skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only been in low stakes sales roles (outside of personal projects) so this comes from someone with very little "professional" sales experience:

The good: setting a target comp that is realistic and explained (e.g. "I expect you to hit $200K 4/5 times with this plan.")

The bad: plans with complicated rules (x% up to $Y in sales with a kicker + incentives for certain deal structures) can be demotivating and incentivize the wrong sales behaviors

The ugly: some high-intensity salespeople might thrive on the chaotic and unpredictable nature of comp structures. I don't love the idea of hijacking the "gambling/variable reward" centers of the brain to get what you want out of your people. Be fair and simple.
Getting caught breaking the rules, and possibly the law, and instead of taking responsibility she blames surveillance that amounts to little more than a smoke detector paired with camera systems that are already in place in many (most?) schools.

I'm sympathetic with arguments against a lot of the surveillance we see in schools, but it does a great disservice to the anti-surveillance position when you try to use an example where it correctly identifies genuine misconduct.

The girl in the article says that this sort of thing doesn't work, yet in the next sentence she admits that it actually did work, "I’m never going to do something like that again, because the repercussions I faced were horrible." The system correctly identified her and as a result she decided to not partake in such behavior in the future. This reads like a young kid who doesn't think her actions should have consequences.
I was gonna say "then why did China add so much coal last year", because I remembered reading that they added something like 50GW of coal, even as they added more than 150GW renewable.

But as of Jan 1 2024, they also had to introduce a financial incentive just to keep coal plants online, because otherwise the coal plants can't compete on price, just like you said! Some weird economics going on here, but it seems like China is still adding coal just to maximize total power deployed, even if it's uneconomic at the margins.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-guarantee-payments...
I disagree with this sentiment. China is large polluter because it chooses to ignore environmental damaged because it does allow it to have large profit and compete in the international market where competing producers from other countries are bound by more strict environmental laws and are unable to compete on the fair ground.
It's not possible without an Apple Developer account and signing keys.

Even side-loading an app for a short time for testing requires the app to be digitally signed.

Publishing to the App Store means the app is digitally signed by a valid Apple Developer account and that the app has been reviewed to meet the App Store requirements and guidelines.
Ray Camden – Using Generative AI to Improve Image Filenames
That just plainly isn’t what a theocracy is though- by your definition the US could easily be called a theocracy for most of its history and even today. Beyond that you continue to ignore my other point - the people in Israel are less religious than the US/Canada and much of Europe. They are a less religious democracy than the US and yet you continue to call it what it just patently isn’t?
Have a look at Bene: https://nota-lang.github.io/bene/
If this is true then not disclosing that is extremely unethical of @abidlabs, damn near intellectual malfeasance, and reflects very poorly on the rest of their work.
This just harms kids and ruins their public record for nothing and awards lucrative contracts to these companies. Eventually kids will just switch to zyn or some other smokeless spitless product. Then what is the school going to do, full cavity search and fishhook your mouth?
I think you're right, but I think you're getting down-voted because 1: the phrasing was crass, and 2: this is a forum filled with developers, all obsessive with whatever language that they're playing with.

I absolutely agree that it's a red flag generally when something says "This is X, written in Y!" -- to me it's usually a sign that the software project at hand is looking for developers, or it's trying to appeal to developers -- which is usually code for "undocumented, difficult to use, unsupported otherwise." as far as the user themselves are concerned.

It's typical that a piece of software drops the language comments once it reaches a certain size threshold. The scope changes, it's no longer about loving C; it's about capturing market share. If it so happens that it hits market popularity it becomes 'This is X!'.

But.. like you said , I think that it's a sign of something else regarding the project.
Not that anything great came of it, but Fossil was doing the full-featured "smartwatch" thing long before anyone else:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA

My teenage self wanted one of these so badly, but my married self is glad I never had the opportunity to be seen wearing one.
> to those who say all of Israel is occupied land. The former makes sense. The latter is extreme.

In what way is it not? The state was created by western powers less than 100 years ago and has aggressively pursued European and US immigration since then.

The current state of things is an entirely manufactured situation and it's becoming more and more farcical. There's only so many times you can interview a guy with a British or New York accent talking about his ancestral right to the desert before things start looking a little bit weird.
Hot Take: Amazon doesn't have good customer service - they just know when to cut their losses and throw money at the customer
Democratically elected by plurality, where the only competition was incompetent, and still only won by plurality… and hasnt had an election in 18 years, which means 50% of the population has never had a democratically exercised opinion because they werent born yet, and of the other 50% not even 50% of the ones that voted had voted for Hamas

people really act like thats a “gotcha”
Well the enforcement could happen at a different, more effective level of our society. It’s nontrivial to produce and mass-market nicotine products, for example.
Thanks, that was extremely helpful in understanding not just the ruling, but the remit of the court.
None of that paper contradicts anything I said.

