skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears there's a vicious cycle of sorts going on.

If all unions did was keep a reasonable eye on safety and (let's say) sensible workers' rights, while also offering a simple outlet for collective bargaining, I'm not sure many employers would have a problem.

But we now seem to be in a position where the unions are protecting their very existence with provisions such as the one discussed that (at least at face value) seem nonsensical; and sadly these provisions become the reason that otherwise sympathetic folks start to understand why an employer might want rid of a union.

(I've seen other examples of such silliness; setting up a venue for a large meeting in the US was far more time-consuming and frustrating than it otherwise might have been, because certain tasks on the project plan [some quite trivial] could only be performed by union members, who of course were not always aligned and available with the non-union workers.)
I recently used it for a quick and dirty GUI application.

I sure don't miss Visual Basic, but Gambas is still great for producing applications. I would've preferred a "build me a statically linked executable" button, though; distributing Gambas applications isn't as easy as I would've liked.
This is an oddly imprecise position to me. It's unclear whether an 8" snowfall is a natural disaster. In places where this is a regular event, it is not treated as a natural disaster. Some human drivers drive in it just fine, though most prefer not to.

What about a 3" snowfall? That is a more common event, and a much larger number of human drivers stay on the roads despite the snow.
Focus on a niche, create a funnel, be very good at that niche, scale horizontally.

EDIT: Picked attorney because you have to be licensed to practice law, creating a barrier to the equivalent of code bootcamps. My apologies if the model around the idea wasn't clear, I will do better!
I'm probably mixing this up with free software somehow.
Yeesh. That looks almost satirical.
Love this! Would be even better if there were labels / wiki links on the infrastructure. For instance, there's a huge pipeline across Asia, and I'd like to know what it's called,
There’s no “alternatives”. There’s “the alternative”, Airbus.
Can you name me a single 10k-30k people company that has their own internally built relational database? Their own internally developed document database? I've never seen this in my career.

I don't even know any 10-30k people companies that build their own search, most I've known use elastic search or lucene.

It's had to imagine that a few of these vectordb companies don't establish themselves as the standard solution, being the equivalent to MongoDB in their space. The other competent players will very likely get acquired.

Certainly these vectordb companies are in a better long term standing that the bajillion companies rushing to build products that are just calling an API endpoint at the end of the day.
The accusation of "bad faith" is either unsubstantiated or irrelevant or both. It's basically saying "I don't like your arguments, therefore I'm allowed to dismiss them by declaring them to be 'bad faith' arguments."

That neither shows that the "bad faith" accusation is justified nor that the arguments in question are wrong. It's not a counterargument. It's just a mixture of ad hominem and mere contradiction.

To reiterate: "There is a clear reason why DEI hiring is bad: It comes at the cost of merit based hiring." That's the argument. The "bad faith" stuff is irrelevant.
Black body radiation, the emission of photons or EM radiation is one area to dig into for more information.

But also note the all mater you interact with is almost entirely comprised of empty space, despite the illusion of solidness at our scale.
Is "all weather conditions" a global benchmark, or is it "all weather conditions occurring in the cities of operation?"

At least in SF, I haven't seen a day where Waymo refused availability for the weather. Rode it all over town in the rainstorms this weekend, and found it a little jarring to see the windshield covered in rainwater cause the computer doesn't GAF.

If it doesn't need to handle snow to win this bet, it seems it could handle Seattle-tier rain already.
Same here, but with Centrurion Rory Williams doing the explaining in Doctor Who.
The Cybertruck is lighter than the Rivian and the F-150 Lightning. It's around 3,000lbs lighter than the electric Hummer.

It's also lower than all of them.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46031051/2024-tesla-cyber...
Which is irrelevant to OP's point about airlines who currently use Boeing and Airbus
They're not. The Netherlands is full of Dodge Rams.
Primary keys in ClickHouse are not unique
or github.com/<username>.keys
You can enjoy those holidays with the family instead of being stressed and sad about losing the job. The holidays being Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Remember when every train derailment was 100% evidence that the USA was a failed state like Ancient Rome? That period lasted for a few months, I can’t wait till this one dies the same death.
That's true, but where else would you expect to get such information?

No real whistleblower is going to publish their name, rank, and serial number etc. The corporate PR department sure isn't ever going to tell you such things. Investigative journalism and reporters who can be trusted to verify sources and preserve their anonymity is all but dead these days. The Government might publish something that isn't a total white-wash in 5 years. Or they might not. Who can tell?
As others have pointed out, this is the most absurd thing. Resources are not scarce. Once you're out of your gravity well and have the tech to stay out of it, energy is effectively unlimited and probably any solar system has all the elements you'll need for whatever the thing is you do.

