skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my first dev job, it was practically a private office just for the devs.

When I started it was only myself and the one accountant, and near the end of my time there it was just myself and another dev (that got hired shortly after I started) since the accountant got their own office.

At my 2nd role, it was terrible. The devs were smushed in-between the Accounting and HR department, which made it absolute hell to talk to my co-workers about issues and to actually do some development without interruption. Oh, and it was strictly no WFH/Hybrid. 2hr on public transport one way, every day.

Now I work for the government and it's lovely being able to do hybrid, and the office is actually somewhat quiet since the whole floor is for the developers.
Ultimately it was her responsibility, yes. But I've seen loud, big and aggressive people get their say too many times to not think that they are part of the problem. At least ethically.
at least don't post ai generated comments here
Last I used it, Azure Document Intelligence wasn't all that smart about choosing split points. This seems to implement better heuristics.
Not really exactly the plot, as [spoiler alert] in 12 Angry Men it goes the other way, and the initial holdout therefore doesn't feel guilt for decades.
So what's in the remaining huge 415KB hello world program? Can we get rid of 90% of it a couple more times?
I'm not a liveaboard but I live in an archipelago and have done my fair share of commercial fishing.

IMO: When the weather is nice, there is no better way to travel than by boat. If the weather is poor, there is no worse way to travel than by boat.

That said, while being stuck at anchor due to bad weather can be frustrating, there is something pleasant about laying next to the stove while you're being tossed about... Unless you're trying to sleep while you're listening to your anchor drag.
Quite interesting perspectives but the actual article's title is named "The doctor who saw colonialism as a sickness". So the editorializing of the title is quite uncalled for.

Some notable takeaways (still applicable today albeit under different guises);

> As a pioneer of “social therapy,” an approach that classified personal pathologies as political symptoms,

> he grasped that racism was an abyss in its own right.

> the psychic distortions that imperialism inflicts on colonists and colonized alike.

> He saw firsthand that colonialism exiles us from ourselves:

> At the core of Fanon’s increasingly radical approach to mental health care was his conviction that, as Shatz puts it, “some forms of psychological suffering have their roots not in an individual’s psychic constitution but in oppressive social relations.”

> The forms that mental illness takes within a certain society are good guides to its neuroses, and Fanon knew well that the racist phobias and fantasies of his European patients functioned as windows onto the world that colonialism had wrought.

> But even the most innovative clinical techniques did not go far enough for Fanon, who knew that political solutions are the only long-term remedy for political diseases. Colonialism is “a system of pathological relations masquerading as normality,” Shatz eloquently writes,

> In his view, anti-colonial violence was “a kind of medicine, rekindling a sense of power and self-mastery” that allowed the colonized to recover their dignity by way of self-assertion.

> The abolition of imperialism was the best medicine, both for Algerians and for everyone else who lived under colonialism, but in the interim, its indignities smarted — and even after it was dismantled, its traumas would linger.

> At a conference in 1956, he warned against the “exoticism” that occupiers often adopt toward native populations,

> All of them were victims of what Fanon called the “mental disorders of colonial warfare,” which plagued him in equal measure. In a world so sick, no one could be cured, not even the doctors.
Sadly, not really. Academically, there is what I would consider a good tentative argument that these folks are "access[ing] a computer with authorization and [using] such access to . . . alter information in the computer" without consent. 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(6).

However, private federal prosecutions aren't really a thing. And I think you'd be hard pressed to get the FBI or USAO to take a novel application like this and expend resources on pursuing it.

Have you considered filing in small claims and getting your $80-or-so 1Password license fee back?
Chase in San Francisco told me that one factor is a handful of deposit box users who come into their branch multiple times/day to access their box. That’s a huge burden on their staff’s time.
> Maybe it's the total length of that waterway and all connected waterways?

Exactly this.
> Incometax, nope

Sharecropping taxes are income taxes. There weren’t formal income taxes because peasants didn’t have incomes. They paid a tax to their lord that was fixed as a function of the productivity of the land they farmed.
Interesting! But may have actually not have been sealed.
The Wikipedia page says:
“ The bonnet was widely rumoured to be sealed – Car and Driver wrote: "...feature of the A2 that may foretell the future: the sealed hood". Actually, the bonnet is easily removed, being held in place by two twist-lock catches. The bonnet, weighing 8 kg, then comes away from the car altogether, unlike the usual hinged flip-up arrangement on most other cars. Due to the service hatch, the bonnet does not need to be removed frequently for access to the engine.”
It ceased operations a decade ago. For environmental reasons officially, and unofficially exactly because it was cheap inter-island transport for homeless and the likes.

