem here). No shopping on Sundays, housing crisis, low level of digitalization, terrible weather in winter (at least in Berlin, which I assume you would prefer as an expat).
That makes sense to me. I'm not sure how to articulate what I got out of that book exactly but I did enjoy it. Some of the more 'spiritual' books I find, the value of them doesn't really hit you until you're older or have had some tragic life experiences happen. Until then some of it can just make you feel "this is some vapid feel-good hippie crap." Not saying that was your reaction of course but it makes sense to me why you might not vibe with it if you read it in a university setting.
huh thats really interesting and good to know -- thanks!
Web programmers massively outnumber systems programmers. The market has been this way for quite some time now. I'm not a web programmer myself, at least not professionally, but it is far too easy to prototype with Electron/Electrino/Tauri/whatever than any other toolchain out there. I've used Xamarin, Qt, ImGui (not the same league, I know), and several other lower-level rendering libraries like SDL, SFML, raylib, GLFW. Nothing comes close to the vast expanse of features that CSS exposes with - often - a single attribute like `transform` or `object-fit`. Of course you can do it with any other language/framework, but it'll be dozens more lines of code. More time. This is assuming equal proficiency in both tech stacks.

JavaScript might be a disaster of a language, but it is faster to make a UI with CSS. I can totally see why startups pick web programming to ship desktop apps.
I can recommend a Philosophy of Software Design Paperback by John Ousterhout. I've been programming for 15 years and it closely parallels my own current beliefs about programming. He stands above the lower aspects of programming/code/modules, raising the discussion to a conceptual level, that you seem to be wanting. I think there were only 2 areas out of approximately 10 that I thought I had a few better ideas but a)He may have simplifying it to more easily allow explanation. b) His explanations are much better than mine and if I tried to explain it, maybe I'd fail.
The Gulf Stream has a massive impact so latitudes can't really be compared (temperature wise) in North America and Europe.

Barcelona is actually north of New York City.
That is unrelated work by a different team. The merits of AF2 have been demonstrated already and accepted by the community (which has reproduced those results both theoretically and experimentally) although the community is still arguing about just how good AF2 (and its descendants) are.

I agree the chemistry paper does not look g ood but it's hard to say yet. Like I've said elsewhere DM and Google Researchers are under huge pressure to make their results look as good as possible. Already people have serious concerns about another Google paper using ML for IC layout.
To succeed, new cities need to be connected to the rest of the world
Thanks Anton!
Same here. I call them canary email addresses when I have to describe it to someone, so I can tell when that organization loses its data.

For those of us crazy enough to do this, I came up with another type of canary, a "Do they check for compromised passwords?" canary. I have an old password that used to be strong enough for sites I considered low value and was too lazy to break out the password safe. Of course at least one of those low value sites was compromised and that password was leaked.

Now some of the services are high value to others while they remain low value to me. So they have enabled MFA and notifications when someone logs in. Since no one knows the email address I'm using and I've turned on MFA, I feel safe enough leaving that old compromised password in place. I'm waiting for the day they force me to reset it because they bothered to check their customer's existing passwords against compromised ones.
Ackman has always had that laser focus about him. The first I'd heard of him he was waging a public war against Herbalife. He knew it was a scam, and made huge bets against it. By some miracle, it's still around and he lost a bit of money on it I imagine. But he didn't go down without a fight.

Those university presidents testimonies were awful. It's like they got together beforehand to plan their act. It's not that their answers that were so much bad, but the condescending way they said it. In either event, that apparently -really- set him off, and it wasn't just Harvard's president he went after.

Whether he's the good guy or bad guy I guess is up to the reader. One thing that's clear to me is that he has the money, time, and focus to absolutely beat you down, so it's probably best to stay off his radar.
It's a sober analysis of the pros/cons of moving to that country. Familiarity with Chinese or Arabic can help you navigate parts of the global economy. German less so. I don't think it's disrespectful to point out that Germany is culturally irrelevant to the vast majority of the world.
Testing the Limits of the US Postal Service (2000)
hg.sr.ht is operated by SourceHut, but the software is maintained by the community. Ludovic is the primary maintainer and various other Mercurial users participate in its development.
What are the downsides of disputing a charge?
Sorry, I'm not sure what's going on here, I replied to another comment about this and there's multiple people stating that (s)he's thinking of containers.