All of this kind of sci-fi is just projecting earthbound colonialism/imperialism motives built around the profit motive and resource scarcity and power out into a universe where none of that makes sense. They're good stories by analogy but have nothing to do with the "reality" of the future-worlds they purport to describe.
Serious question: doesn't pouring into milk negate/mask much of any bitterness anyway?
Bill Gates funding. Especially post divorce.

And probably some new breakthrough we'll here about soon
Should we be marking key infrastructure, utilities don't distribute this information for a reason.
Do you have a point? Humans are self-evidently self-interested. You don't need to justify it.
The Catholic Church own land in the UK?
You seriously don't understand the difference between finding alien microbes vs finding aliens that can build guns and point them at us? Or for that matter, aliens that can actively teach us new things. I just... no, I don't think you're the only one who has this position, but it's the kind of wanton ignorance that doesn't need to be shared.
To any Norwegians here: Are there still healthy govt subsidies? And are the TCO and practicality features of Teslas still compelling?
Just get into and through Harvard Law, easy peasy...

The best programmers make good money too.
You are but one tiny datapoint. The internet is full of disaster stories from Tesla owners.
So many common, important problems (and soul-draining toil) can be resolved with codemods -- this piece (which I authored) tries to explain how and why. I am eager for feedback from HN!
No problem to help, but bad news: Every government agency has different processes. You'll have to go through their own FOIA office.

The NSA FOIA form is actually really easy: https://www.nsa.gov/about/contact-us/Submit-a-FOIA-Request/

I simply asked for what I wanted (information about policy memos about 'Furby Alerts' and recording devices at the NSA from late 1998 to early 1999) and submitted the form. About a month later I got a response back from the NSA acknowledging they got my request, and located records that were part of another FOIA request being processed as well, so I'd get those documents as well once released.

And then... yesterday afternoon I got the message "hey what did you get from the DoD?" - bewildered, sending me a photo of the cover (in the full article). They finally delivered, and I hastily scanned my spoils for everyone. :)
I would be very shocked to learn those polls were funded by the makers of large SUVs and trucks. /s
It’s not being “cancelled”
Post Office set targets for recovering cash from accused in Horizon scandal
I am a member of an urban community garden. Its goal is not just to produce food, but to be a recreational amenity for city-dwellers. Because it wants to be accessible for future potential gardeners, it has concrete pathways and ramps, and raised beds, and is wheelchair accessible. All of these have intrinsic carbon, and mean that a significant area of the total lot is not actually used for growing food. Add to that that many of us gardeners are very inexpert, so yields are quite variable.

But I don't think kg of CO2e per kg of produce is the right way to evaluate this. The choice is not where we grow the same fixed amount of produce. Important questions include:

- what would have been done with the land if it weren't a community garden?

- what would those gardeners be doing with their time if not gardening?

- do those participating in the gardens / their friends/family eat more fruits or vegetables on net?
I think the more appropriate example would be the Mac Pro wheels.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...
The size of phones is a major contributor to enshittification? I don’t understand
Dhall is the FP config language you're thinking of, I think.
OMG, it's 6502 code! (Or for some variant of the 6502.)

Marginally interesting, the source uses standard MOS assembler syntax, but Intel-like xxH notation for hex values, rather than $xx.

---

[Edit] According to Wikipedia, actually a Sunplus SPC81A microcontroller using the 6502 instruction set, but lacking the Y register:

> The first Furby model was based around a 6502-style Sunplus SPC81A microcontroller, which had 80 KiB of ROM and 128 bytes of RAM. Its core differed from the original 6502 in the lack of the Y index register. The TSP50C04 chip from Texas Instruments, implementing the linear predictive coding codec, was used for voice synthesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby
> which makes planes expensive to make, and expensive to maintain

Understood. Though as the comparison link mentions, there's another important cost - "limited utility has kept production levels low enough that it has been impossible to amortize development costs sufficiently to make GEVs competitive with conventional aircraft".

I don't pretend to have more than a surface knowledge about topic, but when the idea has been around decades, developed and promoted for decades, and is still only a niche mode of travel (along with hovercraft, hydrofoil, and flying boats), that tells me the doubts aren't simply from those who "complain about anything new".

> The statement was that its better than planes or (motor) boats.

Sure. My comment was to point out how complicated the full calculation was, because it should include the electric ferries that becoming available, and not limit itself to motor boats.
I mean, I'd also like to find elves. I don't see any reason to suspect either exists. There's an assumption that intelligence is a natural progression for evolution of life, which seems irrational. Why is intelligence so special compared to other mechanisms of self-organization?
FAANG is not the top of the market at all anymore. Google pays middle market unless you have a competing offer.
Isn't there a BLAS equivalent in go that could help here?
A lot of that doesn't have anything to do with cars or drivers, but is rather about city infrastructure.