>There’s already dirt cheap inter-island transport

that is the point that there is no such transport.
FTC Orders Intuit to Cease Deceptive "free" TurboTax Ads
Think you are a bit quick to judge what people in Europe think. Juries have also been widely used in Europe. They are not unknown. It depends entirely on where you are.

Britain famously use juries. That is where the US gets it system from. In. All Nordic countries have had them. In Norway we phased it out years ago, but it isn’t one judge but several. Some are picked by citizens others are professionals. They determine guilt together.
Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed for the Linux Kernel – Better Wine Performance
Hey! Thanks for this! It will come in handy later for a quicker personal shoe or two.
> Facebook has effectively forked Rust because their (huge) Rust codebase doesn’t build with newer compilers. If you’re Microsoft or Facebook, maintaining an old Rust compiler for a few years and back-porting things to work with that language snapshot is a cost that may be worth paying.

This was kind of interesting point to discover.
You don't have to set the quality bar very high to get someone who is better at deciding a verdict than the average juror.
> Things that help that flow are selected for.

I don't get this part, why does this follow?

Why would life that transfers heat faster get selected for? This seems backwards to me: in reality it seems like life that is more capable or more adapted reproduces more, and that results in more heat moving around most of the time.

But progress can go backwards, if there were a nuclear war this would reduce heat transfer.
I read the article and got very angry at her. She knew it didn't stack up, but gave in and then did nothing about it for three decades.

Yeah I should be more angry at the police and prosecutors, but I think 30 years of a man's life is more than enough blame to go around.
Tailscale is incredibly easy and just works
Which is why suggested regulation that would control what cars other people buy and drive.
What would be the thing you test in this case?
Ask HN: Why Free Open Source Software?
Sounds like a naive question but:
"Why do you create and maintain free open-source software?"

I understand the aspects of security, audits, and code improvements. I partially grasp the open culture aspect, as well as the idea of data control.

However, it appears to be highly stressful, unrewarding, and most of the time financially unsustainable. Most work also seems to be done "on the side" and "after work".

So why engage in it? Is it because you were unaware initially and are now caught in a cycle of responsibility?

It would be wonderful to hear the motivations directly from individuals who develop and support FOSS!

PS: Thank you for your service!
> And it can be a source of tension, specially without attribution
understood, thanks for sharing your concern here. i agree with the general sentiment that coming up with good problems/content is a hard job. let me see what i can do.

> and these exercises, as you probably know, can be generated easily;
Yes, this is on my todo list. To do problem generation instead of problem sourcing.

thank you for all the feedback!
So in my professional life I work optimising operations for large fleets of maintenance workers.

The UK Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEVM) is setting annual targets for the sale of new EVs in the UK, including vans. The govt stick is large penalties against motor manufacturers for non compliance. Fleet operators are beginning to come under pressure because they can't buy new ICE vans as they are not being made, forcing a transition to EVs.

This is an issue, because the traditional work van (Ford Transit or similar) has about a 150KwHr battery. So you can't do a full recharge on a 1 Phase 7Kw charger in less than 20hrs. And most of these vans have sat outside the drivers house at night so they can go straight yo the first job in the morning.

At the moment the answer looks like data science (but hey I'm a data scientist). With better data on root caused of problems, and on what equipment is actually where, we are able to get much better at knowing what the right tools and parts are for each job. And that enables the vans to carry less stock, which in turn enables us to reduce the van size down to something more like a Berlingo, which has a smaller battery and can be charged overnight on a household EV charger.
"ProPublica revealed how millions of Americans were lured into paid tax preparation products even though they were eligible to file for free through a government-sponsored program. Huge sums of money are at stake: In a single year, tax prep companies led by Intuit generated $1 billion in revenue from customers who should have been able to file for free, according to one analysis."

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39114154
You don’t understand it, so it must be a cult?

Maybe I don’t want more computers strapped to my body, maybe I don’t want to interact with one every time I need to know the time. Maybe I don’t need a subsecond accurate clock throughout the day. Maybe I just appreciate the design and knowledge that has gone into a nice timepiece. Maybe it’s a family heirloom, maybe it reminds me of a deceased family member.

To be frank, maybe you should pull your head out of your ass.
The brain is a surprising organ, it's only been four month since the kid can hear anything and maybe the brain is powerful enough to use this first-time influx of new impulses as the same start when learning language as a baby. After all, the brain needs 25 years to fully form.
Another narrowboater here - though leisure not liveaboard. We moor our 40-footer in Worcester, just off the Severn. I worked with the canals for many years, including a spell at British Waterways and then editing Waterways World magazine, and I still draw the maps for WW. I have a 75%-finished canal mapping app I really need to get round to releasing…
This. Every judge I know has their mind made up before the trial even starts.
That’s a good idea that I’ve heard a lot of people suggest. But as far as I know nobody has actually implemented merging using a llm yet.