I think we have collective amnesia about what virtualisation actually is and why it's distinct from containerisation.

Virtualisation is absolutely about "skipping" parts of the emulation chain to do direct calls to the CPU in a way that does not need to be translated; in this way it gets much closer to the hardware.

Containerisation was considered faster still because instead of even having the 5% overhead not being able to use the same process scheduler in the kernel; you can share one.

Yes, containers are able to execute faster than VMs, but the parent is absolutely right that the entire point of virtualisation as a concept was to get closer to the CPU from inside an emulated computer.
Oh. I agree.

I avoid obvious conflicts of interest. And for any unpaid and pizza-paid advice/minor work for people I do it quietly.

But that stuff is pretty simple relative to a (minor) real side-gig which I had (shareware back in the day) but was pretty much orthogonal to my day job and my manager knew about.
I remember seeing a study about the "information density" of different languages and of all the languages covered, English was #2 in terms of information per syllable while Vietnamese was #1.

A shorthand system is free to represent words phonemically instead of orthographically, and most languages have fewer phonemes per word than letters (or strokes/radicals/jamo if you're looking at Asian characters), so it would make sense to just always do that. So maybe Vietnamese would be the most compact if you used a phonemic system, but I actually think it's more complicated than that.

There are a limited number of different types of strokes you can include in a shorthand system before they become too similar to each other, so you are capped in how much information per second can be written regardless of the language. Different languages have different numbers of phonemes (Rotokas has just 11, while Taa has over 100). If you have very few phonemes, you can group clusters together into single strokes, whereas if you have many phonemes then you may need multiple strokes for a single phoneme.

So what you'd really want is the language with the greatest information per phoneme divided by the total number of phonemes, or another way of putting it, how well it fits into a .zip file :)
Boeing's Starliner is now expected to have a crewed flight test in April (after two shaky uncrewed test flights, the first nearly disastrous). Of course, by the standards being applied to SpaceX here, that could be described as "relying on Boeing"...
I've been listening to this podcast about it. Very messed up how these sub-postmasters were treated.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6BL7LWzXRdmwa0JVXOChQL?si=51p1...
The idea that there’s some ‘ information-theoretic barrier for us to understand the “true nature” or “essence” of our own intelligence’ sounds more religious to me.

If evolution can cross that barrier just by banging molecules together and seeing which ones work, it seems unlikely there’s some causal disconnect that makes it impossible for us to get there by thinking about it.
In the EU it’s not uncommon to have some 2FA. My bank asks me to confirm online CC purchases all the time on their app with 3D secure.
I think it does. The amount of effort people will put in and outrage that will ensue is going to scale up with the price of the service. So there is probably a careful identified max here.

But they also use the "only $2 for the first 6 months" thing to get you hooked first and then wait for you to become complacent and forget about it.
>It's bizarre to me just how many people in this country (especially the ones who can least afford it) simply do not take charge of their financial health.

I've seen it first-hand how those with the biggest financial problems earn as much money as anybody else, but they simply can't handle it. And the rest of us are supposed to bail them out of course.
it's quite funny to see articles start to appear left and right abou how shitty google results are.

they have been that shitty for well over a year... if not several.

google search is a piece of turd on results compared to what we had in the 2000's when using it.
Robots that can autonomously build structures out of lattice blocks
Wonder what they are cooking ?

- AR Glasses would be one but they still feel like a decade away
- Whatever happened to the Apple Car?
- Apple Watch with more sophisticated medical sensors for sure must be in there.

Wonder what else?
Haier Group owns them both so to me it doesn't matter which "region" it is, Haier Europe is still Haier, Haier US is still Haier

Haier US -> GE Appliances -> Haier Group

Haier Europe -> Candy Group -> Haier Group
Really appreciate the kind words and excited for others to have a similar experience!
It was so much better.
Not an endorsement, but here's an argument that AGI is computationally intractable (edit: at least via ML).
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inev...
Yes prison does deter white collar crime. Petty crime probably not but this kind of shit absolutely.
> This is customer service. A written notice of termination works for any consumer contract.