That paper is about the often religious belief in a long-term, divinely ordained balance of nature, that is often considered "universal" or some kind of "law". And of course that's a myth.

I went out of my way to point out that equilibria can absolutely exist over the short and medium term. And I never used the term "balance of nature".

And the paper is even very clear that mathematically, equilibria absolutely do exist, obviously:

> ...it is still arbitrary just how much temporal variation can be accommodated within a process or phenomenon for it still to be termed equilibrial. Often the decision on whether to perceive an ecological process as equilibrial seems to be based on whether there is some sort of homeostatic regulation of the numbers, such as density-dependence, which A. J. Nicholson suggested as an argument against Elton's skepticism of the existence of a balance.

It merely points out that there is an "arbitrary" line that must be drawn between statistical fluctuation and the equilibrium. But if a population of a certain species in a certain area is always between, say, 400 and 600, while other species maintain their own ranges, I think we'd all agree that an equilibrium exists. It's a complete strawman to say that it has to be precisely 523 every year just because a range of 500 to 600 is "arbitrary".

The paper is describing that there is no long-term, worldwide, fixed balance of nature, which of course there's not. But nowhere does it suggest that a local ecosystem can't remain in a state of equilibrium over a short- and medium-term.
I think the fact that finetuning embeddings well isn't easy is why it's a more useful service than hosted cosine similarity search ;)
> gone after Hamas leadership specifically with targeted operations while increasing humanitarian aid, rather than terrorizing the entire population of Gaza

The aid was going first to fighters, then to stockpiles, then to the people. To the extent it could be traded for weapons it was. Now we’re seeing allegations UNRWA employees participated in the October 7th attacks [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/world/middleeast/un-aid-i...
The problem is that Electron's (and Python's) interpreter(s) add too much bloat... Just change it (them)
> Solving that seems like it needs a more wholistic approach than simply trying to get rid of the militants at the cost of causing everyone else to have an even bigger beef with Israel.

Like giving NGOs money which get funneled into overt terrorists groups by the corrupt politicians planted by the same terrorists? Aka the status quo for multiple decades well before Netanyahu was ever prime minister.

It’s notable none of the surrounding Muslim countries want anything to do with being the neutral power brokers to temporarily help run the state because they know as well as everyone else it’s a never ending hornets nest, that they’ll have as little control of it as Fatah and the various other iterations of “stable” Palestinian governance, who had little ability or interest to quell the extreme violent fringes. Which in every other country in history means control via police, courts, or worst case military… not tacit appeasement and turning a blind eye.
> Good for OP that he gamed the system, I have no ill-will for him. But the smart thing to do would be to keep quiet and enjoy the legal status, not write a blogpost showing how flimsily it was obtained.

So, really we should hate OP and probably ensure that his current visa gets voided through all legal means, hand him the NOIR he deserves, and then someone who actually deserves it can live in the US.
What exactly is MHTML lacking?
This I can get behind. It takes out the redundant or poorly structured rules that accumulate over time when writing CSS. It doesn't modify the style.
I'd be curious to see a citation for this claim if you remember it. Thanks!
Don't worry about this too much. It gets worse.

My question to OP about this event: how did you learn about this? Darknet Diaries, or via something else?
In my experience having worked on some popular OSS projects, the scene actually ends with the Ferrari owner flipping off the mechanic before peeling out and splattering him with mud.
> Well, the alternative to diplomatic solution is total annihilation of palestinians in west bank, be it by forcing them off the land

What makes you so certain it's the Palestinians and not the Jews this will happen to?
It's the stated goal of the Palestinians and much of the extreme Muslim world surrounding Israel to drive away the Jews and it's not far fetched to see them eventually succeed.
This may seem ignorant or cynical, but my baseline assumption is the contents of all bins end up in the same landfill. I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that your garden/organics/green bin actually goes somewhere other than straight to landfill. Although it's entirely possible that the capital and labour required to make it into compost and give it away for free cost more than handing out vouchers to citizens to buy compost on the free market. An analogous false economy happened in my city with a 24-hour/day train trial; when they did the math it turned out it would have been cheaper to give every single passenger an uber to their destination.
Changing evs will become more popular, but is in time conflict with demand. The discharge time is at night, and people don't want to start the day on low, even if you do all your charging at worksites, which is the other challenge.
Israel needs to treat Palestinians as equals. This should start with not blockading Gaza, rolling back settlements in the West Bank, and so on.

Furthermore, supporting those who oppose Hamas instead of playing the dangerous game that now cost tens of thousands of lives.