Part of the problem is that CRDTs want to have strong eventual consistency - so, after merging everyone should be looking at the same final result. It’s hard to guarantee that if you pass the conflicting data to a LLM.
This is false. They absolutely did force upgrades by crippling functionality on older versions and license modes. Specifically, at some point accessing 1Password through the share sheet was disabled.
Rust can't do this very well because it doesn't build std as part of the project, that's still an unstable option. It's linking object code.
Nowadays, hp is an ink company that happens to sell printers…
I would not want to trust grades, in some cases even decisions about pass or fail, to a system which is prone to false positives.
It's very very rare. Though it's not a cut-off at age 12, it just gets more and more rare (and takes longer) from around ten and older. Not sure if it's so much about the vocal tract, it's more about the brain's ability to hear sounds (my wife can't hear the difference between a number of sounds despite having lived in my country for many years and speaking the language well).

In all my life I've only met two 100% accent-free speakers who learned my language as adults, and a third one who was almost there. Everyone else has something I can detect. But children.. a five-year old Japanese girl could repeat everything I said with perfect pronunciation and intonation, first try. Slightly exceptional girl perhaps, she learned the language in a very short time.
I bought mysqldump.com and built this, what ya think?
Several judges is a good idea; a judicial panel. Particularly in grave criminal cases. Maybe not so much in shoplifting or red lights.
I'm building a Zillow for Europe (https://homestra.com) which is focused primarily on expats and remote workers. Growth is steady and revenue slowly going up (sales cycles on this are brutal).

My other side project (https://webtastic.ai) has become my main work now since it has grown quickly since the last time I posted on HN
Irresponsible financial sector constantly crashing the economy with their unbacked loans? Insufficient birth rates causing devastating demographical changes in nations, from young economically active workers into retired geriatric population which demands extremely costly healthcare and welfare? The inevitable mass immigration that supposedly solves the demographic problem but ends up creating numerous new ones?

Am I reading this right? By that logic the entire western developed world has been dead and buried for a long time now.
A very interesting laptop and possibly my next one of my 10 yo ZBook dies for any reason.

Two improvements: matte screen and note than anything else physical buttons on the touchpad. I don't mind if they make the touchpad any smaller. I don't need all the area of the touchpads of the last years.

I wonder if some other company will make accessories for the Framework, starting from the touchpad.

By the way, I'd buy the laptop without the number pad and finally get a touchpad / keyboard combination centered with the screen and my body.
No, we just let non-populists like Schröder (a former German chancellor who literally became an official Russian agent after he left office..) and Merkel get in the way
The third one feels like coercing and possibly lying.
2023 Orbital Launches, by Country
To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".
Is this one of those rare cases where using a goto would be reasonable?
Fusion only happens in the Sun due to incredibly rare quantum tunnelling events. That is why the sun can burn for billions of years. It takes a long time for the energy generated to reach the surface and escape, that is why the sun has a high temperature.

IIRC fusion reactors on earth use magnetic confinement to raise the temperature much higher than the sun's interior for a much higher rate of fusion reactions. I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I got that wrong. ;0)
Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
Crops Map in America
No it isn't https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
The correct language for querying data is, as always, SQL. No one cares about the implementation details.

“I have data and I know SQL. What is it about your database that makes retrieving it better?”

Any other paradigm is going to be a niche at best, likely outright fail.
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/how-dna-...

"Although estimates vary, forensic DNA analysis is roughly 95% accurate."

I remember however an article I can't find now from about 20 years ago so probably things have improved since then that found only about 2/3rds accuracy - and that accuracy could be affected by stating the result you wanted. It was in Time, or New Republic or some major news magazine.

My thoughts could be colored by this, but given history of forensic abuse in the U.S I would tend to undervalue evidence that found someone guilty. I am however a cynic.

I would also think that this 95% accurate claim seems weird, since it is effected by all sorts of things, basically if DNA evidence gets admitted it is treated as bulletproof but it may still have a lower than 95% chance of being correct at that point - but when admitted the battle is pretty much lost.
hey, each problem in itself is intended to be a complete entity. while picking up from the PDF, it is extracting all the text written for that problem. if this is not happening for every problem already, that is something to be fixed I believe. i would rather spend my time in making this better instead of curating every problem manually. i could also spend time in picking up better sources that have more complete problems in general.

thank you for your feedback!
I don't. I grew up where break-ins were not an uncommon occurance, so anything that shares my name, finances and address feels like gross negligence.
I don't see what's upsetting about the problem you linked. If you don't know what a "greatest common divisor" means, why not search it or put it into GPT? That's the simplest statement of the problem.
Rivians have been out for far longer. Of course there are more.