Next time you're in a well trafficked area, ask 20 people if they know they can do this.
It is actually both. 6th if it comes to urban zone or larger urban zone, but first by population. In the EU, not whole Europe.
But you're not responding to the claim (or claims) being made.

The main claim is that digital media remove the spatial element from the picture, making it more difficult to remember things. This isn't a crazy notion. Think of the method of loci[0] which explicitly uses an imaginary space to "keep" information for later recall. This must be, because spatial association is something useful for navigating spatial environments, so if you cannot lean on that to reinforce memory and recall, then you're at a greater disadvantage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Back to pirating.
I just tried the latest Armbian on my Orange Pi 4 and it's even worse. HDMI output has been broken for almost a year.
Any company in a nutshell. I've worked retail, warehousing, IT, and engineering, and every company I've worked for has had a big problem with owners hiring charismatic psychopaths who end up causing some degree of harm to the employees around them. I worked with a guy who was very favored by the bosses at one company, and he instructed employees to break company policy and then went to me in IT and told me to install a camera in the areas he told the employees to break policy in. When I inadvertently learned the truth, I ignored his request. But... yeah. It's not unique to google or tech companies.
First lay off in my tech career (8y+), some insights so far
I have been working with software for over 10 years now, 8 of them being professional. Dropped out of college to work full time since I started very young (14yo) and had decent success so far.

This is the first time in my life I'm actively looking for work at 26yo. Been 4 days since getting laid off and I have 4-5 leads and calls scheduled. Market looks grim but I feel eerily relaxed.

Since my resume is online:

https://humza.io/resume

I have been tracking all the visits and opened links. Looks promising so far, but let's see how it turns out.

For others who got laid off recently, what has been you experience so far?
Sounds pretty awesome albeit vastly more complicated than what I had imagined. The idea of customers collective bargaining to force competition is neat.
Outside of five eyes most countries don't know dick about your record, and usually don't even ask. Our neighbor Mexico often doesn't even look at your ID.

US and Canada share immigration info, so they have unusual overlap.
Is there a way to see original comments?
I think that enforcing what you're suggesting is incredibly hard and I don't think can scale, it's what PCI-DSS and similar are meant to tackle, it really doesn't work in my experience.

This is a protocol/product problem, it's wild that to make a payment all the crown jewels need to be put on the wire. It's about time that payment devices and the whole ecosystem adopts some sensible cryptography that, at minimum allows signing payment requests, and ideally keeps its keys private.

Although this whole problem is kind of already solved by 3DS2, albeit not in a great way.
Starlight tours represent Canadian police, this article isn’t about RCMP but the lack of accountability doesn’t make a difference

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
Does the ore blow up often?
Out of curiosity, how long are these paths generally?
Change management is really damn hard. And I don't necessarily mean technical change management, I mean changing the behavior of millions of employees, many who often only know working for that one fleet their whole career, because their parents worked there before them.
Well that's a dismal way to look at it. Regulations should be in place to prevent these kinds of business practices. For example, if a user doesn't use a service, perhaps they should get a refund for those months.
I love getting charge alerts. In restaurants I'll normally get the alert on my watch before the waiter gets back to the table. Though the SO sometimes gets annoyed when I text her about buying something before she's even left the store :D
i'd posit that you're jumping to a conclusion.

we've never actually tried prosecuting/convicting/incarcerating CEOs or other high level officials, so we don't know what the deterrent on that would actually be. we need to run the experiments through to the end to see.
Well, idk about literally, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic both did it in 2021 right? Could they not do it again? NASA has plans to do it next year.