Also, it's important to note that there are no guarantees. Even if Israel (famous hive mind, of course) did everything right there could have been provocation from/via Iran and whatnot.
> English is just badly pronounced French

At least it got me (barely) passing marks in French lessons at my German school: to write French, I would set up the sentence in my head in English, shake it around violently until all the words not sufficiently French-sounding where replaced with roughly synonymous words that did and then improvised accents and conjugation. Unfortunately that cheat is terribly useless in real life.
I’ve worked for the same Fortune 500 company for 20+ years. 99% of the time I have zero idea what team does what and whom I would even talk to find out. With nearly 100,000 employees and I have no idea how many thousands of departments and teams, I don’t think anyone really has the big picture of what everyone is doing.
Great Books of the Western World
I'm trying to get my immigration status fixed. I was on a green card via a K-1 visa, then I sat in jail for 10 years on false criminal charges waiting for trial. I have since been released and the charges dismissed, but my green card got put into a weird state. There's more to it, but I'm hoping to have my legal status back again by the end of the year.
A nice idea!

Earlier, someone posted an idea of generating HTML alt tags through generative AI. I don't whether he or she went to implement his or her idea but that kind of thing would help greatly people with disabilities (if done at a massive scale).

For legal background see:

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/web-access...
It was a pretty shitty defence. Facebook were trying to argue that Section 230 somehow gave them immunity from their own terms and conditions.
Apologies, I didn't intend the comment to come across that way, it was too flippant given the topic.
Wikipedia does the math for us here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light#Slow_cl.... The TLDR is that the standard lorentz transform assumes the 1 way speed of light doesn't vary, so to do the math correctly you need generalized lorentz transformations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light#General...
I've been using Teams for a few years, at a small company with (in my admittedly parochial opinion) an uncommonly competent and diligent IT department, and it still vexes me. I've seen intermittent stuff along similar lines as this "outage" for as long as I've been using it, but the severity is normally such that it's just the tiniest bit of friction, easily overcome by our team's trust that we're not using it as an excuse to be unresponsive. Usually it works fine. Often enough that it's annoying, presence or meeting status refuses to update until I poke the UI hard enough, with "enough" seemingly varying with the phase of the moon. I sometimes watch the little circle in the corner of my icon wondering: is it enough to unlock my Windows desktop? To hover over the Teams window at all? To hover over something that forces it to redraw? To click the window and give it input focus? To reboot my DSL modem? Do the developers of the client (or the Azure message bus backend, or whatever alchemy they're doing over in Redmond) even know the answer?
Just wait until self driving is mastered and you not only have to subscribe to the car but additionally your attention is freed up for other things like ads being projected from every interior surface. :) What a wonderful future!
I honestly want to see interviews of people who will use their Apple Vision Pro almost every day for a few months with 1hr+ sessions / day.

Like usage of MacBook/iPhone/iPad/ear pods/watch.

Will it be an everyday thing or a very expensive toy for the rich that will sit on their shelves after 6 months.

A lot of people have $4k to blow on a new Apple Toy so I’m guessing they’ll probably get a billion or two in revenue.

Apple could release a shiny piece of aluminum with nothing else and people would shit $1000 on it.

But every flop tarnishes the brand slightly.
Ask HN: What's your must-have features in IDE or text editor?
> Nonetheless the West dismantled ISIS

ISIS-K just carried out the worst terrorist attack in Iran (and it was primarily Iran's Q Solemani who dismantled ISIS; later killed by the US Army). Taliban rules Afghanistan again.

> What would you have Israel do, that you think would result in it not getting continually attacked by Hamas?

Negotiate, like they did with PLO before?

> withdrew its own citizens at gunpoint

Yeah, cause settlements are a clear breach of International Law. It was no charity.

> that's when Hamas took power...

Democratically elected, then subsequently undermined and later blockaded.
You should check out the ChromeOS Bazelification project[1]. It has those exact same goals. Not all packages are reproducible though because they embed timestamps.

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/bazel/+/HEAD/do...
Although longjmp is more dangerous than C's goto, it's not that close to what Dijkstra was warning about. A longjmp is only allowed to move execution back to somewhere it was previously, and in the process all the appropriate book keeping is done, it can't send you somewhere you've never been or evade initialization/ destruction (at least any more so than these languages manage by themselves).
>avoiding the solution

The West isn't the one avoiding the solution. If it were up to us, two state would have been sorted decades ago, as evidenced by the repeated peace summits the US has hosted.

Israel believe they can't integrate the bulk of the Palestinian population, and there to afraid of attack to live next to an independent Palestinian state.
The problem with your analogy is the Ferrari. It's a closed system requiring a delicate relationship with the company to acquire.
I have a tiny bit of sales experience, certainly less than you. My understanding is that these things end up so complicated for two reasons.