Does the city own a fleet of snowplows? Does it keep massive stores of road salt available? Do schools and offices even have heating systems at all?

On the other hand, driving carefully on snow and ice is a skill in itself that has to be learned. And in snowy places I do know people who simply don't drive in some conditions because they're well aware they don't have those skills, even growing up there -- while others enjoy the challenge. So that part is a fair question of which humans we're talking about when we talk about human-level driving skill.
Does hibernation work on Linux?
In my opinion the "Latest in the Area" screen using 30% of real estate by default when you launch the app is an ad, regardless of whether the businesses featured there actually pay Google or just show up there randomly.
You're assuming that they are no more capable than we are now it seems
"An aspect of this difficulty involves building an intuition for what tool should be leveraged to solve a problem."

While I agree with the good point about debugging, like many others, I am rather worried that we're increasingly deploying AI/ML where we shouldn't be deploying it. Hence, the above quote.
I thought and wondered this before I drove a Tesla, and then it all made sense. Teslas feel like what we would would have gotten with an "Apple car" had Tesla never launched -- next-gen hardware, software at its core, great UX, etc.

What apple brings is, I think, the same thing they brought to cell phones when we all thought a Palm Treo was the pinnacle of mobile tech. The same basic ideas as Tesla, but better design, better hardware, better software, etc.

I have no idea if they can actually pull it off, but if they can, they have a good shot at relegating Teslas to Palm Treo status.
I had that possibility in mind, yes :-)
For communicating across languages, why not just use RPC?
Nah. Does not sound like that at all. 56k has that peculiar "ding" in the handshake, which makes very different from v34 handhake.
When's the last time you tried it? This feature has been in Godot for as long as I care to remember, I use it daily.
Future power systems with today's weather
There are effectively 2-3 dead weeks in which you’re not paid but can’t look for a new job. All you can do over Christmas and New Year is worry.
It's so good to hear about a scientific organization that is doing excellent, repeatable, high quality work. I wonder how they are compensated/incentivized?
>The first step is to extract all lines which start from "author ", without checking what the rest of the line looks like.

I'm saying that this already requires knowing that "without checking what the rest of the line looks like" is an important consideration. It would be just as valid to define "extract all author lines" as "extract all lines that have `author <value>`, as they did.

Only by knowing that the latter definition causes the bug that the TFA found (either by thinking about it or by testing against the canonical git implementation) would it become known that that definition is wrong.

The problem is not the structure of the parser. The problem is that they didn't check that their implementation matches the behavior of the system it speaks to (git).

Edit: Also covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101419 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101736 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39107945
> The stdlib is also pretty sparse, missing some commonly required functions.

This seems to be the general curse of template languages. For some reason, their authors have this near-religious belief in removing every "unneeded" feature, which in practice results in having to write 10 incomprehensible lines of code to do something that could be easily done in one line of readable code in a proper PL.
> people who repost things like "TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY!!! SHARE AND YOU WILL FIND $10K TODAY!!!" They don't realize it's fake.

What you're saying is, of course, correct. I personally know (and in some cases am related to) such people. However, you highlight an interesting aspect of this. I think this is one of those things that is "eternally true" in a meta sense. What I mean is that the ability of some meaningful number of humans to be stupid, gullible, silly or crazy will always exceed the well-meaning attempts of other humans to prevent negative consequences from those, apparently bottomless, intrinsically human abilities.

Obviously, there are many scenarios where it's reasonable and worthwhile to enact preventative measures, which is why we collectively do so in the form of laws and regulations. But at the same time, as a society, we need to remember that such preventative efforts will always be limited in scope due to costs, practicality and, ultimately, individual freedom to choose unwise things. At some point, being free includes the freedom to be stupid. The hard part is choosing where to draw the lines between "society will try to protect you from that" but "choose to do this and the consequences are on you." I'll never forget the bitter disillusionment I felt the day my teenaged self realized that the nature of reality is that some bad things will happen to good people and there's little we can do about many of those things other than grant Darwin Awards or turn them into cautionary tales (or both).
Great stuff.
We used to do this sort of opt for dot, axpy, gemm, etc. in the BLAS and LAPACK libs a long time ago.
On the contrary, I let older relatives use Linux so I don't need to support macos and windows constantly breaking.

In 5 years I've had 2 family support calls: one to setup a new WiFi on a Chromebook and one for turning the Chromebook on and off.
Assuming the average user wants to look at apps or believe the phone sure. If not there's no winning here and I can see why making it so the user just can't mess up on choosing storage and doesn't have to be presented all this information/responsibility when they do is still a much better image of the phone's storage quality.