People underestimate how hard it is to scale a new platform. Look at GMs Ultium for example.

Cybertruck is a new ground up platform. Their own engines and battery cells.
A jury system is, in theory, a decent idea but in practice and execution we've created a system designed to punish minorities and the poor, plus enable corruption with zero recourse.

For example, jury service being unpaid will obviously skew the jury pool away from being properly evenly distributed.
This isn't 12 vs. 12.5 I'm disputing, it's like 12 vs. >= 16.
Customers are getting "AI chat" instead of customer support.
The Risks of Replatforming
I mean, you don't need SIMD to put accumulators.
I found the explanation quite convoluted (pun intended). Any system with billions of parameters is bound to be difficult to reason about.
It's easy to say with a smile an a laugh, but definitely depends on your organization. I do tell people almost exactly this in my solo dev role, but more win the context of "I literally don't have the time to redo this, so let's get it right the first time".
I think slices are wonderfully intuitive... if you've worked with C.

Slices encapsulate an ubiquitous C pattern, where you pass to a function: a pointer (to an initial array element), and a length or capacity (sometimes both). This pattern is directly encapsulated by Go's slices, which can be thought of as something like:

type Slice struct {
Ptr *Elem
Len int
Cap int
}

I love Go's slice syntax. It's the right piece of syntactic sugar. It removes tedium and room-for-mistakes from this prevalent C pattern. It lets me work as precisely with memory as I do in C, yet everything is simpler, lighter, and breezier.

For example, I'm making a game in Go. I don't want to be allocating memory throughout the game (which can cause frame drops), so instead I allocate giant arrays of memory on launch. Then I use slices to partition this memory as needed.

Some of these arrays get their elements re-accumulated at some interval (every level, or every frame, etc.). And so it works nicely to first set them to zero length:

myMem = myMem[:0]

Notice that the myMem slice now has zero length, but still points to its same underlying array. Then I perform the accumulation:

for ... {
myMem = append(myMem, elem)
}

Again, I don't want to be allocating in general, so I care very much that append continues to use myMem's preexisting capacity.

All this is to say, I don't see slices as being the way they are for the "sake of optimization." Rather I see them as an ideal tool for working with, referring to, and partitioning memory.
It provides proper strings, arrays that don't decay into pointers, strong typed enumerations, and no need to do sizeof math for heap allocations,

That alone is something C failed to improve in 50 years of history, features already provided by other languages of similar vintage and older.

If Zig manages to take a few developers away from C, that is already a win.
re: being That Guy: I know. It's a weak "Romans were old school" joke.
Has anyone ever ran a study on the effectiveness of different court styles?

Mock a murder or other crime and let the law and justice handle it as normal. At the end, reveal the true mock and see how close the law got and how close the court got.

I'm not saying it would be practical and maybe impossible but I would find the results interesting.
What's wrong with this problem?
https://archive.ph/26Sd2
What are you even talking about? They have plent of cash and no debt. They are also not losing money.

They have plenty of money to invest. And they have been working on the project for a while now.
I think important databases don't have public IP addresses.
not saying i disagree with the sentiment. but, how do you count the carbon emissions.

That's a huge unsolved issue with the Carbon Tax AND Carbon Credits solutions. Your idea doesn't solve it.
Because that's arguably the next step. Why doesn't he solve them while he's at it? Efficiency is lost here!
"Rust tries to appeal to programmers coming from many different backgrounds, and not everyone knows that something like stripping binaries even exists."
” The world’s second largest economy is plagued by a myriad of problems. They include a record downturn in real estate, deflation, debt, a falling birthrate and shrinking work force, as well as a shift towards ideology-driven policies that has rattled the private sector and scared away foreign firms.”
If I don't do anything about this, I am the problem. Government is us. Our responsibility to design, implement, and hold accountable.

Talking about what happened isn't enough. Carlos Jaile lost his entire adult life because of systemic failures in the justice system. This needs to be fixed not only for Carlos but for everyone.

What needs to be changed and how?
They could do both: tax internal consumption to discourage use and bulk up renewables and export more.

Would help counter all the manufacturing jobs outsourced elsewhere.

But Americans (and many others) love income taxes (ie: work and value creation) instead of non-renewable energy taxes for some reason.
A solution like this would be perfect for me. The problem is I know enough about networks to set this up but not enough to be sure that it would ever be secure!
Thank you very much for the thoughtful comment! You're exactly right - Diversion's goal is to improve things such as what you mentioned. Moreover, we're aiming to build a flexible system that can be extended and improved further.

We'll definitely implement at least some of the things you mentioned!
For anyone else curious:

Source code for the backend here: https://github.com/drolbr/Overpass-API

Found from this link listed in the help modal: https://overpass-api.de/ (also links to two additional frontends.)
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