In part it can be a reflection of the real-world complexities of an organisation’s financial incentives. It’s easy, especially not being in the sales org and looking in at it from outside, to expect things to be as simple as “more revenue == better”. But then typically businesses of a certain size will have more nuanced incentives. It’s less expensive to sell service x over y in some opaque hard-to-quantify way. Direction has come from upstairs to push more of product z to keep a supplier happy. Blah blah.

But it’s just as much poor system design from whoever is devising the comp structure. It’ll suffer from the same issues as the income tax system in many jurisdictions. Layers and layers of tweaks to incentivise behaviour x or y for opaque reasons until you end up with a kludge of…bleh.

And this is all setting aside comp structures that actively seek to banboozle sellers into losing out, by way of insane complexity. Reminds me of buying a used car.
Yeah, I’ve got devices where there is a hum on their output while using usb-midi. 5 pin midi should not have such issues (but if done badly could)
Second chance for who or what?
Why is this flagged/down voted? Its just a plain statement of fact, supported by credible sources and references. Here's some more references if people think this didn't happen. The IDF attacked and fired on the Nova festival goers with Apache helicopters [1], an Israeli tank fired shells at Kibbutz Be'eri killing hostages and children, and stories of eight babies killed at the kibbutz have been proven to be false, among other things [3], [4]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-mistakenly-hit-festival-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27eri_massacre#Survivors'_t...

3. https://archive.is/Zn3Bt

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91kG_bYsn0
Was fun to see a “VCard” link, haven’t even heard that word in like 15 years.
> A linker typically only includes the parts of the library it needs for each binary […]

It is exactly the same with the dynamic linking due to the demand paging available in all modern UNIX systems: the dynamic library is not loaded into memory in its entirety, it is mapped into the process's virtual address space.

Initially, there is no code from the dynamic library loaded into memory until the process attempts to access the first instruction from the required code at which point a memory fault occurs, and the virtual memory management system loads the required page(s) into the process's memory. A dynamic library can be 10Gb in size and appear as a 10Gb in the process's memory map but only 1 page can be physically present in memory. Moreover, under the heavy memory pressure the kernel can invalidate the memory page(s) (using LRU or a more advanced memory page tracking technique) and the process (especially true for background or idlying processes) will reference zero pages with the code from the dynamic library.

Fundamentally, dynamic linking is the deferred static linking where the linking functions are delegated to the dynamic library loader. Dynamic libraries incur a [relatively] small overhead of slower (compared to statically linked binaries) process startup times due to the dynamic linker having to load the symbol table, the global offset table from the dynamic library and performing the symbol fixup according to the process's own virtual memory layout. It is a one-off step, though. For large, very large and frequently used dynamic libraries, caching can be employed to reduce such overhead.

Dynamic library mapping into the virtual address space != loading the dynamic library into memory, they are two disjoint things. It almost never happens when the entire dynamic library is loaded into memory as the 100% code coverage is exceedingly rare.
You would have hated the newspaper industry.
No offense, but could it be that you aren't as extreme or different from each other as you think? It's not like there weren't plenty of extremist young men willing to die and kill for socialist or fascist ideology during World War 2 or the Spanish Civil War; or, going back further, for the various reactionary and radical ideologies during the French Revolution. Perhaps your generation was an outlier in being less extreme.
This isn't exactly from a reputable institution, but I have a personal website with book recommendations: https://notzeb.com/rec.html

(not having much money is no obstacle to reading books on math, so long as you are aware of Library Genesis)
> Not sure I'm deep enough into Linux to understand why it matters to run an unmodified mainline kernel version.

Updates. The closer you are to mainline, the easier it is to move to newer versions as they come out (and the more quickly, which especially helps with security patches).
Those who want to know the proper history and context of the current conflict, you really owe it to yourself to read this well researched book by Prof Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine [1]. In his latest book he even mentioned Israel - Palestinian latest major war (fifth war in chronological order) in the form of many years of blockade on the people of Gaza. The fact that this book was published several years (2017) before the event happened kind of foretelling that now we have an on-going all out war between one of mightiest army of the modern world against people without a country and no official army to its defense.

[1] The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2017):

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627798556/thehundredyears...
Yeah but your App Store commission is significantly lower as a percentage. So you're still going to wind up paying less money if you're collecting amounts like €5 or €10 or more from customers.

In the cases where you'd come out worse, because your app is free or extremely low-cost like €1, then you shouldn't opt for the new business terms. You should use the current ones -- which show no indication of going away since they're what the rest of the world uses.