In any case, were there ever more than now? I’m curious if we were regressing, or just not progressing for a couple decades.
Germany's plight is entirely owed to their own political malfeasance in shutting down their nuclear power plants. With them, they would have managed just fine without Russian oil and natural gas.
Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI
https://archive.ph/DSrM5
No JS framework, no NPM, no AJAX, and so on. The web was so simple, and so was life.
I interviewed a bunch of "financial hardship" people a few years back for an app my company was working on. The lack of financial knowledge was pretty disappointing to me, but the big thing I remember is that all the people I talked to were good people. They all had decent, yet low-paying jobs (nurses, care-givers, teaching assistants, cashiers, etc.) I was expecting a bunch of jerks or bungling idiots, and there was some of that: many people don't know how interest works on a credit card until it's too late, or other people are completely apathetic to their finances. But, honestly, the thing that stuck with me the most is that most of them were very trusting people, and ultimately that's what got them to where they are (broke). They trusted blindly: "[credit card company] wouldn't double my interest rate just because I missed one payment.", "The guy who sold me the car seemed nice. Why would he give me a 29% interest rate on my car loan?", and "The credit card companies can't do that; there's got to be laws that prohibit that." Lots of statements like that really stuck with me. I felt bad. It's like I wanted to give a TED Talk that would've lasted about 30 seconds: "The banks and credit card companies are not your friend, don't trust them. Once you fall into debt with them, you're never gonna get out. The law offers very little protection for you, if any at all."

And, thankfully, the app was never released. It was basically just an app for pay-day loans.
I find it somewhat chilling how their original colo left them to hang and dry.

Maybe I'm weird, but I'd consider colo to be a closer cooperation than just renting some virtual servers from wherever. And just getting told "Yupp, your null-routed. No, we can't give you access for specific sources over a different path. Get fucked" - or, in fact, not getting told that - is ... one of our ex-hosters was like that.

And as a service provider, I have strong feelings about the customer service there.

Maybe I don't know big infrastructures, but this just leaves me with a weird feeling in my guts.

But hell. Make sure to give your engineers - and their family - something. After some hell-weeks, we've given people some budget to do something fun with their family, because the company had to take so much private time during those weeks.
That kid was legendary, he even works for IBM now.
I was on some kind of watchlist for awhile ( fought in foreign militia ) and you get the extremes at the land border. Most times things are much better. But when they're worse, it's WAY worse.

(Although to be fair at airport was only place CBP told me they'd deny entry to the country to me US passport holder)
Nmea.js – JavaScript NMEA Parser
That's another thing. I have some stuff I'd like to try, but I can't even find places where I could quickly rent a GPU without applying for quotas.
What's also interesting to me is that there are enough similarities between Vedic and ancient Greek thought, and yet here we are with Aristolean ideas in the West, and in India, things went the way of the Puranas. (Treatise of Efficacy went into the flaw baked into Aristolean thoughts separating Theory and Practice, and how going with the propensity bypasses that).

The Chinese word for this propensity of the situation is shi (勢), rather than dao (道). There are other texts that talk about exploiting and profiting from propensity (shi), rather than what the Dao De Jing talks about with wei wuwei (為無為).
Use a temporary credit card number that's only authorized for one payment. When it doesn't work the second year, they'll let you know you need to pay.

Sign up and immediately cancel/turn off billing, so you aren't charged again next year (again, they'll send you a bunch of notices ahead of the end of your service).

Put a calendar reminder in for 11.5 months out from when you sign up.

In Slack, /remind me in 11.5 months to cancel X service.
> Yes, they are your users. They are likely the people who will gush about your product to their friends and result in more sales. If the plugin could be behaved better: Make a PR and improve it. People will love you if you do it under your company name, but if you don't want the potential internal drama just do it anonymously. Wins all around.

Which is why to this point, I let it go and don't actually tell anyone how much traffic it takes up. It isn't worth fighting over. Haha.

> Power users are some of the best cheap marketing available to device manufacturers. They will post about your product online. They will tell their friends. They will make your product better for no charge to you.

If I had some way to quantify that, I'd accept it. But as it sits now the vast majority of our users don't interact with any integration models short of "share data with my installer". Alexa being the most popular aside from that.

> I'd love to hear about how this could be considered a cybersecurity issue. It's typically far more secure than a cloud connected solution, but most companies don't like that line of reasoning because it doesn't allow them to track their users.

Go look at major IoT "security problem" news. It is either "cloud leaked data" or "OEM didn't lock down local interface correctly". See the recent Bosch Thermostat story.

Or the "horror years" of Chinese ODM cameras showing up on shodan with live feed video access.