Doesn't mean it's any less aligned with getting to charge more for storage. Just means it can still make plenty of sense as an excuse. Power users have consistently turned out to be a poor target for phone makers.
Rivian base models are already far out of my price range for a vehicle, this is not helping their case any.
My grandma has a minivan. It's way better than a crossover for ease of getting into. The floor height is nice and low so she doesn't have to step way up into it. The roof height is high so she doesn't have to scrunch in. It's easier to strap in car seats, it's easier to load your kids into. It's not a marketing joke like crossovers are.

What it sounds like, is that you didn't actually shop very hard for the right vehicle that actually has those advantages.
the craziest thing about this is:

> The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin,[7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.
I believe what is being proposed is a static site where user data is persisted locally using the WASM sqlite + OPFS. I guess it is also organized like a typical web app, but the app logic and database logic run locally.

I was expecting something different because it started with phrases like "no servers at all" and "entirely without any servers", but there's a regular web server serving static files.

I'm not a fan of the term "serverfree", though, since there is a web server. Also, the app and database servers from classic web apps continue to exist, albeit in a logical, local form. If this term somehow catches on for this style of app it will just cause endless confusion. I suppose it isn't a lot worse than some existing terms we've gotten used to (like "serverless"), but I'm always going to advocate to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
The bet is to be available is one of the top 10 US cities.
My first reaction was: wat? Isn't that only from the perspective of a relatively complex organism? Life constantly explores in all the directions it can, so it's no wonder that one frontier of that exploration is towards increasing complexity. And there are natural limits to decreasing complexity. (Though those limits are beyond what we would call "life". You don't need to be capable of reproduction if you can borrow a host's capability. We're all just host mechanisms for the parasitic reproduction of Pollan's corn, Adams's digital watches, and bad analogies.)

Maybe that's what the abstract referred to as "the Theory of the Adjacent Possible"? I've only read the abstract.

But your argument of ecosystem complexity is totally valid. Though I guess if an ecosystem decreases in complexity, then it has to end up in a different type of simplicity than it was the last time it was there, because otherwise you already know that it evolves out of that spot (assuming some amount of determinism).

Temporarily, though, this can and does happen. Invasive species often obliterate a lot of complexity, presumably until either their weaknesses are discovered through the very changing conditions that allowed the natives to flourish in the first place, or until they evolve complexity of their own.

There's another way to derive increasing complexity from a small number of laws, though. There are multiple resources and multiple ways to access them. Optimizing for any one of those results in overspecializing and becoming less fit for accessing most of the others. There's no one best answer that works for everything. You always have a delicate balance between overgeneralizing and overspecializing, and the area between those provides a lot of different ecological niches, and even more if you look at the battle stretched out over time. (The configurations are unstable; you could have a thousand species optimized for particular resources that get clobbered by a generalist that poisons the specialists, then the energy required by the poisoners makes them lose out to generalist nonpoisoners, which enables specialization again, not to mention evolved immunity... the wheel goes round and round, picking up crud as it rolls.)
this is so cool! you just know that it's real shit when the website looks like that. i wonder if this is gonna be the new "quality" stamp - a website not looking like the generic react tailwind app but rather stuff like this?!
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102021 (297 comments)
the distance between solar systems is so incredibly massive, and the impossibility of FTL so real, it doesn't even matter

That also doesn't matter. Another star is going to come close enough to any given star, often enough, that the entire galaxy could be colonized without ever having to travel that far that fast. (Look up Issac Arthur's "Crawlenizing the Galaxy" idea.)

we'll be gone by then anyways

It's the combination of distance AND civilization longevity that does it. Considering that we are in an exponential process of change, it doesn't seem like we'll be around long enough in our current form as a civilization.
Your suggestion feels like a lot more work and effort that still leads to terrible UX, slow phones and unhappy customers.

1. Customers being nagged their SD card is slow will hate the phone, not just the SD card they just bought and can't return. How will the users know which cards are fast enough? Most average users are not tach savvy at all and are easily duped by marketing fluff.

2. SD cards can also die out of the blue. Good luck trying to predict when with an app. You might as well just offer them data recovery services while you're at it for when they loose all their photos.

It's easier to just skip SD cards and offer fast and solid UFS storage at a higher cost, that you can vouch for, instead of something that could always be flaky for reasons outside of your control.
FTA:
> We’re flattening our org structure and reducing layers of management. Our goal is for leaders to operate closer to the metal, less siloed and more functionally, focused on few cross-company priorities. These changes begin with the leadership team and cascade across the org:
Language Loss
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sliced-Crosswise_Only-On...

THANK YOU. LITERALLY BEEN HUNTING FOR THIS FOR YEARS AND HN REPLIED IN 4 HOURS WOW

also interesting to see how many details i hallucinated, but i kept the core premise intact haha